Worry worry

I spent time figuring out how to do the self evaluation today. Now I just need to add up the total.
I am so worried for no reason! Well I guess for some reason. I'm worried about the homework I am going to miss when I go back to china, I am worried about a composition assignment for music class that I probably have to hand in earlier than everyone else because it's due after I leave, and I'm worried about my science fair. So much to think about!

In P.E , we're doing square dancing. I'd rather do another term of field hockey than this. I only wish basketball could have gone on longer. All the other peoples' hands were so sweaty and sticky! In the girls' changing room afterwards, most of the people were lining up to wash their hands.

the end (of one third of the year at least)

End of term. When am I supposed to tell my teachers that I'm going to leave for China one week before the winter vacation? And what am I supposed to do with all the homework I am going to miss? And what am I going to do with my science fair? I'm finished the experiment, but I don't know what to do about my data (but I don't have many data anyways). I hope I get at least five or six A's. I was so surprised when I found my percentage for English. I have a percentage so close to an A, that if I could bribe Mrs. Greskiw to give me 0.1 percent more, I would have one. I thought I would have a very low B.

My socials mark is very close too. I guess the fate of the grade lies with my group project, which I am not very proud of.

Skating competition

I had to miss my friend's birthday party today because of a skating competition. But it was worth it! I got 1st place! I looked at the result list from bottom to top as usual, although I did pretty well this time. My friend that used to be from my skating club was trying to find her results too (we were competing against each other). When I saw my name at the top, I let out a "Whoa", and my friend thought I placed really low. At first, I couldn't really believe it. When I first looked at the results, I was half expecting someone to come and say," Oops, sorry. We got it all wrong. The list is flipped."

My friend and I both agreed that it's been a while since we skated this well at competition before. I actually landed my hardest jump! Everything was okay in the competition, except that I would complain that my "gold" medal looked a dirty brownish-yellow colour.

Couldn't Blog

I couldn't blog the last few days because we just finished moving and didn't have Internet connection until today. I like the new place we live. The only problem is that the rooms are so big, it cannot be lighted up with only one light. That is why it may seem a bit darker. My friend came over today to work on an English project. We only have one more day to work on it, but we are barely even half way through! I hope we have enough time tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the day we do an indoor track meet! I signed up for two events. This is just like sports day, except you don't do all the relays. The good thing is, we get to skip two periods. The bad thing is that I skip two of my favourite periods (P.E and fine arts)!

The last two periods of Applied Skills was really fun! Me and my friend finished our plane, and it flew the best! Unlike the other planes, where the planes turn and dive, ours go straight so my friend has no problem catching it at the other end at all! You just stick your hand out and close it when the plane body slides through your fingers. Everybody was watching us with envy (or jealousy). We just had to alter the wings. At first, we didn't know that we put the wing on backwards, and it flew perfectly. Then we realized, and put it the right way. It ended up dipping, so we put it on backwards again. That's one thing we could correct on the instructions, but except our trick worked on no one else's plane. Weird.

Wet day yesterday

I couldn't blog yesterday, because my parents pulled down all the plugs, getting ready for the big moving day: today. But I can say one thing about yesterday: It was MISERABLE! I stepped out of my front door to go to skating class yesterday, and as soon as the doors closed, I turned around and found myself face to face with a rain storm. I didn't have the keys to go back inside, because my parents are going to drive me back. I though, oh well, grabbed my umbrella and stepped into the pouring rain. Not only were there huge puddles to avoid, the roads were obstacles as well. They were only just shallower than a flowing river, and I have to find the shallowest place to cross. Before I got to the skytrain (just at the intersection), I found that the biggest intersection I had to cross, had two metres wide of a river I had to jump over. Obviously I couldn't do that with a heavy trunk, and I landed right in the middle. My right shoe was completely soaked, and I could feel the water squishing in between my toes. When I got to the skytrain, my hair was a little wet due to a tiny leak in my umbrella, my backpack and skating trunk were all wet, and everything from my knee down was completely soaked (also due to having to dodge the water the passing cars produce). I asked a police woman if I could borrow a phone. I phoned my dad, and he decided that he could take me to skating, although I'll have to miss a session. I went back home and waited for my mom to come home to open the doors for me.

Weird

Today, I searched the computer for the Harry Potter website on the internet, because it used to contain stuff like buy your own wand, sorting hat, and all that, but all there is now is advertisements of the sixth movie. It's so sad! Everytime I finish reading a Harry Potter book, I just really want to be one of them. I know this seems weird, but J.K. Rowling's books are so realistic, that one can actually imagine it being real, and they're just like us except we're "Muggles".

