NOOOOO!!! I have an awful cold!!! Now my nose is all stuffy and I am feeling all tired and stuff... And I just feel like sitting on the couch and and read a book, WITH OUT THIS STUPID NOSE THINGY!!! I am okay with a cold if it just included sour throat, but I am just ABSOLUTELY FRUSTRATED HERE TRYING TO CLEAR A PATH FOR MY BREATHING!!!!!!!

I am FINALLY kind of finished the poetry book. Well, I still need a few more tiny drawings here and there, but I am mostly done... I wonder if I was the slowest to get this done...

A good book isn't always a good thing -.-

WHAAA SO SADD
Sharon borrowed me her copy of Lightning Thief, and I got sucked in right a way! Well, I got so sucked in, that I read from as soon as I got home, to like about when my dad got home, which was like about 7:00 pm. And I didn't do ANY of my homework, nor played my violin... sniff... so sad. And now I am making up for all the reading time. Well I guess the book was good and everything, but I hate it when I have to rush everything... which I always have to do. I have only progressed on half more page of poetry book then yesterday. I am never going to get it finished in time!!
I've realised I have been blogging with out a title a lot lately. Hm... running out of ideas. oh well the first thing that comes to mind when reading this...

Still working on my poem book. I am only finished like three of around 12 pages -.- I am soooo slow. Now I am starting on my fourth page... and just realised I had a french script to write before tuesday and practice with my group, and I only wrote a few sentences, and somehow Sharon isn't contributing -_-

Now my dad is urging me to go to sleep. Why do I always have so little time to blog? Maybe next time I shouldn't wait until bed time to open the computer and write a few words >.>

We had a birthday party for my mom today, even though it's not her birthday yet (well close enough). It was quite fun, for my uncle, aunt, and cousins came over. The little one, is now somehow awfully attracted to me... especially when it came time to go potty -.-'
I hope I can finish all the homework by Monday. Well, I just need to write the points on the science foldable (I spent time decorating the front) and well, not quite close to finishing in the poetry book >.< Oh well... try my best.

Yay no more stomach aches :D So happy....

I finally finished my title page for the poetry book. I am personally satisfied with it. Though I wish I had the awesome cherry blossom drawing Jamie had -.- I have to work more on my colouring skills >.< And I'd better start going on the socials forum again.

-.- Have a stomache ach these days. Not a good feeling. So I am going to bed now.

Today

Studied socials today.
We had a french test, and the teacher put a few other words that we didn't even have to study up there! It's so not fair -.- I think I am going to fail that. I hope I can aim for straight A's this term. I did it once only, but I guess it was just luck. I am going to have to study waaay harder for socials, keep up for science, better in English, and a few percentages better in PE. I hope I will be able to work harder... Sometimes I just like to relax, and then I get behind. Last burst of energy here for final term!!! It's like the end of a long distance race, and I like thinking about it that way :D

And I just found out my author for my poem, has the same birthdate as me!! Isn't that cool? And my author's really famous too.... I feel so proud...

Hm... blogging a little early today because I probably won't remember later on. All that happened so far was that I got all of the strings for my violin changed, due to the roughness. Actually, only the A string needed changing, but my teacher said that one new string with three old ones sound kind of weird, so I ended up changing all of them. Now they actually sound better :D

AH! DEAD STUFF!!!

Oh great we have a science AND socials test on Tuesday. I hope I am going to get an okay mark.

I finally updated the Go program blog today. Feels good to be on track. Well today, my mom was in my room dusting while I was doing theory, and suddenly she called me over to look at something. Sitting in the cracks at the bottom of my window, were five, dead, dried, and shriveled lady bugs!!! I have a huge fear for dead stuff. If they were live lady bugs, I would imediately start to play with them. But they were dead... I was paralyzed for ten seconds with closed eyes, while my mom started to clean them out...... I kind of did a little jump everytime I heard a crunching noise.... shiver... shiver.... My mom thinks I'm childish -.- I mean, why would I be afraid of something that won't harm me anymore?? Well I don't know. But I have always been scared of dead stuff for some reason... even plants o.o ... long story.

