Shots

Today all the grade nines had to take their shots. Well, not all of them because I know Mimi didn't have to take any. Apparently her mom didn't want her to take any shots.
I dont really mind taking the shots because it basically guards you agianst disease. I would rather endure some pain than get a flu or something.
Before I went back to China a fewp years ago, my mom had asked our family doctor to give me the shots required do to grade 6 or 7. I remember it clearly because one of the shots made my arms sore for pa whole week. Luckily it was my left arm instead of my right. Today I missed my pa announcement too go take shots so I went with the next wave of people. I thought I had to take 3 shots, but apparently I had already taken one of them so I didn't need to take it again. I ended up only taking two photos, yaya for me!
I wear a lot all the time, and my long sleeves were really hard too pull up. I got a shot on each arm, and I had to holds my sleeves up because it was so annoying. I think because of my sleeves it just made the shots more painful for me because the sleeves were too tight making it impossible to relax my arms. The first needle was okay, but the second needle which I remember was HPV, hurt a lot. It felt like someone was sticKing a needle up your arteries, which is exactly what they were doing but in a ore brutal and slow way. After we took the shots we had to sit around for a while, i didn't have any reactions then, so me and Jessie left after around fifteen minutes.
I had science that period and made the mistake of coping down notes too fast right after getting shots. It made my day more difficult because soon my arms started to be really really sore. I could hardly end my elbows or even use upper arm muscles. This is what I hate about getting shots, the reactions after wards...
I hope my arms won't be too sore for the rest of the week, I cat even write properly if it is too sore. I still don't get why we had to have our shots on a Wednesday in the iddle of the week...

Empathy Blog 5

Shoot I forgot to post this. Sorry!

hehehehe
  Tom, Dick and Harry went to a party. After the party they returned to the hotel. The hotel was 600 stories high.
   Unfortunately for them, the elevator was not working. They made a plan for the first 200 stories, Tom will crack jokes.
   The second 200 stories Dick will tell a happy story and lastly Harry will tell a sad story.They then started up the steps
After 2 hours it was Harry's turn. He turned to the other two and said "Ok guys, here's my sad story. I forgot the keys downstairs. 


Comments: I honestly don't get the joke...

Brother

Honestly little siblings are just plain annoying sometimes, but you love them anyways.
Sometimes mY little brother Justin can be such a pain, I would cast him out of my room, but even though he is only four, he has a strong detmination and bangs on my door. Because I have no lock, I can not stop him, so i have to stand behind the door to make sure he doesn't come in again.
Tonight he didn't want to go to bed and was in mya room trying to escape my mom. He hates brushing his teeth... When I decided to hug him. It was such a bueatiful feeling. Not that I have never hugged my brother before, it's just I never noticed how cute he was. Sometimes people forget about this kind of stuff, when they area busy with other stuff in life. When I was hugging him, I suddenly marveled at how he was another being. Another living breathing person, and I had seen him grow up. I suddenly think of the idea that he has his own soul and it is staring at me throught hose big eyes. I suddenly realized that he was

Friends

Yesterday I met my friends from elementary school, it was kinda like a pre-birthday party. Because I wasn'T having a party this year, we just decided to go to Metrotown and hang.
It was super fun like always, even though one of my friends had to leave early. Apparently her mom was angry at her for coming home after the time they agreed on one day.
We had so much fun, when you are people who really know pyoiu and are BFFs, it is fun no matter what you are doing.
Me and my friends go way back, I met them in grade 3, and we have been close friends ever since. We are still BFFs (best friends forever), even though I was in China for 2 years. We always kept in contact with each other, and somehow our friend ship survived, despite everything.
I love the three of other so much, and know that they are they only people who really now me well other than my family.
Basically I got a free shopping spree yesterday because of my birthday. I got a book called "The Great Book" of amber, I can't wait to read it because my friend said it was really good. I am really busy reading these days because I just found this really cool series and I am dying to finish it.
I was too hyper yesterday, so didn't write my blog, this is the Makeup!

Empathy #4

  A couple days ago I found out my science student teacher used to be a professional baseball  player : 0 I think he quit baseball because he broke his left arm or something. He let us watch this really good movie in science, it is called like gattaca or something 0.0 but it was really sad in the end because the second main character killed him self : (




Comment: I really enjoyed the movie Gattaca, to the point where I watched it again at home. Interesting how a lot of people used to play sports but don't anymore because of injuries. In Gattaca one of the main characters was in a wheel chair, he couldn't walk. Even though I was sad to see him kill himself, I thought the whole thing was his choice. Since he chose to die, then I respect it.

