Finals are OVER!

Okay so finals are over and this week is the first week of the second semester. I think that the finals were okay. For PE, I did my bowling final which was mostly true or false and it was super easy. For Spanish, we did our oral presentation and I got A+ on that but I got a D for the multiple choice. For current life, we had a PowerPoint to present and I did that which was easy too. We didn't do anything in English because our final was to do a blog post about out blog posts and we were done with that before the final so everyone just sat there and hung out until school was over. In history and math, we did a multiple choice test that was like 50-60 questions. That was a Thursday and those finals were harder. It's a good thing I passed all of them though. For this semester I have all A's and 1 B, in PE. That only B just ruins my gpa. During the first quarter, I thought I would get my first 4.0 because on schoolloop, every teacher of mine posted grades online except for my PE teacher. So since it was only the first quarter, I was hoping I would get an A, but no, I have a B, so my gpa was a 3.8. I really thought I would get my first 4.0!

I think right now for the first semester I'm going to get the same GPA; 3.8. I had my hopes up too :'( Anyways, at least I'm improving... last year during freshmen year, I had a 2.6! That was so low for someone like me. I had mostly B's and like I think 1 C. Well I think I'm pretty satisfied with my grades right now.. even though I still could've gotten a 4.0. My FIRST 4.0.

Okay so the second semester started and right now for every class, everyone has an A+. We're starting fresh now. I hope I can just keep my 3.8 for the whole year. I know I can't get an A in PE. I can't make all the pacers and I think I failed most of the written tests. So my goal for this semester is to just keep up my grades. Oh, did I mention in math during the first semester, I got a 103%! That's practically an A++! I want to keep my straight A's up.

But then again, I feel like the second semester is going to be harder. I don't know why, but I just feel like it's going to be really hard. Maybe I'm overreacting or just being paranoid. I want to get through this semester without having any troubles or struggles or stresses. Then summer vacation is going to start and I can just relax (and take some classes of course).

English Final

The heart and soul of blogging is the individual and/or the group of individuals opining on the fly and responding post-haste to one and all.
- Michael Conniff

(questions not in order)
7. During the first few weeks of school, I’m always excited to write in my blog. I never thought about if I have stuff to write about or not. But around the second quarter, I started struggling on what to write about. I always say “oh my gosh, what should I write about?” I don’t know why I tend to get stuck but I feel like there is just nothing to write about! The first few blog posts I blogged about piano, movie review, and stuff that have been happening lately. After that I feel like there is nothing to write about. It’s kind of like how every morning, some girls always say “I know I have a closet full of clothes, but there is just nothing to wear!” or “I don’t know what to wear!” How I get unstuck is when I write about my day. I have to do a blog post every week for English class, so since there are no good topics for me to choose, I think I should just write about my day. I mean, there are millions of topics that I can write about, but when I blog, I don’t want to just type about random stuff; I need to have knowledge about that certain topic so I can make my blog post sound amazing.

10. Since this is my first blog account ever, I only update Blogger once a week for class. I also made an account on Tumblr. Tumblr is another website for blogging but it’s more popular these days. I have a lot of friends who have a Tumblr account and I really like this website a lot. I feel like Tumblr is more fun too because Tumblr is a place where people can post random stuff like post pictures, quotes, music, chats, and more. Also we can repost people's posts; that is, if we're following them, but Blogger is amazing too. When I blog on both Blogger and Tumblr, I mostly blog about how was my day, especially on Blogger. Why did I make an account on Tumblr if I have a Blogger? Well, I guess it’s because it’s popular and stuff and I don’t know, I made it just for the heck of it. I also want to be better at blogging. There are a lot of people who blogs about interesting stuff. What kind of stuff? I don’t even know. The people I follow inspire me about what to write. I follow friends and people who share the same interests as me, and I decide to blog about stuff like them. What they blog about is mostly about love, hatred, special occasions, etc... But most of the time, they only post pictures. I post about everything now, especially feelings and inside thoughts that I want out of my head.

