Become a point guard

            Today's basketball practice is special for me, because I am going to play point guard for the starting five player, which is very excited. Honestly, I have been waiting for this opportunity, and today, I finally get my chance. Our present-captain is senior, so our team need to find another captain for next year. Some of people here get skill but no charisma, and some of people get leadership but lack technique. As you see, it's hard to decide who will be the most appropriate person for next year's captain. I think if I would like to be, then I must work extremely hard without hesitation. I always believe that tough guy are always people who work harder than others, therefore, I should seize this opportunity and practice even harder in order to achieve my dream. First, I need to manage my time. Management is always important for everything. Needing to find a point that can balance playing basketball and having a good grade. So I already for all the difficulties and hardship that I am going to face. Keep pushing myself and trying to concentrate on my work is my first goal, afterwards, I start to figure out how long should I spend on practicing basketball and working on my assignment.     
I think, every 15:15 ~ 18:00 will be time for practicing basketball. 18:00~19:00 time for dinner. 19:00~22:00 for sleeping. 22:00~3:30 for studying. 3:30~7:30 for sleeping, then ready for school. 
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Musical Production part 2

             As you know, every Tuesday and Friday's third period is one of my favorite class "Musical Production", and today I didn't have chance to go on the stage again, because it hadn't got on my part yet, so I just sat there and chatted with other people. The good thing about sitting there is you can understand more interesting things about your classmate by talking to them, now I know some of their habits, and everyone becomes chatterboxes when they talked about their interesting things which is good. I think I can promote each other's friendship by hanging out with them during the break time. The break time here means, while you are waiting for others until you get your part in the script. Honestly, those main characters acting skill is improving obviously, which is better than I expected. And today we got take home quiz chapter 15 to 24 need to be finished by next Tuesday, I guess I will need to reread the story about, because I already forgot some part of it. Last time, I watched a great dramatic video about " The Wizard of Oz", and I was focusing on my part of it. When the general appeared, they became to sing "YO HEE YO HOO" something like that, which was pretty cool, although they didn't have meaning. I think next time, I can get my opportunity to go on the stage. By the way, before that, next class we are going to meet stage art's students in order to deal with our dresses. I hope we can finish that as soon as possible, then we can have more time to practice on our production. 

My opinion after our final football game

              Today, it's our final football game for PE class. This year, Coach Li has another way to give our grade, he says winner team, your grade will start at A, however, losing team, you guys' grade is gonna be start at B, which is a big difference. Luckily, we have participation grade to pull out our total grade, otherwise this class is going to be as tough as AP class. Well... Last time, we won the softball, and I got A in this class naturally. This time... not as lucky as last time. Our original team members have separated which means we are not as powerful as before. And the most unbelievable thing is my best friend Godwin is the captain on my enemy's team... What a sad combination... Anyway, I am still the captain on my team, so I think each side has a same sport skill to win this final game... Unexpectedly, one or two of their members had great football experience before, which means they already had lots of good skill. They have more practices than us, and they know strategies more than us. Well... it's kinda unfair... Because in this case, the team skill is not as balance as I thought. Anyway, the point is our team had lost the game, but good thing to know is our teammate didn't feel too much depressed, because we know everyone already did their best on not only defense but also offense. I think this experience can push me to a higher position, after that, I know what weakness does our team have, and which part still need to work on it. Now, I have confidence to win our next game, I gonna lead each of my teammate to get the victory. Losing makes me stronger, next time always be better than last time. 

Three days break

Nice, this is my first time to participate in Thanksgiving, and I think it was awesome. Lots of delectable food on the table, and most of them were from students' parents. Too bad, my mom didn't have chance to donate any food, because we lived in Taoyuan, so it's kind of not convenient to deliver food from there to our school. But I think next time, she can just give me money, and I can order pizza or stuff like that. I didn't eat much Turkey meat on that day, because I was attracting by other delicious food. Everyone enjoyed watching a nice football game on that day. I would say I love that event very much, that was a joyful and fun activity. After Thanksgiving, we had a PD day on Friday which meant we didn't have to come to school at that day. However, I think I didn't really have fun during the three days break, because most of time I was in my room. Either using laptop or studying, just like my friend told me, I should go out frequently in order to relieve my stress. Hopefully, this week all the old ESL kids can go watch movie with Ms.Padachie on next Thursday. So, basically my three days break were nothing special, just normal as always. Now, I think I should LAUGH more, otherwise I will killed by my pressure.