Emphathy #3

 AWW YAH today was soo awesome, I played games for like the whole day, from 8 in the morning to like... 10 o clock at night, each game took me like 30 minutes and i at least played 12 games ;3  I also made a couple youtube videos, check out the latest one XDhttp://www.youtube.com/user/SniffingDeath?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/NVKnQekVLuk I had instant noodles and a lot fo snacks for lunch and it was deeeliiiiciouus <3


Comment: Playing games all day sounds really fun, I hope I can do that. My mom is limiting my computer time!

Storm

  My memory... This happened a few days ago but I forgot to write about it.
  On Monday night this week, there was a big storm. The whole night the wind was howling. My window must have been facing the exact direction the wind was coming from, because it did not give me a moment of rest that night. At first it was the occasional whispering of the wind against my window, then it became banging, then smashing. I could hear all these stuff hitting my window, I think it was the wind. When I got up Tuesday morning, there were no electricity. The bus stop was broken, even this swing chair in the backyard was tipped over. I basically had no sleep that night because of the wind. It kept me on an edge, I would doze off, wake up and never be able to sleep again for a long period of time. I only remembered to write about this, because there was really big winds when I was coming home today and it reminded me of my sleepless night.
  Here is the video of the waving squirrel. I apologize if the language is undistinguishable, it is probably in Chinese.

 I hope the storm does not start again tonight, I am really looking forward to meeting with some of my old elementary friends tomorrow...

Basketball

  Never thought I'd say this, but basketball is really fun!
  When I was in elementary school, my mom used to make me learn basketball. She signed me up for all these after school practices. I wasn't very good. Most of the time, I looked at the others play because no one would pass me the ball. I was shorter than most at the time, and it didn't help my situation. I couldn't shoot very well, still can't. I can dribble, but chances are the ball is going to fall out of my grasp if I dribble it too much. Playing basketball again in P.E, it helped me understand what I was really good at.
  We started basketball last week, at first it was only the simple stuff, shooting hoops, dribbling. But then we started to play 2 on 2 and 3 on 3. It became more fun, and I was ultimately god at checking people. I can follow the person around and make sure that they can't get the ball, well most of the time. Today for P.E we were playing Ms.May's class and it was so fun. I sweated a lot, that means lots of exercise. I would love to do it again, but we are starting square dancing next class. Even though I am not looking forward to the square dancing, I have nothing against it. In fact, I have had worse. In china, we had to waltz for our graduation ceremony. Square dancing is nothing compared to that!

Concert Choir

  The Concert Choir was another interesting experience. It was held at Killarney High School. I roughly recall having been to Killarney on a choir concert when I was still in elementary school. My elementary school was very close to Killarney, so lots of people went there after they graduated. I was hoping to see some of my old friends or classmates, but didn't see any there tonight.
  I was at debate club and got home pretty late, I rushed through dinner and got dropped off at Killarney. My mom along with my brother, auntie, and cousin all came to see me. Because the concert festival lasted for about 4 hours, they left after our choir sang. We got there are around 6 and the whole thing ended at almost 10.
  At first it was all really exciting, the Churchill intermediate choir (which is the one I am in) and the Senior choir were combined together for out first performance. We were the second to perform, right after Hamber. After a few more songs things started to get boring. Not to say the songs were not good, but you could feel the thought of sitting there in the room for another 3 to 4 hours settle in, and you start to feel like your chair is strangely uncomfortable. By the time half the choirs performed, the room was uncomfortable because it was too warm. I was looking forward to hearing the Magee choir sing, after all it is said to be a great choir. The whole performance was very lively and creative, but I thought the song lacked more emotion and connection. I thought the senior choir from Churchill, who had to go right after Magee, did a great job! I thought the choirs that did the best job tonight was Hamber, Killarney, Churchill and of course Magee.
  Also, you would have thought that standing in front of a bunch of other fellow singers would make you feel nervous. But the truth was it wasn't bad at all. My cousin says that when I performed when I was small, my face would always twitch because I extremely nervous. Well, I was sure I didn't even twitch once today. In fact, I thought the whole process to be fun and entertaining. I think we should do this more often, but maybe in a samller time range...

