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. 

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.

3 busy days

Ahhhhh! I'm so sorry I didn't write in here for the past three days!!!! I was really busy; Saturday night I had a sleep over with Rachel, Sunday night I had another sleep over with Frances and Katy, and last night I went out for dinner and came home at 1:00 A.M., so I was too tired to write. But I'll write about Saturday, Sunday and Monday right now.


Saturday


     On Friday night, I wanted to invite Rachel over for dinner, but it was really last minute, so mommy hadn't prepared anything for dinner. Instead, she said Rachel could come over on Saturday night for dinner and a sleep over. 
     Before the sleep over with Rachel, I had a violin lesson. I only managed to memorize 2 pages of the concerto, so now I have to memorize 3 more pages.
     After violin class, mommy took me to eat noodles again at the same restaurant as last week. Since this noodle restaurant is really close to the shop 'H&M', mommy said I could go there to buy some clothes for the wintertime. At H&M, I bought:
~A pink sweatshirt with black zebra stripes on it
~A pair of skinny jeans that are very stretchy so they are comfortable
I didn't buy much, so I'll need to go back again because almost all my winter clothes are too small for me and winter is coming soon!!




Sunday


     It was the first time in a while for me to play with Frances and Katy, since we are all really busy with homework. But after lunch today, they were free to play!
     Although it wasn't very sunny outside (it was cold and windy in fact), Katy wanted to go swimming, so we all went down to the pool to swim. As I guessed, the water was SO COLD! But we swam for a long time and soon I was used to the temperature. 
     After swimming, I had to go back home to take a shower and take Samantha out for a short walk. When I told Frances and Katy about having to walk Samantha, they said they wanted to come with me, so after our showers, we went to the park to walk Samantha. 
     When we came back from the walk, Frances and Katy had some very good news for me... we could have a sleep over!!! So I immediately started packing and went over to their house. 
     We made smoothies out of juice, yoghurt, marshmallows, raisin and bananas. When we mixed them all together in the blender, Frances and Katy really didn't like it, but I liked it a lot, so I drank it all up :D
     


Monday  


     This morning, Frances, Katy and I wanted to walk to Stanley with Samantha. Mommy said it was OK. But when we got to my house, mommy said Samantha can't come with us, because she was sick. A couple nights ago, we ordered new dog food, and the bag was open so Samantha ate almost all of it... and it is a pretty big bag!! So now she is vomiting and pooping uncontrollably so we couldn't take her on our walk.
     When we got to Stanley market, it was really busy since it was a public holiday, so we had to wait in a very long line to have lunch. We ate at a restaurant called 'Wildfire' since the line was the shortest.
     After eating some pizza and pasta, we had to go back home because mommy booked a tennis court for me to play with a boy called Jonathan. 
     When we got back home, there was still a few hours left until tennis, so Frances, Katy and I went to the pool to swim. We played hide-and=seek tag. It was really fun but I had to go home to get ready for tennis.
     Jonathan is really, really, really good at tennis, so there weren't a lot of rallies between us at tennis because his shots were so hard for me to return. But after a while of playing I started improving a bit.
     After tennis, Jonathan's mom invited mommy and I over to their house for dinner. Jonathan just got a hamster, so before dinner I played a lot with the hamster called Happy. After dinner, we watched a movie called 'Monster House'. It was pretty good. 
     When the movie was over, it was really late so Jonathan had to go to bed since he has school tomorrow. But it is now my mid-term break, so I could stay up later. 
     But time and time passed, and mommy was still talking with Jonathan's mom. I was so tired that I fell asleep sitting upright! When midnight came, finally I could go back home and sleep in my comfortable, warm bed :)



    

Half Day

Yay! It was a half day at school today because it is now the beginning of mid-term break!! 


When I finished lunch after I got back from school, I called Niki and Rachel and together we went down to the basketball courts to play basketball. On the way there, we met 2 other boys called Matt and Julian who are really good at basketball. We all played a game together. While we were playing, another boy who is in my class called Rohan came to play together with us as well. And then, another boy who I've never met before started playing with us, too! So all 7 of us played a really fun game... those boys were REALLY good!!!


When Rachel, Niki and I got back from basketball, it was time for Rachel and me to go to ballet class. So Niki went home while Rachel and me went. 