I'm quite happy with my science mark. I went up by 1% because of my science test. I am also amazingly, satisfied with the mark of my English assignment this time. I guess I was lucky.

Hmm...

Extensions Lesson 5:

Person: My cousin
Scale: 3

Withdrawl: he doesn't listen to me, and I start having a shouting match with him
Deposit: I play with him

Person: Sharon

Scale: 5
Withdrawl: push her to school because she doesn't walk fast enough.
Deposit: I help her with homework.

Person: My mom
Scale: 8
Withdrawl: Mess up my room
Deposit: Help with the dishes
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Okay. So term ends next week. My skating competition is next week too, though :( My dad brought home some motor oil from a gas station today, and I'm planning to add it to my plants. Maybe I don't have anymore time today though, come to think of it. Since my plants are in my room right now, I'll have to move them out before I add the oil. I don't want to be smelling them in my sleep. And I have to take time to measure the oil, and record that information... right now, half the information that I recorded may be not needed.

Term ends... Next week??

Lesson 4 Extensions:

HANDOUT

PART A

1) What feelings do you have, or think you might have, after reading Part A?

I would be very upset and confused. Why would they just randomly throw rocks at me, when I haven't done anything to them? I would be furious, seeing that they would be responsible for me if I fell off at that moment and had an injury.

2) What would you say and do in this situation?

I would shout at them, and demand to know why they just randomly attacked me. I would yell at them about how dangerous that was, and how I am going to get them into trouble and tell their parents.

1) What feelings do you have, or think you might have, after reading Part B?

I would comment on how they were really smart to think of getting help, but still think how would have been better, and I could have stopped if they just shouted at me instead of throwing the rock.

2) What would you say in this situation?

I would tell them they could have just shouted at me from the side of the road, and get help as soon as possible for them, by either contacting someone with my cell phone, or help them get the kid out.
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I'm confused. Last week, it dawned on me that the term ends this Friday, but somehow, Mrs. Greskiw said something that made me think it was next Friday. When I asked other people, they didn't have a very clear answer either. I'm still taking the book test on Thursday though. I finished the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire today, and I'm all ready for it (i hope).

Day ones... it means a new pile of homework pouring in. Finishing day two homework is a breeze. It's always only French homework. 99% of all my homework is from day one. Day two means not much homework, but spending the whole day trying to finish the work from day one. Well... I'm not looking forward to any of these days now. Sigh.

Oops. forgot

I practically spent the whole day reading yesterday, and only forgot that I still had a blog to write after my head hit the pillow and then didn't bother getting back up and turning the computer on again.

It's unbelievable! My bean plants grew so fast, that they grew to more than twice their size in one night. I'm worried about my fourth bean plant though. I planned to add the most oil to that one when the time is right and they all look strong enough, but the fourth one is the shortest of them all... That will be a hard one to compare. Maybe I'll just lie and say that it was the oil that made it tiny? :)

I've finished reading the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets yesterday, and is aiming to finish the Goblet of Fire today, in order to take the test on Thursday (I know it's a long way, but I just want to finish it anyway). I don't know why I like the series so much. Even though I probably read each one of them about five times already, I still find myself disappearing behind one for hours after I just simply flipped open the cover.

Birthday Party

I went to my mom's friend's house to celebrate my birthday today. Their son is one year younger than me, and has the same birthday, so we celebrated together. We bought him a board game, and they bought me a series of painting books. We had fruit cake. I had suggested icecream cake, but my mom yelled at me about how no one else likes icecream cakes but me. But it turned out he had wanted icecream cake too. We played a bit of computer (well he did, and I watched, because I didn't have a maplestory account), and I cut one slice of cake, and sadly, I cut my name in half. I feel really sleepy right now, so I just be going to bed...

make up post

Nothing really bad happened today (that is, for the 13th). My friend gave me a watch for my birthday. She suggested I need a watch, and normal socks (mine were colourful, though I don't see what's wrong with that). She also gave me a really thin pencil, and I used it to do theory afterwards, and a notepad. I read some of Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire as well. I gave up on reading the challenging book after the first two pages. Apparently in the first paragraph, someone enters the room and jabbers about inconvenience, and in the next, someone says, "Lord, help us!"... I shut the book immediately after that. I know I'm never going to pass the book test like this. I'd rather read two more harry potters.

Birthday Tomorrow

I just got home from the school cafeteria. I was working on the social studies poster board with someone else from the group. I just realized there was one person that didn't do anything. The other person took home the poster board, and it's a good thing I don't have to worry about it right now. After all, I was the one that did all the work during the last two days. I deserve to rest. The cafeteria closes lights at exactly six o'clock. The guy warned us, and then, poof, the room went dark and I practically jumped while I was drawing a line.

