The Place That We Once Went

      Every time I pass the place that you and I once went, I think back to the good times we spent together. Those memories wash over me like the ocean's waves washes up on the beach everyday. When I remember that we laughed, played and argued there, I want those moments to happen again. I really miss what we used to do. Even though we don't see each other that often anymore, I really want to know how you are doing and how your life is going. I want to spend some time together so we can tell each other about the things that happened during the few months we haven't talked. 

      Sometimes when I pass that place, I feel sad. A lot of times, I try and avoid the place so I don't feel sad every time I pass it. In my heart, I always think " What can I do to make this sadness go away?". I don't want to feel that feeling. It is really hard to hold back these feelings. But that is life. So I am going to suck it up and move on. I think it is okay to feel sad sometimes. It is part of bring human.

Life in Midwood part 3

Here we go again. This is going to be another blog about my life in Midwood. Not so much has changed about my view in Midwood. But my feelings towards the teachers and the homework they give keeps becoming more negative. Also, I got my first report and my grades are actually pretty good, even in the classes I don't like. The first marking period in  Midwood is letter grades. So, not wasting anymore of your precious time here we go again:

1. Living Environment Teacher: My living environment teacher is actually one of my favorites. I have him third period which is considered my first period if I don't have lab. He is  one of those teachers you don't mind having in the morning. I really enjoy being in his class and he makes my morning awesome. He usually starts class with random talking about what he did the night before. When he starts teaching, he gives examples that the class can really connect to. In this class, I got an E.

2. Music Teacher: My music teacher is not really one of the ones I like. In her class, I usually fall asleep. The chairs are kinda of like how they arrange them in auditoriums so it's kinda hard to sleep but I manage to find a way. For example, I put a notebook over my head and doze off into dream world. And in this music class, I have to sing. My voice is not the best in the morning. In this class, I got an E.

3. Geometry Teacher: Geometry is not my favorite subject in math, I prefer Algebra. My thoughts in this class is that the teacher is fine and he doesn't give a lot of homework. I like that. But GEOMETRY IS SO BORING!!! I don't like shapes, they give me a huge headache. For you people who don't know, I have issues with my drawing being perfect. If the line is not straight or the corners don't meet at a nice point, I have to start over again. But besides that I really like the class and the teacher. In this class, I go a G.

4. Global Teacher: This teacher is crazy!!! I don't mean like he is mean or gives me a lot of homework or he yells at the class, I mean he is crazy like he likes to scare children. He said he was going to tell us a scary story on Halloween. I HATE SCARY STORIES/MOVIE!!! I will have nightmare for about 1 month if I watch a scary movie. Except for when I watched Paranormal Activity 3, that wasn't really scary. My global teacher showed the class scenes from scary movies. After that, I was trembling the whole day. I had 3 hours of school left and the whole day I was shaking. But putting that aside, I really like this teacher because he doesn't give homework at all and he is hilarious. In this class, I got an E.

5.English Teacher: My English teacher is okay. She is nice and I enjoy sitting in her class and listening to her talk about books we are going to read and other stuff. But I don't really approve of the books she chose In this class I go an E.

6. Spanish: My Spanish teacher is probably the best one I've had in ages. I really like go to her class. But the sad thing is that time passes too quickly. That is how much I like that class. This is probably my favorite class in the whole day. I always look forward to this class. In this class I got an E.

7. Health: Last but not least is my Health class. I really really really dislike this class. The teacher I have is so unorganized. He jumps from lesson to lesson. For example, one day we are talking about nutrition and you would expect the next day to be about the same thing. But NOOOO!!! The next day the teacher decides to talk about eating disorders and the next day back to nutrition and the next day the HIV/AIDS. I AM SO CONFUSED. In this class, I got a G.

Finally, I am done talking about my high school life...or am I???

