After my violin tutor today, Timmy and Darren came over and we joined up together with Sydney. We played for about an hour of doubles all together, then splitting into singles. It was a lot of fun. Then Darren and Sydney had to leave, so Timmy and I just continued playing singles. After about two hours, we got really tired, so I introduced Timmy to Samantha. We played fetch with her and ran around with her... it was fun. 


When Timmy had to go, it was soon already dinnertime. Frances and Katy invited me over for dinner, and mommy and daddy went out for dinner at a friend's house. At Frances and Katy's house, we played on the computer and ate desserts.


I just got back home but mommy and daddy are still out, so I'm just gonna go and watch some TV.... bye!!

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. 

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.

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 :)

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!!! 

Ocean Park (again)

Since there wasn't any school today, this morning, Sydney and I left to go to Ocean Park! Grayce was planning to come with us, but turns out that she was busy, so she couldn't come :(


Sydney and I basically did that same rides at Ocean Park as I did with Sophia the last time I went. We went on the Mine Train, the Dragon (roller coaster), the Space Wheel, Bungee Trampoline and the Crazy Galleon. It was really fun with Sydney. We wanted to ride the most scary ride in Ocean Park called the Abyss, but it happened to be closed just today!! So we couldn't ride it :( I hope the next time I go it will be open again! It looks really fun :)


We had to come home kinda early because Sydney had Korean tutor. When I got home, Sophia called me, asking if I could play with her. She came over to my house, and I showed her some games and websites I found on the computer. Then she had to go home because she had chinese tutor. 


When Sophia left, mommy wanted me to go swimming before it got too cold, since the winter is soon here. It really was cold in the outdoor pool, so I went indoors to swim. After swimming 40 laps or so, I took a shower in the clubhouse and played a little while on the computers in the clubhouse.


Sophia and I had planned to play basketball after my tap lesson, so I was really looking forward to that. But unfortunately, she was busy with something else, so I stayed home and practiced piano instead.


Now I have to go practice violin... tomorrow Sydney might be free to play!! I hope so :)


I CAN'T WAIT FOR CAMP :D

I'm really soooo excited for camp!! I even started packing already! I only need to pack just a few more things...


When I got home from after-school violin class, I had no homework at all!! So I just played on the computer, listening to music... then I had to practice my piano for my piano lesson next, next Tuesday. I thought I was going to have a tennis group lesson tonight, but unfortunately, because of all the rain that made the courts wet and slippery, tennis was cancelled :(


So I just spent the night practicing my instruments and playing more on the computer. Tomorrow Sydney and I will be going to Ocean Park since there is no school on Thursday and Friday because there will be conferences on those days. Yay, so 2 extra days of vacation!!

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!!

Chinese Homework

At school today, since I am a peer helper at school, I had to give a tour of my school to parents!! It was my first tour, and it was really fun. Hopefully their children will come to my school! I hope I did a good job :P


After school, I had clarinet class, and today at clarinet we learnt many more songs. Mr. Lovett, my band teacher, told us that there will be auditions to do duets, trios, and maybe solos for the upcoming concert this December. Alexandra, Sydney and I want to audition to do a trio, and I might audition for a solo as well!!


After clarinet, it was really hard to get a taxi; we spent about 20 minutes walking around, trying to find a taxi that wasn't yet taken.


When I finally got back home, I had to rush to disco class and I ended up being a bit late. At disco, we practiced our dance that I will be performing for the Charity Bazaar. We are doing a dance to the song called 'Low' by Flo Rida.


After disco, I spent the rest of my whole night (about 3 hours), finishing my chinese homework which is due tomorrow. I had gotten it about 1 1/2 weeks ago, but I didn't exactly do any of it last week, so I ended up squeezing all of it into one night... next time I'll do one page every day. In the chinese homework I had to do today, I had to do 2 long articles, along with other stuff.

When I came home from Sophia's house after the sleep over party, I had to do my homework, but I finished that quite quickly because I only had very little. Since I still had some time, I had to practice my clarinet, violin and piano. I only got to finish my clarinet practicing and I started just a bit of violin. I didn't get to finish all of them because I was going to play baseball with Sophia, Sydney, Sophia's younger brother, Rogan, and Sydney's younger brother, Jacob. 


Baseball was really fun! Although the baseball hit my pinky and my cheekbone (no worries, it doesn't hurt anymore, thankfully), I really enjoyed playing. Next term, I really want to join the Little League girls' baseball team in the school. Sophia is in it and she says it's really fun.


After 2 1/2 hours of baseball, we went home for dinner. Sophia and I were hoping we could have dinner together, but we weren't allowed :(


School starts again tomorrow!! 

Sophia's Sleep over

Yesterday was such a fun day!! I woke up quite early in the morning because I had to go to a Peer Helper training lesson. I met all the other Peer Helpers in my school and they are all really nice! We played games and snacks and we talked about the tours we will be giving to new parents and students. I really enjoyed it!

After the training, I started preparing for Sophia's birthday party. Originally, Sophia was going to do a camping trip, but since the weather isn't that great these days, the camping trip was cancelled. So instead, Sophia had a sleep over birthday party. Hopefully we can still do another camping trip some other time when the weather is nice!!

