Category Archives: English 6

My Living Museum Experience

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I chose Harry Houdini because he was the world’s most best magician, and I like magic. First, we have to write a speech, a paper, and a matrix. The matrix is to help us brainstorm for the paper. The paper has to be about five paragraphs. Then we had to write the speech. The speech is what we will say at the living Museum. It should be about 30-45 seconds long. Then in art class we were supposed to draw a portrait of our person. The portrait looked so real!!!

I had to memorize the speech. I thought I was completely doomed!!! We even had to give our speech to our class two times. I eventually memorized it. I still had to figure out my costume! Good thing my mom figured it out for me. I was going to wear a white shirt with buttons and a black coat. My pants were going to be black. My hair is going to stick up a little, with a little help of hair spray.

One the day of the Living Museum, I was very worried that I forgot my speech, but I didn’t. Even though I had to say my speech over 20 times I was glad I didn’t forget my speech. It’s just that people didn’t believe me that I drew the portrait myself. They think I just printed it. Gosh, they don’t take art classes, what do they know about art? It was really fun that day. 🙂

My Party

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At the party, I surveyed the my room to see if any of my 131 stuffed animals are being tormented. I have specifically instructed that nobody can harm any of my stuffed animals.Then I noticed that Andrew had emerged from behind the bed, punching Justin the Tiger. He was very subtle about that. I meandered to him. After I emerged right in front of him and snatched Justin away from him, a look of surprise crossed his face, and just as quickly turned into a smirk. I said he was very mean and I asked him what he would feel like of it was him who was being tormented like that. I inquired him of why he was doing that and said that if he ever does that again he will have to go back home and my mom will tell his mom what he did even if it sounded ridiculous. He said nervously, “Uh, sorry…” And after a moment of thinking, I answered, “Apology accepted!” He sheepishly turned around and continued playing with my brother’s Lego. The others were all completely frolicked playing games on the computer, the Xbox, the Wii, puzzles, eating junk food, or playing with my stuffed animals. Suddenly chaos erupted from the game room where the Xbox, Computers, Televisions, Wii, and the cabinet of junk food were located. Maybe they’re having a food fight I thought. I imagined chips in Davids hair, pizza on Ann’s hair, and cheese balls flying everywhere. The results in my imagination were not pretty. A shout -from who?-filled the house, “Kill it!!!” The Hornet Bee hovered over the television. The girls running everywhere and the boys throwing Doritos at the bee. And me? I screamed and ran away.

Hua-Lian!

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Today we are going to Hua-Lian! and I like didn’t even pack until I woke up. All I packed was 5 stuffed animals (Sarah, Michael, Beatrice, Binoo, and Buzz Buzz), a comb, two books and some other stuff. The first day we went swimming and to the beach.  And also when we got into the hotel, we played with Willy (my mom’s friend’s son) and ad a pillow fight. The next we went Waterland and saw sea lions and dolphins and stuff. Then we went on the Pirate Ship. There’s this girl (my mom’s friend’s daughter), she was practically screaming her head off.  The next day we just stayed in the hotel, had pillow fights, went downstairs to play ping-pong, and other stuff. Hua-Lian was fun.

Summer’s one thing, Boredom…

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Actually, most of the time it’s boring. Only when we travel it’s exciting. All I ever do is read, it’s like, burning my eyes now. I’m reading so much, I just have to stop! Since my house has almost no more English books for me to read, all I can do for fun is Xbox, Computer, and the television. Here’s a list of what I read this summer:

-Deep Down Popular

-Little Woman

-The Sea of Monsters

-The Titan’s Curse

-The Contest

-The Climb

-The Summit

-The Red Pyramid

-The Throne of Fire

-One False Note

-The Sword Thief

-The Battle of the Labyrinth

-Little Woman (Chinese Version)

I know, I know, it’s a long list I can’t help it. And if you’ve noticed, there’s only one Chinese book. Haha. I hate Chinese.

One Day of Fun…

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YAY!!! Something exciting to look forward to! On Monday, I wen to my friends house to play. From 1:30 to 5:30. We played stuffed animals, talked, watched a movie, drew stuff, made cards, sort of, and she show me around the house. Her house is so BIG and so COOL!!! There’s five floors and an elevator, so cool. Except the elevator is really slow. Her mom, dad, and her big sister are in the house too. And the mom is always close to us. Which is annoying and I don’t get to do some stuff I want to do. Tuesday to Sunday was boring though. Only one day was fun, which is enough.

JAPAN!!!!!!!

