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, 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.

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. 

Camp Cabins

At school today, we found out who will be in our cabins for camp that is next week!! I was really excited to know who would be in my cabins; When we did camp cards (writing down the names of people you want in your cabins) Grayce, Sydney, Alex and I all put down each other's names, so we were all thinking that we would all be put in the same cabin... but we were wrong :(((( Grayce and Sydney were in a separate cabin from me, but luckily I am still in the same cabin with Alex!! The other people in my cabin isn't in my class, so I don't know those girls that well, but they are all really nice. It's really too bad that I'm not in the same cabin as Sydney, because Sydney is always so jumpy and hyper and fun to be around. But this is an opportunity to get to know other people so I'm still gonna try to have fun at camp... I CAN'T WAIT :D

After school, Alex, Sydney and I stayed in our classroom to do our homework while waiting for clarinet class. 

When I got back home from clarinet, I went to disco. Yes, I am still I bit sick (coughing and asthma), so I got real tired really easily at disco. I do hope that I'll be better by the Charity Bazaar!!

Team Fear Training

It was soooo much fun after school today!! Today it was the Team Fear training. We didn't do much besides running and swimming, but it was really fun. We ran from the school all the way to the beach, then we jumped into the ocean and had to swim about 5 laps all around the sea. It was really tiring but we got to play around at the beach for a bit afterwards.


But when we got back from the training, it was really horrible when we had to change. I was covered with sand and salt water, and I was soaking wet. And I only had 10 minutes to change in order to catch the after school bus! I was really uncomfortable the whole bus ride, but I took a nice, clean shower when I got back home.


Yesterday, mommy had bought me bike gloves, a helmet, and a camel-bak. I had to bring all that stuff to school today, along with my swimming stuff because at P.E. we had swimming again. I also needed to bring a change of clothes including sneakers because we had to swim in the ocean with our sneakers and helmets on!! Yep, it was pretty hard to swim with all those heavy things dragging me down.


I originally planned to be in a team of 3 with Alexandra and Grayce. But unfortunately, since Alex and Grayce are 11 years old and I am only 10, they can't do the under 11 age group; they must do the under 12 age group, and the under 12 group only allows teams of 2. So Alex and Grayce will be doing the under 12 race together, but I have to look for another person to team up with... so, I asked Niki if she could do the race with me... and luckily her mom allowed her to do the race!! So now I have a new team... too bad I couldn't do the race with Alex and Grayce... they have to be 11 huh?!

It was another really rainy day today. But I still had swimming for P.E. at school today, so the water was really freezing!!


At school for Social Studies, we got assigned to be different people for Cultural Encounters. I'm a black smith and I have US$150. Next Thursday, we have to dress up as whoever we are to school.


After school, I had clarinet class and we learnt many new songs... nearly finished with the whole book!!


When clarinet was over, I had disco class. We continued the dances we are learning for the charity bazaar.


At school, there is a program going on called Team Fear. Grayce, Alex and I are going to be doing this. It's a race where we have to do mountain biking, rock climbing, off road running, swimming in the sea, etc... This race is on November 29th and this Wednesday there will be a tryout to see if you are fit enough to make the actual race. 

First Day of School

Before school started...

I'm so nervous!! Did I do my homework correctly? Was I supposed to color and decorate my homework? What if my teacher doesn't think my homework is neat enough? I don't want to get into trouble on the first day of school!! Is my teacher nice? Will I enjoy my 5th grade year? Who will be in my new class?? Is there anybody I know who is in my class??? Oh, I'm sooooo nervous!! I don't wanna go to school now!!!!

After school...

The first day school today was awesome!!!!!! My 5th grade teacher is soooo, extremely nice! And one of my best friends Alex (Alexandra) is in my class!! So are my friends Seon Ha, Sydney and Isabelle. There are also a lot of new kids in our class and I made friends with all of them.

I was worrying last night about my homework because I had colored and decorated it but I wasn't sure if my teacher would approve of it. But turns out, when I got to school, almost everybody decorated their homework!!

At school today, we worked on a Time Capsule. We filled out a form asking us questions like, What is your favorite color? What is your favorite food? Etc... And then we decorated envelopes and put the forms in the envelopes. Tomorrow we are going to hide the envelopes and leave it there until the last day of school so we can see what we wrote in a year's time!!

My teacher also started a new read aloud book called, The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark. It's really good so far. It's about a few boys who are teenagers, and they get jobs at Disneyland in California. But they don't have normal jobs... they are virtual tour guides! And their virtual self's find themselves at Disneyland after dark.

I can't wait for tomorrow for another day of school and I'm really looking forward to sharing my 5th grade class for a whole year!!!!