Empathy #2

   dang it, my internet was sooo screwed up today! Here is the story, today I came back from school and I was going to go on the computer to play some games. When I opend the computer, everything was fine and once I opend this game called league of legends and everything started to lag, I was moving without moving my legs in game and after that my whole internet crashed for like... 5 hours !!!


Comment: Internet can really suck sometimes... Too much Technology

Central Park

  My mom thinks I stay home too much so she insisted on my coming along when she took my brother our for a walk at central park.
  We saw a lot of squirrels, and it was really cold.
  The two lakes were frozen and some ducks were walking on it. The whole time we walked around the lake I was fighting to urge to step onto the ice for no other reason than to see if it breaks.
  Later we saw THE squirrel. The one that can wave at you. My cousin went to Central Park with her friend once and they saw the squirrel. It would wave and say hi to you to get food, they even recorded it. Today I was pretty sure the squirrel that stood up and was going to wave at me before my brother attacked him with nuts was  THE squirrel. Too bad I didn't get a chance to see it actually wave.
  The cold was biting into my skin and there was no way to stop it, so my mom decided to race us back to the car. The running kept us warm, despite the running, we were all very energized when we finally got to the car.
  Parks are fun, but I think I prefer to go there during summer time. In winter there is just so much ice, snow, and frost.

90 Degrees

  My auntie took some of her friends out for dinner and she took me along. We went to this spinning restaurant. So it is a restaurant that is on the top of this hotel called Cloud 9. It spins around while you eat. My auntie says it spins a circle in one and a half hours, but I think it is more than that.
  When I first sat down I felt really strange because I thought the walls were spinning, but then I realized that it was me. The whole platform we were sitting on was spinning.
  The restaurant was okay, but the spinning was a little distracting. I could see the city below me and it was a beautiful sight. We saw the city and the sea, the cars passing below us were little lights. I started to get dizzy if I stare outside for too long.
  One of the funny things that happened was how we couldn't find the washroom. Because the platform we were on was spinning but the washroom was at the same place, we couldn't find it. The first time we walked a long time from out table to get to the washroom, the second time the washroom was right beside our table. On the third time we were so confused we had to walk a whole circle to find it.
  The spinning restaurant was really cool, but I don't think I wanna go there again because there were a little too much spinning for one night.

Snow

  It snowed today.

  I know it snowed yesterday too, but I never got around to seeing it outside.

  This morning, there was still left over snow from yesterday. I wasn't expecting the snow so soon. I have always imagined snow as a December thing. The snow was beautiful and white as always...

  When I was small winter used to be my favourite season because of snow. I didn't even care about the cold weather and bare trees, just the snow. I used to love it, I get hyper all the time when I see that it was snowing. I think it might be because I am growing up or I finally realized how cold it was, winter is suddenly not my favourite season any more. Now my favourite season would be summer or maybe spring even, but not winter. Winter was cold, the wind was harsh and the frost is bitter. The trees are bare, the ground is mushy, and the skies are grey. I still enjoy winter, the snow and the hail, but not like before. I would now rather bath in the sunlight than roll in the snow. I would rather build a sand castle then make a snow angel. Snow will always be one of the things in life that makes me smile and excited.

  Life contains so much worries and burden, a little snow cannot lighten the weight. But I love it any way.

Shadows

  As I walk down the cold dark street, my ear are pricked up and my eyes are on high alert. I turn around to check if I have a stalker, yes, I do that. But there are none of course...
  Yesterday I was walking down the street and it was already dark. The street lamps were on and it cast a faint glow onto the side walk. I was walking when I turned around again to check behind me when it caught my eye. A black shadow was advancing on me, there were 2 shadows besides me. The one at the back was darker and gaining fast, at first I thought there was someone behind me. But when I turned around to check there was nothing. Worried at what had just happened I studied my own shadow closely. After walking a few paces there were two shadows again and I can see that they are both me. The darker one would overtake the first one which grow faint and disappears. The process is repeated many times. It was really cool to see, but every time I the second shadow appear out of no where suddenly, it still surprises me.
  When you walk under a street light, the light shines directly on you and casts a shadow. You walk forward and come to a place where another street lamp's light can also hit you (that is if the two street lamps are close enough). When you are at a place where both street lamps lights are shining on you, then you have two shadow. As you walk further away from the first street lamp the first shadow dims and disappears while the second shadow grows stronger.
  The whole process was fascinating to watch, I observed this on Willingdon or was it Central Blv(somewhere beside Crystal Mall)? I can't remember, but shadows are always interesting and mysterious.

