A Week in My Life

A week in Nikashi`s Life

2005-06-30T19:50:00.000-04:00

June 17th, 2005
Today I didn`t go to school because I went to pray with my dad in a mosque. A mosque is a place where we pray to our god, Alla. I didn't feel like but going my father said it is important. After, we went to a first food restuarant called Mos burger. Next I went home and I came home at 2. After that I slept for 2 hours. I woke up and I watched a video I had recorded about Japan vs North Korea in a soccer match. Japan won with two goals and I think it was a fair match. After this I had dinner which was chicken kastu. Chicken katsu is a Japanese food that is covered with bread flour and egg. Inside it is a juicy chicken. When I was watching T.V I could smell the chicken katsu coming from the kitchen. My mom was cooking it. By 10 o' clock I was dreaming about me going as a proffesional soccer player.

June 18th, 2005
It was a quiet morning. I woke up the fastest in my whole family. I called up my friends in a quiet voice on the telephone, if we can play together. I called up two friends. My friends are Takaki and Yuta. Takaki joins the same soccer team as me and he plays for defence. He is a little noisy sometimes. Yuta also joins the same soccer team too. He palys for midfielder. He also is the moodmaker for the team. The soccer team I play in is called Shibuya toubu. We won alot of important championships and I think it is a great team. Me and my friends always play soccer at the park but I decided to make an original version, it is called bycycle soccer. The rules are to ride on the bycycle and try to score. It is similar to a normal soccer but you score with a bycycle. Then we decided to go home. I ate my dinner and went to my bed.

June 19th, 2005
Today it was a nervous morning. It was about my championship in soccer. This championship was held on Shibuya sports center. It was a championship to choose which team is the best in Shibuya. If we win this game we are going to be number one. We won by 1-0. I was happy and I could nearly feel that the trophy is waiting for our team. The good thing was that I won the championship so my mom will by me a new pear of jersie. After, I ate my dinner at Mc donalds and when I got home, I slept immediately.

June 20th, 2005
I was very tired this morning. I slept all the way to the school in the bus and finally I felt good. The first period was reading. Mr. Lara told us to read every body's blog. Next it was math. I did the assignment of subtracting integers. It was alittle hard. Then next we had recess. I was just palying basketball. Finally it was english we searched for errors in everybodys blog and disscus what can be improved. Then it was computer. We are making webpages and try to put in more detail. I thought it was fun to make a webpage. When the time passed it was lunch. The lunch was french toast and chicken nuggets. They are my favorite dishes. After that me and soe played soccer. Next it was Japanese and we learned about japanese adjectives. Finally the last period was playground time. It is kind of a free time that we can play. Whole class played soccerand spiltted up in teams. It was so hot that I can't really play in a good condition. When it was 2:30 it was time to go home. I thought that I had great time at school today.

June 21, 2005
This morning, it was a bright day. I wished it is going to be a wonderful day. I ate my breakfast and went to school like usually. The first period was reading. 6-L students worked with the 7th grade students. I was practicing to do retelling for Ruby Holler in chapter 3. Ruby Holler is a book by Sharon Creek. Next it was math. I studied integers again and I got use to it. After math it was recess. I proofread and edited my blog assignment. Then it was Music. I played the instrument called guiro. Guiro is a instrument that has kind of sizzy thing on the base and you can rub it with a stick. When the time passed it was english. I retold chapter 3 in the book of Ruby Holler. In the rubric I got 78% and I thought it wasn't so bad. Next it was lunch recess. The main dish for lunch was Vietnam lunch. I didn't like todays lunch but it was ok. At recess time Soe and I played soccer together. Next it was Japanese. The assignment was to identify the words that are in the blank on the sheet. Finally it was art. Grade 6 continued to make a house with a cardboard. Also the grade 7's were starting to built a house. My assignment for today in art was just to paint aruond the house. Ding-Dong, the bell rang. It was time to go home. On the way on the bus to my house I slept for 10 minutes. I felt good when I arrived at my home.

June 22, 2005
Today it was a normal day. I rushed this morning for my school. Then I road the bus and I arrived at school. The first period was reading. We studied about spelling words. Then it was Math. I learned how to multiply integers. After, it was English.

Suddenly it was lunch. The menu was raddish boiled with mint chicken. It was good and in recess time we played in the blue mat. We played tag. Finally it was Science time. I thought it was science but we watched Seebisket. It was a really great movie. I enjoyed today in school.

June 23, 2005
I woke up with a noisy sound of a alarm clock. I brushed my teeth with a lime green, shiny tooth paste. I can smell my mother cooking a cream colored, boiled egg. I rushed and went to the bus stop. On the noisy bus my shoe sqeaked through the path. Me and Keita was looking at eaches shiny soccer cards. Then the navy blue colored striped bus arrived at school. I entered the room and I felt cold freezing air, through my body. The first period was reading. Our class talked about blog. The second period was Math. We couldn't use the UI's room so we went to the traingular shaped cafeteria. I can smell the cook making foods while I was doing my math work. I almost followed the georgous smell to where cooks are cooking. Then it was recess. I went to the normal sized playground in bolt. My friends were playing in the cobalt blue colored area. We played tag like yesterday. When the bell rang it was music. I went into a fat room. I could hear the air conditioner is buzzing. We started to learn the music pitch note. It was kind of hard but I felt I learned alot. Then it was english. I went to my classroom like I am chasing Soe. I learned 1 thing and it was about how to use sensory details and languages. I understood what Mr.Lara was trying to say and I thought I can do my homework easily at my home. The homework was to do a blog that has elaboration tecqnique and sensory details. Finally it was lunch. I came into the cafeteria in greedy face. It smelt good in math time but the lunch was like lasania. I really hated it and just ate few of the parts of something like lasania. Then I went outside and I could hear everyone laughing and shouting. I played baseball with the seventh grader called Joji. He is nice and he said I'm so good at it so he said to bring a baseball glove tomorrow for playgroung time. Now it was time for Japanese. I put on my plane smelled deodrant on my stinky body then I went to the Japanese classroom and the room smelled like dust all over. But finally I got over with it. My Japanese teacher Ms. Endo introduced a new teacher who is going to teach us in grade 7. But I am not going to be here next year. Next it was the last period was Science. I tiptoed in to the classroom and I could taste the clan fresh air from the humongous window. We experimented the tair resistance and I could hear the paper ripping while we are putting washers on the clip. We put the chrome washers slowly on the clips because to know what paper can rip in how many washers. Ding-dong it was time to go home. Today I was kind of nervous because my father is going to come back from the bussiness in U.K. I rode the bus home and in my comfortable house I waited for my greatest father.

June 24, 2005
It was a normal day I brushed my teeth and ate my breakfast and went to school. When I entered our homeroom it was quiet and the air conditoner was on. The first period was readinwe talked about blog. Next it was Math. This day we used a origami to make a math shapes. Origami is a colored piece of paper that isn't so bidg and you can make lots of shapes. Then it was recess. I played baseball with my friend Joji and Nobuyuki. They are seventh graders and we are very friendly. Next it was playground time so wekept playing baseball. By the time I was tired it was english. We did a spelling test and it was very hard. Then it was lunch I tiptoed into the cafeteria and ate my lunch as quickly as possible. I really wanted to play outside I forgot what my lunch was. After it was Japanese. We learned new words and new stuff. Lastly it was computer time I bounced to the computer room and started to make webpage. Because it was so fun, I wanted to do my webpage forever.

June 25, 2005
I woke up at 10:00 today. I just watched a soccer tape of a famous player called Del Piero. He plays in the Italian league and I really want to be a fantastic player like him. After that I slept until dinner and I woke up. The dinner was beef stake, mash potato, rice, and tea. It was too delicious and I couldn't beleive it. That night I slept at nine.

June 26, 2005
Today it was a important day. We played a match between two strong teams. One was from a place called Meguro and one was from a place called Sugamo. We tied between the team from Meguro. We won by 1-0 to the team from Sugamo. The match finished at 12:00. It was hot so
my soccer friends decided to go to a pool. It was near my house. When we swimmed on the pool I felt really fresh and it was really comfortable. After that I ate ice cream with my friends.We still time so we went to a place called Mc Donalds. I ate a burger called Mac chicken and which is one of my favorite. Next we went to a park we played soccer match. We splitted up in teams and I lost. But it was a fun game. By the time it was 6:00 I started my blog.

June 27, 2005
I was very tired this morning. I took a shower, and ate my breakfast. I went to my bus stop and rode the bus to school. The bus smelled good and I can feel a nice air. When I'm at school I went to my homeroom. Now we had to print our blogs from 22nd through 26th in microsoft word. Next it was math. In math time we did a game called 24. We divided up in two teams. The rule is, we have 4 numbers on each card so you have make the number 24 using multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. If we win this game we could get ice cream so I rushed and did it. I won the game so my math teacher game me 110 yen to buy ice cream. By 10:25, it was recess. I ate my ice cream and played basketball. Now it was english. We were seprated in teams and did a spelling test. It was quite fun and enjoyable. Now it was computer. We continued to make a webpage and putting more pictures and details. After computer it was lunch. The lunch was ham sanwich, tea, and potato. I went back to my classroom to relax. Now it was japanese. In japanese time we did a kanji word puzzle. It was hard and some problems I got help from Soe. Finally it was playground time. I went to the playgroung in a bolt. It was too hot so everybody played in the blue mat. We were doing tag. I was very exhausted after that because it was burning hot!!! Then I went home and told my parents what happened today at school.

June 29, 2005
It was a nervous morning. It was a field trip to a place called Wakasu. We went for youth trip. I packed up my stuff that I had to take to the field trip and went to the bus stop. Then I rode on the bus and finally at 8:30, I arrived at school. Are whole class rode on the bus to the way to the youth trip. Also grade 7’s, 8th grader came with us. The way on the bus I was playing top trumps of star wars with my friend Soe. Top trumps are cards you play with about 4 people and look at the cards and win if there were stronger cards than others. Then we arrived at the youth riding place. We wore are life jackets and got on to the youth sailing boat. When I was riding the boat I could here the sounds of the real sea. It was very quiet. Then suddenly I saw a fish jumping through the sea and I thought it was beautiful. Now this was the best part. The captain said that we could move the ship. I really wanted to try so I tried. I really felt like I was a captain. It was hard to move the starring. Now I tried to move the sail. The captain said that you have to move the sail when the wind comes. Now my friends and me started to put water on each other and I was soaking wet. Finally we went back to the bus area and changed are clothes and went back to school. After getting of the bus we played in the playground. Lastly I had to go home and on the bus I thought it was memorial time with my friends.

June 30, 2005
I felt really bad this morning because it was rainin so hard. I went to brush my teeth and went to the shower. The water was very hot. Then I ate my breakfast and went to my bus stop earlier than yesterday. On the bus I listened to my I pod then I suddenly slept. When the bus arrived at school I felt like I wanted to sleep more.When I entered the classroom on the board it saids to go to the computer lab and add sensory words to your blog. Then my teacher came to the computer lab and said to do Lets Go Learn skills. The period ended and next it was math. We did a sheet of solving equation. It was very easy I couldn't believe it. Now it was recess. Joji was absent so I did a catch with Sho. Sho is very good at basketball and he likes to listen to rap music. Next it was music. We learned the song called "If I had a wings". I really liked this song. After music it was english. We checked are wordskill assignment but Soe and I didn't do it so we went to the library and did the homework. Then now it was lunch. I rashed and went to the cafeteria in bounce. The menu was hushed pork with bread, butter, jam, water. It was delicious and I went to get more of my lunch. Then I galloped to the playground. now I played baseball with Soe. I am better than him. By 1:30 it was Japanese. I lumbered through the hallway to the Japanese room. There was no teacher but a subtitute teacher came to teach us. The the bell rang it was science. I tiptoed to the science room. I tested all the papers of resistance. I brought my things home for my lab due on Monday. Ding-Dong, it was time to go home. I got on to the bus and slept all the way to my bus stop.

A Day of Monet in a Week

2005-06-29T21:59:00.000-04:00

Monet June 20th, 2005
Monday
Today is Monday, and I woke up at 7:30 am. I got out of my untidy bed and changed my clothes for school, but not uniform. I woke my sister up and went down for breakfast. I ate two egg sandwiches and a glass of milk. They were delicious. After I ate my breakfast, I rushed upstairs to brush my teeth and my hair. When I finished brushing them, I rushed down. I put my school stuff that were rolling around my bag inside it. (I put my pencil case, my pouch, and a folder). I got my green cardigan and went out of my house. I rode my bicycle unusually. I rode it fast to school and got to the class room at 8:44 am.

The first period was Japanese. We checked our homeworks and listened to a poem called "Fuukei". Everybody laughed, because of the sub -title and the main thing the auther wrote.

The second period was Math. We did our math worksheets. It was quite only that, so it was kind of boring. The worksheet is about equations, and our teacher is Miss Kimura.

After math was recess. I talked of fun things and was looking at our photo stickers with my friend, Remina in our classroom. While we were inside, we weren' t lively and were kind of sleepy.

The third period was playground time. I like playground time. In this period, we could play what ever sports we like to do. I played frisby and soccer with Mao and Remina. I didn't kick a soccer ball for a long time. Also, a little bit of volleyball(alone). It was hot outside on the playground, but we had a big fun.

Next, the fourth period was computer. I don't like computer time, even if I like to use computers. In the computer time, Remina and I were writing our informations for the radio show, which we are going to make. Our topic is " Cats of the World". We have to really work on them, or else we won't finish our program.

Now, we have lunch time. Today's lunch was French toast with chicken nuggets, kiwi, and clam chowder. They were delicious.I drank water. For lunch recess, we stayed in the cafeteria.

The fifth and sixth period was reading and english time. We talked about elaboration and read out our homeworks. We filed those papers and some score sheets in our folders. Mister Lara read out Sakura and Kenta's works. Mister Lara is our teacher for Language Arts. Sakura and Kenta are two students from my class for language art time.

After all the classes, we have home room again. I put my things in my bag and got ready to go home. I left at 2:34pm. School's finished for the day. I went out of the school with my sister and got our bicycles. We waited for our father to come and when he came, we rode our bicylces which were heavy with our school supplies.

We went straight to Ogikubo station and rode on the subway to Shinjuku Sanchoume. We were going to meet our grandfather(our father's father). First, I went to a book shop called Kinokuniya with my father and my sister only. After that, we met our grandfather in front of studio Alta. We walked to Isetan ( the name of a department store) and went into a restraunt after getting kind of lost in Nakamuraya for the subway.We ordered the foods and drinks to the waiter. I ate an omlet containing fried rice. I drank some cool water. After them, I ate shaved ice with some toppings, and these were delicious also. We were totally full! I had fun being with my grandfather.

Today was a busy day, and I am very tired right now. However, it was a very fun day.

Monet June 21th, 2005
Tuesday
Today, I woke up at 7:30am and got up slowly from my bed. I changed my clothes before I woke my sister up and went down before she woke up. If she doesn't come down, my father or I will go up and call her again. I ate breakfast, and they were egg, ham, and mugi tea. They were good. I went upstairs like yesterday and brushed my teeth and hair. I rode on the bicycle again. I rode it slower than yesterday, but still quite fast.

I got to school and walked fast to my classroom. I put my bag next to my desk and sat down while I waited for the first class to begin. It's always quite boring in the morning for me.

The first, third, and fifth class was Reading and English time. We had another discussion for elaboration, did a LGL test, and had a spelling test. We did things we kind of usually do other than these.

The second period was math. We did the worksheets from yesterday again. I made mistakes, and I still forget where I have to make a number minus or plus. It sometime seems to be interesting.

Next came recess. I stayed inside with my friends. I talked with my friends.

The fourth period was Japanese. We listened to a CD of a story called "Chameleon" and we laughed again, but it was quieter than yesterday. We checked our worksheets like we did yesterday.

After that, we had lunch. We ate gratin and drank clam chowder and water. I went to blue mat because we felt even bored inside, but it was hot outside so we went back to our class room and chatted.

The last period was art time. It's kind of my favorite subject. Everybody made houses, actually, we started to build our trial house using card boards. It's fun to build them.
School ended at the usual time(same as yesterday). I went to Family Mart, a convenience store with my sister and my tutor. When I went back home, I ate my dinner. I ate curry and soup. After dinner, I did my homeworks.

I had a little party for Teiko( a person from my mother's office) because it was her birthday today. I gave a round paper fan with Totoro and his friends' pictures. My sister gave her an Ochaken mascot (with a round fan) key chain. Ochaken is a character which is all placed in each different kinds of tea, and they are dogs. I also prepared drinks, snacks, and decorations. I put normal soda in each glass with colorful and cute shaped Haribo small gummies. I brought cinnamon grahams, animal biscuits, and chewing candies. I had fun!

Monet June 22nd, 2005
Wednesday
Today, I woke up at 7:35am andgot up to change my clothe in the slightly dark bedroom. I woke up my sister and went down stairs to eat my breakfast. I went up to do the same thing as yesterday. I went out of my house and ran into the humid air.

I got to school and went to the first class, which was Computer time. I did the continuation of the project that I've been working on. I made a mistake on what to do, so my partner and I were very surprised and kind of depressed, because it was when the class was going to end.

Next was Math class. We did the same work sheets again. We were in the cafeteria for this time, because the class we usually use was used by another class. I did three questions on the board. I still make mistakes.

After math was recess time. I stayed inside and changed some photo stickers with my friend, Remina. It is fun to change and look at photo stickers.Recess past very fast.

The third class was Science. We worked on our science worksheets, which is quite fun to work on sometimes.

The fourth class was Art time. I like art time. I continued to biuld my miniature house. I cut many card boards, so my hand and probably, the cutter got tired. When I was cutting, I saw Remina's cutter rolling on the desk with the sharp part was peeking out of the plastic container, so I tried to pulled the sharp part in, but I wasn't able to manage to pull it back in. It was stuck, and I don't know what happend to it.

This time, 12:15pm is Lunch time. The lunch was Japanese radish boiled with minced chicken, spinach, rice, and mugi tea. I stayed in my classroom and relaxed.The last two periods were Reading and English. We did normal things.
School ended and I headed home with my sister and Teiko. I got home and rested inside of my house. I went to the convenience store again and bought an icecream and a magazine. After some minutes, my friend Soe and Sayaka came to my house. I went outside with my sister. I went out with my icecream, so Soe took it and tried to eat it. I was very surprised, but I got it back from him after it craked because I tried to get it back. While I walked, Soe throwed his ball to my head so many times, and he always does that!! My sister Marisa laughed, but still,tried to stop him. I dashed into my house and escaped from the ball. He couldn't through it in someboy else's home! Marisa, Sayaka, Soe , and I kind of chatted and ran aroun. After that, Yuichiro and his mother came(Sayaka, soe, Yuichiro, and his mother are my neighbors). I had fun with my friends. Yuichiro is a small boy, and he's so cute, but he's going to move to another place because of his father's business. We stayed together until around 7:00pm. I was very tired after they went home. I did my homework, took a bath, changed my clothe, brushed my teeth, and went to sleep. I was tired so I felt peaceful in my bed.

Monet June 23rd, 2005
Thursday
Today, I woke up at 7:30am and changed my clothe.I ate my breakfast and walked to school.
The first class was Japanese. I did a kanji test rehearsal, but I forgot about it so I didn't bring the answer sheets home. I had to study in the homeroom. I made about two or three mistakes. I was glad that it was arehearsal.
Next was math, and I did the usual worksheet. I kind of feel that I7m getting better at this.
After that was recess time. I was in my class room and I didn't reaolly do anything.
The third and fifth period was reading and english time. For the third period, my LA teacher Mr.Lara was not sure of watching a movie or not, and much of the time wasn't lessons. For the fifth and fourth period, we watched a movie about a loser horse and a loser man. I don't remember the title of it. We saw it in the cafeteria without chairs, so my legs got kind of tired.
I had lunch and i went to my classroom for lunch recess. I stayed there and chatted with my friends.
The last period was Music time, and I like this class. I like to play the good silver bells. It's kind of hard, but it's better than being bored! I had fun playing the music.
I went home after homeroom with my sister and Teiko as usually. I stayed in my house and drawed some pictures before I went out and played. Marisa went out before me and was playing with Rio, a boy neighbor. They came into my house and stayed inside and cooled down, because they ran around. After a while, Sayaka and Soe came to my house and everybody stayed inside. We played and talked. i went out to buy some drinks for them with my sister and came home with some changes and 5 bottles. After we came home, we talked so much, so we didn't hear the 6:00pm bell ring, so the three of them went home after 6:00pm, but nt too late.
I ate my dinner, relaxed, did my homework, had a bathe, changed my clothe, brushed my teeth, and went to sleep at last. it was a long day.

Monet June 24th, 2005
Friday
Today, I woke up at the usual time, 7:soam, and changed my clothe before breakfast. I brushed my teeth and headed to school.
I got to school, and I had Japanes time in the first period. Today ws the library day, so we went to the Japanese books' library. I extended the book I had(Princess Diana), and borrowed another book about Nightingale. Both books are fun.
Next, I had Math time. Every Friday in Summer School for Math, we have fun activities to do. Today, we tried on a design which is a sequencing design which has same designs in same patterns. It was more fun than i thought.
I had recess before playground time. I played volleyball and jump rope. It was very hot out side so I was very sweaty and thirsty. I drank a bottle of sport drink called Active Diet. It tastes good especially when the drink is still cool and when yourself is feeling hot. i had fun in the burning playground.
Next was music, and we did hand bells again. I got a little bit better than yesturday, but I still make quite much mistakes.
Now, we had lunch time. I ate my lunch very normally, and went up to my classroom as usually.
The fifth period was English. We went over Joji's(a student of the LA class) work, which was his blog, and took all the time for it. After this class was Science, but we forgot about that, so we had English time for about 80 minutes or so.
When we went to the Science room, Mister Bond( the Sciece teacher) looked disappointed at us. I had only about five minutes of that class.
I went to the Ogikubo Station by bus with Marisa, Teiko(an adult), and Remina. First, we went into Mcdonalds and ate some snacks, before we went to the game center. In the game center, we took some photo stickers. I had fun, and I'm sure everybody did. Marisa got a big size Gonta stuffed doll( a cute character from a TV show).
I went home and went outside to look for some friends, and came back home very soon, because I didn't meet anybody.
I ate my dinner and did the same kinds of things as yesterday. I went to a deep sleep. I was tired

Monet June 25th, 2005
Saturday
Today, I woke up late, which was about 8:30am. I was quite tired of sleeping, so I woke up and changed my clothes. I took a hot bath and refreshed before I ate my breakfast. I brushed my hair and teeth.I got my baggage ready to go out, and I relaxed after that.
I went to the Ogikubo Station with Marisa and my father by bicycles. We left our bicycles at my father's studio and rode on a train to Shinjuku. I had to look for a present for my friend. First, I went into a building which had clothe shops, Oshmans, and some others. I didn't find anything good, so we didn't buy anything. Next, we went to takashimaya, a department store, and ate lunch before looking for the presents. We ate soba. It was cool, moist and delicious. i didn't find anything good for the present, but I bought good pens and sharp pencils.
My mother wanted us to come to Crayon house, a restraunt in Omotesando, so we went there after we went to Kiddy Land. most of the floors were closed, but we found something ood, so we bought it. it is a ball that changes it's shape when it flies in the air. It changes from a frisby to a ball. I went to the restraunt and atedinner. I ate a brown rice risotto with a glass of ice tea. I was too full.
I got home and relaxed while I waited for the bath tub to be full with hot water. i took a refreshing bathe again, and went to sleep after I finished everything I had to finish.

Monet June 26th, 2005
Sunday
Today, I woke up slower than yesterday, which was about 9:00am. I changed my clothe and ate my breakfast. I got ready to go out, and relaxed.
I went to Kichijoji by bus, and went to a pet store, a jeans store, and a crepe shop first. There were small cute puppies with fluffy fur. there were many T-shirts at the jeans shop, and i ate a hot melting chocolate with my father and Marisa. Afer some walk, we ate lunch at a tonnkatu restraunt. they were delicious1
After that, we went to Parco, a department store and found another ood present. It is Stitch(a character from Disney, Lilo and Stitch)'s alarm clock.
We went back to Ogikubo station and Marisa and I went to Seiyu for shopping, and our father went to his studio to rest, because he didn't feel so good. We went to a book store, a stationary store, and 100 yen shop. I found good things. The most expensive one was a game casset for Nintendo DS. the title of it was Nintendogs. Marisa bought one also. I felt happy, but kind of worried, because I bought something expensive in a normal day.
We went back to our father's studio and stayed there for some minutes and went home by our bicycles. I was tired when I got home, and my father was too, but he made us a delicious cold chinese noodle. I did my homeworks and finished things I had to finish. I went to sleep.

Monet June 27th, 2005
Monday
Today, I woke up at about 8:00am, and I went down stairs and ate my breakfast. I went up and brushed my hair and teeth. I put my school supplies hurryingly and jumped out of my house to the humid, hot, and heavy air. It is very hot these days. It's about 30 degrees to 35 degrees. I rode on my bicycle to school. When I came next to the bamboo bush, I saw three boys in front of me, and they were Kenta, Youn suk, and Joji. They are the students who are in the same class as me. I passed next of them, and parked my bicycle at the flower shop.
When I got to the classroom, they were already in the classroom, and they looked very tired of running. The first class was Japanese time. We checked our worksheets.
The next class was Math time. We continued with the worksheet and did things we usually do. They weren7t any change.
Now it was recess time. I went to the computer room and tried to finish my homework, but I couldn't. I did that in the boring classroom for twenty minutes.
The third period was my favorite class, Playground time. I played volley ball and jump rope. It was very hot, actually too hot in the rubber made lime green and ruby red play ground. I like to play, but I will become sweaty and feel hot so that my cheeks are ging to be pink.
Next was computer class. I didn't have a good time at all. I had to finish my script for our project with Remina, so Mister Thompson, our Computer class teacher told us not to go eat lunch until we finish our script. We didn't finish it, so we didn't eat our lunch for today.
The last two periods were Reading and English. We discussed about a book called Outsiders and wrote some details down on a peice of paper/
School finished and I felt free. I got my bicycle and waited for Marisa and Teiko to come in front of the school. They came after some few minutes, and we went home. When I got home, I felt like I was in another world, because it was so cool in my house that I was quite surprised. I rested and did the game I bought on Saturday. The game is so fun and the dogs are so cute!
I ate my dinner and did my homework after that. I had a took a bathe and went to sleep after I did some things I do daily.

Monet June 28th, 2005
Tuesday
Today I woke up at 7:30am. I did the usual things, and went to school. I rode on my wine red bicycle and hurried to school. There was nothing interesting in the morning today.
The first, third, and the fifth period was Reading and English. We did Let's Go Learn( a computer tutorial system) and a discussion of the book Outsiders's chapter 2.
The second period was Math time, but we didn't actually do any work today. We talked about where we are going for the Summer Vacation, what pet we have, and about foods. I had fun talking and listening.
I had recess, and I went to Mister Bond's Science Lab, because Remina had to ask something to him. Other than that, I walked around looking for my friends.
The fourth period was Japanese time. We discussed and corrected a worksheet for Cameleon, and we also worked on two questions which Miss Sato, our Japanese teacher made.
For Lunch, I ate kimchi pork and drank a glass of mugi tea. I sat with my friends and Miss Sato. I don't know why that happened, but it was interesting because I never sat with a teacher for lunch before.
The last period was Art time, and we continued to make our miniature houses. I forget about time and time passes fast when I am building a house.
School ended, and I was so happy. I went home by my bicycle and went home with Marisa only. I got home, and held a memorial service for our goldfish, Ran. I did my game and wrote a letter for the present after that.
At about 3:53pm, Soe came to our house and we played with games, read some magazines, and kind of chatted. After a few minutes, Marisa and I gave him his birthday present. We went outside and called Yuichiro to play with us. For the first few minutes, we played with some balls and frisbies, but after that, we played with water. Everybody splashed water to each other using a water gun and two hoses. We all got really wet, so I felt my body get heavy. I ran around to get away, but it was fun to get hit by water on a hot day also.
When I was walking to a place, I saw Sarah. She was at Guam and also at her mountain's house, so I was surprised that she was back. She joined in and got soaked by cool water. I had fun, and got wet. I went home at about 6:40pm or do.
I ate my dinner and did my homework unhapilly. I got ready for tomorrow's field trip, and went to sleep. Today was a wet day.

Monet June 29th, 2005
Wednesday
Today, I woke up at 6:55am and phoned Sho. I got the message wrong from my father and Mao(my friend) so I made three students late. They were Sho, Joji, and Younsuk. I didn't realize that until I came back to my classroom after the field trip(a field trip is a trip to go somewhere with your class or some other classes). I got ready to go to the school and rode on my bicycle to school.
I got to school at about 8:20 to 25. I waited for my teacher to lead us to the bus. At about 8:40am, we went down to the bus, but we left at about 8:55am. I was still kind of sleepy and was very bored on the bus. I didn't have any fun conversation with my seat mate. She was Mao.
I forgot what time it was when I got there. We went out to the slightly dark air and I saw the navy blue ocean. Actually, it was in between that color and lime green. It wasn't a clean ocean, but still, I was impressed by the sea anyway.
We started getting ready for riding on a yacht. Some people changed, but I didn't. Next, everybody wore a life jacket. It was mustard yellow, and they had some mosses on them.
We were divided into two groups, which were boy group and a girl group. We rode on the yacht, and started to move. We saw small fish, big fish, and dead fish. The wind was kind of cool and it was raining, but it didn't really matter, because we're going to get wet anyway. We played by splashing water to the boys, so we were soaked, wet. The water wasn't clean, but I didn't really care when I was actually on the boat.
After an hour or so, we went out of the yacht and cleaned our selves with are dry towels. My clothe stinked because of the sea water. We changed our clothe.
We got into the bus and ate lunch, which were 3 sandwiches, a rice ball, a banana, and an apple juice. I tasted good after a ride on a yacht.
We rode on the boat for about one hour and a little bit more, then we got back to school. most of the students went out to the playground and played some sports, but I was inside of the classroom, because I was worried of something. I wasn't feeling good at that time, but now, I feel kind of happy.
I went home and played with my friends again. We didn't use water today, but we had fun anyway. Yuuichiro's mother and he went out to buy a cake for his birthday party, and also bought six sweet snacks for us(Marisa, Soe, and I). We ate them and played around until it was 6:00pm.
I got back to my house again and did my homeworks before I sleeped.

A Week in Sakura's Life

2005-06-28T23:14:00.000-04:00

Sakura
June 18 2005

Today was Saturday, so I was going to sleep more than the other school days but I woke up early today. I saw the time on the screen of my cell phone which was too bright for my sleepy eyes, and it was still 7:30 a.m. I tried to sleep again, but my pet dog Rose was snoring way too loud beside me on the bed so it made me get out of my untidy bed.
I walked to the kitchen, and sat in front of my breakfast. It was a sandwich with ham, lettuce and cheese. Beside that, there were some sliced boiled egg and a slice of melon. I was too lazy to eat, so I put the sliced eggs into the sandwich and ate them slowly. It was more delicious than I expected.
At noon, I went to an international school near my home, to have a barbecue party for the graduates there. I was invited by a parent. When I entered the school campus, I was too nervous because the students were kind of staring at me. My mother recommended to eat some meat but I couldn’t because I was too nervous and I was also kind of full because of the sandwich I ate for breakfast. So I just drank a can of orange juice. (it was kind of warm and a little bit gross.)
After this, I went to another party of my sister’s friend’s birthday party at American Club. One of the rooms was reserved for the party, and the half of that room was the dance floor. I was surprised because there was a mirror ball on the ceiling. It was like a disco. (I haven’t been to a disco but the mood was similar) I became a little hungry (well, I am always hungry) so I went to an Italian restaurant with my mother and the mother of my sister’s friend. I ordered a risotto of gorgonzola cheese and it was so delicious. I hope I can eat that risotto again.
After we finished eating, we went to pick up my sister and said good bye to everyone. My mother, my sister and I went home by the taxi. In the taxi, my sister slept so my mother had to carry her even though her back hurts a lot. Finally we arrived at home. My mother and my sister took a bath and slept, but I had to practice for my piano lesson, so I played the piano for about half an hour even though I was so tired and I was almost going to sleep in front of my piano. I finished practicing the piano and took a bath. I read some and went to sleep. It was a very busy weekend day.

Sakura
June 19 2005

Today was my favorite day of the week, Sunday! I felt happy because my life is always busy and full of things to do, so it is the only chance to be relaxed and do whatever I want. It was a very tiring day yesterday, so I woke up a little later than yesterday. Yesterday I woke up at about 7 a.m. but today, I woke up at 8:30 a.m. by the bell of my home’s door. I knew that my mother and my sister Maria left home to go to the camera studio and take the video. She is seven years old. She does modeling, and she’s sometimes on TV. This time, she is in the video for little kids, and it is in English. She speaks English too. I guess she speaks better than me.I walked to the kitchen, moaning as always and ate my breakfast. (I was too sleepy so I don’t remember what I ate because I didn’t think of it while eating.) I finished eating and played piano for a while. My hair was kind of curled up in many different directions because I forgot to comb my hair so it interrupted me a lot.After I played the piano, I got ready to work on my school homework and started it. I had to do three handouts for my algebra class, work on the activity in my Japanese class, and work on some grammar. The time passed quickly and it was noon when I finished.My mother and Maria came back from the studio and ate lunch. I don’t remember what I ate for lunch too. (I’ll try to remember from the next time) We finished eating and took a break. After the break, we went shopping near my home. I had to buy a birthday present for my classmate and her name is Clara. I found a nice bag in the store and the cost was cheaper than I expected, so I bought that for her. (For me too but different color) Next, we went to a toy store for Maria. My mother said that she did a good job today in taking the film, so she bought a toy for her that cost about \4000. (About 40 dollors) I think it’s too expensive for a reward just for taking a film. Finally, we went to a CD shop and bought some CDs. Usually I listen to R&B and Hip Hop music so I bought two CDs of my favorite genre.We went home and ate dinner. I put the songs of the CDs I bought today in my iPod and listened to it. I got ready for school and I played some music while I was getting ready. I took a bath, and chat with my friends on MSN, and finally went to bed. It was an enjoyable day.

Sakura
June 20 2005

Today I woke up at 7 a.m. and I knew that I slept way too much. So I jumped off the bed and ran straight to the kitchen. My mother yelled at me, “You should have slept earlier!” but I didn’t have time to answer her so I just kept on eating. I ate a toast with strawberry jam on it and I drank the tasteless and cold green tea. (That was gross!) After the breakfast, I brushed my teeth, combed my hair, and changed in hurry. Maybe that took about 5 minutes because I was super quick. At the door, my mother threw me the lunch box and said, “Don’t you need your lunch? And you’ve forgotten your cell phone on the table at the dining room!” So I told my sister to bring my cell phone while I was tying my shoelace.I ran to the bus stop and caught the bus. I slept in the bus today because I was so tired by running to the bus stop. I arrived at school and I left my bag at the classroom and went to the music room to practice the French horn. A French horn is a brass instrument which I play in the band. Some of my friends were already there. I finished my practice, and the siren rang so I ran back to my classroom.My first period was Japanese. I worked on the activity which I was doing, and discussed with my friends and it was over early. Next period was math, and I kind of hate math. The teacher wasn’t strict, but I got nervous. I feel worried if I don’t understand the question. I’m taking the Algebra-1 class and I did probability today. Math was over and it was recess time. I played volley ball with my friends in the hot sun. It was quite fun. After the recess, it was a free PE time so I continued playing volley ball. The next period was computer, and I worked on my individual programming assignment. After the tiring computer period, it was lunch time so I went to the cafeteria with my friends and ate my lunch together. We talk a lot about school while we eat. Today, I talked about the boyfriends and the girlfriends in my school. After lunch was reading time, but we had to catch up with the grammar work, so we worked on that. We discussed about the blog and it is based on elaboration which means adding more details. I like elaborating because I like telling people about many different things.After school, I played volley ball again with my friends and went home together by the train.When I arrived at home, I practiced the piano and relaxed for a while. Then I ate my dinner,( I don’t remember what I ate) and did my homework and took a bath. I felt really tired and when I looked at my clock, it was already about 11p.m. So I went to sleep straight hoping that I can wake up early enough tomorrow.

