T1B22

October 17th, 2014

Hello dudsons,

I'm typing on my mom's iPhone because I feel like it today.  Today was an okay day, which means that nothing special happened.  Today's schedule was English, performing arts, applied skills, and math.
For lunch, there was fish and chips today.  I have never bought something from the cafeteria and the food there always looks really good.  Plus, they sell bubble tea...I LOVE BUBBLE TEA!  I wonder if I should buy something sometime soon... 

For English today, we watched 3 three videos all about this famous spoken word poet called Shane Koyczan.  I love how he plays with words and his ability of language and connecting to the audience is very strong ".  We are going to see his opera called 'Stickboy' which talks about his life. I read the preview, and it's a really inspirational story that he has.  I'm excited to go see it the week after next week.  My teacher also gave us no homework for the weekend....yay!

We had to perform a skit for performing arts about a teacher putting two students in detention.  I was the straight A student who never got a detention.  I always get nervous when I have to do these little skits, because I don't feel comfortable doing things in front of people.  We started doing skits every week now, so I'm always not that looking forward to this class.  At first I loved this class because we would play games for the whole time and it's like a free period. Now we have to act and plus, there's this really sassy girl who always gets on my nerves....

We'll, I'm starting to like applied skills a lot more because it's a really fun class.  I have trouble doing the mission statements though, because I have no idea what to do.  Well, I know what to do, but I'm having trouble thinking of what to write.  I need to think of 'why' instead of 'what'.  Oh yeah, we also watched a TED talk today during class.  It's my second one today; the other one was during English about Shane Koyczan.  I don't mind because I like watching these kinds of things.  One thing I didn't really get during the talk was when the talker mentioned a company or thing I believed is spelled Tivo or Teevo.  I guess it's just some 'ancient' thing.  I enjoy writing blogs too now.  At the beginning I always needed to remind myself, but now, it has begun to become a habit that I'm used to.  I love reading other peoples' blog too, but my friends say I'm "stalking" them.  Oh well.  Anyways, I'm excited to do the rubber hand experiment and to see what we'll get for the results!

For math, we reviewed order of operations with positive and negative numbers, also known as BEDMAS.  I learned it before, so I don't have much trouble with it.  So... I am going to do the AMC math contest, even though I'm not that good at math. Apparently this girl thought I was super smart at math since I'm doing the contest, so she asked me to help with her math.  I had no idea how to do it. :/. Anyways I don't want people to expect that I will have a excellent score when I might receive a low mark.  As I previously said in one of my recent blogs, I just want to challenge myself and I don't care if I fail, as long as I try my best.

I have chinese school tomorrow, and we also have a test.  I didn't study that much, so I'm hoping I'll get a good mark.  It isn't a big test;it's more like a spelling test , where the teacher says the word and we write it down.  The hard part is remembering the word.  Chinese characters have very complicated strokes and different components.  That reminds me, after this, I will go study...
I also started playing that addicting app called Neybers again.  I need to control myself!..but it's hard. It's just so awesome.  I was so addicted that when I was playing piano, I took the iPad and started playing it.  My mom noticed and she told me to concentrate again.  See what I mean by addicting?  

--Cyndi Forrest