Final Exam

During this school year, I have only received two final exam, which is math. The rest of the tests are either chapter tests or tests about a short story. First, we took our science test, which contains two chapters in our book. For me, I felt quite confident about the science test I did. Because of the notes I did, it is quite easy for me to go through the test. Next I had my French  final exam, which to me, was kind of painful. I always suck at second languages. I'm pretty sure that I didn't do that well on my French Final. After that I had a math final. It was not that bad, because we could use a calculator and it is open-booked. I believe I did okay on that. Then finally, I got my English story test. It was about the story of Paul Revier's ride. To me, it wasn't as bad as my French final. I believed that I also did okay on that. This is all my test I have done during this busy finals week. After a couple days, school is done, which means that we are graduating. Then, here comes the best part, SUMMER VACATION.

Independent Reading Project Reflection

In this independent reading project, I have learned that a novel doesn't just include a story and the plot. It contains a lot of literary elements, such as the narrator's voice, tone, form, and also the style. This exercise or project is very worth doing. It let us to look for these elements in the book ourselves. The elements are not things that you could read off the book from. You would have to think a little about how the author write his or her book in order to find these elements. In the written book report, I had put in quite a lot of effort in doing that, it also took me quite some time just doing the plot of the novel. In the project part, I kind of moved out of the book and focus more about the author and information where I could look up from the internet. Such as, about the author - William Golding, some concept pictures of the island and the characters, and also the description of the main characters. With this project, I had learned quite a lot of things about the elements of the novel and how to find them in novels. Which to me is a very valuable experience to have.

My Most and Least Favorite

We read a lot of different kinds of reading materials in this school year. Of course, there are readings I like, and readings I do not like. Chinese Cinderella was one of the novels that I just really don't like. The plot of the book is basically just talking about a life of a women. From when she was a small child till when she became a writer. To me, these kinds of books are quite dull. I would prefer books with a little big more action, such as the outsiders or the hatchet. Books with more actions such as fighting, can make books more fun. Not just dull and boring. Also, books with some mystery could make reading more fun too. Some books without making you think would just let you read through the book without actually thinking about it. Books with mystery could let the reader think about what had happened in order to solve the problem. This actually makes the reader THINK, instead of just reading through the book. Everyone have different tastes toward books, so some people may be thinking "No! You are wrong!!". Maybe some would agree with me too.

Hip-Hop Language

Sitting in my math class

looking out the window, made out of glass

then the teacher told me to pay, more attention in class

I then stare at the white board

like Mr.Bean doing a crossword.

The teacher called me up to the board

to answer a math equation 

I walked to the board, with a small confusion

then I answered the question with a lack of determination. 

While saying to myself,

is it right or wrong.

As I walk back to my chair 

with a slightly despair 

I found out that I stepped on a pear. 

Epic Language

As the holy bell reached into my ear drums as the time reaches the end of my educational hours. Reorganize my transportation for books, then start to march through the straight passage to my beloved home. Walking down the steps as I elevate down to where my transportation would be waiting for me to bring me bake to my beloved home. As my transportation arrived at the gate of the educational building, I stepped out, and approach the transportation. I swing open the opening that leads me in the transportation, then swing it back in. As the heavy machine starts roaring, the round wheels started turning. The machine starts to roam through the long pass ways that leads to my home. As I got home, I stopped in front the almighty door that stopped me from going through. I insert the key and turned as the locks moved and the door swung open. I walked in, dropped my sac of books, and hopped on the relaxing, soft, heavenly sofa. Lying on it is like lying on cloud, so comfortable that you could forget all the problems you have from the past educational hours that took forever. The most heavenly way to end a hardworking educational day.

Triolet

School is painful

but sometimes fun

Sometimes its even wonderful

School is painful

While eating lunch, you always want a mouthful 

of the tasty hamburger bun

School is painful

but sometimes fun

Limerick

There was a man named Osama 

Who planned the 911 attack

He got killed by the Seals

On May 1st a Sunday

Everyone cheer and celebrates

List Poem

As I ride on the roller coaster in Disney Land
I thought of my French and spanish homework.
Spanish vocabulary
French vocabulary
Spanish grammar
and French grammar
As I got off the roller coaster
I felt a huge amount
of pain from my belly
I sat down
on a bench
As a mosquito
Landed on my hand.
I look around
and saw random things:
a bunch of scattered holes
my english teacher -
Mr. McCool
and a guy mad at his
slow internet speed.

