Trick-or-Treating

Really, I wasn't planning to go trick-or-treating this year but then a few of my friends asked me if I wanted to go with them and I ended up going. Woo. We're all from the same elementary school so we just met up there. It was pretty much your normal trick-or-treat routine except we had to avoid the people putting off fireworks quite a few times. It was actually kind of scary standing that close to the fireworks. It will haunt me...probably not! Around 8:20 I bumped into my best friend from Grade 7 that now goes to Prince of Wales. That was surprising, really surprising. We hung out a bit and then said good-bye. I think I'll visit her on Friday. She lives pretty close to my elementary school, maybe like 2 or 3 blocks away. When all the fun was over, we had to send one of my friends home because she lived farther away than us. On Park Dr I think. I got home at around 9:20, took a shower to get the glitter off my hair and face then started writing this blog! My nails are still painted black, I'll remove the polish on Friday. If I have time.:)

Halloween Preparations :D

Bought some stuff for tomorrow's trick-or-treat. I didn't but a new costume so I just some things to go along with the old costume. The costume is like a witch dress, at least that's what it looks like. So after my Chinese class I headed over to...Superstore! They actually had quite a few stuff left over! I thought they would be all out! I bought a purple witch hat and some glow in the dark gel! Ooohh. Fancy. :) I'm thinking of putting it on my face and highlight my hair. I also bought some black nail polish. I hope that the gel come off really easily otherwise I'm coming to school with glowing hair! Maybe even a glowing face! Scary...

Korean Lunchbox

Bought a Korean lunchbox for lunch today. Me and two of my friends actually planned that we buy lunch today so we brought money. :) I had to rush out of Applied Skills so I could get to the old dogpound earlier so it won't run out. I remember once I went to get a samosa and right after I finished waiting for so long and got to the beginning of the line, they ran out of samosas. I was sooooo mad!!! I got there pretty early but there were already a line up. Those people are fast... I got a lunchbox though. Yay! But the people forgot to give me change so I had to wait quite a while just to get my change. I don't ever leave a penny behind unless I feel like it. My policy. I got a chicken lunchbox, one of my friends got the beef lunchbox, and my other friend got the lunch bowl. We all sampled each other's food. It was actually really good! I'm going to buy it again next Friday, except I'm getting the bowl instead. Good plan, goosd paln. :)

Busing Home

AHH! I'm so mad at the people driving the bus. Okay, not sure why I'm mad but I am. Bla. Okay, so me and my friend were going to the library so we had to take the bus otherwise we would run out of time to actually do anything there. We were waiting and waiting. I was surprised that the juice box (it's name's Hobo) my friend left there about a month ago was STILL there! That is one strong box. It's really muddy now...and flat. Okay, so we were standing there waiting and the bus comes. It only dropped people off though, didn't pick anyone up. At least this one had an excuse. It was really full. Last time me and my friend took the bus, the first one that came didn't pick us up and was barely even full! I hate it when this happens now. I just hate it. We ended up walking to Park St. and finally another bus came. We got to the library at around 4:30 PM. This is where I'm writing this blog right now. I probably have to leave in 10 minutes. If only I could complain about this right to the people who drives those buses. Or anyone, I don't really care. :)

Science Fair Progress!

I switched to bean plants. The tomato plants weren't really growing that well and three of them already died! I asked my science teacher if I could do bean plants instead of tomato plants and luckily she said yes. My current bean plants planted just for fun are already over 10 cm tall! I'm really surprised how quickly they grew! One night it grew around 3cm. That is kinda freaky. Yet so fascinating!! Apparently tomato plants are really hard to keep alive. They don't like to be cold yet they don't like to be dry either. It's hard to do both. I can't put the plants on the heater where they'll be warm but dry. I just switched to bean plants. Sooooo much easier to take care of. They can take care of themselves pretty well. Other than that, I'm still kinda confused on what we're supposed to do for the go program. Do we just copy and paste the lesson extension onto our website after we fill in the blanks? One more question, do we just ask our friends, family, and a teacher for the get go part? Thanks! :)

Castle Finally Complete!

