Daddy had to leave to go to Beijing today!!! :( 


This morning I didn't go to tennis because my body was way to sore and I could barely move... even now I'm extremely stiff! 


After lunch today, mommy, daddy and I all went down to watch a concert at a place called 'City Hall'. It was a concert with violins, cellos, double bass', trumpets, clarinets, flutes, xylophones, drums, and other instruments I can't name. It was really cool and I enjoyed watching and listening to it.


After the concert, daddy had to go to the airport which was right next door. The airport is inside the mall 'IFC2' so after sending daddy off, we shopped around. I needed to get black shoes for the clarinet and strings concert next week, so in the shoe store 'Geox', I found some  really nice, shiny, black flats. They are really pretty.


After getting the shoes, we ate dinner again at the sushi restaurant 'Sen Ryo'. 

Last night was so much fun! It was Rachel's school fair, and she invited me to go with her. Her school fair was during the nighttime, so right after our ballet class, we got ready and went to her school together for the fair. 


When we got there, Rachel met up with her other school friends. Pretty soon, I started talking with them and then we became friends. At the school fair, we went into a haunted house which was really scary because people were jumping out at you and stroking your faces and everything. We also played laser tag, went on bouncy castles, bought lots of really good candy, and I bought a small pink squishy pillow... it's very comfortable :)


When we got back from the fair, it was already very late so I didn't have time to write in here...


Today, I had a play date with one of my friends at school called Jessica. I went over to her house and we played on the computer, played with our iPod Touches, played outside, and baked some really yummy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.


I had to leave Jessica's at 4:00 because I had another tennis group lesson again at Wong Nai Chung. It was really tiring, and my legs are still really tired and sore from Thursday's training... but I still enjoyed it!


After tennis, Katy called, inviting me over for dinner. So I went over, and after dinner, we watched 'America's Got Talent' on TV. Then we played 'Twister' and played the 'Wii'. While I was at Frances and Katy' place, mommy and daddy were out eating dinner. When they got back I had to go back home. 

Happy Thanksgiving!!! It's also daddy's birthday today! He's turning 39 (not really) :D


I am a M.C. for the Chinese Assembly that is coming up next week, so today at school I had a rehearsal. It was really fun and I can't wait!


When I got back home after school, I quickly went to Wong Nai Chung again for a group tennis lesson. I saw lots of other people from my school as well. It was really tiring today because we ran lots and lots of laps around 6 courts!!


I just got back and am now getting ready to go to a restaurant to have a Thanksgiving feast with daddy and mommy. 

At school today, I did a Peer Helper tour for 2 families. Both families were really big, with lots of children and stuff. This is the second time I've done a tour, and this one was even better than the first! It was also a lot of fun :)


After school, there was another band rehearsal. It was exactly the same as yesterday, practicing the songs over and over again. A clarinet TA called Mr. Fishman called Alex, Johena and me to practice the trio. For our trio, we picked the song 'O Come All Ye Faithful'. I really like this christmas carol, and it sounds really cool! Mr. Fishman said that he might let us pick more than one song to play, but we haven't yet decided. I hope we can though!


Mommy came to pick Sophia and me up after clarinet. We ate pretzels and talked about what songs I could do for the trio.


When I got back home, it was time to go to tennis. I went down together with Rachel. 

After school today, there was a mixed rehearsal for clarinet today. The whole band came and we all played together. There were trombones, trumpets, flutes, french horns, and others that I can't name. I had to leave the rehearsal early because at 4:00 I had a piano lesson. So when the time came for me to leave, I quickly rushed out to the entrance and mommy took me directly to piano. 


Turns out, we got to piano half an hour late, so there was only 30 more minutes left for the lesson. We only got to work on one piece.


After piano, I took Samantha out and played fetch with her again. But I threw the ball over the fence and lost the ball, so we only got to play for about half an hour.


For homework, I mostly did my writing homework. I've been working on a really long fantasy story called 'Once Upon a Golden Wheel' and I just finished it today! 

After school today, Alex, Sydney, Sophia and I once again stayed in our class to do our homework and wait for clarinet class to start. We finished our homework really quickly and then started playing around like we did yesterday. It was really funny.


