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!!!

Orientation

Today I had orientation, which isn't exactly school. In orientation, we meet our homeroom teacher and other teachers as well. My new 5th grade teacher is really nice! My classroom is very big; much bigger than my 3rd and 4th grade classrooms. In my classroom, there are rows and rows of computers. In 3rd and 4th grade, we have to share a whole computer lab with the other grades. But now, we get our own Dell computers! Too bad it isn't an Apple computer :) . There is also a thing called a SmartBoard in my new classroom. The SmartBoard is there instead of a whiteboard. A SmartBoard is kind of like a electronic whiteboard. It's very cool!

After meeting my homeroom teacher, I went to see my chinese teacher. My new chinese teacher is very nice as well! He's also quite funny.

When orientation was over, mommy, daddy and I went to the small marketplace called Stanley Market. At Stanley Market, there is almost everything there, so since I needed a new backpack for school, we went to Stanley Market to get one for me. My new backpack is dark purple and black. I needed a new backpack because all the backpacks I've had before were extremely small so I would always have to fold my homework and then it would be all crumpled up. My new backpack is very deep and wide, and it has cushioning everywhere. I tried fitting a piece of my homework inside the backpack, and I didn't need to crumple it at all!

While eating lunch in Stanley Market in a restaurant called Bay Side, I met my friend Sophia and her younger brother, Rogan. They were shopping for new shoes. Sophia and I were planning to go swimming since it was so hot, but once we got back home, it started raining and it was a thunderstorm warning!! That's too bad because if I had gone swimming, I wouldn't be so tired right now... and it's only 5:30 P.M.!! If I sleep now, I'll wake up at around 2:00 A.M. and my jet lag would just get worse! Ugh, I don't like jet lag :(

I'm at Hong Kong!!!

Yay!! I just arrived at Hong Kong and now I'm back at home... Home Sweet Home :)

I slept for about 12 hours on the 16 hour flight, so now I'm not so tired anymore... oh no! I guess that means I will have to deal with jet lag again :(

I only had a small salmon on the plane, since I wasn't very hungry, and I was more in the mood to have breakfast instead.... so I just had a big bowl of instant noodles.

When I first walked out of the cool, air-conditioned airport, I wasn't at all used to the hot, humid weather that Hong Kong has and I was more used to the cool weather in Boston. So when I got out of the airport, I got a woosh of the hot, humid Hong Kong. I tore off my sweatshirt immediately. And now it's only nighttime!! The night is usually much colder than the day time. So I'm probably gonna go swimming with my other friends tomorrow afternoon.

Although I'm still jet lag, I'm gonna at least try to go to bed now... I hope I can fall asleep so that the jet lag won't be so bad!!!