Sakura

June 23 2005

Today, I woke up even later than the previous days. It was 7:10 already, and I really got surprised when I saw my clock. At this moment, I realized that I forgot to set my alarm. I went to the kitchen saying “What a stupid thing to do…” to myself. I felt so angry that my mother didn’t wake me up. I bit my toast angrily and went to change my clothes.After I got ready, I ran to the bus stop again like I do everyday. Unfortunately, it was raining hard. I felt so stupid again, and stopped running. Even though, I caught the bus on time, and I tried to sleep in the bus but the other little kinds were so loud and I couldn’t sleep. I increased the volume of my iPod, but I still could hear the kids shouting and making some noise.I arrived at school, and I went straight to my homeroom today. I was too tired to practice for the band so when I went inside the classroom, I walked to my desk, hang my bad beside my desk, and slept. I woke up about 20 minutes later because one of my friends was bothering me. I moaned, and started getting ready for the first class which was Japanese. The bell rang, and I went to Japanese class. I was kind of awake because Japanese class was so fun. I enjoyed the class, and I got ready for math. When my math teacher came inside the classroom, I started yawning again and again and again. I was lucky that the teacher didn’t see me yawning so many times.I played volley ball outside as always, and the ground was slippery so I slipped twice in recess time. It was so embarrassing. After recess, I had reading class which was kind of good because the book we are reading as a class “The Outsiders” was fun. I was kind of sleepy, but I listened to my teacher talk as best as I can, and the reading class was over. I had science next reading class, and it is the most boring class I guess. We never do labs in summer school and the teacher just gave us some handouts to work on, and we have a test about the handouts at the end of summer school. I was too lazy and too sleepy to work, but I finished 2 handouts today. After science, I ate my lunch and played volley ball again. The ground was becoming dry. So I didn’t slip this time.After, I had English class and we worked on elaboration and sensory words. I got some homework to finish and hurried to the music room. My favorite class was music, and I love it! We are playing the hand bells as a class and we started a new song called “The Music Box Dancer” the tempo was quite fast, and difficult. Finally, the school was over, and I went straight home today because I had to have piano lesson.I arrived at home, feeling so tired, and practiced the piano for a while and the teacher came. I didn’t practice much, so I was so nervous. I thought that I should have practiced more. The lesson was over, and I worked on my homework. I ate dinner after doing my homework and watched my favorite TV drama and it is about volley ball. I had so much fun watching that. I took a bath after watching the TV and went to sleep. I promised to myself to wake up earlier tomorrow.

Sakura
June 24 2005

Today, I woke up too early. I woke up at 6 o’clock but I thought that it’s better that waking up too late. I woke up because of my dog Rose again. I was a little bit irritated because most of the time, she wakes me up.
My mother wasn’t awake yet. I was the first one to get up, and I walked noisily to make others wake up. I tried to find something to eat and I opened the refrigerator. About 10 minutes later, my mother woke up and I ate a butter toast with some green tea. I drink green tea every day because it has a lot of caffeine in it and it helps me wake up. I finished eating breakfast and started getting ready to go.
I went to the bus stop 5 minutes earlier than yesterday. I stood in the hot sun for about 7 minutes and became sleepy again. So I slept in the bus as usual.
I arrived at school, and went to homeroom immediately. I wanted to play the playing card with my friends so soon as I get there, I grabbed my card out of my messy bag and started shuffling.
I played the game called speed for 10 minutes and went to the first class. It was Japanese, and we worked on the activity as always. Next one was math, and it was kind of boring. Everyday in math class, I get so sleepy and I can’t stop yawning. The thing is, I kind of get how to solve the questions, but I don’t understand what my teacher is saying. Also, I try to copy what he wrote on the board but I can’t read, and he erases so fast. It is more difficult to understand him more than to understand the questions.
I had recess right after math, and I practiced the volley ball serve with my friends. I was wearing a black T-shirt so I started sweating so fast. After recess, I had free playground time for 45 minutes and I was sat for a while and practiced serving. I had my favorite subject, Music next and we practiced a new song by the hand bells. I did the most difficult part and I almost dropped a bell because I had to change my bell so quickly. Even though it was fun! I hope I can do it better next time.
I ate my lunch as fast as I can after Music and practiced serving again. My stomach was aching because I started practicing soon after I finished eating.
I had an English class next and we discussed about elaboration and sensory words. One of my friends wrote a blog about him and the discussion of blog using elaboration soon changed into his love story. It was so interesting hearing about him and a girl, and when we looked at the clock, it was almost half past the next period which was Science! We ran to the Science class and worked about 10 minutes. Finally our classes were done.
After school, we had a volley ball practice for about three and a half an hour. It was still so hot outside and it was so bright to look up to bump the ball. (We don’t have a gym) For today’s practice, there were two guests. One of the guests was a parent of my friend. She was the ace of her volley ball team, so she came to teach us how to get better. Another guest was a girl who graduated here before and she was the captain of our team. So the practice was harder than the usual practice and I learned a lot from the guests. I got better in setting the ball up and we also did the switching which was so complicated. I made mistakes many times and the coach seemed to be angry.
Finally the hardest practice ever was over and I went home with my friends. I hurried up because there was a volleyball game on the TV. It was Japan verses Poland. I watched the game for about on hour and finally Japan won.
I was so tired so I took a shower and went to sleep straight.

Sakura
June 25 2005

Today was a very special day. I had a traditional ceremony at my family’s new house which is almost going to finish building. When the new house is build, we do a ceremony. We throw the Japanese dumplings (It is called a MOCHI), and we also throw some snacks. We even throw some tallies made of wood and it says “One bottle of wine” or “One box of beer” etc. We throw them from the roof and people at down stairs catch them. This time, we threw them from the balcony on the second floor because the roof was too high to throw, and it is kind of dangerous.
We prepared three boxes of 100 sacks of dumplings in each box, and of course, it was way too many. From the moment that I saw the boxes of it, I knew that our family will be eating them for about 2 weeks everyday. I knew that I will be bringing some of it for my lunch to school, I knew that I had to eat some at morning, and even at night. I realized that there will be a mountain of dumplings in the kitchen. So I threw them as many as I can to not let my family become the dumpling sick. We threw as much as we can and at last, I even tried to throw the whole box in desperation. Finally, 100 of the dumpling sacks were left. I felt sad that I felt like I had to eat them everyday until we finish eating everything. My sister likes it so she seemed to be happy but not me.
We went back home and ate some dumplings as lunch. It was good though. After lunch, we went shopping near our house. We borrowed some DVDs from the CD shop and went to a boutique to buy some clothes for summer. I bought one pair of jeans, one white shirt, and one sleeveless shirt.
We went back in a hurry to watch the volleyball game on the TV like yesterday. It was Japan verses Korea. In the Olympic last year, Japan lost Korea so it was kind of revenge. The game went over smoothly and finally Japan won! I was so happy and I shouted a lot like I am a crazy person. I ate some dumplings again as dinner and took a shower. Later, I opened my computer and asked my friend about the homework and went to sleep. It seems like I’m going to dream about the dumplings.

Sakura

June 26 2005

Today I woke up at 9:30, but I wasn’t sleepy. I walked to the kitchen and looked for my breakfast. I realized that my mother and Maria were away because of the ballet lesson that Maria is taking, and I also realized that my mother forgot to keep my breakfast. I wasn’t hungry, so I played the piano until they come back from the ballet lesson.
About 1 hour later, they came back and went shopping like we do always on the weekends. We went to a big department beside the station. First, we went to eat some food. We ate at Italian restaurant. I ordered a pizza and some garlic bread. I was so hungry, so I ate them quickly.
We went to the book store next and bought some books. I bought a book called “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and it is about the place called the Narnia. I have read the other series of this book, so I bought this.
Next, we went to an accessory store and bought a birthday present for Maria’s friend. My mother bought me a bracelet with some pink stones and I love it! It is so cute and gorgeous.
After the accessory store, we went to Hargen Dazs (I don’t know the right spelling) and bought some ice creams. I bought an ice cream with flavor of rum raisin. My mother bought a strawberry ice cream, and my Maria bought a chocolate ice cream. We walked to the car park eating the ice cream. We walked slowly because we were eating the ice creams.
We went to the other department to buy some food for tonight. We bought some fried shrimps ( It is called a TENPURA in Japan) we bought some sushi too.
We hurried back to home to watch the volleyball game. The game was Japan verses Brazil. I had so much fun watching and eating the tempuras together. I cheered Japan of course, and Japan won for the first two sets of the game. From the third set, Brazil won the two sets and finally, there was a fifth set. I shouted and screamed to cheer Japan and dogs went away from me because I was too noisy. Finally, Japan lost but I think it was a good game. It was already 9 o’clock so I took a shower and did my homework and slept. I hope I can get up early tomorrow because tomorrow is the worst day of the week, Monday.

Sakura

June 27 2005

I woke up late today. Every morning I think that I should have woke up earlier. I ran to the kitchen, and my dog followed me and I said “Don’t follow me!” in an angry voice. I got a little bit irritated because she chased me and she seemed like she wanted to play with me. I could eat quickly because I was kind of irritated still, so I could also get ready to go early enough to catch the bus too.

I caught the bus and slept as usual. When I arrived at school, I went to the homeroom and I took a break for a while and I went to the first class, which was Japanese. Today, I did the presentation of the activities that I was working on. Next one was math, and I was so sleepy as always. I never understood what my teacher says, and it becomes harder and harder to solve the equations everyday.
After math, I played volleyball again, and I had free playground time about for one hour. I got sunburned too. I played volleyball with my friends as always. There was no net for volleyball but at least we could play so we had a lot of fun!
I had a computer class next and I worked on programming. My programming is kind of hard. If you press the keys, it will play the notes and even plays a short song. It is so difficult but we can have a lot of fun to figure out what the errors are and so on.
After lunch, I had Reading class next. We worked on LGL which is Let’s Go Learn. We sit in front of the computer and worked on the exercise. I did 3 lessons for today. We also did the study about the novel called “The Outsiders”. The story is about the gangs. I only finished reading the two chapters so I don7t know the story well yet but it seems interesting.
The Reading class was the last one for today, and I had the hardest volleyball practice ever today. First, today’s weather was too hot. Actually, I sweated even if I did nothing. I just stood in the middle of the playground and listened to my couch’s instruction, but I didn’t stop sweating. At last, My T-Shirt was totally wet and I was so shocked because my couch got angry at me. I made the same mistake over and over so he got angry. Maybe he didn’t get mad but it seemed like. So I decided not to make the same mistake again in the next practice.
I was so tired so I went home as fast as I can with my friends. I arrived at home about 8:30 p.m. and took a shower. After, I started working on my homework, and practiced piano for a while. Finally, I went to bed about 1 o’clock. It was a tiring day, but I enjoyed my day.

Sakura

June 28 2005

Today I woke up at just at 7 o’clock. I was so surprised so I could get out of my bed quickly. Today was a beautiful sunny day so I felt happy. My breakfast was Miso soup and a bowl of rice. I ate them watching TV and I got ready to go.
When I stepped out of my apartment, I felt so hot and I even stepped back inside the apartment lobby again. It was so hot and damp outside and it was too bright to open my eyes. I stayed inside for a moment, and I stepped out again and walked tiredly to the bus stop. I started sweating even though I was just walking. I caught the bus soon after I arrived there and went to sleep like I don everyday.
I woke up when the bus arrived at school. I went to the homeroom sleepily and slept again. I had Reading class first and I worked on LGL. It helps to increase the reading and vocabulary level. Next was math as usual, and it was boring as always. The questions were getting harder each day and I couldn’t understand the question either. Of course, I didn’t understand my teacher too. I played volleyball with my friends again, and went back to the Reading class. I worked on the novel and discussed about how we do the “retelling.” After Reading, I had Japanese. Today, there was a visitor teacher who taught us as the test if that teacher can be the teacher here. My usual teacher was sitting behind me and looked and listened how he taught us. The new teacher was kind of funny, and he was kind of old too, but I liked the way he teaches. I hope he can become the teacher here. After the lunch recess, I had English class. We discussed about doing the elaboration as always. The last period was art, and we worked on making a house by using the boxes. I finished the outer part of the house, and I worked on making the furniture by the clay. The bell rang and I took the bus and go home straight today because there was no volleyball practice today. Also, I was so tired to I decided to sleep earlier.
I arrived at home and ate some snacks while I watched MTV. After eating some snack, I practiced the piano for 1 hour and stared on my homework. The homework wasn’t much today, so I finished most of them before eating dinner. I ate dinner and watched TV about volleyball and continued working on homework. I took shower after doing my homework, and went to bed. I could sleep earlier today.

A week in Minagi's Life

2005-06-28T20:36:00.000-04:00

June 17th, Friday

Today it is the fifth day of summer school which is extra school during summer vacation for people who got F’s in their grade or wants to learn more. I woke up at 7:00, changed clothes, and had breakfast. For breakfast I ate Danish pastry. After that I brushed my teeth and combed my hair. At 7:36, I went out of my house and went to my school bus stop which is a 1 minute walk from my house. I got on the school bus at 7:40 and was at school by 8:25. At 8:55 it was homeroom which is when everyone at school has to be at their class. Our first class was reading. Our class talked about blogs and about retelling a book called “Ruby Holler”. After reading we had math. We learned algebra 1, exponential expressions. It is so hard and I only understood half the period today. Then it was recess. Me and my friends played tag in the blue mat area, which is a place like a garage with blue mats and big soft mats are placed. I really like playing in the blue mat area because it’s cool and there are mats every where to play with and to rest on. We also had playground time, which is a time to play outside on the playground. There, we played with the big soft ball. Last time it was so fun because our class, only 6th grade got to use the whole playground but today we had 7th grade together and somehow some 8th grade too. Then we had grammar and talked about blogs again. For lunch we ate chicken casserole at the cafeteria. It was quite good. At lunch recess we again played tag in the blue mat area. Then it was Japanese time and we did a kanji puzzle. At computer time we are now creating homepages. It’s quite fun because you, yourself can make it! At 2:30 it was time to go home and I rode the school bus home. At 3:30, I got home.

June 18th, Saturday

On Saturday I woke at 8:00 because I didn’t have school. My mother went to my little brother, Daichi’s open house at school even though it’s Saturday. I stayed at home and did some of my homework, which was math and reading. Because my mother didn’t have to be at the open house the whole day so she called me and told me to come out and have lunch with her. I met her at the place she told me to be and ate lunch at an Italian restaurant. I ate spaghetti and so did my mother. On the way back home we saw a shop with a poster that said 50 to 90% off! We got interested and walked inside the shop. My mother bought me a white jacket but my mother did not buy anything. After that we went home but got on the car and drove to a supermarket. We bought a lot of food for the barbecue on Sunday. I was supposed to have tennis from 7:00 and we still had an hour till 7:00 but my mother and I were too tired to go to Odaiba, which is place not really close to where I live so we didn’t go. That is what mostly happened on Saturday.

June 19th, Sunday

On Sunday I woke up at 8:00 again. Our family got ready for the barbecue. We got on our father’s car and went to a beach that took us about 1 hour and a half by car. By the time we were at the beach, we got ready for the barbecue. I ate corn, beef, and rice. It was really good!! After eating, Daichi and I made a small campfire using twigs. But gradually the fire got smaller but my father stuck in dried grass in. Then the fire got larger and larger. During the grass was burning we collected wood. After a while the campfire stated to make a loud popping noise. It was the bamboo! After that we all got hot, we decided to swim in the sea. I swam around and found starfishes! But then Daichi found a jellyfish! I swam really fast to the beach. Luckily no one got stung by the jellyfish. Then we went on a small adventure. There was a “Keep out” sign but no one seemed to be there so we decided to go inside. Inside there was a dark cave and as we went inside we found an old shrine, which is a Japanese holy place. It looked old and scary but I prayed in front of it. After that we decided to go to a place called “Spa Resort Mikazuki” which is a place that has a public pool and a public spa. I like playing in the pool there because there is a water slider, a turning pool which is a donut shaped pool with the water flowing in a circular direction. It was really fun! It was already quite late so we also went to the spa and had a bath. We went home but we got hungry so we ate ramen at a restaurant for dinner.

June 20th, Monday

Today I woke up at 7:00, changed my clothes, ate breakfast, brushed my teeth, and combed my hair. I went to my bus stop and got on the school bus. I had reading for the first period and checked our classmates’ blogs. The next period we had math. We studied almost the same thing as Friday. Next was recess and we played in the blue mat area as usual. After that was grammar and we discussed about the blogs. At computer we worked on our web pages. Today’s lunch was French toast, chicken nuggets, and clam chowder!! This is what almost everyone likes! It tastes really delicious especially the French toasts. For lunch recess we played in the blue mat area as usual because it’s always fun! Then we had Japanese and learned about Japanese grammar. Next we had playground time!! We played soccer with the volleyball. It was fun but I got really hot! I got on the bus and went home.

June 21st, Tuesday

Today I woke up at 7:00 and did everything as usual. I got on the bus and in about 40 minutes I was at school. My first period was reading again and we had the 7th graders together. The next period we had math and our teacher told us that we have a test tomorrow!! For recess my friends and I played tag at the blue mat area again. After recess we had music and we played the xylophone. Next was grammar and we did retelling about a book called Ruby Holler. For Lunch we had Vietnamese style lunch, rice, and sunny side egg. It wasn’t bad but I really didn’t like it. Again we played tag for lunch recess. Japanese we did a yon-moji-jyukugo, a Japanese four letter idiom puzzle but we didn’t finish it so we are going to do it tomorrow too. For art we made houses out of cardboard, paint, paper, and other stuff. I rode the school bus and went home.

June 22nd, Wednesday

Today I was supposed to wake up at 7:00 as usual but I overslept 20 minutes and was waken up by my mother. After that I did everything as usual but a little in a hurry. My first period was reading and we did spelling. For math we were supposed to have a test but a movie called “Sea Biscuit” reserved for everyone at the cafeteria so the test was cancelled. But the movie was moved to the last period. At recess my friends and I played tag at the blue mat area again.For art we are still making houses. Today, lunch was radish boiled with minced chicken. I didn’t like the radish but I liked the minced chicken. We played tag again for lunch recess. Next was Japanese and we did a maze and the puzzle we didn’t finish yesterday. It was supposed to be science the last period but the movie replaced it. We could only see a little bit of it but it seems interesting. When I went home I made an apple pie with crumbs with a little bit of my mothers help. It was very delicious plus it’s quite easy!!

June 23rd, Thursday

Today I woke up at 7:00 but I was very sleepy and before breakfast I lied down on my bed for a minute. Today’s breakfast was pancakes which were not very big. I didn’t like today’s weather. It was humid and it was also raining. I got on the bus. It was quiet until other people got on. The first period was reading. We did “Let’s Go Learn tutorials” which is an internet tutorial that lets us increase our reading comprehension skills, vocabulary, and other stuff. It’s quite easy! For math we had a test as our teacher told us. There were only eight questions and I got six questions right! I think its good enough for me because I’m not so smart and also the questions were quite hard. At recess we were supposed to play at the blue mat are as usual but a teacher told us that even though we had permission, a teacher had to be at the blue mat area. So we went to the playground and played volleyball. Next was music and we did rhythms. For grammar we learned about sensory words. For Lunch we had Vienna sausages and potato baked with cheese. It was good but I didn’t like the cheese. But it smelled good. For lunch recess we asked Mr. Meyer, a very kind teacher that teaches intensive students to come to the blue mat area and he said okay. We played tag and it was really fun. I got really sweaty and hot! For Japanese our future 7th grade Japanese teacher came to see what we’re learning. He was a man and looked kind. I was a little relieved. For science we did tear resistance stuff. In the bus I wanted to listen to music but the battery was dead. When I got home I had to go to tennis.

June 24th, Friday

This morning I woke up at 7:00 as usual, wore my clothes, which was a white short-sleeved shirt and a pair of black jeans, and ate breakfast. Today’s breakfast was toast. Today I had reading for my first period and we did a spelling test and word skills stuff. For math we studied about scientific notations but it was easier than the one in the previous chapter. For recess, all most all of our time was wasted for finding a teacher to look after us in the blue mat area. Next was playground time so we went to the playground next to the blue mat area. My friends and I played tennis. It was really hot today and by the end of the period, I got really hot and I felt as if I were boiling in hot water! (I think it was 23 degrees in Celsius!) But I had fun playing tennis with my friends, even though I’m not really good at it. Next was grammar and we continued on word skills but the topic gradually changed into people that have feet like pigeons and people that have hair all over their body. Next was lunch and we had chilly shrimp with rice. Although it has “chilly” on the name it wasn’t really chilly. At lunch recess the very kind and nice teacher, Mr. Meyer looked after us although he had lunch recess playground duties to do. Next was Japanese. For computer we worked on our web sites and inserted pictures into our sites. It was fun! When I went home I went to my swimming lessons and swam for 1 hour. It was hard but I could play with my friend, Milei. After my swimming lessons I went to a place called Shizuoka, where my grand parents live. It’s about 2 hours and 30 minutes away from my house. It was already 10:30 p.m.

June 25th, Saturday

Today I woke up at 9:00 and ate breakfast. I wore a yellow shirt and a blue pair of jeans. My mother and my aunt went out and my boy cousin, Akihito, which is 19 years old, went out too. So my grandparents and I went to my grandmother’s sister’s house, which is only 5 minutes away. We went there to pick peaches that are growing a lot in their garden. The peaches weren’t big as the ones they sell in the super markets. They were as big as a tennis ball. I pulled off a peach that looked sweet and juicy. My grandmother let me eat a peach that we picked. It was really juicy and sweet! The juice dripped down my hands as I ate. It was really good. After that Daichi and my grandfather went fishing to the river just in front of my grandparents house. I picked flowers with my grandmother and went back to the house earlier than Daichi and my grandfather. At home I cut the peach because my grandmother would put the peaches that look sour into sweet water to make it sweet and softer. Then my grandfather and Daichi came back holding a fish not big but not small in their bucket. They said that there weren’t so many fish in the river. When my cousin came back we went out to eat dinner. We ate dinner at a sushi restaurant. It was good and I ate quite a lot.

June 26th, Sunday

Today I woke up at 8:30 and ate breakfast. I didn’t do anything for a couple of hours. I just watched TV, lied down on the sofa, and went to the garden. Then I went to my grandmother’s sister house because they told us she’ll give us fresh vegetables and fruits that she made in her farm. I washed my mother’s car with Daichi. The water was cool and it was fun washing the car. Suddenly the siren of an ambulance and a police car rang. It past by our grandmother's house and stopped at the neighboor. I went to see what was happenin. There were alot of people talking and whispering. There was a car crashed into the house. A person next to me told me that the driver and the two women on the car was all asleep so they crashed in. The driver and one of the woman was rescued but the other woman was stuck. I don't know anything after that but it was a very surprising thing that happened. Then I went to the river with Daichi and Akihito. We rode our grandfather’s jeep which Akihito drove. We also did fireworks at the river. It was small and not so big but it was quite beautiful. For dinner we did shabu-shabu, a Japanese way of eating meat. We take a thin slice of meat and boil it for about 5 seconds in really hot water. It was really good. After dinner Daichi, Akihito, and I watched the volleyball game of Japan verses Brazil. Japan was winning in the beginning but they lost. Then we left Shizuoka at 9:40 p.m. and went back home to Tokyo.

June 27th, Monday

Today I woke up at 5:30 because I forgot to bring my homework to Shizuoka. I did everything except for my math homework. I changed my clothes into a white no-sleeved shirt and a pair of blue jeans. My breakfast was two waffles. It smelled very good and it tasted well too. The first period was reading and we did LGL (Lets Go Learn) tutorials again. For math we checked our homework which I had to do by tomorrow with a 5 percent minus. For recess we played tag at the blue mat area as usual. Next was grammar and we did a group spelling test. Our class was divided into two groups and I was with Ruby, Noriko, and Nikashi. Our group got 30 out of 37 and the other team got 27 out of 30. At computer we made links and made our web pages look nicer. Today’s lunch was minestrone soup, melon, fried potatoes and a ham and cheese burger. I didn’t like the ham and cheese burger but I liked the minestrone soup because it had pasta in it too. For lunch we did tag in the blue mat area. The next period was Japanese and we did a kanji word search. Next was playground time!!! We used the blue mat area to play tag. It was very fun. On the bus I slept and when I got off the bus I went to the convenience store and bought a cold peach tea. I really like it! I went to tennis when I got home. The teacher on Monday is really kind and funny. He almost always buys the students juice after the lesson too! Today we ordered pizza for dinner and now I am waiting for the pizza.

Tuesday June 28th

Today I woke up at 4:30 because I was so hot and thirsty! I got out of my bed, got water in a pet bottle, and washed my face. I tried to sleep after that but I couldn’t because I was still hot! My mother heard the noise and came to my room. I told her that I was hot so she turned on the air conditioner on. The first few minutes were very good! My bed is like a bunk bed but the first floor is a desk so the air of the air conditioner comes right on me. The air was so cool and comfortable but gradually I got chilly and finally I had to change the temperature to a higher temperature. After a few minutes, I went to sleep again. I woke up and changed my clothes. I wore a white t-shirt and a cream colored middle length pants. My breakfast was a slice of bread. It was simple but there was condensed milk with it so I liked it. The first period was reading. We did an individual spelling test of the one we did for yesterday. The next period was math. We checked our homework and our teacher taught us the chapter 4.5 which is hard to explain. Next was recess and we played a game that we copy popular stories, for example “Cinderella” and “Snow White”. It was fun and it was also funny watching my friends acting like a character. For music we played “Joshua Fought the Battle” with the xylophone. My part was so hard and I can’t play everything yet. Next was grammar and we checked a classmates blog. We had kimchi with sautéed pork for lunch today. I didn’t like it because I can’t eat spicy food. For lunch recess we played that game and tag again. Next was Japanese and our future 7th grade teacher taught us today. For art we continued on our houses and made furniture. After school I didn’t ride the bus because there was a horse back riding camp meeting at school so my mother would come. I played at the playground until my mother finished listening. Natsuko’s mother came to the meeting too so she rode our car home. On the car, my mother and Natsuko’s mother talked about me and Natsuko going to Maui to scuba dive because I have a license and Natsuko might get one too. I hope it will come true!

Wednesday June 29th
Today I woke up at 4:30 again because I was hot again but today my mother turned on the small fan on for me so soon, I got to sleep. At 7:00 my alarm rang but I was too sleepy to wake up. I turned it off planning to wake up a minute later but when I woke up it was already 7:20. Today was our field trip and we were going sailing so I wore clothes that I didn’t care getting wet and dirty. I wore a swimsuit first and on top, a light blue pair of shorts and an ASIJ (American School In Japan) sky blue t-shirt, which I got when I went to the summer school of that school. For breakfast I ate soft bread that had sweet margarine inside. It was very good. There wasn’t too much of the sweet margarine inside and the bread was also good too. When I got to class, I was the third one. But my friend, Giselle didn’t come when it was 8:30, which is the time we were going to ride on the bus. But just in time Giselle came to the bus. On the bus, my friends and I listened to music and played cards. It was about a 1-hour ride to the yachting place. When we were there it smelled like salt or dried seaweed first, and I didn’t like the smell but I got familiar with the smell after a few minutes. We divided ourselves into girls and boys. We wore a lifejacket that they lent us. Then we got on the boats. The sea was a blackish green color because there was sludge. First they used the motor to go to the fish’s cave because the fish will jump around when they hear the sound of the motor. When we were at the fish’s cave, we watched the fish jump at the back of the other boat. Then we went near Disney Sea and Disney Land. I saw the volcano of Disney Sea clearly. We rode on the wind and slowly went back. When the wind stopped, the adults turned the motor on and some people got to handle it. When we saw the other boat we would splash them water. And the best part was when the rescue boat made a wave with its engine and when our boat hits it our boat would shake. It was really fun but I got chilly a little bit. When we were back we thought we could have a hot shower but the teachers said that there was no time for taking a shower so we changed our clothes with the salt water dried up on our bodies. We got on the bus and ate our lunch. The lunch was rice ball, three pieces of sandwich, and banana. Some people said that it wasn’t enough. At school we went to the blue mat area and played tag until it was homeroom. On the bus home, I slept because I was tired. It was a really fun day.

Pictures from Newark NJ

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A day in Joji’s life in Japan

2005-06-26T11:52:00.000-04:00

Joji Thursday 23rd

Today I woke up late because I was typing my blog thing until mid night. Then when I finished my blog homework, I asked my friend to mail my blog file to my hotmail account. I usually wake up at 7 during the week days but I woke up like 7:10 that day. Mornings’ 1 minute is different from the weekends’ 1 minute because I ride the school bus to get to my school so I can’t miss even 1 minute. I woke up late I had less time to eat my breakfast. I was so sleepy so I forgot what I ate this morning.At the bus, I slept until the bus arrived at school but it was not enough. We had Japanese first. We are at summer school so we are happy go lucky. Next we had math. We are doing a equation solving but I still don’t get it. Then we had recess. I went to the library to paste my blog work but I forgot my MSN password!!!!!! I thought I was in trouble and that was right. When the reading time started, I went to tell my reading teacher that I forgot my homework because of my bad memory. He was angry and I was kind of angry too. He told me to go to the principal’s office. When I went there, she told me that she understands my situation. She knew me since I was grade 1 so she believed me. So, she said to me that I should work harder to be noticed by my teachers that I am working hard. After that we had science. This one was also happy-go-lucky. The class was sometimes quiet and sometimes noisy. When the bell rang, we had lunch so I flew away from the science room and went a place called cafeteria (where we eat lunch). Today’s lunch was kind of a toast with potato. It was ok. I just wanted to play outside so I ate as fast as I can and jumped to the playground. Our playground is as small as a ordinary private garden. We played some catch because I brought my glove today. I had fun but I was super tired after that. We still had some more studies. It was English!!!!! During English time, we studied about adding details to some sentences to let it sound good. My English teacher was same as my reading teacher. I was little bit scary but I went to him and talked about what we are going to do from now on. When I was waiting for the bell, the bell rang. I was so happy because the next subject was Music!!! We rang the hand bells. We played a song called “When You Wish Upon A Star” It was popular so when I played the song, I knew it immediately. It was beautiful as a river stream. The bell rang quickly. I was unhappy because I like music and it’s interesting to play the bells.After school, I went to the playground as usual and played catch as usual. I love baseball more than anything. (Girls are better) I was so tired so I went home with my friends but we stayed at a station called, “Ogikubo”. We talked about girls and baseball.When I arrived home, I immediately went to chat. I chat with girls and my friends. During chatting, my friend said to me that my favorite girl had a boy hanging out with her. When I heard that, I was shocked and angered a little bit so I went to take a swing with full og my power. My feeling was angry about this afternoon and sad about my favorite girl. I swung 500 swings today. I had injuries in my hand but that was ok because that was a proof of a man.After that, I ate my dinner. It was Japanese dumplings with octopus in it. It was so delicious. Then when I went back to chatting, I asked her if she is really hanging out with a boy. She said no. I was a little curious about it. She said she broke up 1 month ago but my friend said they are still seeing each other. Of course I believed her. I felt like I am in heaven because she was free. I was sleepy and tired so I went to bed quickly after taking a shower.

Joji Friday 24th
Today I woke up at 7:30. I immediately changed my clothes and ate my breakfast. I ate a BLT sandwich which stands for “Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato.” After I ate I got on the bus. There are many kinds of buses. A, B, C, D, E, F bus in our school. I ride the E bus to get to my school. I always sleep on the bus while it gets there. When it arrived, I went to my homeroom to get my Japanese homework done. I couldn’t finish it because the bus was late.
The first period was Japanese. We read a book called “Chameleon.” It is about a guy changing his personality because of his people around him. For example, if he has a person who is older than him, he would talk to him really politely but on the other hand, if there is a person younger than him, he would talk very roughly. The lesson I want to tell is that he changes his personality like a chameleon. After we finished reading, the bell rang. The next period was Math. On Friday, we always have a fun day. It is called integrated Math. Math and Art is combined on every Friday. We made a snowflake with a colored paper called, “Origami”. When I was making the sixth snowflake, the bell rang. It was quite fun. We had recess and then playground time. We played baseball for almost an hour. Only baseball. Such as catch, fielding, and pitching. When I was enjoying it, the bell rang and we had to clean up the mess we made. Next period, we had… Music!! We went to the music a little bit late. We quickly got ready for ringing the hand bells. We played a song called “Music Box Dancer”. It was fast tempo but we kind of cleared it. Since it was so great, our music teacher called another teacher to watch us play the music. They were impressed. After that, we went to eat lunch then play. The lunch was boiled shrimps with chili sauce. It was good. I went outside then played baseball again but the bell rang very fast. We had to go to English class. It was all about elaboration and our blogs that we wrote. The period went smoothly. We had to have science next but, everyone forgot about it. When we knew that it was science time, it was 15 minutes before homeroom but still, we went to the science room. Our science teacher was so angry. The bell rang soon as we arrived there. We went to the playground immediately. We played catch then went home quickly. I went to chatting and talked with people and my favorite girl (my lesson is to elaborate the sentence but I can’t elaborate about the girl). I was not angry today. I went to my bathroom to take a shower and went to bed immediately.

Joji Saturday 25th
Today, I woke up a bit late. It was 9 o’clock. I was too lazy to eat my breakfast so I stayed in bed for 30 minutes. I had a tutoring that day. When I finished tutoring, we ate lunch together. My tutor said it was delicious but I had a stomach ache and I was feeling bad after we ate our lunch. Our lunch was, dry curry. My tutor went home but my stomach was still aching. And then I went to bed for a nap. I slept about 2 hours. When I woke up, it was 4 o’clock. I didn’t step out of my house so I went for a walk. I came home at 5. I quickly ate my dinner. My dinner was Ra-men. I wanted to go to the chat room but, I realized that my favorite girl was on a trip. I was bored and I went to swing a bat upstairs. I swung about 100 swings. I was really bored after that so I took a shower and jumped into my bed.

Joji Sunday 26

Today was full scheduled and Friday was my mother’s birthday. I didn’t realize that. When I woke up at 9: 30, I changed my clothes and ate my breakfast quickly without knowing about my mother’s birthday. My mother’s friend had a 50% off ticket for Uniqlo. It is a store of clothes. It is quite cheep. I bought a sport’s wear. Those were silver and a white sporty shirt. After Uniqlo, we went to the batting cage. When we arrived there, I met my mother’s cousin. He said that he came to celebrate my mom’s birthday. I was surprised when I heard that because I didn’t know my mother’s birthday and never thought that it was today. I didn’t care about that. I just wanted to bat and play catch. He was good in baseball so we went there immediately. I hit about 5 times. 1 time is about 20 balls. After that, there was a place were we can play catch so we played catch and also pitched a little bit. My ball is not that fast but I have some curve balls and other pitches. When we were finished with pitching, we went to eat our dinner. It was ShabuShabu! ShabuShabu is a food that we boil the meat in the water and eat it with some special sauce. It was good but there were one problem. We were so hungry and this member eats so much. We ate our meat in less than 30 seconds. The meat is about 15 centimeters long and there are about 10 of them in one set. The staff was very surprised about our speed. We ate so much but after the meat, we also ate udons. They are Japanese noodles and it is thick. We ordered about 6 of them. The restaurant was full of customers but our table was marked by some waitress. We ordered so much that one of our mates tried to go to the bathroom and open the door, the waitress went to her and asked what we wanted. Normally, we order by ringing the bells in our room but that time, we order too much so the waitress thought that we ordered more dynamically. After eating, I went straight to home and took a shower. I quickly got ready for my school and went to bed.
　

Joji Monday 27

Today, I was very tired so I overslept a little bit. I thought it was the usual time but it wasn’t. I always change my clothes quickly but today I was too lazy to change quickly. Then I went downstairs to go eat breakfast. Then I smelled acidic smell from the kitchen. She was making a vinegar salad. She said to eat the vinegar salad but I declined to eat it. So I ate my own rice ball. I ran to the bus stop to catch the school bus. But, when I noticed that the bus was about to turn the corner, I thought I had to go by train. When I arrived at the nearest station from my school, I met my friends, they are Yonsuk and Kenta. We got off in front of Seven Eleven. I bought a fruity ice cream. Then we ran to our school, and when we were about to finish climbing up the stairs the bell rang. Our classroom was on the third floor so we ran up the stairs as fast as we can and when we opened the door, our strict teacher, Mr. Lara, was there. We came into the classroom sliding, he knew that we were running because we were out of breathe. He said to walk up the stairs again without running. When we got to the classroom again, we had to leave the class because our first period was Japanese. We answered some easy questions in the book, when I finished the bell rang exactly. Then we had Mathematics. We played a game of getting an answer in using many operations as you can and the answer has to be twenty-four. We were grouped by fours, boys and girls team. We called the girls “the freaks” because they read a comic called “inuyasha.” Not all of the girls are nerdish. Only them. They are, Remina, Mao, Marin, Hibiki. They are like crazy. They always talks about their favorite magazines. Then we won and got some money to buy some ice creams. After math, we played outside. The playground was so hot like a desert but still we played catch. After playground, we went to the computer laboratory to finish our project. Me and another person’s project was to record an audio. We wrote the script and the bell rang. We ate lunch and went to the playground again!! Today’s lunch was ham and cheese sandwiches. It was ok. Then when we arrived at our English class, we went to the computer laboratory to get our “lets go learn” skill developments. They are programs that helps us learn more vocabulary. After the bell, we read a book about a gang star. They were soso. I like the slangs when they use it in the book. It is called, “The Outsiders.” After the bell, I quickly went to the playground to play some more catch. I was tired so we julied. Julied is our own language. Near our nearest station, a message is sprayed. It says E.T Juice. What I want to say is that we took the Ju part from juice and we combined fly. It means, lets fly to Juice! It is kind of a mystery talk but we know it. After we talked some “ girl talks” with today’s late members. I went straight home and studied science for a while and took a shower. And finally, went to bed at 1:00 o’clock. 　

A Day in Fatisha’s Life

2005-06-24T13:00:00.000-04:00

Saturday
Well I really didn’t do much, but I had fun. I chilled with my sister Rene. She is the half sister on my brother’s side. We went to all types of places. The only thing was that my other sister was not with us to make it exhilarating. My sister and I went to a house party. That turned out okay until some boys came in that had on gang colors, and the parents did not allow that in their home so they canceled the party.

After they canceled the party I walked around with my sister. Our curfew was not until 12:00, so we walked to see a friend. We sat there and joked around. When we saw that it was getting a little late, we started walking. Then we thought we had enough time to chill with another friend. We walked to his house, listened to some TuPac. That was fun also.

