Winter break

Winter break was a big jump for me... many things changed... some of them are surprise some of them are not expected.  I just realize apple production are hell useful in my life... maybe I should GET one for my birthday... I haven't figured out what present should I get for my birthday... too many things happen in this winter break, and I wouldn't say there's no improvement for me at all during this winter break... it seems almost going to end... well... the point of typing Blogger now is try to get some concentration on my work... because i almost fell asleep... i not sure am i wasting time now or what... because it seems I haven't finished half of my homework yet... and I have to figure out a way to complete them before tomorrow's class... And I don't even want to mention about school's work... The only assignment  i did was Algebra II... but it's okay i will find a way to get them done... as always... So let's analyze what is my problem for procrastinating my work until last minutes.... This is my blogger... so i don't want to feel stressful or any pressure which means i don't want to keep any secret on this page... I know the point of typing this is to gain extra credit for our grade, and practicing our English... But let's make this program becomes interesting... beginning on this page... i won't care what other people think or what they concern about.... I just want to write my thought and opinion... maybe my actions? on this page.... stuff like... "Oh today was a good day.... I am concerning about should i spend that much time on chatting with my girlfriend? or should i spend more time on doing my homework.... well... if i want to get my work done perfectly then I will have to give up chatting with her... which will make me feel depressed... conversely if i keep chatting with her and only eighty percent of my work... then I will feel upset because it should be happened... but I don't really worry about those time management at all... Because I think i will figure out the way to solve this paradox soon... by considering which one should use brain and which one does not have to use brain which means you can do it without thinking... well... then I will say finish my homework when the time i feel full of energy and maybe chat with girlfriend after i get my work done... it's easy to type it out but it's not easy to do it right... so pushing yourself is the only way... don't consider too much stuff.... looking for improvement... and don't get too stressful...

Many people will walk in and out in your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

            Since I got here... I never know what is true friend, I didn't notice how important to have a real friendship, I never feel heart can be so warm with friends accompany, I didn't know my friends are always there be with me. This has taught me an important lesson that friends don't need to be many but real. It's all about trust , if people betray you by telling your mistakes or things that you don't want other people to know. Apparently, this behavior tells you are betraying with your friends. You always turn a good mood or pleasant face in front of people, but you are actually expressing oppositely in your heart which is ironic. If now I see the person in the hallway, I will loudly and clearly say "....." This experience has taught me how pathetic can be a betrayer be.... I believe "Many people will walk in and out in your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart" which means only true friends have great influence in you life....... Well... if you ask "hey, who will be the most significant person in your life" Then I will say "Julius" who is always be my best friend.

Christmas performance

            Christmas performance is approaching, and this is my second time to participate in the activity. I still remember last year... I came to this school during Christmas and I didn't know how to speak English, or how to write an Essay. I didn't even know what is "cafeteria" or "auditorium". The only thing I know is sit there and try to understand what does teacher say.I don't really have friend in the beginning last year, which is normal for a new student. And I start recalling those memory because one year has passed since I came here. I think I had changed myself by getting through those difficulties. Personally, I think improvement is caused by overcoming different hardships. Pushing yourself is the only way to become successful. If you energy as same as other people, what are you expect to become better than others? The certain way to be greater than other is keep working hard incessantly until you achieve your accomplishment. Don't let hesitation affect you become a procrastinate. Oh I think I had deviated my topic again... well... the thing I am trying to say is maybe you think you feel extremely tired now, and you want to take a nap or take a break, however this behavior will interfere yourself by being lazy. Just keep working hard with a nonstop spirit, then after one year, you will see how much have you improved after those days.

Find the way to solve it

            Generally, as a human being, there are different problems need to be overcome daily. Problems can be defined as social problem, educational problem or your sleep problem which are the most three essential materials for teenagers.  People usually arrange those problems to examine which one is the most important should be done at first. However, some people mostly spend lots of time on thinking about what should they do next. For instance, you are taking one or two hours on thinking about how many assignments do you have or still have much of work need to be completed. Accordingly, your energy gradually decreasing by think too much without actually doing. Then, you will realize how procrastinated you are. But the point I am going to point out today is people ought to face their daily problems instead of avoiding them. You don't avert educational problems, because you have your responsibility to get them done on time. You don't get away from social problem, maybe you can leave there, but this will be the worst choice for you. At this moment, I am going to talk more details on social problems. As the journal I wrote for yesterday about "Partner and Gossiper". Now this problems seem to be solved so far so good, although I didn't really sure if that person got my message or not. Anyway, after this experience, I have learned an important lesson on solving problem as soon as possible. There is a weakness for Asian, people usually procrastinate their problems until the end which means the problems have gradually extended but you are cool with that, so you decide to leave there instead of solving as fast as you can.

