Ultimately

Finally, after brainstorm, after difficulties, and after challenge... it is a perfect moment for me... because I can enjoy my time and do whatever I like to do after school... there's no limitation of homework recently... people do not have to worry about which test you are going to study for tomorrow... or concern about how late you are going to sleep... Anyway... At this moment... I feel relax... but I know this moment won't maintain too long until the new year break is end... I can consider this final test is one of war during my high school life... I want to control the whole situation in this war... however... I think I didn't make that on the war I just finished... therefore, I think I will need to put more effort, more concentration... less distraction... less laziness... I know I already claimed this kind of stuff many times... As this point, I can tell I still have motivation and energy to complete my goals... however, I just need to put some insistence. Ignorance for someone... I guess... if you always concern too much thing or care your situation a lot, then you will lose the opportunity to achieve the things you want to seize... One year has already passed... next year... I am going to look at myself in the same mirror... and I will ask myself... how much have I improved.

The great moment after final

finally, after brainstorm, after difficulties, and after challenge... it is a perfect moment for me... because I can enjoy my time and do whatever I like to do after school... there's no limitation of homework recently... people do not have to worry about which test you are going to study for tomorrow... or concern about how late you are going to sleep... Anyway... At this moment... I feel relax... but I know this moment won't maintain too long until the new year break is end... I can consider this final test is one of war during my high school life... I want to control the whole situation in this war... however... I think I didn't make that on the war I just finished... therefore, I think I will need to put more effort, more concentration... less distraction... less laziness... I know I already claimed this kind of stuff many times... As this point, I can tell I still have motivation and energy to complete my goals... however, I just need to put some insistence. Ignorance for someone... I guess... if you always concern too much thing or care your situation a lot, then you will lose the opportunity to achieve the things you want to seize... One year has already passed... next year... I am going to look at myself in the same mirror... and I will ask myself... how much have I improved.

New Year Revolution

So... Finally, final exams mostly done... I meant most of important ones are finished safely... Yesterday I slept at 3, but it was not as late as the day before yesterday. I was dying at the first period of class... so I decided to took a nap in order to save my vigor for my succeeding test... When I woke up, it was ten minutes before the quiz started... however, I felt even more exhausted... So... I determined to set up a perfect schedule in order to prevent this happening again... Procrastination is like a drug, sometimes, you can't abstain... Maybe this is not a good example, let me think... well... the less procrastination you have now, the more successful you might be. Um... what else? seems Mr. Dahl probably have no time to read our journal... I think I just end at this point... just kidding... No matter he is going to read it or not... I will take my responsibility to finish this... this work is not doing for anyone, it is doing for myself... Not only this one, but also others... Seriously, my first goal... separate my work into everyday instead of procrastinating until the last minute... Happily, the new year break is approaching, which means I have time to alleviate my pressure and refresh myself :)

Believe it or not

I hope Mr. Dahl is not going to figure out how many journals did I miss... If he finds it out eventually, I have no qualification to fight against anything, as the result of he already explained everything about the rules of journey... So I should know this result is going to happen... nothing need to complain. After the conversation with Mr. Dahl, I have learned couple things... well... he might not check our journal everyday... I meant really look at it in detail... I also realize... people with different mind or thought can make various decisions... sometimes, it might make you become more powerful, on the other hand, it also can tend you become weaker. "Things are changing"... and I think that use "present progressive" is perfectly fit for this one.  Not only you are changing, everyone else is changing as well... Have you ever had future dream? Be more specific, sometimes, you feel you have seen this sight before, but your memory is not really clear about it. At this point, I know this journal is meaningless, because I am not focusing on a certain topic or something. But I think this is the way that how you write a journal... this is not an assignment that you are going to hand it in or the quiz that you need to fully use your brain to solve the problems... feel comfortable by yourself... don't affect by anyone... that's the way it is. Nice cliche by the way. 