Twelve o’clock hit and it was time for us to hit the bed. We went in the house and whipped up a little something to eat. Then we joked around with my mother. Our night went just right. Even though we didn’t have the party or have our third wheel I really think I enjoyed myself that day.

A Day in Hosea’s Life

2005-06-24T12:53:00.000-04:00

It was a sunny day as I was coming from school. My cousin and I were going to her house to do our homework. As we went we said hi to our friends and family. As soon as we got to the house we did our homework. After that she went in her room and I watched TV and played with the dogs.

Soon after that my uncle asked me did I want to walk the dogs with him. So we put their leashes on and took them outside. First we ran for a while then we walked. We had saw my other uncle and I talked to him for a while. His hair was all messed up. Some of it was braided, some had beads on it, and some of it was just out. He rubbed the dogs and played with them for a while. Then we went to see my uncle’s friend, who sold newspapers. But when we saw him he wasn’t selling any. All he had on was a blue hat, white sneakers, and sky blue shirt and pants.

While we were there we went to the store. As we were leaving the dogs started fighting and we had to pull them apart. When we were walking past 20th street I saw a black car with tinted windows go by and I asked my uncle was that police but he said no. But suddenly the black car swerved around and drove up to this house. Then I saw another black car and a white escalade drive up. It looked like the truck was going to hit us. Then men came out the vehicles and were asking a woman what was her name and that’s when I noticed they were police. Then we went back to the house talking about what had just happened.

Some Days in Janay’s Life

2005-06-24T11:38:00.000-04:00

On Sunday my day started off very nice because what I did was get up and play with my baby god sister. Also I helped my grandmother cook breakfast for the family. They said it was good to them and my godmother said that it was good to her and she did not know that I could cook like that. Later on that day I went outside to play with some of my friends. We played chase in the street and you know me I had to shake somebody up before getting caught to be it. The first one to get caught was going to be IT the next round. So I was trying to not get caught first because I wanted people to chase me so that they could get embarrassed in front of everybody. Because that would mean they got crossed by a girl. Finally I went to the house and helped to cook dinner too since I did such a good job with breakfast.

On Tuesday my day started off great. Because our schedule got messed up in school we had to stay with Mrs. Negron for the first period. Then we went to Mr. Scott and so on…but in Mr. Scott’s room we had fun because the math work that day was easy and fun to the class. To fast-forward the day, we went outside. First we were all having fun. Then Jonathon and Yamin started to argue and then started fighting, which was very funny to everyone.

My day on Thursday was good and bad because first my classmates and I were having fun. Then I got into a fight with this girl and had to do five days suspension for it. I found out it was the principal’s daughter too. If it was not his daughter I probably would have just gotten two days instead of five. I just left it alone because I did not want to get in more trouble as it is, by either my mother or the him.

Friday my day was wonderful because I got to ride my bike, scooter, and skates too. I also played with all my friends. Then I got to see the game where there was three girls vs. three boys and the girls beat them. At first it was tied up. Then it was not. Then it was again. Finally the girls won and the punishment was they told the boys to get out of the park for five minutes. Then I went in the house and played a game with my little bother for the rest of the day and beat him in basketball fair just like the girls did the boys earlier. It was a girl power day.

On Saturday my day went so good because I was over my godmother’s house spending the weekend over there. Also it went good because we were playing football in the street half of the time. Then we started to get tired of that so we began to play taps with the basketball. Next we went in the house and started to play with the baby and also watch cartoons with my godmother, and also my godbrother. I got really sleepy and the baby did too. So we took a nice long nap.

A Week in Soe's Life

2005-06-23T19:29:00.000-04:00

June 17th, 2005 Friday
Today I ate breakfast and brushed my teeth and went to school. At school I was the only boy because my friend Nikashi was absent. I felt kind of lonely because rest of my class are girls. We had Reading in the first period and we learnt about blogs. Then it was recess so I went outside and did nothing. When it was lunch I usually sit with Nikashi but he wasn't here so i sat with my UI freinds. Then we had playground time so I went outside to play I played basketball with the 7th graders. Then we had computer and we are making a homepage using a program called NVU. Then I went home and ate dinner and now I'm typing my blog. I will now take a bath then sleep.

June 18th, 2005 Saturday

I woke up took a shower and went to my balcony to refresh. I felt good and I ate breakfast. It was sausage, bread, scrambled eggs, and grape juice. It was good. Then I watched TV but it was animations for little kids so played gamecube for about 2 hours. Then I went outside to take a walk and I took a nap. I didn't feel like eating lunch so I ate chocolate, milk, and icecream. Next I played gamecube again for about 2 hours then I read a 4 comic books. Then I read a book called Ruby Holler and answer some questions for the weekend homework and now I'm typing up my blog. Typing a blog is kind a fun so I like it.Next I have to memorize what I read about Ruby Holler and then I'll be able to take a bath and sleep.

June 19th, 2005 Sunday
Today it was my birthday so I got some presents. I got an Ipod speaker from my mom, a new laptop computer from my dad which I didn't need because I have my old one and connecting to the internet is troublesome for me, and I got 2 CDs. One is Oasis and the other is Maroon 5. I liked Maroon 5 than Oasis. Then we(brother,dad,mom,me) went to a Italian restaurant called Chianti and ate some good food. Then we went to Jiyuugaoka to look around.Then we came back home. I came back home and played with my new computer, put some musics into my Ipod, and now I'm typing up my blog. I'll play some games and sleep.

June 20th, 2005 Monday
Today I woke up at 8:00 and I brushed my teeth and changed my clothes and went downstairs to eat breakfast. Then I got my bag and walked to school for about 10 minutes. When I was at school everyone was here. First period we had reading and we learnt about blogs again. We edit our classmates work and then we had math. We are learning hard stuff and I don't understand. Then we had recess and I played outside. Then we had grammar and we learnt about blog again. Thehn we had computer and we designed our web page. I like making web page because it is so cool. Then we had recess and ate our lunch. Our lunch was french toast an d chicken nuggets. Then I went outside and played basketball and soccer. Then it was japanese. We learnt about japanese grammar and it's so hard. Finally it was playground time. First I played soccer with the whole class then I played basketball with NIkashi,Ruby,and Yuki. Then I went home. At home I ate dinner then I took a shower and I was in my room finding my TI. TI is a scientific calculator and it does all the math. I finally found it and packed my bag. Finally I went to sleep.

June 21 ,2005 Tuesday

I ate my breakfast, changed my clothes, and brushed my teet and went to school. First period was REading and we had a class with the seventh graders. We had to read a book and memorize and retell to our teacher Mr. Lara. Then we had math. I hate math because it is hard. I wish I could go to the easier class of math. Then we had recess so I played outside. Then we had English and then japanese. Thwn we had art. In art we are making a house with a piece of cardboard. I think it would take the whole summer school to make it. Then it was time to go home. But I went outside and played. I played basketball, soccer, and catch ball. Then Mr.Dilk our principal came and said the playground is going to be closed in 30 seconds so we rushed out. Then I went home At home I first washed my hands and ate snack. Then I did my Ruby Holler Retelling sheet. Then it was dinner. Then I took a shower and after taking a shower I read 3 japanese comic books. I really like japanese comic books. I getting sleepy so I'll sleep. Good night.

June 22,2005 Wednesday

Today I woke up at 7:30 and ate my breakfast , brushed my teeth, and changed my clothes. Then I grabbed my bag and walked to school. Since it was a rainy day my jeans were wet when I came to school.Then we had reading the first period. We had to retell the book were reading called Ruby Holler. Then we had math. We were supposed to have a test but we might have an assembly so we didn't do our test. Then we had recess. I played in the blue mat. Blue mat is a place where you can play at recess or PE when it is raining. In the blue mat we played tag and I galloped really fast and got tired. Then we had english. We did spelling. Then we had lunch. When I was done I dashed to play in the blue mat. When the bell rang I quickly went to my japanese class. We did a puzzle of japanese kanji and a maze. Then we had science but all the junior highs went to the assembly hall to watch a movie called sea biscuit. I did'nt like it very much and we only saw the first half. Then it was time to go home so I went home. Today I had guitar lessons. I love it when there is a guitar lesson. My guitar teacher had a new guitar and it was the color of almond. It was cool. I wish I can have everyday. Then when my guitar lesson ended I went downstairs to eat dinner. Then I did my homework and now I'm typing up my blog. When I'm finished with this watch TV then sleep.

June 27,2005 Monday
Today I brushed my teeth and changed my clothes and went down stairs to eat breakfast. When I went down the smell of the sausage went in my nose and I got more hungrier.Then I ate my breakfast and raced down to school.I read the board and it said to copy and paste our blogs in to Microsoft word but I couldn’t because I didn’t type my blog. My computer is getting fixed so I couldn’t use my computer, so I wrote my blog on a piece of paper. So I have to transfer it to the computer.Then we had reading. We studied about words that we don’t know that starts from the letter “A”. Then we had math. We learned about easy stuff but I don’t remember what we did. I got my glasses the other day and I couldn’t see the board so I put on my glasses. Then my classmates never saw me wear glasses so they started to laugh.Then UI had recess, so I went out to the playground and played catch ball. It was fun playing in the playground but the bell rang and we had to go to class.I was a bit late so I rushed to the class. And then we had English. We did a spelling quiz. Then we had computer. We are making a web page by using a web page making program called NVU. It is quite complicated but I got used it. Then we had recess. I ate BLT. It tasted bad. The cheese in the sandwich looked like plastic. Then I played in the playground. Then we had Japanese. We did a puzzle about Japanese kanji. I t was quite easy. Then we had playground time. We were first playing in the playground but we were sweating so we went to the blue mat. Blue mat is a place where you can play when its raining and it has a roof. We played tag there. Then we went home. Today I had guitar lessons. Then I did my math homework. And now I’m typing up my blog.

Pictures from Newark New Jersey

2005-06-23T12:06:00.000-04:00

OSNAR MEZA TORRES

2005-06-22T22:04:00.000-04:00

1)Interacción con tus compañeros de (colegio,vecino,mascota y mienbro de la familia.)
Rpta:I like to report and to exchange urfomatien with my family and my friends.

2)¿Cuales son tus pasatiempos?
Rpta:My tasks and to watch tv.

3).-Comidas desayunos.
Rpta:My favorite breakfast is the bread with egg and coffe with milk and my favorite food is the rice with chicken.

4).-Diversiones (computadora, television,vacaciones)
Rpta:My uniform with Igo to shool consists in may pants,a white ,red sneater,socks. And blacks shos.

5).- Cosas que suceden en el colegio ( recreo , cursos del colegio ).
Rpta: Last simmer i travel to the beautiful city of ICA . the HUACACHINA lake . Were it she spends it well close to my family , this city .Has variety of wine and his your typical food is excellent.

6).-Vestimenta ( uniforme)
Rpta: Chompa roja , camisa blanca y pantalón negro.

7).-Lugares que has viajado ( nombre y como has llegado)
Rpta: He viajado a CHINCHA , PISCO , ICA y en las tres oportunidades he viajo en bus.

NOMBRE : OSNAR MEZA TORRES
PAIS: PERU
CIUDAD: LIMA

a week in luis andre orellana soto s life

2005-06-22T18:35:00.000-04:00

My name is: luis andre enrique
My hobbies: are play football,play tations,drow
My food is:ceviche,arrozconpollo,causa rellena y salchi papa
My entertainnent:internet,fooball
My favorite sabjeti: lenguaje y literatura, quimica, razonamiento verbal
My school clothes:short white,socks black,pants black,sweater red and write

Mis vacaciones
Me fui a las playas del sur, de barranco, chorrillos, el callaoy la punta.
Jugaba football todos los días en mi barrio con mis patas de ahí, a veces
Ayudaba en mi casa con los que haceres por ejemplo barría lavaba los platos.
En mis tiempos libres me ponía a dibujar caricaturas me iba a Internet.
Agua fría bueno bye

luis andre orrellana soto

A Week in Lamira's Life

2005-06-22T14:00:00.000-04:00

My teacher gave us a Health Assignment chart for seven days. She checked the chart to see that all the entries were done. We then completed a frequency table (activity and the hours spent on each activity). We created a bar graph using the data from the frequency chart. We converted data from the frequency table to a circle graph and line graph too. Lastly we had to create a plan of attack. I found out that I slept more than I did anything else. I designed a plan to decrease my sleep time and increase my exercising and the time I spent on household chores. I tried to put the plan I came up with into effect. I redid my activity chart and frequency chart two weeks later. The second time around I had different findings. This time I did increase the time I spent outside and that was a way to get healthy.
Lamira
Newark, New Jersey

a week in roy life

2005-06-21T20:30:00.000-04:00

One week of my life:

Mi name is roy, in my house I am playful, i have time par each thing that I make.at school I a litte anxious I participatein class and I am responsible, in the breaks all my companions get together.
my pastimesare be at the computer, to listen to musica.
My favorite meals, could be aji de gallina.
my entertainmentparticipate in the olympic games.
My scool, betweeen the courses I do not have courses in special.
My clothes, in the I ajue with the niles and I obey what they indicate ,in my house my parents teach me how I behave and alsuto be better.
Trips, hre I went to trujillo, I nere beach that is huanchaco and museums.
Mi name is roy of peu,lima.

A week in yuriko s`life

2005-06-21T16:28:00.000-04:00

I LIKE MY FAMILY AND MY FRINENDS VERY MUCHI I LIKE TO PLAY,
CHAT WITH MY FRIENDS.I LIKE TO CAT RICE WITH MILK,CEVICHE
AND TURKEY. I LIKE TO PLAY MY COMPUTER AND LISTEN TO MUSIC
ON THE RADIO AT SCHOOL I TALK WITH MY FRIENDS I LIKE TO DRESS
FORMAL. I HAVE VISITED PIURA , CUZCO, ICA

LUNES :ME LE VANTO EN LA MAÑANA A LAS 7:00 PARA IR ME AL COLEGIO
DESPUES SALGO A LAS 2:30 DEL COLEGIO ME RETIRO A MI CASA A ALMORSAR
TERMINO DE ALMORSAR REPOSO 15 MINUTOS ME PONGO HACER MIS TAREAS TERMINO MIS TAREAS ME VOY A MI COMPUTADORA A ENTAR AL MSN UN RATO
EN LA NOCHE CENO Y ME ACUESTO A LAS 9:00 DE LA NOCHE ESO ES MI VIDA DE LUNES A VIERNES .

LOS SAQBADO Y DOMINGOS SALGO A FIESTAS MATINALES DE 6:00 HASTA LAS
11:00 DE PM BUENO ESA ESTODA MI VIDA Y MI MSN ES yurikocrazyloveforever_22@hotmail.com
sambita91@hotmail.comk,

Rubina's Summer School life in Tokyo

2005-06-21T03:13:00.000-04:00

Friday, June 17
Today my mom woke me up at 6:00 a.m. as usual, but I actually woke up at 6:05 a.m. I went to the living room to eat my breakfast, which was sandwich, and changed my clothes after eating. I brought my bag from my room and went to the living room again for my mom to tie my hair. After that it was 6:47 a.m., time to leave so my mom drop me to the Koiwa station by car. I rode train for about 45 minutes and got out of the train at the Yotsuya station. I waited for the school bus with the other people who ride the same school bus as me. The bus came in about 7:40 a.m. and I rode it until 8:25 a.m. The class started at 8:55 a.m., with reading. Each subject is about 45 minutes. Then it became math. Our math class had problem with our homework so we took one period to discuss and do the homework. After that it was recess! I played tag with the girls. It was playground time, which is similar to PE, after that so we didn’t stop playing after the first bell. But when the second bell rang we stopped playing for a while and started playing as a playground time. After playground time it was English. We discussed about the blog website and it became lunch. Today’s lunch was chicken casserole, broccoli, and jelly for desert. I are casserole yesterday too so I felt a little disappointed. During lunch recess I played tag again with the girls. After lunch was Japanese. Our Japanese class did a word puzzle, which we didn’t finish it. The last period was computer. There is only 6 periods a day in summer school. Our class is making a homepage. We did it for 45 minutes but most of the people didn’t even finish the main page. The bus students were dismissed early then the students that go home by them selves. I packed in quickly and went to the bus quickly to get the seat. Sometimes I can’t get a seat. Because our computer teacher dismissed us early I got a good seat, which means that it is far to the noisy boys. I rode the bus until the Shinjuku station. The reason why it is not the Yotsuya station is that I can’t sit to the Koiwa station unless I ride from the Shinjuku station. I rode the train reading a book for about 50 minutes, and when I got out from the Koiwa station my mom picked me up by car and went back home. From 7:00 p.m. I have Tae Kwon Do, a Korean sports that uses feat, so I ate my dinner at about 5:30 p.m. and changed into my Tae Kwon Do clothes and went to the place on 6:30 p.m. After Tae Kwon Do I was so sweating and tired, so I took a bath very quickly, brushed my teeth and went to bed as quickly as I can.

Saturday, June 18
Today I woke up at 7:50 a.m. I was tired because I did Tae Kwon Do yesterday and slept a lot. I went to the living room and went to the place where the computer is. My grandmother came and said to me to take the food from down stairs, so I took it and started using the internet. I used the internet and went to many sites. I turned on the T.V because it was quiet. I don’t like it when it’s quiet. Then a few minutes later my mom came to the living room, and changed the channel. I was surfing the internet and my mom was watching T.V. Then it became 9:00 a.m. and my little sister woke up. I started playing with her. Then it became 10:00 a.m. and my mom said to me to change my clothes. So I changed and I played with Leila, my little sister again. It became 10:40 when I looked at the clock so I took my bag and went to learn piano with my bicycle. Piano starts at 11:00 a.m. and ends at 11:30 a.m. When it ended I went back quickly and ate my lunch. Then I left my house at 12:30 to go to my cousins’ house. Usually I won’t go to my cousins’ house because it is noisy but today Cecilia, my friend from 4th grade was at my cousins’ house so I went. I talked with Cecilia for a while and went to the park by the scooter. We talked a lot on the swing but when my noisy cousins came, we left and went to travel around my cousins house. We spent a lot of time traveling and talking. We went back sometime to rest, drink, and eat. But after a while we always go out with our scooter. At about 4:30 p.m. my mom, my cousins’ mom, and Cecilia’s mom went somewhere. We stayed inside the house and talked even my cousins where noisy. We ate chocolate and talked. When our mothers came back it was time for me to go back home. I went to the DVD, video, and CD rental shop and rent a CD. My mom had to go somewhere at night so she bought me sushi to eat. When I came back to my house I took a bath and while I am taking a bath my mom left. I surfed on the internet and watched T.V. Then I got bored so I did my reading and math homework. I took only 35 minutes to do it, and it was still 8:38 p.m. so I went to the living room again and watched T.V. My mom said before leaving to sleep until 9:30 p.m. so I brushed my teeth and went to bed after that.

Sunday, June 19
Today I woke up at 8:10 a.m. this morning. I played with Cecilia a lot so I was tired and slept a lot. I surfed the internet until 9:00 a.m. My mom woke up at about 8:30 a.m. When it was 9:00 a.m., I watched a cartoon until 9:30 a.m. My mom told me to change my clothes so I changed. We went to a place called Akihabara with my mom’s car at 10:00 a.m. Akihabara is a place were there are a lot of electric stuff. We went to buy my own computer there. At the first shop I went, there was a good computer but my mom didn’t like the maker so she didn’t buy that. We went to many other shops but finally we bought it at a duty free shop. The maker was Vaio, same as my mom’s computer. It was 12:10 when we bought it so we went to a restaurant. The restaurant was clean and quiet. After eating we went to a CD shop because my mom wanted to buy a CD. I bought a CD but my mom couldn’t find the CD she wanted so she bought a DVD. She watched that DVD in the car. She didn’t really like it. When we came back my mom fell asleep and I watched T.V while she was asleep. She slept about two hours and I watched T.V about two hours. When she woke up it was about 4:00 p.m. so we went to my cousins’ house to pick Leila up. When we went there, Leila was playing with my cousins, my mom, my cousins’ mom, and Cecilia’s mom talked, and Cecilia and I played. We traveled to places and talked. When we were traveling there was a Japanese boy and he said, “hello”. We ignored but he said, “see you” when we passed. We thought that he was making fun of us. We played about an hour. Then my mom and I pushed Leila into the car. Leila was crying because she wanted to stay at my cousins’ house so we needed to push her in the car. Because she was crying, my mom made her choose the restaurant we are going to. She chose Red Lobster. So we went there. The restaurant was full of people so it took about 20 minutes to eat. After eating we went back home quickly. I took a bath and brushed my teeth. After writing this blog I am going to sleep.

Monday, June 20
Today I woke up very early in the morning but I slept again so I woke up about 6:10 a.m. today. I went to the living room and ate my breakfast sleepily. Then went to my room and changed my clothes, and stuffed my books in my bag. Then I went to the living room and my mom tied my hair. My mom dropped Leila and I to the Koiwa station by car. I rode train for about 45 minutes and got out train at the Yotsuya station. I waited for the school bus with the other people who ride of the same school bus as me. The bus came in about 7:40 a.m. and I rode it until 8:25 a.m. listening to music. The class started at 8:55 a.m., with reading. We discussed about our blogs and some did a retelling. After reading was math. We discussed about the homework and did some new things. It was recess after that but I stayed in class because I forgot to bring my blog homework. Then it was English and we continued with our blogs. After English was computer and we continued with our homepages. It was lunch after computer. Today’s lunch was great! It was French toast! I ate three slices of bread. I was supposed to stay in class but Mr. Lara forgave me so I played with the other girls. After lunch recess was Japanese. We learned about grammar. The last period was playground. We played soccer with no rules. I went to the public library with Yuki and Neiju. We went but forgot our library cards so we went back to school, which our bags are. It was hot so it is terrible to walk a lot. I borrowed two books. Neiju needed to stay somewhere so we stayed in our classroom. Neiju isn’t attending to summer school but Yuki and I are, so we did some homework. Then Mr. Lara told us to leave so I went on the bus, which goes to the Ogikubo station, and Neiju too. She has Karate, a sports like Tae Kwon Do in Japan, so she needed to go to the Ogikubo station. I said, “good bye” to Neiju and got on the train to go to the Koiwa station. I read a book until the Koiwa station and it was Koiwa already. My mom took me home. I ate dinner, took a bath and now I am typing this blog. After this I will brush my teeth and sleep.

Tuesday, June 21
Today I woke up at 5:00 a.m. with my cellular phone. I had trouble with my homework yesterday, so I planned to finish it today but I actually finished it yesterday. I don’t know why I set this alarm. I went to asleep again after about 10 minutes. But today I didn’t have trouble waking up. I went to the living room and ate my breakfast, which was sandwich. I went to my room and changed my clothes. Then I had time so I sent my blog to my yahoo Japan’s mail. Then it was 6:46 a.m. already so my mom took Leila and I to the station. Our babysitter was waiting and we went on the train. I don’t need any babysitter now, but I can’t take care of five-years-old Leila. I was reading a book on the train. Then I looked at the mail I sent this morning by my cellular phone. It wasn’t there. I phoned my mom and asked to send it. It wasn’t there again. So I asked to mail in yahoo Asia’s one. It worked. When we got of at the Yotsuya station, and went to the bus stop the bus member was all there. We were the last. The bus came early and listened to music in the bus. We arrived at school at 8:25 a.m., which was a little bit early. It was reading first and the 7th graders were with us. Mr. Lara took the 7th graders to the computer room so our class just read, talked, and did whatever we wanted. It was math next. It was pretty hard, but we have a test tomorrow so we all tried hard. It was recess after that and we played tag as usual. Then it was music. We went to the music room without going back to our class. Most of the people played xylophone but I played the drum. It was English after music and we did some retelling. Next was lunch. It was rice today. I can’t eat pork so I had another lunch from the others but it was chicken so it was okay. We played tag at lunch recess too. After lunch is Japanese. We corrected our homework and did some word puzzle. The last period was art. We were with the 7th graders again. We are making a house with cupboard. I cut some parts last week but I restarted it. The bus students, which includes me, went back early. The bus students went in the bus and then, out. The girls, who are Yuki, Minagi, and I, played together. Leila was teasing my classmate, Soe, so we let her tease. Then we all went on the bus. I read comic books until it was my bus stop. My babysitter brings comic books every time she is the babysitter (there are two babysitters). I read it until it was Koiwa. The bus came to the bus stop early so we waited for my mom’s car. I was reading comic books and Leila was playing with the babysitter. When I went back home I did my homework and ate my dinner, which was gyu-don. Gyu-don is a food in Japan which beef is on rice. I really like it. I ate a lot on dinner and I went to take a bath. Then I watched a comedy channel from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. I listened to music until 8:00 p.m. I read the comic book while listening to the music. I will read the book I borrowed from the public library, brush my teeth, and will go to bed after I type this up.

Wednesday, June 22
Today my mom yelled at me to wake up but I slept over about two minutes. I went to the living room and ate my breakfast. Today it was sandwich and jelly. I ate it and changed my clothes. I lay down on my bed for a few minutes then took my bag, and went to the living room again. My mom tied my hair and I lay on the sofa. When it was time to go my mom took my little sister’s bag and brought us to the Koiwa station by car. Today’s babysitter was different from yesterday. The babysitter’s name is Sumiko Nakajima, but I call her Nakajima-san. Nakajima-san and I talked on the train even though Leila disturbed us. It was raining today and we went to the bus stop, using our umbrellas. The bus came when we just arrived and we went on the bus. I read comic books and it was school already when I finished reading it. The first period was reading, but we did spelling. The next period was math, and we were suppose to have a test, but the announcement said that maybe we were going to watch a movie at that time so we didn’t have the test. And we didn’t see the movie. It was recess next and we did tag as usual but Soe played with the girls today. Then it was English. We talked about some important things about our future, and did spelling after that. Next was art, and I finished the outside of the house and colored some parts. Next was lunch. I didn’t like today’s lunch. I thought that the UI, the upper intensive students, took out playing spot and we went quickly to our playing spot. They weren’t there but the boys came when we went in. It was annoying but most of us ignored the whole time. Then it was Japanese. We continued the word puzzle we did yesterday. It was suppose to be science next but we watched the movie. The movie stopped in the middle because we have to go home. I wasn’t upset because it was boring. Yuki, Minagi, and I played first but other people came afterwards. We went on the bus and I read the comic book that I borrowed from Yuki. The bus came to my bus stop when I finished reading it. I read a book on the train. My mom took us back home. I did my homework first, and drew some pictures. I took a bath and ate my dinner, which was curry. I drew more pictures and read my book until 7:30 p.m. At 7:30 p.m. I watched a cartoon until 8:00 p.m. Then I listened to my music with Leila. I brushed my teeth and I will sleep after type this.

Thursday, June 23
Today I woke up at 6:00 a.m. I slept at 9:30 p.m. yesterday but I was still sleepy. I went to the living room and lay on the sofa. Then my mom shouted at me to wake up and she put my breakfast on the table. Today’s breakfast was rice, natto (bean, foreign people says that it smells bad), and milk. I went to my room after eating and changed my clothes. Then I went to the living room again with my bag and lay down on the sofa. My mom said that she would tie my hair so I sat. Then it was time to leave the house so we left and my mom took Leila and I to the Koiwa station. Today’s babysitter was same as yesterday’s and I talked again on the train. Today my little sister said that her teeth hurts so much, but Nakajima-san and I knew that it doesn’t hurt that much, so we ignored her. She looked very angry. When we went to the bus stop everybody were there, and the bus came two minutes after that. My friend lent me a comic book so I read it on the bus. I finished reading it before it was school so I rent it to Yuki, when she came on the bus. She is pretty near to the school so she comes on the bus late. It was already school when I was thinking about things. The first period was reading and we did LGL (lets go learn). LGL is a site that makes us increase our reading skills. Then it was math. We did the test that we were supposed to do yesterday. It was recess and we went to our playing place but a teacher shouted at us to not be here without a teacher, so we went to the building. Then it was music. I sang one song and we did a boring thing, which is about rhythm. It was English next and we did some sensory stuff. It was lunch after that. It smelled like casserole but it wasn’t but it was near to that. There were bread too and I took two of them. We asked Mr. Meyer, the middle intensive-3 homeroom teacher, to watch us at our playing place and he said okay and we played there. It was Japanese next. A new teacher, who would come next year, watched us do our work so we did work today. It was science next and we used the whole period taping the side of fifteen papers and talking about teachers. Then the last bell rang. It was 2:23 p.m. The bus students usually go at 2:20 but our science teacher didn’t let us out. I saw Leila so I told her to save the seat, then she said okay and ran to the bus. I packed my things quickly and went on the bus. I didn’t play with Minagi today. Then the bus left and I read comic book the whole time. I stuffed my comic book in my bag when it was my bus stop. I read a book in the train like yesterday. The bus came early today too so my mom wasn’t at the station yet and we waited for a few minutes. My mom came and we went home. I did my homework first, and put some music in my iPod. Then I ate my dinner, which were noodles. Then I took a bath. Then I typed up the blog until I took the bath, and I watched a cartoon from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. surfing the internet. Then I read a book and drew pictures until 8:30 p.m. I will brush my teeth and sleep after I type the rest of my blog.

Friday, June 24
Yesterday I slept so early but I still woke up so sleepily. I went to the living room so sleepily. I ate my breakfast but I forgot what it was. Then I went to my room and lay on my bed. Then a few minutes later, I changed my clothes. I went to the living room again and my mom tied my hair. I watched Leila and my mom because I was bored. My mom was irritated and was talking to Leila so roughly. Leila was arguing and was almost crying. But my mom put her into the car and we went to the Koiwa station. Today’s babysitter was the same one as Tuesday’s. I read a book in the train and when it was Yotsuya station I closed my book. It smelled like old books. We went to the bus stop. Marie is a third grade girl, which goes on the bus at the same bus stop. And today Marie’s mother gave Leila a present. It was a doll. Then Kei, a boy in Leila’s class, came. I don’t know what happened he was almost crying. I couldn’t ask the reason because the bus came. My friend lent me a comic book so I read it on the bus. When I finished reading it Yuki came on the bus, so lent it to her. Then a few minutes later it was school. The first period was reading but our class did a spelling test. Mr. Lara told us the meaning of the word and we should write down the word. We didn’t know that so I got a bad grade. It was math next and we corrected our homework and did something new. It was recess next but we couldn’t find a teacher to look after us. It was playground next and the girls did tennis. It was hot and I had to rest a lot of times. It was English next. We learned about word skills, about context clues. Then it was lunch. Today’s lunch was rice, shrimp, and vegetable. I didn’t eat the shrimp because it looked a little spicy. I hate spicy foods! For our lunch recess Mr. Meyer looked over us again. We played a lot and were very sweaty. Then it was Japanese. We did work again. The last period was computer! We are making homepage so I like it now. We learn how to add links and add pictures. The last bell rang so the bus students went to the bus. I played with Minagi and Yuki. Leila came and said, “ko-rah Minagy” to Minagi, which doesn’t make any sense. Then I went on the bus. I read comic books that I borrowed from my friend. It was my bus stop when I was reading so I was a little bit angry. On the train my babysitter brought a comic book, but I’ve read that comic book once so I read the comic book, which I read on the bus. When I arrived to the Koiwa station I already finished so I didn’t feel angry like last time. My mom was already at the station and we went home. Leila went to the dentist because she was crying that her teeth hurt. So I stay in my house reading the comic book again and laying down on my bed. Then my mom and Leila came back so I ate my dinner, which was a Chinese noodle called ramen. It was Tae Kwon Do next. There wasn’t any girl of my age so I was a little lonely. After Tae Kwon Do, I took a bath and brushed my teeth. I will go to sleep when I type this up.

Sunday, June 26
Today I woke up at 8:20 a.m. with my mom’s voice. She came in my room for no reason and started laughing for no reason. That’s why I woke up. I went to the living room, and then went to my grandmother’s room and got my breakfast. And then, I went to the living room again. I went to my grandfather’s little sister’s house and stayed there until 12:30 p.m. I didn't eat lunch because my mom said that I need to go to the Matsudo staiton, a station near my dad's office. So my mom took me to the Matsudo station. We waited for a man named Mr. Fukaishi. Mr. Fukaishi is an engineer and he set up my computer that I bought last week. He downloaded something like “microsoft word,” downloaded “skype,” a thing that can talk like a phone, and set up the main things. It was 3:00 p.m. when we finished and we went to my cousins’ house because it was near. It was very noisy as usual. There were sounds of laugh and screaming. I read the comic book that I borrowed again. But it was hard in that noisy house. My mom, my cousins’ mom, my cousins’ dad, and Mr. Fukaishi talked. When it was 5:30 p.m. we went to eat Korean barbeque. The first place we went, it was full of people so we went to another place. It was good. But the kids were so noisy and some customers went out of the shop. We stayed there until 7:30 p.m. and went back home directly. I went to my room in a hurry and did my homework. I did a little yesterday but I didn’t finish it. Then my mom called me to take a bath so I took a bath. I was almost finished with my homework that time, so I am typing my blog and going to brush my teeth and going to bed.

Monday, June 27
Today I woke up at 6:00 a.m. I went to the living room and ate my breakfast. I don’t know why but my breakfast was curry. I ate it quickly and went to my room. I changed my clothes, and went to the living room again with my bag. My mom said that I look like basketball player because of the clothes I wear and the bag. My bag is a sport bag. Then my mom tied my hair, went to the station after that. Today’s babysitter was Nakajima-san. I talked with her until Yostuya station. Then we went to the bus stop. The bus came a very few minutes later. I read a comic book that I borrowed on the bus. The bus came to the school when I was finished reading it, so I went to the school. The first period was reading. We did LGL (lets go learn) again. In math, we checked our homework and did new stuff. It was recess after that and we did tag. After recess was English and our class did a group spelling test. In my group there was Minagi, Nikashi, and Noriko. It was fun. Then it was computer and we are still making our homepage. It was lunch after computer. I didn’t eat a lot because it didn’t taste good. Then we played tag after that. It was Japanese after recess. We did two kanji (Chinese word that is used in Japan) puzzle. The last period was playground and everybody played tag. After the last period, Yuki and I went to the public library. Today a girl named Mitsuki came with us. We went back to the school and talked a little there after we lent our library books. Then I went back home with Mitsuki. Mitsuki and I ride the same bus and the same train. I ate McDonald near the Ogikubo station because I was very hungry. I talked with Mitsuki on the train and after that our train are different so we went back alone. I went back and first tried to do my homework. But my mom disturbed me and I ate dinner. After eating, I took a bath. Then my mom asked me to bring my new computer and tried to connect to the internet. But she couldn’t. I am now typing my blog and I am going to brush my teeth and go to bed.

Tuesday, June 28
Today I woke up at 7:30 a.m. I am not going to school today so I woke up so late this morning. Today I am going to the United Kingdom embassy. I am going to go to UK from September. I am going to a boarding school, so I have to get the student VISA. I went to the living room and ate my breakfast. I ate French toast. Then I changed my clothes and went to the United Kingdom embassy by train with my mom. When we reached to the Ichigaya station we rode a taxi and went to the United Kingdom embassy. When we got off the taxi, my mom said that it is hot to me a lot of times. We went in the gate and wrote our name. The guards did a security check. We walked to the place we needed to go and stayed there until 11:00 a.m. We were called a few times but there were many people there so it took time. We gave them my passport and we need to get back my passport from 3:00 p.m. To 4:00 p.m. Then we went to shop. My mom bought me glasses. My eyes are bad but I never got glasses until now because every time when I talk about glasses, my mom gets so upset. We were done buying my glasses so we ate our lunch. I ate rice and meat. Then we shopped clothes next. Then we went to the embassy again at 3:30 p.m. to get back my passport. Some person only gets six months VISA. But I got four year and three month VISA. My mom phoned my dad and talked about that. We went back home by taxi. I first checked the fax because I asked Yuki to fax the homework. But tomorrow is field trip so I didn’t do anything except for blog. Then I ate my dinner, which was spaghetti. I took a bath after that, and I am typing my blog now while watching T.V.

Wednesday, June 29
Today I woke up at 6:00 a.m. as usual. Today, the whole junior high is going to a field trip. We are going to sail! But it was raining at the morning so I mailed Yuki a lot of times to make sure that there is the field trip today. I went down stairs, and ate my break fast. I really don't know why but it was spaghetti today. I went upstairs when I finished eating. I put on my swimsuit, a long pant, and a short sleeve shirt. I went down very slowly and my mom got mad at me. Leila and I went to the Koiwa station after that. Today's babysitter was the same one as Monday's. I talked in the train with her. Then we went to the bus stop. The bus came early again. I read a comic book on the bus. When I arrived to the school our class went to a school bus very quickly to go to the place we sail. We got our lunch on the bus. We rode the bus for about one hour. The one who had to change their clothes first changed. Then some people bought drinks. Then we went on the boat. It wasn't fun staying on the boat. I had fun splashing water to Yuki and Minagi. Because of that, everyone, especially Yuki and I got so wet. But Miho was dry so Yuki and I were so surprised. We ate our lunch on the bus. The school ends at 2:30 p.m. so we need to leave early. But we arrived at 1:30 p.m. Everybody, especially the girls, were angry because we wanted to stay there to take a shower. We played in the playground until the school ended. I am a bus student but I stayed at school even though the bus left. I went to a family restaurant called “Royal Host” and ate and talked with Neiju. Neiju's mother and my mom talked a lot. Then we all went to a department store to buy a big bag but there wasn't a good one so I only bought some clothes in “gap.” After that, we dropped Neiju and her mother to their house and we went back home. It took about two hours to go back to our house. It was 7:00 p.m. So we ate our dinner in a family restaurant called “Denny's.” We went back home and I am now typing my blog.