A great moment today

Today is another important day for our basketball team, as the result of we have a game coming today. After school, sixth floor, every basketball members gather at here in order to ready for the big game. Well... this is my first time to have a competition with World high school, therefore I feel kind of intense, because I don't know how bad or how well their basketball ability are. Unfortunately, we didn't have many audience come to see our game. But we still did a awesome job from the beginning quarter until the end of the quarter. Well... I meant if you see the score, you would think we did a good job, because we were approximately ten something higher than them. But as our opinion, we thought we could do much better. Anyway, I felt good about the result of the game, practically when we got score, every audience yelled enthusiastically which felt good. Well... the conclusion was luckily they were not as well as we expected, therefore we got the victory successfully. Even though we won the game eventually, we still can't depreciate other teams. We still need to practice harder and focus on our cooperative teamwork. We humble, we play with proud and we work together. Next time always will be better than this time.

Anther experience for Musical Production

Today, we start adding our action and emotion for our roles. Today I haven't had chance to go on the stage because my part is on the act 2, but I think every actors and actress in the act 1 did a great job, they made the stage become active and vivid after they put those incredible action and feeling in it. Our production gradually getting more interesting, and I think during this cooperation, each other's friendship became steady, because we learned how to help each other and we support each other, and we encourage each other, we know this is a teamwork. Everything is just impossibly to make up by one person. Personally, I think this is an appropriate class for not only active students but also shy students, because everyone is allowed to make mistakes here. This class is not going to judge about how great is your English ability or comment on how well is your speech or presentation. We alleviate our stress and relax being yourself here, if you make any mistakes such as pronounce unclearly or having a trouble to reveal your thought, then no one is going to laugh at you or blame on you, because those are the process of learning, so we build up and practice our English skills with relaxing here.

The feeling of musical production so far

Fortunately, after those tough days, after those hardship, after those diligent work, after those effort, we finally got our script done. I meant we read all the pages in our script which took approximately two and half class, I guess. Later on, I think we are going move to our emotion or action part, which is going to take more time....As we see, we spent like almost three hours on reading the script, if we want to put emotion and practice on action, then it gonna take like day and night, working incessantly. But those won't be difficulties for our group, because I think we have many good actors and actress in this class, so this production is going to be successful. I start to worry about the final essay compare-contrast essay, therefore we have to compare the book version and the movie version. Well...... I guess I will have to take couple minutes in order to watch the movie and read the book again. So today we are working on character's introduction, it like we have to show our comprehension about the character that you are going to act. Well...... this assignment is quite interesting, because I have more understanding after I answer those questions my characters. Be honest, this is my first time to participate in this kind of show, like drama, opera, and acting stuff. Well...... I think I probably is going to learn many things after this experience. Well...... I think "try to do something that you think is different will be a great challenge for yourself"

Weekend weekend

Um... another lovely week passed... last week, we had game with 光復 on Friday... unfortunately, not many people went there to see the game. BUT, our team still got good score.. now I think we have enough strength can contend with 光復  B team. Unlike before, we always lost lots of points, and never had chances to beat them... The weather is so weird recently, yesterday, the rain was like pour the water down from the sky, oppositely, today's weather was nice in the morning, and became very cold and big wind at night.....................

Huge wind is fine... just don't give me the rainy day, because I don't like raining. Until last Friday, I finally realized that some people in this school still don't have other countries passport, first I thought that was an essential material to get in this school. Therefore, those people don't have to come on next Monday, seems some one is going to have an investigation in this school. In order to avoid unnecessary circumstance to happen on that day... they determine to give a permission that those students do not have to come school at that day. So I guess, tomorrow is gonna be pretty bored, because many people might not going to school, consequently the class probably gonna be study hall or something.......

Good night!

