Happy New Year!!!
Wow, it's been so long since i've posted. I'm really sorry. I got caught up with life and just had too much going on. And during this break i've mainly just slept till one in the afternoon, eat, do homework, and then go back to sleep. Before winter break, school was giving me heck of a time. Between reading Moby Dick and writing my history term paper, i barely had enough time to do anything else. A lot of things have been going on my life, and now i will take my time to tell as much as i can.
I don't know how to do cuts, but if you don't have a lot of time on your hands, i don't think you should read this, it's really long
I'm going to Africa during the spring!!! I'm going with my club, Building with Books, to help build schools in Mali, Africa. Honestly, I'm really scared, really really scared. I mean, this is Africa we're talking about. I have never been that far away from home, and during school too. It's two weeks before spring break, so i would miss two weeks of school, and hopefully i'll be able to make it up during the break. I have to do a lot of preparations, like get immunizations, go to pre-trek workshops, talk to my teachers to arrange my missing work. I'm going to miss so much, but this is a chance of a lifetime, and i don't want to miss it. Besides, it's too late to back out now. What I'm really concerned once i get there is how i'm going to stay clean, cuz i'm a clean freak. How am i going to wash my hair? I can't go two days without washing my hair, how can i live with two weeks? And it's going to be a lot of work, serious construction work. We're going to help make bricks, and mix concrete and other things like that, and they expect you to work and not slack off. We have to get up 5:30 in the morning, and take shifts of working. But according to one of the people that went last year, it's going to be mango season when we get there, and i love mangoes, so that's a good thing. And how am i going to wash my clothes, and take showers for pete's sake? Oh, and it's all girls, there's notguys, except for a male teacher. I'm worried that it will get all dramatic and annoying, and i'm so sad that there's no guys of our age because sometimes guys can lighten things up, you know? This is going to test my people's skill, i hope i'll have a good time and enjoy the trip. And I hope that we can all become really close and be friends.
Since i'm a junior now, i have to take the SATs, which i hate. I've taken a subject test and the reasoning test. The reasoning test was soo long, and i did it without studying first because i wanted to see how i'd do without studying. It didn't turn out so well. So now i'm buying books and trying to make time to study. At first i didn't want to take the SATs, i was thinking about going to DVC and then transferring, because it saves soo much money and the first two years are just general studies anyways. But when i told my mom about it, she started to tell me all the bad points that don't really matter to me, and she got some of the facts wrong because she heard it from other people, and she doesn't know much herself, but she lets on like she does, which just annoyed me. Then i got mad, and she got mad, and told my dad. Then when i went out and my dad came to get me, he gave me this talking to, and the whole car ride of him telling me to not even think about going to DVC and take the SATs. Oh, and he also talked to me about working at stores. Apparently my mom thought i wanted to devote my life to being a salesperson just because i told her i want to work at some clothing stores, and she told my dad. So then i told my dad that i only want to earn some money, and i don't intend to spend my life being a salesperson. See what i mean? my mom just assumes things and sometimes her self-confidence in the wrong things gets on my nerve. There's a similar situation when i was in Hong Kong with my aunt, my cousin and my mom, and we wanted to go ice-skating, but it was too full, so we couldn't go. I was fine, but somehow my mom thought i was angry, so she told me "Now don't get angry, it's not your aunt's fault that you can go ice-skating" and all these other things, and that set me off. So then i got angry, and everything went downhill. Naturally she assumes she was right because i did get angry, but iactually she started the whole thing. Ok rant over now. So yeah, trying to better in the SATs....
For christmas my aunt gave me a portable iHome for my iPod. That was the only gift i got, but i'm used to just getting one gift now. The only thing is i already have an iHome, just not a portable one. At least she didn't get me clothes, like she does every year. It's the thought that counts, so i guess it's alright.
