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.

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!!! 

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.

Aberdeen Marina Club

Mommy, daddy and I were invited to have lunch with Sophia and her family with other friends. We ate lunch at a club called the Aberdeen Marina Club (AMC). There are really cool and fun things in the AMC.  There are 2 pools with huge water slides, restaurants, playgrounds, boats, and lots of other stuff.

After lunch, Sophia and I went to a fun play in the AMC called the Adventure Zone. There are cool, steep, big slides, climbing ropes, dark tunnels, etc... it was really fun!! 

When we got back home, in the middle of some of my chinese homework, Sophia called me, asking me if I wanted to go to the swimming pool with her. Sophia's dad and her brother was there as well. Her dad played Chicken Fight with us and played other games as well. Soon it was really late, so we had to go back home.

I've just finished doing my chinese homework, which is due tomorrow. I still have to do 2 articles and other stuff for chinese which is due on Tuesday. But I'm really tired now, so I guess I'll just have to squeeze all that in tomorrow!

Hey... if I go to bed really early tonight, think about how much earlier I'll get up tomorrow morning without the alarm clock!! Yessss! Then I won't have to rush for the school bus tomorrow if I do get up earlier that usual tomorrow :)

First day of school

Well, today was just like the first day of school all over again. Summer ended, school started, an extra week of summer started again, and then school starts again.

I brought my iPod Touch to school today so during the bus ride it was really fun -- everyone wanted to play with my iPod and we played games and listened to music.

After school, I came back home happily, since I had no homework at all that I had to worry about. But when I got home I still had to practice my piano. Today was one of the only days that I wasn't busy since I don't have activities on Tuesdays, so I had to practice for a long time since usually during the school week I don't have much time to practice.

Finally, after finishing my piano practicing, I hooked up Monica's Macintosh laptop into my little clubhouse. My clubhouse is right underneath my horseshoe-shaped desk. I have blankets and stuffed toys and cushions inside my clubhouse so it is very cosy. I even have a lamp in my clubhouse!! So now I'm just playing with my sister's laptop, in my little, cramped clubhouse...

After browsing on Amazon (Granddaddy gave me US$50 on Amazon), I went night-swimming, just by myself this time. Pretty much every night now I go 30 laps. My goal is to try to swim 1,500 laps. When I finish swimming 1,500 laps, mommy says she will buy me an LG Xenon phone!! So far, I have swam 150 laps... 1,350 laps to go!

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!

Violin Tutor

My old violin tutor Elodie was really great, but unfortunately, she had to move to Spain, so I couldn't take any more lessons with her :( . But mommy found another violin tutor for me, and I just had a lesson with him today. He's really nice! He wasn't strict at all, which I am very glad about.

After my violin class, mommy and I tried to catch a taxi into Wanchai (small town with little shops). But, there were literally no taxis at all to hail!! Lots and lots of taxis passed by, but all of them were occupied. We walked for about 45 minutes, still searching for taxis. In the end, we still didn't find a taxi. We just rode a tram to Wanchai instead.

It was really hot, so I was very glad to enter the bookstore, Cosmos, because Cosmos is very freezing cold inside! :D . But, I couldn't read any books in Cosmos because all the books were wrapped in plastic! That's the bad thing about bookstores in Hong Kong. Very little books are unwrapped so you can read them. I prefer the bookstores in America, because pretty much all the books aren't wrapped at all!

After Cosmos, I planned to go swimming, but I was just too tired. So I just stayed at home and watched a movie and finished some of my Chinese homework... I still have some homework that I need to finish tomorrow >:-(