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.....

At school, it was green day, so we had to wear green. Also, at lunchtime, the cafeteria was selling candy canes!! I got three candy canes from unknown people...


After school, I had clarinet class. We went around the school, playing christmas carols for the office and other kids. It was fun.


After clarinet, Sydney and I went to violin. Once again, we just worked on scales... when will we be able to play real songs again?!


Tomorrow, two boys from class, Timmy and Darren, are coming over to my house to play tennis. Sydney will be playing with us as well. Timmy and Darren keep saying they'll definitely beat us, but I am sure gonna beat them!!!

This morning I had tennis with Todd. It was really hot today, so I got really sweaty and tired really quickly.

After tennis, I quickly got changed and mommy and I went to go to my violin lesson.

After violin, I ate a fast lunch at MacDonald's, then we went to a noodle restaurant for mommy to eat her lunch.

We were planning to go get a haircut for me, but mommy had to do something back home, so now she is out and I am all alone... bored... nothing to do :(

But when she is back we're gonna go back downtown to get my haircut.. I can't wait!

Later tonight, we're gonna go to a concert that Ms. Kwok will be in. It's gonna end really late so I hope I won't be too tired so I can stay up to watch the whole thing!

At school, it was China Day. We all wore our chinese clothes to school and played lots of fun chinese games and ate really good chinese candy :D


After school, I had clarinet class. At the end of clarinet, Mr. Lovett pulled me over and asked if I wanted to start playing the saxophone for the second semester of band. There can only be 6 saxophone players and I really want to play the saxophone, so I'm really happy I got chosen!! Playing the saxophone will be really fun and cool I bet.


After clarinet, Sydney and I went to violin class. Our concert got video taped, so instead of playing violin, we just watched our concert. It was a lot of fun... the concert sounded really good actually!


When I got back home from violin, I went to ballet. At Rachel's school fair, we got some jewelry for Ms. Claire, so at ballet, we gave the jewelry to her as an early christmas present. She really liked them!!

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....

It was really windy this morning, so it was quite difficult to play properly at tennis today. But I still got really tired and sweaty after the lesson. 


When my tennis lesson was over, mommy and I once again went to my violin lesson. 


There is the sandwich shop called 'Subway' that is really close to where I take my violin lessons, so I ate lunch there. I even got 2 free chocolate chip cookies and a free can of soda!!! 


Mommy didn't want to eat a sandwich, so we also went to a noodle shop for mommy to eat her lunch. I just read my book which is called 'Cirque Du Freak' in the Darren Shan series. 


Mommy finished really quickly, and when she was done with her lunch, we walked around and looked inside some malls. There weren't any stores for children and everything there was extremely expensive, so we didn't buy anything.


When I got back home and quickly finished practicing piano,  Niki called and we played together. 


Before, I used to always say to mommy, "I really want this is my room.... I really want that in my room...." so mommy asked me to design my dream room and she will try her best to change my original room to the dream room. So when Niki came over, we got a cardboard box and began designing my dream room. We kept it realistic but I still think it looks really cool :D
So I gave the design to mommy and now she's gonna try to change it... I can't wait! If my room really does change, I'll make sure to take a picture of it and try to post it here!!


After all our hard work in designing my room (trust me, it was really hard), mommy, Niki and I took Samantha out for a short walk. We played fetch with her, but the ball when into the bushes and we couldn't find it anymore, so we just walked. It got really dark sooner than we expected, so we only really got to walk no more than half an hour.


When we got back home, Niki could stay for dinner!! We ordered pizza and we watched 'America's Funniest Home Videos' and 'America's Got Talent' on the TV. 

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 :)

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!

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 :)



    

At school today, we mostly just did stuff about camp... we wrote stories about memories at camp and we worked on newsletters all about camp. 


Since we haven't had clarinet class in a long time because of camp, there was a make-up clarinet class after school today. Mommy also thought that there would be a violin make-up class, but turns out there wasn't any, so I brought my heavy violin to school for nothing....


When I finished practicing a bit of violin when I got back home from clarinet, I called Sydney to see if she was free to play basketball. Although she was only free for 20 minutes, we played anyways. We went down to the basketball courts and Sydney helped me improve my basketball because I am probably going to join after school basketball next semester. 


