Lets just say, I actually enjoyed being away from my family for one week in Beijing with my 27 Beijing-mates. There were 150 students in Grade 7 and 27 were going to Beijing, the rest to Chang-Mai. Although we spent a lot of time on the bus going back and forth, there will be some unforgettable moments in the trip such as Ethan getting high on Mountain Dew after the acrobat show, the 4-star toilet (I’m not kidding), The Great Wall Torture…I mean hike and of course the most memorable, the Pearl Market.

The first night, No Dinner, We had to find our own dinner at the Night Market, no food was provided. Without being boring an going to KFC or McDonald just because it’s easy. We’re in China now, we’re able to speak Chinese and order food, so w just went into a department store after walking for a little bit and there were like 15-19 choices are on the directions map. That’s when we started arguing about where we should go since all of us wanted different locations. We couldn’t split up so again Kenneth stepped in and said we’re eating Ramen. The photo above is us at the Ramen place, without the food, we ordered all our meals that the size of a fifth of the table and we ate it all only costing 113 RMB, talk about cheap, I was expecting it to be like 200-350 RMB giving this is a real restaurant and our meal is quite big and we had five people having meals that size.

During the trip, it was stress-free an i was just being myself and having a good time, I think I showed being a risk-taker the most because well, I took all the hard ways in the great wall and I even just did a little rock climbing to prevent myself form falling down 50 meters down. The Pearl Market, okay I admit, even my group had some, ‘AYYIIIIEEE’ moments in market even myself and we had run a few times. I even tried new local Chinese food…and ended up throwing up afterwards, I even went into stinky toilet without getting grossed out when I needed to go.

I also displayed was principled because I knew when things were getting out of hand I stopped, I also didn’t fool around and start trolling the shop vendors just because it was funny and fun to run away and laugh, okay I was a little bit of an idiot at sometimes, but at least I was obedient most of the time and when instructions to be cautious came on, I was being extra cautious like the rickshaw ride and The Great Wall.

We also helped in a local school learning P.E aka military camp, Kung Fu, streamlines and we semi taught English and I asked a awkward question in the Beijing Trip In a Local School…about the Math Exam.

In all and all, the trip was really epic except for some epic fails here and there.

Watch it when I’m done here. It’s about one of the Hong Kong Heritage, the Peninsula Hotel to be exact.

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Those are some of pictures from the court case we did on KMT. This one not a real court case, but a student court case. We we’re either proving KMT right or KMT wrong. After two days of pressure, the verdict was given. The verdict was…GUILTY! I was a prosecutor lawyer with an edge. We diffidently trolled the defense, very hard, I feel very good about the verdict. The verdict was…GUILTY as said for 5 reasons. First, it only takes one flaw to prove a theory wrong and we found a lot of contradictions in the salt and ice lab.

Second, with Ary’s extra knowledge about KMT, we hammered them very hard as Ary with normally finish with ‘we’re done with this witness’ then slammed his desk. Third, we left the defense stammering for words even though it really felt like they had the upper hand. Fourth, we questioned everything and we defended everyone on our side (ironic us ‘defending’). Fifth, even against all the odds like feeling under pressure, 99.5% of the Jury Team being defense meaning certain death for and against overwhelming odds with 3 to 5 lawyers (3 us 5 defense), we pillowed through every single problem.

Like I said, I am a lawyer with an edge. A very blunt edge, call me Mr. Prosecutor, well actually that name should go to Ary. I didn’t really represent my job very well, I just Mr. Behind The Scenes. I was mostly helping other Mr/Ms. Prosecutors do their jobs maybe at that time I was Mr. Monitor. For being on Prosecution, I couldn’t ask for a better job, being a lawyer is my dream even when I didn’t fulfill my responsibility I filled other responsibilities

What I learned about KMT is nothing really new,except elastic collisions between particles (thanks Ary). I improved as a scientist by learning careful observations and educated guess, I also learned the art of breaking things in Science Class.

For this unit, I’d give a 3/10 because it wasn’t the best unit. For stress it was 4.77777777…because I was really lagging behind from my peers especially with the room problems since I usually depended on their answers, the number line just made things worse because I didn’t get it and I had the room problems to worry about. Everything else I either was clumsy or forgot how to do it such as dividing decimals, I did it backwards…literally. Some questions were so darn obvious and easy that when I saw it wrong an realize my mistake. I wanted to just die from stupidity right there on the spot, however I kept it internal.

My efforts on this unit were just exceptional because I didn’t get the concept and I gave up way too easily and was kind of lazy doing my work because when the time came, I skipped a few concepts (by that a lot) and went with it resulting in very bad marks and AHHHAHSHSHHHAHGEBDVD!

Superman gets Communist, the Wolf gives advice to the sheep and people fleeing from North Korea. Do you know what this means? I’m going to…reflect on my unit.

This project was a little bit all over the place. I didn’t know what I doing, I was just doing whatever came to my mind and my final product seemed like a rushed job…very bad. I was just tossing in information and information over and over again it was starting to give me a headache. Working by myself was even worse then expected, I didn’t go in a straight line and a lot sidetracks. I didn’t really learn anything new except more Pages configurations. I liked how I was a little creative with the Project, but yet the Project itself was a little bit of a bore some which led to me getting easily distracted.

I don’t have much to talk about in this post since nothing really happened.

Today was basically a bad pun in itself. As you can see the acronym D.E.A.D is supposed to mean ‘drop everything and design’ well look closely at D.E.A.D and you get what I mean, ‘drop everything and die.’ Yeah…Puns Galore.

Getting back to the subject, the whole entire day we had NO CLASSES which means no handing in homework and getting in trouble. Except, we still do work just not homework. However, Design is well…I got  a 3…out of 7, so yeah, not going to be a good day is it? I’m going to list this in NUMBER order…yeah it’s going to be a lot of bad stuff.