After clarinet class, Mr. Lovett gave Alex, another girl called Johena, and me a book full of songs for three people. He asked us to pick a song to play in the concert! Unfortunately, the song 'Jingle Bell Rock' has notes we haven't learnt yet, so we can't play that :( We haven't yet chosen what song we want to play yet though......


Sydney's mom couldn't pick her up from clarinet, so Sydney rode with Sophia and I back home. We used Sophia's helper's phone to do prank calls. It was so funny :D


When I got back home, I quickly did my homework and soon it was time for disco. Katy needed  to do something for school and had to miss disco class. So Rachel and I just went to disco alone. We continued to learn our dance to the song 'Poker Face'. I am now starting to get more familiar with the dance so it isn't too hard anymore! I really like the Poker Face dance.

This morning, I once again went to Wong Nai Chung to play tennis. The people who were in the clinic today were really good, so it was very tiring. Right now, every part of my body is aching and sore.

After tennis, mommy and I went to Aberdeen to have lunch. We ate lunch at a Vietnamese noodle shop. When we finished lunch, I got a scoop of cookies and cream ice cream.

We passed by a shoe store with loads of All Star Converse shoes, and I saw two types of Converse that I really liked. One is gray with white and pint hearts on it. The other is pink and white stripes. I got both of them... they are really nice!

When we got back home, I practiced my piano and quickly finished my chinese book report for tomorrow. Then I called Rachel to play and we watched some TV. She just left to go eat dinner.

Last night, after my ballet class, I went over to Grayce's house for a sleep over. We played on the computer, played the Wii, and watched loads of 'I Love Lucy' episodes... I actually like the TV show!


After the sleep over, I had tennis, followed by violin class. 


When violin was over, mommy and I passed by a store with nice jackets, and I bought 2 sweatshirts there; a pink one with a hood and a black and gray one with a hood as well. 


Then we went to the store 'HMV' because we wanted to try to find seasons 1-9 of 'I Love Lucy'. They didn't have in it stock, so we couldn't buy it. Anyways, 1 season of 'I Love Lucy' on Amazon is 50% cheaper than in 'HMV', so I can buy it on Amazon. But I did buy the movie 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'. I used to only have the movies 1-5, but now I have 1-6!


After shopping at 'HMV', we then went to the dance store 'Paul's'. I needed new tap shoes because mine were much too small for me, so I bought new ones. 


Next, we went to the sports store 'Giga Sports' because I also needed new tennis shoes because my old ones were too small for me as well! I got a pair of Nike shoes that are quite nice, but I'm more used to my old ones and the Nike shoes still feel slightly uncomfortable.


And then, we went to the mall 'Times Square' for dinner. We looked in the music shop called 'Parson's Music Store'. I bought a music book with Taylor Swift songs to play on the piano. It's really cool!


Mommy and I ate dinner at the Japanese restaurant 'Sen-Ryo' which has sushi and sashimi. I ate lots of fish (especially salmon!!) and now I'm really full.


When we finished eating dinner, we went back out into the freezing air. Although this may sound slightly crazy, I got a huge McFlurry at Mac-Donald's... which is probably why I'm practically frozen at the moment....... but anyways, it was good :D


Well, now I'm off to watch the Harry Potter movie!!

When I got back from school today, I had a quick snack and quickly went down to Wong Nai Chung with mommy for tennis training again. I played for 2 hours with other people. The people in my group were pretty good; there was even this one 5 year old boy who can play as good as me!!  


After the long tennis training, I went back home for tap. I was extremely exhausted at tap because at tennis we did lots of tiring drills. 


When I got back home from tap, Grayce called me and invited me to have a sleep over with her at her house tomorrow night. I asked mommy, and she said it was okay!! So tomorrow night, after my ballet class, I'm going to go to Grayce's house. I can't wait!!!

At school today, we had field day, which is just 3 hours of recess. It was really fun; I played baseball and tag and tug of war and other things. And right after the 3 hours of recess, we had lunch at school and had normal recess again! Today we barely did any learning, so we had no homework :)


After school, I had violin class. Today at violin, we had a different teacher and she is much nicer than my other teacher. We just played christmas carols the whole time!


