At school today, we did christmas crafts! There were lots of different stations for the crafts, and I made a felt mouse that holds candy canes (it also came with a candy cane... yum!). I also made 3 pairs of earrings. A snowman, a red and green bell that actually jingles, and a big red and small silver ornaments. It was lots of fun... I can't wait to wear my earrings!


After school, I had piano class. For the whole time we just worked on my song for the competition that is soon gonna come up.


When I got back home, I worked on another chinese book report that is due tomorrow. 
I finally finished it!!


And now I'm off to practice some violin.....

After school today, there was a mixed rehearsal for clarinet today. The whole band came and we all played together. There were trombones, trumpets, flutes, french horns, and others that I can't name. I had to leave the rehearsal early because at 4:00 I had a piano lesson. So when the time came for me to leave, I quickly rushed out to the entrance and mommy took me directly to piano. 


Turns out, we got to piano half an hour late, so there was only 30 more minutes left for the lesson. We only got to work on one piece.


After piano, I took Samantha out and played fetch with her again. But I threw the ball over the fence and lost the ball, so we only got to play for about half an hour.


For homework, I mostly did my writing homework. I've been working on a really long fantasy story called 'Once Upon a Golden Wheel' and I just finished it today! 

At school today, we had field day, which is just 3 hours of recess. It was really fun; I played baseball and tag and tug of war and other things. And right after the 3 hours of recess, we had lunch at school and had normal recess again! Today we barely did any learning, so we had no homework :)


After school, I had violin class. Today at violin, we had a different teacher and she is much nicer than my other teacher. We just played christmas carols the whole time!


When I got back home, I practiced some piano. Then a friend at school called Jessica called me and we organized a play date and sleep over for next week. But it's still not official yet because mommy still has to ask daddy if he wants to do anything special, like travel or something, because next week is his birthday!! I don't know what I should get him though....

When I got back from school today, I had to quickly rush to go to my piano lesson. I ended up being about 10 minutes late because everyone was coming home from school so there was lots of traffic.


Ms. Kwok worked with me on the song Jagdlied for the Music Festival. 


When piano class was over, mommy took me to a bakery close by, and I bought a really yummy bun... :P


These days at school, we aren't getting much homework, so after about half an hour, all my homework was done after piano. 


I wanted to play with Sophia, but after my quick homework, I had to practice my violin, and I just finished.... so it's a bit too late to play now... so I guess I'll just play tomorrow...


Oh yeah, I was originally going to do the Team Fear Adventure Race with Niki, but Niki can't do it and I can't find anyone else to do it with me, so I can't do the race after all :( Oh well, maybe next year!

I haven't had a piano lesson with Ms. Kwok since the beginning of summer, so mommy organized a lesson for me today.

Every year, there is something called the Piano Music Festival, and each time I compete in the festival. The music festival is going to come soon, so Ms. Kwok prepared a really cool song called Jagdlied composed by MacDowell. I love the tune and this year I'm actually not nervous at all... probably because I've done it for 4 years now.

After my piano lesson, mommy took me to a mall called Cityplaza. We don't go there very often because it is so far away from where we live, but Cityplaza is very close to where Ms. Kwok lives, so I got to go there today!!

In Cityplaza, I went to the shop 'Marks & Spencer'. I just got on long sleeved shirt for the winter -- I really need it!!

After Marks & Spencer, I went to a really, really big stationary shop called 'Apita' aka 'Uny'. There was so much to buy there, but I only bought a few things:

~Green mechanical pencil with a grip that is a little bit squishy

~An orange mechanical pencil 

~7 erasers that are the colors of the rainbow with really cute hamster pictures on the them (they smell nice a little bit, too!)

After shopping around in Apita, mommy and I went to eat at a Japanese restaurant with lots of yummy sushi and sashimi. There were lots of people there, so we had to wait in line for quite a while until there were seats for us.

Colony Day and... PIANO EXAM

This morning it was my piano exam!!! I am now sooooo happy that the exam is finally over and I have so many more things to look forward to now!! There's a paint-ball party this weekend, then it's the Charity Bazaar, then 3 days of camp, then Halloween and Katy's birthday party! Can't wait for all of them :)

Although I was really, really nervous last night before the exam, this morning, just before the exam, I wasn't nervous at all -- I was just calm.