After ballet, Rachel and I planned to have a sleep over tomorrow night... we asked our parents and they all said yes!! So after lunch tomorrow, Rachel will come over to play and then we will have a sleep over together :) Can't wait!  

Charity Bazaar

It was the Charity Bazaar today!! I woke up really early this morning to start getting ready. Later, Rachel came over and mommy helped us do our hair. When she was done, we went over to Rachel's house where her mom helped put on make-up for us. We were supposed to be at the dance studio to rehearse our dances by 10:00, but when I left home, I had forgotten my dance shoes. When I went back up to get them, as I was about to go into the studio, I realized I had forgotten my hat for part of my disco costume!! Although Ms. Claire told us to be there at 10:00 sharp, I ended up being about 10 minutes late. I kept worrying that I would miss the rehearsal for my dance, but turns out that I was pretty early... we hadn't started dancing until around 10:20!


Finally, the time to perform came. It was so hot inside my costume because since I have to change into three costumes, I was wearing many, many layers of my costumes to help make it easier for me to change faster. So after the first few seconds of my first dance, I was immediately exhausted. I was very happy when I got to change back into normal, comfortable clothes, with just one layer.


After performing, Rachel and I got hamburgers. The hamburgers at the Charity Bazaar are soooo good!! I love them :) 
And of course, after eating my delicious hamburger, I had to have something sweet. So I got cotton candy... and the cotton candy is even better than the hamburgers!! They make it humongous and very, very sugary. I loved it as well...


When we finished eating, we walked around, looking at the stalls. Rachel bought a few things, but nothing there interested me, so I didn't buy anything. Well, I did buy a really small popsicle keychain...


Rachel and I soon got very bored of the Charity Bazaar, so Rachel came over to my house and we watched the movie 'Mean Girls'. We didn't get to finish the movie because Rachel soon had to go back home :(


When Rachel left, mommy took me to Pacific Place to watch the new movie, 'Garfield'. It was really good and funny. I enjoyed watching it in 3D, though the movie was only about 1 hour.


After the short movie, I had to go get some t-shirts in Wanchai for camp tomorrow (YAY!) because all my clothes that I currently have are too precious to wear to camp and get dirty :D
I bought 4 really cheap shirts... they're actually really cool.


When we finished getting the shirts, we went to eat at a Thai restaurant called 'The Chili Club'. I wasn't very hungry, so I didn't eat much... but now I'm starting to get more hungry............


YYAAAYYYYY!!!!!! CAMP IS TOMORROW!! I'm not sure if I'll be able to sleep tonight because I definitely can't stand or sit still for just one second at the moment... I'm sooooo excited!! Can't wait to write all about it later! But unfortunately there won't be any computers at camp, so I won't be able to write any posts on Monday or Tuesday, but I will be back on Wednesday to write aaaalllll about fun, exciting, wonderful camp *^_^*!  

I just came back from playing with Rachel at her house. We just finished eating dinner together. Earlier, we watched the movie 'Wild Child' starring Emma Roberts. Rachel doesn't have the DVD, so we just searched the movie on the internet and watched it there... it was kinda blurry bit it was still really fun to watch!!


Before going to Rachel's house for dinner, I had a tennis lesson in the morning. It was still really hot today, but it's getting cooler, which is good for tennis. But after tennis, I still had that big amount of sweat forming on the back of my neck... my tennis lesson was then followed by another violin lesson. 


When I came back from violin, I played with Niki. We walked around in the garden, then played with my basketball. We wanted to go to the basketball courts to shoot hoops, but other people were playing in the basketball courts and we didn't wanted to play with them because we aren't exactly very good at basketball, so we didn't really want to embarrass ourselves in front of other...
When we went back to Niki's house, Annabelle called. The three of us played together at Annabelle's house. We played a game called 'Sims 2' where we create characters and play around with them. It was fun playing with Niki and Annabelle, but I had to leave to go to Rachel's house.


My horrible sore throat has gone, but unfortunately, instead of my sore throat, I am now coughing all the time, and my nose is all stuffy. It feel like there is a big ball of dust at the bottom of my throat -- it doesn't hurt, I'm just constantly coughing, trying to get that 'dust' out. And I keep sneezing too........
Well hopefully I'll be much better by tomorrow because tomorrow I'm going to a paint-ball party!!