Actually, I have one more thing I don't understand? HOW DO YOU START DATING IN 6TH GRADE??? There are a bunch of people in all my classes that have a boyfriend. When they tell me that, I say your parents let you have a boyfriend? If my parents knew I was dating in middle school/high school they would first make me dump him, ground me for the rest of my life and they wouldn't allow me to go anywhere except school and they would have to pick up and drop me off at school everyday until I graduate. Well, maybe I exaggerated a little bit. But in all seriousness, why do people have a boyfriend already? There was this couple in the hallways that were making out. It makes me feel so lonely and I envy those people who have boyfriends. I AM SO JEALOUS!!! 

~Just Joking!!!!

And that is my life in Midwood part 3.

My Columbus Day and Others.

So, today is Columbus Day and school is CLOSED!!! I am having a wonderful day off from school. Today, I watched 14 episodes of Drake & Josh, 5 episodes of Phineas and Ferb, 7 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place, and 10 episodes of Spongebob Square pants. Yes, I REALLY have no life. Spending one day off from school to watch kid TV shows isn't exactly the wisest thing to do but I did it. 
Anyway back to the reason why I am writing this blog. When my dad got home from work, he handed me a letter and when I opened it to read, it said that I've been nominated to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on Law and Crime Scene Investigation to be held this summer 2013 in Washington D.C. I am so confused right now with a lot of mixed emotions. Some of the questions that are going through my head are:
-How did this happen?
-Why me?
-Did anyone else I know receive a letter like that?
-What am I going to do?
-What the hell am I suppose to do now?
There you have it. I am still trying to process this information. It is a lot to take in. The letter said I was selected from some of the highest-achieving students in the nation. OMG!!! I really don't know what to do right now. I am planning on taking it to my guidance counselor when I return to school tomorrow. So, if anyone in high school right now, reading my blog and received a letter about what I just wrote please leave a comment. Or if anyone reading this received a letter about this before also leave a comment because I am really confused.

Life in Midwood Part 2

This blog with be about my feelings towards Midwood after a month of going to school there. I officially declare that life in Midwood has gone from good to extremely bad and exhausting!!! Some of you may have read the first part of my blog about Midwood. Well now I've changed my mind completely. This is why:
#1-Getting to school
     Getting up at 7 am when you slept at 12 am can be really exhausting. I have been doing that since school started and I get so tired I fall asleep in class. Literally, I would take my notebook, put it on the desk standing up and fall asleep. I have done that in at least 3 of my classes. To make things worse, sometimes when I have to wake up at 5 am for lab. I need 1200 minutes of lab in order to take the Living Environment Regents in June. So once every two weeks, I have to wake up before the sun even comes out and get ready fro school .It it very cold when it's 5 am. Even though lab starts at 7:15 am, I have to wake up at least an hour and a half earlier if I want to make it there on time. If your late to lab, they will deduct points and if it past 7:30 and your not there, they don't let you in. For the Fall semester, I have 6 labs and the Spring semester I think I am going to have 7 labs.
#2- Homework
     I have been getting a lot of homework lately. At the beginning of the year, I rarely had anything to do but now, but now, it is like a mountain of homework. I have to stay up until 11:00 pm to finish it. I start my homework at 5:00 pm because that is when I get home from school . Sometime if I am lucky, I get home at 4: 30 pm, but that is rare. When I get home I have to alternate from doing my homework to helping my sister with hers. Then when she is done with her homework, she goes to the room and blast some k-pop and that is extremely annoying. I an not a big fan of K-POP, so when my sister decides to not only blast the music but also sing along and dance, I can feel the blood coming out of my ears and eyes. It is really distracting. 
#3- Teachers
     Remember how I wrote that I was satisfied with all my teachers, well I am bipolar so my feelings about them change all the time. For now, here are the feeling for my teachers:
Living Environment- My teacher is awesome. He is extremely cool and makes jokes out of everything he teacher.
Music- The teacher is okay. I don't really like her yet because we haven't actually started singing. For the past month, we learned about staff and sight reading music. I already know how to do all that stuff.
Math(Geometry)- My teacher is still awesome. He really has a thing for sports because every Friday he tells us to watch the Giants game on Sunday.
Global- Right now there is a student teacher teaching us and she gives a lot of notes. I hate copying notes. I sit in the back of the room and she has so much notes that she tries to fit them all on one slide and the print is extremely small. (PS: This is one of the classes I slept in)
English- The teacher is okay but at times it can be fun, especially when we share our own personal experiences with something.
Spanish- My Spanish teacher is the most awesome. She is really nice and kind. I love going to her class everyday because her class is the only one I am willing to learn in.
Health- This is my last period class and I am always sleepy. I can never sleep though cause I sit near the window and a bus passes by every few minutes. The teacher is really loud.