Oh my god not again... I thought I blogged but... no excuses. Sharon came to my apartment yesterday to take a look at our hydraulic system so she could draw the diagram. And I hope she will be able to finish!!

We had track again today, and my whole body is sore again... And I have to go to the dreaded swimming class tomorrow... I am gonna die!!!! Not literally. But mentally yes. Noooooo... going to go to sleep now. I have to wake up early tomorrow so I can get the hydraulic system filled with water.

Just got home from Sharon's house to give her her homework....tired.... not feeling in the blogging mood... blog sometime tomorrw :D

Bah! First day of school after spring break and we already have loads of homework! Still have to paint the hydraulic system and do the science and social studies. The english project needs work too :( Sigh

Have to go to sleep now...

My cousin left this morning. Somewhat relieved. Now I can go on my own schedual everyday and do what I want.... >.> I know I'm kind of mean. But now I think he gave his cold to me and now my throat hurts >.< And I am going to a friend's house to eat dinner. She also lives in Langara, but in one of those town house thingies and not apartments. So I am blogging now just incase I get back too late to blog.

Well... school tomorrow... I hope I didn't forget to do any homework >.< And I hope our hydraulic system doesn't start leaking again. I will tear my hair out if that happens. And I will make Sharon fix it XD

Oopsies forgot

My cousin's still here right now and I am getting quite a bit annoyed at him... don't ask. We were playing Monopoly until I remembered my blog. And now here I am.

Yesterday, Rebecca came to do the hydraulic system, and boy it was a disaster. It KEPT ON LEAKING!!!! We got soo frustrated. We spent at least four hours trying to figure out how to stop it from leaking. Everytime we seal a place up, there will be a crack somewhere else -.- We ended up with a pipe and a huge bundle of glue...... And Rebecca actually thinks my cousin is cute -.-"""""""""" Now just for drawing the diagrams.... Sharon's gonna help me with that >.< She owes us big time.

thursday

My cousin came yesterday night to sleep over, so I think I forgot to blog. He wanted to sleep in my room, on my second bunk, and I was ok with it until I found out he caught a cold... So he coughed, and everytime he coughed, I buried myself in my covers because I'm afraid to catch a cold. If I miss a day of school, I would have a stack of homework twice as tall as it already is -.- And that will be tall...

I also went swimming today with my cousin and mom. On the way down on the elevator, we met Jamie's dad, and he said he could get Jamie to come swimming too :D So Jamie came down with us, and we were swimming.... and then I swallowed water -.-""" .... and then I swallowed water again -.-""" this time through my nose... this is exactly why I strongly dislike swimming... But today was okay. I tried practicing treading water, but I couldn't even last a minute... Now my arm is sore again X( Jamie could swim pretty well, even though she doesn't take lessons. And she has a really cool towel, that you can wear. Literally. It's like a shirt down to the knees, that you can zip up and down, made of towel material >.< I want one too.

stuff

I went down stairs to the people's drug mart and got a syringe for the science project! I finally feel like I'm progressing! Now for the pipes... and then the diagrams... and then making it attractive... Sigh... I still have a long way to go. I WAS going to run langara today, but Jamie couldn't go, and I didn't want to go alone, so I didn't go either :D I DID go to the dentist today, to fix up a slightly busted tooth (don't ask). It was painful -.- I never liked going to the dentist... Actually I did like it back in the old days (like seven years old) cuz I always got excited about getting a glow in the dark bouncy ball... too bad they don't give those out to me anymore...

Going to bed now (and waking up at 10:00 in the morning :D)

Ah the good times...

Well, I DID do something today besides playing and relaxing >.< I finished my science homework (not the project of course). Besides that, nothing... Well today was fun. I went to my old school with some of my friends, to play some of the games we used to play. Aaahh the good times... So we played 21 (you know, the shooting basketball game) and I won three out of the four games XD I am only good at shooting in basketball... =.=

And then I went to my friend's house and we ate pizza and stuff >.< best of all, we had cheese pizza :DDD And then we played some games, and then we had to go.... Today's probably the only time I will get to relax...