Partner or Gossiper?

            In our school... Few people usually gossip about other peoples' secrets or astonishing stuff in order to alleviate their tension. However, those gossiper are mostly welcome people which mean they have a fantastic social life on this campus. Consequently, our school gradually form a level system... as you can see... some of certain people are often bullied by some arrogant peoples' language... Well... I think that's pretty normal... as the result of it happens not only here but also in society. Oh... I think I am kinda deviate my topic... the thing I am going to point out it's... some people like gossiping, and I don't blame on them because this is their habits so as a human being, I don't have authority to resist what kind habits do you guys have... But I am gonna say even though gossip can satisfy your pathetic mind... sometimes you have to think about which is appropriate to say and which is not... If you tell me... oh "I know what I am talking about", then I can accept that... because you are old enough that I believe you have judgment on differentiating right and wrong... Unless you tell me you are not my partner anymore, then I will know oh "wait a second, if you are not my friend anymore? then I don't have to care about your behavior which means I will not feel as deplorable as now FOR YOU. That's it... we used to be great friends. Once... I was wondering about why some of your friend stop talking to you? Now I figure out the reason, but I think it wouldn't have enough strength to destroy our friendship... It just not gonna be as well as before... Last reminder for you... you are a nice person, because you always care about your friends' feeling... or help them to get through their sadness... I appreciate your courage sometimes... and I hope you can solve "Gossip" this weakness before you go to college... because it will influence you negatively as I see on you SO FAR...

Musical Production

            Today, Ms. Padachie provided a big surprise for our musical production class. She had invited a professor from London to our school to teach us  order to lead us warm up and practice on our movement and acting. The first impression he has given me was "tough" and "professional". Therefore, we had separated into two groups, one is the group for acting and voice, anther is for designing background and dresses. So basically we were unable to go t class for second period, as the result of we had to go practice for our movement. The very interesting things that happened today was Mr.Daniel who was the guy from London. He had showed different fun gesture and movement that I have never seen. Well... honestly, I felt kind of nervous in the beginning of his class, because his expression was like a tough but intelligent leader who was so easy to get mad at people if they did anything wrong. Conversely, I think I was wrong, he had nicely taught us many things that were useful for our musical production. Now, I feel kind of regretful because I didn't make the comment about those exercises at the first time. But, I think it was because of that, it had created a motivation that told me I should participate more for this activity. Accordingly, I was willing to be volunteers for the rest of activities such as acting imaginatively or pretended that you were a king walking with holding queen's hand, something like that. It actually had a lot of fun, well... after those warm up, I think I have an idea about how to act appropriately with my characters and how to show those emotions. Another interesting that he taught us was he wrote about some pronunciations in order to improve our singing. and he also guaranteed us if we work on those pronunciation daily, then we will see our improvement in this area. As a conclusion, today we have been through an interesting journeys, and I think that was a rare experiences, therefore, I had also learned that people should participate more for those opportunities, otherwise you will probably never have those great chances again.

Christmas performance.

Today is a day for practicing on our Christmas performance. Therefore, sophomore students had gathered together in cafeteria and discussed about how our performances was going to work. Basically, sophomore leader had separated every grade 10^th students into four groups. And each group was going to focus on certain country to show the spirit about Christmas. My group is working on Australia. As we know, Australia is renowned for its valuable animals such as kangaroo. Accordingly, we determine to use those animals as our character in our script. Other groups were going to work on other countries like Taiwan, America and France which are all interesting. Personally, I think our group had a nice script after our editor’s revising.  We have four characters in our story, and the story is mainly about two kangaroos are fighting about who will be a person to get the job for giving gifts with Santa appropriately. So there’s the beginning of the story, two kangaroos meet together someday, and they are gossiping about what they going to do for Christmas, however, they are going to the same thing which is be a partner with Santa and help him to give the gift to other children in Christmas. In this case, they start to fight in order to see who will be a winner for this job. Basically, I think our story has included a sense of humor and show the Christmas spirit. And our group didn’t forget the most important about Christmas in Australia. Their Christmas is summer, unlike other country is winter. Therefore, people are going to wear short pants to show they are celebrating Christmas during the summer. So our script so far so good, the only things we need to practice on is to memorize our part for our script and to buy material and make our dresses. 

Celebration or speculation?