Free Write

You may think that free writes are easy, but to me writing free writes are harder then writing a blogger assignment with a topic. It might be because I lack creativity. It is hard for me to think of a topic on my own when I have nothing to base on. In stead, with a topic that is assigned, I could write more about the topic then thinking of something myself. For an assigned topic, all i need to do is either explain, describe, or somethings make up something base on the topic I am assigned. The lack of creativity in me is quite annoying for me sometimes. Whenever a teacher wants me to write a story or something that I have to make up myself. It always takes me a lot of time to finish the assignment weather if it's an in class work or homework. Unlike some of my friends with an abundance of creativity, they could write or create a story within ten minutes, and for me it might take up twice the time. This made me think that having an assigned topic is a lot easier for me to do instead of a free writing assignment.

My List

- Scissors
- Earphones
- Speakers
- Computer monitor
- Lamp
- Books
- Cutting mat
- My phone
- Computer Mouse
- Pens

Haiku

Metal Blue School Chairs

It squeaks, wobbles, and its stiff

Painful to sit on

Wooden School Lockers

My school bag can't fit in it.

crowded all the time 

Blogger Assignments

Sometimes fun but sometimes hard

Haikus for today

Tanka Poem

Blogger Assignments

Sometimes may be troublesome

It makes you think hard

It takes some times to do it

Due on the day its assigned.

The cold, cold river

flows down from the high mountains

melted from glaciers

clear as a clean glass window

full of living organisms.

As leaves fall downwards
It's like a ballerina
dancing in the air
so gentle and beautiful
But soon it lands on the ground.

Diamante Poem

School
Painful Tiring
Working Yawning Listening
Boredom Work Fun Freedom
Hobbies Sleep Couch
Joyful Relaxed
Weekends


Hot
Sweaty Toasty
Dripping Sweating dehydrating
Burns Heat Ice Solid
Shivering Clubbing Moving
Freezing Chilly
Cold


Loud
Explosive Noisy
Scream Explosions Squeak
Thunder Roar Sleep Peace
Tip-Toed Mute Hushed
Muted Muffled
Quiet

Acrostic

E ating is not my favorite activity.
D oesn't eat a lot.
D oesn't like to do homework on the weekends.
Y esterday got to school late.

T hinking about what to put on his journal entry.
S inging is not what I like to do.
A te a cupcake for breakfast.
O wl is the animal that I wanted as a pet.

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E nergetic all the time.
R eading is not his favorite acticity.
I am his best friend.
C anada is where he is located.

L azy is his personality.
I haven't seen him for years.
A lways eat donuts for breakfast.
O f course is coming back to meet up with me.

Elements of Poetry

The most important elements of poetry are character, plot, and rhyme. In poetry, most of the time the poem is about a specific object or character. Usually describing the object, such as how good or bad it is. Without a character in a poem, there would be no topic. Some poems tell stories, and stories requires a plot, or else there would be nothing but random statements. Stories need plots to state what's going to happen. At last what a poem needs is rhyme. Rhyme is the artistic part of a poem. Without it, the poem would not sound or look like a poem. All the elements above are all similar to normal writings expect for rhyme. In most writings such as an essay, it is made to explain something which should let the reader be clear of what the writer is talking about. In poems, writers use elements such as rhyme to make the poem more artistic.

What Does Poetry Do

Poetry has a different feel compare to other forms of writings. In poems, writers tend to use more similes, metaphors, and other figure of speeches. Poems and stories sometimes could have similar things such as telling a story; sometime poems could tell stories too. Poems could do the same thing as other writings could do, which is being able to form stories or songs. In fact, a lot of songs now are pretty much poems. Songs like rap has some rhymes in it. Another different between poetry and writings is that poetry have short lines which form stanzas. In an essay, paragraphs are constructed by a group of sentences. Also, in poems, there is no correct grammar. In order to make the poem more artistic, writers sometimes don't follow the correct grammar rules. Writings are sometimes more clear and easy to understand then poetry. In essays, writers use clear and specific adjectives and description to make the thing the writer is describing as clear as possible. In poems, writers use similes and metaphors, which are sometimes harder to understand. Readers might need to focus more on the poem then reading an essay or other stories.