Number one, I get a forced on job. Number two, I get lost in the internet trying to find my groups Google doc and get my group-mates pissed off. Number three, I write a question and it gets deleted and then another one and then another one and then another one and then another one and then another one and then another one and then…you get the idea and then my group-mates say I didn’t write anything down. Number four, we get lost trying to find the submission for our Google docs link then I completely forget to post it. Number five, me sucking at research for the Former Marine Barrack. Number six, skipping ahead means more waiting. Number seven, refusing help to get tabs then asking for help later to get tabs. Number eight, right now, I’m writing this reflections and my computer is about to die (in battery).

Eight bad events in 6 hours…yeah, good things? Zero and a half. The half is me writing this right now. I’m not going keep talking about this and beating myself up anymore…

Yes, I’m writing this down while being chased by dogs. Okay scrap that, I am writing this on a sturdy desk in English class at precisely  1 o’clock thirty nine minutes 15 seconds 21 nanoseconds (Yes I counted).

Anyway, for my Author’s Choice Process on getting chased by dogs, I did pretty good because I didn’t big long sentences and I was very energetic, however, I think I went by the facts to quick and messed up on some words, take note that I extemporaneously said the whole story and process. I learned about how to lessen the words (I’m sure if ‘lessen’ is a real word) and added more visual ads and put very little detail and just talk detail.

For doing it again, I would give a little more explanatory on the characters and not fumble up on the words and make improvisation a little less obvious. Also I would organize my work a little more, talk slower and guide them in the right path.

Bad habits… They are harmless while young, but sting while old. Usually, you make them, but occasionally be born with it. I was born with three; ADHD  (Attention Defect Hyperactive Disorder which means I often forget important things, I can’t keep still, I can’t concentrate for long periods of time and my body is slower then my brain meaning I can’t react as fast); Motor Underdevelopment  (Which means I my body movement is funny and I’m very slow at running or walking) and a very quick temper  (I mean very quick).

Enough of that, usually the Motor Underdevelopment isn’t really a bad habit and I didn’t realize my temper until the age of 10, but ADHD is a born bad habit. It consist of me falling ASLEEP in class, forgetting homework or important projects and the inevitable loss of appetite and not being able to concentrate during testes.  All those are why it is a bad habit because I get skinny, I get in serious trouble, I got failing marks, I tend to miss important details. It’s not easy living like this, however, I’m getting better as I write things down, I try to eat more, I ask the teacher if I could go to a quiet place during a test and I make sure i get enough sleep the night before. However, something like this for bad habit is already not good because the bad thing is; this kind of habit is PERMANENT, but you can lower the chances of this happening.

However, now I’m already seeing improvements since I bring in homework at a decent level, I don’t fall asleep in class anymore (Except for some occasions first period Chinese), I get BETTER marks at school and I’m eating much more now. However, unlike most bad habits, there is not ‘Erase’ in this so I’ll just have to deal with this however, it’s also a good habit because it tends to protect me from social influences as I often don’t care or forget about it and sometimes not being able to concentrate protect me from numerous threats as if it was never there. So in all reality, ADHD as prove to be a bad habit at first, but now starting to improve a lot.

Science Class, your normal everyday connection to a fascinating world. Today, we had to create a ‘new’ bird who could adapt to it’s environment whatever that may in both structural and behavioral adaptations. The minute the Teacher said a  ‘new’ species, an idea formed in my head. This project of creating a bird could also be fictional, so I was thinking, “Hm… let’s not be boring and create a bird that just changes a little. Let’s make an entirely new and creative creature”, but yet people thought it was  little stupid and far fetched, but I just continued with the idea.

You wanted to know what the idea was? Let’s see, take something that didn’t exist and another thing that didn’t exist and combine them. Not in mythology or fairy tales, something that started with a P and ended with a N. P-o-k-e-m-o-n. Yep, and from three generations, Generation 2, Generation 4 and Generation 5, Gliscor, Skarmory and Acheops, taking all three and putting them together and taking some real live things and inserting them in wasn’t a challenge. It was the name that gave me the most trouble and the adaptations, I wanted it to look real, but still kept the elemental types and special abilities, so I thought the steel body could have Skarmory’s Steel typing, flight advantage for Gliscor’s typing and climbing ability for Acheop’s typing.

The name, I wanted to combine all three names, and it was hard, because I wanted something that sounded good and catchy. So I had to decide which to put first, middle and last. So finally after six attempts, the common name: Glisceops and the Scientific name: Skarcops Glisceops came in. The environment was probably the least detailed and confusing part as I didn’t explain it clearly. The drawing came out pretty good and the Teacher even said ‘Bird’ even it looked nothing like a bird in the end. Here’s a picture.

Russell’s Bird Drawing

Patterns, great. 1..2…3…4…5…6…What’s the next number? 7. Well if you think that’s it, well reader, you have no idea of what you just said. Now it’s 2…6…24…120…720.what’s the next number? Yeah it’s that.

Usually I hate patterns, but now I’ve learned a lot from it such as dealing with fractions, negative numbers, very big jumps and using all operations. However, I really disliked the fact that there are so many rules for EACH and every pattern, it’s really time consuming and very brain rattling, you have to do this for that and if just one number changes the whole rule changes, but I don’t really have any questions left anymore since every gap has been filled up. Also remember the saying ‘You’ll be using math in everyday life too’ so guess what? This is now an official member, yep patterns is also used in everyday life such as figuring out the amount of something through the frequency of numbers or with mind games. There’s a lot do do with math and no I’m not going to do any boring remarks.

Here’s picture of what patterns look like complex.

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