That is all I have to say for now. But maybe next month I'll see if anything changed and I''l write about.

PS: I probably made a lot of errors but please forgive me. I typed this blog at 11:30 pm and I was really tired.

Nyan Cat

Yes people. I actually watched the nyan cat video. The only reason I watch it was because I was curious and had nothing better to do. For people who don't know what the nayn cat is, it is basically a cat with a pop-tart for the body and it is running through space with a rainbow coming out of it's butt. The only reason I watch it was I was curious and had nothing better to do. It was so funny. I was laughing for the hour of the video then it got really annoying. The video is 10 hours long. I only watched 2 and a half hours of it and then I was really annoyed and bored. So basically I was bored and watched it and after I watched it, I go even more bored. Then I stopped watching and did something else. But now when I look back, I can't believe I wasted 2 and a half hours of my life watching that. If anyone wants to watch it here is the link.
-->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY
I have to warn you. I think I killed some of my brain cells because I watched the video.

Saturday School is a pain in the "you know what"

Tomorrow is Saturday and I am pretty sure the whole world doesn't have school. On Saturdays, every typical teenager goes out and hangs out with their friends or sleep until very late and watch cartoons. Usually on Saturdays I wake up at 10:30am and watch some cartoons. But tomorrow that is not going to happen. My parents decided I am not smart enough. They registered me for Saturday School at A+ Academy. Apparently to my parents I am never allowed to relax. School work is really important and they think if I watch TV or play the computer, my brain will somehow breakdown. I extremely hate going to Saturday school. It is the second thing worst to Summer School. I hear from people who go to A+ Academy, they have a lot of homework. I think to myself "HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSE TO CONCENTRATE ON SCHOOL WORK WHEN I AM GETTING TONS OF HOMEWORK FROM SATURDAY SCHOOL"??!! 

I have a really sad life. Part of the reason I am anti-social is because my parents won't let me go hang out with my friends when it is Saturday or Sunday. So when they ask my why I don't have any friends, I am going to say "You expect me to have friends when all you guys do is make me go to Saturday school, study 7 day a week and not let my go anywhere alone with them"? It is so annoying having strict parents!!!

Life in Midwood

Going to a new school is never easy. But so far my experience in Midwood is pretty good. At first I thought that it was going to be really hard in high school because of all the homework, projects and mean teachers. Surprisingly, there is not a lot of homework or projects and all my teachers are super nice. My favorite classes are Spanish, Global, Math and Living Environment. All the teachers are really funny and make jokes once in a while and my global teacher can make a joke out of anything he teaches us.  My class spent the first few days of school laughing at all of the things he said. The classes I don't really like are my Music, English and Health. I don't really like Music because I got into a chorus. I CAN'T SING!!! That is a true fact about me. So basically the school put me in a class I can't possibly pass. But the good thing about that class is I can lip sync because there are a lot of people, especially girls. Another good thing about Midwood is I made some friends. I met them during lunch since that is the only class I share with them. Besides lunch, the only class I actually talk to people in is Spanish because a friend I met in summer school is there.

Those were the positive things about Midwood. Here are some negative things. The school is extremely crowded. There are over 4,000 students and 1,100 of them are freshman.  Getting from one class to another is extremely difficult but some how I mange to get to class on time before the bell rings. Another negative thing is waiting for the bus to go home. Everyday when I try to get home, I always have to wait for the 3rd or 4th bus. By the time I get home, it's 5 o' clock. The buses are always packed full. There was this one time on bus where there were too many people and the bus couldn't move so some people had to get off. But I'll have to get used to that since I have another four years at Midwood. So that is my experience so far. I hope as the year goes by, the classes I don't like, I will learn to like them.