:)

I kind of did nothing today again.... Well I finished memorising the entire poem if that's something :] I feel like I am getting back to my normal energy today :) I am listening to my favourite songs, writing my blog, and trying to get my dad to play Ice Age the first movie, while trying to deny practicing violin... Well I failed to deny practicing violin -.- I guess I have to.

Play :)

My friend and his parents came over today, and we went swimming. After that, we came home and watched the first ice age movie. Laughed pretty hard :) I like to laugh :D Can't imagine world with out laughter. Our parents laughed pretty hard too :D And we played Monopoly and Sorry, and in the middle of a monopoly game they had to go. I don't feel like writing lots today, and don't feel good because I accomplished very little homework. I DID remeber one and a half paragraphs of my three paragraph poem though.

I don't know why I still am not that hyper today... Well, I only got hyper when they came over, but now, I am just... neutral (notice I did not say the b word). I think Spring Break brought me down for some reason...

I HA... uh... strongly dislike swimming... ice is more of my thing...

Yawn... tired again. I just took my first swimming lesson since like, grade three -.- And I am still not liking swimming. I just HAD to go. Apparently it's mandatory, according to my mom. My whole arm is sore.

I just went to search for a Winter poem again, but ended up looking at Summer poems instead o.o Well I decided I didn't have to stick with my favourite season, so I went with a pretty nice Summer poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called "The Summer Sun Shone Round Me" It sounds nice, and it's a bit shorter than the other poems that I've been seeing (which were like about twenty or more lines long o.o). So I am going to print it out to memorise it so I don't have to open the computer everytime. Sure, waste of paper, but I am going to have to print it out anyways.



Oh yea, maybe people wonder why I didn't mention Spring Break. I am so not excited. Because of Spring Break, we are getting two projects... and one week isn't enough to finish them if you think about it. In fact now, I am just sad.... Not my usual hyper self (although most people who rarely ever talk to me may be thinking... "hyper? What is she talking about?").

...

Had to study for french. Then I was about to blog when I just remembered another homework. So I will write about today tomorrow. But I have learned not to make promises with my blogging, so I will say I will make up for today when I have the time!

New blog

I have created a new blog page for my go stuff. That sure took me a long time... So today we performed a skit for drama, and I don't think I did so well because I was trying desperately not to laugh when we beat my friend (the bully) down with olympic mascots :) Well it was fun. I really feel like I am on top of things now :D I finish my homework earlier than I usually do (exception for today---> new blog creating) and I write everything down in my agenda :D plus the connect the dots thing (thing to time) And I have got to wake up tomorrow. And to ensure that, I have got to go to sleep!!

Busy break...

I have two Miga dolls, but both has lost its rosy cheeks. So I used a crayon to draw them back on. But I don't think I drew them on right, because my keychain Miga looks like it really needs some sleep -_-

Already we have two projects to do over Spring Break. One hydraulic system, and one English poem reciting thing. I can tell it's not going to be a very fun Spring Break. I was planning to visit a friend in Richmond, and my mom wants to let my cousin sleep over but... I guess it's not likely to happen. I hope I would fit everything in a timetable. Afterall, a week isn't that much time, if you think about it. Hmm... Hydraulic system... I would do that first because it sounds the most complicated. I will use two water bottles, and then I will cut them in half and then I will........ So anyways I will plan it out. And we need to recite a favourite poem in English. I will start looking for the poem I am going to do today, spend until Spring Break to remember it, and possibly finish by... I don't know. Well I'd better get searching!

Another catchup on go

Lesson 15 extensions:

1) Important/Urgent

-Studying for test tomorrow

2) Important/Not Urgent

-Excersise
-Knitting
-Reading

3) Not Important/Urgent

-Not much...

4) Not Important/Not Urgent

-Phoning friends
-TV
-Helping others with work

Lesson 15 family reflections:

Get everyone in the family to catego­rize into the Time Matrix the time they spent during the last couple of days. How can you each spend more time in Quadrant II?

Not much time is spent here. We usually rush to do things, or do things that are not that important. I can study for tests that are long ways away, and I can read more and excersise more, and do things earlier than deadline.

Catchup on Go

Catch up on go:

... No lesson 13 extensions?