Conference day!!! I love this day, because you can finally see your classmates parents. Well... I think people usually curious what kind of parents your classmates have or how's they look like. Today, I think I saw pretty many my classmates' parents, which is pretty good. Unfortunately, my parents won't be here this time, because they are too busy, and they are not live in Hsinchu, so it sort of not convenient to come a long way from Taiwan to here. Sports day is coming, I feel quite excited, because I wasn't here last semester, so I didn't have chance to participate in this activity. I think this is the reason why I love this school so much, because we have many events and activities, which are interesting and cool. Well... we have another basketball game with 光復 on Friday, I think this opportunity is perfectly great, because we haven't playing with other school for a long time, so this might be a good chance to test how much have we improve. I slept at 2 or 3 recently, and I think this should thank for the most useful system "sleeptime". I feel that I can mange my sleep time very well. But I think no longer need sleep will be best option for me, however it seems so tough to make it. Last night I realized if you didn't follow this system just once, your sleep time will probably totally destroy at once, so if you don't want to get extremely tired, you have to keep following that, at least that what I think.

Lovely night

What a lovely night just pass, I didn't sleep a lot for last night,well I think I no longer need sleep as the result of I have my calculation of sleep cycle. It gives me lots of confidence, and get my work done on time which I think is very useful and helpful. Let's talk about the system Veracross, well, I didn't really share my opinion about this part in class, so I determined to say it at here. Vecracross is a useful system not only for teachers but also for students. We can check our grade right away after teacher grade our assignment, you usually don't have to wait until they give it back to us. Well... it provides more motivation and energy for me to put more effort on each class, once you see all of your grade are look fantastic, you will have impulse to keep all of them good, that how the system work. Veracross has a specific data about your grade and how teacher grade your paper, percentage and the current information are essentially put on there. As a consequence, I LOVE VERACROSS VERY MUCH, it makes me feel easy to catch on school's information such as the due time of assignment, the measure of homework. it makes life become easier and more convenient. For instance, if you see one of your class has failed no surprise, just go ask the class teacher right away, you don't have to wait until the end of the quarter, and I believe, both of teacher and you are not gonna remember all the stuff or errors they did or we did on assignment, so the best way to solve this is, fix the problem right away, then nowadays we already have this ability to do this by our master system Veracross.

Late in the midnight

Well.... I don't really want to write a journal actually, because now it's in the very late midnight. Anyway, seems I already finished one sentence of it, then I think I just keep going. Recently, I wondering that will liver explosion happen on my body? Because I frequently lack my sleep last week, even now, it's like 3:20, I am still writing my journal. Well... I will say, this weekend was a little bit busy, because I had three essays need to be completed. I love writing essays, as you can see, I was writing an essay for each day's journal before, so I think three essays in the weekend was just a little challenge for me. Well... I hope we can do the double spaces when we writing the journal, because it will be looked more flattering. Fortunately, I still had time to go outside and enjoyed some amusement. This weekend, I and my family went to a mountain, however it was not just a mountain, it was special and full of so-called inwardness. It's like many temples in one magnificent building which was built on the tall mountain. The air was fresh there, even though the climate was kind of wet, I still felt joyful. The purpose to here was because my cousin was lived there. It might sound weird for foreigner why do people live their home and live on the mountain. The answer is those are pious people who strongly worship their religion. In addition, they determined to live home and put their mind, heart and spirit on focusing this religion. It might be sort of sad that your son or daughter lived their house and do this kind of things, but I think people should be respectful on others' decisions, because they made the decisions by themselves, which means this might be a unreasonable action or behavior for their parents but it acceptable for  the decider, so..................yep and I hate this week's weather by the way, it kept raining.

Well...

Too bad that it has been raining for whole day! and we two basketball games was canceled unfortunately. Though our team have been not practicing for a long time, I still want to play the game, because I got my confidence to beat other teams. Well... Today I went to U.M.C, as I already introduced about this location before, so I am not going to explain any more about that. Today I determined to go to U.M.C because I didn't touch my favorite sport basketball for almost the entire week. As the result of I not gonna cool down my spirit of playing  basketball, I need find back my enthusiastic attitude in order to keep my hot shot. I didn't feel any regretful that I went to U.M.C today, because I work hard and finally played basketball this week that I feel much satisfy. And the midterms are finally over, now I just need to wait for my report card. I guess I probably should start push myself and get back on my road, keep moving on this destination. School's milk taste awesome, and the reason why I say this, because I am drinking it right now. I also feel that school's lunch keeps getting better that I didn't lose my digestion recently which is good. Because, today was raining, so we didn't have club, and every students watch the nice movie during this period. I enjoyed the movie very much, and I also learned something from it. Just like I say, I am the person that are easy affected by movie, every time I watched different movie I have different things come up my mind, it kinda like I change my personality after I watched the movie that I think it's educational.