I started making a card for Sophia. I printed out photos that Sophia and I took on the computer and put them in the card as well. Luckily there is a shop right underneath all the apartments, so since I was in a bit of a rush, I went there. I bought Sophia a little journal and now she seems to really like it! But I had to buy the present with my own pocket money... I'm trying my best to save up for the LG Xenon phone I am trying to buy with my pocket money. Right now I have HK$2,445!!

After practicing some piano, I went to swim some laps. It was nearly Sophia's birthday party, so I couldn't swim for very long.

I didn't take a shower after swimming because after dinner Sophia, Niki, Sydney, Amanda and I would swim again.

We had a barbecue dinner by the pool side, then the 5 of us went swimming.

We took showers in the clubhouse, so when we got home, we went to see the tents that we would be sleeping in. It looked amazing!! I got to sleep in the same tent as Sophia :)

We stayed up really, really late and had a midnight feast as well! It was one of my most favorite sleep overs I've ever had!

So the sleep over is the reason why I didn't get to write in my blog yesterday; so sorry. Tonight I will write again about what I did today.

Gotta go practice my instruments now!! Bye for now :D

Disco Time!

Yay! I finally had my first disco dance lesson today! I have been waiting to start taking dance lessons for ages, and the day I have been waiting for has finally come! I can't wait to take even more lessons. Today at disco, we didn't have Ms. Claire teach us, sadly. Instead, we had somebody else called Ms. Tiffany. She is really nice as well! I hope Ms. Claire will teach sometime though... she was the best dance teacher I've ever had! Ms. Tiffany choreographed a dance for the Charity Bazaar that will happen sometime in October... we only have about a month left to prepare a dance for the bazaar!! Our new dance for the Charity Bazaar is called 'The Boy Does Nothing' by Alesha Dixon, a popular U.K. singer.

Before disco, I had another clarinet group lesson. We learnt new notes on the clarinet, so now the songs we are playing are starting to get more interesting and good since we aren't just playing songs with 3 or 4 notes.

At school today, 4 people in my class was sick!! Sydney, Seon Ha, Grant and Isabelle. And during the middle of the school day, another girl in my class called Melody had to go home because she had a fever, too! I hope everyone gets better soon :D

And a couple hours ago, someone called mommy telling her that school would be cancelled for a week because of H1N1 (swine flu)!!

I was half-expecting that already -- over about 100 people in Primary School got H1N1!

So now I'm making sure I wash my hands very often... making sure to be very hygienic. Hopefully school will start again in one week. Even just a week without school can be quite boring...

A Busy Day

It was a really busy day for me today. After school, I had a clarinet lesson with Sydney, Alex, Sophia and other people. Right after clarinet, Sydney and I had to rush to violin lesson, since we both play the violin as well. And once violin class ended, it was already nearly 5:00 PM. Sydney's mom picked me and Sydney up, and Sophia came home with us as well!

When we all got home, we went swimming together. The pool is always very warm these days, which is great because sometimes when I go swimming, the pool is freezing cold and it's very hard for me to get used to it, so I end up doing very little swimming. But I had lots of fun with Sydney and Sophia today.

But, even though it's a Friday night, nobody was free to have dinner with me, so I just had sushi for dinner with mommy.

At school today, I found out a few interesting facts about the teachers in 5th grade. My teacher once has a 6-inch sliver through his leg!! Also, another teacher was once chased by the police when he was a teenager! There were many other facts as well about the 5th grade teachers.

I found out that on September 12th, I have to go to school for a Peer Helper training lesson. All the other Peer Helpers will have to go to school on the 12th as well!! I'm really excited :)

Clarinet Practice

Today was the first clarinet practice. My friends Sophia, Alexandra and Sydney were all in my class as well! We learnt 3 songs, but to me, they are quite easy!! :P

Clarinet is much easier than I thought it would be, except that sometimes my mouth gets a bit tired and then it gets hard to blow to make noise. To me, piano is the easiest to make noise, because all you have to do is press a key! Violin is a bit harder because you have to pull and push the bow back and forth to make a sound. So clarinet is the hardest to make a sound, because you have to blow really hard into the clarinet to make a sound. But overall, clarinet isn't too difficult.

I really wanted to take my new iPod Touch to school today because I wanted to show it to my friends at school. But unfortunately, I couldn't take it because it could get lost or it could break. Now that I have one of the most coolest electronic in the world, I'm crazy about it! During every meal, I always take it with me and play with it while I eat, and always while I'm doing something, I try my best to play with my iPod at the same time!! It's just so cool, I can barely stay away from it!

Well, luckily my jet lag is gone now! But now that it's gone, waking up early is gone as well!! So now, instead of waking up at 4:00 A.M. before school starts and having loads of time to prepare, I wake up at 7:00 A.M. and I only have 10 minutes to prepare for everything! But at least I don't start getting tired at around 5:00 P.M., because I really don't like feeling tired at such early times!!

So tonight, I'm gonna go to bed really early so that I won't get up at 7:00 A.M.!! Hopefully I'll get up earlier! I miss those early mornings!!!