8. I really like having a blog. I've never had a blog before. Blogging is a place where you can talk about anything. And you can vent about stuff. It's kind of like an online journal or diary. And it's really organized too. It changed the way I write and the way I think because usually we don't speak the same way when we blog. Most of the time when I blog, I blog about my day or our feelings. And stuff I really need to say. I don't speak the same way when I blog online because it's weird. It's like reading books or poems or songs. When I blog, sometimes I can blog all formally like an essay, but when I speak, it's casual; I’m having a friendly conversation with someone in real life. I don’t speak all formally or an essay-type of conversation with someone. People will think I’m like memorizing what I’m saying from a script of something. I like how when I’m blogging, I can talk about whatever I want. It’s really easy, even though there isn’t that much to talk about. I try to think about random stuff to talk about, but I always end up talking about my day. I can talk about my day to my parents during dinner time, but then through blogging, I talk about my feelings. I can also make my blog posts private if I don’t want any of my followers to read it. I don’t blog for my fellow followers to read, I blog for myself. But sometimes, I guess it’s nice if my followers do read my blog posts, because I might post something funny or post something I want to share with them.

Before I made a Blogger, I saw commercials about blogging, like for example this guy and a lady was at a party and he asked if she wanted to go to his house and she though he was like those freaky men who wants sex or whatever, but then he took a bite of a candy bar and he said “Oh I thought you were a blogger.” And then she said “Oh I love blogging!” (It was a commercial about that candy that he took a bite of…). I always thought to myself what is the point of blogging? Because I never actually know what does blogging even mean. But now I really like it. I really enjoy blogging. It’s like a daily habit for me to blog now (on Tumblr). Whenever I go back home after school, I turn on the computer, and I open up so many windows; AIM, MSN, iTunes, Facebook, Youtube, Schoolloop, and Tumblr.

I hope I can continue blogging for a long time. There are certain habits that I want to get rid of, but I keep procrastinating to get rid of them, but I continue doing them anyways. But right now, blogging is a habit for me. Every day on Tumblr, I always have to post something up; I blog about everything. There are a few blog posts that I have written that are not redundant at all and it makes sense a lot and it’s over 1000 words. I felt pretty proud of myself after that. Sometimes when I get bored I reread all my blog posts and I to reminisce the moments. For a few times, I’ve found some redundancy my posts. After that, I read the recent blog post and I feel like I’ve improved a lot. I want to blog every day for years to come and someday I will reread my first blog post that I’ve ever done to the most recent one.

Your blog is what you say when there is nobody standing over your shoulder telling you what to do.
- Lorelle

Quickwrite: Writing Groups

If I'm going to be working with peers for blogging or any type of writing, I would like to have some ideas on what to write about. Sometimes I don't even know what to write about. I can't really think of anything interesting to write about instead of how was my day. I know there are millions of topics to write about, but then since there is a certain amount of words that are required (300-400), i want to write about something that I have knowledge about. Sometimes there are amazing topics that I can write about, but then I just need to know more about it instead of just write random babbling in order to get to 300 words.

If I'm going to be in a group with people, I would like to be in a group with friends; friends who I talk to a lot and who are comfortable with. Because we can open up with each other and we can say what are our mistakes and help edit each other's work without feeling... embarrassed. But working with people you're not so comfortable with is pretty hard, especially if you don't really socialize with many people and if you're quiet. Also, it is more fun to work with friends anyways.