            I just realized that every Tuesday and Thursday I got different celebration need to deal with, which obstruct me to go to U.M.C to work out. Well... celebration is good which you have time can hang out with your friend, gossip around or spend time on building your social life. This time, it's one of my best friend's birthday, alan hsu. I guess this time will be his 17 years old birthday, however, I didn't prepare any gifts for him, well... maybe I did, but I don't think that should be counted as a present......Well... just now, people who went to eat hot pot today for celebration are discussing who didn't pay the money, because when one of us was paying money for hot pot, he realized he had to pay more than 400 dollars which means one of us didn't give money. And I don't actually like the feeling about people are suspecting around each other. It is gonna be seemed like everyone is betraying their friendship with each other. I think we will find a way to figure it out. Integrity has been talking about on this campus lately, as the result of some students had betrayed themselves in order to get higher grade in their quiz. This problem was just a perfect example to be discussed about integrity. Therefore, no matter what, I don't wish everyone's friendship has become disunited eventually. 

Right things

              "Right things" can be generally defined as different meaning. For instance, pouring down fire is a right thing for firefighters, diagnosing is a right thing for doctors, and my right thing is to study diligently in order to get good grades, because I am a student. Anyway, the thing which I am indicating is "I finally deactivated my Facebook account" which is another right thing for me. Well...As human being's curiosity, people start to ask "Why would you do that?". I am going to simply answer that because I think Facebook is not a useful social network, which apparently means my friendship has not really improve by that. Let's do some quick analysis, how long did you spend on Facebook daily? approximately half and hour or one hour? usually, people don't really know exactly how long do they spend on it, as the result of it is social network. As I know, "Social" is a thing that never stop in high school, unless you become a nerd and never talked to other people. In this case, you  can not simply handle how long are you gonna spend on it, because social things incessantly pop up on your website which means you never gonna leave that page, until you feel tedious or bored. Subsequently, your studying time will be distracted by it naturally. Thinking always easier than doing, as a human being. So when you are thinking that you are going to spend 15 minutes on Facebook, however that is not gonna happen. Because seldom people can resist social thing, and if you actually fight it back, then you probably will feel a bit uncomfortable or painful... Why not just make is easier, To deactivate it, then the devil never have chance to distract you. 

Show some spirit

           Ya, today might be the most exciting day in this semester, because we are going to have the most enthusiastic event "Sports day"!!! All of team have flag and powerful chain with them, they are ready for beating other teams. This is my first time to participate in sports day, there are individual sports and teamwork sports. Everyone has to show their spirit in order to win the final championship. For this time, I have 100 Dash and 200 Relay. Unfortunately, I think I didn't do a good job on 100 Dash. I was kind of confused and hesitated in the end, because I didn't see the real line, so I stop at the line in front of the final line naturally. I prefer 200 Relay actually, because I almost ran over the first runner, which made the distance between other teams' getting shorter. Well... I had lots of fun today, even though we lost on some of events, I think the most important thing is not you win or not. It was you showed your sports spirit, if winner never should be arrogant and loser never should be dejected. That's how to show your spirit in sports day. Next time, I think we can work on our chain part in order to cheer whole team up. This time, we have nice one honestly, but it was kinda hard for the entire team to sing it in the same time. Our team used "Angry bird" as our mascot. Anyway, we got a great outcome in the end of the sports day which means we won the championship which was pretty good. But we didn't win the team spirit eventually, so I think we will come back on next time. 

Finally

            Today, I finally asked the question to Mr Dahl which I have been thinking for a long time. And I am glad that I spoke the question out, because the process seemed much complicated than I thought. If I mention the question in the end of this semester, then I think it will be too late. I am glad that Mr. Dahl was willing to help me as always. When he understands what the student need, he will try his best to assist you which is touching. This afternoon, I had a conversation with Mr. Dahl about having ability to go to main stream or not. This might will be a big turning point for me, because half of my classes will be changed as well, which means I need to spend time to get used to the new system and catch up progress with other classmates. It will be a great challenge, but I wan t to push myself and see what I can do, so I think I am ready for those difficulties. Now, Mr. Dahl is trying to help me about getting new system, however, I know there's no certain answer which means Mr. Dahl can't promise me if I can go or not, but he will try his best to help me out on this situation. So I do not have qualification on confining what is gonna happen or what will be a finally result for this problem. Apparently, this is just an opportunity for me, either stay ELS II, then I keep working as hard as before, or go to Main Stream and see what abilities do I get. People might curious about why I am so eager to go to main stream on the following semester, as the result of I think I have enough ability to do that, and compare to my English to ELS III students', I think there's not a big difference, which means if they can handle the class, then I can do the same thing as well.