I just finished drawing and outlining the good copy of my magic castle. There's nothing too magical about my castle though. It's just a normal castle that penguins live in. I was stressing about that castle for a while. I wasn't sure how to draw it and any ideas that came into my head were all too hard to draw. I just stuck with my second favourite thing, penguins. It was kinda hard tracing my draft cause I couldn't really see any of the lines I drew. I still somehow completed it though. I couldn't trace the penguins that well. They're really small so they're even harder to see. I'm not really sure if I have to colour the castle or not. I didn't. Hopefully I don't have to. The penguins will be really hard to colour.

Orhtodontists and Braces...

AHH!!! My teeth hurt so much now! I had my orthodontics appointment this morning. I wanted it to be after school but nooo. The receptionist says that they can't do the thing after 3:00 PM. I wanted the appointment to be on either a Pro-D day or a collaborative planning day but noooo. The orthodontist isn't there on Wednesdays or Fridays. So I ended up having the appointment today. The whole appointment only took around 30 minutes so I only miss one period. The actual appointment doesn't really hurt but after, the pain!! During the day it didn't hurt as much as it does now. During the day it only felt sore and some particular teeth hurt. Now, those particular teeth hurt so much it's almost unbearable and the other teeth are even more sore. I really look forward to the day my braces come off.

They're Alive!!

My tomato plants are alive!!! I was so afraid that they wouldn't grow enough to use for my science fair project. Now look at them! They're growing!! I think two of them died though. One of them didn't even sprout yet and the other one's not looking that healthy. I think I drowned it or something. I also planted some bean plants just for fun. All of them grew! I'm starting to think that a bean plant would have been a better choice. On the packaging it said that it'll take longer than the tomato seeds to grow. False info! Who knew that they would actually grow! Maybe it's because my apartment's manager turned up the temperature. Kinda works like a greenhouse right? Smaller though. Now I have to figure out how to get soil from outside during the wintertime. So troubling.

Chinese Class

Every single Saturday I have to go to Chinese class. I been over for a little over a year now. Last year my mom finally decided that I needed to learn more Chinese. That's pretty true. I can't even read it or write it. If you spoke to me in Chinese and didn't talk in in simple Chinese, I probably won't even understand! I got a lot better now. I can read really simple children's books now! I'm actually really proud. Compared to my friends, my Chinese is really bad. Hopefully by next year I'll be able to read a simple newspaper article in Chinese! The dream lives on! :) Other than that, I really don't have anything else to say. I write more tomorrow. Maybe...

Pro-D Day

This Pro-D day was so boring to me. I had not much to do. I was supposed to hang out with one of my friends today but she had a doctor's appointment because her cold got worse again. I slept for over 12 hours. I'm quite happy that I caught up on my sleep. :) After I woke up it was almost time for lunch already so I just ate it a bit earlier. The rest of the day I just did homework and read. I don't live an extremely interesting life. The highlight of my day was going to art class and chatting with my friends there. We had some weird conversations. Not much work was done. Next time I have to finish my landscape drawing. I might take art class but I still am no good at drawing. :)

Computer Problems!

I think my computer caught a cold. I tried to write my blog this afternoon and a little box popped up from my virus detector program asking me whether to give Mozila Firefox access to Internet connection or not. I clicked on the allow always button but the program blocked it! I was so confused! I was sure that I clicked the allow always button! I opened the program to allow Firefox Internet connection again but it still didn't work. After my mom got home she was trying to make it work for pretty much the whole night! Even after all that, it still didn't work. I'm not sure exactly what my mom did but I'm pretty sure she reinstalled it. Now I'm writing my blog using my extremely old version of Internet Explorer. It's much slower than Firefox and Google Chrome. you should probably know that I used Google Chrome before Firefox but it all of a sudden stopped working just like Firefox. It's really confusing all this. I'm just glad that I was able to write my blog. :)

Granville Island!!