Empathy #1

  Once again my mom and I had intense arguments again. This time it was about me playing video games, first out of all, i wasn't god damn playing video games! All I did was look at gmail for incoming emails from people. After our first argument, my mom kept on creeping into my room and popping out to check whether im playin games or not -.- now imma go sleep cause im exausted from swimming and arguing with my mom :)

Comments: My mom is really annoying too, she would always try to hug me... But she is pretty free abou tmy computer time, for now at least...

Waiting

  The drizzling rain makes the world colder, harder and sadder.
  I don't really enjoy rainy days, it makes me feel gloomy. All the black clouds, whispering winds. Not exactly cheerful.
  So today after school I went to Marpole Community Centre for a youth club meeting, and finished at around 5. Mimi didn't come with me toady and it was all dark and creepy outside. I phoned my mom to come pick me up, because I didn't want to walk 15 minutes to the bus stop, in the dark, in the rain (which seemed to get harder and harder). So I just went back to school and waited. I guess it could be much worse. I can imagine me walking with my umbrella the wind blowing it sideways, the rain pelting my head. My jacket getting wet, and water seeping into my shoes... Not nice. Honestly, if the day was still open and bright, I wouldn't mind walking through the rain at all. I am one for experiences, and even walking in the rain can be a valuable piece of memory.  I have to admit I was also scared for my own safety, because I don't really like the dark and there are strange people lurking around sometimes. Better safe than sorry, that is what my mom tells me.
  So I waited for my mom for almost an hour in the school, and read the book for English. I realized that when you are waiting for something, you always pay more attention to your surroundings. I never noticed the shields beside the statue before.
  I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow.

The Art of War

  My cousin has the book The Art of War.
  It is by Sun-tzu who is a general from a long time ago in China. It tells you about how to win wars, the strategies, everything. I heard American generals were required to read it.
  I am reading the English version, but my dad read the Chinese one.
  My dad's favourite phrase is "Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting." If this could be achieved in war, then the world would be much more peaceful.
  The book is really deep. It tells you about war itself, what war should be and the best ways to win a war. As it says in a book "War is a grave affair of state; It is a place of life and death, a road to survival and extinction, a matter to be pondered carefully."
  If I remember correctly, Sun-tzu was in the time of the Three Kingdoms. And the tale of the Three Kingdoms is one of my favourite stories (it is also a book). There are many kinds of war strategies in the tale, and it was a time of great war, so how each tactic was used was very exciting.
  The Art of War is a very inspiring book in many ways. I hope I can get my hands on a Chinese version so I can read it too. I think maybe the original version may be even better than the translated one, after all no two languages are exactly the same.

The Beet Queen

  I am reading this book for English and it is sort of boring me.
  It is called "The Beet Queen", and the only part where it really got my interest so far was the beginning of the book. It just kinda got more and more confusing and indifferent.
  I was really angry at the mother in the book because she left her own children to fend for themselves. It was completely selfish and morally wrong. I marvel at how different each of her children's points of views are. Her son still thinks she is a queen and demands her love no matter what. On the other hand, her daughter hates her and wishes to have nothing to do with her (she would rather let her mother believe she was dead). Her youngest child, whom she "abandoned" soon after he was born, has no idea who is really is and is living a normal life.
  Out of the three kids I think the little boy got the best life, what you don't know can't hurt you. The girl is very lucky because she was able to find a new life with her auntie, and her strong skills of survival has helped her a lot.
  It is funny how a family of 4 soon separate into nothing at all. The mother leaves her children, the children could not provide for the baby so he was taken away by strangers. The son leaves his sister at their auntie's. I feel like there is something really wrong here, a family should stick together yet they choose to leave, to abandon. And in the end, in the end they always find each other again. The world is a small place, whether they wish it or not, they find each other again.

Good Night

  It is so late now.
  My cousin's friends came over and we played a game called Digital. It totally killed out brain cells.
  My mom brought these games from China and they are really fun. One of them after translation is "Werewolf Night", the other one is "The Killer Game". Because it required a lot of people to play, so me and my cousin never had a chance to learn what it was really about. Today we had 5 people in all, and it was just enough to play the game.
  I am so tired right now, going to go to sleep.
  Long Weekends are so awesome!