Spring Break

During the ten-day spring break that we had, my classmates and I went on a fun graduation trip to Club Med in Bali Island. Yes, I wanted to leave Taiwan for the break, which we did. In the resort, we did a variety of events and activities. The one that I love the most was the rafting. We took a two hours ride up a mountain for rafting. In the river, there are various rapids, rocks, and drops. It was about an hour ride down the river back to the base. Rolling the raft was tiring even when there was 6 people on the raft, but it was a very fun experience to have. The food there was also pretty good. It was a buffet-styled restaurant. There was several types of food there. The restaurant includes all three meals. After about three days we ate there, the food became pretty repetitive. This became pretty annoying to eat the same things over and over again. When we came back from the amazing trip. I realized that school is going to start in three days. I was both pretty surprised and sad. I was surprised that time flies very fast, I was also sad because school is starting.

Personal Reflection

If I had to rank or grade myself in class, I would honestly say that I am definitely lacking effort in my work. A lot of the time, I just do the least amount which is required. I did not really put a lot of thought and effort in the work. In class participation, I would pretty much say that I did pretty well. I listen to the teacher and raised my hand when I wanted to speak or raise a question, but I did not raise my hand often for questions. In homework assignments, I admit that sometimes copy other peoples work when I get lazy. Like I said earlier, I did not put a lot of effort in my work. I only do the minimum work that is required. Yes, it's pass-able, but it's not the best. I do miss some of my blogger entries. For me, it is very easy for me to forget about the blogger entries which are due on the exact same day which they were assigned. I do try to make up the blogger entries in order to get the point from doing the work. I do make sure that I have enough time for homework assignments. I do not start homework right after they were assigned, but I do start before hand (Not the last minute). There are still places for me to improve in this class, and I would try my dest to do so.

Style

In the story "Raymond's Run", the writer uses two different styles which are dramatic irony and situational irony. The story shows dramatic irony when Squeaky kept saying that she is the fastest runner in her neighborhood. Of course, we know that she's not. When running, she lost to a guy who ran with his hands in his pockets. She pretended that she did not practice or prepare for something but she actually did. She pretended that she completely forgot about the spelling bee contest, but she actually did prepare. She doesn't want people to see or know that she had prepared for something. She believed that this will make people think that she is good at that particular thing.
The story shows situational irony when after the race, Squeaky shows respect to Gretchen. The writer described Squeaky as a cocky girl. The reader would never predict that Squeak, a cocky girl who thinks that she is always the best, would show respect to another person who is her opponent. Normally, readers would probably predict that Squeaky would try to embarrass or even laugh at Gretchen. These are the two major styles in the story, "Raymond's Run".

Brainstorming a Poem

Eric is an important person for me, he is my friend since 4th grade.
He is short, spiky, funny, loud, generous, competitive, dramatic, sporty, hyper,and goofy.
Eric is quite short with spiky hair.
He sometimes tries rapping rap songs that he liked.
He smells like the donut that he always eat after school.
His hair is spiky.
Laugh, Exercise, Rap, Compete, Chat

Eric, my best friend
Short with spiky hair
Funny, dramatic, and sometimes goofy
When you tries to rap, you always makes me laugh.
I could always smell the donut that you get from O'Fa.
The spiky-ness of your hair, just like touching a porcupine
with your bare hands.
We laugh, compete, chat, and exercise together
You are my best friend.

End Game

When I planned our board game on another blogger post about a week ago. I said that the board game would be similar to the game Monopoly, but with a lot more variety. With special skills the players could use to other players. We had basically followed the plan when we were making the game. The game we made are pretty identical to what the plan had said. "A monopoly board game, but with a lot more variations. The game could be played from two to five players. The characters in the game are Angela Wexler, Turtle Wexler, Sandy McSouthers, Doug Hoo, and Sunny Hoo. Each one of then have special skills they could use in the game. Such as, bombing other players within 3 blocks, or teleporting to other blocks. The board is made out of plastic card boards, the character tokens were made out of clay, and the cards were printed with construction paper and then was cut out. We did not make the game board as big as the ones in monopoly because we want the game to end quicker. Therefore, players could switch characters to play with. People may think there are advantages among other characters, thats why we wanted the game to end as fast as possible.