The writer's festival was today! Wooo! It was amazingly fun. The bus ride was kind of boring plus I was feeling dizzy going there but everything else was fine! When we first got there, me and my friends were on the look out for shops. Any kind. I have a problem with shopping without using my own money. I get a little crazy. Just a smidge. :) The only store that we found was an art shop. We didn't really do that much there. I bought a eraser that you can mold and a delete button eraser! We had to run back to the place we were supposed to meet because we thought we were late. We weren't but we did come later than most of the people. The first show we saw was featuring Kenneth Oppel and Richard Newsome. I don't really know how to describe the whole show because I'm not good at remembering everything. They basically just talked about their new books and answered a few questions. After the show, they were signing autographs. People had a chance to buy the books but sadly I didn't have enough money to buy them. So sad. :( I thought that I wasn't going to be able to get their autographs because I didn't have any paper on me either! Luckily one of my friends brought her notebook with her so we all ripped a page out had had them sign that. When I do get their books, I'll just tape in the autograph. :)

 After we got our autographs, we went to look for food. Then someone got us lost when looking for the food market. I won't name who...yet. Finally we found it after asking two people for instructions. We ended up eating at a gelato shop on the way. I ate my sandwich from Safeway and everyone else bought something to eat. I also got a brownie but didn't finish it and had to give it to the person who got us lost. Three of us got gelato ice cream after as a dessert. I got cookies n cream. It was such a hard choice! They had my favourite flavors! I was torn apart deciding! We didn't have much time to wander after that so we just headed back. The next show was featuring Sharon McKay. She told us about her experiences while she was in Afghanistan and a few other things. She also had a little question time like the last show. I was able to buy her book Thunder in Kandahar though. I had just enough money! :) Me and my friends were late getting on the school bus because we were getting our books signed and had to wait until Sharon McKay was done talking to the people in front of us. We had to run back otherwise we would be stranded on Granville Island. This is definitely a trip that I'm going to remember.

Assembly!

There was an assembly today on homophobia. The guest speaker spoke about his experiences in high school because he's gay himself! He told us about how after people found out, they didn't even treat him the same way. His friends didn't hang out with him any more and pretty much everything in his life kind of changed. Even one of his aunts didn't want anything to do with his family! That's not the worst part, he was also bullied and beat-up because of who he was! It was kind of shocking actually. This could be happening to a lot of other kids too. I saw a poster that showed the names of the kids who committed suicide because of homophobia recently (sort of, I didn't get a close look at the poster). It's really sad what happens to them. Well purple day's tomorrow but sadly I can't find my only purple shirt! I guess I'll just have to wear a shirt that has purple on it.

Mapping

Bla. That's how I feel right now. I finally finished that map, the demon map that was assigned to make my life miserable. Okay, a little exaggerated but mostly true. I worked sooo hard on that one map and another one is going to be assigned soon. I think it's still a world map but a different style. I'm so tired now. I didn't think that mapping would be that much work. I thought that it would only take around a hour to finish fine lining and colouring but noooo. It took me around 2 HOURS to finish! I shouldn't have put it off until now. I wanted to work on my magical castle for penguins today but ended up running out of time. :( I hope the next mapping assignment is much easier than this one. :)

Homework Boards

I finally looked at the other homework boards. I not sure why I didn't go onto them earlier. Their...FANTASTIC!!! It's so useful! If I had a field trip or I had an appointment with my orthodontist, I can find out what my homework was and kind of catch up on what everyone else was doing. Someone should post all the notes taken during that class as well. It would make my life so much easier. Other people would also be so relieved. If only all my other classes were like that too. Then I wouldn't have to ask my friend to type out all those notes for me so I can copy them down. Now I have to find someone in my math class that doesn't have gym on a day 2. I'm looking forward to more field trips and yet I'm hoping there's no more at the same time! I need to make up my mind.