For New Year's Eve we went to my aunt's place, and we had dinner, and then we played Wii (actually my little cousins played it, we just sat around and did nothing), then the kids went to bed and we counted down, it was nothing big really. I miss the holiday sprirts when i was in Hong Kong. When i'm college i think that we can get super long vacations, and then maybe i can go to HK during the winter, and spend Christmas and New Year with my grandparents. It won't be cold, and there's a really nice holiday spirits there, i love it, and miss it a lot.
School has been really hard. I like my classes, but when they pile up with work, it drives me crazy. I'm just really glad that i don't take AP US History, that would've really been stressful. Spanish is really hard this year, even though i've expected it. My teacher is cheesy, and she's really just.......i don't know, she's so excited all the time, it drives me crazy. And she's kinda unorganized, which also drives me crazy. I'm not planning on taking it next year, i think this will be my last year, because i've heardthat the teacher for Spanish 5 can't teach, and besides, i dont' want to take the AP test for it. We read soo much for Honors English, and then write essays. I got my first A on a quiz, and i was really happy. I hope i can get an A on my next essay, which is due the day when we get back. I have the rough draft done, so at least i have something.
Oh, remember my cousin that i really hate?? He's moved to my aunt's, who's not his mother, his parents are in HK. i guess my uncle saw how my dad and him don't really get along when we were over there once for dinner, so then he called his momand arranged for him to move him from our place to his place. It's really nice without him, it's like all the tension from the house is gone, and we can live without all the trouble that he's caused because now he's not my parents' responsibility. The thing is, when he left he also took his computer, which is not entirely his. My brother, my other cousin and he bought it from my uncle, he persuaded my brother and my other cousin to chip in to buy it because it was really fast. So they did, but when they bought it, only he used it, and now he walked out with it without paying the other two. It's really unfair too because my uncle backed him up, so it's almost as if my brother and my other cousin got ripped off. He's caused too much trouble that even when he leaves he has to do something. I hope i never see him again. He's already made my dad and his mom(they're brother and sisters) be mad at each other, and his sister hates us now. So everything is ruined, because of him. I love his mother and his sister, they are really good to us, and soo nice. They're the opposite of him, but i guess they have to back him up because he is their immediate family. It just makes me really sad.....
So this is everyhing that's been going on, Happy New Year!!!!
I don't know how to do cuts, but if you don't have a lot of time on your hands, i don't think you should read this, it's really long
I'm going to Africa during the spring!!! I'm going with my club, Building with Books, to help build schools in Mali, Africa. Honestly, I'm really scared, really really scared. I mean, this is Africa we're talking about. I have never been that far away from home, and during school too. It's two weeks before spring break, so i would miss two weeks of school, and hopefully i'll be able to make it up during the break. I have to do a lot of preparations, like get immunizations, go to pre-trek workshops, talk to my teachers to arrange my missing work. I'm going to miss so much, but this is a chance of a lifetime, and i don't want to miss it. Besides, it's too late to back out now. What I'm really concerned once i get there is how i'm going to stay clean, cuz i'm a clean freak. How am i going to wash my hair? I can't go two days without washing my hair, how can i live with two weeks? And it's going to be a lot of work, serious construction work. We're going to help make bricks, and mix concrete and other things like that, and they expect you to work and not slack off. We have to get up 5:30 in the morning, and take shifts of working. But according to one of the people that went last year, it's going to be mango season when we get there, and i love mangoes, so that's a good thing. And how am i going to wash my clothes, and take showers for pete's sake? Oh, and it's all girls, there's notguys, except for a male teacher. I'm worried that it will get all dramatic and annoying, and i'm so sad that there's no guys of our age because sometimes guys can lighten things up, you know? This is going to test my people's skill, i hope i'll have a good time and enjoy the trip. And I hope that we can all become really close and be friends.