We had our French test today. I thought it was okay. At least I didn't get stumped on anything. I just hope my spelling is all correct. But I know I spelled something wrong. I checked my binder afterwards because I had hesitated on one of my words. It turned out, that the way I spelled the word the first time was correct! And then for some reason I decided to drop out the letter u. Well this doesn't really surprise me. This kind of stuff ALWAYS happens to me. And I am not kidding. The last time we had an English quiz that was multiple choice, first, I checked C, then for some reason, I changed it to a B. We had to exchange papers to mark, and as soon as the paper left my hand, I regreted it. Sure enough, my first answer is correct.

Tomorrow's my birthday!

The day to do homework

I didn't have time to relax today (I didn't expect to). I spent all day doing homework. My dad helped me a little with the socials map, and I finished my science and French. We have a French test tomorrow, and I've been pretty worried. In the other tests, I keep on making stupid mistakes, such as forgetting the last letter S or something. So today, I focused on studying the words with S endings and every word with an accent. I also tried remembering every feminine word. I always get those mixed up. I am still worried about my ss project though. It still needs to be coloured, a compass, a legend, all the landforms, an escape route... I can go on forever. And we only have one day to do it!!

Two more days until my birthday. Why am I not excited? I used to not be able to sleep the day before my birthday. Maybe because so many homework is due that day, or maybe I won't be having a birthday party. That doesn't mean I'm not expecting presents though :D !

Arg! So frustrating!

Oh my goodness this is so frustrating! There is a social studies map due on Friday, and my group is not even 1/4 of the way done! And plus I have so much other homework to do. For the map, I don't really get some of the parts. If I did, I would be much less worried. My friend said that they took ten hours in total to do it, and they're not even done yet! What am I supposed to do? And I have a French test on Thursday. I can't even remember half of the words! And we have a science cheat sheet, and English worksheets and... I can go on forever.

It's not even the middle of the year yet. How am I going to survive this? I have to say I enjoyed socials up to this point. I still enjoy sciece however. Partly because of the teacher, but mostly I enjoy this subject. English however, is my worst enemy.

Birthday

Arg! Another French test on Thursday. I really have trouble remembering those nouns. I am really excited to start building the model plane again. I don't know why, but I really like building stuff. At least I like building stuff way better than writing English essays...

This Friday is my birthday, but I don't think I'll be having a birthday party since I only just noticed a few days ago and don't think I have time to prepare. The really weird thing about my birthday this time, is that I'm turning 13 on Friday the 13th. How wonderful. I don't really believe in stuff like you will get seven years bad luck if you look into a cracked mirror or something, but it's good to be extra careful just in case... I guess I will be celebrating my birthday at my aunt's house with my parents, cousins, aunt and uncle though. Their house is big enough, and my cousin phoned a few hours ago to ask what I want as a present. Honestly, I don't really care. When I was small, I used to do a birthday countdown as soon as I figure out thing I want really bad. I usually start three months away. But now, I don't even really care if I get anything (although something would be nice).

Finally Relaxed (a little)

Finally! I started on my science fair today. My dad and I went to check all the stores that we could think of that sold bean seeds, but apparently it was past the season of planting so none of them had it. Then, we got pointed to a place called Art Knapp by a clerk in one of the stores, and told us that they should still have some. Sure enough, there were plenty. Bean seeds, pea seeds, squash seeds, oregano seeds, an assortment of flower seeds, and almost anything else you can think of. I planted two seeds in each pot (I had four pots), just in case one of them wouldn't sprout. I can settle a little more now that I've taken the first step.

I finished my French homework, and that's all the homework for day two. But there's still loads of day 1 homework to finish. Right now behind me, my mom and dad are packing up all the books in this tiny apartment in to those cardboard boxes they brought home yesterday.

Really Less Time Left

Today, we went to Superstore to look for the things I need for the science fair. I only found pots and soil in the gardening section, but not bean plant seeds. I asked two employees, and both pointed me to two places in the store very far apart from each other but still no seed. I guess I'll just have to look elsewhere. My parents brought home a large quantity of cardboard boxes to get ready for moving to Langara Gardens.

I still have only two more weeks to pass on the socials forum. I currently around thirty to forty marks out of ninety. There were only four people that passed the last time Mr. Sale told us our marks.

For yesterday

No time to write blogs these days. Yesterday, my parents' friends came over with their child to play. We copied manga from books, but that only entertained her for about twenty minutes. Then she was trying to make my stuffed animals "skydive" from my top bunk. The top bunk is really dusty since no one sleeps on it anymore (it was for me when my grand-parents came over), and I really feel sorry for the stuffies.