Slang

Most slangs I know are slangs that teens like us uses, such as lol, wtf, sup, and dude. Of course, if you are a older person, you might not know what these words means. Slangs are like codes that people in a certain region would understand, this means that not all people would get these slangs. These slangs can be used in different circumstances. When you heard something very funny, you would say "lol", which means laugh out loud. When someones says something surprising or unbelievable, we would normally say "wtf", which means what the f***? There are also some slangs that only people in a certain region would know. Such as, 88 which means bye bye in chinese. The word 8 sounds like the world "掰". To me slangs are part of my life now. I just say it with out hesitating. I'm not exactly sure if this is a good thing or bad. At lease I haven't been involved in any problems from using these slangs. Slangs could make conversations more fun. Using these slangs will make the conversation more relaxed and unserious. In stead of saying the person's name when calling them, you would say "dude" instead.

Analogy

My analogy is "listening to music is like a party that is going on around you". I personally love to listen to music when I have spare time. When listening to music, it is just like a party is going on around you. The music could make you feel like you are in a party. Music could change your mood from a sad and low mood to a happy and relaxing mood. I don't just listen to music when I have nothing to do. I listen to them when I'm on a car ride to somewhere, when playing sports, and sometimes when doing homework. Music could actually help me concentrate on doing what I am suppose to do, instead of looking at other things. When exercising, it also helps me concentrate on playing the sport, instead of thinking about random things in my mind which could cause me to do a mistake. On the car, bus, train, or even on a plane, it is the best place to relax by listening to some music that you like. It is just like you are in a party, relax and also having a good time. Music is a great creation for me, and definitely for other people that also love music.

Fighting Words

Yes, I had been in an arguement before with another person who was talking about bad things about me. The person started to say names about me, and all kinds of unkind things about me. This is when the arguement begun. The person don't even know what circumstance I am in at that moment. He just started talking about what I did wrong and other things which is unnecessary. I believe everyone had these experiences before. It is quite easy to start an arguement if people are saying "unkind", or bad things about each other. Yes, maybe some times violence is a way to stop arguements, but to me. I think that is wrong. People should get alone with each other. Violence isn't the answer to all things. I had not been in a physical fight before, and I do not wish I would get in one either. Some people are more of an action type person. They would consider using force to stop problems. Of course, a fight would have a winner, and a loser. Technically, this does not mean the problem is solved. In order for a problem to be solved, both sides must all agree on their decision.

OOPS!

I have a friend who plays tennis every single day after school. I always assumed that he must have poor grades from playing tennis everyday after school. I use to be in the same school as him, after I transfered to Pacific American School, the chances of me and him reduced. As one day I was playing tennis during a weekend. I saw him playing on the court beside me. After we met each other, we started chatting about how was both of us doing. I was very surprised about his school academic. He got in a very good local school in Hsinchu, which is a pretty hard school to get in. In order to get in, you'll have to take tests to see if your capable of being in the school. From what I assumed, I always thought he was always concentrating on his tennis career. He actually has very good school grades. I was very surprised by how he was able to get in the school. This incident was important to me because now I know that everyone is capable of doing what they could do. A person who focuses on one things doesn't mean that he is bad on other subjects or things.

Below The Surface

The saying "don't judge a book by its cover", means that you shouldn't judge someone or something by its appearance. I use to know a person who came to our class when i was in 5th grade. When she first came to out class, she never spoken one word. She never tries to talk to us. She also sits alone during lunch. After a couple weeks she started to talk to us, we started to know each other. As we know each other more and more, I found out that she is not shy at all. She is a very active, nice, and also funny girl. From this experience, I was very surprise by the change in action. I believed in the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" after what I saw. Things may not be what you have expected all the time. Sometimes, it might turn out that you are correct, but you may also be wrong. You shouldn't always assume that things will be what you thing it would be. You may lose opportunities or chances to do something you may be capable of doing. To me, "don't judge a book by its cover" is a saying that you should always follow.