When I got back home, I practiced some piano. Then a friend at school called Jessica called me and we organized a play date and sleep over for next week. But it's still not official yet because mommy still has to ask daddy if he wants to do anything special, like travel or something, because next week is his birthday!! I don't know what I should get him though....

After school, Sophia, Sydney, Alex and I all stayed in the classroom to wait for clarinet class and do our homework... well, we didn't actually have homework, so we pretty much just played around and had fun... the teacher was at a meeting so we could do whatever we wanted to do!! It was really fun :)


When it was time for clarinet, Mr. Lovett asked Alex, me and another girl to do a trio for the upcoming Christmas Concert. We haven't picked yet what song we are going to play, but it will definitely be a Christmas carol... I hope it's either 'Let It Snow' or 'Jingle Bell Rock'! Those are my favorites...


After clarinet, mommy picked me up and Sophia came to ride with us as well. 


I got back home and waited for disco to come. Soon it was time, so I went down to pick up Rachel and we went to the dance studio together. It was freezing cold outside and I had forgotten to bring a jacket with me, so now I am sneezing every second and I'm bundled up with... lemme see.... 4 thick sweatshirts!! I'm still cold........


At disco, I learnt a new dance to the song 'Poker Face' by Lady Gaga. It's really fast and it was really, really hard for Rachel and I to keep up. But I still enjoyed it. 

Sorry I couldn't write these past days... I've had really late nights. On Friday night, friends invited us to eat at the FCC (Foreign Correspondent Club) for dinner and we came back home extremely late, and on Saturday night, after playing about 3 hours of tennis at Wong Nai Chung, mommy, daddy and I went to the Chili Club for dinner and came home really late as well. 


Today was the Sedan Chair Race and Bazaar at the Matilda Hospital. Island Dance (the dance company where I take dance class) was invited to perform there. So this morning, I went over to Katy's house and we got ready together, then her mom took us to the hospital which was where we were performing. I only performed my disco dance, "Low". It was really windy up at the Peak which is where the Matilda Hospital is. It was freezing and the costumes were really thin so we were all freezing!! 


After the performance, Katy, her mom, mommy, daddy, and I all shared a taxi to go back home. 


For a science project for school, I had to get a water sample at the reservoir. So mommy, daddy and I walked with Samantha down to the reservoir. We scooped up some water and surprisingly, the water looked so clean!! I could barely tell the difference between purified water and water straight from the ocean!


We were walking back home with Samantha, and we decided to take her off the leash and play fetch with her. As we threw the ball and Samantha ran to catch it, she disappeared into the bushes. We couldn't see her anywhere. It was beginning to pour with rain and we had to hurry home to get dry, so we couldn't stay long to look for her; Samantha had run away loads of times before and we knew that she wouldn't come back just from a simple call of her name.


I was so sad. I kept worrying that she wouldn't come back and she would be stuck out in the pouring cold rain. But when we just got back home, Sophia's mom called us. She had found Samantha!! So daddy and I went back down to the Country Park where Sophia, Rogan and her mom waited for us with a very guilty Samantha. Apparently, Sophia had found Samantha in the barbecue pit and Sophia cornered Samantha and managed to catch her! I have no idea how she did it because Samantha is one fast dog, but I'm so glad that she's back!!! 

I am SO tired right now!! Right after school, I ate a quick snack and mommy once again took me to Wong Nai Chung to try out for a tennis group lesson there. It wasn't too humid outside, so I never thought I would get too tired and sweaty, but I was waaayyy wrong. After only about half an hour, I was so tired and I was extremely hot!! I played for about 2 hours, but I actually really enjoyed it, though it was exhausting!

After the long tennis lesson, I went to tap class. Ms. Claire mentioned a job that she wanted me to do. It is performing at a mall for 2 weekends and I will be paid HK$4,000!! YAYYY :D

For this week's homework, it is all due tomorrow and I left it all for tonight... so I was rushing to finish it before it got too late, and I only just finished... so now I gotta go to bed because tomorrow is Sports Day and I don't want to be tired on Sports Day!!