            In your life, you will have to face different barriers. And I will consider those barriers as two different categories. Outside barriers, which is cause from other people decisions or the things that you have no choices on it. Inside barriers, which is cause by yourself, therefore to make this decisions or not to make this decisions is all up to you, but you have to take responsibility on it. Paradoxically, both of barriers can fight against each other. For instance, if now you make a decision, then this decision is going to cause outside barrier which means someone's decisions might go against your decision afterwards. I use the word "barrier", because I think in our life, there are different difficulties cause from other people or yourself... and everything is all basic on making decisions. Sometimes, it's hard for me to make an appropriate decision, maybe I thinking too much or making too much redundancies on my considering... I agree the words that Ms. Alice has said before, you can't make everyone feel happy. The most interesting thing in our life is we can keep overcoming hardships to improve ourselves. Be more specific, we can learn different lessons after various difficulties... well it doesn't have to be hard mission, even the easy task can enlighten yourself. If my calculation is correct, I still have two years before I go to college. Anything is possible to happen during this period, no matter they are bad or good. I don't want my life only have good things happen... if people's who always live with good things, then they probably will lose their alertness, and lack the motivation of living...

Ya Final week is coming:)

           As everyone knows, our final exams are approaching... so I wonder how much did other people prepare and how much did I prepare? Am I on the way to reach my goals? or I am stopping at the same spot... which means I am not improving at all? Few things I want to point out in today's journal... first... seems I need to be more careful on Mr.Dahl's vocabulary quiz.... otherwise it will cost lots of point of my grade, which is hurt.... using one vocabulary to make a perfect sentence is not as easy as I thought....  I hope I have enough participate point that can increase my grade to my standard... well... i know people if who want to talk about standard of their grade... they have to be qualified first... which means they have to put effort on their work before they complain about their grade... second.... I should study regularly in order to avoid procrastination... I don't want to put most of work at once to finish.... tiredness, stress, pressure, laziness, unhappiness... negative effects are coming up because of procrastination... well... sometimes... find a shortcut is good... but sometimes you really have to follow the steps such as Adopted Hold Reader... the thing you need to do in order to maintain a good grade is you have to read every details of the story first... otherwise... next time if you want to re-read... it almost impossible... because you have no idea what the story is talking about ... in this case you lose your interests and motivations on it. um... it seems I have a lots of article need to read for my English class... and it's also for passing my final exam...

ESL students.

Apparently, I didn't type blog yesterday... and the thing is I don't even know how many blogs did I miss... I hope they didn't get over three times... otherwise I won't have enough PR point to exalt my final grade for English... Seriously... it's a big jump from B+ to A+.... in order to make the jump... I have to get the points for my final exam... which means... it will be my last chance to increase my grade... well... some people said college don't usually care about your grade in ESL... I will say... I disagree with the people who said that.... ESL is the process of improving your English... students in this system hand in their homework on time, they follow the steps instead of finding short cut... they are improving because they don't feel satisfied or arrogant by themselves... there's always a motivation for them to go higher... So, in this case... I will tell people who despise ESL students because they are in Mainstream that they are wrong..... Maybe their English abilities are better than ESL students  now... but... after few months or one year... I guarantee you will feel regretful that you spend most of your time on mocking ESL students, instead of being concentrated on what you should do... We don't really care about what other people's thought... because English is not our first language... and we spent less time on practicing English than other people... so we understand that we should work harder than anyone... not just stop moving on and caring about what do other people think... one day... I believe, if we keep the same speed on practicing our English... our result will be more incredible and we will feel more honorable than other people.

Final Exam Week is approaching

            I feel this final exam is more exciting than others somehow... Maybe I don't prepare enough for it or I wasn't ready for it.... I just realized our final exam is going to be tested before our new year break which made me feel frightened. Too many things need to be done in one week... studying, reviewing, practicing... stuff like that... maybe I was too procrastinated that I put gather most of my work in the last week before the final test... which is not good to see... I bet this final test will give me big lessons about don't spend too much time on social life... don't spend too much time on wasteful sleep... don't spend too much time on unnecessary stuff... or it tells me my management between social life, homework and sleep hasn't found a balance yet... well... the only thing I know now is I shouldn't think too much because I don't have so much time to do that... thinking too much has always been my problems for many years.... thinking too much about other people thought... thinking too much about the things that are not happening now... thinking too much about the stuff that you don't have now... thinking too much about the task that is impossible to reach... I know... thinking about fewer immaterial stuff more concentration you have... I have to break through those barriers in order to reach my goals. End of the story.

My life in school.