Science Fair Experiment Preparation

Bought the stuff I need for my science fair project today. It is a really bad time to do a project on plant growth during winter but I didn't have ANY other ideas. I really hope I have enough time to actually complete the experiment and repeat it another 2 times! I don't think that the plant will have enough time to grow big enough. I thought I only had to do the experiment once but noooo. I'm so stressed now. I think I only have around 2 weeks for the plant to grow. I wonder if I could change a few parts of my proposal. Maybe the bean seeds would grow faster than the tomato seeds because it's bigger! Wow. Now I get more science fair ideas. It's a little late brain! Maybe I'll use it for Grade 10. Next year I'm planning on doing how fast different types of milk expire. Whole milk or skim?

Orthodontics Appiontment Soon...

AHHH! I have to go get my braces checked up soon. It's not really a small check-up like usual, it's a big one. Last time I remember them saying something about adjusting the wires. I don't know why but everything they say sounds so painful. Maybe it's because of the complicated terms they use. The bad thing is that I have to miss period 1 on that day. I know I should be overjoyed but I'm still not really used to missing classes because of field trips and appointments. It's so much more confusing than in elementary school! I have strings that period so I don't think I'll miss too much. I already told my friend to pick up an extra copy and tell me what we learned. I'm kinda worried about my teeth now. They always hurt so much after a big adjustment. I guess I'll live on soup for a while. 

Locker Decorating!!!

My friend's birthday is coming up on Sunday so me and some of my other friends are going to decorate her locker! This is my absolute first time doing anything like this. Well, I have made a lot of cards for student teachers that were leaving. I never did it alone, I always had one of my BFFs help me. She's really artistic and I just help. We did a huge banner our school's Journey book. Before it was just going to be me and one of my friends working on the decorations but then a lot of other people also wanted to help. I tried to have fewer people help so people won't get bored. We were supposed to get it put up today but we didn't get signatures or finish drawing everything. It's postponed till tomorrow. We have to put it up after school so our friend won't see it until Monday. It's so sad that my birthday's in the summer.

Science Fair Proposal

My science fair proposal was...APPROVED!!!! I was so shocked! I thought that for sure that it wouldn't be approved. One reason, I didn't really think about the project that much and didn't have too much time left to do the proposal. I thought that the proposal was due on the 15th. Turns out it was due on the 5th! I had to quickly think of a project and write a proposal. I wasn't the only one apparently. I still have a lot to fix on the final report though. I also have to get a lot of pots for the plants. I have no idea how I'm going to get to do the project 3 times in two months! Maybe I could record the growth of the plant for two weeks. AHH!! I don't know what to do!!! I probably have to do a lot of compromising.

I Need More Sleep!

AHH! I'm so tired ever since school started. I'm not used to waking up so early. I know it's been a month but I'm slow at getting used to less sleep everyday. I remember in the summer I could sleep whenever I wanted. No limits, the freedom of peaceful slumber. Now I still have that right but then I wouldn't graduate high school on time. Then I would have no chance at being a billionaire. I miss sleeping at 10:00PM, waking up at 10:30AM than taking a nap at 1:30PM. I slept more than half a day before! I tried going to sleep earlier but then I don't have time to finish everything before I go to bed! If I wake up later I'll be late for school! I'm barely making it now! I'm so happy that tomorrow's a collaborative planning day. More sleep for me! :)

Ear Piercings

I'm thinking of getting my ears pierced during the Winter Break. One of my friend's is also thinking if getting her ears pierced. I'm still not sure if I should go through with it because one of my friend's who already got their ears pierced that that it hurt more than a needle! I can't even think of the pain! My mom said that if I'm going through with it, I should get pure gold studs to start with. Apparently it won't infect your ear unlike other metals. I think the best time for it's during Winter Break because my ears would be half numb already so maybe it will numb the pain. I also won't have to go to school with an aching ear. Pain makes me very gloomy. I also heard that we're getting shots again next year. I hope we don't have to get it 3 times like two years ago. Honestly, I'm not looking forward to immunization shots.