I think the only rule for writing in groups is if someone is not comfortable sharing something with everyone, then they don't have to read it. Maybe what they wrote is personal and they're not ready to read it just yet; but we might think 'why would you write something personal if you don't want it to be read? Especially if it's going to be on a blog post where some people are going to be reading?' Well, maybe he/she don't want to read it out loud? There are many reasons why, so we can't force them to read it if they don't want to.

this week so far

The first week back at school was not exciting at all. On Monday morning, my mother woke me up and I moaned 'yeah yeah yeah...' and she stood at my door until I finally get up. PE first thing in the morning wasn't lovely either, even though we did only 25 pacers. During Spanish, we talked about what we did during the break. We took notes during Current Life about Sex. In English we had a substitute and we watched a video from TED. History... we were starting a newspaper thing about people from the upper class, middle class,, and lower class and took some more notes from a worksheet. In algebra 2, we took notes too.
While I was in class, sitting on my desk, it felt like winter break never happened. Like it felt like we just came back from a regular two day weekend. Thankfully today is Thursday, which means tomorrow is Friday! The last day of the week until the weekend!
Today was a tiring day, just like every other school days. Hopefully tomorrow will pass by quickly. But tomorrow I have a Spanish test... I don't think I am ready for it. I really need to study tonight (If I don't procrastinate). Even though I'm currently procrastinating right now...
But yeah, hopefully tomorrow will pass by quickly and smoothly so I can go back home and take a nice long nap. But I don't usually take naps, but I kinda feel like taking one at the moment. But I don't want to.
There's a week left until we have finals too. The sound of that just makes me so nervous. Also thinking about tomorrow's Spanish test makes me scared too. I really hope I do good on tomorrow's test and the finals. Oh and sometimes even if I do study for tests, I sometimes end up getting a bad grade on it... then I think all that studying is for nothing? Well I guess it's not for nothing.
Anyways, I'm going to finish up my other homework and then study for Spanish, shower, eat dinner, watch some TV, review some Spanish again, and then go to sleep.

Winter Break

Winter break is in just a few days and I'm so excited. I just want these next 2 days to end fast.
So what am I going to do during Winter break? Well since my parents, well I mean my mom is super strict, she might not let me hang out that much, but she's going to be home the first week, and the 2nd week, my dad is going to be home. At least my dad is less strict, so I can hang out more the 2nd week. But the first week, I'm not sure what I'll do, but I am not going to stay home the whole week with her.
What I am hoping for is go Christmas shopping. I still haven't done that yet. I want to go to Westfield at San Francisco and shop. I'm probably going to go there with my friends because they want to hang out and the only nice place to go is San Francisco, especially for the holidays. If we could, I want to go to Japantown too and take Pika Pika pictures. It's super cute too.
And I won't be going anywhere. Probably some of my friends are going to go to Las Vegas or Reno or New York or somewhere for Winter break. I wish I could go somewhere but can't.
Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel is going to be out on the 23rd too. I want to watch that! It looks so cute! I watched the first movie last year and it was super cute! I downloaded the songs that were chipmunkified too. But I deleted them because... I don't know. I felt silly downloading them but my friends downloaded them too.
My birthday is on Monday of the 2nd week. I will be turning 16... A lot of people said I look too young to be 16 and they thought I was like 14 who's going to turn 15 instead. Anyways, I don't know what I will do for my birthday. My mom is going to be at work but my dad is home but I don't think he'll do anything. My friend said they want to throw me a party because it's my sweet 16 but I don't want to. Usually when it's somebody's birthday, they want a big party and invite so many people and want presents and stuff but for me, I'm not like that; I don't want a party; the last time I had a party was when I was in elementary school. Sure, it was fun because we had lots of fun and we were only kids but I don't know. And I don't want people giving me presents. Because since my birthday is only 3 after Christmas, and people go Christmas shopping anyways, then the Christmas presents can also be my birthday presents; not separate presnts. Maybe I'll have a party when I'm 18 or something. I'm probably going to hang out with Leon for my birthday though. I think we're going to San Francisco again too.
I just love going to San Francisco during Christmas. It looks so pretty! I remember there was a giant Christmas tree at Union Square. And the malls are super crowded, which I like. I want to spend the whole day there. And for new years too! I want to go to San Francisco! With Leon too! And I think my friends are going to San Francisco for new years too. If they are, I want to ask my mom if I can go with them. But she's probably going to say no, but I'll try convincing, because I really want to and I never did.