"a week in luis*s life"

2005-06-20T21:36:00.000-04:00

Hello i am luis from lima i live in la victoria and i am in second high school
San José y el Redentor.

My mother on her name Katiuska she the mistress of the house and on the sunday.

My father his name is Jorje he is draftsman and i have a brother Sebastian,that he has a dog its name is muñatones,it is veri restless.I like to eat spaggetti,potatoes.On sunday i play play station2 and football.I n the school my uniform is white shirt and grey pants.In my house i wear sport clothes.

At my school,we celebratie the day of the mother and of the father.In nobember the expo,in september it is the school anniversate.

I dont know Cuzco but i would like to know it on my next vacations

Bye friends

Luis Ramos

LUNES: 1.Fui al colegio, hubo practica de computación, fui a la casa de mi tia y llegue tarde.

MARTES: 2.Fui al dentista y deja ron mucha tarea.

MIÉRCOLES: 3.Hubo práctica de álgebra sali a pesear.

JUEVES: 4.Tomaron examen oral de historia y fui a Internet

VIERNES: 5.Practica de ingles y jugué play2

Luis Ramos
Lima-Perú

A Week in Sho's Life

2005-06-20T20:32:00.000-04:00

Sho

Friday June 17th 2005

It took 15 minutes to go to Kamata Station and I bought a ticket for Shibuya. It took about 25 minutes to be in Shibuya Station. When I arrive at Shibuya Station at 7:53 I bought I new ticket for Fujimigaoka. After that I waited for my friends whose Paul and Thabo. When the time was 8:00 Thabo and Paul came and we went to school using Keiou Line. Keio Line is a train that goes to Fujimigaoka Station. When we arrive to Fujimigaoka station we walked for 15 minutes and finally we were at school.

The first period was Japanese and we read a book called “Cameleon”. This book was talking about one person changing his attitude depends on that person’s or people’s rank. It was very enjoyable story and everyone enjoyed reading this book. Cause of everyone enjoying reading this book, the time flew so fast and the first period was finished.

The second period was math time and in our math time there were two classes. First class is people whose starting Algebra 1 and the second class is for people who learned Algebra 1. I was in second class. Today in math time we were learning about probabilities, and our math teacher Mr.Glen was very funny teacher and good at explaining how to solve or find probabilities. Because he was funny and good teaching teacher, this second period ended very fast for me and it was same thing with my friends too.

After recess time, the third period was playground time. Playground time is a time that you can play any sports at the playground. I played basketball with my friends in my class. But after a short game I played one-on-one with Andy. One-on-one means one person playing against another person. I was very fun.

Next period was music. I thought we are going to sing, but it wasn’t. Our class was going to play hand bells that have good soundings. We played a music called “Hoshininegaiwo” and this song was kind of hard to play for most of the people. But still it was very fun and this period ended quit fast.

After music it was lunch time, but I didn’t eat anything because I wasn’t feeling like eating foods. Other than that in my head, there was only playing basketball.

After lunch time it was English time and I learnt about Blogs and elaborations. Everybody’s face was kind of sleepy and tired but stile everyone worked hard learning elaborations.

After English time science was a last period. I was tired because of too much playing basketball and I really wanted to rest. When I went to science room Mr.Bond who’s our science teacher said that if we finish our own work then you can have free time. When I heard that soon I finished my work in about 10 minutes and I relaxed for 35 minute playing card games with Kenta, who is my friend.

When the school was finished I thought I can go home! But stile I had one more thing to do. I had basketball game playing with Colombia High-School people. When the game started I thought I ‘m not playing this game, because everyone’s height in Colombia was above 180. But Mr.Tracy who is our basketball coach let me play the game. I was so happy and I tried my best playing this game. At last 10 seconds, I run around the court to spend time because our team was winning. When the game was over I was so happy that we won to high-school people.

When I got back to home, I went to the bath and soon had a deep sleep.

Sho

Saturday June 18th 2005

Today I woke up in 9:30. Usually in week end I always wake up in about 10:00 or 11:00, but today I had to wake up in 9:30 because I had home tutor from 10:00 to 12:00. I’m all the time tired working two hours with my home tutor. My home tutor teaches mathematics to me and he’s very good at explaining how to do the questions that I don’t understand. Also he is very nice teacher so I can concentrate on my work very well. After when I woke up I changed my clothes and I wore blue long pants that comes till my knee and white shirt that comes till my elbow with 76ers’ picture in it. 76ers is a NBA team that plays well. And I like 76ers. When I finished changing my clothes I brushed my teeth and I played game until my home tutor comes. The game that I was playing is called, “Biohazard” which uses Play Station 2 and this game is holler game, and sometimes it’s very scary.
When my home tutor came in 10:10, I stopped playing my game and I got ready for working. I studied about tangent, cosign, and sign for two hours and my brain was burned up already because I work so hard.
After when I finished working mathematics with home tutor, soon I called my friend called Kazuki. He lives near my house and he’s my best friend. When I called him, he said that he can play at 1:00. So I asked that lets play together at 1:00. Than he answered, “OK.” When I finished talking with Kazuki, the time was still 12:15. So I played the same game that I was playing this morning till 12:45.
When the time was 12:50, Kazuki came to my house and first we talked about where we’re going. First we went to game center. We played soccer game and adventure game for each one hour. After playing game the time was 2:50. Still we had a lot of time so we planed to go play basketball court near my house. When we arrive to basketball court there were few people playing basketball. So we played one-on-one. One-on-one means one person doing or battling against another person. We played basketball about two hours and our face was very red, because we played a lot. When the time was 4:55, we went back to my home and drank cool water and after that we played game, called　World Wresting Entertainment which uses Play Station 2. Finally when the time was 6:00, Kazuki went home.
After that soon I ate dinner. The dinner was stake and it was super delicious. After eating my dinner I went to bath and sleep. Today was very enjoyable day in my life.

Sho

Sunday June 19th 2005

Today I woke up at nine in the morning. When I woke up I went to brush my teeth, with my brother. After brushing my teeth I changed my clothes to sports clothes. Usually, I wear jeans but today I wore sports clothes because I was going to play basketball with my friend Kazuki. For my sports clothes I wore red pants and white clothe with Iverson’s picture in it. Iverson is a famous person who plays basketball in NBA and I’m his fan. When I finished changing, I didn’t eat break fast and soon I played a game called World Wresting Entertainment which uses PS2 until about 11:00 clock. Then I was bored playing this game, so I watched AND1 DVD tile 12:00 in the evening. AND1 is people who play street basketball. After watching, I called my friend and asked where we are going to meet. After planning with my friend, I got my basketball and went to my friend’s house.

When my friend Kazuki and I met, soon we went to basketball court where it’s near from my friend’s house. When we went to the basketball court we saw a lot of people. But most of the people were high school, and there were some people were junior high like us. When Kazuki and I went into the basketball court soon we played basketball. After about 30minutes passed, we played one-on-one. In basketball one-on-one means that, one person is playing basketball with one another person. When we were playing one-on-one I knew that we are getting better at playing basketball. When the time was three in the evening, we were so tired playing basketball, so we went to my house.

When Kazuki came to my house, even we were tired stile we played a game called World Wresting Entertainment which I was playing this morning. When we played game for three hours, the time was already 6’o clock. So I said bye-bye to Kazuki and we dismissed.

When I dismissed with my friend, I ate dinner. Today’s dinner was curry and rice. It was so delicious. After eating my dinner I went to bath and soon went to the bed and sleep.

Sho

Monday June 20th 2005

Today I woke up in 6:30 and I was so sleepy because yesterday I slept very late. When I woke up I changed to free dress. Free dress in my school means you just can wear normal clothes, but not bad words in that clothes. I wore a white short pant that comes until my knee and white short shirt that comes until my elbow with Iverson’s picture in it. Iverson is famous basketball player in NBA. Then I brushed my teeth and soon went to Kamata Station riding my bicycle at 7:18.
It took 15 minutes to go to Kamata Station and I bought a ticket for Shibuya. It took about 25 minutes to be in Shibuya Station. When I arrive at Shibuya Station at 7:55 I bought I new ticket for Fujimigaoka. After that I waited for my friends whose Paul and Thabo. When the time was 8:00 Thabo and Paul came and we went to school using Keiou Line. Keio Line is a train that goes to Fujimigaoka Station. When we arrive to Fujimigaoka station we walked for 15 minutes and finally we were at school.
The first period was Japanese and we continued reading a book called Cameleon that did on Friday. Everyone most of the people read half of this story and after when we finished reading, everyone got work sheet to check if everyone read knows what happened in this story. The work sheet wasn’t very hard, and I got 100% on this work sheet. And the first period ended smoothly.
Then the second period was math. In math we are still working on probability. And I did this last year but still some part I don’t understand and since I did this probability last year it was more advanced and everyone except Andy and Younsuk understood very well. I didn’t understand very well about this so I felt that it was long long time to finish this second period.
After recess time, the third period was playground time. Playground time is a time that you can play any sports at the playground. I played basketball with my friends in my class. But everyone was tired so after playing game with everyone I played volleyball with Sakura. After playing volleyball with Sakura I played one-on-one with Andy. One-on-one means one person playing against another person. It was very fun and this third period was t\enjoyable period!!
The fourth period was computer time. Kenta, Younsuk, Paul, and I were working on power point and everyone except Paul was typing about basketball for power point. And Paul was typing about WWE which stands for World Wresting Entertainment. I like computer time and I worked very hard on this project because I was working about 76ers for my power point. 76ers is a team that’s in NBA, and O love 76ers.
After computer time it was lunch time. But I didn’t eat anything because I didn’t feel like to eat. Other that that I wanted to rest in my class room and after resting I played basketball with my friends.
The fifth and sixth period was English and we continued studying on elaboration and blogs. Basically everyone was just listening what our teacher Mr.Lara said. But I didn’t felt that this two period was long and it finished smoothly.
After the school was finished, I played alittle bit at playground and soon went home with Thabo and Paul. When I got home I ate my dinner. Today’s dinner was fish and it kind of delicious. After that I went to bath and do my typing homework and had a deep sleep.

Sho

Tuesday June 21st 2005

Today I woke up in 6:30 as usual. When I woke up I changed to free dress and ate lunch. I ate serials for my lunch and the taste wasn’t bad. When the time was 7:12, I ride my bike and went to Kamata Station as usual. When I got to Shibuya station, I waited for Thabo and Paul. When they came to Shibuya Station we went to school on time.
The first period was reading, and this period finished very fast, because we were discussing about elaboration and time flew very fast.
The second period was math and I don’t like this period because I don’t understand the questions very well. Even if my teacher explains it, stile I don’t understand. I felt that probability is hard and this period didn’t finish very fast for me.
After recess, it was reading again and stile we continued discussing about elaboration. After we finished talking about elaboration, there was stile 30 minutes left. So we worked on similar thing to LGL. LGL stands for Lets Go Learn. This LGL shows your weak point in your English skills and it tells if you are in that grade’s level. So I think this internet site is good. I was concentrating on this LGL and this period ended very fast.
After reading the fourth period was Japanese and we were stile working on the book called “Cameleon”. I was very bored working on this book, but our class was very fun because my friend called Joji is our class’ mood maker and he is very funny so everyone won’t get bored. Cause of Joji we finished our first period smoothly as usual.
When Japanese was finished, it was lunch time. I didn’t eat anything because I don’t like this school’s lunch. So I went to play outside with my friends.
After when lunch time finished, it was English time. Our reading and English teacher was the same person. On English we learnt spelling. And this period ended smoothly.
After English it was art. I like art because right now we are make our own house using card boards. And this activity is very fun. But planning takes time! Even though I like art!
The art was the last period and, school was finished. And I went back straight home with my friend. When I got home soon what I did was, I went to bath and eat dinner. After that I did my home work and soon went in to the bed.

A week in Kenta's life

2005-06-20T20:30:00.000-04:00

Friday- June 17th
Today I woke up at Seven in the morning. I was so sleepy. I went down stairs to change my clothes into normal clothes. I wore pants that went between my knee and my foot. I didn’t eat breakfast and left my house twenty minutes after waking up. I rode a train to Shinjuku Station and rode the bus, where I can sleep. The bus was full of students in AJIS. As soon as the bus arrived at school, I ran upstairs to the third floor to meet my good budds. I slept during homeroom and the bell rang for the first period. The first period was Japanese. We learned about the story called “Cameleon” Then the period went smoothly, quietly and it ended. The next period was Math. We learned about Possibilities. It was at the same room where Japanese was held. Again it went smoothly and it was Recess next. The next period was called Playground. I played basketball with my friend Youn-Suk. He was good at basketball. After that we had Music. We played the good-sounding silver bells together as a class. After Music, it was lunch. We had Doria. It is a food that has cheese on rice. It was really good. I went for seconds, it was that good. After lunch, it was English. We did a Blog lesson and a elaboration lesson. I learned a lot during a sleepy class. Everybody was really sleepy. We had Science next but it was almost like a free time. Then the school ended… but then! there was a basketball game with Columbia International School. It was an A-Team Game but I played in the game for about 15 minutes. I was surprised that we won against them. We were very happy because the average height of the Columbia International School was 180 cm. But we still won. It was a long school day and I finally went home. When I arrived home, everyone was asleep. Me too, was half asleep. I drank my last drop of my soda pop and just went down to bed. It was a really tired, but a fun day.

Saturday - June 18th
Today I woke up at eleven in the noon. I was so sleepy but I started my day. I ate brunch with is between breakfast and lunch. After eating lunch, I changed my clothes and went outside to play wit my friends. One of my friend was a member of a baasketball team so I played basketball with him and his teammates. It was a junior and cenior basketball team so it was a good practice for me. Some of their height were over two meters and most of them blocked me. I was so suprised. After playing basketball, I went to play soccer with my friends. They were good because unlike me, their sport was soccer, not basketball. While playing soccer, one of my friend was pushed by a fat big guy and broke his leg. We didn’t know what to do but just got angry to that fat guy. He said that he is not guilty but as soon as we heard that phrase, we started to fight. I was really pissed off. After thirty minutes of fight, we just got away from that fat guy’s group. As always, after playing soccer and a fight, we went to a convinience store called “Lawson Kitchen” where we can sit and eat. After playing with my friends, I went back home. I ate dinner which was Curry Rice and did my homework. After doing my homework, I woke up until five in the morning to watch a soccer match between Brazil and Agentina. It was really cool. (Argentina won) After watching the game I read a little about the book “The Outsiders” and went down to bed.

Sunday- June 19th
Today I woke up early at Seven. I wasn’t so sleepy because of yesterday. (Please see yesterday’s blog for furhter information) I went down stairs to eat my breakfast which I make by myself. I made a scramble egg and some sausages. It was quite yummy. After breakfast (Eight thirty), I went outside to do some jogging. I ran for about an hour and went back home. After comming back home, it was about ten. As soon I went to my room, I turned on my TV and watched the NBA’s (National Basketball Association) Finals. It was a team called Detroit Pistons against a team called San Antonio Spurs. Whoever wins four games gets the championship. It was 2-2 and whoever wins next has the matchpoint. I liked the Pistons better than the Spurs because my favorite player was there (Ben Wallace). The game went into overtime and Spurs won… After watching the match, my family all woke up in once because of my noisy crying sister. (She’s 2 years old) I just went out to play with my friends not noticed by my family. I again played soccer with my friend except one friend who broke his leg the other day. After playing soccer, I went backl home quickly because I went to a swimming pool for leg muscle training. It was so hard to walk fast in the water but it was a good training. After swimming, my friends called me up for a jogging. I went there with my bicycle but I left it at the street and caught up with my friends. I ran with my basketball. It was too fast, I strangled up with my basketball. We ran from Ikebukuro Station (A famous station in Tokyo) to Shinjuku Station (A famous station in Tokyo also). It was about 20 kilometers between the two stations. I was so sweaty and tired after running. I went straight back to home and ate my dinner. It was Spaghetti. I had enough, did my homework, took a shower, did my homework and ended my day…

Monday- June 20th
Today I woke up at Seven in the morning as usual. I changed my clothes, didn’t eat breakfast, and went down stairs. It was raining outside so I got my umbrella and left my house. I rode a train to a station and rode a bus there. I slept during the whole ride. When the bus arrived at school, I was still sleeping. I qickly woke up and went to my classroom. There were only two of my friends in the classroom. Everyone came after a few minutes and class started. It was Japanese and Math first. It was the most funniest classes I’ve ever had because both of the teacher for both of the subject were really funny. After a few subjects I realized that it was already the last subject. It was really fast day. The last period ended and it was homeroom. As usual, I played basketball in the playground for about an hour half and went back to my homoe with my friends. When I arrived home, I thought that there were no homework today so I just played and surfed the internet and slept. I woke up at one in the morning I watched some NBA matches on the TV. After watching the TV I just went down with the TV on. It was a really fun and a short day.

Tuesday- June 21st
Today I woke up at Seven in the morning as usual. I changed my clothes into free dress and without eating my breakfast, I zoomed off to school. I rode the train until the station where the bus stop was. I slept during the train ride and slept in the school bus too. It soon arrived to school and it was like a minute for me. I woke up and went off the bus last. I was so sleepy I went to class as soon as possible to sleep. I slept during homeroom and the first period started. I didn't to anything but just listened to the teacher. I didn't know what the teacher was talking about but I stayed awaked. It was already recess. for the third and the fourth period, I closed my eyes but pretended to be listening. When I perfectly woke up it was lunch. I ate lunch and went out to play. After lunch I was again sleepy so I slept perfectly for the fifth period. It was art next so I started to wake up. I liked art. We made little houses with cardboards. After art the school was over. For me, it was like a sleeping day. I played a little after school, and I went back home. When I arrived at home, I did my homework, did MSN messenger a little with my friends and just started sleeping. it was a sleepy, fun day !

"A week in Pamelas life"

2005-06-20T17:06:00.000-04:00

Dear friend:

Hi! My name is PAMELA I live in La Victoria Lima-Peru.
My birthday is on December 29th I study at SAN JOSE Y EL REDENTOR high school I have lots of friends at school, in my neighbor hood and on internet I have two sisters and one brother I like listening to music, riding, watching TV, playing and swimming.

Telling you more about me, I wake up at 6:30 am I have breakfast at 7:00 I usually eat for breakfast, I drink a cup of milk or yoghurt I have lunch at 2:30 pm. Finally I have dinner with my family at 8:00 pm because at this hour everybody is at home.

In my school teachers organize many events like “ expociencia” “ salida de estudios”, parties, etc.
This events help us to understand the classes in a better way.

I traveled to HUANCAYO two years a go I like HUANCAYO because it’s a beautiful place. You get there by bus.

In Peru students wear a uniform this uniform consists in a gray skirt and a with blouse, teenagers wear blue jeans and T-shits.

En toda la semana :
LUNES : Hice mi tarea jugué con mis amigas .
MARTES: llegue del colegio me puse a hacer mi tarea repase un poco todos los cursos , fui a pasear con mis hermanas.
MIERCOLES: Salí a comprar mi ropa
SABADO: Fui a una fiesta
DOMINGO: Era el día del padre y la pase con toda mi familia en mi casa estábamos comiendo parrillada.

That’s all.

PAMELA RIVEROS SALAZAR. LIMA-PERU

A week in Nathaly's

2005-06-19T20:30:00.000-04:00

Hello my name is Nathaly, my last name is Alva Galvan.
I'm thirteen years old, my favorite colors are red and blue.
I'm students, study in San Jose y el Redentor. I'm from Lima
Bye Friends.

Nathaly Alva

LUNES: Mi mama cocino carapulcra, hice lo que siempre hago en el colegio.
MARTES: Mi mama cocino arroz con pollo, me quede en el colegio hasta
las 6:00pm.
MIERCOLES: Mi mama cocino chanfainita,me cambie y me fui a la calle
a andar con mis amigas.
JUEVES: Mi mama cocino arroz chaufa,tambien me quede hasta las 6:00pm
y tuve que estudiar para mi examen.
VIERNES: Mi mama preparo ceviche, y sali un rato en la noche con mis amigas.
SABADO: Mi mama cocino caldo de gallina,un rato sali ha una fiesta
hasta que ella llego y me malogro la noche.
DOMINGO: Mi mama me dijo que haga mi tarea y me demore todo el
dia, tarde y noche y no sali.

a week in luis"s life

2005-06-19T19:04:00.000-04:00

I play soccer with my friends on friday , I cook with my brother on sunday ,listen music and go the internet. My favorite food is ceviche I like computers
I like walking in the park. I wouldmake funny things: I call my friends with other names (nicknames) I wear t-shirt, jeans, sweaters, tennis shoes in my house I wear a uniform the swearter is red ,shirt is white and the pants are gray I visit Huancayo ,Ica ;Huancayo is a beautiful place the food is delicious(cuy asado,pachamanca) ,the weather is very strange /variable

Ica is very hot , the beaches

A week in brigitte's life

2005-06-19T13:36:00.000-04:00

I play with my friends at school. I with my family. I have a dog. Its is brown and white . I help my mother at home. My favorite food is causa and ceviche. I like surfing on internet. We use different color of notebooks dipendery of the subject, english is orange and maths is blue . I like english . My school uniform is gray . I wear a gray skirt, white blouse and read sweater also gray socks and black shoes. At home I usually ween boots, coats, pants. I visit chimbote and piura , we go to these places by bus.

Lo que yo hice en esta semana fue:

LUNES: bueno como siempre me levanto a las 7:00 am, me lavo, me cambio y tomo mi desayuno y me voy al colegio y despues de estudiar llego a mi casa almuerzo hago mi tarea y si termino rapido me voy a internet y chateo con mis amigos.
MARTES: me levante fui al cole la pase bien con mis amigos aprendi un poco mas las cosas del estudio jugue play stations y nada de ahi me acoste a las 9:30 pm .
brigitte lima-peru
MIERCOLES: igual me levante me fui al colegio y la pase chevere con mis amigos estudie llegue a mi casa almorse vi television con mi mama y de ahi vi mi novela y me acoste a las 9:30pm.
JUEVES: fui a internet porsupuesto despues del colegio y me acoste a las 10:30pm
VIERNES: menos mal fue el ultimo dia de clases de la semana porsupuesto me alegre y entonces la pase bien en mi cole sali a las 2.30 pm del colegio y bueno la pse bien y ahora esperar el fin de semana y de nuevo el lunes al colegio y en fin.

Miho's Life at Kichijoji

2005-06-19T08:20:00.000-04:00

Friday, June 17, 2005

This day, I was late at my first subject, Reading. Today, I overslept so I was late. When I woke up, it was already 8:10 a.m. I brushed my teeth and changed my clothes and that took about 15 min. We ate breakfast and that took about 25 min. So when we arrived at our school it was already 9:00 a.m. I quickly wrote the tardy slip and walked faster than usual, up stairs. When I arrived at my classroom, everyone was looking at this link, and at some of the student’s blogs. After Reading, it was Math. We checked our homework and I got a bad score. At Recess we played at the blue mat. The blue mat is an open area that is covered with the annex building on top. It is used for P.E when there is a day that a class that has P.E (Pysycal Education) can’t use the playground for some reason, for example that day was raining. After that it was Playground time and we were able to play more. We played with the big yellow balls at the playground. After all the fun we had, we had ENGLISH. In ENGLISH time, we talked more about the blogs posted in this link. He said that we had to write this for a week. It is tough! After English we had Lunch. The lunch served Chicken Trio. It was nice. After we ate, we played at the blue mat again. As the fun went by, the work came again. In JAPANESE time, we did a game of the alphabet of Japan, Hiragana. We had to read the question and answer it. For almost all of them, we used the electronic dictionary, because the questions were hard! But it was fun, trying to fit in words in blanks. The last subject was Computer. In Computer time, we are making a web site. We can write whatever you want! That is cool, but I am just starting it so it will take all the summer to finish it… I guess. Finally, it was homeroom and when the bell rang we dashed out of school. It was a busy day but once again, a nice day.

Saturday, June 18, 2005

This day, I woke up at about 9:00 o’clock because I knew there was no school. My brother, I heard from him, was already awake at 7:30 watching T.V. My father woke up at about 8:00 just when my brother stopped watching T.V. he said. After an hour when it was finally 9:00 o’clock my mom and I woke up. We prepared our selves and that took about 2 hours. We dropped Lady, our dog, at Tokyu department store; it’s a big department store at Kichijoji (It’s where I live), because we took an appointment at the pet shop for Lady to take a bath. After, we ate lunch at a restaurant that serves Indian curry. It was a little chilly! Then we went to the cellular phone store and bought a cellular phone for my mom and I. My mom bought a cell phone of the maker of VODAFONE, and I bought a cell phone from DoCoMo. My mom’s new cellular phone is white and mine is too. Anyway, after all that we called our friends Angelina and Massimo to sleep over at our house. They accepted and we decided to meet in front of our house at 5:00 o’clock. So my brother and I went to our skin diving lessons that took from 3:00 to 4:00. We practiced dolphin kicks, and side dolphin kicks. For Dolphin kicks you have to just move you legs up and down, in the same time. For the side dolphin kicks, you do the same thing except that you do that side ways. After all those lessons, finally we went to pick Lady at Tokyu department store. When we picked her, she was clean and perfumed! But when we looked at the clock it was already 5:00 o’clock. We rushed and phoned Angelina’s mom that we where going to be late, so I was relieved when I heard that they were at home yet. So we went home calmly. An hour past, and our Chinese teacher came. But after about 5 min. Angelina and Massimo came. Everyone took a lesson together and at 7:30 the Chinese lesson ended. After that, we played games, and watched T.V until midnight. After that, we fell asleep. That was a fun day, with our friends.

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Today at 7:30, Angelina, Massimo, and my brother woke up and came to the room I was sleeping, (Just to disturb me) opened the curtains, put on the lights, and played T.V games on the highest volume possible. I was very upset, but half asleep so I couldn’t do anything. I was really tired and sleepy so I decided to sleep even though in my mind, I said that I hated my brother! At about 9:00 o’clock, when I finally woke up, the kids where just beside the bed I was sleeping, playing gameboys. I was upset again. I just wished that they would go down stairs and leave me alone. But I only asked my brother why he was in this room, just where I was sleeping. He answered that he wanted to wake me up. I was mad. But I couldn’t do anything. So I just woke up, brushed my teeth and changed my clothes. At 10:00 o’clock we were already at starbucks eating our breakfast. We brought Lady, so that she can meet Bambi, Angelina’s dog. This dog's breed is Wipet. We stayed there for about 2 hours and finally we met Angelina's family. But at the moment Lady met Bambi, Lady started to become aggressive and that made me explode. I hit her head lightly and shouted “Da-me!” Which means, “don’t do that” in Japanese. But after that she continued to bark. After all this trouble, we went home first to take Lady to her cage and my mom changed her clothes. At about 1:30, we went to a restaurant called The Red Lobster. They serve lobsters as main dish. All the children wanted fried potatoes, small cut steaks, and a lobster with mayonnaise sauce. It was tasty. After that, until 5:30, Angelina and Massimo played T.V games, sword fights at our house, with us. It was fun, until their mom came to bring them home. We really wanted to play more, but we had enough fun. So we said bye, and they went home. Our parents came just after that and so we ate dinner. After we ate dinner it was already 8:30. So we had to brush our teeth and take a bath. Now I am finishing my homework. It was a very nice day today playing with our friends and I am sure they thought the same too. Now I will sleep. Goodnight.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Today, I woke up at about 7:30, as usual. My brother and I brushed our teeth and changed into formal clothes. That took about 15 minutes. At 7:50 my father, mom, my brother, and I ate breakfast. It was bread with cheese and ham. It was delicious! When we got to school, my brother and I were late once again. My first subject was Reading. Mr. Lara warned me not to become late again. He said that I had to stay at class during recess and lunch recess doing work. It was not only me that had to stay at recess and lunch recess, but also my friends Ruby and Nikashi had to stay too, because they didn’t write their blog. After Reading, it was Math. In Math we checked our homework, but that didn’t count. After that it was recess. I think the other students had fun, but Ruby and I were there, in the classroom, working. Nikashi wasn’t there. He told Mr. Lara, after when he came back from recess, that he was playing out side. Next, it was English time. We elaborated some of our classmate’s blog. One of them was mine. I had to correct and elaborate many things. Computer came next. We planned how the homepage was going to look, and made some links. I still don’t have a clear idea of how my homepage is going to look, so I have to think about it. Next came lunch. We had French toasts, (a bread with butter) chicken nugget, cream chowder soup, and salad. I didn’t eat salad but I ate the rest of them. It was very nice. Ruby and I went up stairs because we had to stay at our class, but Mr. Lara let us play outside! I was very happy! So we played at the blue mat area, once again. Next, it was Japanese time. We did a little of work. After Japanese, it was playground time. We played soccer. It was Minagi, Mai, Soe, and me against Yuki, Ruby, and Nikashi. Since Nikashi was strong at soccer, and he said that he was strong at it, we wanted to play all of us against him, but it changed in some reason I don’t really know. After we played soccer and had all the fun, school was over. When school ended, I realized and panicked that I didn’t have any money. The reason was because today, I had to go home by bus. So first I asked Noriko, my friend, if she had money, and she said that she was going to give me (but of course, I have to give her back this money the next day) some, but when I asked my brother if he had money he said that he had 500￥and I believed him. But after all my friends left, he said that it was a joke. I was so angry to him, I really wanted to punch him on the face! But in real world, that will only cause me trouble, so I didn’t do anything and asked the school if they could lend me some money. We borrowed some money, and the problem was resolved. We went home by bus, but went to a convenience store, before going home, to buy an ice cream for each. My brother chose small, ball shaped ice creams that had flavors of soda fruits (for example lemon soda). I chose not exactly an ice cream but ice with strawberry sauce. It was delicious. When we got to home, it was already 3:30. I took Lady for a walk and that took about 15 min. I came back and quickly did my some of my homework. Then I watched “Cartoon Network” (a channel that you can only see in cable televisions) and ate dinner at 7:00. The dinner was chicken, rice, corn, and miso soup (a soup that is traditional in Japan). After that, I continued doing my homework. Now I am writing this blog and it is about 8:50. Tonight I will sleep faster than usual, because tomorrow I have a reason I can’t be late for class!!

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Today morning, because of yesterday’s happening, I was the first to arrive at my class. There was no one at the class except for Mr. Lara and me. So he said to me to bring a book to Mrs. Lara, and when I started to go to her class I met her. I gave her the book, and I went to the cafeteria. It smelt like good food, some kind of pork or something. I met Mai and together, we went to our class. Mr. Lara asked if Mai and I could check the people who did the blog and the people who didn’t do the blog by looking at blogger.com. When we checked, Ruby’s and Soe’s blog was missing but when they arrived they proved to Mr. Lara that they did the blog. After the long Homeroom time, it was the first subject, Reading as usual. At Reading we did a pre-spelling test. Most of my friends got good grades! I don’t remember what I got for the test. Next came Math. In Math, we checked our homework. Mr. Glenn, our math teacher, said that we would only count the ones that the homework you are checking is answering. He also said that tomorrow, we will have a real test. I felt not very pleased. Next came Recess, and once again, as always, we went to the blue mat area. We played tag there and we sweated very much, and I think we stunk even though we didn’t smell. At music time, we played “twinkle little star” with the xylophones. I didn’t make many mistakes, but I made one big mistake… I felt ashamed. Now we are practicing a new song. I forgot what the name was but I am sure that it is very hard. Next, it was English. We had to retell chapter 3 of the book “Ruby Holler”. I was very nervous in front if Mr. Lara that I couldn’t find the right words. I sweated a little and my hands were sweating. I felt panicked when I forgot what came next! Finally, Mr. Lara gave me the score, and I was surprised to see that it was a good score. At lunchtime we ate pork, lettuce, and rice. It was good. The pork was in fact so good, I wanted more. After we ate lunch, we played around in the blue mat. We had fun, but we got sweaty… Mai lent me a spray that makes you smell good and that makes you felt cool. It was a lot of fun, even though it was very scorching, and humid. At Japanese time, we checked our homework and also did a puzzle that was quite hard, so we didn’t quite finish it. The last period was Art. We are now making a house. Not a real big house but a miniature house that we can make some furniture inside, like beds. The house is small, about the size of the screen you have at home. I only made the wall and the floor. I painted the floor, orange and the wall white. Before the bell rang, we cleaned up and went up stairs to our class. As the bell rang, Yuri and Mai came along with me to Aikido. (Aikido is a kind of sport, and not like Karate you defense yourself more than attacking that the person.) We talked there for an hour until my lessons started, then we said good-bye and my friends went home. After Aikido ended, my mom, brother, and I went to Isetan Department Store; a department store that looks like Tokyu but smaller, and we ate sushi. Even though I wasn’t so hungry, I ate about 9 sushis. It was very nice. Then, after all that we came home. I did all of my homework and this is the last homework. After this, I am going to sleep.

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Today, I came to school at about 8:15. I went directly to the cafeteria because yesterday, my best friend and I planned to meet there. There we talked about many things like, how you thought about the home works; was it hard or easy, or about the after school lessons we have. It was fun talking all about this with my best friend. After a while, we went to our class. The first subject was Reading. I forgot what we did for Reading, but I remember that we had to submit the “Ruby Holler Retelling Sheet”. This sheet, you have to write the information of what you read at the chapter. Next was Math. At Math time, we were going to do a test, but at today’s morning announcement, it said that all of the children were going see a movie called “Seabiscuit”. (I watched that movie before and I liked it. I t is a story about a man, and a horse that first, was a loser and then became a winner. ) We all didn’t know when we were going to watch this movie, so today we didn’t take the test. I was very happy for not taking this today because I know the test is going to be hard. Most of my home works have bad score and I don’t want to see that score, never again! Then came recess. In recess we played at the blue mat as usual. We sweated a lot, even though that day was raining. We had a great fun. English time was next. We learned about short vowels. It was quite fun, because Mr. Lara told us about many other things too. At Art time, which was next, we are still building our house. Today, I made the window. It is quite big, but I like it big, rather than small. Next was lunchtime, and at lunchtime we ate some kind of meat with rice. I can’t really describe how it is but there was some kind of yellow sauce, with meat. Then we played again at the blue mat. At the blue mat area, we played tag. It was fun, and we sweated again, a lot. We sprayed with our selves with a spray that made you smell good and cool. It felt good. The cool spray made me calm. Next, finally, we saw the movie “Seabiscuit”. But Mr. Huies, our headmaster stopped it after about 1 hour and a half, because the bus students had to ride on the bus. Even though some people weren’t bus students, everyone had to stop watching. I wanted to see the rest of the part because that’s when the main character and Seabiscuit meets each other. But even if you wanted to watch, you couldn’t. After school finished, my best friend, my brother, and I went home by bus. I said good-bye, to my friend because she was going to stop at another bus stop. Then, my brother and I went to a convenience store, and went home. Now, I’m writing this blog and after I finish it, I will sleep. Good Night.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Today I woke up very usual in the morning, with the beautiful bright sunshine in my face. I then brushed my teeth, and changed my clothes. Everything was normal until my mom and I started to fight. It was a big fight. My mom started to bark as if she was a furious dog, and I fought against her like a brave cat. But as normal, the dog would win at a fight and the cat would loose. That happened, and I lost. My mom stared at me coldly, as if the dog was growling at the weakened cat. I started to cry, and my mom was not even paying a little attention. I was full of angriness and sadness. So the fight was over. As I cried on and on, I was almost late for school. I cried so hard, more than ever in my whole life, that my eyes where swelling red and it looked like there were two big cherries on both my eyes. I felt weak and tired after crying, but I had to go to school. I looked at the clock and I was suddenly pale. I thought that my brother and I were going to be late for school, and that again, Mr. Lara was going to get mad at me, very furiously. I felt terrified and small. I felt weak. It was like I was a small mouse, surrounded by many furious lions that were very hungry and one another trying to eat me. But I had to go to school, and even though something big made me late, I had to go. Soon, when I got to school, I started to write the ‘tardy list’. (That is a letter for giving the reason of why you were late, and if you were marked absent, you could give this letter so that our school will know that you came in.) But then, the person that was in charge for the ‘tardy list’ said that I was on time. Then, for the first time of this day, I felt relieved. I was happy to know that and so I went running to the classroom. But I still felt terrified and angry with my mom. I was still pale. I didn’t want to show my face to my friends but one of my friends looked at me and had a very surprised face. She whispered to me,“ What happened?” I said that nothing happened but that was a lie. I was frightened and mad. That was all I felt. The first period came in, and that was Reading. We went quietly to the computer room to do “Let’s Go Learn”. It is a program that makes your grammar or things go higher. I looked at the square shaped object and when I pressed on the switch, it shone. Maybe it was that I was crying my head off, just a minute ago, so I felt that it was too bright. But I went on to “My Computer” and started it. We did "Let's Go Learn" for about 20 minutes. When Mr. Lara said to close this program, I was tired. My eyes were hurting more than ever. That continued until Math was time finished. In Math time, we had a test. It was hard. Then, the eyes stopped hurting, for a moment. After we played out side at the blue mat, once again I felt exhausted. My eyes started to hurt again, and it was getting worse. I hated this feeling. Next was music and we clapped our hands, according to the beat. It wasn’t so hard. Next came English and we learned about sensory details. I felt sleepy but I listened, because Mr. Lara was going to become angry if I slept. Lunch was next. At lunch time, we ate some kind of cheese gratin. I wasn’t so tired after lunch because I ate very much. We went to the blue mat again as usual. As the bell rang we went upstairs. It was Japanese time and we met our 7th grade Japanese teacher. He had a big smile on his face and looked very nice. I hope he is. Next was Science. When we came to the classroom, the first thing we saw was Mr. Bond’s (our Science teacher) head. He had no hair, not like “all” but he did cut his hair very shortly. Any way, at Science time, we talked about teachers and teachers and teachers. It was really fun talking to him about it, because he said that even people hated him (or loved him) he didn’t care. He said that very clearly. That’s why we talked about what we thought about teachers. It was fun! Finally school ended. I was a little tired, but I played at the blue mat with my brother, his friend, and my friend. We sweated very much. But that was the fun. Playing was fun! My friend and I went home with the same bus and we said good-bye at a bus stop, where my brother and I had to stop. We went to a convenience store, and bought an ice cream. That felt good. The thirsty throat finally had some cold and yummy tasted ice cream. I bought vanilla ice cream and my brother bought and aloe ice cream. We both refreshed and then we went back to our house. It was a frightening day, tiring day, but a great day!

