12-15-10

HO HO HO! Man, was today's Christmas performance amazing! I couldn't believe it ! It was a WOW, AMAZING, and CRAZY moment. Everything came in very organized and everything was just the opposite of PAS. Things were neat, scheduled, and perfected! The little kids were amazing too, their singings were incredible! WOOT, I can't believe it, I wish I could go back in time again just to go over the Christmas Performance AGAIN! Somehow today, I caught Mr.Dahl stealthily reading a book amongst the chairs of the audience. Finally, Mr.Dahl got called onto the stage for raffle ticket drawings. When the performance was over, I caught our old senior and president, Eugene  Ho. I was glad to see him and I gave him a great greetings. I also met Lino, a student that use to be in PAS. Today was a great day, and I want to get tomorrow over with. I can't wait for Christmas in Vietnam, although it is a Communist country, I bet it will be fun. I also can't wait to go back to Taipei and just relax the heck out of me. FALALALALA, LALALALA! GOOD NIGHT........WOOHOOO!

12-14-10

Today was another regular day. Like I said, each day at PAS is not boring nor is it fun. So today, was the usual day. Nothing much happened today except that Brandon was hunting down the Freshmen down for 10NT for our Christmas performance. Somehow I can't wait for the Christmas performance. Last year's performance was not bad, I actually had fun during that time. But last year's winter dance didn't really impress me so I decided not to go this year. I also want to get Thursday over with so I can play on my PS3. Today, I just learned that the proper way to spell Vietnam is "Viet Nam". I was shocked at the price of the SPIMUN price. As Pamela told us about the amazing trip, I was all happy and crazy, but when I heard the price, I went to the rethinking mode. After a while of thinking, i decided that this trip would be fun and educational. In addition, this would be the first time I ever will go to Russia! Pamela also told me that there was a two day fun in Moscow after the conference in St. Petersburg. Man, I can't wait until March, which is the month I am going to Russia. I am getting tired and I must go now. GOOD NIGHT.....

12-13-10

Today was actually quite interesting. When I first woke up this morning, I though to myself, another stupid day at school plus a stupid extra four hours of rehearsal. But when the rehearsal came, it was quite fun and exciting. The seniors totally bombed the rehearsal, they were amazing! In my opinion, they did better than the guys and dolls! All that sexy dance, plus the story, plus the musical, AMAZING! But starting off with the morning, I went to homeroom and gave Tony a Christmas present. His first Call of Duty game of his life, Black Ops. He was so excited that I couldn't shut him up! It is good to see people get excited with their presents. After that, I went to Mr.Dahl's class which was fun because we watched a funny film about news. Although the ending was a bit inappropriate, I use those words a lot of times. The foul language was weird to hear in a class, especially an English class! At history, it was so boring, we watched a Lewis and Clark video and that was all. In the writing class, we watched a movie called "The Exam". It was a great movie because it takes critical thinking to understand the movie. I am very tired today, so I must be going to sleep. GOOD NIGHT.

12-12-10

Finally, Christmas is closing in. I am going to Vietnam for Christmas because that is where my dad's factory is. Since I don't want my dad to be lonely for Christmas, I told my mom to get three tickets to go to Vietnam to spend time with my father through Christmas. My mom agreed, so Jeremy, my mom, and I will go to Vietnam around December the 21st to the 26th. I am very excited to go to Vietnam because I haven't been there for half my lifetime now. I am fifteen years old and will turn sixteen in April, and the last time I was in Vietnam was when I was seven in 2002. To think that time goes by so fast. I get to see one of my dad's worker also a good friend of mine. The last time I saw him he was around his mid twenty's, but now he is in his thirsty's and is married with a child. His name is A-bang and the last time I met him, 8 years ago, he didn't even have a girlfriend. Today, I spent my day going to my grandpa's place visiting him. After that, I went home and played a few dominating games of Call of Duty: Black Ops. This satisfied my very well and I had a great time. Now that I am back in Hsinchu, I am very tired. GOOD NIGHT.

12-9-10

Finally Thursday has come. Today PAS had a rehearsal day at the Guang Fu gym. It was a fun time but I would like club better. I don't understand why PAS always uses club time for these kinds of things. If the school thinks clubs are useless, might as well cancel club time. I wish that PAS would provide more club times for students because it is the only thing they enjoy at PAS. Well, mostly club time is when the fun starts. Starting with the day, I woke up in the morning realizing that I woke up too early. I went back to sleep only to wake up again finding me waking up late. I had to rush to the restroom and do everything I needed to do really quick. Finally tomorrow will be Friday were I can enjoy a good game of Call of Duty: Black Ops and some matches of Halo Reach. This weekend will be a bit more busy too, since I will have to eat lunches with my dad's working partners. I hate some of his friends and partners because some of them just don't have manners. For example, my dad's friends were playing Majong and they asked me to fetch them tea with a rude tone. In addition they didn't even say please! Now I will have to eat lunch with them. Anyways, today went through by really fast, even detention! GOOD NIGHT