Tomorrow is the First Day of School...Already????

Sadly, yes, tomorrow is the first day of school. I can't believe my summer went by so fast. Looking back to the beginning of my summer, I was really bored at home because I had nothing to do. Usually I spend my whole entire summer in summer school (because I have Asian parents). But this year was different. I went on vacation and had a great time. When that was over, I realized myself I was counting the days, hours and minutes left before school  started again. I have a really sad life. Anyway, since tomorrow is the first day of my freshman year at Midwood High School, I am kinda sad because most of the friends I made in middle school are not going to be in the same school. The person I will miss the most is my very, very best friend Vanessa. We had so many laughs. I can't remember a day in 8th grade where we didn't laugh about things we said to each other. But, saying goodbye to old friends opens a door for new ones. Good Luck to everyone starting school tomorrow!!! I hope you all will have a wonderful school year!!!!

Killing a Mosquito on the ceiling with my shoe.

I REALLY, REALLY hate mosquitoes. They are gross, they drink my blood and then the bite swells and starts to itch like crazy. But after yesterday, I feel fulfilled because I managed to kill a mosquito and not run away screaming like a little girl
Yesterday night around 11:45pm, I had to go to sleep. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and I saw a mosquito fly around. It was really huge with really long legs. I chased it around my bathroom with a mop for about 5 mins.The fact that my bathroom is kinda small, I hit my hip on the sink so many times I got bruised and I slipped 3 times and hurt my butt. My mom came running in asking what happen. I tell her it was a mosquito. She thought I was crazy and told me she would take care of it when I go to bed. As I was about to give up the mosquito land on the ceiling and I take off my shoes and through it at the mosquito. Surprisingly I hit it and it was dead. But the bad thing was, it didn't come off the ceiling. It stayed there and the next morning my dad got it off. So that is how I killed a mosquito on the ceiling with my shoe.

Trip to China: Blog One: New York/JKF Airport,Tawain Ariport,Hong Kong Airport,Guangzhuo Aripiort

Hello everyboby and welcome to reading my experiences while I was on my vacation. I had a lot of fun and I didn't want to leave. This is my first blog entry about it and the tile is a bit weird because I put so many airport in it. This is the reason:
My parents planned a vacation for the family to go to China for a month during the summer. Our departure from New York was on July 23 at 1:30am and our arrival time at Guangzhuo was suppose to be July 24 around 9:30am. Unfortunately, our trip didn't go the way we planned. So, on July 23 at 10:00pm I left my house to go to the airport. At JFK airport I waited 3 hours before getting on the plane. When I boarded the plane, I looked for my seat and found out I had a window seat. Yay!!! I love looking out the window when the plane in up in the stratosphere, but I don't really enjoy looking out when the plane goes off the ground and into the sky. That's because I am afraid of heights. Anyway, so the plane takes off and has to fly in the sky for 16 hours. At first, I thought it was going to be boring but it wasn't. There was a mini tv in front of me. It had movies, games, music, etc. Also during my flight there was food. The food was ok. It wasn't the best food in to world but it didn't taste bad at all. I think my favorite meal out of all was breakfast. Then, on July 24 at 5:30am, 1 hour away from Hong Kong ariport, the pilot annouces that due to the Typhoon, we cannot land in Hong Kong and will be going to Tawain Airport. I was okay with it and got off the plane 2 hours later when we arrived in Tawain. I thought we were only going to be there for 2 hours and Hong Kong airport will be opened again for planes. But no!!! I was stuck there for 4 hours.The time I left Tawain was 11:30am. I really hate mother nature. Out of all the days of that month she could have summoned a typhoon, she decides to put one on the day I go on vacation, out of the hundreds of countries she could have chose, she picks Hong Kong. So after that long wait, the Hong Kong airport is opened again, and we arrive. But that is not my final destination. My destination is Guangzhuo. That creates an even bigger problem. Since I was suppose to board my plane to Guangzhuo on July 24 at 7:30am but since I was stuck in Tawain at that time my plane left. To make it even worse I had to trade my ticket for a new one and the line for that was really long. When it was finally my turn they tell me that the next airplane to Guangzhuo was at 9:30pm. That meant I had to wait 10 hours. WHAT THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSE TO DO FOR 10 HOURS?!?!?!?! During my 10 hoour wait, I wondered around the airport and explored the stores. I found a lot of makeup stores, a bookstore, and a lot of fast food resturants. Finally, the 10 hours passed but still no airplane because my flight was moved to 10:30 pm. I got so fusterated, I was about the pull my hair out. After that change, the flight time was final and i got to board the plane. Except the fact that the plane had to take off at 11:00pm. I got to Guangzhuo at 12:30am on July 25. Fortunately for me, my relatives came to pick us up because there were no bus to take my home. When I FINALLY reached my house, I was so tired I went directly to sleep.
And that is why the title for my blog is Trip to China: Blog One: New York/JKF Airport,Tawain Ariport,Hong Kong Airport,Guangzhuo Aripiort.