Friday, June 24, 2005

Today, I woke up usual in the morning and changed my clothes, and brushed my teeth. I ate cereals, and it had a taste of chocolate. It was sweet! When we got to school, I went to the cafeteria and met my best friend. There were only a few people and we were the only one talking. We went up the stairs, to our classroom. The first subject was Reading. We had a spelling test that was quite hard. Mr. Lara said the meaning of the word, and we had to write that word. Of course, since it was a spelling test, you had to spell the words correctly. It was very hard, because I didn’t study so much… Next was Math time. In Math time, we studied scientific notation, which was kind of easy because in science time we learned about it. Next was recess time. We played a little of tag, but a teacher came in and said that we can’t play unless a teacher is looking after us. So we started to look for teachers but while finding a teacher, the bell rang, and we had to get ready for the next subject that was Play Ground time. It’s not like really a subject, and it is more like a free time. I love playground time because you can play a lot! This day we played tennis in that humid, boiling hot weather. Because I hit balls to many places, I had to go get it and that made me even hotter! It was fun playing tennis. Next was grammar time, and we studied word skills and stuff. We had homework for it, and I didn’t like it so much. At lunchtime, we ate shrimp with rice. It was kind of good. At lunch recess, a teacher said that he was going to look after us at the blue mat. We really thank him! At Japanese time, which came after lunch, we did work. I don’t quite remember what kind of work we did but I remember it was work. In computer time, we learned about how to put in pictures at our web sites. I put in butterflies and stuff for the background. I was cool! After school, I went home with Mai and Yuri my friends. We went to Kichijoji and did a lot of stuff. (Kichijoji is the place the little town I live in.) After all that, I went to take Aikido lessons and when it finished, I went home and did a little of my homework. After all that, I took a bath, brushed my teeth, changed my clothes and went to sleep.

Saturday, June 25, 2005

I woke up at 8:30. I brushed my teeth and played game with my brother. After playing game, I went to take a walk with my dog Lady. (She is a Miniature Schnauzer, and she is a female. She is only 5 months old.) I prepared my things for skin diving lesson and we went to Tokyu to take Lady for a shampoo. We went to eat, after taking Lady to shampoo. We ate Katsudon (a bowl if rice with a pork cutlet, and egg, on top.) I wasn’t feeling like eating that so I didn’t eat it so much. At about 3:00 we went to our skin diving lessons. I like these lessons because my friend at aikido is learning with me. She is a nice girl, and she likes to talk. After refreshing at the pool, I said good-bye and went to Tokyu. There we took Lady, again smelling sweet. We came home and so we relaxed. My brother and I had Chinese lessons. We learn Mandarin, one of the languages at China. We are making a story but we didn’t really think what kind of story it is going to be. After the Chinese lesson, we ordered pizza. The thing that made my face green of jealousy was that my mom and dad were going to an elegant restaurant at Roppongi Hills (a tower that is a place for shopping and eating, but really elegant.) and we had to eat pizzas, of Pizza Hut. That wasn’t so fair and they do this every Saturday! That’s why at least in one week my brother and I eat pizza, and because of that I don’t really like pizza. After eating we brushed our teeth, took a bath and went to bed.

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Today morning, I woke up at the same time as yesterday 8:30. I brushed my teeth and changed into formal clothes. I went for a walk with Lady and came back after about 15 minutes because the weather was humid, and hot like Friday. I hated this weather and so did Lady so she just walked slowly and jumped on me as if she was saying to me,” Can you hold me? I’m tired.” So I took her all the way to home. I was really tired after the 15 minutes walk, because I had to hold her. At home, my father said to get ready for lunch. My whole family went to a noodle restaurant. I ate soumen (it is like noodles but a little thinner and you eat it when the weather is hot.) I loved it. After that, my mom went to have her nails colored and my brother, father and I went to see the movie “Batman Begins”. It was interesting than I thought. I thought that it wasn’t going to be very fun. But when I the movie started I couldn’t let my eyes go out of the screen. It was very nice! After the movie, we went home and my brother and I did my homework. Now I am writing this blog. Now I am going to take a bath and going to sleep.

Monday, June 27, 2005

Today I woke up as usual in the morning and changed my clothes into kind of light colored coordination. After, we quickly ate our breakfast and started for our school. When I arrived at my classroom, no one was there their bags where there) so I looked at the board and it said to print out the blogs from June 22nd till today. So I went out to the computer room and printed it out. The bell rang and it was the first period. The first period was Reading and I and again we went to the computer room to do a program called LGL skills. It makes your grammar of reading skills go up. Next was Math and at Math time, we checked our homework from yesterday. I had a really low score… It was recess and we played tag. I didn’t sweat so much. Next was English and we did a team-spelling test. It took all this period and it helps our brain cells connect to the word, as Mr. Lara says. Next was computer time and we started to copy and paste some pictures from the Internet, to our web sites. I copied many pictures but most of them didn’t work well with the letters and colors, so I had to change many things. At lunchtime, we ate a delicious lunch and we headed to the blue mat. We once again played there. I sweated much more than recess and I was feeling very hot, like being fried on top of a pan. Next came Japanese and we did some kind of game that you had to circle words written in Kanji in the box. It wasn’t so fun, because I am not good at reading Kanji. The last period came and it was Playground time. Mr. Huies came to the blue mat to watch us. We were happy that we didn’t need to go find another teacher to look after us at the blue mat. Finally school ended and it was time to go home. I played with Mai, near Ogikubo station and at Kichijoji station. We looked at clothes and stuff and shared our opinions of the clothes we saw. But the time past quickly and soon we had to go home. I went home with my mom because luckily she was at the same department store. I was happy because I didn’t have much money, too. We went home and did all what was needed. Now I am writing this blog. I will go take a bath in a short while. So, have a good night!

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Today in the morning, as usual, I changed my clothes into jeans and a short sleeve white shirt. I brushed my teeth and went down stairs to eat breakfast. I ate cereals, and we quickly started off to school. My father reminded me to give a paper to the principal. When we got to my classroom, when I arrived at school, on the board it was written to go to the computer room and print out yesterday’s blog for checking and elaborating. For the first period, which was Reading, we checked our friend’s blog and Mr. Lara and our class thought that the blog was pretty good. The second period was Math. At math time, we checked our homework from yesterday, and since I forgot to do it I had the first grade minus 5%. The grade wasn’t so bad. At recess time, we played tag. Today was another 25 degrees Celsius day so we were boiling even though we were in the shade. Next was Music time. We played the xylophones. I made many mistakes, but Mr. Koike helped me out. Next was English time and we did a spelling test. We were tested all the “A” words in a list that Mr. Lara handed us out. I got a low grade… Then soon it was lunchtime. At lunchtime, we ate a delicious lunch and launched to the blue mat area. There we played tag, and sweated a lot. It was hot, boiling. The humid air made me even more tired. Next was Japanese and at Japanese time, a new teacher came to teach us. We did a sheet of paper talking about when the fire and people came together. It was hard and I only got one correct. We had another print for homework. Next was art time. At art time I finished making the windows. Only that took me the whole period. I hope I can finish all the furniture too, because I don’t really want to get a bad grade. Finally the bell rang and it was time to go home. Mai, Minagi, my brother, and I went to the blue mat area and played there for almost 2 hours either playing tag or volleyball. Minagi went home first but we continued playing. My brother went near his friend’s house’s garden. They said that they were coming back in about 15 minutes but they played there for almost 30 minutes. I didn’t know where my brother’s friend’s garden was, and my brother didn’t have his own cell phone so I had to go find him. But when I finally met my brother’s friend, he said that my brother had just gone to school to find us. So we had to go back again and at school we finally met. So my brother, Mai, and I went home together but my brother and I had aikido so we said good-bye. My brother and I practiced there for an hour and we went to Isetan. At Isetan, we ate Chinese food. The soup we ordered was delicious. It had egg and I love eggs! We went back to our house and watched T.V. Now, I am writing this blog and I am really excited to go to the field trip tomorrow, which is a sailing trip. I hope tomorrow won’t rain. I really do. So Good Night!

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Today, I woke up as usual. But then, my cell phone rang, and there was a little message written, ”Field Trip!” I jumped from my bed and quickly changed into my bathing suit and with a short pants. Because I thought it was going to be cold, since it was raining and the weather was very cloudy, I brought a short sleeve jacket. When I arrived at my class no one was there. I panicked thinking that they left already. But I went down stairs and then Mrs. Olvido told me that the 6th and 7th graders were going to leave, right now. I was very panicked, more than before so I ran as fast as I could up stairs. When I got there, I grabbed my bag and ran down stairs and went to a bus that Mrs. Olvido told that the people that were going to the field trip were. I came just in time, but there were two people that were late. The bus left without them. I was really relieved when I got in the bus. I was a little too panicked so I rested a little. But after I got calm, my friends and I played card games. We played babanuki and jijinuki. In babanuki, the players take one card each his/her turn from the person to your left. If you have two pairs of the same number, you put it down. At this game, who ever has the “joker” will loose. At jijinuki, it is the same kind of game but you don’t know which card is missing. Finally we arrived to that place. It was cloudy, but there were no winds and it was a nice weather. I went to buy the drinks for my friends and for myself. Then, the time had come. I felt very excited. We went in the ship. The boys and the girls were separated into two boats. First, the boat was slow. But then, it went faster and faster. It started smelling salt. Soon cool breeze hit us softly, and after about 10 minutes we were right on top of the fishes’ cave. Many fishes jumped at the back of the motorboats and it was amazing. I saw one jumping so near I clearly saw it! It was very amazing. Soon we were near Disney Sea. We saw a mountain that was about to erupt, but of course it wasn’t real. It was one of Disney Sea’s displays. But unfortunately, it didn’t erupt. That made me a little disappointed. But I didn’t care so much because I was having a real good time! After looking at this for a little while, many people were able to drive the boat. I was one of them and it was fun, not only because I was navigating the boat but we also went near the boys’ boat and tried to splash water into that boat. This was repeated many times. But soon I felt like I was surrounded by ice. I felt very cold. I imagined about hot showers, but I didn’t want to go back, because we were having a great time! Soon, the boat arrived at back at were the busses were and so all the fun pasted, and it was time to go. We gave the life vests back to the people that owned them. They washed it, and also splashed cold water on us. I felt frozen, so I didn’t get in the water so much. But then, our teachers said that we didn’t have time to take hot shower. So, we had to go all salty. That disappointed me because all my body parts were like it was numb and I had to stay salty for the rest of the day. But after, I thought again about it. School was almost over and we can soon go back home and take shower. So we rode the bus again. I made a mistake and licked my finger. It tasted a little salty. As we rode back, the boys at the back were fooling around, but it was fun watching them! My friends and I played card games. But we were soon at school. As we entered school, we played at the playground for 2 periods. But School ended, and I went home with my friend. We walked around at Ogikubo Station and so we said good-bye and I took the train for Kichijoji Station and a bus to Nakano Station. We arrived home at 6 o’clock and my mom was very surprised we came in late than usual. My mom had to go to a concert, so she went to the concert. Now, my brother and I are left alone. I am writing this blog and I am going to sleep. Good Night!

A week in kevin s life

2005-06-18T17:37:00.000-04:00

Hello my name is kevin. my pet's name is Pelusa, it is playfull. My friends are playfull too.

My hobby is playing soccer, pimball. My favorite food is ceviche, lomo saltado.
My entertainment is playing with the computer, seing television, listening to music.
My favorite course is Mathematics.
My uniform is: white shirt, black pants, black shoes, red sweater.
My journey is:
Chiclayo-Peru By bus
Piura-Peru By bus

BYE

Hola mi nombre es Kevin en la semana hice lo siguiente:

LUNES: Bueno yo como de costumbre me baño, me cambio y me voy al colegio para luego regresar y almorzar ise toda mi tarea vi la televivion y despues dormir.
MARTES: Ise lo que siempre hago fui al colegio regrese fui a comprar a una tienda con mi mama al supermercado. Y llegue para cenar y dormir.
MIERCOLES: Bueno me bañe me cambie para regresar al colegio regrese a almorzar ise mi tarea y luego jugue en la computadora. Para despues cenar y dormir
JUEVES: Fui a comprar pan me lave fui al colegio regrese tambien lo recoji a mi hermanito que tiene 6 años Y hize mi tarea tenia bastante tarea.
VIERNES: Regresando del colegio como siempre almorze ise mi tarea y fui a visitar a mi abuelita regrese el sabado cansado.

LIMA-PERU

"A weekin irene's life"

2005-06-18T17:28:00.000-04:00

Hello mi name is Yrene and my last name is Cruz Soto , I am in San Jose y el Redentor school. I live in Lima with my parents , my uncle , my sister and my cousin Julian.
I like ceviche they are beautiful and my desert is mazamorra.
I like subjects like zoology , and English.

I think voleyball is nice. I wear blouse , jeans and slipper .In my school the uniforms (boys and girls) are color black and red.
I travel to Eneñas by bus. Bye.

Lunes: bueno yo me voy al cine a ver una película la que se estrenaba “El Aro 2” .
Martes: juego básquet me encanta , tengo que cuidar a mi hermana Patricia.
Miércoles: bueno lo mas importante que hice fue es ver mi programa favorito.
Jueves: A las dos primeras horas me toca mi curso favorito zoología.
Viernes: me toca educación física me encanta el deporte .

Irene, lima, Perú .

"A weekin katherin's life"

2005-06-18T16:51:00.000-04:00

Hello my name is katherin and my last name cruz soto, I am in San Jose y el Redentor school .I live in lima with my parents , my uncle, my sister, and my cousin Fernando.
I like tallarin they´re beautiful and my favorite desert is, mazamorra .I like subjects like zoology ,English and history I think they are beautiful. My favorite sport is basketball.I wear blouse ,jeans and slipper. In my school the uniforms are color black and red. I travel to Villa Rica by bus .
lunes: yo lo pase bien porque vino mi tía ha visitarme
martes: ese día tuve problemas porque había tirado la comida al piso .
miércoles: en el cole la pasamos chévere
jueves: fuimos al parque haber a los animales
viernes: estuve en una juerga con mis friends ese día la pase locaso un poco de diversión eso fue todo pero chévere.

Katherin Lima-Perú

A Week in Verity's Life

2005-06-18T10:42:00.000-04:00

What I Did This Week?
Saturday
On Saturday I went to my hockey game. Hockey is one of my hobbies. Another hobby is netball which I use to play on weekends but now I play it for interschool sport. We lost that game but we scored are first goal of the season right before the game finished. It was very lucky it went in. The score was 1-3 it was the closest game we played. I had lots of fun because we all played our best and we really enjoyed it. After that we went to some shops to look at lights and tiles for our house. We found some really nice stuff. It is really annoying having renovations done to your house. There is dust everywhere. When we were out shopping I got some soft drink then we went home. I had sushi for lunch and it was very yummy. Then I played x-box with my sister until some kids came over to sleep because their parents were going to a party. When played games and listen to music all night long. We went to sleep.

Sunday
On Sunday we went with one of the kids that slept over to watch him play soccer. They lost by one goal. It was a really close game but the other team was a bit better then they were. I had lots of fun then we went to the shops and got some lollies then we went back to his house and we played “Halo”, an x-box game. It is really fun you can shoot up aliens or your friends. We ate some curry which was really nice. We did this while my mum and her boyfriend went and did this paddling race which he really enjoyed doing. He has also done the Avon descent which is very challenging for him because it is two days five hours each. We were his support for one of his races he’s done. We then went on MSN and talked to our friends. It was really fun. We went home and we got to have my favourite thing, Hungry Jacks. It is really yummy.

Monday
On Monday I went to school. I had to walk there from my house. It takes about fifteen minutes to get there. I have to get there before eight thirty because I am a Student Councillor. There are thirteen of us and we all have duties that we have to do. One of our duties is to help other people we have badge and a special hat so that people can recognise us in the playground. We had to make a speech and then our peers voted for who they want. There was a tie between five people. I had netball which is for the interschool. We one our last game by nineteen points. It was so good to win and I made a friend. Our first subject was maths Olympiad. It is really challenging for me. I am not very good at it. I went to netball for the entire lunch time. At two o’clock we went to music. Music is in another room and we are doing small different activities through out the year. I have done one already and starting my second which I am doing a biography on my favourite artist Gwen Stephanie she has written a lot of songs. I like all of them. My favourite song is by her called ‘Hollerback Girl’. Then we went home I watch T.V. and did my homework.

Tuesday
On Tuesday I went to school by car because my mum gave me a lift. She only gives me a lift when it is raining or we are very late. We started to do our setting for our characters with my partner, Merilyn. We also did a character which came out of a book that we had read. Our character was Primo Cell who is from the book ‘Molly Moon Stops the World’. He plays a mean role. Then we had to do a setting based on the character’s character traits. We did a haunted house for our character. We had some little pictures to make it scarier some of them were lightning, tome stones and dead. Our class did this the whole day and we did some maths and spelling too. I went home watch some television and went to bed. Nothing out of the ordinary

Wednesday
On Wednesday I walked to school and just got there before eight thirty. I set up for the day and went to netball training. The siren went and we did maths until it was time to go to tennis with the high school kids. We will be doing this six times. I played chasey on the playground with my friends at recess. It was really fun. We then went into another classroom and we saw a girl in our class baby rats. They were really cute. We went to ed gym for the first time and did lots of different activities. My group was called the apples. It was to make us exercise and to work together. At the end of the day we had Japanese. We have that twice a week for hour. It is really fun. We have key pals in Japan. It is really hard to write them a letter in Japanese because the characters are hard to make the shape. We haven’t heard a reply from them yet. I can’t wait till their reply but we will have to translate it first. I think that would be harder than writing the letter. When I went home I watch T.V. one of my favourite shows was on it is called “Blue Water High”. Then I did my homework had a shower and went to bed.

Thursday
I had netball training and we were going to verse Mt. Pleasant they are a really hard team. After that we went to an assembly. After that we got to play modcrosse it was really fun we won the first game but lost the second because they were a lot harder. After lunch we are going to see a culture demonstration and I had to make a speech. I was really nervous. We also had a meeting for Student Councillors we worked on our media skills (Speeches). I had to do a speech to practice and I was happy because I didn’t stuff up much. I only made a mistake by saying a word wrong. The performance was really good. It was from Brazil and there was kicking and different musical instruments involved in their act. I liked the instruments the best because they were different and made weird sounds. Then we trivia quiz. It is really fun but sometimes is very hard because the question are anything like what is the capital city of Chile? We do them in groups of four but one group has five. After school today I had hockey training for an hour. It was really cold. We played a game called dog and bone what you do is one person defends and another one attacks. The attacker has to get a goal and the defender has to stop it going in it was alright it is better then fish sticks. When you dribble and shout over and over again. I then washed my hair had tea and went to bed.

Friday
I left to go to Adelaide on a three hour flight. I was up at four o’clock waiting to go. We left and the sun was just rising in the sky it was really pretty to see it rise. We got some breakfast. It was cereal and a juice that was really yummy. I asked the flight attendant for some water. When I got back from the toilet I got to watch the movie, “Hitch”. It was exceptional and funny because there was lots of action, romance and comedy all the way through the movie. It was very different to what I expect to be. We then arrived in Adelaide and my mother got us lost trying to find where we were staying. When we finally arrived we unpacked and ate some peanuts. We then decided to go to some shops and get some lunch too. We went through heaps of shops I got shoes and a gorgeous hand bag which is black. I had a kebab for lunch it had chicken and salad it was yummy. After that we looked at more shops then went back to the resort and got ready to go out to my Mum’s boy friend, Victor’s brother’s house for tea. We had fish and chips it was really yummy. We played some games and talked about a lot of things because we hadn’t seen them in ages.

By Verity
Year 7
Ardross Primary, Western Australia

Mai's daily life in Japan

2005-06-18T10:35:00.000-04:00

June 17,2005 Fri.
Today is the 4th day of summer school. And I get up at 7:00 every morning. My first 18 minutes starts. I do everything in 18 minutes and leave home at 7:18.I change my clothes into white pants, a green shirt and a green striped jacket.I brushed my teeth, washed my face, and then ate breakfast. Today I ate a piece of bread with butter on it as usual. But I couldn’t finish it hungry,because I wasn't and hadn’t enough time to eat. Then I leave my house. I go to the bus until it reaches Mitaka station. I should be in a hurry because many people come from the other bus and rush to the station. I ride on a train, and at Ogikubo staion, I wait until my friend comes. And we go to school together.The first period was Reading. We discussed about blogger.com and that took a long time. The 2nd period was Math. We are now learning Algebra 1, which is too hard for me. I don’t really like Math now. The biggest reason is that the chapter we’re learning is so complicated and we need to remember a lot of rules. Yesterday’s homework was hard and mostly everyone didn’t understand it. We ended up discussing this hard homework for this whole period. Next was Recess! In summer school, we normally play in the blue mat area (The place were covered by mat and it is like a garage) and play games. Today we played tag with my friend Minagi, Miho, Yuki, Noriko, and Ruby. We screamed because the “it” chased us. We made a time zone where was no limited time so I stayed at least half of the whole time inside there. Ding-Dong. Recess was over. I always think theat recess is too short. But today I didn’t think that way because next was Playground time, which is like PE. But we have free time insead. We thought that it was only the 6th graders like on Monday, but we had to share with 7th graders and some how the 8th graders too. When we arrived at the playground most of the court were used and there were no space for the 6th graders. It was hot in the playground, not like the blue mat area. We were first relaxing in the shade, but we suddenly started to play with the yellow balance ball. Which is a ball that is soft and people use it because it is a good exercise. We had no space in the playground but we squished into the basketball side because there were the most least people at there. Next period was English and we discussed about this site again. Then we had lunch next. Today’s lunch was chicken casserole, which was quite good. At lunch recess, we played tag again in the blue mat area. After that, we did crossword puzzles in Japanese class. It was hard. The first team to finish this was these group Yuki, Ruby, Noriko, and Yuri. Our group, which was Minagi, Giselle, Ji-Young, and I were about th 2nd group o finish this puzzle. Then we moved to Computer. We’re now making our own site and I thought this was the best thing I did in computer class. 2:40, my school ends. But, my schedule for today hadn’t finished yet. I had to go to cram school because I was absent on last Sunday. It started from 5:15 and ended 8:35. We are learning about Math and Japanes. At Japanes, we checked our answers that we did for H.W. And at Math, we checked our test and did problems that we made a mistake. At 8:35, finally I was able to go home. Today I went home with my new friends. When I got home, it was already 9:30. I took a bath quickly and did my homework. At 23:00, I went to bed.My long day was end.

June 18, 2005
I was supposed to sleep until 8:00 this morning. However I woke up at 7:30 because of the noise of a girl living near, was singing a song called “jingiskan”. I was sleepy but however, I went to have breakfast. My mom was watching television about grand piano. I was not interest about grand piano, so I made cereal, which was on the table. We left home at 8:30 and went to open house in Shibuya, Tokyo. That school was bigger than my school, and had a pool, and 3 gymnasiums. In our school, we don’t have any gymnasium and it was surprising that there were 3 of them. They have several buildings and quite big so there are elevators that students can use for moving to other classes. In our school, we are not able to use the elevator. Only when you need to carry things that is so big. In that open house, I met some students in my school. I was first surprised but they were supresed too. My mom was surprised about a parent who was so tall. At the open house, students guided the school. A girl who guided us was a bright girl and I felt relaxed. If the person was so nervous, I think I didn’t had fun looking at th school. After her guide, we had lunch at the cafeteria. Which was ofcource bigger than my school. I had ramen noodle and my mom had curry. When having ramen noodle, I wanted curry now because it looked more delicious than my ramen noodle. We went home and I did my homework. At 18:00, we went out for dinner. We went to a restaurant that serves soba noodle in Ogikubo. At that restaurant, I actually saw one person making soba noodle. It was first buckwheat, just like powder, but it became a big block. It seemed easy first, but as watching his work, I thought that he was actually doing a hard work. His job was so neat and efficient. After having a good dinner, we went home and I did my homework again and I went to sleep at 24:00 because I needed help in math’s homework from my mom.

June 19,2005
I woke up at about 10:00 this morning. I had time until my mom makes breakfast so I did my science homework, which was to make a Lab report. After that I did some papers we got for H.W,I also did my Reading homework, which was to read a book called “Ruby Holler” and answer the questions about the story and memorize the answer. Then it was time to have breakfast. I had rice, miso soup, fish, and omelet. They were all good. I really liked the fish. After eating, I got ready for cram school, which was from 1:10 to 6:40. I always go there by train. But, today my mom drove me to the nearest station of the cram school. I got there at 12:55 and some students were already at the room. Our first subject was Japanese, which was until 3:40. I like the Japanese teacher because she tells us many funny stories every time. Today was about a girl who lost her wallet. Her mom was screaming so loud at the phone that could hear the voice even you are not on the phone. Luckily she found that wallet at the station, but from later on she raps her wallet so tight to her shoulder. It makes her spend much time to get money from it than usual. Well, this was the story for today. Next was Math. We had a new teacher. He was quiet and a little shy. He was listening about our class and he taught us only for few minutes. His letters were small too, but he was good at explaining things. Finally, cram school was over. I went home by train with my friends and my mom picked me up at Kichijoji station and we went to public bath where mens and woman are separate. It was not big, but there were not many people so we could relax there. After having a bath, we went home. It was almost 9:00. Today’s dinner was vegetable roll, rice, miso soup, Chinese steam meat dumpling, and some kind of noodle. Now I’m writing this journal and its 22:30 already. I’ll go to sleep very soon.

June 20, 2005
Today I was suppose to wake up at 6:20 to relax more than usual, but because I was so sleepy I didn’t wake up. My cellular phone rang many times. Finally, I got up it was already 6:50. Today I had cereal. I brushed my teeth, changed my clothes to white shorts, a T-shirt that says “D” and a striped jacket. Then, I slept again at the sofa in the living room. Suddenly, I woke up. It was already 7:20 and I was supposed to leave at 7:18 or else I wouldn’t able to catch the bus for 7:23. I packed in things that I need for school today and ran to the bus stop. But I couldn’t catch the bus. Few seconds before the bus left… I needed to take the bus for 7:33 and it takes 10 more minutes to go to the Mitaka station in Tokyo. Normally it takes only 15 minute to the Mitaka station if I take the bus that goes at 7:23. So that means I needed to wait for 10 minutes at the bus stop and extra 10 more minutes in the bus. Also the bus that goes at 7:33, there are no seats that I can sit because there are many students going to ride on this bus stops near the school. I normally don’t ride this bus because it is a different rout. When I got to school, I was 20 minutes late than usual. But I wasn’t tardy. The first period for Monday was Reading. We checked our diaries (in this site), if there are things that still need to be elaborated. (Elaborate is to make things with more explanations or to describe more.) Mine had many mistakes… I need to be more careful writing this. Next was Math. I got help from my mom about the H.W, but it was practice H.W and it didn’t count. I was embarrassed because I took a long time to do that H.W. We finished up only explaining some of the questions. Next was Recess and we did tag normally. Then we had English. We mostly did the same thing as Reading and discussing about our mistakes in this site. Then we had Computer. We are still making are homepages. Next was Lunch, we had French toasts, chicken nuggets, cram chowder, and salad. They were delicious!! For me today’s menu was the best in school’s lunch! At lunch Recess, we played tag again as usual. Then it was Japanese. We did about nouns. Next was Playground time and there were only the 6th graders and most of the 6th graders played soccer. It was so hot at the playground, so I was mostly in the shade. Then school has been over. I went home with my friend called Ji-Young, Noriko and Kyong-Min. They are all in my school. This was all for today I think. And now I’m writing this diary. I think I would have a good night.

June 21,2005
Today I woke up at 6:30. I ate cereal, which was the taste of chocolate. They were good. I brushed my teeth, and change my clothes. I ride two buses and train to go to my school. It is not that far so I could go to my school soon. When I was at school, I met my friend at the Cafeteria and talked for few minutes about our selves. The first period was Reading and we had it with the 7th graders. We are mostly doing the same thing. The 7th graders were talking about this site, and we (the 6th graders) we are now doing “Retelling strategy” and we need to memorize answer’s for the questions for chapter 3 of the book called “Ruby Holler”. I already did my retelling, and my score was higher than I accepted but it wasn’t really high. Anyway, first period finished and it was math… We discussed about our homework, which I didn’t understand some of them. Tomorrow we have a test for this… I feel like I’m not going to have a good score for this chapter because I don’t understand it very clearly. Then, it was Recess. We did tag as usual. Then it was Music. We all play different parts with different things. It is fun, but it became harder and I sometimes can’t go with the class. Next was English and we did the retelling. Next was…Lunch! Today we had Vietnam lunch, which was O.K. At Lunch recess, we played tag as usual, and next were Japanese. Today at Japanese, we did a puzzle with 4 words. Next was art. We are now making our own houses with papers. It is kind of fun. I’m only making my room because it takes long time to make small things like a sofa. Today at art, I only painted the walls and the ground. When school was over, my friend and I talked for a long time together. We talked about school, things that happened before and many other things. I went home and today I had pizza. It was delicious, but I was kind a full because I ate some snacks at school and also with my friend. Now I’m writing this, after I will do my other homework that I’m not done and I think I’ll sleep at 23:00.

June 22,2005
Today I woke up at 7:00. I did everything that I usually do everyday. When I got to school, I went to my class and we did a paper of spelling. We highlighted words that we don’t understand and look for the definitions. I had many words that I didn't understand. Next period was Math. Today we were supposed to have a test, but we didn’t have a test because maybe there are a movie we need to see at another classroom.We didn’t watched the movie at that period. So we just discussed about a test. But, tommorrow we anyway have a test. Next was Recess. We did everything usual. After Recess, we had English. Next was Art and we are still making a house. I only painted things and cut things. Then it was Lunch and we had Radish boiled with minced chicken, sautéed Japanese mustard spinach, and rice. They were not bad. In lunch Recess, we did the same thing we always do, which was tag. After Lunch Recess, was Japanese and we read a short story and answered some questions. At last we had a puzzle and I was the first one to answer that puzzle! So my teacher said I’ll get a prise for it. Then we went to see a movie called “Sea biscuit”. Which was not really interesting for me. During the movie, there was a cocroach somewhere, and there was this spanking sound and I was surprised. In my school there are many cockroaches. So I’m kind a used to someone screaming because of the cockroach. When school was finished, my friends and I played tag again in the blue mat. The time we left school was 3:40. Then I went home and put my bags down and took another bag, which there was, a flute inside. I’m doing a flute lesson 2 times in a month. Today I had flute lesson from 5:30~6:00. When I went home I watched TV about comedies. Now I’m writing this diary and I think I will sleep about 23:00. I think this is what I had for today.

June 23, 2005
Today I woke up at 7:00 and packed my things for school. I washed my teeth, my face and changed my clothes into white pants, and white and green shirt. When I got to school, the first period was Reading, and we went to a computer lab to go to a site called lets go learn and do things at that site. Then it was math and we had a test. I had a bad score in my test today. Then it was recess, and we did tag as usual. After Recess, we had Music. Today we sang and did some rhythm checking. Then it was English, and we did a new lesson about sensory language. Then we had Lunch and today’s lunch was Salad, Vienna sausages and potato baked with cheese, bread, fruit and milk. The cheese on top of the potato, was butter colored and it was good. Then it was Lunch Recess, and we played at the aqua blue colored mat like everyday. Then it was Japanese. We read a story and answered some questions. Then, it was Science. We’re now finding out different kinds of tear resistant. And I think the most tear resistant would be a white paper towel because, the bumpy parts of a paper towel may make it harder to rip. And my least tear resistant is dictionary paper because, are thin than other papers. The choices are a mustard colored paper, and magazine paper, and toilet paper, and dictionary paper, and paper towel. We will know the different tear resistant by make a rip, and by the jumbo paperclip you can put washers on it and see what could hold the most washers. In science, we talked about teachers, and many other things. I had fun talking with my friends and my teacher. We went back to our cold homeroom. Then I played at the blue mat with my friends for a while and then I went home.

June 24, 2005
I woke up and looked at the clock. It was already 7:00. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, and had breakfast. Today’s breakfast was cereal. Then I changed my clothes into white shorts, and sky blue and olive green shirt. Today was hot and at morning it was so hot so,I thought I didn’t need any jackets. But, when I arrived at class, it was so cold. Most of the people didn’t bring their jackets, but from now on I think I need to carry my jacket. At Reading, we did a spelling test. I got a bad score. Then it was Math and we checked our homework and learnt a new section. Then it was Recess, and we tried to play at the blue mat but we were not available if there were no teachers looking at us. So, we looked for teachers but we couldn’t find any. Then, Recess was over and next was Playground time. The 6th grade girls (Yukiko, Rubina, Minagi, Giselle, and I) played tennis. After Playground time, we had English. We discussed about word skills, and then it was lunch. Today’s lunch was Boiled shrimps with chili sauce bamboo shoots with green pepper, rice Shanghai Chinese chard soup. The boiled shrimps that was chili was colored of maroon, so I thought they were really spicy but actually they weren’t spicy at all. Then at lunch Recess, Mr. Meyer came to watch as doing tag at the blue mat. Next was Japanese and we did the paper we did yesterday. Then it was computer and we are still making our web sites. But, it is confusing some parts. Then school was over. I played after school with my friends and I went to my cram school, and I stayed until 8:35. When I went home, it was already 9:20. I went to have a shower and went to bed.

June 25,2005
Today I woke up at 8:30 because my mom woke me up. My mom said to wake up because she wanted to go shopping early. I woke up change my clothes, brushed my teeth washed my face and I went into the car. Inside the car was burning!! We waited for a few minute until the car’s temperature goes down. Then we went to a department store called LI-VIN. It is quite big, and I like this department because there are things that I like. But, today we just went to the food floor. And after buying everything we need, it was around 12:00. We went to my grandmother’s house, which is really near this department, and gave them some fruits. Then we went back it was around 12:30. I went to bed because I was tired and when I woke up, I did my homework. When my mother woke up, she started to make chirashi-zushi. Which is a Japanese food, were there is sushi on top of rice and there are many things on top. From the top it was colorful. It was delicious, but I couldn’t eat a lot of them, because I already ate bread before dinner. After dinner, I went to have a shower and it was around 21:00. I watched T.V, and I went to bed. When I got to sleep, it was already 23:00.

June 26, 2005
Today I woke up at 10:00. Today I had cram school, so I decided to make rice ball. I mostly buy something near my cram school, but I had time so I made two 2-rice balls. I made one for breakfast and today my mom said she would send me to the cram school. But, since my mom was cooking, she got late for being ready, and by the time I was at my cram school; I was late for 10 minutes. My cram school starts at 1:10, but luckily I was just on time when we started our test. Our first subject is Japanese and we read some stories and answer the questions. At 3:40 we have a break that we could have our foods, and most of the people went outside to buy things. Most of the people go to buy potato or bread. I most of the time buy potato because I think it is more delicious. But, sometimes I feel like having bread. I opened my bag took out my rice ball I made this morning. But, they were squished. I wasn’t surprised because every time I have a rice ball, it would be squished. After this break, we had Mathematics. We will take a test and our teachers tell the equations for it. We don’t learn things at our class, we have a video that says how to do things and we look at the video and take a test. I was confused with many kinds of rules in this cram school. But now I’m used to it. Then time past and it was already 6:30. Our cram school finished. But, I’m not happy at all because I need to go to this cram school this Friday because I got a low score on my test. I will be here until 8:35. I went home with many friends. I think it was about 10. Every time I go to school, I always make new friends. They are many students coming and they are still, people I never new before. But, I’m having a fun time at my cram school. When I got home, it was 7:30. I ate my dinner which was miso soup, rice, meat, and other things that I don’t now how to say. Then I did my homework, and now I’m writing this and I think that it would finish at 22:00. And have a bath and it would be around 23:00.

June 27, 2005
Today I woke up at 7:00 and I did things as usual. Then I packed my stuff and I went to school. When I went to school, Reading was our first period and we went to the computer lab to go to site called lets go learn and do things in there. We used whole period because of that site. Next was math and we checked our homework and learnt a new section. Then it was Recess, and we did tag as usual. After Recess, we had English. We were separated into 2 groups, and we had a spelling test. We lost 3 points from the other team. Then it was Computer. We are still making our homepages. After computer was Lunch. Today we had Minestrone soup, ham and cheese sandwiches, lettuce, tomato, French fried potatoes, and fruits. I didn’t really like them so much. At lunch Recess we did the same thing as usual. Then we had Japanese. Today we did a puzzle. They were kind a hard because they were words we didn’t learnt yet. Then it was… Playground time!!! Today we were suppose to play only the 6th on the playground… But today was so hot!! It was 33 Celsius!! So we were in the shade. We wanted to play. So we decided to play at the blue mat, which is cooler than the playground. But, after playing tag I felt really hot. Then, finally school ended. Today I went home with my friend and walked some places and went home. Now I’m writing this diary, and I will have a bath after and go to sleep.