After my piano exam, I went to school a few hours late. Then it was Colony Day! My costume for a blacksmith turned out great and my tools were cool as well! Parents walked around the classroom, asking questions like 'Why did you leave Europe to go to the New World?' or 'What are your trade relationships with your fellow colonists?' or 'Now that you have settled in the New World, what do you have to do in order to survive?'

When school was over, I came home for tap. We learnt a new dance to the song 'Steppin' Out With My Baby' by Fred Astaire. We did the dance with canes and hats.

 When I finished all of my homework after school, Niki called and we played together. We walked around in the garden and talked. When Niki had to go for a tennis lesson, I went back home to practice my instruments.


Oh nooooo!! Just two more days until my piano exam!!! I just finished practicing piano for the exam, and I really hope I'll pass! Though I don't think I will pass the aural (singing) test and the sight-reading (playing a piece that you've never learnt on the spot) test...


Before the long practice of piano, I practiced some violin songs for this winter's strings concert.


The things I will be wearing for Colony Day will be:
~A long, black skirt that reaches just a bit underneath my knees. So since back then women usually had all parts of their body covered, I will also be wearing tights underneath the skirt.
~A white, long-sleeved shirt with a collar
~Dirty white flats
~Hair tied in a high bun
~A black apron (still trying to find one)


I hope I find the black apron by Thursday!!

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. 

Yay! School was closed today because it was a Typhoon No. 8 outside!! 


Unfortunately, I couldn't play with anyone because everyone was really busy. So instead I just practiced my piano and violin. I prepared for my piano exam, and now I'm really nervous even though it isn't soon! 


When I finished a bit of chinese homework, it wasn't raining outside anymore. So mommy, daddy and I went to the hair salon, 'La Chine'. We always go there for haircuts -- we never go anywhere else :) I really wanted to get a haircut because I was getting split ends and my hair was getting quite long. Also, the fringe in the front was getting a bit long as well, so I wanted to cut that, too.  Also, tomorrow is Photo Day at school, so I decided I might as well get a haircut today.


Since La Chine is quite close to the clothing store, 'H&M', I went there to look at the clothes. There wasn't anything I really liked, so I didn't buy anything. 


When we went to wait for a taxi, the taxi line was reaaaalllly long!! It took almost 45 minutes to get a taxi! And while we were waiting the rain outside increased until it was pouring again just like this morning. I got really wet, but I made sure my hair didn't get wet or else the rain would flatten my hair =]


Finally we got a taxi, and now it is really pouring outside. Wow, this week of school will be very short because this Friday is a teacher's work day, so there won't be school for the whole day, and today there wasn't any school as well!! Hmmm... I wonder if there'll be school tomorrow... probably will be :)

I miss the buzz of voices all around the room. I miss the teacher talking. I miss the pencils scratching against paper. I miss the occasional crumple of paper as someone erases their writing. I miss school! I really wish school could start again... I have nothing to do without fun, exciting school, even if I have virtual homework to do on the computer.

So, like I said, I didn't do much today, since I didn't have school. But I woke up at around 10:45 A.M. today, so waking up later took some boredom away from my day.

After having brunch, I got an email from school saying that I would have virtual homework. So although I didn't really want to do homework, I went onto the computer anyway. I didn't have anything else to do right?

After some math problem solving, some current events and some writing, I practiced my 3 piano exam pieces. Although the exam is still a month away, I'm already really nervous about it!! I even have to sing!!

When I finished piano, I continued reading my book, 'New Moon', the 2nd book of the 'Twilight' saga.

Before I knew it, 2 hours had already passed! I rushed to the phone, eager to find someone to play with. Niki was the only one who was free to play because she is also in my school, so she doesn't have school, either, and all my other friends had school. Although Sophia is in my school as well, she couldn't play because she had gone out.

I had to leave Niki's house soon because I had to come home earlier to take Samantha out for a short walk. I couldn't take Samantha out later because I had tennis from 6:00 - 7:00.

When I was walking Samantha, I passed by loads of dogs, but surprisingly, Samantha didn't pull at all to play with the dogs. Before, Samantha would always pull and jump whenever she saw a dog. Well, I guess it's a good thing that Sammy doesn't pull when she sees dogs anymore... it's now easier to control her!!

After walking Samantha for a little bit, I immediately had to rush to go to my tennis group lesson. I'm glad that my tennis lesson is at night, because during the summertime, it really is too hot to play tennis during the day!!!

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!

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!!!