Waiting at the doctors Office/Laryngitis

Waiting at the doctors office for 2 hours. OMG!!! That happens every time I go. I think it's because I don't make an appointment and when other people who have appointments get there, the doctors see them first. I really hate waiting at the doctors office. There is no entertainment and even though there is, it is some Asian stuff. SO BORING!!!! 

Any way, I went to the doctors because my voice is raspy and I am having coughing fits. So after 2 hours of waiting, the doctor finally sees me. He takes his looking stick thingy with the light in it and looks in my mouth. He say I probably have laryngitis and gives me a prescription for some medicine. He say if my voice no improve after a month, I have to go back and have something put down my throat. Sounds really painful. I hope my voice gets better. I DON'T WANNA GO BACK AND WAIT FOR THE DOCTOR!!!!

Not Blogging For One Month...Holy Shit!!!!

As some of you people may know, I am going on vacation this year...for one month. While I am on vacation I don't think I'll be getting Internet connections. So that leads to not blogging for one month. I wonder how I am doing to live. So, I made a plan. I am going to type what I'm going to post on my blog on my laptop. When I come back, I'll post everything on my blog. Maybe I will type something every week or every other week. Who knows?


Good Bye America!!!!

Going on Vacation...but so may things to pack

Packing for a one month trip to visit your long-time-no-see relatives/friends can be a pain in the butt. You have to pack so many things it could take you forever. This is from personal experience: My parents planned a trip to go visit some long-time-no-see relatives/friends. We spent months deciding what to buy for them as gifts, mostly it is food for some reason.  Also we packed at least 5 suitcases full of things. Only one suitcase had clothes in it, one suit case has kitchen utensils, and the other 3 had food. For you people who think this is weird, you probably don't have a lot of relatives and your parents are not Asian. Apparently they say we have a lot of uncles, aunts, cousins and friends. I am pretty sure I haven't meet more than half of them.

My Asian Mom vs. Asian Dad

I find that a lot people have a better relationship with their mom versus their dad. For some reason, it is the other way around for me. Even though I am a girl, I feel like my dad understand me more than my mom. Whenever I talk to my mom about things she doesn't know when I am for real and when I am joking. But when I talk to my dad about things he understands. I am a girl and currently going through puberty and my mom should probably know when I have cramps and don't feel like doing anything,  but I don't think she gets the pain. She went through the same things and should know how I feel but I don't think she does. When their is a special occasion and I don't feel well because it is my time of the month, my mom makes me go and when I am in a bad mood, she thinks I am trying to embarrass her. On the other hand, when I tell my dad my stomach really hurt (I don't tell him the reason) he lets me stay home from those things. I do not like my dad better than my mom but sometimes he is a lot better to talk to. 