I think this week went by pretty slow. But today gone by fast though, because of the Winter assembly. I had a PE test that I probably failed; it was a vocab test. I left my PE folder in my PE locker so it was in there the whole week. I didn't get a chance to get my PE folder because we're doing bowling right now and we don't even go to the locker rooms to change. But I got the worksheet online and I studied for like a few minutes and after that I got tired and I fell asleep. or today's test, I used my common sense and hopefully I passed the test, because I learned all the vocab words last year in bio. 2nd period, Spanish, we had another quiz about the estar+participle thing and it was sorta confusing but I think I understand it. 3rd period was current life and we were in the computer lab working on our career portfolio. I'm almost done with that and we worked on it for 3 weeks in the computer lab. Next week we have to go to the classroom and learn about sex ed. When is the end of the quarter/semester?

4th period, we went to the 1st assembly and the Winter assembly was all about music. The people performing and playing their instruments were from the music department. I think they were pretty good. I really like the jazz band part. And the video was funny too! I still think last year's assembly was better though! After that we went back to the classroom and on our way back, Michelle had to use the restroom really really bad and we practically ran to the restroom. It was so funny because we ditched Ryan and other people going back to the classroom was watching us too. When we went back to the classroom, we watched the TED video about replacing body parts.. After that, it was lunch. Michelle, Katherine, Ryan and I were suppose to go to Michelle's house but her mom's friend was at home so we went to Hawaiian drive in. It took forever to get our food but we got it eventually.

5th period, we had a sub for O'Malley's class and everyone said she was super mean. Well, she kinda is mean but she looked nice. But nevermind, she Was mean after all. We watched the French Revolution video and took notes. It was kinda interesting because I was actually paying attention; usually his videos that he show us are boring, but I liked it because it was like a reenactment of the French Revolution. 6th period, I got algebra 2 and all we did in there was work. Usually we took notes from Mrs. Needham but today we caught up with our work and did extra credit.

Today was fast. Because the classes except 4th period was only 40 minutes. And there is one more week until winter break! I cannot wait! After that, we have finals. I really can't wait until summer vacation too.

Thanksgiving break has finally ended and the feeling of rushing to finishing my homework Sunday night was absolutely terrible. I mean, I did some of my homework during the week, but just finishing it Sunday night was not a good idea. I was also on the computer chatting with people, was on FaceBook, listening to music and watching TV. I am such a multi-tasker, but I am able to get my work done.

7:00AM of Monday came and I felt super lazy to wake up. The alarm from my clock rang and I turned it off and continued sleeping for 20 minutes until my mom woke me up. 7:20 AM; I still have time to get ready, because I live close to the school. I got ready until 7:45 and I walked out of the door and walked to school. It was freezing walking out of the door at seven again. I did NOT want to go to school. I wanted to stay in my warm bed and just sleep in again.

PE was my first period class and standing on the line of the gym about to do pacers made my stomach hurt. I felt so nervous and I couldn’t do 35 pacers. I can never do them anyways, unless they change it back to 25 or 30. I stopped around 26 and I was just too tired. 1^st period is over and Spanish 3 was next. I felt paranoid because I was afraid I forgot some of the Spanish words and I couldn’t do anything in that class. So Spanish was okay. Current life was okay. English was... I don't know. The sub was kind of weird. History was boring as usual. Math was pretty easy. School ended. I survived the first day back to school. I wish we got this Monday and Tuesday off since our Thanksgiving break started on Wednesday last week while others had the rest of the week off.

I am so excited for Winter break though! 2 weeks and 2 more days left. My birthday is on Monday of the 2nd week and I wonder what I'll do. I don't really want a birthday party so I think I will go to San Francisco with my friends and shop around at Westfield.

I bet those 2 weeks off from school will pass by quick. Whatever. I’m excited for break.