12-8-10

Today was a weird day for me. It wasn't boring nor was it fun. This morning, all middle and high school students had to go to the cafeteria. During that meeting we talked about the Christmas performance and how we are going to do the rehearsal. This was a sudden change by Pamela which isn't sudden at all if you have stayed in PAS for a long time. It is a usual routine for Pamela to change the schedule everyday like today. This sometimes gets students angry because they already have another plan for that certain day. For example, for Monday, we will have a rehearsal all the way till seven. I didn't like that idea because Monday are the days that I easily get tired at. Also in addition, I have a lot of homeworks usually from a Monday. There goes another reason why I hate to stay in this school. Like I said before, it is not the teachers that make this school horrible, but it is the schedules and the society that makes this school horrible. Especially when it comes to the "No Speaking Chinese" rule. When Pamela yells at students for not speaking English or for speaking Chinese, no students care. Especially when it comes to the ESL students, they still talk in Chinese the majority of the times in PAS. Seeing that no one is there to stop them, they continue to apply to this even when Pamela gets mad again ( because they know Pamela won't catch them). Today in Mr.Dahl's class, the 9th graders had an argument on the due date of the short stories Mr.Dahl assigned. I believe that it should be due before Christmas so everyone can get things over with first. Christmas holidays, meaning Christmas and the days students have breaks on, should be more relaxing and anti-homework. Instead, the majority of the 9th graders decide to make it due after the holiday. I hate how they just want to work slowly and I bet many of them just wants to procrastinate. The rest of the day went by very fast as if nothing happened. GOOD NIGHT.

12-7-10

Today was a really boring normal day. I woke up this morning to feel tiring. I couldn't even tell that it was seven o'clock this morning. This morning was so dark I thought that it was four in the morning. Dark mornings somehow always makes me tired. It is a habit that happens to me and some of my friends. I wanted to go downtown today with my friends but my mom came to pick me up. Today my dad came back from Vietnam to Taipei. he didn't come to Hsinchu because he thinks it is more boring than Taipei. Which I always agree with my father because it is true. All my friends believe with that too. Hsinchu is a very boring place which is called an a beautiful place. I don't really find it beautiful nor do I find the rest of Taiwan beautiful. During first period, I went to Algebra 2 class which was easy because I already know the lecture. I am always ahead of the lessons on Algebra 2 because I have a tutor. Believe it or not, our math teacher, Ms.May, can't teach. There are so many flaws in her lesson and she sometimes teacher us the wrong thing. Than she apologizes and restarts the lesson. I hate her attitude sometimes too. For example today, I told my friend the homework assignment and she told me that I was imitating her talking. I hate how Asian teachers assume all the time. The rest of the day was boring and we had a fun time afterschool with the Freshmen meeting.

12-6-10

Today was a very tiring day. It is not because if the stress I have on homework, it is because we have school today. Unlike other "organized" school, we have school today, right after sports day. I really didn't have that much fun at sports day to call it a weekend fun. I would rather sleep at home, skate, play basketball, or play games. Sports day was a really boring day and I hated it. The winning team was expected so nothing was a competition. I really shouldn't have had expected that much from sports day. But I can't just sit here and complain, I've got three more years in this wasted island to go! I really want to give up and commit suicide, but I just don't have the guts to do it.  Anyways, enough of the complaints, I will talk about today and today only. In Mr.Dahl's class, we read the story "The Sniper". The story had a sad ending to it, only to find that the main character killed his own brother. This shows that war sometimes can destroy relationships and can hurt a lot of people really mad, especially in a mental way. In history, we started a new chapter talking about the expedition of Lewis and Clark. It was fun watching a video on it, it was both educative and fun. Although I still wonder whether or not Mr.Dahl would let us finish the TMDG movie. During Expo. Writing class, we corrected many of the other people's drawing. Today was very tiring and boring just like yesterday. I came home after school and noticed that the winter break is coming too soon. It is coming way too fast, making me thing that this year's time goes by very fast. I love how time goes by fast sometimes. This year's winter break will be very sad because I will be spending it in Taiwan, which I hate the most. In conclusion, today was a bit unusual but I can take it.

12-2-10

Today was a horrible day. i felt like as if I achieved nothing today besides the lecture from my physic's teacher. Today was one of those days, where PAS makes a horrible schedule where teachers can't work nor can students work. What I hated the most about today was when we had the rehearsal for the Christmas Performance. I don't care about any of the PAS's activities because they all just seem like Pamela's ideas. This community is not an American community, it is a Pamela community. This is the reason why I hate private schools and their communities. Especially in Taiwan, where private American schools that are small tries to be professional, but fails at it. Another thing I would like to add is that I am spending Christmas in Taiwan. This ticks me off the most because I hate spending Christmas in Taiwan. I miss the times back in America where  the roads are filled with Christmas lights and Christmas trees. I would turn on the radio to here Christmas songs and the days would be cold but with a clear blue sky. The weather could actually provide me air that I can breath in. Going back to sports day, I was really mad because the sports day, once again, is poorly made and decided on. Anyways, today was a bad day for me, and I don't think I'll ever be as happy as I was back in the states as long as I stay in Taiwan. GOOD NIGHT.

12-1-10

Finally, today is the first day of December. I didn't notice the date until I started writing this journal when my mom told me about today's date. Today was an average boring day, but had a horrible mood change this morning. Somehow, started being all negative and started complaining. I believe that, again, this Taiwanese society is just not good for me. I hate it here to tell you the truth, I believe that this place is a crap place to live. Taiwan is a great place to visit and have a vacation with, but living here is horrible. Once you settle in, you will already start to feel this horrible feeling. We had a huge discussion about the Christmas Performance today after school. It was loud and horrible and I was so mad. Today my girlfriend and I talked for a long time on Facebook. Since she is all the way across America, I had to Skype with her. She is coming to Taiwan on 12-20 and I am very excited. Nothing much happened today. GOOD NIGHT.