New Swimsuit

Had to buy a new swimsuit today for my Watermania trip on Nov.5th. The one I have right now is getting a little samll and the colour's coming off. The quality isn't that good. I looked quite hard for a good swimsuit today. I didn't really want a one piece swimsuit because if you need to go to the washroom you have to take the whole thing off and then put it back on again. It's way too much work for me. I'd much rather just have a two-piece.  I tried to find one that covers the stomach but couldn'y find one. I guess that they don't sell that many types of swimsuits after summer's over. I found a few but most of them either didn't fit that well or weren't that good. I finally found a pretty good one. It was green with pink Hawaii style flowers. :) I hope that I'm going to Hawaii soon. I have a great swimsuit for the occassion.

Church Party

I went to a church party today. At first I didn't really want to go because I didn't know anyone there. It was right after my Chinese class so I didn't have much time to do anything else. I also had to go to Safeway to buy some maple syrup, jam and roasted chicken. The roasted chicken was for the party in case I didn't like the food that they served there. I only had 10 minutes to rest and 8 of them were eating some of the chicken and preparing a little sauce. The first part was really just eating and talking. I made two new friends and we were just hanging out while the adults were talking. After we were supposed to listen to this long church speech but I don't understand much Chinese so I didn't understand anything. We kinda sneaked into the washroom and talked there for a while. I accidentally sprayed Airwick onto the ceiling (way too low that ceiling) and had to try to get it off by throwing paper towels at it. After we sneaked into the gym to play a bit. First it was basketball, then dodgeball, and lastly volleyball. After many glasses of water, we went to see if the game room was open. It wasn't, so sad. They had foosball, pool, and AIR HOCKEY!!!! We ended up just talking on the stairs. I left at around 9:00PM. It was a lot of fun. :)

Paper Model

Made a paper model of Big Ben for Applied Skills about two days ago! I know it's not really current anymore but I ran out of things to write about. I actually forgot to make it so many times but I had so much luck cause we went to the computer lab two times. When I finally remembered to make the model, I went onto the site but couldn't find one that I really liked and was one of the easier ones. The easiest to me was the school bus, not much to do on that one and not many fine details. I wanted to do a penguin but sadly I didn't find one. I ended up doing Big Ben instead. I already told my friend I wanted to do either a penguin or a clock. I think two other people made Big Ben as well. Mine had to travel to school in an over sized pastry box that still smelled like chocolate though.

OMG

OMG!! My best friend from Grade 5 who went back to China came back to Vancouver!!! I don't know if she's staying or if she's just visiting. I hope she's staying and going to Churchill. :) She called me last night right after I went to bed. I saw the voice mail this morning. I told one of my friends at school who is also my other friend's friend (sorry if this is kinda confusing, I try not to use names) and her reaction attracted a lot of peoples attention. She just started shouting "WHAT?!?! WHAT?!?! YOU SERIOUS?!?!?" It was sooo loud! It kinda deafened me a bit. I tried to call her back but in the morning she was still sleeping and in the afternoon she wasn't home! I'm kinda glad that there's no school tomorrow, I might be able to meet up with her somewhere. :) Today was quite surprising! Never could have predicted this.

The Fantasticks!

Watched the Fantasticks at the Vancouver Playhouse today. It was pretty good, I liked it. One problem is that it is so much like the movie! It's pretty much like watching the same thing twice! I still liked the actual play more though. The characters were funnier somehow in the play. Not sure how. I guess it's cause they don't actually have as many props so they substitute with other stuff. The people also spoke a bit more in the play. I'm not really sure how to write the essay though. Kinda stressing on that right now. I only finished like half of it and I probably have to start over cause the parts that I wrote so far aren't that good. Two more plays to go in this year!

P.E. Written Test!