This week is going to be busy, because I have lots of things need to managed… but I don’t want to think too much about that… it not necessary to do that… actions are louder than speaks… what a good clichés. So tonight I will have to organize those flashcards from Princeton Review… then I finish weekend homework in order to bring fewer stuff to home. Let me refresh myself and see what homework do I have for this weekend? First, I have pro folio for grammar and writing class, second I have a map need to illustrate for world geography. Third, I have The Giver need to read during this weekend… the thing is I have to reread the book again for some reasons… well… as I always say how much work can you get done depends on how much concentration have you put. Music is the best material to adjust your feeling or organize your emotion. I heard coffee is Mr. Dahl’s essentially daily equipment, so is mine… Everyday, I must drink a cup of Latte in order to actually wake me up and have energy to overcome hardships. Recently, I am curious about if Mr. Dahl really read our journal or not… haha sometimes it will be good if he actually read the journal, but sometimes it can be bad… I realize what is the thing that I really interested in… I like thinking… and I also realize how much did I improve after two weeks in Princeton Review… how come I didn’t feel any improvement. I mean I also spend five hours in the Princeton Review and I already learned many things that I have to spend at least one or two weeks in school to make the achievement… The class so far I think I can learn the most stuff the Mr.Dahl’s class… always learn new stuff in this class… which makes me feel good!

Let's Do It!

I just realized I forgot you put the title for my blogger yesterday, but it wouldn't be a big deal. Well... I also realized I am easy to distract from the things surround me lately... maybe it was cause by insufficient sleep or my distraction... I hope people won't understand what I am saying for this part... haha the beginning of school, everything seems to be too complicated for me to manage properly. But I trust myself that I can get this done. Just need some concentration, and insistence, then I can get what I want... first I need to set up a schedule on planning my daily work. I have my school work need to deal with plus SAT practice that I add for myself... I don't want to be the person who always describe himself or herself how well they get their work done, I want to actually make it. First, let's separate my work into two different categories. One is school work anther one will be SAT practice... I consider my SAT practice is more important than my school work, so I will spend more time on doing that. Everyday, I start doing my homework at 7:00 which means I will have 5 hours to complete it until I go to bed at 12:00... I understand if I want to achieve that then I must sacrifice something... in order to exchange... the thing I need to do is no procrastination... after practice, leave there directly, then move on what should I doing for next :) I think my schedule in the morning has already been perfectly set up... and the schedule at night... I think two and half hour for homework sounds acceptable. And the rest of hour for SAT practice. I hope everything can go as well as I expected. And Let's Do It.

The second day of school, I just realize how messy our basketball team is... defense is fine I think, the only thing is we need to get more rebound... otherwise we can't stop our enemy scoring.... the situation will just turn helpless and helpless... i have no idea what happened to us during the games in winter break... we lost all of games... i think I don't have qualification to make critics for that... because I wasn't there... The problem i want to point out is... i don't see organizations in our team.... every strategies seem useless... I don't want being so mean on saying how bad is my team... but I think it's time for adjusting our team... I pretty sure everyone has a great basketball ability, however we don't know how to use it properly...  in order to solve this problems, we can watch the strategies from YouTube, and decide which one will be suitable for our team... or we discuss our plans with girl basketball team's coach...  oh by the way, another good news to know is Omg i CAN'T BELIEVE IT... I finally know my SAT score from Princeton Review, it improved a lot.... which gave me a great motivation to keep moving on next level... :)

The first day of school

What a nice first day of school, well.... everyone didn't change a lot, I meant their appearance which almost as same as the break before. It was a good sight, in this case, people wouldn't feel unfamiliar with each other. So, I did I do for this winter break. Well, I basically went to SAT class everyday in order to improve my score, the tuition was hell expensive, but I think it was worth to pay that much money. I did learn a lot of strategy in the class, first impression there were people not as friendly as I expected, well maybe I didn't have chance to really recognize each of them, fortunately, two days before class end, I made some interesting friends and most of them were from Taipei American School which was cool. Even though you have to pay much money for class, you can still take the class for next summer if you don't feel satisfy your SAT score which is awesome. For me, i am not going to take SAT this year, because I think my ability hasn't got that level, so I decide to practice hard and try to improve as much as i can before next year... It will have many positive influence, first i won't get too much stressful in my Junior year, which means i don't have to spend too much time on preparing those stuff, i just need to review them and try to move on higher level. Honestly, it was my plan before the winter break started, but I think it didn't work as successfully as I expected for some reasons. I think I can deal with that by managing my time properly and spend less time on hanging out with friend, I guess.