Fitness Test & Volleyball Score Keeper!

Today for PE we had the fitness test! I wasn't really prepared...well, you can't really prepare for a fitness test except through a long-term practice right? I thought I was totally outta shape from the entire summer. But it turned out well, and I acutally improved some! My height is now 167cm ( I've grown 2 cm! My height from grade 8 term 3 was 165 cm) Haahahahha yesss. I did push-ups and got like 15. Not bad. Last year my best was only like 7ish. Then I did sit & reach. Also improved from last year. 7. ( it was a pretty good result, coming out from someone with almost 0-flexibility) Vivian did like 14 and I was like OMG. For crunches I did 30! Big improvement for moi. Then for the shuttle run I did 11.9 seconds (last year was like 13.something). Gahahahhahaha. So much win. Still haven't done the 50m dash yet. I hope I can still improve!

Anyways, afterschool me, Celinna and Leslie went to the main gym for the volleyball score keeper training session. I can't play on a volleyball team, but I still wanna get involved in the school's atheletic program, so I decided to give volleyball score keeper a shot. Ms. B taught us how to record each player's scores and we went to the senior girl's practice to practice our score keeping. It was really fun watching them play, and some of them are really good players. Anyways, it's been a busy day. :P

Recycling Club

This afternoon me, Celinna and Leslie joined the recycling club! This is like the second club I've joined in Churchill. Anyways, I rushed to Celinna's locker right after French to make sure that she didn't forget to stay. Turned out she just came out from PE. Hahahahah. We hurried to Ms. Fowler's room and expected that she would be there (cuz she's like the one who funds and supports the recycling club), but she wasn't, so we went to the cafeteria because a girl said she would be there. She wasn't there, so I was getting a bit nervous. Luckily some of my friends were there too, and they said that Ms. Fowler would come back because she was just going away to get some containers for the recycling stuff. When she came back she told us to go to Mr. Olson's room to put on some gloves. I was really really excited :p

After all the recycling bin had been brought in, we started sorting things out. The plastic bottles had to be put in a container; the juice boxes had to be put in another container, and so on...some of the bottles/cans/juice boxes still had liquid in them, so we had to pour that out in a big bin. It started to smell really stinky and sour as we poured more and more spoiled liquid into the bin. I was being so careful not to get splashed or anything, because that would be bad. Heheheh. When we finished sorting things out, we dumped them by categories into huge garbage bags and carried them into this garage thing right beside Mr. Olson's room.

There were a lot of people helping out with the recycling. Although we had a huge load of recyclable stuff, we still had no problem sorting them out and get them recycled. We all worked super fast under perfect cooperation----that's what I call SYNERGY!

Now that I've formally signed up for recycling club, I'm gonna come out every Wednesday with my friends to do some recycling!

I Don't....Get It

So today I ran for the debate club's secretary and internal vice president. I didn't get the positions, but it was a very good practice, and I also learned some valuable lessons. I was a little bit pissed off at some of the results of the election though. I had no trouble with me losing, because the guy who won the secretary position was very nice, and his speech was very creative "the perfect hands that shall write down everything". Sharon won the internal vice president, and she had many supporters from the previous Synergy 9 class, which is pre-IB right now. But at the beginning we had the grade 8 rep first. I had my eye on this kid name Ramie (I am not sure how to spell her name). I thought her speech was wholesome, and she was being really really sincere about this job. I voted for her, but unfortunately she didn't win the position. Another girl named Tiffany won the position because she said "I make awesome sandwiches so vote for me" that was it. To be honest with you I don't really think she cared about this job...she wasn't really serious about it. But I guess she was sorta like the popularity queen there, so a lot of people voted for her. I didn't think that was fair. I wanted someone who is actually sincere about this job.

Anyways, some people won the position because of their popularity. A lot of the voters didn't care about the speeches...they just voted for popularity. For external vice president this girl named Jessica won the position and I think she deserves it, because her speech was really good, and she definitely has a lot of experience (I saw her from last year. She's probably in grade 12 now). For president, Gavin from Pre-IB and Demi from grade 12 both won the position. Their speeches were good too.

I think everyone is a winner in this election. I've also learned a lot about some candidates. I really appreciate a number of them because I can tell from their sincerity. That's what really matters to me. Sincerity.