Your Game

I would definitely contain the characters in my game, and also some of the rules the "Westing Game" has. Of course the money that the players receive in the book, which is 10000 dollars. We are planning to have a game similar to the game monopoly. It is going to have a lot more actions and variations then monopoly. We are planning to make the characters have special skills or features that players could use, such as being able to move 2 more blocks from the number you rolled on the dice. Also, the blocks the players are going to be landing on will be locations that are mentioned in the book. In the game, the more you move, you more chances you would get in order to win. The number of rounds that people go around is going to be chosen by how many people is playing the game. The more the people, the lesser the number of rounds. We haven't decided the goal to win the game. In the game monopoly, the game is ended by a person being bankrupted, or when all the properties are sold out. The person who has the most money wins, but in the "Westing Game", money is not a big factor. This is why we are still thinking of a goal to achieve in the game.

Your Ending

As the sound gets louder.. louder.. and louder! He finally can't stand the enormous sound of the heart beat. He pulls out a swiss army knife, and killed both of the officers. It does not stop the pounding of the heart beat. He searched for where the sound was coming from, under the planks where he hid the old man's corpse. He was in an absolute panic state. He even carry all the bodies he had out side. Still, the sound of the pounding heart is still very loud. At last, he couldn't stand the sound. He used his swiss army knife to stab it right in his own heart. As he fell down to the floor with pain. The heart beat started to slow down. Now he figured out that the pounding heart beat was his own heart beat. He lies on the floor with pain, and also regrets.

Summary of Tell-Tale Heart

Tell-Tale Heart is a story about a mad old man who thinks that he is not mad. He thinks that he was just dreadfully nervous.From his actions, we could tell that he is very crazy. He killed the old man because of his eyes. He doesn't like the old man's eyes. Not because the old man did something that made him angry, it was because of the eyes. He observed the old man for seven continuous days. He even spent an hour just to put his head into an opened door. During the eighth night, he slowly went in the old man's room. Checked if his eyes were closed. Then he killed the old man. After killing him, he brought the old man's body back to his house. Hid the body under the floor of his room. Soon, the police came to his house for some investigation. He stayed calm at first and chatted with the police officers. As they were chatting, he heard a heart beat beating. He don't know who's heat beat it is. As he became nervous, the heart beat became louder and faster. He thought that it is from the dead body under his bedroom floor, but it is actually his own heart beat. Soon, he confessed to the police.

Hints and Foreshadowing

In the story "Tell-Tale Heart", the man said that he is dreadfully nervous, but not crazy. As we read, we it is quite obvious that he is a mad person. He has actions that the reader could tell that he is crazy, such as he killed an old man who is very nice to him, and that he confessed right after he killed the old man. These things are enough to make the reader thinks that he is crazy. In the opening paragraph the author described the crazy man in a way which is very abnormal. In the paragraph it says that "True! nervous very,very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say I am mad?". It foreshadows that this story would include some scary parts and probably killing. This foreshadow can make the reader feel the mood of the story, which is more of a scary and mysterious mood.

Scary Stories

There are several different elements that could make a story or a movie scary. These elements are suspense, appearance, actions, how the character acts, and the plot of the story. Suspense is the feeling of uncertainty, which is like a mystery. This could give the audience a scary feeling of what is going to happen. The appearance is what the setting or the character looks like physically. Take a monster or a ghost or example, both of those things looks scary with their appearance. The way a setting could be scary is what feeling it gives you when you looked at it. If the setting is in a dark cave, with blood and skeletons everywhere. It may gives you a scary feeling towards the setting. Actions may give you a scary feeling. If a character chops down a person with a butter knife, it may be quite scary to watch. That is how actions can be scary. The last thing is how a character acts. Characters can act as monsters, freaks, or other scary things. Not only the appearance is scary, in order for a story or a movie to be scary, the character has to act scary too. A plot of a story could be the most important element in order to make a movie or story scary. All scary movies and stories has a scary plot, not just scary characters and settings. The plot can control most of the reactions of the audience.

Ode

Ode To Algebra

Algebra
finding the x or the y,
its like finding a needle
in a stack of hay
numbers and letters are
filling up my mind
are they equal?
less then or more then?
is it a line or a parabola?
you make me think
you make me think hard
you make me get frustrated
you always make me think,
when are you going to be used in my life....