Remembrance Day

  Today is Remembrance Day.
  We didn't do anything much...
  I stayed home all day. I think my computer is not in a very good shape. I am trying my best to clean it and check for viruses.
  I can't believe we have another 4 day long weekend ahead of us. Not that it isn't good, but I find it harder to get back into our normal schedules because of the long weekend.
  Okay my computer needs to restart to fix itself.
  Lest We Forget.

Choir

  Today choirs were singing at the assemblies for Resemblances Day. I felt pretty neutral to all the "singing in front of the whole school" thing, until we got to the grade 9s, which included people I know. I was really nervous for that performance, and I definitely learned my lesson. Someone can NOT sing when they are nervous (which involves tense muscles, tight jaws, and occasionally clenching fists, or maybe shaky knees...). Ms. Dionne would always ask us to relax our muscles before every practice, I realized how important it was to feel comfortable. If your muscles were tense, you basically couldn't sing right. Your notes come out strained and you aren't singing everything in the right tone. I had a first hand experience and it was bad.
  I was also surprised at how much we had to sing. Singing 3 same songs for 4 times in a row is not exactly what I would call interesting. I thought we only had to do the assemblies 2 times, but instead it was doubled.
  Nevertheless, I had a great time singing, and getting to know people in the choirs better. It was also really fun noticing how every assembly is, NO matter what you do (unless you put the whole entire school in for one assembly), noticeably different. Different people, different moods, different times, it changes everything.
  "In Flanders Fields" was my favourite song, and I love the poem too. A good song+ a good poem is simply stunning. I remember when I first sang it, it sent shivers down my spine. I think we did a great performance, and I can't wait till our next one.

Typos

  I can't find my tool bar!!! It just disappeared! I can't find it unless I go to my desktop.
  I am more than happy to say that I can now type blind. I think this was the topic I wanted to write about the day before yesterday. I have a lot of typos when I type. I find that typing is so much more different than writing. When you write you use your own style and handwriting and you can see the words sprawled onto the paper one by one. Your hands move from left to right, left to right. The sensation is very memorable, I really think the world would suck if people never wrote stuff down with their hands any more.
  I love to write cursive, I think it is a beautiful style. The problem with my writing is that I have never found a style that is most like me. When I was small, when I wrote English, I either wrote in cursive to make it look pretty, or wrote in my normal boring handwriting that looks messy. I see my mom or my cousin's handwriting, and I feel like what they were writing was always a bit of both. I have been trying to write like that, but it just doesn't work out well. I always ended up writing in cursive or normal towards the end, it is like my handwriting is a rubber band and no matter how hard I tried to shape it into something else, it always snapped back into place.
  Back to typos, see when you write something down on a piece of paper, it lessens the possibly of you have a typo (or writing something wrong), because you are reading the things you write and writing new stuff at the same time, which really helps you catch the small mistakes people normally make you are not careful. When I type, sometimes I still have the habit of looking at my keyboard. And when you look at your keyboard, you wouldn't be able to see or read what you just wrote. Hence all the typos I make.
  Also I realize that typing stuff all the time does no help you your vocabulary learning and spelling skills. When I type stuff on Microsoft, google docs, or blog, it will always correct me if I spell something wrong. To some point, I am relying on the spelling corrector way more than I should. Sometimes I use this word, I know what it is and briefly how to spell it, but I just can't remember clearly, so I write down what I think, if it is wrong the spelling checkers thing will point it out. If not, then it is right. But unlike Microsoft which comes with everything, when you write blogs it doesn't correct your grammatical mistakes...
  I don't see why this website does not recognize the word "blog", "mom", or "google"

Can't remember

  Yesterday I promised my self that I would write about something one my blog today. I had this really interesting idea, but now I can't remember anything!!!

  Tomorrow is a collaborative day, so I am using this opportunity to read some more stuff online. There are a lot of good books coming out around this time. November, December, and January are popular months to publish books. I can't wait till the release of Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare. Other books I have been waiting for a long time has came out too. It is time to pay Chapters another visit.

  I was in a really bad mood today, I am getting a really bad mark in Science...

  Okay, not talk about that.