G'night :D

At school today, I had a math test. We just finished a unit on geography and angles, and I'm not that good at angles, so I don't think I did that well on the test today...

After school, I had violin class. We had a test on one of the songs we will be doing in the concert next month. It was a looong class and really boring, because I only got to play one song once in the whole lesson.

When the violin class was over, Niki, Sophia and I all went to the after-school buses. I had brought my mobile phone with me, so on the bus, we prank called other people; it was loads of fun!!

After the bus ride, I had to practice violin for this Saturday's lesson. I hadn't practiced all week, so mommy wanted me to practice for a long time today.

Soon, it was time to go to the tennis group lesson. It was really windy again, so it was hard to hit the balls. My eyes got all watery and felt stingy from the wind... I really don't enjoy playing tennis in the wintertime!!

I've just started making my Christmas Wish List.... but at the moment I can't find it (whoops!) so I can't list the things I want for Christmas right now.... but I will write it when I do find it. If I find it....

I'm soooo happy!! Daddy came back from about a whole month in America!! So now he's here in Hong Kong again!!!!! YAY :) 
When daddy got back, he bought me a few presents:


~American Girl book called, 'Felicity Story Collection'
~American Girl book called, 'Peril at King's Creek'
~American Girl book called, 'Traitor in Williamsburg' 
~American Girl book called, 'A Smart Girl's Guide to the Internet'
I especially like the book about the Internet!!!


Yesterday's disco was AMAZING!! I loved it so much; it was so much fun!!! We did a dance to the song, 'You Know I'm No Good' by Amy Winehouse and usually at disco, it would be really boring because it was much too easy for me, but now that I am in a higher level, it is much more challenging and fun for me :D


At school, we're doing a project for science about water pollution. Last night, I measured how much water I was wasting while waiting for the water in the the shower to warm up... I got 1,640 mL in just 10 seconds!! So in 10 minutes, it would be 99,000 mL! That's a lot of water I'm wasting, so now I'm taking much, much shorter showers!

When I woke up this morning, I had to do my chinese book report which is due tomorrow. I spent a lot of time doing that. Practically the whole morning!


Mommy and I were planning to go shopping for things this afternoon, but then Grayce's mom called us, reminding us that it was Sydney's birthday party this afternoon... we had completely forgotten about it!! I quickly rushed to get a present and made a quick card. Soon, after practicing a bit of piano, the time to leave for Sydney's birthday came.


Grayce and her family came to take me to school, where Sydney's birthday took place at. 


At the birthday party, we did all sorts of fun activities, races, and games. The whole class was at the party and it was really fun! At the end of the party, we ate pizza for dinner, and we all started to have pizza eating contests... of course, I won (I ate 9 slices of pizza!). But I was really full afterwards... still, I really enjoyed it :D


Sadly, the party had to end, and mommy took Grayce and I back home. 


When I got back home, Samantha hadn't gone out yet, so I took her out and played with a tennis ball with her.

It was really windy this morning, so it was quite difficult to play properly at tennis today. But I still got really tired and sweaty after the lesson. 


When my tennis lesson was over, mommy and I once again went to my violin lesson. 


There is the sandwich shop called 'Subway' that is really close to where I take my violin lessons, so I ate lunch there. I even got 2 free chocolate chip cookies and a free can of soda!!! 


Mommy didn't want to eat a sandwich, so we also went to a noodle shop for mommy to eat her lunch. I just read my book which is called 'Cirque Du Freak' in the Darren Shan series. 


Mommy finished really quickly, and when she was done with her lunch, we walked around and looked inside some malls. There weren't any stores for children and everything there was extremely expensive, so we didn't buy anything.


When I got back home and quickly finished practicing piano,  Niki called and we played together. 


Before, I used to always say to mommy, "I really want this is my room.... I really want that in my room...." so mommy asked me to design my dream room and she will try her best to change my original room to the dream room. So when Niki came over, we got a cardboard box and began designing my dream room. We kept it realistic but I still think it looks really cool :D
So I gave the design to mommy and now she's gonna try to change it... I can't wait! If my room really does change, I'll make sure to take a picture of it and try to post it here!!