June 28, 2005
Today I woke up early than other days because I was too hot. At night my mom turns off the air conditioner, so at morning I’m always hot. I had time to relax than always. So, I just lay down on the sofa. Then, I changed my clothes into greenish brown, and a peacock blue shirt. I ate a cracker, which was healthy to eat, and was the flavor of chocolate. And it was chocolate brown. These crackers are the first time to eat and I really liked it. I like chocolate so I mostly like something, which is chocolate flavor. After eating a cracker, I packed my things and went to school. Today’s first period was Reading and we had a spelling test which was hard for me. After Reading, we had Math. We checked our homework mast of the period. Then we had recess. We didn’t play tag as usual. We played an act of a movie, or a book. The thing that we pretended was Cinderella, Peter pan, Beauty and the Beast, Snow white, and Aladdin. I felt like I became younger like 9 years old. Some people came and walked across and having a small laugh on there face. I wasn’t that shy because I was too into that game. Then we had Music. We played a song called “Joshua fought the Battle” with a musical instrument called xylophone. My part is easy but some of my friends’ parts are hard. Even my part is easier than some people; I still couldn’t do some parts. I mostly make mistakes by counting notes. I have many parts that are the same and need to repeat them. While repeating those parts, I miscount them. And we all did it together but the song didn’t song so nice. Everything was mixed and it didn’t seem like a song. After Music, we had English. Today we discussed about my diary I wrote in here. We are learning a new section so we need to discuss with everybody about it. Then it was Lunch!! Today we had sautéed pork with kimchi, sautéed string beans, rice, bean starch, and vermicelli soup. I really like spicy food so I really liked today’s lunch. It wasn’t that spicy it was delicious. At Lunch Recess, we didn’t do tag and did the same thing we did as Morning recess. After Lunch Recess, we had Japanese. Today a new teacher taught us the whole period. His name was Mr. Arata Yoshida. His letters were small but he was nice. He is going to be our Japanese teacher at 7th grade. After Japanese we had Art. We are still making a house. I only made a windows and a room with no furniture. I will be making furniture next time we have Art. Then, school has over at 14:35. I played with my friends tag at the blue mat. That took a long time. When we got out of school, it was almost 17:00. When I went back I did my homework and packed things for the field trip for tomorrow. We are going to Wakasu to sail. I’m really excited about this field trip but, tomorrow may be raining so it may be canceled. After wrinting this diary, I’ll go to sleep at 23:00.

June 29,2005
Today I woke up at 6:00 because I wanted to have a shower. After having a shower, I packed my things for the field trip. (Today the whole junior high is going to a place called Wakasu to sail.) Then I had breakfast, which was bread. After having breakfast, I dried my hair because it was so wet. Because I was drying my hair I noticed that I should leave. When I ran to the bus stop I noticed that I forgot to bring my windbreaker. I ran back with my heavy bag and I went to the bus stop again. But, I was tired and I missed the bus. I rode on the bus that came next. I was worried because we should be at school at 8:30, and I thought I wasn’t able to be at school. I hurried and luckily I gotat school in 8:30. When I was in the school bus ready to go Wakasu, I was worried again because my friend didn’t come even it was over 8:40. At that moment my friend Giselle just came. We left school, and while in the bus, my friends and I played cards. Yukiko was the first or the second to finish in most of the game we played. We got to Wakasu and we wore a life jacket and rode on the yacht. At there it smelled like sea, which I don’t really like. We were excited because the yacht was moving. After a while, we saw a lot of fishes jumping. I learnt that fishes like the sound of the engine, so behind the engine there were a lot og fishes. We went near the Tokyo Disney Sea. Because of that it made me feel to go to Disney Sea. Then we went back to the bus. It was a short time at the sea. We were suppose to have a shower, but we didn’t have any time. So we changed our clothes into new clothes because we got wet. Then we had lunch in our bus. We had rice ball, sandwiches, and drinks. I was really hungry and that didn’t make me full. Then we went back to our school AJIS. We were about 1 hour early than 2:35. So Giselle, Minagi, Noriko, and I played Frisbee at the playground. After school ended we played at the blue mat and then went to a park and played for a long time. When I went home I was really tired because I played a lot with my friend. For dinner today I had soba noodle and then I watched T.V for a while and I’m now writing this. After this diary I will take a shower and I will go to sleep.

A Week in EMily's Life

2005-06-18T10:15:00.000-04:00

What I did in 7 days.

Day 1- Saturday morning I got woken up by my dad to get ready for hockey at 7:30 am (definitely not my normal time.) We had a big game against the top team on the ladder. We are the bottom team because we’ve only just started playing together. Lately, we haven’t played very well. First I walk down the passage to the kitchen to get a bowl of milo cereal. I ate my cereal and hade a nice hot shower. I got dressed and put on my shin pads and mouth guard to protect my shins and my teeth. I tied up my hair so that it wasn’t in my face when I run. My dad went round the front of the house and I went round the back to put on my boots and get my hockey stick. We drove down to the Shenton Stadium where we play on Astroturf. It’s a much faster game then on grass. When we got there Leanne our coach talked to us about what positions we were going to play. I played centre forward. I started with the ball. I passed to Megan and we passed to Dembi and it went on. In the end the score ended up 3-0 to the other team. Even though we lost it was the best game we had played so far. After the game we all had a piece of cake because it was Dembi’s Birthday. Next week we want to score a goal.

When we got back I ran in quickly for a shower and got ready for my best friend Danika. Quickly, after I was ready, Danika showed up and came inside. Danika and I went down to the deli to buy lollies and I bought a “Smash Hits” magazine and stickers. Danika bought the lollies. Inside the mag there was a big 1.6m poster of Jesse McCartney and Eminem separate though. I said I would have Jesse McCartney because I’m a really big fan of him and Danika said she would have Eminem because she loves his music. We went down to the big oval near my house to eat the lollies we had bought. We got a bit crazy on the lollies and ran around the oval. When it got dark we went home, Dad said he would take us down to the movie shore to get a DVD. We got “Mean Girls” and “A Cinderella Story”. We set out the mattresses in the lounge because we were going to sleep on them. Once it was set we watched “Mean Girls” and when that finished we watched “A Cinderella Story”. I cried in the second movie. We had dinner and went to bed.

Day 2- Sunday morning I slept in like usually even though we had a big day a head of us. At about 12:30 I woke up. I walked into the kitchen and straight through to the lounge to watch TV. The bad thing about sleeping in late is that there never anything good on TV later in the day so I decided to get ready for the party. Even though it was only at 2:30 a girl takes at least an hour to find something to wear. I decided to wear my black jeans and white halterneck top. I straightened my hair and fluffed it out at the bottom. That’s very popular hair style in Australia. At 2:30 we were going down the road to a going away party for the people who live in the big house across from us. At about 2:15 we set off down the road. Although they said come at 2:30 we were going to help Tina, the lady who’s holding the whole thing, and her husband, of course. When we got there quite a few people were there already. Later a lot of people came and all the adults sat at a table in the garden. The kids, well the girls, sat on a couch and listened to music and talked. The guys on the other hand were playing Play Station at the TV. We had a big BBQ with lots of meat and salad. We all ate and a lot and a few people went home. Later I went home because I wasn’t feeling well. Much later my parents came home. I went to bed.

Day 3- Monday morning I woke up with a temperature. I told my mum I wasn’t felling well and I wasn’t. She said I had to say in bed for the day.

Day 4- Tuesday morning I still wasn’t well so I stayed in bed.

Day 5- Wednesday morning I woke up I decided I was feeling OK but not great. I said I wanted to go to school but my mum said one more day at home and you will be perfect.

Day 6- On Thursday I went to school because I was feeling better. I wasn’t allowed to play sport though. I got up at 6:55 to get ready. I walked though to the kitchen and got out a bowl and Crunchy Nut cereal. Once I’d finished eating I had a shower and got change. I have to wear a uniform; a yellow T-shirt and a green skirt. We’re allowed to wear any shoes. When I was ready I got into the car and waited for the rest of the family to come. We left the house and drove to school. By the time I got there Miss Heary was putting up the backgrounds for our characters. I had to help her. When it was time for sport I sat in our buddy’s class and red my novel ‘Girl Underground.’ Later that day we had lunch. Danika and I did our words that explained what our character’s personalty is like and stuck them up above the Samantha, our girl. The day went on and everyone went home. I walked across the oval to my car and went home. When I got back I ordered pizza and phoned my best friend Danika. We talked for hours till my pizza came. I ate pizza and watched TV. Later that day I went to bed.

Day 7- Friday morning I woke up at 7:00 and ate breakfast. When I was ready, we left for school and arrived there at 8:01. I walked across the oval and sat out side the classroom until Miss Heary opened it. When she did, I went into the class room and got all my stuff out ready for school. When my best friend Danika came we went out to modcrosse training with Miss Heary and the rest of the group. The bell rang at 9:55 right on time. We all went in and sat down ready for Japanese. In Japanese we did Japanese spelling. If we pass we get to put a sticker on a piece of paper next to our name. After Japanese we went to art and lined up outside room 6, the art room. Lately, we’ve been drawing Japanese pictures of their Kimono and other things. We just finished off them today. I’m a picture of a Japanese lady with a kimono on. We all went out to morning recess at 10:25 after art. When recess was over we went down to the undercover area where we got to make CD cases with a lady from Bunning Warehouse. Later after lunch we got on the bus to go to Rossmore for interschool sport we the modcrosse people are playing Rossmoyne. When we got there we practised a bit and then the game was on. In end we won 20-0.We all shook hands and gave cheers to each other and left on the bus back home to Ardross P.S. When we got back we got our bags and left home. I got back at about 3:27. I got a snack and started talking to people on MSN. All my friends were on from school. I had dinner and read for awhile then I went to bed.

This is a week in my life
Emily
Year 7
Ardross Primary, Western Australia

A Week in Brooke's Life

2005-06-18T09:52:00.000-04:00

WEEK

Saturday – I woke up at 8:45 am and had two pieces of toast and a hot Milo for breakfast. I got dressed into my netball uniform which is black and white. I wore a black and white collared top and a black and white pleated skirt. The netball games are held at Gibson Park, Fremantle. My game started at 10:45 am but our coach likes us to be there half an hour earlier for training. It was pretty cold, I don’t particularly like cold weather. I prefer it to be hot. My favourite season is summer. After netball I didn’t have any lunch because I was going to the movies and decided to have some food there. I went to Hoyt’s Movie Theatres at Garden City with lots of friends to see the movie “Star Wars”. I didn’t buy any food from the theatre because it is very expensive so my friends and I got lollies from a supermarket. I walked back to my friend, Harriet’s, house and my mum picked me up from there at 6:00 pm. For dinner I had spaghetti. I went on the computer and read some of my novels until about 9:30 pm and went to sleep.

Sunday – I woke up at 7:15 am and had a hot chocolate and a piece of toast for breakfast. I got dressed for pennants and wore a pink and white collared top and a white skirt. Pennants are where there are four people in a team and you play tennis against other clubs, I play for Applecross tennis club in under 14’s girls. We travelled to Reabold Tennis Club. I lost my singles and it was really close in doubles. My whole team lost by one game. It was a bit frustrating but we had lots of fun. For lunch I had Italian carbonara, which was delicious. After I had a shower I got dressed in a new black quarter length sleeved top and some jeans. We went to visit my Nonnie and Poppa for afternoon tea. For dinner I had spaghetti.

Monday – I woke up at 7:30 am and had a piece of toast and hot milo for breakfast then I got dressed into my school uniform, my school uniform is yellow and green. I usually wear a skirt, school t-shirt and trainers to school. At school we had buddies after lunch. Our buddy’s are in year one and my buddy’s name is Paige. I am working with a partner who is also Paige’s buddy and her name is Tina. She is one of my good friends. We also had music where we are working on a dance. I am in a group of five with Tina, Lucy, Emily and Danika. After school my Nonnie and poppa picked me up and I stayed at there house. At 6:00 pm I had to play a netball game at Gibson Park. I don’t usually play on a Monday but there was a mix up with some of the teams. We versed St Jeromes and we won 17 to 12. I enjoy netball a lot and it is my favourite sport.

Tuesday – I woke up at 7:30 am and had a piece of toast and a hot chocolate for breakfast. I got dressed into my school uniform and watched television a little bit, then we went to school. At school we are working on drawing a life size character from our novels. In my group was Lucy but Tina joined in because she was absent when we got groups. We chose to choose a character form my novel called “Bridie’s Fire” and the character was Bridie. After we drew them we painted them. After lunch we started on drawing a setting background for the characters. Our groups are split up and in my group was Lucy and Alicia. We chose to do a setting of a desert. We drew rocks, plants and put real sand onto the background of the setting. Usually, after school, I would have netball training but since I had a game last night my whole team had a night off training. At 8:30 pm I watched my favourite television programme called “The O.C.” I went to bed at 9:45 pm.

Wednesday - On Wednesday I woke up at 7:30 am and for breakfast I had a piece of toast. I got dressed into my school uniform and went to school. Before school I had interschool netball training with my friends. At 9:00 am I had school choir. At 9:50 my class and room 1 had tennis at Applecross Senior High school. After recess we had Ed- Gym for the first time. We got split into groups and did fun gym activities such as handstands, balancing, somersaults and jumping. After lunch we mostly worked on our character setting. We finished them and when they got put up they looked tremendous. After school I did my homework and played on the computer.

Thursday – I woke up at 7:30 am and got dressed into my school uniform. I arrived at school at 8:20 am. At school we did some maths and at lunch time I had a sandwich with vegemite in it. After school I played on the computer and at 5:00 I got dressed into casual clothes for FNA dinner. FNA stands for Fremantle Netball Association, it is a regional team for netball and I got selected for the number one team. We sat with our teams and had pizza and coke for dinner, we also got an icecream for dessert.

Friday – I woke up at 7:30 am and for breakfast I had a piece of toast and hot milo. I got dressed into my school uniform. At school we had Japanese and art in the morning. At lunch I had a vegemite sandwich. We did other subjects like maths then we went to interschool netball. Our team played really well and we won. After school I had swimming, I do swimming squad at Fremantle, State Swim.

This is a week in my life.
Brooke
Year 7
Ardross Primary School, Western Australia

A Week in Eunise's Life

2005-06-18T09:37:00.000-04:00

WEEK
SATURDAY
On Saturday morning I went to WAYMA-West Australian Youth Music Association (Collegium) Orchestra and practised orchestra from 9:00 to 10:20. I auditioned a piece in front of the conductor with my duet partner Shannon. After that I went off to break, for 20 minutes, and I hung around with my friends there, Alice, Eileen, Amy, Hannah, Cindy and two other people in the lower orchestra, Sinfonietta. In WAYMA, there are four orchestras. The first level, Sinfonietta, which ranges around, year four to year eight in high school. In Collegium, the age level is really around, high school level and a few year sevens. I play in Collegium and am one of the few year sevens that play there. The next level, is Philharmonic, it has got year 8’s and up. Then there is WAYO, and it’s the top one out of the whole group. There’s hardly any high school students but lots of people aged eighteen and up.

After the break, we had more rehearsal, till 12:00. We then went home and had lunch. Right after lunch, I read a book called, “The Mysterious Mannequin”. It was about the detective and it had to look for a person, and a mannequin which was supposed to have money and riches in it. The detective was called Nancy Drew and there are over 300 books about her.

When I finished the book I went to the backyard and played badminton with my sister and brother for about two hours. The shuttlecock went to interesting places, like the swimming pool, the neighbour’s fence, the roof and even the rose plants tried to grab the shuttlecock!

When I finished badminton I went to play on the computer and check out some of my letters from my cousins, friends, and people overseas. When I finished checking my 101 letters sent, I had a snack, then I was dragged outside again to play more badminton. I was exhausted then but then I practised my violin and piano before having dinner then watch a bit of TV then going off to read more books and then go to bed.

SUNDAY
I woke up then had breakfast and jumped into the car. We had church till 12:00 then I hung around with a few friends there before setting off, back to home. When we got back, I played a few pieces on the piano like “Fur Elise” and “2 Minuets, Gigue Partita in B flat”. After that, we had lunch assorted with vegetables, meat and rice. When I finished eating I went outside and played more badminton. When we got a bit bored later on, we looked into the swimming pool and caught swimming bugs, chasing them then giving them to our nine goldfish, 2 guppies and 2 other fish. We got fascinated by looking at the fish chasing them and eating them then went off and played with our dog, called Tigger. We had called him that because he had stripes on his back and loved pouncing on things. He is also very friendly. Mum then called and we set up for dinner and ate another assorted meal. After that I went to practise my violin, then set up my bags for school, I went to read and dozed off to sleep.

MONDAY
On Monday, I got some breakfast, made my lunch and then went off to the car. We dropped my sister who went to Rossmoyne Senior High school then dropped my brother and me off to our school. School started at 8:55 and finished at 3:10 in the afternoon. We first had a bit of Spelling, English and Maths Olympiad then we had Recess for about half an hour. After that, we got to do our characters from our story. My character was Bridget White and she was from the story, “Girl Underground”. The author is Morris Gletzman and he has written many other books. Bridget was in her school uniform, with blond hair, and shoe-laced shoes. She was as tall as me and we had just painted her and cut her out. After we had done that we had to choose what background she was going to be in. We chose the desert because it was in Australia and also it was near a detention centre. I got chosen though, to help Danika because her partner was away. Tina also came along and helped. Danika’s character was a girl from a book called, “Specky Magee and the Season of the Champions”. The girl was called Samantha. What she looked like in Danika’s picture was she was very tall and thin, in a black and yellow uniform for the football team. She was cheerleading and she had gold hair and green eyes. Since it was footie, her scene was in the oval with spectators in the background, with a football near her foot. After sorting the preparations out, the siren rang, and it was lunch time. We eat lunch in the undercover area. After Lunch time we had a bit of reading and I was reading a quite interesting book. We had a few more activities before school ended. After school me and I brother walked to the kiss and drive which is like a pick up zone program. It is meant to stop most of the traffic. We hopped into the car, and got an ice-cream on the way because of the forty five minute drive. Finally we reached our violin teacher’s house and started our violin lesson starting with our duet which was called the ‘Bach Double’ or ‘Concerto for Two Violins Vivace Tempo’. When we finished our lesson we went off and went to the car which then drove us back to school. Mum started teaching piano when her students arrived and I went off to practise my piano. Finishing forty-five minutes of practise, we had dinner, with fish, cucumber, rice and chicken. When I finished my homework, I went straight to my bed.

TUESDAY:
Tuesday started and I had to go school early at 8:00 in the morning, for orchestra practice. We were tuning our violins so that they would be in tune with each other. After we finished doing that, we played 3 songs; “This Train”, “Ice Mountain” and 5 renaissance dances. The siren rang and we had to pack up all the chairs, stands and music. We quickly rushed into class where we were doing our paintings again. We were starting to get the paper and measured the size for it. We started drawing the background which was a crowd. We had grass underneath and a football near her foot was. I was about to start the fine-lining part but then I had to go to my violin lesson. We did scales and played some duets together and then we had recess. I got my recess and then went off to play tag. We did heaps more work on the painting and it took a bit of time because we had to fine-line every person in the crowd. Finally we finished and then we started to paint it. Apparently by then it was already lunch time. I put some stuff on our painting where it wasn’t wet, since the wind was starting again. I had a meeting with the School Councillors in the classroom which is where I had my lunch. When the meeting was finished and we had eaten our lunch, I went off to do training in modcrosse. We did catching and throwing till the siren rang. After more maths and English, school finally finished. I picked up my brother and then we went to the car which we waited ten minutes for, then it was off to piano lesson. I was first and we did songs and scales. After that, while I was doing homework my brother and sister had their piano practice. Later on, one of my aunts, picked us up and dropped us home, where, we quickly dived for dinner then off to bells. It lasts for one hour and I had a lot fun. When half of the year sevens went, I played with the high school group. We played Sabre Dance, and out of the whole song, I have 21 bells to play. When you have one bell, you pick it up and ring it. It takes about 3 years of learning before you can play it quite well. The Sabre Dance was very fast and I got to play off-beat. When we finished, we had pur long drive back then, it was off to bed.

WEDNESDAY:
When I woke up this morning I was very tired. We had breakfast then went to school, dropping Ellainne off first. Ellainne is my sister and she is in High School. We had maths, English and some other stuff, before snack, lunch, then the end of school. We also had Modcrosse. We use to play sofcrosse but we then moved up because we had improved so much. We had about half an hour of training and games then we had a real game of modcrosse. The class ran around the oval, going up the field then down again. When we were finished we were 100% tired. We also had tennis, where year 12’s from the highschool, came and taught us tennis. I was in group 2 and we played games like jail break and some others. For jail break, a year 12 would serve a ball and you would serve it across. If it made it, by landing inside the square we could go back in line. If it didn’t, we would have to go in a new line and if the next person got it in you could get out of jail. If it didn’t get in, the person would be in jail. It went on and in the end I went in jail once, but got out. We had Ed-Gym next after recess and we had a few stations. The first one we went to was a balancing one, you had to do a shape of the star then you went with your feet in front then behind. When you finished that you would go and do a roll over. The next thing is the cat walk, where you do a cart-wheel, and then you climb up like a hand stand then back down again. The next one was a trampoline and you have to jump on then do a star shape then go into a motorbike resting position. The next one is where you do a cartwheel and then you put your hands on this other block then do another one again. The last on was where you went on to poles, horizontal and you had to do 3 swings before clapping your hands then finish off. When we finished Ed-Gym we went to lunch. After lunch we did some other work then we had Japanese. At Japanese we did spelling challenges, and we were starting a new activity which had 2-3 people in it. In my group was Amy and Ashleigh and we were making the sentences out of it. When it was 3:10 I had to leave and go to WAPSO. WAPSO stands for West Australian Primary String Orchestra and I have been in it since I was in year 4, which makes this my 4th year. For the school orchestra on Tuesday I have been in it for 5 years which means I started it in yr 3. For the orchestra on Saturday, I have been in it for 2 years and this is my 3rd year. For WAPSO, I am leading the orchestra this year and so far we are playing a few pieces. ‘The Dramatic Essay’, ‘Snap, Crackle, Pop,’ ‘Danza Rustica’ and some others. We had a break and I went to play with my friends Claire, Maxine, Jasmine and Rebecca, for 10 minutes. 6:00 came and WAPSO finished. My brother and I went to the car, went to pick up our sister then off to home for dinner. After dinner, I did my homework then went off to bed.

THURSDAY:
I woke up the next morning and went off to school. We had more activities like spelling, maths and even some modcrosse. The class got some games to play against and our team was the interschool team. We would be versing Rossmoyne tomorrow and we had to verse Rossmoyne 2 more times after that. In the class we also played modcrosse and the interschool team versed all the other teams. There are 4 teams including us, and we versed two teams that day. We got a draw of zero, then a win on 3-1. In the interschool team, we have 7 people. Six year 7’s, Merilyn, David, Jessica, Danika, Emily and me and 1 yr 6, See-ming who isn’t in our class but we needed a yr 6 anyway. After school we had Chinese lesson, learning more characters and getting our homework before we finished off and I went off to practise. When I finished everything, I did school homework and then we had dinner. When we finished dinner, we had to pick up my brother and his friend and drop off the friend. We stayed there for another hour then we drove home to have a read then rest, and fall to sleep.

FRIDAY:
I rose the next morning and went to school. We had Japanese first and we did the Spelling Challenge for half an hour. We start Fridays with Japanese then we do art. After that we do some other subjects then we went to Rossmoyne to play them in modcrosse. We played really well and won. The best thing about our team is that we have the best team work.

This is a week in my life.
Eunise
Year 7 Ardross Primary, Western Australia

Noriko's Daily Life in Tokyo, Japan

2005-06-17T23:26:00.000-04:00

Friday 6/17

Today, I woke up at 7:45. I usually wake up at about 7:00 or 6:45, so I realized that I slept too much, and jumped off my bed and open the closet where I put in my clothes. I didn't have time, so I took the first clothes that I saw in the closet, and it was a lime green shirt, and a blue jeans, which don't have any prints on it. After I got dressed, it was already 7:55, so I ran into the lavatory, which is right next to the bathroom. I washed my face, and brushed my teeth in a hurry. Then I put in my eyedrop to wake up and fresh my eyes, and got out of the home. It was 8:05.
To get to school, I have to ride two buses and walk for about 10 minutes, so it take me about 40 minutes one way. The school starts at 8:45, and no way that I won't be late for school if I walk. So I ran to the bus stop and took me about 4 minutes to the bus stop. Then I rode the bus to Ogikubo Station.
The bus was full of people!! Everybody is pushing each other and stuck! And worst, a woman beside me, who was about 40~50 years old, was putting too much fundations and lotion, and other cosmetic stuff!! And it smelled very badly. I couldn't move because there were too many people in the bus. I had to stay smelling that smell, which is not so good, for 20 minutes! When I finally got out of the bus, I felt free in the fresh air.

I got to school at about 8:40. My first subject was Reading. But we didn't do any reading. We just discussed about the schedual. I was a little bit sleepy.
My next subject was Math. We didn't do any math either. We had something like art using the patterns. I liked it.
We had recess after that. I played tag with my friends, Yuki, Mai, Ruby, Minagi, and Miho.
Then we had Playground Time. In this time, it is just the same as reccess. We just play something outside. I practiced volley ball with Sakura from grade 7. I got the technique to spike!
And my (boring) school schedual went on and on and on.
Then I went home, by the same rout as morning.

At home, I played the game "Tales of Eternia" in PS2. This game is RPG and I've cleared this few times, but I'm doing it again because it is so fun.
I had my dinner at 6:00! It was faster than usual.I had sushi and some salad for my dinner. It was delisious!!
Then I watched TV. I saw the TV show of animals. There was a baby bear, and baby dogs! It was very cute!!
And now, I'm writing this, and it is 22:11. After I finish writing this, I will clean my room and go to sleep.

Saturday 6/18

Today, I went to Kichijoji city. I had to go there because me and my father had to sign staff for entering the clarinet lesson. I am playing clarinet in my school's band club, and I decided to go to another lesson in Kichijoji. I met the teacher who's teaching me from July. She was cheerful and kind person. I think I'll like her. After that, Father and I went to shop where people can buy electronic things like TV, radio, conputer and stuff. Our family is planning to buy a new TV. We want one of those really thin one with nice pictures. But those are really expencive, so I think it is very hard to buy. It costs more than 400,000 yen!
After that, I went home. At home, I did my homework for this weekend. I did my reading assignment, wich was about the book Ruby Holler. I read chapter 3 and answer the questions on the worksheet. It was pretty easy. But I had to memorize all the thing I wrote because our class is now doing something called retelling. It is a technique to tell the story again. And so I memorized some things, but not all. Then I had my dinner. It was hayashi. Hayashi is a food like curry, but not exactly a curry. It is something as japanese curry. It was very delicious.
Then I played a game called Farm Life. This game is about living in a farm. I have a cow, and a huge land to grow crops, and sell it to the shops.
Now it is 23:26. I will end this diary, and go to sleep.

Sunday 6/19

Today, I woke up at 10:30. I think I sleep more than a normal teenager. I sleep for about 11 hours in the weekends.
Anyway, I had to clean my house today, because my sister, who was in America studing, will come back to Japan on Tuesday. My family will not be here tomorrow, because we have to go to school or go to work. So today was the only day to clean our house. I cleaned my room, which wasn't so messy, and the lavatory. For my room, I only have to take the garbage bag in the garbage bin and throw it away. And arrange my books and clothes. This didn't take me so much. Then I cleaned the lavatory. This took time, because the stains were all over the sink. And on the mirror, a white thing was on it. First of all, I took a cloth and wiped and polished the mirror. It took off easily, but I had to put some soap on it. Then I worked on the sink. I first wiped it with the cloth, but didn't work, so I wiped it harder, and it came off. But this stain was all over the sink, so it took about an hour. But after all this, the lavatory was like after the reform. I felt really good. I did a good thing today cleaning my house. I actually like cleaning so I don't feel so bad.

Monday 6/20
Today, I watched a TV show about the accident that happend in Osaka,Japan. This accident happend on April, and the thing is that the train crashed into an apartment. Many people died and many people lost their important people. Like for some people, on the day the accident happend, a man was his first day on work, and he was very excited. His mother was so proud of him and waited for the man to come back making a special dinner. But the man never came back, because he died from the train crash. And another man, who lost his son, rode on the same type of train that crashed today. He talked that he will never forget about that accident and check for safety by himself. I think this is a good thing, because he thought positively and rode on the train. Some people still can't ride on that train. If it was me who lost someone in my family or my friend, I think I won't be able to ride that train for a long time.
After this TV show, I thought that things (in this case, it is train) aren't dangerous so much. The most dangerouse thing is people who's using these things (of course, train too). For example, knives are used to protect oursleves, but if people think things negetively, they might think of hurting people. So the dangerous thing is not the thing. It is people's thoughts. I learned this from this TV show today. It was a good lesson.

Tuesday 6/21

Today, I left school at lunch time because my sister was coming back. She was in Colorado, USA studing English, but today, she was coming back to Japan. It took us (my father and mother and me) about 2 hours to get to Narita Airport in Chiba-ken. I was hearing music and sleeping in the car.

In the airport, we saw the time table of the planes. The plane that my sister was riding was an hour late! It had to come at 4:30, but it was late and the time was 5:30! And the time was still 2:30!! So we slept in a bench and theat took about 2 houres. After we woke up, we went to McDonalds and bought some humburgers and potatoes.

At 5:30, the airplane arrived and after about 40 minutes my sister came out. I was surprised that she didn't really change. She's been in USA for 11 monthes but she didn't change, and that is very surprising thing and a bit scarey. On the way home, in the car, we talked about many things and happenings in USA. It was a little bit tireing day.

Wednesday 6/22

Today, I had volleyball practice. I practiced to spike. I want to be the offside hitter next year. Offside hitter is one who hit the ball in the right side. These days, I got better than the start of the year. I am very happy about it.

I'm amzed with the hitter in my team. She is very strong and cool. I would wish that I could be a hitter like that.

I got home at about 7:00 p.m. At home my sister who came back from USA yesterday gave us the gifts from America. I got a T-shirt that says L.A girl, and have the drawing of a girl in America. I really like it. And our family got a whole pack of candies of Wonka. There were Nerds, Laffy Taffy, Bottle Caps, and Star Tarts. It is very sweet and I really like the gifts!

Thursday 6/23

Today, I had a very normal day. I had Reading for the first period. We discussed about the homeworks and talked about the schedule for todays English time. Then next I had math. In math, we always do the worksheets individually. I like this kind of lessons because I don't have to lisiten to those boring discussion about the lesson. But this, we just have to ask the question only when we really don't understand the lesson.

After school, I palyed volleyball with my friends. The ball we used was orange and new, so it was cleaner that the old ones.We made a circle and bumped the ball and volleyed the ball. I got swetty and hot after that, but I felt good after sports.

After that, I went to the book shop on the way home in Ogikubo station. I found the comic book that I was finding in a cheaper price. Of course, I bought that. I thought that I had a good shopping time.

At home, I had a short nap. I had a weird dream and I still remember it. In the dream, my two sisters were bulling me and I got angry and my face got red. And after that, somehow we three had a company and had a little war (I wonder why I saw this kind of dream). And then...I woke up. It was a wierd normal day.

Friday 6/24

Today I didn't go to school because I had to visit my grandparent's house. I was very glad that I didn't have to go to school. I got ready to go, and left home at about 11:00. I went with my two sisters(who put too much purfumes and stinked) and my mom. We went to my grandparent's house by car.(A small white car) We went on the highway and took about 5 to 6 hours. The highway was a little bit higher than the city, so when I looked down the cities, the cities looked great from above. I could see those high churches in the evening and the sun at the back.
I was only eating snack, drinking teas, and sleeping. What a wonderful thing to do!! I love to sleep and eat snacks. I ate chips which taste like mush potatoes, and a chocolate that looked like an black board. But I ate too much, so I maybe will be fat.
My grandparent's house is near a forest. There are many trees that are so tall and many wild flowers. I like the red big flower which blooms in Spring. It looks cute, and the honey from that flower taste good. There are seetness but still have freshness. I gather those flower that aren't durty from the tree, and suck those honey.
After we reached the grandparent's house, we rested for about 30 minutes and went to a restaurant and we ate sushi. Sushi is a Japanese traditional food. Sushi uses rice and fish like tunas, and vegetables like cucomber. It was very delicious and tasted like fresh fish(of course! Because it is using fish!!) and I ate too much again. Oh no! I'm getting fat seriousely.

Saturday 6/25

Today, I went to eat lunch with my mother's friend, her son, my two sisters, my mom, and me. We went to an Italian food restaurant. I really like the design of the restaurant. There are many pictures of angels. I ordered ham and bacon pizza, and my sister ordered a salad (I wonder why she is enough with only salad), and my other sister ordered a spagehty (I forgot what kind of spaghety was it), and my mother ordered the same thing as the second sister too. While we were waiting for the food to come, I was reading a japanese book called "MISSING" which is a bit (or really) scary book. This book was a seriese and I was reading the last book of the series which is book 12. Book 12 was published this month and it is still new. Of course, I have all the other books of this series in my house.

When I read about 3/4 of the book, my pizza came. The pizza's melting cheeze looked deliciouse and the smelled of the ham and bacon made me hungry more. I heard the noise of my sister's fork hitting the plate to eat the spaghety next me. I started eating too. The first bite made me smile because it was so delicious!! And the second bite, and the third bite, and the fourth bite, every bite made me smile and happy.

After eating lunch, we went shopping. While everybody else was looking at the clothes, I went to a book store. I found an interesting book, and I was reading it standing. After few minutes, I made my disision. I took out my wallet and went to the casher. After that, I went to meet with the others. This book was the only thing I bought today. I really like this book.

Sunday 6/26

Today was the day we (my mom, my two sisters who smelled bad again with their perfumes, and me) are going home from our grandparents house. I really felt sad about going home because I didn't want to go to school tomorrow. But I had to, so I packed my things and checked if I don't have anything missing. Then I realized that I forgot my books which I thought of reading it in the car. I packed those books and checked again. Then I had nothing missing.

On the way home, I slept, I ate snacks, which was potatoe chips, I listened to music (I usually listen to j-pop music and rap sometimes), I talked, and I read books which was the book I bought yesterday. But on the way home, in the highway, there was a traficjam, and we stayed on the highway for about extra 2 hours. I hate to stop because of the trafic jams because I get too bord and go to sleep and at night, I won't be able to sleep!! Even if I try to stay awake, I don't know why but i go to sleep.

We arrived home at about 9:30. I wasn't sleepy at all because of the trafic jam. That really eratates me because I have school tomorrow. I really like to fix this "going to sleep in the traffic jams" thing.

Monday 6/27

Today, I had volleyball practice. First we had a worm up. We made a group of 4 people and volleyed the ball for 200 times. If we drop the ball, we have to start from the number we stopped, and the bumps doesn't count, and some people are not so good at volleing, so we took alot of time on this worm up. We chose a ball that are clean, new, and had air in it.
After that worm up, we had to bump to each other for 200 times again in the same group!! This time, it went faster because almost everybody is good at bumping. But some people lost control so this took time too.
After that, we had 2minutes brake. I was very setting and hot. I took my pink wallet and went to buy Acquarious. The drink was warm, but the taste didn't really change. It tasted like lemon a little bit. And it was a sport drink so I thought nothing really change. Then I went back to my practice.
We practice hitting. I like the hitting practice the best. I wish that I can be a hitther next year. In this practice, the hitter throw the ball to the setter, and the setter sets, and the hitter hits. The rule was easy, but the thing was hard. I think i got the ball in for about 4 out of 10. But at first, I was like 0 out of ten, so I still got better. Doesn't really matter, but when this drill started, i didn't like the ball because it hadn't any air in it, so I changed to a white, hard one which had air in it, and it was easier to hit.
After that, we had our serving practice. I think it is wierd to say this by myself, but I'm pretty good at serving. Today, my serves went in by about 9 out of 10 serves. I would like to change a little bit more and make it better.
After that, we had a game. I was in the position of power hitter ( the left side hitter) and I was very glad!! But in the front line, I had to switch so it was a little bit complicated. When I'm in the position of power hitter, I don't have to move, but when I'm in the setter and off side hitter positioin, and the ball goes to the other side of the net, I have to go backto the power hitter position.

At home, I'm writing this. If I can, I would like to sleep right now, but it is still before dinner, I'll try to stay awake.

Tuesday 6/28

Today in the morning, I realized that I slept before dinner and I was very hungry. But the time was already 7:50, so I didn't have time to eat breakfast. I changed my clothes in a hurry, and got ready in 5 minutes. And I brushed my teeth with that green bitter taste toothpaste ( I REALLY hate that tooth paste!) and washed my face in 5 minutes. And when I went into my room, I hit my leg to a small table and that table fell down and hit the same leg again!! That hurt!! I called my dad in a loud voice. My father came emmidiately with his black suits on (I wonder if he's not hot) and I told him about my leg. He brought me a brown poultice and put it on my leg. But even though, I couldn't even walk because it hurted so much, my father sent me to school but the white small car.