  I  have been reading quite a few books lately and everyone of them seems to have something to do with memory lose or amnesia. Usually it wasn't just normal amnesia so it was all different. Maybe the Vampire and Werewolves era is coming to an end. I think the Witches, shape shifters, and angels are coming into popularity. Characters in the books I read just keep losing their memories, almost all at the same time!

   -Damon from the Vampire Diaries died and lost his memory

   -Percy from The Son of Neptune got his memory erased by Hera

   -Nora from Silence got her memory erased by a Nephilm

   -Ren from The Tiger's Curse series "blocked" his own memory

If 4 books are not enough to prove that getting amnesia is starting to be a trend in books (and there are definitely more), then I can only say that I am only following books with memory problems. Maybe it reflects my bad memory??? I hope not.

  Even though I read and knit hats all day, doesn't necessarily mean I am turning into an old lady. Not that there is anything wrong with that...

  Goooing tooo gooo
   (-Cassel from Cursed Worker series had chunks of his memory missing
    -Clary from City of Bones had pieces of memories missing too
    -Eric from Sookie Stackhouse series couldn't remember who he was)

Silence

Silence

Becca Fitzpatrick

(Third book of the Hush Hush saga)

My rating: 4 Stars

Source: Web (see below)

Release Date: October 25, 2011

Genre: Fiction/romance?

  COMMENTS:

  I saw this book in Chapters the other day, I read the first 2 books so I was really excited to read it.

  I couldn't wait for the library, so I searched it up online. Usually I go to this free online web called www.onread.com, but I think they are making you charge for books these days. So like every other person who has a problem on their hands, I Google it!

  It came up with this web site www.scribd.com, and it amazed me! It had even more books than the other website, it was all free and you can also download stuff. Honestly I think the fonts you can read it in is bigger too so it is better for your eyes.

  I haven't finished reading the book yet, but have to go to bed. So far, it has kept me interested, no doubt I will be thinking about it all day tomorrow. The main character in the story lost her memory and it was an interesting experience when you know that the character knows some body but the character herself doesn't know it. It is also kind of annoying because I read the first 2 books a long time ago and I am forgetting who some of the characters are. Since the girl doesn't know her, I have to be in the dark for a long time.

  OH yeah I almost forgot, I might be doing our English debate tomorrow...

  I have officially learned how to type without looking at the key board. I still make some mistakes, but I guess all these days of typing has finally paid off!

  Going to sleep now, such a long day, Mondays....

Local standard time

  Today my uncle was like "change your clocks, change your clocks! It's local standard time now!"
  I was thinking, by turning the clock back one hour, we had one more hour today.
  I piano classes and I wasn't sure if I should use the old time or the new time. I was hoping my piano teacher changed her time too.
  It was kind of funny, because I was writing notes on the computer, and every time I checked the clock, I would subtract an hour. Soon when said 12:30 on my clock, I thought it was still 11:30. My mom was making me eat lunch, and I was like "why are we eating so early?" I didn't question the whole time thing, because I was busy thinking about the socials essay test tomorrow.
  After I had my lunch I decided to switch the time on my computer. But when I was trying, I realized that the computer already changed the time by itself. Wow! It is so smart, even smarter than me, I should have given it more credit.
  One more hour, which means, we all get to get up later "one hour later" tomorrow.

Homeless...

  Yesterday night I tried the "sleep on your bed with your normal clothe and no quit thing". I was in my clothe that I wear at home (which is equivalent to the amount of clothe I wear normally). I thought that wearing your normal clothe onto your bed was too dirty.
  I opened my windows of course, and you could feel the cold November air rushing in your room. I didn't even need to cover the heater vents because the air flowed so freely. At first it was okay, I didn't feel really cold, maybe just a little uncomfortable. Soon I started sneezing, and that was when everything went bad. After I sneezed, I continued sneezing. I was rolling around on my twin size bed trying to find a position where the wind didn't get to me. I soon found it impossible, so I just settled for moving once in a while so that I won't have to be cold at one place for the whole time. That was when I realized how uncomfortable my bed was with all the bed sheets on, and it made me want to crawl under and sleep nice and warmly. In the end I ended up hugging my self and curled into a ball at the same time. After around an hour of no sleep, I finally decided to just go and sleep like normal.
  I thought it was an interesting experience, I probably won't be able to sleep for even one night if I was homeless...
  I told my mom about the project, she started laughing after I told her about the sleeping on card board part. And then she waved me away and dismissed the subject, saying that it was too cold to be sleeping on the floor... But I might try it anyway, there just happens to be a lot of people in the house today, so I might be able to find a spot on the floor.

