12/15/2011

Our sixth anual PAS Christmas Performance was held today. Even though a lot of us made some minor mistakes, and Howard Ouyang wasn't able to come because he was sick, I believe that we still did a fantabulous job. In fact, everyone in our school did a really good job. It surprised me about how creative people are in our school. Another important event today was the raffle ticket drawing. The presents this year were really good, and people loved them, especially the Beats by Dre earphones. Ben Huang got so lucky. He bought 2 raffle tickets, and got picked out of the 600 raffle tickets, getting both the Beats earphones. Also, if felt like some people spent ALL of the money buying the tickets. For example, Ariel got so many gifts today, one after another. Also, the other event that happened was guessing who's the secret Santa. Students were to volunteer to go up on stage and say a teacher's name that they think should be the secret Santa. Almost all the teachers were chosen, but none of us got it right. The correct answer was Ms. Sue, which didn't surprise us. I guess no one chose her because they all thought that someone else has chosen her, since, Sue being the Santa wouldn't be something unexpected.

12/14/2011

Today, we went to the science park auditorium for the rehearsal of the Christmas Performance. At first, when we got there, we practiced by ourselves outside, and after everything was verified, we went back in, watching performances of the other classes while waiting for our turn to rehearse. The elementary kid's performances were so adorable and made all of us hyper and cheered and clapped for them loudly. When it was our turn, we were really nervous actually, because even though we've been practicing a lot separately, we weren't confident at all about doing it together on stage. In the beginning, it was really dry and most people didn't get what we were doing and it was quite embarrassing. The ending of ours will be quite creative, with reindeers either throwing red paper airplanes with "Merry Christmas" and some pictures written on it, or throwing snow flakes. Although having to think of ideas and make people practice and participate in the performance was quite tiring, I had a lot of fun working with all the people in our grade, trying to make our performance good.

12/13/2011

If I didn't remember wrong, two days ago, I accidentally tore the skin of my nose. At that time, I had a running nose that made my nose itch so bad, that I had to keep rubbing my nose with tissue over and over. When it finally didn't itch anymore, I went to wash my nose, because I felt that it was hot from all the rubbing. But when I looked down, I saw something white on my nose. I knew that my skin was pealing off, but I didn't know how much of it was, so I pulled it quite hardly, which resulted as a big hole on my nose. The instance I pulled that big piece of skin off, I regretted it. There was a cold feeling on my nose, as if it was bleeding, and it was super painful. I ran to the bathroom and looked at my nose. I almost fainted in front of the mirror. Although it wasn't bleeding, there was some sort of liquid coming out of it, which grossed the hell out of me. Also, what worries me is that the Christmas Performance and the Winter Dance is held this week, and there aren't many days left for my wound to heal. I won't want my nose to be seen in those occasions, since there will be many pictures taken, and I would definitely not want those pictures to show my hideous nose. I also hope that there won't be scars, since girls with scars on their noses are quite disgusting.

12/12/2011

This week will be an exhausting week. Today, we just finished our History test, which I studied till 1:40 last night. This is just the first day. Tomorrow, and all the following days, all student council members will have to help out after school, and also, we will have to find some time to rehearse our Christmas Performance that will be held on this Thursday night. To be honest, ours wouldn't be counted as a fabulous performance, but of course, we hope that it'll be good and won't embarrass ourselves the way we did last year. And for the dance, we have to stay for a few hours everyday to make the dance good, buy or make things for decorations and other functions. It also includes the day of the Christmas Performance. I'm afraid that I will get too tired to do other things, so I'm trying to sleep earlier these days, although it's quite hard since I've been used to staying up late. On Friday, the day of the dance, it of course will be exhausting since people will have fun and stuff. And also, we have to clean up before we get to go home. The next day, some of the students in PAS will be going to Japan to ski early in the morning. I'm pretty sure that I'll be sleeping all the way to Japan.