In school, we had reading first. We had a spelling test even though the period was reading (our teacher always don't really care about what the period is). The test went the easy, easy, hard, hard, and for the easy ones, he (the teacher) says the word and we spell it. And for the hard ones, the teacher say the word used in a sentence or example (he doesn't say the word) and we have to find out what word is he talking about from 36 words and write it down. I got 26/36, and that was a good grade because the passing grade was 60% and I got 72%.
After that, I had math. The math teacher was wearing a blue dress today. We didn't any work today. We just talked about our summer vacation. I was a little bit sleeping.
Then I had reccess. My friends and me went to the bluemat area, which is a place below a buildin, and theres blue mat and big thick green cusion. We played tag there. I got so swetty and hot.

And after the school, I went home.

Wednesday 6/29

Today, I woke up at 6:20. I realized that it was raining outside because of the sound of the rain hitting our roof, and I actually like that sound, and today we had a field trip so I was worried that if we are going to have the field trip or we are having normal school schedule. So I mailed my friend Yuki to make sure if we are having the field trip. She mailed me back that she phoned our homeroom teacher and found out that we are having the field trip. So I wore an orange diving suit under a black and white striped t-shirt and a short brownish pants. Today was a sailing trip! We are going to a sea in Chiba (it is a place in Japan) and ride on a yot. Then I had breakfast. I ate an yougurt and a bread. Then I brushed my teeth with a green, bitter tasted toothpaste. Then I washed my face. Then I got my bag, and wore a blue sandals. At 7:15, I left my house.
I arrived school at about 8:10. The bus was leaving at 8:30, so I had a lot of time, so I slept in the cafeteria a little bit.
The school at 8:35. It was late for 5 minutes. In the bus, I was reading a book called "Keiry". It is a book about a girl having a journey with a mysterious people and a ghost.

When we arrived to the dock, some people changed their close to an easy, loose clothes, because our teacher was talking that we will get soked on the yot. I was already wearing those easy, loose clothes, so I didn't have to change.
On the yot, I didn't get really wet, but it was really fun because the motor boat always ran near us, so the wave hit the yot, so the yot went up and down. The sea smelled like a salt water too. But the water was dark green and it wasn't really clean. We saw a fish jumping around too! The fish jumped arung the yot because of the sound of the motor. It sounded like a sound when the cellphone is in mannermode and the mail or a phonecall comes. When we got out of the yot, we ran into the changing room to change our close, because our clothes were wet, and the temprature was low, and we were cold. And I liked to change my clothes because I don't like the touch of the wet clothes sticking to my skin. After changing our clothes, we went back to school.

Yukiko's life at AJIS summer school

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FRIDAY Jun. 17

Today, my alarm clock rang at 6:00, but I slept until 6:20. I got up, changed my clothes, did my hair into a ponytail, and ate my breakfast. After that I brushed my teeth, washed my face, and watched a TV drama before I left home at 7:50.
I walk about 15 minutes to my school bus's bus stop. The bus came at about 8:05. I just talked a little with my classmate Ruby, but she was reading and I was reading, so we didn't talk a lot. The bus arrived at school, and we got off the bus.
The first period was Reading. We are reading the book Ruby Holler, but today, we didn't do a lot of things. We just discussed this blog site. After that was Math. We are doing power & base things, but the homework was hard and we didn't know how to do it, so we just discussed that.
Next was... Recess! I played (crazy) tag with my friends, Noriko, Ruby, Minagi, Mai, and Miho. It was very fun, and we laughed and ran around all over the place. After that was playground time (with the 7th graders), which was kind of like recess, so we brought out two big, yellow bouncy balls, and passed it to each other. We screamed and laughed and ran all over the place after the ball.
Then, it was Grammar time. We discussed about this site again.
After that was lunch, and my friends and I ate chicken casseroles. It was pretty good. After that, we played tag again.
Japanese time came next. We did crossword puzzles. They were really hard! We were doing it in a group of 5 with Noriko, Ruby, Yeon Joo, Yuri, and me, but still, it took a LOT of time!
Last was Computer. We are making our own websites in a program called Nvu (pretty much like Microsoft word; just more complicated). Since my hobby is writing, I decided to make a system where people can mail me their stories and I can post it to the website. It is very interesting and fun.
I got on the school bus and arrived home. I didn't do a lot of things. I did my homework until 4:50, then left home to go to my Japanese Traditional Dance lesson. I actually get to wear Kimono, a traditional Japanese clothing there. I really like it. I got home at about 5:30, did homework for another 30 minutes, then ate my supper, which was fried fish. After that I just watched a few TV shows, took a shower, read, and went to bed at 10:00.

SATURDAY Jun. 18

I woke up at 8:20, because of the phone ringing in the living room. It was my aunt. Since my mother and I are in a group where people go to see plays, there are meetings once a month. Today was the meeting day, and while eating lunch people were going to talk about the plays, and after that, we were going to watch a movie about Japan's constitution, especially the article 9, where it said that Japan will not have any army, and will not do wars. My aunt is a member of the group, so if a (about) 3-year-old kid was coming, my aunt's 3-year-old daughter (my cousin) was coming too. She had called to ask if the 3-year-old was coming. The answer was no, so only my aunt was coming.
I ate cereal and yogurt for breakfast, got dressed, and did my reading & science homework until it was 11:30. I got ready to leave home, and 11:50, my mother and I left on our bikes. Our car was not outside the house because my father had gone golfing. We met my aunt on the way, and we all went to the　meeting place, which was one of the members' homes.
A few of the people were there, so we went to a shop and got boxed lunch. Then, we went back to the house and ate. After lunch, the adults talked about a few things, so I just read a book. After that, we watched the movie. It was very interesting, but also very long and some parts, complicated for a 12-year-old to watch. So I practiced not looking at the subtitles and listening to native English speakers. I was quite happy that I could get lot of what the people were saying.
We left at about 3:30. Back home, I finished my homework, and after that, just watched TV and played around until my father came home and we went to eat dinner at a 'yakitori' restaurant. 'Yakitori' is a food where small pieces of chicken are on a stick. They put sauce on it and roast them. They are delicious!
We got home at about 7:00, and after that I just spent the time reading. I took a shower, watched TV again, read a book called Just Ella and went to sleep at 11:00.

SUNDAY Jun. 19

Today, I woke up at 8:00 to go to church. I ate breakfast, got dressed, brushed my teeth, and left home at 9:15. I ride my bike to church. It took about 15 minutes to get there. From 9:30 to 10:30, myself, 2 other younger kids, and usually about 4 adults eat, talk, play games, etc. in a room below the church. It is quite fun. Today we played UNO. I won the 1st time, got 4th place the 2nd time, and was 2nd in the 3rd game. I guess I did quite good.
After that, we all went upstairs and listened to the priest. At about 10:45, the story finished and the 3 of us (the kids) started to play downstairs again. I left, though, because I wanted to go to a library. I borrowed 2 books, and went home.
For the rest of the day, I didn't do much. After eating lunch, I read one of the books I had borrowed from the library. I read until 3:00, practiced my piano for 45 minutes, then went back to reading. I finished the whole book. I didn't need to think about saving some for tomorrow, because I was going to another library with my friend Ruby tomorrow. Then we went to a Chinese restaurant and ate dinner and went home. I watched TV, took a shower, read, and right now I am writing this blog. When I'm done, I'm going straight to bed, without any reading... I think.
Well, that's it for today.

MONDAY Jun. 21

Today, I woke up at 6:30. My alarm clock was set at 6:00, but I slept after the clock rang. I jumped out of bed, changed my clothes, did my hair, and had breakfast. After that I brushed my teeth, watched a TV drama, and left home at 7:50. The bus came on 8:08, and I got on the bus. I was told to sit at a different seat than usual and I was kind of upset (I like my seat a lot, actually), but when I sat down, I saw that my friend Yeon Joo was sitting at the other side of the passage, so I felt better.
The bus got to the school at about 8:30, and we went to our classes. First, at Reading, we looked at our classmate's blogs. We read it, but they were pretty long and it took the whole period. Next was Math. We discussed our homework, and entered a new chapter which was about dividing exponents. At recess time, we played tag as usual. It was very fun. Well, it's always fun to scream and laugh and run around after 1 hour and 30 minutes of reading and doing complicated math.
After that was English, and we discussed about what should be described more in the blogs. After that was computer, and we kept on making our websites. Lunch was French Toast... one of the best things the school serves! I got seconds, Ruby got thirds! She really loves French toast. After that, we once again played tag. We played a lot, looking forward to playground time which came after Japanese.
At Japanese time, we discussed Japanese grammar kind of thing. It was kind of complicated. After that was playground time, with only our class. The whole playground for 8 students! Isn't that GREAT!!! We played soccer (Almost with no rules at all, touching balls with hand was OK, the goal keepers changed every few seconds...), and after that, the 2 boys, Nikashi & Soe, and Ruby & I played basketball.
After school, Ruby and I went to a public library near the school. Neiju, a girl who wasn't coming to summer school also came, because her house was very near the school (only a minute away by walking!). We looked around for about 30 minutes, and I borrowed 2 books. After that we went back to the school and spent the time talking in the classroom. It was pretty fun, because Ruby and I hadn't met Neiju since summer school started. At about 4:40 we left the school. Ruby and Neiju got on one bus, and I went on another. The bus I was riding on came at about 4:53. I got on the bus, and read the book I borrowed.
After that I got off the bus, went home, did my homework, ate dinner, practiced my piano, took a bath... and right now I am writing this blog. I will go to bed probably at about 10:00, after I draw a picture I had promised to draw, dry my hair, and read a book.

TUESDAY Jun. 22

Today, I woke up at 6:00. I got dressed, did my hair, and ate breakfast. It was cereal and salmon. After that I brushed my teeth, packed my recess snack, watched a TV drama, and left home at 7:50. Then I got to the bus stop and got on the bus. Today, I talked with Ruby on the bus. We discussed our drawings that we drew yesterday. The bus arrived at school on 8:30.
The first period was Reading. We didn't do a lot, because the 7th graders had the class with us, and our homeroom teacher Mr. Lara took the 7th graders somewhere and us, the 6th graders were left, alone in the class. We read, talked, and drew. After that was Math. We just discussed yesterday's homework. After that was recess, and we played tag again. It is always fun to play around with friends.
Next was Music. We play instruments on Monday, and I played a xylophone. It was kind of hard, but I got it soon. After that was English, and we just did our Reading retelling (We have to memorize certain things about a chapter in a book). Then it was lunch. Noriko had to leave on 11:30 to go meet her sister coming back from the U.S., so she was in a real hurry eating and rushing out of the cafeteria. We played tag again. I don't know why, but we aren't bored yet.
After that was Japanese, and we did a kanji (One of the Japanese characters) puzzle kind of thing. After that was Art. We are making a kind of miniature house, so we just continued that.
Before I got on the bus, I played a little with my school-bus-rider friends, Minagi, Ruby and Ruby's little sister Leila. Leila beat up Soe, one of the boys in class, because he had made Leila and cry a few days ago. I got off the bus at about 3:50, but I didn't go straight home. I met my mother at the nearest station to go to Shinjuku and get my new passport. After we did that, we went shopping and bought my swimming suit and a gift for Mai I, a friend coming back to Japan from the U.S.
We got home at about 5:00, and I did my homework until 6:00. I ate my dinner then, practiced my piano, took a bath, and right now I am writing this blog. After this I will write a book report in Japanese, read, and go to sleep at around 10:00.
WEDNESDAY Jun. 22

Today, I woke up at 6:00. As usual, I did my hair, changed my clothes, and had breakfast. After that I brushed my teeth and got ready for my recess, watched TV and left home at 7:50 as usual.
I got on the bus at around 8:10. It was raining very hard, so I was wet all over. Especially, my shoes were wet and didn't feel very good....
Reading was first. We did our spelling things. We had to identify words we didn't know from a list, and had to find out the definitions. After that was Math, and we did a worksheet. At recess, we played tag. I sweat a lot, even if it wasn't that warm.
After that was English. Instead, for about half of the period, we discussed values. After that we continued with our spelling. Next was Art, and we continued making houses. I got to the point of painting the houses. I have a light green roof and a sky blue wall. It is kind of funny, but I don't really care... As long as it looks OK. After that was lunch. After eating, we played tag. The boys, Soe and Nikashi, joined us too.
At Japanese time which was next, we did a puzzle kind of thing, and did a worksheet after that. At the last period, which was supposed to be Science, we watched a movie at the cafeteria with other classes. It was called Sea Biscuit or something, but I didn't really get the story.
Today's school was done then, and we got on the school bus and went home. I got home at about 3:10, and I did my homework, practiced my piano, and for the rest of the day, with dinner and taking a shower in the middle, I read. I am about to finish this book. I will read a little bit more and go to sleep after that.

THUSDAY Jun. 23

Today, I woke up at 6:20. When I went into the living room, it smelled of a certain dressing, which was sesame, which we used for asparagus, so I knew that was my breakfast for today. I changed into an orange shirt with silver words on it (it says BENETTON), and a beige pants and also a white belt. Then I ate my cereal and asparagus, my breakfast. Then I brushed my teeth and prepared my recess snack, which were mostly biscuits. I left home at 7:50 as usual.
It was raining, and rain hit my umbrella, making a pleasant 'tip-tap' kind of sound. Soon my shoes became kind of damp inside. It was not raining that hard, though.
I got on the bus and arrived at school. The first period was Reading. We went to the computer lab and did tutorial lessons in the internet. It was freezing cold in the 6L classroom, and Minagi, Mai, and Miho looked very cold. Mr. Lara adjusted the air conditioner a little. After that was Math. We had a little quiz. I used my TI calculator, so it was quite easy, though.
At recess, we played at the blue mat area which is a indoor garage kind of place. They have gigantic green & blue mats on the floor, and that is where we play tag. Everybody was screaming, laughing, running, sweating, until a teacher came and stopped us. We had to have a teacher watching. Recess ended anyways, so the problem was put away until lunch time.
Next was music, and we sang the song Sealed With a Kiss and did rhythmic things. We clap our hand and count certain notes. After that, which was grammar, we did a sensory words lesson.
At lunch, we ate vienna and potato baked with cheese. It was quite good. It smelled of baked cheese and tasted a good. It had a little mayonnaise flavor, I think. Then, we went and asked a teacher, Mr. Meyer (he had taught Ruby, Soe, and my Math class) if he could watch us while we played tag in the blue mat area. He said OK, so we played as much as we wanted. Everybody had a lot of fun. Soon everybody was sweating and hot, panting and laughing and running around.
After that was Japanese. There was a visitor, a man, Mr. Yoshida, who was going to be our next year's Japanese teacher. We did a worksheet. It was pretty hard. After that was science. We are doing a tear resistance test for papers. Today, we got ready for our experiment, making cuts in the papers and putting scotch tape on each side of the paper. As we did that, we talked about teachers with our science teacher, Mr. Bond.
School was done then, and we got on school busses and left. I mainly talked with my friends, Ruby and Yeon Joo and read on the bus.
It wasn't raining on the way home, and I walked 20 minutes to my home. I did my sensory words homework and Math's scientific notation homework. Then I went to my piano lesson on my bike at 5:25. I had to hurry because my lesson started at 5:30. I darted down the roads.
My piano lesson ended at 6:00 and I got home and had dinner. Then I took a shower and after a little bit more work, I am writing this blog. I will go to sleep at around 11:30.

FRIDAY Jun. 24

Today I woke up at 6:00 and did the usual things... got dressed (into a blue T-shirt and pink pants), did my hair, and ate my breakfast. After that I brushed my teeth and left home at 7:50. It was a very hot day. It was so humid, so hot. I had started to sweat a little when I got on the air-conditioned, cool bus.
The bus got to school at exactly 8:30, and we went to our classes. On the way, Leila, Ruby's little sister, played around Ruby and me. I couldn't believe that she could run around in that heat!
First period was Reading. It was very cold in the classroom, so I wore my wind breaker. We did a spelling test and started with our wordskills work, which was about finding word definitions without using dictionaries. After that was Math, and we discussed Scientific Notations. It wasn't that hard.
In recess, we stayed at the blue mat area, but because we didn't have a teacher watching us, we couldn't play tag. I ate my recess snack and hang around with my friends. Even though that was the only thing I did, I sweat a lot.
After that was playground time, and we played tennis. It was my first experience and I couldn't do it very well, but I had fun. All around me I was able to hear people laughing, people talking, balls being hit, balls being caught, and panting of people, and sometimes, "It's-too-hot"-complaints. Soon I was burning, my inside was as like as if it was boiling, and I was soaked with sweat. Good thing I brought a sports drink-- I'd have died otherwise. After that, we had English in our air-conditioned classroom. It felt so good there! We continued our wordskills, but our topic of discussion drifted away to people with hair all over their body and people with birdlike feet.
After that was Lunch. We ate shrimp with chilly sauce; it was quite nice. It was kind of chilly but not very much. I liked it. Mr. Meyer watched us while we played tag. We ran around, panting and laughing and screaming and shouting, jumping from mat to mat. We had a lot of fun. Then at Japanese time, we continued our worksheet from yesterday. At Computer, we continued making websites.
I got home at about 3:20, and at about 3:50, left on my bike to go to my Japanese dance lesson. It ended at 5:00, and I got home, had dinner, and mother and I left on our bikes to go to a classic music concert, but a very fun one. The pianist and singer were fun people, and they were good! The pianist arranged the song 'happy birthday' into Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, etc.'s versions, and sang with the piano for some of the songs too. The singer's voice was beautiful, and even though the singer had one, she actually didn't need a microphone! It was so fun.
I got home at 8:20, took a bath, and here I am writing this blog. I will go to bed as soon as possible...

SATURDAY Jun. 25

Today, I was asleep until quite late. I woke up at 10:00, sleepy and sweaty and hot. I could tell that it was going to be a very hot day. I got out of bed and ate my breakfast, which was cereal and cheese. The cereal and cheese (which had been in the refrigerator) made the hotness better, but still, all my family was sweating. We have a rule that we won't put on the air conditioner until 12:00, so it felt very hot.
We left home at about 12:00 to go eat lunch. It was so hot and humid. The winds were hot too, and it was like a hot veil was covering my body. My inside was boiling, and I wanted to jump into water if there was any. We went to a restaurant, and I had spaghetti there. It was very good. After we were done, we went to a shop nearby and bought two 'yukata's. Yukata is a traditional Japanese clothing, but is for summer. One was for myself, and the other was for a friend. I am visiting her family in Minnesota this summer, so it is kind of like a souvenir. I got one that was a light orange and had a goldfish and flower printed on it. My friend's is a pink one with pretty flowers on it.
Then we went home, but on our way I bought an ice cream, my father bought green tea, and my mother bought bread for breakfast. We got back home, and after eating my very delicious vanilla ice cream that was so creamy and cold and sweet and refreshing, did my homework.
At 4:30, my mother, aunt, cousin, and I left on our bikes to go to a nearby hall (the one my mother and I went to yesterday) to go to another concert. It was mainly for younger kids, but I was able to enjoy it too. It involved the audience, where we could sing with them, and the singers came off of the stage and went around singing and shaking hands with young kids. It was very good. It reminded me of songs I had liked when I was kindergarten age.
We left at about 6:15 and went to ramen restaurant. We met my father there. After eating the delicious food, we went home.
After that, I just took a shower, read, watched 2 TV shows, and went to bed.
It was very hot, and I didn't need a blanket. I even had ice pillows!

SUNDAY Jun. 26

Today, I woke up at 8:00 to go to church. I got dressed, ate cereal and cheese, brushed my teeth, and left for church. Another hot day... At least, I was on my bike!
From 9:30 to 10:30, we ate crushed ice with juice or syrup on it. We call it "Kaki-Goh-ri" here in Japan. The cold ice felt so good on my tongue. It was a very, very hot day, and the cold thing was so good, so delicious! We decided to do it next week too. At church, we listened to the priest's story, and after that, I left, and 2 other kids stayed at the church and played.
By the time I got home, I was wet all over with sweat. When my father opened the door, he asked me if I would like to take a shower. Wow, what a great idea!!! I was so happy that my father had suggested that. I nodded, and took a shower. I had to change all my clothes, so that piled up more work for my mother, but she said that she'd rather have more laundry than a sweaty girl walking around the house. After taking a shower, I worked on my homework until we got ont our hot, humid, car. It was like a sauna bath inside there! It took quite a while for the air conditioner to start working, and all that time, our family moaned and sweated. I was very hungry, and we went to a Chinese restaurant. It was very tasty, and also the air conditioned restaurant felt so cool that when we went outside, the hot air suddenly covered us and we all sighed. Japan's summers are hot and humid. It is so hot and humid that, even at 9:46, up in the third floor of our house it is 32 degrees C and the humidity is 52.
We got home after that, and I did my homework. I had to put on the air conditioner. Otherwise I'd have died!! After I finished my homerwork, Mother and I watched a TV drama we had taken on a video. It is about a certain famous person in a certain time of the Japanese history.
After that I practiced my piano. Right now, I am playing Invention #1 by J. S. Bach, Le Couppey's "The Alphabet Op. 17" , 'K' and Study 10, and Burgmuller's Ave Maria.
After that, we went shopping for dinner, and I bought Sushi, raw fish on vinegar rice, eaten with soy sauce. I watched a TV show after that, read, and I will go to sleep when I am done writing this blog.

MONDAY Jun. 27

Today, I awoke in the night. I felt my nose bleeding (I think it is from the heat; I had allergies, and my skin is weak so I get bloddy noses a lot), but I left it. It didn't feel very good, having blood running down to my mouth (So! My nose and mouth is connected!) but I was so tired that I went to sleep soon. Then, I awoke again at about 5:20. My nose had stopped bleeding, but my nose was all red and dirty so I got up and wiped my nose. I got back into bed, and fell asleep pretty soon.
I woke up at about 6:20. I did my usual things; got dressed, did my hair, and ate breakfast. It was another hot day, but it was a little better than yesterday. I had to leave a little early today, because our bus was always late. It always gets to school at 8:30, and is the latest to arrive. So I left home at 7:45, the hot, humid air covering me like a veil. I tried to ignore it, but still, it was very hot.
I got on the bus and arrived at school. First period was Reading. The classroom was air-conditioned and was very cold, but it was much better than the hot humid weather outside. We discussed our spelling list and words. It was kind of fun. After that, we had Math. We are still continuing the exponents stuff.
After that was recess. We went to the blue mat area and started to play tag. We were running around like crazy, and I was sweating a lot. It was so hot, I was boiling, but also having a lot of fun. After that was English. We had a (kind of) spelling game with 2 teams. I was with Mai, Miho, and Soe. The other group had Minagi, Ruby, Noriko, and Nikashi. We were half playing, saying answers and spelling them out and talking among ourselves. I enjoyed it quite a lot, actually. After that was computer. We continued making our websites. I started to put images in my site and making more links.
Lunch was ham and cheese sandwich. I didn't like it a lot. Also, I tried to drink milk. I am 161 cm tall right now, and my growing is starting to get slower, so I decided to start getting over my dislike to milk. I tried, tried, tried, and managed to drink a cup of it. Thinking positively, the cold milk felt quite good to my throat! After that, we played tag with Mr. Bond watching. We had a lot of fun. Everybody was jumping into the safe zones, slipping, falling, running, screaming, sweating, and laughing. It was so fun.
After that was Japanese. Since the MIs that usually have Japanese with us are having their final exams, our class was the only one at class. We played word search games. They were hard, and at first, they just looked like a whole bunch of kanji arranged randomly. Soon we started getting it, but still, we couldn't complete it. Last was playground time. First, we went to the hot and burning playground, but we asked our teacher, Mr. Huis if we could go to the blue mat. All the class went to the blue mat area and played tag. 45 minutes of running around crazily, jumping into safe zones, falling, slipping, screaming our heads off, and laughing. We had a lot of fun!
After that, Ruby, Mitsuki (a girl from MI), and I went to a public library nearby. We hang around, looking at books for about half a hour, and left after that.
I got home at about 4:15. I did my Math homework, practiced my piano, and for the rest of the day, read comic books that I had borrowed from my friends. I took a shower then, and am writing this blog right now.

TUESDAY Jun. 28

Today, I woke up at 6:15. I forced myself to get out of bed and do the usual things. All that time I was pretty sleepy, until I ate my cereal. Then I read comic books I had borrowed from friends, and left home a little early... at 7:45. The bus was supposed to come at around 8:03, but because a boy was late, I had to wait until 8:08, under the bright hot sun. Above the burning concrete that was heated like a frying pan.
Ruby was absent, so I read a book for the whole bus trip (which is only like 30 minutes or less).
First was Reading. We had our spelling test with the words from the game we did yesterday. Next was Math. We discussed our homework, and started the rest of our homework. They were word problems, so they were hard, but soon I got it, and after that, I was able to do it smoothly.
At recess, we played tag. Just as usual... The laughing and running and screaming. After that, we went straight to our Music class. I played a xylopone. My part was kind of hard, but it was much easier than what Minagi was playing. I feel kind of sorry for her. After that was English. We discussed Mai's blog; about what she should elaborate more, and what grammar errors had to be corrected.
After that was lunch, and lunch was pork with kimuchi. Kimuchi is a Korean food with vegetables in spicy sauce. I liked it. It was kind of spicy, though. Instead of tag, we played a crazy game after eating. We kind of copied Disney movies and arranged it into crazy things, and played around acting like characters. We laughed a lot, because everybody was acting so differently from what the original character was supposed to be like. We had a lot of fun.
Next was Japanese, and Mr. Yoshida, our next year Japanese teacher gave us a worksheet to do. It was hard. We had to read a short story and answer questions about it. After that was Art, and we continued making our houses. I colored all of the inner wall sky blue today.
The day ended then, and I got on the bus and left. On the bus, I sat with Leila, Ruby's little sister, and we played around tickling eachother.
I got home and went to a convenience store to copy a B4 paper to A4. I had promised to fax homework to Ruby, but I couldn't fax B4 paper. I went home and faxed the homework to Ruby. Then I did my homework. When I was done and I went downstairs to the living room, my grandmother was there. She had come to get a book we had. She needed it tomorrow. I was getting ready for junior high students' yacht trip tomorrow, so I talked with my grandmother about that. Then I left with my grandmother because she told me that she would give me some bandages, since our family had run out of them. I came home at 6:00 and ate my dinner. Then I watched TV and took a shower, and after watching TV, I am writing this blog right now.

WEDNESDAY Jun. 29

Today, I woke up at 6:00. I stayed in bed and listened-- rain was tapping on our roof. So... no sailing trip? Normal classes? I didn't know; I woke up and mailed a to a few of my friends with my cell phone, asking if they thought that the trip was cancelled. I wasn't sure, so I called my homeroom teacher, Mr. Lara. His wife answered, and she said that the trip would be done anyways, so I changed into my tankini swmmimg suit and wore a T-shirt and swimming suit shorts over it. Then I ate my breakfast and left home at 7:45. It was still raining a little, but soon, it stopped. When I got on the bus, it had almost completely stopped raining. We got to class, and without a lot of time, we went to get on one of the school busses and get going. It was the whole junior high, but only (about) 20 people were going. It took about 1.5 hour to get to the sailing spot. I borrowed Ruby's iPod and listened to music, and played cards with my friends. It was 10:00. Then some people changed their clothes, and after buying sport drinks and putting on life jackets, the girls got on one yacht and the boys on another, and we all sailed out onto the sea! The water was quite calm. Sometimes silver fish jumped where the motor boats had ran, and waves came to move our ship up and down. Ruby and I also played, splashing water to eachother as the yacht ran. I got quite wet, especially my face. My hair was also damp on my neck, and my wet swimming suit was stuck to my body.
When we got off the boat, I suddenly felt freezing cold. It was really cold, winds blowing on our wet body, and we weren't allowed to take hot showers! Not even cold ones! I hated it, because my hair was wet and had salt in it, and I didn't know why, but my hand was hurting, probably from the salt in the sea water. So the bus left on 12:30, and we ate our lunch, which was a salmon rice ball, tuna sandwich, egg sandwich, and bananas, which came from a convenience store, Seven Eleven! Also, it was way too less for me! I eat qutie a lot, and so that was just a snack! I was quite hungry even after finishing the whole thing.
We got to school at 1:30. We played at the blue mat area for the rest of the day. We did tag again, and the boys joined us too. They all came as usual: the screaming and laughing, talking, running, slipping, falling...
After that I got on the bus and came home. I was very sleepy, probably because I was pretty tired, and after taking a shower and changing into my pajamas, I took a short nap. Then I ate dinner, and I am writing this blog right now.

Pictures from Kenya

2005-06-16T05:23:00.000-04:00

Abdi's Day on Mt. Kenya

2005-06-16T05:20:00.000-04:00

I have climbed Mt. Kenya as a boy scout. I did not reach the top, but I plan to do it. It may cost me about $ 2000 US dollars to marshal my friends, get the necessary equipment and training, to enable us to climb the mountain. Of truth, Mt. Kenya is my favorite place and I encourage friends from all over the world to join me as I plan the next climb.

A Week in Edwina’s Life

2005-06-14T10:31:00.000-04:00

Sunday
When I woke up I had breakfast. I had eggs, pancakes and orange juice. Then after I was done I got in the shower. Then it was time to go to church with my family. Before church was over they said who wants to get saved! And they said come up so we can have a moment of prayer so you can be saved. I did. After I got saved we went to celebrate that night. Since I got saved my mom took me to the buffet. When we went to the buffet I had Chinese food and then I had dessert. I had ice cream and bananas and strawberry shortcake. My mom and the rest of my sisters and bothers and my dad were still eating. They had different stuff. Then we went to the movies and we saw The Longest Yard with Nelly.

Monday
When I woke up this morning I realized that today I had gym. I put something on shorts, ankle socks and a white shirt so Mr. Williams the gym teacher wouldn’t give me an (F). Today we had to run 4 laps around the track to see who would make the track team. We have a track team for South 17th Street School and we had to race boys against girls. Half of the boys finished running before the girls, and the girls were almost done running before the boys were done running.

Tuesday
Today we have art at 10:25 a.m. with Mr. Cohen the art teacher. Today in art we are going to be focusing on creative cursive names and color. We’re doing great on the projects and next Tuesday we are going to be on the same project until we are done with it.

Wednesday
Today we have library and we’re trying to practice our part in our play. It’s called “I Don’t Want to be Another Statistic.” My part in the play is I am some girl walking home from school in the rain. I get roughed up and left in pain. I don’t want to tell my parents and it hurts too much to tell my friend. My character doesn’t know what to do to make this nightmare end.

Thursday
Today we have Spanish with Mr. Guzman. He’s funny but you could make him mad. He’s good and when he gives tests they’re easy and fun. I learned a lot this past year and I learned a lot in Spanish. When you come in his room you say Hi! In Spanish and I know how to say it. Moreover, I know how to say good-bye too.

Friday
Today is the end of the week, almost the weekend and I’m happy it’s almost Saturday. No more school until Monday. You can relax and watch T.V, like for example watching “That’s So Raven.” You can get up out of the bed late if you want to, get in the shower, and eat breakfast late, and then go out side about 1:00 pm and play all day.

Saturday
It is finally the weekend. I can play all weekend. I can’t wait until I go to this party today at 7:00 pm. until 12:00 a.m. I can’t wait I’m going to have so much fun at the party. I’m going to dance all night until I’m tired. They’re going to play a lot of club music and other music. I’m going to have a ball. That’s my favorite activity this week!
Newark, NJ

A Week in Jarryd's Life

2005-06-13T22:19:00.000-04:00

Week in Jarryd’s Life

Monday
Get up at 6.00, have breakfast and then I get my clothes on and I watch Austar, Nickolodeon and Sponge Bob Square Pants. Then I get my lunch ready and put my socks on and my shoes on. I go to school on the bus and then get my books out and then I play football then go to line up. We go into class to do work and go to recess and play football for a half an hour and then go back into class and Mr. B reads for fifteen minutes and then we do stuff on space with Ms. Rosewarne.

Tuesday
Do the same thing as Monday but we go to Mrs. Giese class for an hour. And then get home and play the Playstation.

Wednesday
Do the same thing but we have hotdogs then we go play soccer for an hour. Then get home and watch Austar. I watch the Comedy Channel and then watch a DVD and I ride my bike and then have a bath and then go to bed.

Thursday
We go to cross country and we go into town and we go shopping and we get Hungry Jacks for tea. And we go to Nan’s for a half and hour and we get pizza for tea. We go to Eagle Boys. And then we go home. And we might go to the pub for a while.

Friday
We go to sport for a hour and we play the games for ten minutes and then get on the bus and than we order chips from the shop. We watch Austar for 2 hours and than I go to bed.

Saturday
We go to football which is Australian rules then go to the bakery and get a drink. And then we go to tennis and get home at 6.00 pm and then I eat and then watch TV and then go to bed.

Sunday
Go to football training and then go to the bakery. And then go home and play the Playstation. Finally I go for a ride on my bike followed by a kick of the football.

Bye!!!!
Jarryd from Gerogery Australia

A Week In DJs Life

2005-06-09T09:29:00.000-04:00

Sunday
Today was really fun I went to my friend Amanda’s cookout. The food her mother cooked was really good. I thought that her mother couldn’t cook. Well, back to the cookout. I got to meet Amanda’s friends from her new school. Amanda’s friends were really nice to me because I am Amanda’s best friend. I really wish that she would come back to Vailsburg. She said she would ask her mother. I think she’ll say yes.

Monday
Wow! We started watching hotel Rwanda today and it’s a really good movie. I remember this part when this guy had to be killed or kill his family. It really made me think. What would you do if something like this happened to you? Which one would you pick? I think that anybody who would make you kill your family is just so crazy.

Tuesday
Today was ok. Dominique called me and we talked for about an hour, then I got really bored. I really need to work on my math. For some reason I’m really bad at math and I don’t know why. I need help. Dominique tries to help me sometimes. She is nice sometimes.

Wednesday
Something happened today and I just had to take a day off just to get away. Today I really took a good look at my life. I thought about what I want to be and my future. I also thought who am I as a person. I thought years ahead. Today was a thinking day.

Thursday
Today was just ok that’s the only way to describe it. Today for some reason the day went really fast. Today, I started to read the House Of Dies Drear and it was Boring. I can’t wait until we are done reading it. This book is boring, it starts off boring and it ends boring. Some book!

Friday
I woke up and it was so hot in the house. That’s a good thing because it means that my mother cooked. After getting dressed, I ate an egg sandwich. Twenty minutes later Dominique called and we talked. Ten minutes later I got hungry again, so I just ate some cookies. I put on my stuff and I was on my way. Nothing really happened in school, just the usual.

Saturday
I can't wait to get my hair done. I went to my sister’s house. Let me tell you I don’t like being in the house on weekends. I went to my grandma's house to see her, she isn’t doing so well. I called Dominique, but we didn’t talk about any thing important so I said I'd call her back later. I called my brother Toaine later that night because I started to really miss him.

Newark, NJ

Matt's Life Update

2005-06-09T00:35:00.000-04:00

26/5/05
I was at home sick with a very bad headache.

8/6/05
Got year 7 jumpers and had science/Tech.

Samantha's Blog

2005-06-09T00:30:00.000-04:00

· 27/5/05
· I was in bed fast asleep and my brother put the dog on my bunk bed.
· So I jumped out of my bunk bed and walked and got my clothes on and put my shoes on and brushed my hair.
· I make my breakfast with some water to drink.
· Then I brush my teeth.
· Mum made my lunch so I don’t have to do anything but I have to make my mum her coffee.
· Then I went to school even though I don’t want to go to school.
· The first thing we did was fitness and we did the hoops things I don’t know the name.
· The other thing that we did is we did reading and then we did maths I went to Ms Cilento class to do maths.
· Then we have recess and I played on the swings with my friend.
· And then we did spelling.
· Then after that we did language.
· Then we played greedy pig
· Then we went home. Cool!!!!!!!!!!! Finally!!!!!!!

By Samantha
28/5/05 Saturday
On Saturday I went around going walkie with my dog spot and my family but Nathan didn't because he is lazy

29/5/05 Sunday
We went to bingo and won 50 bucks coooooollll!!!!

30/5/05 Monday
On Monday I was sick so I did not go to school.

31/5/05 Tuesday
I did fitness and I did spelling maths then recess and I did sose language and then went to my home yay coooooollllllll

1/6/05 Wednesday
On Wednesday we did fitness spelling maths recess choir lunch language sose. Then went home.

2/6/05 Thursday
Fitness
Spelling
Maths
Recess
Tech
Greedy pig
Lunch
Computers
Then I went home.

Australia

Kelmat's Blog

2005-06-09T00:25:00.000-04:00

On the 25th of May.
· I was sleeping and my sister pinched me and I woke up.
· I had my breakfast.
· I changed my clothes
· I brushed my teeth
· I went to school Woking.
· I saw my friend Samantha. We are best friends we all ways hangout together.
· The first thing we did was fitness.
· reading
· Then the Mix 102.3 came to our school with channel nine came to.
· choir.
· Sose.
· English
· Then I went home
· Ate my lunch
· Did my homework
· I watched the Simpson on the TV
· I ate my dinner
On the 26th of may
· I woke up
· I ate my breakfast
· I changed my clothes
· My sister took me to school in her car
· We had fitness
· Reading
· Maths
· Tech
· Break time
· Computer
· Sose
· I went home
· Lunch
· I played with my computer
· I watch TV
· Had dinner
· Went to bed

Jelena

2005-06-09T00:17:00.000-04:00

25/5/05
Blog Diary
6:30 Wake up watch TV
7:00 Have shower
7:05 Get dressed
7:20 Have breakfast
7:35 Feed bird clean bird’s cage
7:40 Pick up doggy doo - Change water
8:00 Make bed
8:30 Put on shoes
8:35 Run out door
8:45 Arrive at school
9:55 School starts
9:30 Timmy came to school from mix 102.3 museum guy comes
10:00 Timmy takes us out to oval .Timmy makes us practice chant
Helicopter arrives meet Ali and Dzeledy
10:05 Nartika and Keda Escorted to our class
11:15 they left
12:40 had lunch
2:00 do language
3:00 pack up
3:10 go home

26/5/05
Went to school had computers, had to type up fruit story.