After a little of basketball with Sydney, I had to go to tap class. Ms. Claire brought canes for us to work with in our dance. Towards the end of class, Frances and I accidentally broke one of the canes and it snapped in half... now I'm trying to find out how to fix it :O

Camp, camp, CAMP!!!

I just got back from... CAMP! Camp was sooo much fun, and I'm really sad to have to leave :(
I left my schedule for what I did at camp back at school, but tomorrow I will bring it back home so I can copy it down and type it here!


The only things that weren't so nice were the showers. The water was either freezing cold or boiling hot. Never warm. And there would barely be any water coming out! Maybe about one or two drops every minute. There are signs all around the campsite saying 'Use less water, save the planet', but I didn't think that they would take it that seriously... also, the beds were as hard as my desk, so I could never sleep through the night comfortably. So at least now that I am back I can shower in clean showers and sleep in a nice bed.


At camp, we did really fun things like going on sampans, canoes, water bikes, and archery, rock climbing, rope courses, swimming, tennis, pool, squash, table tennis, soccer, basketball, and hiking... there are loads of other activities that we did but I forgot them... I will list all the things I did at camp when I get my schedule back.


When I got home from camp, I was really tired, so I had a nap for a few hours. I woke up right before tennis, and although I was still really tired I still had to go. 


When I got back I practiced violin... I have to memorize a 5-page concerto by Saturday!! I've only memorize half a page... 4 1/2 more pages to go!! 

It just had to be blazing hot outside on the day of my tennis lesson when it could have been nice, cool and slightly breezy. But surprisingly, although the sun was really, really hot for me (and I was playing on the non-shaded side of the court), I didn't even complain a bit about being hot and uncomfortable; and I didn't even feel extremely exhausted.... well, that's good isn't it?

After my not-so-tiring tennis lesson, I hurried to take a shower and rushed to my violin lesson in Midlevels. Before violin, mommy and I ate lunch at a noodle shop, where we stayed at for too long because we ended up being quite late for my lesson. My violin lesson seemed to pass by real quickly, so before I knew it, I was walking out my violin tutor's studio.

Mommy and I walked all the way to Wanchai because I needed to get new shoes and we knew a shoe store in Wanchai. But when we got to the store, there wasn't a very big selection of shoes, and all shoes were very expensive, so unfortunately I didn't get any new shoes today :(

But I did get a few new t-shirts at some clothing store that sells cheap clothes!

After looking around in Wanchai, mommy took me to a mall called Sogo. We looked around in Sogo and I really wanted to get some things in the Roxy store, but everything was at the least HK$200... even for a plain t-shirt!! So I didn't buy anything. 

When I got back home, I called Niki to see if she was free to play. I went over to her house and we practiced our dance for the Charity Bazaar with Annabelle. When Annabelle had to go back home, I stayed and watched half of the movie called 'Picture This' starring Ashley Tisdale with Niki. Then I had to go home to have dinner.

Yayyyyy!!! Tomorrow is the Charity Bazaar! I'm really excited but I'm not exactly looking forward to the changing costumes part because there won't be any bathroom stalls for me to change in!! And I have three dances to do, which means three completely different costumes to wear. So every year, mommy holds up a big towel while I change... it's quite embarrassing... you do not know how many people are watching! But I'm still really excited for the Charity Bazaar :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!!

Ughhh... My throat hurts... and I have a blocked nose :( I hope I'm not catching a cold here!!


After school, I had clarinet and violin class. My old violin teacher from 3rd grade came to teach us today... she's really nice!!


After violin, I went to ballet class. We worked on our dance to the song 'Whatever It Takes' for the Charity Bazaar.


When I came home from ballet, mommy and daddy had to go over to their friend's house for dinner. I decided not to go in case I spread my 'maybe-cold' onto their children. So now I'm stuck at home all alone, with nothing to do... >:((((

At school today, we mainly just worked on tomorrow's Colony Day... we barely had time for anything else!

After school, I had violin class and we worked on the song 'Hallelujah'.

When I came back home from violin, of course, I practiced piano for my exam which is now tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!

For Colony Day tomorrow, I made some tools that blacksmiths used, like hammers or pitchforks.

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 :)

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!

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!!!