After all our hard work in designing my room (trust me, it was really hard), mommy, Niki and I took Samantha out for a short walk. We played fetch with her, but the ball when into the bushes and we couldn't find it anymore, so we just walked. It got really dark sooner than we expected, so we only really got to walk no more than half an hour.


When we got back home, Niki could stay for dinner!! We ordered pizza and we watched 'America's Funniest Home Videos' and 'America's Got Talent' on the TV. 

After school today, there was a mother-daughter tea party for all the 5th grade girls. Grayce, Sydney, Niki, Sophia and lots of other people went. We had cookies and tea and talked.... it was quite fun.


After the tea party, Sydney, Niki and I had to quickly rush to violin class straight after. We were still about 10 minutes late, but the teacher didn't get upset because he knew we were at a party. 


At violin class, the teacher gave us 5 new songs for the upcoming concert. The older songs were quite hard, but these ones are extremely easy for me.... the songs that we got today were just normal Christmas Carols (Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, etc...). 


When violin class was over, Sydney, her mom, mommy and I all went back home together. We organized to have a play date sometime tomorrow afternoon. It's not official yet, but I really hope we can have a play date!! We haven't had one in ages.


When I got back home, it was already time for ballet. I quickly changed and went down to the dance studio with Rachel. 


At ballet, Ms. Claire had GREAT news!! I had told her yesterday about me stopping disco class because it was too easy for me. When I told her this, she immediately called the office and asked to move me up to the highest level!! They said I could, and now I've started disco again! I'm just soooo happy that now I can do harder, more challenging things :D 


Currently in the highest level of disco, they are learning 4 dances at once. I have no idea how to do any of the dances, and since Katy is in this level too, I went over to to her house after dinner so she could teach me how to do the dances. Although there are 4 dances, Katy could only remember 2 and we only had time to finish about 3/4 of each of the 2 dances. The dances that I learnt today were to the songs 'You Know I'm No Good' by Amy Winehouse, and 'Better In Time' by Leona Lewis. They both aren't very fast songs, but they were still really hard for me to learn. During the weekend, Katy will try to find some more time to help me learn the dance, though she does have lots of activities and homework to do... but I really hope I can learn at least 2 dances by this Monday so I won't be so far behind!!




When I got back home, I had to practice violin because tomorrow is my violin lesson. It was really late, and I only just finished, so I should be going to bed now because tomorrow I have tennis early in the morning!! So bye for now :)

I didn't have any activities right after school today, so when I finished my homework, Katy and I went swimming together. Yes, it was freezing cold -- 19 degrees!! We didn't swim much; just ran around and talked... it was much too cold to actually stay in the water for more than 5 minutes!


After about an hour of swimming (well, I don't think swimming really fits...), it was nearly time for my tap class. So I went to take a shower in the clubhouse and rushed off to tap. 


At tap, it was just me and Frances, so we couldn't practice the dance without the other students. We had to just practice our normal exercises. 


I just finished practicing piano and violin and I'm still freezing cold from the pool today! Oh dear, if I'm cold in this weather in Hong Kong, what will it be like for me in Boston during winter!! But no matter how cold it will be in Boston, I am still really looking forward to spending time in Boston during Christmas!!

After school today, I had violin class for the first time in a while... the strings winter concert is soon coming up, so instead of working on boring scales, we practiced our songs for the concert... I can't wait!!


When violin class was over, I rode the after school bus back home. Sophia and Niki also have after school activities today, so we all rode the same bus back home. 


When I got back home, I had quite a bit of homework to do, and tomorrow I have a chinese test, so I spent quite a lot of time preparing for that. So when I finally finished all my homework, it was time for tennis. 


At tennis, it was really fun. Towards the end of the group lesson, everyone played matches against each other, and I won so I didn't have to pick up any balls at the end of the lesson! :)


After dinner, I was supposed to practice piano and clarinet, but I just complained that I'm really tired from a fitness test that I had today and I was really sore, so now I am getting ready to go to bed... 






