Langara!

Today we did Langara! It was kinda unexpected but expected at the same time. Anyways, I was determined to get a better mark this time, because the last time I did it, I was having a fever and ran almost 17 minutes! Today I decided to follow Fang-yu, who is really fast and has good endurance. I was right. She kept me running and I told myself, "I MUST NOT STOP!" Then my legs just got all loose and I started to go past Fang-yu. I saw Andy and I wanted to catch up to him, and I did, and I went past him. I couldn't really stop my legs. Then Matthew caught up to me and we ran at the same speed. There was a point where he went past me but I caught up, but then close to the end my throat got blocked and I couldn't breathe so he went past me, and Andy did as well. They were fast! I still managed to finish the run with a time of 14:25. That's my best record since grade 8! I think I did really well with the run at my standard. We went back to the gym and on the way back, I checked the mark and 14:01-14:30 was 8.5, so I got an 8.5. Not bad for Mimi! I am really proud of myself!

Triumf

What a cool fieldtrip we had at Triumf! We got to see the ISAC I& II and the place was huge. There were so many machines and wires and high-tech stuff! I wish I had my camera with me! It looked like the stuff in sci-fi movies. I remembered the huge computers Dragon and Tigress. It's a wonder how they built these machines. I wish we could see the big disk-like thingy buried underground, but I guess it would be too radioactive for people without proper protection to be in contact with. Still, if was pretty cool! The tour was short and sweet, and without the tour guide we would never come out of the place! It's so big and filled with machines and stuff. Overall it was a good fieldtrip.

I got an aphid on a stick on the way back and named it Eugene. Me and Carina played with it for a while and I tried scaring Tony with it. At the end I accidentally dropped Eugene so he went somewhere on the floor in the bus on on the seats. He was too tiny and it was impossible to spot him. So I lost him. I was sad... But that was okay, because we got off at Oakridge and I had white chocolate mocha and saw LEGO and jumbo blueberries. These things really made my day, and Mido had a happy day!

Concert

GAHHHHAHAHHAH FINALLLY FINISHED LE CONCERT!!!!!! It was so fun! This afternoon before the big concert I had to go to the salon to get my hair done. It was soo cool because I got my hair curled (temporarily) and made into a pretty hair-do! OMG..0.oThen I had to do makeups so I don't look too horrid. It was like them drawing on my face. My teacher was like "apply fake eyelashes" and I had that as well, and it was my first time putting on fake eyelashes. They felt soooo weird at first, but eventually I got used to them. After putting my gown on and all that, we headed to the Roy Barnett Hall at UBC.

The concert started at 7:00 pm, but we had to get there around 5:00pm for our dress rehearsal. The symphony orchestra would work with us to first play a small excerpt from our concertos so we could test the piano and see if everything's alright. We all went backstage when the audience started filling in the seats. I was the seventh and the last before the intermission. I was a little bit nervous, but that was alright once I got to the piano. I got really really excited and hyper when I was playing, but I think I did great! It was a very wonderful opportunity to be able to work with the symphony orchestra and I was absolutely thrilled....and a bit tired as well after the performance. It is now very late, so I shall get to sleep nao. Talk to ya tomorrow!

Meme Day

Contacts

I wore my contacts to school today because I want to get use to them before my concert. It took me about 15 minutes to put them on. So many tries! The lens kept sticking onto my finger and wouldn't go into my eye! Ughhhhhh. But after a while I finally put the two of them on. YAY! It felt a bit weird at first, and my eyes were a bit irritated. I am still getting use to it right now. It's like having perfect vision! MAGIC. However I shall take them off before I sleep.

Sore

My whole body is aching so badly today. Yes, that's right, I am all sore right now. Yesterday I was feeling a bit tired already from the 1.5Hr of canoeing and 2Hr of golf and fitness (we did 30 burpees, a bunch of basket lunges, crocodile crawling, 20 alternating planks and 20 elbow-knee planks and a bunch of other intense activities). Today we ran 3 laps and my muscles were just not cooperating with me. Then we did soccer and again, I had 2 Hr of golf. I was stretching my muscle and we were doing some shots today. I feel like this is too much. This workout is getting outta hand. I am feeling very sleepy right now.

I am trying to save energy and not be too tired because I have a concert on Sunday and I don't want to wear myself out. Right now my arms and my back hurt pretty bad and I feel like I should get some sleep. Ugh. I don't like getting tired because I can't really do anything with my time. Now I must go to sleep because I am very desperate for rest. If I don't rest now I will probably wear myself out and collapse (I've done that before). So cya!

Woot

Yay! Today we went kayaking/canoeing at Deer Lake. What a wonderful Last Synergy 9 Get-Together we had! I misse it already. We had so much fun! The lake was big and Celinna, Vivian C and I were doing the three-people canoe. We got in. I was getting worried, because I didn't want to get soaked. I didn't, at the end. We started paddling, but our direction was all wrong and we were just like 0.o A lot of people were already so far ahead, almost at the other side of the lake! We were having trouble manouvering our canoe. But finally, we figured it out! We had Viv at the back, steering the canoe, while Celinna paddled on one side and me on the other side. We would take turn, so I would paddle after Celinna and we alternate our paddling so our canoe can go straight forward instead of turning in a circle. It was soo amazing! I've never canoed before, and that was totally cool! Later we got into the lily pad patch and I got a close up look at the lily pads. So cute. Afterwards we slowly paddled back and I got our canoe under a tree and Viv and Celinna were screaming in my ears to tell me turn the boat away so we wouldn't get stranded and get stuck. Luckily we didn't hit anywhere or got stuck anywhere. It was a nice afternoon and I just wanted to lie down in the canoe and stare at the sky. That would be so serene. Of course time passed by quickly and it was time to go. I miss this fieldtrip already! Synergy 9 is such a big family! :) I will miss everyone here, after we separate in grade 10!