Last night, Rachel came over for a sleep over. We went to ballet together and went out to dinner together. Daddy just came back home from Beijing last night, so mommy, daddy, Rachel and I went out to the chinese restaurant Min Yueng together. Everything was going very well until I ate something... with peanuts in them. I'm allergic to peanuts. At first I didn't feel bad at all, but soon my stomach starting aching sooo badly. We quickly went home and I just lay in bed for a few minutes. When my stomach was just a bit better, Rachel and I watched the movie, 'Another Cinderella Story'. Soon, my stomach wasn't even hurting at all!! Usually when I eat peanuts, my tongue and lips swell up and my stomach starts to hurt really badly for 2 hours. And then I vomit. But last night I slept through the whole night without feeling the least bit sick!! That's very fortunate, because if I did have my usual peanut allergy reaction, Rachel would have had to go home and the sleep over would have been cancelled.

This morning, we both had tennis. First it was Rachel's lesson. I watched her, and when it was my lesson, she watched me. She just left to go back home :(

Tonight, mommy, daddy, Frances, Katy, Rachel, two brothers, Cheng Wok and Christopher, other old friends and I will all be eating at the pool side for another barbecue because today is Mid Autumn Festival. I'm gonna go buy some glow sticks to play with for tonight... can't wait!! :D

Birthday Party

It was Michelle's birthday party today, and Rachel was there too. We went to the Aberdeen Marina Club (again, for me), and we ate a buffet at a restaurant called The Deck. The Deck had really great food, especially the chocolate fountain!! After a long, yummy lunch, we went to go swimming.


The swimming pool in AMC is really fun; there are 2 water slides and everyone kept going on both of them over and over again. It was really fun swimming there. After about 5 hours of awesome swimming, we took showers in the changing rooms, and headed to the Foam Factory.


The Foam Factory has loads and loads of foam balls, and you can loads these guns with the foam balls and shoot other people. Although we are all quite a bit old for the Foam Factory now, it was still quite enjoyable.

After school, I had violin class. Mr. Y wanted tested up on a song one by one at a really fast speed, but I did it without any mistakes! 


After violin class, I went to a tennis group lesson with Rachel. Rachel and I planned to have a sleep over on October 2nd... hopefully we can!! 


When tennis was over, Rachel came over to my house to help me a bit to prepare for my piano exam. She told me strategies about how to memorize things, and we practiced like it was really the exam. I really hope I do well on the day of my exam!


When Rachel went back home for dinner, Sophia sent me her speech that she will be saying to her class for Student Council tomorrow. I'm now reading through it and giving Sophia some advice about what she should add into her speech and stuff. I'm thinking about running for Student Council next year...

The Sunniest Day Yet

I don't remember Hong Kong getting this sunny before. Yesterday, I practically died out in the sun playing tennis!! It was so extremely hot! It felt so good to enter my air-conditioned room and take a freezing cold shower. After all that air con and cold showers, I became cold and I wanted to be hot again...


After my violin lesson, I had french fries from Mac-Donald's. 


When I got back home, I called Rachel to see if she could play. We went swimming together and we made posters to advertise about the Charity Bazaar. Hopefully more people will come this year!! 


After taking showers in the clubhouse, I had to go back home to practice my clarinet and piano. In the middle of clarinet, Rachel called to invite me to dinner, asking me to go to her house. So I didn't get a chance to start piano.


Rachel's two friends, Michelle and Kenny, came for dinner as well. We played on the computer, and Kenny brought his iPod Touch with him, so we played with that as well. Kenny really likes dogs, so Michelle, Kenny, Rachel and I went up to my house and looked at Samantha. We dressed her up with hair bands, necklaces, bracelets, sunglasses, and other stuff like that :)


Soon it got really late, so everyone had to go back home. 

Today I had my second violin lesson with my new violin tutor. Mommy had bought new violin books for my tutor and I to work on. So he taught me new songs to learn.

I had planned to eat at McDonald's for lunch after violin, but I wasn't very hungry after violin class, so we just took a taxi back home.

When I finished a small lunch at home, I called Rachel to see if she was free to play. I went down to her house and we played on her new Macintosh laptop.