Next year I will definitely come out again and run for positions. By then I'll obviously have more experience and more supporters. This is good.

I am KNITTING, KNITTING

So for applied skills today I knitted stuff as usual. My employees have already made several small items from yarn. Them made this white decoration thingy which I mistook for a jellyfish, but it's actually like a flower. I also learned how to do a multi-color knit from Leslie (she also taught me how to crochet from last class) :P even though I screwed up the knit and lost the stitches a few times, it was still so fun. We are gonna make a pencil case with it. Celinna and Leslie are also making this fluffy pillow thingy. I think the crowds are gonna love our product. :P

Btw, my knitting got interrupted because of the photo day thing. I had to go to the cafeteria for my photo, and geez the line was soooo long. I waited and waited until it was finally my turn. When I returned to Mr. Olson's room Austin almost locked me out. So basically a few people stayed, and Tony, Austina and Josh were singing this epicly weird song about... you know what, I am not even gonna tell you what they were singing about-.-

Mapping

This morning I wanted to get my map project done. I've already gotten all the labels down in pencil, so I just fine lined them with blue ink. But right after my fine lining I felt kinda scared about using blue ink, so I went on google chat and ask a few people and they all replied that perhaps black is a better choice, so I just re-fine lined the whole thing. We are suppose to show the elevations by using different colors. I don't have an atlas so I went online and searched for Europe's physical map. I just colored and colored but I had to go at 11:00. I came back at 1:00 and ate my lunch and played piano so by the time I got back to my map it was already 6 something in the evening. My mom insisted on me going for a run with my dad as my daily exercise...so I went out again...

I just finished most of my map. I just need all the latitudes and longtitudes. My original plan got a little bit mixed up... :P

The Challenge

So this morning I went over to my "student"'s house for her piano tutoring. She was not really in a good mood, considering she had to practice piano so early in the morning (at 8:30 am). Anyway, I told her to practice the scales first. She replied "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY IT." But I knew she was just saying it because she didn't want to play it. As the strict tutor, I insisted on playing the scale. But she was like "IDONTKNOWIDONTKNOW" So I was like, "Okay, fine then, I will TEACH YOU HAND BY HAND" She thought about it for a sec, then gave up and played the scale.

We moved onto the next piece of music. It was a rather large piece for her level. At the beginning she played it nicely, but got stuck in the middle. THAT PART was like the main difficulty of the piece. She got kinda irritated and wanted to skip that part, but I was being so serious and stern I made her play it. She pulled out that IDONTKNOWHOWTOPLAYTHIS saying so I told her that if she doesn't know how to play it I shall teach her hand by hand note by note so she had to follow the rules. The hour went by pretty fast and there were a lot of struggle and irritation...the last minute her mom came in and the girl was quiet and played the piece as I wished. Afterward I told her mom to come in next class and stay with us for the tutoring. She agreed, and said that it's nice to have a strict teacher (because a lot of Chinese parents love strict teachers).

That was a big accomplishment, you know, getting her mom to stay with us for the next lesson next Saturday. My strictness can only have the best effect if the mother is with us so that the little girl would behave. I remember when I was 6 I had a very strict teacher and my mom stayed by my side EVERY class. It's weird: my mom doesn't know how to play the piano, but she makes a great critic. When I was a bit older I got a tutor who was also verrrrry strict. One class was not enough for one single piece of music, because she was so strict she made me play every note with extra care and understanding. Now that I think of it, I am really thankful for these two strict teacher and tutor of mine. I kinda want to test their teacher method out on the little girl, because it worked for me. But who knows...maybe it will not work on her as good as I expect it will be. I still have so much to learn...

Photography Class

So for photography today we got to get out of the classroom and take pictures of people's faces. Actually, 20 faces. I think I took more than 20...Anyway, some people don't really care about people taking pictures of them, but some were really sensitive. A lot of people saw us coming and they either covered up their faces or walked away really really fast. Me, Alex and Tony went around the school and hunted for faces. Hhahahahah. When we went out of the school there were people running laps and I was able to get a few shots of they as they ran past by. Claire was really fast so I wasn't able to take a picture of her face..but oh well. I am gonna do more work on my google site and hopefully upload all the pictures during the weekend.