Football and Hail

  This is something that happened yesterday. I completely forgot about it until my French teacher mentioned it when we were talking about the weather after class.
  Yesterday it hailed!!! And I was lucky enough to have P.E. right when it happened. When our class first started there was only some signs of rain. So our whole class went out to the field. During the time we were running laps it started to rain, when we started playing football it rained harder. It kept raining more and more, the sky turned grey and the wind picked up. The rain was hitting us so hard, at first you can still tell it was only water, but after a while the water became solid and the hailing began.
  Our teacher called us and said we could go in and get under cover. But the boys in our class was just like 'its okay, lets keep playing'. So instead of taking cover, we continued playing football. I was really glad I had a jacket, but even with it on I still got soaked. (I finally get why we have to change for P.E. class)
  Towards the end of class, the sun started to show again, and the hail finally stopped, and a small drizzling settled.
  It was surprisingly very fun, I don't think I have ever been outside in that kind of weather before. We were playing football!!!

Science Test

  I have a science test tomorrow, must study more!!!
  I don't think I am very good at science, but I really need to get a good mark on this test!
  We were selling stuff for a long time today after school at Langara Gardens. Can you believe it? We made around $125!!! I hear the building we went to was the "rich" building. Lots of people gave us a lot of money!
  YAY! Now we are closer to our goal!
  I think we really need to start selling the other stuff though, such as the hats and felt stuff. We have been selling too much food. Hope we can find more time to sell stuff...
  Okay back to studying...
  I don't know if I can complete my homeless experience today... It just looks so cold, and my mom probably won't agree if I told her. I think I am just going to not tell her then...

Take Your Kids To Work Day

  Today is Take Your Kids To Work Day.
  Since my parents are not available to take me to work, and my auntie can't take me either. So my cousin Sammi took me to her university to attend her classes with her.
  Sammi goes to Capilano University, and she only had 2 classes today. So I woke up considerably late and we were going to take the bus to her school. But something was wrong with the bus we were taking today, apparently it didn't come for 2 rounds. So we were going to be late, and had to drive instead.
  I have been to my cousin's university before, her class had a food festival and I went with her to help. However today was no festival, it was just normal university classes. I attended two classes with my cousin, I was really nervous at first but I got better and better later on. I don't think I was completely myself, I felt really odd and out of place sitting in the classroom. Of course the two teachers for the classes were extremely friendly and nice.
  I noticed that in universities the level of concentration is higher then the classes in high school, and it was really hard for me to sit through the first class because naturally the classes in university were longer too.
  I had an interesting experience, I have to say as hard as universities seemed, I thought it was quite fun. Of course this is coming from a high school student who doesn't have the burden of getting good grades and handing in papers on time so I guess my opinion doesn't really count.
  I wasn't able to go to my orientation at Marpole today, still so sad. I did pay 6 dollars for it, and since I applied on the second orientation, I only attended 2 of the orientations. I think I should go there tomorrow and ask...

Rock Dinner

  Today this friend of my auntie's invited us out for dinner at this place called Stone Grill. As you can probably tell from the name, you get to eat stuff  that is grilled on stone. The interesting thing is that you get to do it yourself.
  I ordered a Super Steak (or something like that), and I had to grill it on my stone. My stone was really hot at first, and my meat looked so raw and bloody. So I cut it up and grill it piece by piece. But the stone was still too hot and it was burning my meat at the bottom. It took my a long time to cut the whole thing up, I was really hungry so I just dived in after it looked good.
   I am sure I didn't feel it when I was eating the meat, but now that I think about it, we were all just like cave men who would fry their raw meat on sticks. It was just that we had sharp knives and plates to do it with. Lots to do for my liver, pretty sure I ate something raw and bloody.
  The stone was pretty cool, until it got too cool. It was not hot after only a while and I had not finished cooking my meat yet, so it was still a little raw. The meat also didn't taste as good as when the stone was still hot...
  Tomorrow is take your kids to work day. For me it should be "take your cousin to school day", because my cousin is taking me to school.
  It happens to be that her classes end at 5:30 and I have this orientation at Marpole community centre at 4:30. I guess I wouldn't be able to go, really need to phone the guy who runs the program.
  'Night.