After playing a bit with Rachel, I went swimming with Frances and Katy since today was really sunny and beautiful (about 92 degrees). First we started out to just talk, and then we played a game of tag and other games as well. When we were in the middle of a game, Frances spotted something on the floor of the pool. We all went to investigate in it, and decided that it was definitely doo-doo! We ran to tell the lifeguard, and as soon as the lifeguard starting using a long net to scoop the poo out, everyone in the pool immediately got out and left. But we stayed (not inside the pool of course) to watch the lifeguard, giggling and laughing. Then I soon had to go home to take a shower because it was nearly dinner time.

After a warm shower, Frances and Katy called, inviting me over to their house for dinner. I was allowed to go since mommy and daddy were going out for dinner. Frances and Katy's parents were going out as well.

We played lots of things; it was almost like a sleep over!! So sad we couldn't actually have a sleep over :( . But luckily I will be having a sleep over with Frances and Katy on September 18th, because it will be a sleep over birthday party for Frances!! Also, Katy and Frances have loads of clothes that are much too small for them, but since they are taller than I am, their small clothes could fit me! So Katy and Frances let me have all of their clothes that they couldn't wear anymore. They had lots of clothes that were too small for them and they are really nice clothes!! I'm so happy to have them :D Thanks so much, Frances and Katy!

When mommy and daddy got back home from dinner, they called me and unfortunately I had to go home since it was already really late :(

But I'm probably going to be playing with Frances and Katy again tomorrow... hopefully!

It was really sunny today, so in the morning, I went swimming with Frances and Katy. When I went to the pool, Michelle and Rachel were there as well, so the 5 of us played together for a long time until we had to go home for lunch. It was really fun!!

After lunch, I had to continue finishing my Chinese homework... and now I still haven't finished it, but luckily I still have one more day to finish it until the due date.

When I finished most of my homework, I practiced my piano for quite a while, since I had to prepare for my piano exam that will be coming up in October.

After a long hour of piano, I practiced my clarinet for a bit, but my cheeks soon got tired from blowing for a long time.

And then, just when I thought I could call a friend to play with, I remembered I had to practice my violin. But there wasn't much for me to play, so I soon finished practicing violin.

Finally, I could call a friend to play. I called Rachel, and she came over to my house to play. Then Frances and Katy came over as well, and the 4 of us played together.... mostly on the computer of course!! :P . But Rachel couldn't stay for long, so after about 45 minutes or so, she had to leave. But Frances and Katy stayed, and on YouTube, we watched a movie that we really wanted to watch called The Wizards of Waverly Place movie... we still haven't gotten to finish it yet, because Frances and Katy had to leave as well for dinner, but we're nearly finished watching it, and it's really good and exciting! I'm probably not going to finish it tonight because it's already really late right now -- maybe tomorrow...

Well, gotta go get ready for tomorrow's school!

Peer Helpers vs. Student Council

I've thought about doing Student Council, and mommy and Monica think I would do well being the school President in Student Council instead of Peer Helpers. I think being the school President would be really cool as well. But I also really want to be a Peer Helper because Peer Helpers get to do tours for new students and parents.

At school today, we got to vote for our Peer Helpers, but we won't know who the Peer Helpers will be until tomorrow. After the vote, lots of people told me that they voted for me. Around 9 people voted for me! But I also really want to run for School President. But there is a higher chance that I will become a Peer Helper and there isn't that big of a chance to become School President because a lot of other students will be running for President as well. But now I'm starting to think that being President will be more fun than being a Peer Helper because the School President gets to organize lots of activities going on in the school. But again, the chance is higher that I will be a Peer Helper. So which one should I choose?!?!?!? AHHHHH, I can't decide!!!!! I NEED HELP!!!

Anyways, after school and homework, at 6:00 PM I went to play tennis with Todd. Today I had a group lesson with Rachel and Nitya and other people, instead of having a private lesson. It was really fun but really hot! So after tennis, I went night-swimming with Sophia and a couple of her friends, Seanna and Catherine. That was really fun! But I had to go home quite early for dinner :(

URgh!! I still can't decide whether to be a Peer Helper or School President. I need to decide by tomorrow morning!! If I turn out to get the most votes for Peer Helper, I can still say, 'No, I want to run for Student Council instead," but I really don't know whether I could even win School President!!! Oh, this is a hard decision!!! :(((((