Thanks for Mr.Dahl

Finally, we know our midterm score for English class which is also the grade for this semester I care about most. After I see my grade, I kinda know how the way that Mr. Dahl put question in his test or the direction of studying for his quiz. I don't feel satisfy with my midterm grade for this class, and I can't blame on any person, because I am the only person that made this grade, no one else which means I have my responsibility to take any bad or good result. After this experience, I realize that students should be participated in every activities in class. I meant if you are focus enough and try to answer teachers questions, you won't get too much stress while you are preparing for your midterm. The problem of losing points in this midterm was because I didn't know the details of the stories very well. And it also taught me that I should get my work done accurately. Okay, the thing I am going to say is I very appreciate Mr. Dahl's educational spirit. I always see that he still working while most of teacher are already left, and he is probably the last teacher who leave this campus. The reason why he leave so late because he is checking his students assignments, and he spends lot of time to correct each of our work. After I and my classmates ate my dinner, and came back to school. We saw Mr.Dahl room's light was still open, so we determined to walk in, and told him about that participation grade wasn't on  Verocross, and after his explanation, we realized why we couldn't see our grade. However, the things that surprised me was he already grade our quiz which we just finished in this class in the afternoon. So he gave back our quiz in order to explain our mistakes, and Mr. Dahl was willing to spend time on each of us that I felt very touching about his behavior. He took time and tried his best to teach students as much as he can.

Sleep cycle

Recently, someone suggested me to use a program that it helps you to manage your sleep time which I think it's very useful. Basically, it helps you to calculate a sleep cycle and the program divide the period of our sleep time by ninety minutes. In addition, if we follow the time that the program suggests us to sleep, you will feel more comfortable when you wake up in the morning. I think this kind of stuff it's pretty cool to know, because I always sleep late in order to study or finish my homework on time. So I hope I can have sleep comfortably by following the time program gives to me. I have seen another program which is very similar with this one, it's available on apps store that we can download the program to iPhone. it's called sleep cycle alarm clock, user can wake up more comfortable by using this special alarm clock. It gives you a sleep cycle which tell you the most appropriate time to sleep and wake you with the soft music when you are not in deep sleep. I don't know it's actually work or not, but people who believe this program probably will work. I will try this program for couple time in order to test if it's work for me or not. I will post the link of this program at here > http://sleepyti.me/  , Mr. Dahl can try it as well to see how amazing this program is going to affect your life.

My roommate

Recently, one of my roommate is gone... why he is not here? not because he moved to other place, is because he is unable to come back here. Actually, I have no idea where he is, the only message I got was he got arrestment by police officer, because he stole a chocolate bar from 7-11. His behavior didn't surprise me, because this was not the first time he conducts illegally. I think most of students in our school are discussing about this person, some of them got message from other classmates, some of them got the message from news report. I still remember the first day I talked to him, and the first impression he gave me was he's shy and doesn't like to talk that much. However, as the responsibility of old student, I think I should talk to me first and try my best to let him fit in this new environment as soon as possible. Soon we could have well conversation and shared habits with each other. I thought our friendship was well building and getting better, however he started to reveal some of his bad behavior such as drank alcohol and slept very late after midnight. First, I thought it wouldn't be a big deal, at least he didn't affect others. Soon, I realized that I was wrong, he usually reacted irritably or or ungainly when he was drunk that we always need to take care of him in order to prevent trouble. Things getting more and more serious until he got ms. Pamela's attention. After living couple months with him, I gradually know his personality, he is a very smart student that he never study and he finish this assignment very fast, but he still get good grades. He is the person that very care about his friendship and social life, he doesn't want to be lonely, however sometimes, he just doesn't know how to make friend or make a good conversation with others. I could see many people around him try to help him or try to make friends with him, however he reacted disappointedly sometimes that he becomes anger when others point out his disadvantages, he thinks he is right. This happens first time, and second time, his friends becomes less and less because he can't accept censure from others.

Midterm week 4 Today, I determined to write an essay.

Unbalanced diet

Did you know unbalanced diet can cause dangerous diseases? Is it true that pregnant women’s diet can affect the sex of her child? And the fat is gradually happens on young children because of unbalanced diets. Diet has a profound influence on health. Luckily, many of the negative effects of an unbalanced diet can be fixed by paying attention to what we eat.