Lesson 13 family reflections:

As a family, look back at the previous lessons. Which topics had the most impact on your family?

I think the EBA had the most impact, because we are now contributing more to our Emotional Bank Account.

LESSON 14:Priorities

HANDOUT

Planning for Improvement

What do you spend your time doing?

Fill out Column A by estimating how much time you spend each day in the various categories. Remember, your total hours must add up to 24!

After filling in Column A on your own, discuss, with a partner or in groups, where you might be able to save some time or spend it more effectively.

Finally, set time goals based on the suggestions you received.

Sleeping/Resting: A) 7hrs B) 9hrs C) 9hrs
Dressing/Hygiene: A) 20 mins B) 15 mins C) 10 mins
Eating: A) 45 mins B) 30 mins C) 30 mins
Travel: A) 20 mins B) 20 mins C) 20 mins
Classes: A) 7 hrs B) 7 hrs C) 7 hrs
Extra Curricular: A) 2 hrs B) 1 hr C) 2 hrs
Chores: A) 30 mins B) 30 mins C) 30 mins
Work: A) 3 hrs B) 2 hrs C) 3 hrs
Appointments: A) 0 hrs B) 1 hrs C) 0 hrs
Study time: A) 1 hr B) 2 hrs C) 1 hr
Homework time: A) 3-4 hrs B) 3 hrs C) 3 hrs
Volunteering: A) 0 hrs B) 1 hr C) 1 hr
Leisure time: A) 2 hrs B) 1 hr C) 2 hrs

Familly reflections lesson 14:

Sit down and discuss some things that are important to each member in your family. How can you help each other accomplish these things?

I can help my mom accomplish leisure time by doing some chores for her, and she can help me achieve good marks by supporting me and help me when I need it.

My promised long post

Oops... guess I didn't keep my promise... oh well. I thought I blogged though o.O Well. On Saturday, it was any normal saturday with all of my classes. On Sunday, we went to my cousin's house to celebrate my uncle's birthday which is tomorrow. I drew him an Olympic Mascot card, and my mom bought him an Olympic sweatshirt. At the same time, my mom also bought me two t-shirts. So we went, and my cousins and uncle weren't home, because they were picking up the older cousin from swimming. So my aunt hid the birthday and present in the basement. I watched the Olympic closing ceremony until they came back.

When they came back, my younger cousin, Daphne (who is unbearably cuuute >.< and 3 years old) was more energetic than usual. So she was spinning around and around and around in circles and kept on falling and laughing. And she was especially attracted to my Miga. She was hugging it and everything. She told me to hug my Quatchi, and saying "Oh no, this is how you hug *hugs tighter*". And then me and my other cousin Davis ( who is 9 years old) went up stairs to watch Harry Potter.

I should tell you my aunt is very... uh... strict I guess. Well she usually doesn't let anyone off the table unless they are finished their share of food. But this time, at supper, my aunt let Davis off easy because there was a cake afterwards. My uncle still does not know so he was wondering why in the world did my aunt not force food into Davis' mouth like she usually did. So we were watching Harry Potter again, and Davis was sooo annoying. He kept on saying "Oh and then he said this, and then he did that, and then this happens and then that happens........" I mean, it's not like I haven't read each book and watched every movie (that came out) at least four times -_-
Oh, and Daphne was watching with us for a little bit, and she kept on clinging on to me saying, "I'm scaaared! What is he doing? Why is he crying? What's going on?" in Chinese. So cute.

We went down after a while to surprise my uncle with the cake. He didn't seem really surprised -.- He just said, "Oh! So there WAS a cake!" Not very satisfying. And as for the present, he kept on saying how it's girls sized because it fit him properly and not those buldgy ones......... But we had a good time, and the cake was good (though I would have preferred chocolate icecream >.<)

And today, I have to study aaaaalll of those brochures that the socials groups made. Why in the world did they put so much info in these brochures!

Oh yea, today, we were supposed to be practicing a skit for drama after school, but two out of the five people couldn't make it, so we decided to start on the out line of the events that happen. It was supposed to be on heros, what ever kind. So I finished with a friend at home, and voila............. these are the days I have been having.