Lunar New Year

During the Lunar New Year break, I went to Yilan for a family vacation. Every relative from my dad's family are all involved in this trip. There are several different places that we visited in Yilan. It includes a winery, an old railroad station that is now modified into a park for people to visit, and an art museum. All these places are all great places for photography. As I said, everyone from my dad's family came to the trip. Which means that all my cousins are here. We had fun playing games where we stayed for the night. The place where we stayed was excellent. It was basically a castle. It is a huge mansion with 5 different rooms and a huge living room and dinning room. Each family stayed in a different room. Every room has different styles. Some are more colorful, and others contain more of a darker color. There was a pool table in the living for us to play with too. As my parents, uncles, aunts are chatting and having tea, my cousins and I played with the pool table or other games we had. It was a wonderful way to enjoy the lunar new year break.  

Outsiders Film v Book

In the movie of The Outsiders, it shows a lot fewer details than the book did. In the movie, it didn't say everything that the book has. For example, the movie didn't mention that Ponyboy's parents died in a car accident. It did not mention the relationships of the Greasers and the Socs clearly. Even though The movie has fewer details, but watching the movie was more exciting then reading the novel. When watching the movie, you could feel the atmosphere that the movie was showing you. You could not feel the same way when your reading the book. It is quite obvious that the film maker didn't film the movie with every detail in the story, some details are not in the movie but in the book. This does not mean that the movie is not good. When a book is made into a movie, the movie is never exactly the same as the book. Take the Da Vinci Code as an example. The book was quite different to the movie too. Its good to be creative and change things. If I would have to choose if the movie was better or the book, I would choose the movie. Even though it has fewer details, but it is funner to watch.

Film v Print

There are several difference between a film and a book. In books, you would have to imagine the things in your mind with words. In movies, you don't, all you need to do is to use your eyes to watch it. So as the characters, you would have to imagine how the characters look like with words instead of just looking at in on a screen. In movies, they SHOW you the details in the story. In stories, you would have to use the words that the author wrote down to IMAGINE the details. Reading a book takes more time then watching a movie. I could probably watch ten or more movies by the time you finish one single novel. To me, watching a movie is a lot more relaxing then reading a book. In books, you would have to memorize all those words and descriptions in order to tell what happened. In movies, all you have to do is to watch the movie and see what's happening. Here is one thing that books are better at. It is to show specific details. In a movie, it is very easy to miss a little part of the film. This can cause you to miss a small detain of the story. In stories, you won't jump around pages when you read, so this means that you won't skip details.

Making A Choice

If I was stuck with my eleven classmates somewhere, with limited food, air, and water for only 9 of us. I could either choose to kill three people or let us die together. This could be one of the hardest choices to make, but if I had to choose, I would choose to do it the fairest way. Let us all die together. To me, we are all equal, so we should not choose anyone to sacrifice for other people. It would be quite scary to see three dead bodies in the room either. I'm sure that some people would choose to kill three other people in order to survive. I would probably suggest to vote and see who wants to die together or kill three people. I would like to die peacefully, not dying from fights or conflicts. If we all agree on dying together, I would just sit on somewhere in the room and listen to music until we ran out of air or die from starvation. I might start to chat with my friends about things we use to do or fun times we use to have. This way, we could all die peacefully.

My Stuff

 If I were stuck in a small place with Anne Frank and her family, I would definitely bring my ipod and my laptop including their chargers and earphones. I would bring these things with me is because those are the two things that could terminate the boredom when stuck in a small place. I could listen to the music all day long if I want to, but of course, my parents would definitely not let me do that. I could be doing some gaming on my laptop too. This is where earphones are a very important thing to have with you. Because of the Nazis, I couldn't make any sounds. With this wonderful invention, I could listen to music without people hearing it. The forth thing that I would bring to the hideout are models that I could built. Building car or plane models are all pretty good things to pass the time. The last things that I would bring to the hideout are some boardgames or poker cards. With these things, I could have some fun with my family. Boardgames and poker cards are all things that more then one people could use. With all these things, I would pretty much be entertained everyday if I am stuck in a small place with my family.

Who Do You Want To Be?