28/5/05
Woke up had to get changed into tennis clothes, have breakfast get tennis racquet run out the door drove all the way to Athelstone. Arrive at tennis club played my singles match. I won 6:0 then played doubles match with partner won 6:2.
Went home.

29/5/05
Woke up got dressed ran out the door, went to my brother's soccer match. They lost 0:3 went home.

30/5/05
Went to school done fitness, maths spelling.

31/5/05
Woke up got dressed
Had breakfast
Ran out the door
Came to school
Did fitness
Spelling
Maths s.o.s.e

1/6/05
Fitness
Spelling
Maths
Recess
Choir
Language
Lunch
Sose
Went home
Had tennis training

2/6/05
Fitness/ dance
Silent reading
Maths
Recess
Science /technology
Lunch
Lee
Sose
brompton primary school adelaide sa my name is Jelena

Nartika's Life

2005-06-09T00:13:00.000-04:00

25th May
7.00 Woke up.
7.10 I got dressed.
7.20 Had a fruit muffin for breakfast.
7.30 Started walking to school.
8.00 My mum starts work at my school.
8.55 School starts.
9.00 I have fitness with my class.
9.00 Steve came to our school to talk to us.
9.30 Timmy came for mix 102.3.
10.00 Helicopter landed on our oval.
11.00 We had interviews with mix 102.3.
12.00 Interviews for mix
102.3.
12.40 ate lunch.
1.20 finished lunch.
3.00 got ready to go home.
3.10 school finished.

Thursday 26th May
Normal school day. After school went to Fasta Pasta.

Friday 27th May
After school had soccer training.

Saturday 28th May
Soccer match

Sunday 29th May
Family came over for a barbecue

Monday 30th May
Normal school day.

Tuesday 31st May
Normal school day

Wednesday 1st June
Did choir at school.

Thursday 2nd June
Normal school day.
I’m from Brampton and my name is Nartika

A Week In Jackie's Life

2005-06-07T22:54:00.000-04:00

Jackie from Gergery
A Week In Jackies Life

Sunday
Woke up and had breaky.Watched video hits and then rode my horse for 3 hours with my sister and nan.Then do chores and go into town and do groceries and buy clothes.

Monday
Get up at 7:30 and have shower and then watch t.v for 15 minutes. Have breakfast and then brush teeth and then get uniform on and get on bus. Get to school at 9:00 and play for half an hour. Then go in class and do maths and mentals. Then have recess for half an hour and then go back inside and do reading and handwriting. Then have lunch for an hour then we do more work for an hour and a half then we go home on the bus. Get home and do chores until mum gets home and then have dinner and go to bed.

Tuesday
Get up and get dressed and then watch t.v for half an hour and then get on the bus. Get to school and do epals and then maths until recess and then play soccer. Go back into the library and do 2D-3D with Mrs Giese. Then we have lunch and play hockey. Then we do reading and Science until hometime. Go home and do chores.

Wednesday
Wake up and have breaky, then get dressed and watch t.v. Then get on the bus and get to school and play with little children. Then have scripture until recess. Then do tables and maths and go outside and have hotdogs for lunch. Then go inside and do H.S.I.E until home time. Go home do chores have dinner watch t.v go to bed.

Thursday
Wake up at 7:45 and get dressed and have breaky and get on the bus. Get to school and do work. Then have recess and play soccer. Get back to class and do more work and then have lunch and play soccer again. Do more work and then go home.

Friday
Get up and have shower and have breaky.Get dresed and go to school. Get to school and play and then do spelling test and then lunch. Go back to class and do reading and then have recess and go into town for school sport. Then come home and do chores.

Saturday
Get up late and do homework for an hour. Then go to a friends house and stay the night.

That was a week in Jackie's life.

Matt's Big Blog

2005-06-07T22:16:00.000-04:00

A Week In Matt’s Life!!!!!!
MONDAY
I woke up at 7.30 am I got dressed then . Had toast then brushed my teeth then watched T.V. Then got on the bus then went to school did work came home and played the xbox.
TUESDAY
I got up and got dressed went to school I learned about space and went on the computer then we presented what we discovered. then came home. Then help mum feed the dogs then went to sleep.
WEDNESDAY
Did the same thing but had scripture then came home watched raw played the xbox feed the dogs.
THURSDAY
We had cross country and came last of the 11 year boys. On Friday I went to Crusty Demons and had lots of fun. On Saturday came home and went to bed. On Sunday went to town and went to a shop and got a DVD called Judgement Day and got a magazine and went to get some food and went home and played the xbox finshed halo and watched scary movie 3 6 times and played my gameboy till I went to sleep. Then my cat came in and licked my feet all night.

THAT’S A PART OF A WEEK IN MY LIFE
THE END
By Matt from Gerogery

A week in Dominique's Life

2005-06-07T11:56:00.000-04:00

Sunday
Today is Sunday and I am at my grandma and grandpa’s house. I am eating before I go to Sade’s birthday party. I’m eating Frosted Flakes and it tastes so good. I have to get ready for the party in a few minutes so I won’t be the last one getting dressed. I went to go take a bath, and when I got out it was time to go. Then, we left to go get my aunt and my 2 little cousins. One of my cousins is a baby, and he is so cute. My other cousin is 7 and he acts like he’s my age. We left from my aunt’s house and went to Sade’s party. I bought her three outfits and some sneakers. My grandma bought her some outfits. When we looked at the invitation we didn’t know where the street was, so we got lost unfortunately. We finally found the right street and realized that we did know where it was all that time. We went in the backyard, and it was a lot of people. We had fun we did a lot of stuff. We stayed until the end.

Monday
Today is Monday I woke up and started getting ready for school. I brushed my teeth and washed my face. I ironed my clothes then put them on. I did my hair in a ponytail, went in the kitchen and made me a bowl of cereal. Then, I watched TV for a little while and as usual the phone rang it was DJ. We talked until it was time to go to school. Then, I walked to school, and was a little late. I went to all my classes at school. After school I went home and ate something because I was hungry. Later I took a shower, and prepared myself for bed.

Tuesday
Today I woke up washed my face and brushed my teeth. I got dressed, and ate breakfast. Then, I watched a little bit of TV. Then, the phone ring as usual and it was DJ. We talked until it was time to go to school. After school I went to the Chinese store. Then I went home and watched TV. Later I went to ShopRite with my mother. At night I got in the shower and ate dinner and I went to sleep.

Wednesday
Today I woke up washed my face and brushed my teeth. I got dressed, and ate breakfast. Then I watched TV and left for school. When I got to school Quadasia told me that DJ had an accident. I was very sad that it happened. After school I went to get a slice of pizza. When I got home, I called DJ to see if she was all right. While we were on the phone my mother called on the other line, and she told me to come outside so that we could go to my stepfather house. After we left there we went to the Ponderosa in West Orange. Then, we went to DairyQueen I ordered a vanilla cone with a lots of sprinkles. Then, we went home and I watched TV. After that I got in the shower, played my PS2. I watched TV and went to sleep.

Thursday
I got up from bed. I got up and got ready for school. I took a shower. When I got out I put on my clothes, and ate breakfast. I watched TV until it was time to go to school. I went to the store before I got to school, and bought me some gum. Then, I went to school. After school I went home, and my mother took me to the nail salon with her. Then, we went to get something to eat. Then, we went home and I played my game. After that I went to get in the shower. I read some of my book House of Dies Drear, but it was only 2 ½ pages. It started getting boring so I stopped reading. Then, I watched TV and fell asleep on the couch in the living room.

Friday
I woke up got ready for school and as usual the same old same old happened. I ate breakfast, and DJ called me and asked me to come get her because she was still paranoid from the accident yesterday. So I went to go get her. When I got there I was tired and I wanted some cookies. She took me on a tour of her house. Then we got ready to go to school. After school I waited to see my friend, but he was around all these boys so I didn’t go over there. I waited a little while longer, but it was too long so I left. I went home and watched TV then my mother told me to come outside so that we can go to her friend’s house to cook the food for the 70’s Party. My mother is giving a 70’s Party on Saturday with her friends on her job. We all went over my mother’s friend’s house to cook. We stayed there until 11:45. They cooked a lot of food. Then, we went to my stepfather’s house because it was closer than our house and I went straight to sleep.

Saturday
I woke up and took a shower because today is the day of the party, so I’m leaving. I ate Apple Jacks cereal, and watched TV. When I was finished eating, I got dressed because I didn’t want to mess my clothes up. We left to go to New York with my mother for her outfit for the 70’s party. When we came back from New York my mother dropped me off at my cousin’s house. Then, we went to my grandmother’s house for a little bit. After that we went to get something to eat. I was full, and sleepy after that. Then, we went back to my cousin’s house, and I went to sleep. Later that day we went to Livingston Mall. We went to the mall to walk around and we bought my cousin some sneakers because her birthday was Thursday. Then, we went to the food court to get something to eat again. Then, we left and went to Cold Stone ice cream parlor in West Orange. After that, we went home and I got in the shower, and played the game. Then I watched TV and went to sleep.

Newark, New Jersey

A week in Merissa's Life

2005-06-07T11:39:00.000-04:00

Sunday
Today I woke up at 8:47. I ate breakfast and then I took a shower. After I was done my mother left for work so I was home alone. At about 2:00 my aunt called me and asked me if I wanted to go to the mall and I told her yes. She came and picked me up at 2:35. When we arrived at the mall she bought me an outfit. We left the mall at about 8:30 PM and She took me home and at about 9:54 I fell asleep.

Monday
Today I woke up at 6:30 AM and took a bath and got dressed for school. I walked to school with my twin friends. When we reached the school we were the only ones there because it was about 7:45 and the twins had dance practice. At 8:00 the school gate opened and everyone went in. By that time most of my friends had come to school. After school I walked home with Rakiyyah. When I reached home I called my friend JoeDel At 8:00. I watched Whose Line Is It Anyway. I fell asleep at about 9:30.

Tuesday
Today I woke up at 7:00 am because I forgot to set the alarm clock the night before. When I got up I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and take a shower. After that I went to my room and got dressed. I left the house at 7:18 AM. I met the twins at their house. I went to school and saw some of my friends. When the bell ring it was time to go in. After school I walked home with Jelisa, Tameeka, and Rakiyyah. When I arrived home it was 3:32 PM. At 10:00 I watched my favorite show and at 11:00 PM I fell asleep.

Wednesday
Today I woke up at 6:45 because I was too tired to wake up at 6:30. I did the regular, brush my teeth, took a shower and got dressed. I left the house at 7:15. I went and picked up the twins so that we could walk to school. When I arrived to school I saw Rakiyyah which I was surprised to see because she always comes late to school. The bell rang and it was time to go in. After school I walked home with the same three people I walked home with yesterday. I arrived home at 3:29 I called this boy named JoeDile because he had called me earlier. I went outside until 8:00 so that I could watch "Top Model." At 10:00 I did exactly what I did Tuesday.

Thursday
Today I woke up at 6:30 AM. I did the usual. But today I walked to school with Jelisa and Tameeka. They came for me at 7:30 AM. We were about to go to the store but all of them were closed. When we arrived at school I saw Jennel and Tamanesha so I chilled with them until it was time to go in. In math class, Mrs.Overton said that it was going to be a math competition and we needed to pick teams for the competition. In my class the team members are Rakiyyah, Elayne, Kajh, Dominique, and myself, the alternate is David. After school I walked home with Jomari and Rakiyyah. I arrived home around the same time as yesterday. I did the same thing as I did yesterday afternoon.

Friday
Today I woke up at 6:00 AM and did the usual. Jelisa did not come to school today so I walked to school with Tameeka. When I arrived at school it was raining so I went to the auditorium. At 8:00 everyone went to the gym. During 7th and 8th period we watched the movie version to the House of Dies Drear. The movie was fun and scary. After school I walked home with Jomari, Elayne, and Rakiyyah.

Saturday
Today I woke at 8:57 AM. I got up and ate breakfast and did the regular. I called my aunt and asked her to come and pick me up. When I went to her house we went to the store and bought an Italian cheeseburger. We watched movies and ate popcorn. We fell asleep at about 12:30 PM. What A fun day it was!

A Week in Rakiyyah's Life

2005-06-06T09:30:00.000-04:00

Sunday
I got up out of my bed, brushed my teeth and washed my face. I ate cereal while looking at the Sunday Newspaper. I got dressed, watched television, helped my little brother with his homework, got dressed and then we went outside. My brother and my cousin wanted to ride their bikes so I opened the garage. My cousin and brother went in at 7:30pm and I went in at 8:30. I went in the house ate my dinner, took a shower, and watched television to 10:00pm and went to sleep.

Monday
I got up brushed my teeth, washed my face, picked out my clothes for school and got dressed for school. Then, I watched the Weather Channel after that and left the house at about 7:35 or 7:40am. I walked up Ambinger Avenue and turned on Stanford then I turned on Ivy Street. I saw my friends as I walked in the playground and then the bell rang for us to go to class.

Tuesday
I washed my face and brushed my teeth and got ready to have a joyful but learning day. I left out my house at 7:35am and went to the store on the corner of Brookdale and Ambinger. When I came out of the store I saw my two friends Kyuma and Mary then we all walked to school together. When we arrived in the playground all my other friends waved to me and that’s when we walked over there. We played jump rope and that’s when the bell rang and I walked to my class with Merissa, Kyuma, and Mary.

Wednesday
I woke up at 7:00am and brushed my teeth and washed my face. Then I picked out my school clothes. I woke my little brother up to get ready for school. When I finished getting myself situated I left out the house at 7:39am and I went to the store on the corner of Brookdale to get my lunch. Then, I started walking to school the same way I do all the time; I caught up with a couple of friends. Today the day went lovely!

Thursday
I did the usual like I do every morning, after that I walked to my grandmother house on Brookdale and I got a ride to school. I told her she could drop me off at the store on Sanford. When I came out of the store I saw my friends and we walked to the playground together. When we got to the gate the security guard checked our bags. We went where all our friends were.

Friday
I woke up and did the usual and I left out the house at 7:38am. I walked in the rain to the store and to school. When I arrived at school the playground gate was closed so that means I had to go to the front door. When I went in everyone was in the auditorium then they made us go to the lower gym. When everyone went to the lower gym I met up with my friend Merissa and we went up stairs.

Saturday
I stayed at my grandmother's house for the weekend. I had to be at school at 8:00am because I had a Cheerleading Competition. I woke up and did the usual and then I headed to school. I figured since one of my cheerleading friends live near the school I’ll pick her up and I did. When we walked to school we all practiced for the Competition.

Newark, New Jersey

A Week in Brayden's Life

2005-06-05T22:32:00.000-04:00

A Week in the life of Brayden

Monday
Get up at 7:30 get dressed then have breakfast. Do my teeth then make lunch for school then I get dropped to my bus stop then get picked up at 8:45-8:50 by the bus. Then it drops me of at school. We play for half a hour before we go into class. We do spelling then we do the spelling sheet, then we do mentals. Next we have a fruit break. I ate an orange then we do maths for about 30 minutes then we go out for little lunch. We played touch rugby for 30 minutes then we do maths for a hour and a half then we go out for lunch. After we eat we played touch rugby for a hour then we go back into class then sometimes read for 30 minutes then we do h.s.i.e for an hour. Then we do science for an hour and a half. Then sometimes we play a game for 30 minutes then school finishes at 3:30 then the bus picks me up. I’m the last one off the bus. When I get off the bus I have to walk 1 kilomitre to get to my house. When I get home I have some thing to eat then I do my chores. My chores are empty the bin, light the fires, get wood for the fires, go chop wood, sometimes I feed the horses. Then I play the x-box for a hour and a half then watch TV till tea is ready then I have a shower and watch TV till 8:30 then go to bed.

Tuesday
I do the same thing in the morning. When I get to school we play for 30 minutes then we go in side and do spelling then mentals then maths till little lunch. Then we played football for 30 minutes then we go back in side and do maths till lunch time. After we eat we played football for 1 hour then we go into class maths then we learned about space. Then we went home and did my chores.

Wednesday
I did the same thing I did on Monday and Tuesday in the morning and I did the same thing at school except one thing we played peg chashy and we had scripter.

Thursday
I did the same thing as I did on Tuesday and Monday in the morning. There is only one thing different. We are doing cross country.

Friday
Did the same thing as every day but scripter and cross country and we went to ten pin bowling and my friend came over.

Saturday
I played football and the computer. On the computer I played Age of Empires then I played the x-box then I rode my motor bike and then watched TV.

Sunday
I did football training and played with my dogs and then went hunting for kangaroos on my farm for the rest of the day with my bow and arrow.

A Week In Jack's Life

2005-06-05T22:20:00.000-04:00

A WEEK IN JACK’S LIFE
Monday!!!!
Get up at about 7:30am.Get dressed and then get breakfast ready
Have breakfast. Than I have to get my lunch ready than brush my
teeth. Than I catch the bus to school. Play for about 30 minutes play sports
Such as football. Start doing work such as spelling, mentals, times table,
maths, English. Finish the day at about 3:30pm get home about 4:00 pm.
When I go home I go in to town and play basketball at two different
Times such as 4:25 pm or 5:25 pm

Tuesday!!!!
Go to school play, do the same type of subjects. After recess go to a
different teacher and work in the library. Finish school then at about
7:30pm take my brother to touch football.

Wednesday!!!!
Start the day off going to school again. Do all the same things again.
We have hotdogs for lunch every Wednesday.
After school I get home than my dad plays basketball at about 7:20 pm.
Than when I get home I have tea and watch Blue Heelers.
We also have scripture at about 10:45 am at school

Thursday!!!!
On Thursday I play the computer at lunch time.
Today we have cross country at Jindera. There will be about 7 or 8 different
Schools. Sometimes people come over or I go to other peoples houses.

Friday!!!!
On Friday our school does sports. The kinder to year 2 children go to Gymnastics.
And year 3 to year 6 does either to Ten Pin Bowling or Soccer.
Sometimes I play basketball on Friday.

Saturday!!!!
On Saturdays I play football at 8:30 am for the kangaroos at lavington at Jelbart
Park. We lost last weekend. My dad is the assistant coach of my
Team.
Or in the summer I play Cricket in the morning and tennis in the afternoon.
Saturday night I go to the Bandits game they play Basketball, in Albury.
Most times I go to the football at Melbourne.

Sunday!!!!
Sometimes I go to the football in Melbourne again , and sometimes
Go to someone elses place or go to the movies.
Watch the football at home and the footy show and Any Given Sunday.

That is what normally happens in a week of Jack’s life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Week in Elayne's Life

2005-06-02T14:28:00.000-04:00

Sunday
I woke up and took a shower. Then, I brushed my teeth, washed my face and got dressed. For breakfast I ate eggs, pancakes, and beef bacon. I had to clean up first and then I could go outside. I rode my bike with my friends. Later, I went in the house to eat. I ate chicken, stuffing, baked macaroni & cheese. My mother made me clean up again. Then I went up stairs to play my music and go to sleep.

Monday
I woke up, brushed my teeth, and washed my face and took a shower. After that I went to school. During 3rd period we went to the gym. 5th period we had lunch and went outside. The girls played jump rope. 7th period we had to write down the House Of Dies Drear questions. Then at 2:55 it was time to go home. I had track practice after school. After that, I went home and did my homework. For dinner I ate turkey wings, spinach, muffin, rice, and gravy. Then I watched T.V. and went to sleep.

Tuesday
I went to school and during 1st period I went to math. 3rd period I went to Spanish. 5th period I had lunch. 7th period I had language arts. At 2:55 it was time to go home. I had track practice until 5:00. Then I went home and ate; I had noodles since my mother didn’t want to cook. I played with my little brother. After that I went to sleep.

Wednesday
I woke up and took a shower. Then I brushed my teeth and washed my face. I put on my clothes and went to school. 1st period we watched a movie. 2nd and 3rd I was in math helping my teacher grade the test. At the end of the day I went home. I ate Chinese food for dinner. Then I went to sleep.

Thursday
I woke up and took a shower, brushed my teeth and washed my face. After I got dress; I went to school. 5th period we had lunch. 8th period we went to the computer lab. Then I went home at 2:55. I did my homework and then I went outside. I ate Chinese food for dinner. After that I watched T.V and went to sleep.

Friday
I woke up and completed my usual routine. It rained mostly all day. During 7th period we watched a movie and 8th period we went to the computer lab. Later, I wen t home at 2:55 and played cards with my family. Then I went to bed.

Saturday
Today I went to the cheerleading competition. It was fun. Later, I went home and played cards again. Then I went to sleep.

Newark, New Jersey

A Week in Amela's Life

2005-06-02T00:46:00.000-04:00

Wednesday 25th May
7:45- woke up to the sound of my sister crying
Ate breakfast, watched TV at the same time(cartoons)
8:00-got dressed in my school uniform
Brushed my teeth, brushed my hair
8:25-got in the car
Drove to school
8:35-got to school
Hanged out with my friends
Got ready for class(got my books etc.)
8:55-school started
My teacher read out the roll book
9:10-went out to fitness
9:40-museum guy came to talk to my class about sharks and stuff like that
10:00- mix 102.3 came to my school with a helicopter(landed on our oval)
12:40-lunch time
1:20-lunch finishes
1:30-english
3:10-school finishes
3:20-got home, ate
4:00- watched TV
9:00-went to sleep

26th of May 2005
7:45-woke up for school
8:00-got ready for school, brushed teeth and hair ate my cereal
8:45-got at school hanged out with my friends got stuff for school ready.
8:55-school started sat in my seat ready to start the day
9:10-went out to fitness
Had lots of fun
9:50-came from fitness
Started maths
10:40-finished maths
Went out to recess
12:40-lunch time
Which was very fun
1:20-lunch finishes
Went to computing lessen
3:10-school finished
Best time in every day HAHAHAHA
9:00pm-went to sleep ready for another day

27th of May 2005
Did exactly what I did the day before (sorry people I don’t have a very interesting life)

28th 0f May 2005
Went shopping
Helped mum around the house
Did stuff like that

29th of May 2005
Had lots of fun with my little sister
Called my friend up and talked for about 4hours
Did some stuff around the house

30th of May 2005
A normal school day not much fun about it
After school I went swimming training with my friend
I was much tiered of swimming so straight after swimming I went to sleep

31st of May 2005
A very tiring day at school
After school went swimming again with my friend
Again I was so tiered after swimming so I went to sleep after swimming

1st of June 2005
Went to the doctor because my hand hurt and I had to have an x-ray but not much was wrong with my hand
I actually didn’t go to swimming so I went to sleep at about 10:00

2nd of June 2005
I’m writing to you guy’s
And today is a very sad day cause me and my friends are having a fight but thank god that I have other friends to hang out with
I’m so tired so that’s all I have to say today. See ya! bye.

Australia

A Week in Abbies life

2005-06-02T00:45:00.000-04:00

Blog Diary

25/5/05
I woke up at 5.00am in the morning but did not get up.
6.00am got up woke my brother and went into the shower. Got out and got dressed.
6.30 start chores.
8.00 finished chores
8.30 go to school with brother
8.40 At school
9.00 bells go time to get ready for the helicopter
10.00man tells us about sharks and rays
10.30 Timmy gets school out ready for helicopter
10.50 helicopter lands
11.00 talked with guess
11.10 port power players come in
11.30 we get fruit
11.40 get taped for radio
11.50 guess levee
12.00 music lessons
12.50 lunch
1.20 sose
2.20 English
3.15 school over go to after school care
5.30 go home
5.40 do more chores
6.00 watch class on TV
6.30 have dinner meat peas, corn and potato
7.00 go back to chores
7.30 go to bed

26/05/05-01/06/05
I can’t remember what I did on those days, so I wrote about today in more detail.

2/6/05
6.00 wake up and decide it is too early so sleep in
7.00 get up have breakfast
7.15 have shower
7.30 do chores
8.00 read
8.30 go to school
9.00 start lessons
9.10 English
9.50 maths
10.55 recess
11.15end off recess
11.20 science
12.55 lunch
1.00 computer
1.30 sose
3.10 go home
3.30 guitar

Australia

Beth

2005-06-02T00:44:00.000-04:00

Friday woke up went to school at school we had sose English and fitness then I went to my cousin's house

Saturday I had to party’s chantel and Ivanas I got them 2 out fits each and 2 play station games the party went from morning to mid night

Sunday visited my family which I do every Sunday then I went shopping and bought clothes

Monday I had the flu so I didn’t go to school so I was bored at home all day

Tuesday I still felt sick so I didn’t go to school I slept nearly all day

Wednesday I was better so I went to school and we had spelling and math’s and sose

Thursday right now I'm writing my letter
from bromptonp.s S.A

Australia

Blog

2005-06-02T00:35:00.000-04:00

Blog Diary

2005-06-02T00:34:00.000-04:00

25/5/05
BLOG DIARY

6:30 WAKE UP WATCH T.V
7:00 HAVE SHOWER
7:05 GET DRESSED
7:20 HAVE BREAKFAST
7:35 FEED BIRD CLEAN BIRDS CAGE
7:40 PICK UP DOGGY DOO CHANGE WATER
8:00 MAKE BED
8:30 PUT ON SHOES
8:35 RUN OUT DOOR
8:45 ARRIVE AT SCHOOL
9:55 School starts
9:30 Timmy came to school from mix 102.3 museum guy comes
10:00 Timmy takes us out to oval .Timmy makes us practice chant
Helicopter arrives meet Ali and Dzeledy
10:05 Nartika and Keda Escorted to our class
11:15 they left
12:40 had lunch
2:00 do language
3:00 pack up
3:10 go home

26/5/05
Went to school had computers, had to type up fruit story.

28/5/05
Woke up had get changed into tennis clothes, have breakfast get tennis racquet run out the door drove all the way to Athelstone. Arrive at tennis club played my singles match. I won 6:0 then played doubles match with partner won 6:2.
Went home.

29/5/05
Woke up got dressed ran out the door, went to my brothers soccer match. They lost 0:3 went home.

30/5/05
Went to school done fitness, maths spelling.

31/5/05
Woke up got dressed
Had breakfast
Ran out the door
Came to school
Did fitness
Spelling
Maths s.o.s.e

1/6/05
Fitness
Spelling
Maths
Recess
Choir
Language
Lunch
Sose
Went home
Had tennis training

2/6/05
Fitness/ dance
Silent reading
Maths
Recess
Science /technology
Lunch
Lee
Sose

from Brompton Primary /South Australia Adelaide

DILZY"S WEEK

2005-06-02T00:32:00.000-04:00

25.05.2005

8:00 woke up for school
8:05 feed my animals
8:07 eat breakfast weet-bix
8:10 get dressed for school
8:13-8:35 watch T.V til school time
9:00 bell rings for school and starts with museum visit
9:00-12:40 normal school
1:20 lunch finishes
1:20-3:10 fun school work
3:15-5:30 play with friends
5:45-6:00 eat dinner

Thursday 26.05.2005
I had a normal day at school and went home to a bath.

Friday 27.05.2005
Played soccer at school with friends. What sports do in America?

Saturday 28.05.2005
Went to a birthday party at my Auntie’s house.

Sunday 29.05.2005
Slept in till 12 o’clock then playstation 2 till 3:00.

Monday 30.05.2005
Normal school day with Math, English and Choir then went to lunch.

Tuesday 31.05.2005
Another school day and played soccer with friends.

Wednesday 1.06.2005
Normal school day a now sitting on computer sending this computer.

THE END A WEEK IN DYLAN GRUNDY

I'm from Brompton Primary School

A Week of Jacob's Life

2005-06-02T00:31:00.000-04:00

JACOBS WEEK
25th of the 5th
6:30: woke up due to my mum
6:50: had breakfast
7:00: watched cartoons
8:00: left for school
8:30: got to school
9:00: school started
9:30: continued our fruit stories
10:00: museum reptile dude came
10:30: waited for the (channel nine) helicopter to come
11:00: helicopter lands on our oval with footy players and news crew showed up with the radio station called mix 102.3
11:30: the footy players gave out fruit and gift bags and talked about healthy living
12:00: the footy players left so did the news crew and the radio station Mix 102.3
12:40: had lunch
1:20: had to do choir (yawn)
2:00 had work
3:10: went home
4:00: watch TV
6:00: had dinner
9:00: fell asleep
Sorry my teacher forgot about the B.L.O.G

26th 0f 5th 05
We played soccer.

27th of 5th 05
Soccer was canceled we were devastated.

28th of 5th 05
Went skating (boarding) pulled a couple of tricks off.

29th of 5th 05
Went to my Dads and I went skating (boarding).

30th of 5th 05
It was just a normal day, doing normal work and stuff.

31st of 5th 05
It was my friend’s birthday (hip hip hooray).

1st of 6th 05
Did a lot of sport and do boring choir (yawn).

2nd of 6th 05
Just done work played mini soccer we made that game up.

Brampton primary school

B.L.O.G

2005-06-02T00:29:00.001-04:00

25/5/05

· Woke up.
· Had breakfast.
· Drove motorized scooter around the street.
· Went to school.
· Fitness
· Museum guy came to our classroom to talk about sharks and rays.
· Helicopter landed in school ground and a radio station came.
· Talked about fruit and ate fruit.
· School work SOSE and language
· Went home
· Drove scooter
· Did homework
· Watched tv
· Had shower
· Went to bed

26 May 2005

· Woke up
· Had breakfast
· Went to school and did work
· Went home and went to sleep
· Then had dinner
· Went to Bosnian club
· Went to Bosnian school
· Came back home and went to bed

1st June 2, 2005
· Woke up
· Went to school
· Did work
· Went home
· Went to friends house
· Went home watched tv
· Went to bed

ADELAIDE BROMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Week in Hasan's Life

2005-06-02T00:29:00.000-04:00

Blog diary 25/05/05
. Woke up at 8 o’clock
. No breakfast
.went to school at 8:15
. Bell went at 9 o’clock
. Had fitness
. a guy came from the misaim
. A helicopter landed at 10 o’clock
. Mix 102.3 people came to school
. Port power players came to the class
. Had an interview with mix 102.3
. Had fun
. We were on TV
. Went back home at 3:10 with bike
. Had lunch
. Play PS2
. Had dinner
. Go to sleep
. Had a good dream

1/06/05
.woke up
.went to school
.had fitness
.did silent riding
.had maths
.had choir
.had language
.went back home
.had lunch
.Friends came to our house
.play PS2
.had dinner
2/06/05
.Did a dance
.read a book
.had language
.Had maths
.had science
.had computing
Went home had lunch

I am from Brompton school S.A

A Week In Paddlepop Lion's Life

2005-06-02T00:21:00.000-04:00

Wednesday 25th May

7:45: Woke up due to alarm
7:50: Had Coco Pops with banana
7:55: Got ready for school
8:00: Walked my dog
8:30: Left for school in car.
8:32: Got to school and got ready for school
9:00: School started
9:10: Continued spelling assignment
9:30: A museum dude came in and talked about reptiles.
10:30: Went outside to wait for helicopter
11:00: A helicopter lands on our oval and local footy players and a radio crew come out of it
11:01: The radio crew gives us fruit to eat and talk about healthy living
11:30: Leave for high school interview
12:15: Back to school from interview
12:40: Eat lunch
12:50: Went outside and played soccer
1:20: Back inside and continued English assignment
2:20: Continued S.O.S.E assignment
3:10: Go home
3:30: Had a bite to eat
4:00 Watch T.V.
5:00: Played soccer
6:00: Watched T.V. again
6:30: Went to mate’s place
8:30: Came home and ate
9:00: Watch T.V.
10:30: Go to sleep

Note: My teacher forgot to keep track of diaries so I have to rely on my memory to remember what I did!

Thursday 26th May
Normal school day. After school had swimming training from 5pm to 8pm.
Friday 27th May
Normal school day. Spent afternoon playing soccer and watched T.V.

Saturday 28th May
Slept in till noon and spent most of my day playing computer games, watching T.V and playing sport.

Sunday 29th May
Slept in till noon and went over relative’s place for lunch. Came back home late and watched T.V. for the rest of the night.

Monday 30th May
Normal school day. Had swimming training from 5pm to 8pm.

Tuesday 31st May
Normal school day. Had swimming training from 5pm to 8pm.

Wednesday 1st June
Normal school day. Played soccer and watched T.V.

Thursday 2nd June
Normal school day. Hung out with mates and we gave each other piggy backs. Had heaps of fun. Afternoon is a mystery…

I'm from Brampton Primary School in Adelaide S.A.

A Week In Demis Life

2005-06-01T22:05:00.000-04:00

A week in Demi’s life
Demi/Gerogery/Australia

Monday:
Get up and have Shower . Then get dressed and go to School . Then get to school and play Football or Soccer . Then we do Maths and Spelling . Then we have recess for an half Hour . Then we do reading and the lunch for an Hour . Then we go home.

Tuesday:
Have shower and get Dressed . Then watch T.V and go to school and play Soccer . Then do spelling and Maths . Have recess then do more Work . Then have lunch and play Football . Then do more work and then go home to feed the cat and dogs.

Wednesday:
Get up late and don’t have Shower . Get dressed and go to School . Go to school and play hockey and then do Maths . Do handwriting. And then Scripture until Recess . Have lunch and play computer until lunch is over and then go home to ride motorbike.

Thursday:
Stay home and watch T.V . Then do dishes and washing . Then play Gameboy.

Friday:
Go to Melbourne to see Metal Mulisha . Get home at 12 midnight.

Saturday:
Go to Football and then see Football players .Then go shopping . Then go for a swim in pool at Hotel . Then go for lunch at Café.
Sunday:
Go home to Albury and watch Metal Mulisha video . Then unpack.
That was a week in my life.

A Week in Christopher's Life

2005-06-01T14:15:00.000-04:00

Sunday
Today I was riding my bike at the New Brunswick Park. I had a great time riding with my Dad. We had all types of fun. We went to the park, strolled around, had soda, watched a movie and then went to the beach. While we were at the beach we threw rocks. We couldn’t go swimming because we did not have any swimming clothes with us. My Mom and Dad are separated so he took me and my sister home. We hugged him and said our goodbyes and then he left. My Dad picks me and my sister up every two weekends. My Mom was still in Rhode Island partying at this wedding so we were waiting for her. We went to sleep. The next day she came back with all this stuff.

Monday
Today was a regular day. I woke up, brushed my teeth, took a bath, ate breakfast and went to school. In school we watched Hotel Rwanda. We had a little five-minute review before we watched it. When I got home I greeted my Mom. She hugged me and I hugged her. I did my homework in school so I did not have any homework when I got home. In the middle of the evening I heard someone knocking on the door. I remembered my Mom saying to wait for the FedEx guy. I opened the door to tell him that she was coming and then I ran straight to her room to let her know he was there. He left the package. It was a camera with a printer dock. It was the Kodak Easy Share. I set it up.

Tuesday
Today I woke up with the television in my room. It has been in the closet for ages. Sometimes it is a pain. I switch my room around every month. I went to school. It was a harsh day. There’s a girl in my class that started calling me a musty B. I cursed her back only to find me and her getting into trouble. I told my teacher what happened and she said, “You two are not allowed to use profanity in my room. You’re not even supposed to use profanity in my presence.” She also said, “It’s the school rules not to use profanity!” Today was not that much of a good day.

Wednesday
After what happened yesterday I told my Mom that the teacher was going to call her. And then I told her what happened.

Thursday
Today was a normal regular day. The trees are green. The streets, forget about the streets, they’re noisy anyway. The grass, some people in the neighborhood have good grass that nobody wants to put trash on. But other people, they do whatever and put candy wrappers, juice and soda cans, chip bags, and their broken belongings on the grass of other people’s lawns. What I think is that some of the people of who live here are so dirty. They don’t know how to recycle. It’s so hard to sometimes clean up the mess that they leave. My lawn is getting mad dirty! I am so furious at the children and sometimes the adults that are leaving all their dirty stuff on other people’s lawns!

Even if there is a sign saying, “Do not leave trash in the vicinity.” they don’t listen!

Friday
I had to take a retest so I could get a better grade than the one I got the other day. It’s the same routine every day, nothing but school and home. Well my sister and I are switching rooms today.

Saturday
Today, I woke up with a smile on my face. Today I can’t complain. I felt like going to school. NOT! Well, maybe a little bit. I just like the teachers. They are nice. Even Ms. Overton and Ms Bethel are nice. Ms. Brandy is a great teacher. What I think is just that if the whole class was nice and calm at all times, even when a sub is present, maybe nobody would ever have to get mad.

And that’s a week in my life. - Christopher from Newark, NJ

Welcome to the Project

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Please read what our seventh and eighth grade Newark, New Jersey students have to say about a week in their lives. After reading, you may post a comment or ask a question. Then why not also post information that tells what a week in your life is like. Our students will read and comment as well. Please remember when you post to use your first name only and please let us know which country you are from.