12/11/2011

Tomorrow, we'll be having a History test, which is my worst subject of all times. I don't know why, every time I open my history text book, waves of sleepiness come whooshing at me, each stronger than the previous one. In class too, even though I try to concentrate during the videos the teacher shows us in, I  never can stay awake for the whole time, even if the video is something that I really feel interested in, I still often fall asleep after I know the main events. This time, we'll be tested on The American Revolution and The French Revolution. It's really annoying how I mix up the main events of both Revolutions and some key terms. Also, it's not that I don't try to concentrate while I'm studying, but when I study history, I just can't sit still, focusing on the studying. I keep accidentally open my computer and start chatting or check out new things on Facebook. I don't do them purposely, but still, every time I open my computer, I spend something like half an hour to get off of it, which in consequence, led to myself studying for History for the whole day, but still not really understanding what is happening in what time periods and forgetting the definition of key terms.

12/06/2011

To be honest, I'm really worried about our grade's Christmas performance. Although we started preparing in September, we thought that there was still a lot of time so we procrastinated a lot. Because of the procrastination, the real progress was made these days. Also, since our performance will include both acting and dancing, many people had to learn the dance within a few days, since our dance designer, Christine and Candy and some other girls, just got the dance moves designed too. Looking at them dance is actually quite fun, but I'm glad that I wasn't put in the dancing group because I really can't dance and I would never want to dance in front of the whole school. It would be super embarrassing to me. In this performance, I am one of the reindeers, and there aren't any parts for us to talk, which is a good thing to me, but may be bad for some other people that wants to talk in the show. We tried to add more things to make it more interesting, but it kind of is a little hard to make it interesting and also make all people in our grade, 30 people, talk and show something about themselves.

12/05/2011

Today is the birthday of my best friend in elementary school and I really miss her. Even though we've fought childishly and said that we would never ever be friends anymore, but after a while, we always became friends again. They were memories from long ago, but thinking about it often makes me smile. I used to be so childish too, but I still laugh at people that do the same thing as I did before. I miss my elementary friends a lot. I didn't get to graduate with them because I transferred to another school in grade 5. The friends I made in grade 5 are the ones that I remember the most in the whole elementary. Remembering how we kept acting like we're really cool and grownup, but thinking about it now makes me laugh. Memories are things that are most valuable to a person. Things can never be redone, all moments you have now can never be the same again. All the moments are unique, and people should try to grab onto the time you have now and feel happy that you're still breathing. There won't be time for you to be regretting about what you've done. What's done is done and nothing can be changed.

12/04/2011

Today is the sports day of our school and in the morning, it was really super cold, but later on, it got hotter, which made me regret wearing long thick pants. I had three events which were soccer, tug of war, and 100 relay. The first event I attended was the tug of war. It was so tiring and painful to my body. Now, at home, my hip and my legs are sore and aching. Even though we were doing our best, other teams were better than we were, and so we got the last place for that event. I wasn't particularly sad though, since we all did our best. After the first rounds of tug or war, I went to play soccer. For soccer, it was just those people in our team playing. I was the one standing there, not knowing what to do, because soccer is a sport that I absolutely don't like and didn't ever want to know the rules of it. All I know about it is that you can't touch the ball with your hands, and other than that, I know nothing about it. After soccer, I had the 100 relay. I had so much pressure, since when I was looking at the 200 relay, people kind of act meat towards the people that slowed the team down, and I am a really slow runner. I didn't want to slow my team down, and fortunately, even though I did slow it down by a bit, I didn't get chased over, and hopefully wasn't the reason why our team only got the third place. Anyways, this year's sports day is really fun and I enjoyed it a lot!

12/01/2011

These days are getting really super cold outside but in school, it's really hot and stuffy in classrooms especially those that don't have windows. For example, English class and Expository Writing class are the classes that I have that have the hottest and stuffiest rooms in the whole school. From what I've heard, there are other rooms that are the same too. Fortunately, I don't have that many classes that are held in those rooms. But in those classes, it gets really annoying in the end because you need to try to stay awake and focused in such uncomfortable conditions. Also, the classes that have bad air conditions are those that require full attention. During English and Expository Writing, I always almost get annoying and can't sit still in the end so I have to go out to the bathroom in every class in order to stay focused when I go back to the room. It's kind of ironic how the school is hotter in winters than in summers. Throughout the whole year, people can be wearing the same clothes since it's quite cold in school with the air conditioner turned on quite strongly and in winters, it's really hot in school. I don't think that the school should be hot though, since we're paying so much money to come to study, we shouldn't be feeling so uncomfortable in classes.