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Sorry about the late entry guys… I kinda forgot about the homework on this blog. Well, on Sunday, June 24th, at 5:00AM in the morning, I  woke up and got ready to go to the airport, the taxi took 10 minutes to get us to the airport, I was so sleepy, it felt like 2 hours. We went to the Economic Class, oh man! I wanted first class! But whatever, it’s 5 hours from Taipei to Kaohsiung-Yes, I live in Kaohsiung, but there wasn’t enough airplanes so we had to fly to Taipei and go to Japan from there.-and it’s like 11 hours from Taipei to Vancouver-It wasn’t really Vancouver, just a city close to it, Richmond, I used to live there. Went to a school called Homma, that time their mascot was the Thunderhawks, that was years ago-I basically read a book the whole time, The Red Pyramid. The flight was 3 hours, I read like 273 pages when we got there, Page 21 to Page 294. My brother just played the stupid iPad that’s bad for your eyes for three long hours. You see, my brother already has glasses and he’s younger than me. He watches TV up close and plays video games a lot. He plays the iPad whenever he gets a chance. He’s got 27 games on that thing. I do not want to have an iPad with that many Apps because the memory would go down and you wouldn’t be able to choose which game you would like to play. I hate computers because of what they do to your eyes, so as much as I can I stare at the keyboard as I type this, but at least it’s real big, I mean the computer screen. Why can’t they be like those Kindles? Anyway, on board with me were a whole bunch of stuffed animals. I brought 4 tigers, Sarah, Michael, King, Snowflake. One snake, Sneaky. One turtle, Turdy. 9 Hello Kitties, Cherry, Berry, Mary, Clairy, Beatrice, Buzz Buzz, Binoo, Shannon, and Big Apple (Not New York by the way, it’s because she’d carrying a big apple). And one parrot, Rainbow. Lots right? I had to use one backpack, and one whole suitcase to hold them. We went to Disney Land for two days and then to Lego Land for one day. The last day we went to the SKY-TREE tower and bought a lot of stuff. At Disney, I got a chipmunk, or some kind of squirrel, I couldn’t tell, and a really big duck, Daisy. She’s one foot wide and 2 feet long, cool huh? At Lego Land I got a pegasu, a key-chain, and some Lego shaped erasers. At the SKY-TREE tower I got 3 bendable pencils, 3 hello kitty led pencils, a Lego schedule book, and a T-shirt. When we flew back to Taiwan I read a book and my brother played the iPad. Same same. When we got back home, I collapsed on my bed and fell asleep.

Last Piano Day!

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I am very, very, happy, you know why? Because it’s the very last day of piano! I don’t like piano that much and instead I am learning guitar. I think it is very fun. The last day was bad because we had a substitute. She is very mean and gets angry very easily. After the class was over, we went to eat and later went to drum class. I like my teacher there, he is very funny and he makes me laugh easily. I’m glad piano is over, now I can stop worrying.

No Chinese Spoken Outside of Chinese Class

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Take a minute, to imagine what it would be like, if you were writing a worksheet that will help you improve your English. Then, you hear a faint voice from the teachers and Chinese being spoken everywhere, you even hear some distracting swear words in Chinese. Then, you get bad scores. This is a very serious issue at KAS. I think there should be a rule against speaking Chinese outside of Chinese class at KAS. I think it should be like this because parents pay money for kids to learn English, not Chinese, kids can get more opportunities, and kids will say less bad words.

My first reason is because kids come to KAS to learn English, not Chinese. Speaking Chinese is distracting for students who are trying to learn English. If there is a rule against speaking Chinese outside of Chinese class, then students can learn English much easier. Bubble Ho is having a hard time learning English because to much Chinese is being spoken around her. If kids can not learn English well, then it is a waste of money to parents.

Another reason is because kids are saying bad words in Chinese, and that’s a problem. In Chinese class, kids will not say it because the Chinese teachers can understand. In English classes though, teachers understand only some of the bad words in Chinese. That means kids are saying them over and over, because of that, kids are learning more of them now.

Lastly, if kids can speak English and Chinese well, then they can get more opportunities. If you have lots of opportunities, then you can earn more money. If you don’t have an opportunity at all, than you will not have enough money to get into University. You might even become poor!

Parents might say, “Then how will my kids learn Chinese then?” Your kids can still speak Chinese in Chinese class, cram schools, and at home. That is probably enough. Parents could also argue that they never heard any kids say any bad words, but for me, as a kid, I hear them almost everyday. Most adults do not hear because kids do not want to say it in front of adults, or they will get into serious trouble.

Those are my three reasons of why Chinese should not be spoken anywhere on campus besides Chinese class. I took a survey on the class, and four-fifths of the class agreed with me. I hope we can do our very best to make this school a better place for our students.