Had to take a written test in P.E. today. I didn't even know that we even had written tests in P.E.! I thought that the only tests that there is are the fitness tests! I wasn't really used to getting hand-outs for P.E. so I often forgot to take out papers in my P.E. bag. That's exactly what happened to me for the field hockey hand-out. I left it in the bag for so long and finally remembered to take it out 2 days before the test! Lucky for me the test was postponed to today because my teacher was away for a day so we weren't able to do the 6 laps around the oval. Yeah, it's kinda complicated. I wasn't really prepared for the test. I didn't read over the hand-out a lot and I only remembered the basics like the different passes and dribbles. I think I got at least a C+ on the test. I still remembered most of the answers, I just don't know if they're right! I guess I'll find out on Thursday.

Clubs Day!!

Yay! Today's Clubs Day! It was fun. Joined two clubs! I had to finish lunch so quickly, I think it was the cause of my all afternoon hiccups! The two clubs were Unicef and what I think is called Heart2Heart. I also wanted to join the drama club but I couldn't find the booth. One of my friends was helping run the Anime club booth so I went to visit her there a couple times. It was so loud down there in the cafeteria and outside. Only the areas where Clubs Day was held were crowded, everywhere else were pretty much empty. Wow. My friend also wants me to join the recycling club with her because before she joined with a lot of other friends. They all quit because they thought it was too much work. So my friend is so lonely. I'm probably going to join as long as I don't have any activities on Wednesday afternoon.

Hangman

Another great and simple game that I love, Hangman. The first time I played Hangman was in Grade 5! Now that I think of it, I'm surprised that I didn't play it earlier! Maybe it's because my Grade 5 teacher loves word games too much. Then again, he also loves 20 questions. Never loved that game though. I'm not sure why I love this game, kinda like Pac-man to me. This game can go anywhere though, as long as there is a pencil and paper. I remember last year during a Strings concert, I was playing Hangman with my friend who sits right beside me. I lost most of the games. I love the game, but I am terrible at it! Might as well practice. You know how people always say practice makes perfect? Then they say that there's no such thing as perfect. If that's the case, why practice if there's no such thing as perfect? I still added Hangman onto my Google site. It's a fun game, to me. :)

Pac-man

Pac-man. I don't know why but I love that game sooo much now! I'm really not sure how I began liking that game. I think it started in Grade 7, sometime during the middle. Before I wasn't such a big fan. It was just a old game to me before! Then Google did the Pac-man anniversary sign. I beginning to think that the sign was what made me love Pac-man so much. The sign was awesome! In some strange way, it spelled out Google and if you click it, you can play it! There was also two player mode too! Now it's more than just a game, it's a way of life! Wow that sounded dramatic. I'm such a big fan that I actually know the ghost's names! The red one's Blinky, the pink one is Pinky, the turquoise one is Inkey, and the orange one is Clyde. I also added Pac-man to my Google site!

6 Laps!!!

Had to run the 6 laps around the oval today! It was actually better than the Langara run because I know what the oval looks like and when the finishing point is so it was much easier to pace myself. I thought that we were having our field hockey written test today but turns out it was postponed till next week because we had a substitute last time and was unable to do the 6 laps. I'm actually pretty glad that the written test was postponed because I completely forgot to study for it! I was cramming last night. :) The 6 laps turned out to be easier than I expected! That was quite surprising. During the middle of the run around the 4th to 5th lap, I started to slow down by quite. That's when my two friends in the first group that ran started yelling that there was a bee chasing me. As you know, I have a HUGE fear of bees. I'm also quite easy to fool so I started running faster. A lot faster. Half a lap later I finally realized that I was tricked and I was exhausted by that time. I kept running and running. I was amazed that I didn't collapse yet! Near the end of the 6th lap, I was so tired that I didn't feel like running the rest of the way. Then my friends started yelling that there was a bee behind me again. I started running believing there was a enormous bee chasing me. I didn't run as fast as the first because I was so tired though. I have to thank my friends though. Thanks to them I just passed the running part with 15:32 as my time. My legs kinda hurt for the rest of the day. Ow.