There are lots of effects by unbalanced diets such as fat and disease even the sex of babies. Stroke, hypertension and high cholesterol are dangerous for our health, and all these happen because of poor blood circulation. Unbalanced diet makes veins thinner, slowing down blood flow. In addition, there are others symptoms caused by bad blood circulation which people are not as noticeable: For instance, poor memories, perceived barriers, and hearing impairment. Bad blood circulation will cause oxygen insufficiency, decreased metabolism, and toxicity accumulated which can lead to headache, or the worst case, even cancer. Conversely, we can prevent these health problems by eating choline or antioxidants.

A recent study found that, women who eat cereal for breakfast are more likely to have male babies and women don’t eat breakfast are more likely to have female babies. Although the rates of having female or male babies are completely same in this experiment, scientists found women who consume more high calories are more likely to have male babies. Another experiment investigated 740 women who were going to have their first child without knowing its sex. All the subjects are white, healthy, and of a healthy weight. They were required to keep weekly a food record before they pregnant. Researchers use these data to identify women who get much calories will 56% chance to have male baby and women who get less calories will 45% chance to have male baby, which is a big difference. Furthermore, scientists found high quality food can affect sex of babies as well. Though there are scientists have done many experiments, but they still not sure whether calories or food can affect sex of baby or not. What is certain in that to know is women must have balanced diets in order to have healthy babies.

According to health of elementary student’s record states, 60% of students consume at least twice the daily value of protein. UCLA professor David Heber says obesity is becomes big problems in next generation. 7% children are over-weight in America, and 10% of 0.29 billion children have too much fat in China. Experts state that fat will cause diabetes, high blood pressure, and chronic diseases. In the same way, fat people are easy to mock by others which mean they will lose their confidence easily or become depression.

Believe it or not, unbalanced diet will cause many bad effects such as dangerous diseases, obesity, or even have unhealthy babies. And some symptoms are gradually occurring on children which mean not only adults but also children need balanced diet in order to prevent those influences. In this way, we can decrease the rate of death and live healthy in order to have beautiful life. 

Midterm week 3

Lovely, we finally finished the most exciting quiz for "English" class. Um... In fact, I love the quiz very much, what a happy and great quiz! Full of multiple choices, and few stories were there waiting for you to complete. Basically, I can understand the questions but I got kind of confused by some of options, because I think two of three of them are reasonable. So... the first time I took Mr. Dahl's quiz which was kinda excited. The only thing that made me not feel satisfy was I forgot to study the sheet that Mr. Dahl gave to us, in this case I was unable to finish one part of my quiz. I could only use my available knowledge. Almost complete my quiz on time, which was bad, because I couldn't have chance to double check my answers again. So this was a not sure quiz, which made me kinda nervous. By the way, today is symmetrical day which is pretty cool 2 0 11 11 02, AWESOME! Hopefully, we can play with 實驗 high school next Thursday during the club time, I want to see the improvement I made and how's the difference between the last game we played in tournament. Basketball team needs to work harder in order to become competitive and influential, in this case, we are able to beat other teams in December's game. Let me explain what December's game is so important, because every schools are going to attend this final game. It will be reported on TV show as well which called HBL, if we work harder and practice frequently, I think it won't be impossible for us to get into the HBL.

Midterm week 2

So far, we already finished two midterm. One of it was my favorite subject "Sport", the interesting was that Mr. LEE used a special way to test us. We played baseball instead of taking quiz, which was very characterized. The winner would get A- however, loser get B- for the class grade. Luckily, we won the game ultimately, and I and my team were so happy that we even got the highest score 14 to 3. I should praise the girl member in our team, they didn't play outstandingly in recent game, however, they did a very good job for this final game. Hopefully we can play as well as this game for next time. Um... I don't know what else can say, sometimes it is just kind of hard to reach your dream, but I think I am not going to give up this soon. Still can confused sometimes, I have too many dreams need to be accomplished, but I become stressful and feel lots of pressure when I on my way to reach the goal. Many I should change my mind, I meant I should try to think in other way. I know that people always say we should think positively, but it's just hard to think in this way sometimes. I have too many things want to do, and too many goals need to be achieve. Anyway, I wrote randomly because I don't really know what should I say for today's journal. So, yes midterm week again, and I am so happy because I think I did a well job for today's flash animation midterm, and there comes another midterm for English class tomorrow. I expect it's coming!