After reading the play "Diary of Anne Frank", I realized that most of the characters has quite a lot of lines to say. If I had to choose one, I would choose the narrator. First of all, the narrator doesn't need to act. Second of all, the narrator doesn't have to memorize all of his lines. All the narrator needs to do is to read out the words he is suppose to say with a great fluency. Other character such as, Mr. Van Dan or Anne, all has a lot of line to memorize. There are also facial expressions on those characters, the people who are acting as these characters has to memorize all their lines and act their actions according to what the play wrote. To some people, reading might be hard for them, so they would probably choose a character with less words or action. From what I said, you probably think that the narrator is the easiest job in the play. If you think that way, then you are wrong. The narrator needs to speak all those words with a tone which the audience would enjoy. Reading it with fluency isn't enough, if you had a robot voice but with great fluency. People won't enjoy the play because of your tone. The narrator needs to speak in a tone in order to grab the audience's attention.

Trapped!

If I were trapped in a few small rooms with my family, the first thing I would start doing would be finding things to do. There are some good and bad things about being trapped with your family. The good things are that, you will stay with your family members until the very last second of your time. The bad things is that you might go insane if you stay in there for too long, and you might get bored very easily. I would probably start off pretty calm, and after like a day or so I would start to get frustrated about getting trapped with nothing to do. I am pretty sure the rest of my family, which is my mom and dad would be very quiet and serious. They would definitely tell me to stop being frustrated and just try to find something to do. In order to occupy myself, I would probably play cards with my mom or dad if they want. Maybe I would start doodling on the wall, or lie on the bed and think about things. I know that we are hiding for out lives, but it would be pretty hard if we had nothing to do.

Why?

The Nazis felt that they needed to eliminate many types of people expect themselves. They has this thought in their mind is probably because they thought that they are the best people in the world. Other people are extra things that are not important. They thought that this was necessary because they wanted to be the only group of people in the world. They don't want other people to be part of or be involved in their own world. It would probably be better if there were less people in the world, there are several pros and cons about this. The pros are that if there were less people, there would be more spaces for you. With less people, you wouldn't have to live in a crowded city. The cons are that if there were less people, there wouldn't be a lot of business going on. If there were no business, you would have to make or do everything yourself. Take buying food for example. If there were no farmers to plant and sell the crops they planted, you would not have food to eat. You would have to farm and plant your own food. The lesser the people, there would be more things for you to do yourself.

Luck?

To me, luck took place about 70% while you are surviving. The rest of the 30% are knowledge that you learned,saw, or heard. Brian used his knowledge to build shelters, find food, and make weapons to protect himself. This is where luck came to place. If Brian didn't see the birds, he wouldn't find the berries for him to eat. He was lucky that he saw the birds eating those berries while he was searching for food. When the plane crashed, he was lucky that he survived from the crash. Not everyone can walk away not badly hurt from a crash. He was lucky that the place he crashed has food and water from him, or else he would die a lot earlier before anyone could find him. Like I said, survival is not all about luck, when he tried to make weapons for protection, that was when knowledge can to help out. If he never saw any videos, books, or if no one ever talked about or taught him about these things. He would not be able to make these weapons that he had made. So as the other things he made, the reason that Brian knows how to make them is because he was taught or he saw them.
Luck doesn't always help me. When I was in a tennis game, when all the pressure is crushing you. This is when luck doesn't help. All you can do is to use your knowledge and experience to fight back.

My Winter Holiday

My winter holiday was actually pretty fun. I went snowboarding in Japan with Hantine, Benson, Jason, Derek, and Melissa. We went there for five days, but actually we only snowboarded for 3 days because we arrived late one the first day and we have to lease early on the last day. The place we went is a ski resort, which is very big. There are several different mountains you can go up to. Expect for the first and last days, every single day we were snowboarding from morning for the afternoon. The food there was very good. There are alot of choices, such as ramen, curry, and other delicious meals. After 5 days of fun at Japan, we went back to our home town Taiwan. After I was back for a couple of days, I found out that my arm feels a little weird. So my mom took me to a doctor and took a x-ray. Guess what? I have a crack on my elbow. I have absolutely no idea how I cracked it. The next day I went to Taipei to get a cast for my hand. After that my break was pretty boring. I can't really do any sports or activities that involve big movements. I basically spend the rest of the break playing video games or went out for movies, but it is still a pretty fun break to me.