GO PHILLIES!

When I got back from school today, I had to quickly rush to go to my piano lesson. I ended up being about 10 minutes late because everyone was coming home from school so there was lots of traffic.


Ms. Kwok worked with me on the song Jagdlied for the Music Festival. 


When piano class was over, mommy took me to a bakery close by, and I bought a really yummy bun... :P


These days at school, we aren't getting much homework, so after about half an hour, all my homework was done after piano. 


I wanted to play with Sophia, but after my quick homework, I had to practice my violin, and I just finished.... so it's a bit too late to play now... so I guess I'll just play tomorrow...


Oh yeah, I was originally going to do the Team Fear Adventure Race with Niki, but Niki can't do it and I can't find anyone else to do it with me, so I can't do the race after all :( Oh well, maybe next year!

It was the first day back at school today, and I'm actually quite happy to be back because I was really bored during the holidays and now that I have school, I won't have nothing to do!


After school, Alex, Sydney, Sophia and I all stayed behind to wait for clarinet class. So we did all our homework in our classroom. Soon it was time for our clarinet class.


Once again, our original clarinet teacher, Mr. Lovett, was sick again today, so Mrs. Webster taught us instead... I haven't seen Mr. Lovett in ages!! At clarinet, we played some new Christmas carols for our Christmas concert next month.


When clarinet class was over, mommy took Sophia and me back home. 


After the short taxi ride, I finally decided to stop disco dance class. I have really enjoyed doing disco, but the dances are way too easy for me and I am not old enough to be moved up to the higher level with more challenging dances. So I've stopped disco for now and I'm gonna start doing more tennis and maybe start after school basketball with Sydney.


So instead of going to disco, mommy and I walked down to the Wong Nai Chung tennis courts where kids who are really good at tennis (including Jonathan) play. But we got there too late because it was already the end of the group lesson and they were just playing games; so I couldn't really see how good they were...

When I got back home from the sleep over, I started some of my chinese book report for homework. In the middle of my homework, Sydney called me, asking if I wanted to play basketball with her. So we went down to the basketball courts and we played some shooting games. 


When Sydney had to go back home and I went back home, too, Frances called asking me if I wanted to go swimming with her, because it was really hot and sunny outside. 


So we went down together. After running around for a bit, we got hungry, so we bought popsicles and ate them by the pool. 


I had to go home after a bit because I needed to practice piano and violin. I just finished practicing violin, and now I'm gonna go watch the movie 'School of Rock'. BYE!!! 

Halloween!

Yesterday was the BEST day ever!!


For lunch, Frances and I went to Allison's birthday barbecue party. Katy couldn't go because she had to prepare for her own party. We ate hot dogs and pork chops and Michelle was there too!! We prank called some people; it was funny.


Unfortunately, Frances and I had to leave the party early to go to Katy's party. 


Not long after Frances and I got back home, Katy's friends started arriving. For one of Katy's presents, she got 3 fish!! She was really happy :)


When everyone was there, we went to Happy Valley to get manicures and pedicures in a nail place called 'The Nail Bar'. The colors I chose for my manicure were hot pink and black, and for my pedicures I chose dark purple. After I got my toes painted, I thought they had already dried, so I started walking around carelessly and now my toes don't look very pretty... but at least my fingers still look nice!!


After the manicures and pedicures, we started getting ready for trick or treating. Frances and I put on our mad scientist costumes and started putting on face paint. We made our eye brows slant upwards to mad us look evil and we put dark purplish circles around our eyes. 


Trick or treating was so much fun, but I guess it was a bit too crowded. People kept pushing past me to get candy... but I still really enjoyed it! I got loads of candy, but the candy all ran out within half an hour because there were so many people. But in half an hour we all got plenty of candy that would last for a real looonnnnggg time :D


Sadly, trick or treating had to come to an end, but the sleep over that followed was just as fun! After eating lots of candy and eating pizza for dinner, we put on make up and played and it was so much fun. We wanted to watch 'Wild Child' after, but Katy's mom told us that we had to go to bed :(