Ordering online with Asian parents

OMG!!! On July 10, my parents ordered something online and it is probably going to arrive today. I have to be home to receive the package. For some reason they think UPS is going to ring my door at 8 am so they decided to wake me from my nice sleep to make me wait for the UPS guy. I WAS SO TIRED. They know I slept at 1 am, but my parents decides to wake my up after 7 hours of sleep to wait for the stupid package. I was tracking my order and it said it will come some time in the afternoon.

 Maybe because my parents are Asian and they think UPS delivers packages at 8 am. I personally don't think during the summer, the UPS guy is going to come to my house so early in the morning. From my experiences of receiving packages whether they are mine or not, UPS DOES NOT DELIVER THEM TO YOUR HOUSE REALLY EARLY IN THE MORNING. Everybody has work so they know nobody will be home to take packages. My parents are so paranoid about stranger taking my packages, they make me look out my door every hour to make sure to see if any packages are at my door.

Waking up at 3 am...

I am not a morning, afternoon or night person. If you wake me up in the middle of the night I WILL not wake up until 3 pm the next day. Anyway here's the story:
I go to bed at 12:30 am because it is summer vacation. I fall asleep around 1 am. All of a sudden around 3 am a loud snoring wakes me up. It turns out my dad was making all the noise( he slept in my room cuz it had an a/c). I didn't want to wake him cuz he has work in the morning. So I am patient and wait until he stops. It takes him an hour to stop and when he does stop I go back to sleep. The next morning, my sister tries to wake me up but couldn't. Then at 3 pm, I wake up. 
Here is the moral to that: Don't wake me up in the middle of the night because of something stupid, I will not get out of bed until very late!!! 

Asian Parents

Whose parents drag their child to Costco, 30 minutes before it closes and leaves 1 hour later? Apparently my parents do that to me. I think it's because their asian. They have to buy the stuff on sale because asians can't live with out a bargain. Asian parents are also strict and overprotective, they won't let their children have any fun, unless it is under their supervision. I wanted to go see a movie and my asian parents say they have to come with me to make sure nobody rape me. I was so mad because I wanted to go myself. I AM NOT A CHILD ANYMORE. I wish they would understand that. Also, from personal experience, I think asian parents force their kids to go to summer school so they can be smart. But the kids don't want to go. Of course we have to odey our parents, OR ELSE! My parents told me I have to go to summer school because they don't want me to stay home all summer. But isn't that what summer is for? To relax from 10 months of school? Any way what I am try to say is...asian parents are really strict and overprotective and want their kids to be really smart.

Regret

Sometimes in your life you will do things you'll regret. Unless you are one of those people who have hearts of steel and don't have a conscious. Anyway, regrets are one of those things that you feel and can't control. People do things that they'll regret and sometimes people won't do things because if anything goes wrong, they will regret it. I feel like I am one of those people who doesn't do things because I am afraid of the results. There is one thing I didn't do and I am regretting it.

Last Day of School and you are a Senior

At the beginning of the year I wished school was going to be over soon. Now that the day has come, I don't want it to come anymore. Leaving all the friends you made is very emotional, especially since they are not going to the same school as you. People cry and hug and remember all the good memories and bad memories. I DON'T WANT THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL TO COME!!! Too bad it is already here.

Sibling Relationships

Relationships with your siblings aren't always the best. Your siblings can annoy the heck out of you. Sometimes you will get into fights that are verbal and at times they can get physical. Physical fights are really dangerous because someone can get hurt. Verbal fights aren't any better than physical ones. You know the saying "Sticks and stones will break my bones but words can never hurt me". I disagree with that saying because words can hurt a person when you are using words that are hurtful. Those hurtful words can become more hurtful especially when some that is really close to you uses them.

Day One

Life isn't always going to go the way you want. The only way you can overcome something is to suck it up and move on. Don't linger on the things that made you sad, it will only made life miserable. Disappointments will occur, but that how you can succeed. For example, you want to win something, but someone else gets it instead. You worked hard all year and you think you really deserve it. All that matters is you know that you worked your butt off trying.