In science class yesterday, we finished the experiment on what would happen if we soaked a gummy bear in water for more than two days. Well, I was very surprised to see the results. I predicted that the gummy bear would grow just a little, but I was mighty shocked that the gummy bears grew to almost more than four times their original size! It was all jello-like and transparent, and very breakable. I tried to take the bear out of the cup, and tore off one of its legs. It was fun, but I still have no idea of how to graph the percent changes of the bear in a bar graph!
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Extensions lesson 3

3) If you prepare, quality will be better

Some one is doing their science fair, and he/she has only got tw0 weeks to do it. He/she has been sleeping late and waking up very early. It's finally done the day before the fair. He/she looks at other people's projects and realized that theirs was way more neat and well written. He/she asks the other people how they ended up doing such a good job. They all said they started three months ago.

Rush rush rush

I'm actually starting to like basketball! But I still think it's a dangerous sport. I jammed five fingers last year because I joined the basketball team. Infact, I jammed another one of my fingers today! As I was putting the basketball back into the trolly, I guess the ball was too bouncy or something, and it backfired at my finger. I got the slightest pain from a jammed finger this time, but it's usually a lot worse.

I broke two of the sticks needed for the plane today! What do I do? I hope there are exras! My jacket fell on top of it in my locker. Sigh. I'm always so unlucky. I read alot of the book I was reading for my Independent Reading program today. I am able to take that book test on Tuesday, but I only have less than two weeks to read a challenging book in order to get ten points. I can do this!

Worry worry

I'm really worried about science fair. I haven't started it yet, and it's only one month left until I go back to China. I can't do it in one month! The plants won't be ready yet! Oh well. For the socials project, I have no idea what to do because the boys took the paper home, and I'm kind of worried about their drawing skills. I'm done what they told me to do; the climagraph.

Now, when I head to ballet or skating class by taking the skytrain or the bus, it's starting to get kind of scary. It's getting really dark, and any time someone is walking behind me, I get the feeling that they are following me. It's creepy.

Make up blog

Another make up blog. I didn't have time to write this yesterday. I spent all of my time finishing the homework that needs to be done for today.

For P.E, we started basketball. The first thing our teacher told us, was that we will be having a skills test after about two weeks. What a great way to start off. Well it was only on shooting, which I am okay at, since I joined the basketball team last year in my elementary school. We were playing games three on three in the end, and I actually scored a lot of goals for my team!

In fine arts, we are going to learn the Taylor Swift song called Love Story on the guitar next class (aka tomorrow). We also had a song test. I played the verse and the chorus of the song, "I will remember you". I learned that song in grade six, and it's really nice.

The Bad Things About Halloween Candy

I had skating again today and as usual, I don't want to move a muscle as soon as I got home. I managed to finish my cell analogy homework though, which is due on Wednesday.

My mom gave me an article in the newspaper to read, and it was about the dangers of Halloween candy. Some people in Ontario, after they or their parents inspected the candy they got from Halloween, discovered some very weird stuff. One discovered a very long needle stuck through a Tootsie roll, and some others discovered a hidden razor blade in goody bags, and one discovered a razor blade stuck in to an apple. That really surprised me. Why would anyone want to hurt a random person they don't even know? I went trick-or-treating with my cousin. I should really take time to check and inspect my candy to make sure they are all edible!

Homework day

Today was mostly homework day. I was either at a lesson, or doing homework. In the morning, I had to go to a ballet rehearsal, and then straight to drawing. After drawing class, I waited for a long time for my dad to pick me up because he went to sharpen my skates. As soon as I arrived home, I started digging into my homework. I tackled English first. I finished searching out all of the words, and I wrote three long paragraphs to answer three long questions. For science, since we didn't finish our lab, we can't finish our lab write-up, so I just finished whatever I can. I still have to practice my violin after this. *Sigh*. How am I going to survive four and a half more years in school? *Cry cry cry*

Halloween!

This is a make-up blog for yesterday. I didn't have time because I went to my aunt's house to celebrate her birthday. Her birthday is right on Halloween! My cousin was trick-or-treating, so I went along. I was a witch( I've been a witch the fifth time in a row. I like the witches in Harry Potter!). My cousin's little sister is so cute (I've always thought she was)! Since we were shouting "trick-or-treat" everytime, she decided to join along. At one house, after all of the people yelled trick-or-treat, she half shouted something like, "cheekorchee!" The person giving out the candy was so surprised and was laughing so hard. She said, "I'll give you three candy just because you're so cute!"

We had dinner and cake at a restaurant. The person who own's the restaurant is my aunt's friend, so he cut the cake for us. After that, we went home. I finished some homework, set the time an hour back, and went to sleep.