Since i'm a junior now, i have to take the SATs, which i hate. I've taken a subject test and the reasoning test. The reasoning test was soo long, and i did it without studying first because i wanted to see how i'd do without studying. It didn't turn out so well. So now i'm buying books and trying to make time to study. At first i didn't want to take the SATs, i was thinking about going to DVC and then transferring, because it saves soo much money and the first two years are just general studies anyways. But when i told my mom about it, she started to tell me all the bad points that don't really matter to me, and she got some of the facts wrong because she heard it from other people, and she doesn't know much herself, but she lets on like she does, which just annoyed me. Then i got mad, and she got mad, and told my dad. Then when i went out and my dad came to get me, he gave me this talking to, and the whole car ride of him telling me to not even think about going to DVC and take the SATs. Oh, and he also talked to me about working at stores. Apparently my mom thought i wanted to devote my life to being a salesperson just because i told her i want to work at some clothing stores, and she told my dad. So then i told my dad that i only want to earn some money, and i don't intend to spend my life being a salesperson. See what i mean? my mom just assumes things and sometimes her self-confidence in the wrong things gets on my nerve. There's a similar situation when i was in Hong Kong with my aunt, my cousin and my mom, and we wanted to go ice-skating, but it was too full, so we couldn't go. I was fine, but somehow my mom thought i was angry, so she told me "Now don't get angry, it's not your aunt's fault that you can go ice-skating" and all these other things, and that set me off. So then i got angry, and everything went downhill. Naturally she assumes she was right because i did get angry, but iactually she started the whole thing. Ok rant over now. So yeah, trying to better in the SATs....
For christmas my aunt gave me a portable iHome for my iPod. That was the only gift i got, but i'm used to just getting one gift now. The only thing is i already have an iHome, just not a portable one. At least she didn't get me clothes, like she does every year. It's the thought that counts, so i guess it's alright.
For New Year's Eve we went to my aunt's place, and we had dinner, and then we played Wii (actually my little cousins played it, we just sat around and did nothing), then the kids went to bed and we counted down, it was nothing big really. I miss the holiday sprirts when i was in Hong Kong. When i'm college i think that we can get super long vacations, and then maybe i can go to HK during the winter, and spend Christmas and New Year with my grandparents. It won't be cold, and there's a really nice holiday spirits there, i love it, and miss it a lot.
School has been really hard. I like my classes, but when they pile up with work, it drives me crazy. I'm just really glad that i don't take AP US History, that would've really been stressful. Spanish is really hard this year, even though i've expected it. My teacher is cheesy, and she's really just.......i don't know, she's so excited all the time, it drives me crazy. And she's kinda unorganized, which also drives me crazy. I'm not planning on taking it next year, i think this will be my last year, because i've heardthat the teacher for Spanish 5 can't teach, and besides, i dont' want to take the AP test for it. We read soo much for Honors English, and then write essays. I got my first A on a quiz, and i was really happy. I hope i can get an A on my next essay, which is due the day when we get back. I have the rough draft done, so at least i have something.
Oh, remember my cousin that i really hate?? He's moved to my aunt's, who's not his mother, his parents are in HK. i guess my uncle saw how my dad and him don't really get along when we were over there once for dinner, so then he called his momand arranged for him to move him from our place to his place. It's really nice without him, it's like all the tension from the house is gone, and we can live without all the trouble that he's caused because now he's not my parents' responsibility. The thing is, when he left he also took his computer, which is not entirely his. My brother, my other cousin and he bought it from my uncle, he persuaded my brother and my other cousin to chip in to buy it because it was really fast. So they did, but when they bought it, only he used it, and now he walked out with it without paying the other two. It's really unfair too because my uncle backed him up, so it's almost as if my brother and my other cousin got ripped off. He's caused too much trouble that even when he leaves he has to do something. I hope i never see him again. He's already made my dad and his mom(they're brother and sisters) be mad at each other, and his sister hates us now. So everything is ruined, because of him. I love his mother and his sister, they are really good to us, and soo nice. They're the opposite of him, but i guess they have to back him up because he is their immediate family. It just makes me really sad.....
So this is everyhing that's been going on, Happy New Year!!!!