Month: December 2022

Mom always wakes me up very late for school. I try to tell her to wake me up earlier but its like she cant hear me. My class has 2 teachers: Carroll (Reading, Writing) and Lewis (Math and science). My class starts the day with Carrol, and then switching to Lewis midday. The other class starts with Lewis, and switches to Carroll.

Since mom always wakes me up late, I’m tired when I walk into class. On Mondays and Tuesdays, we have to get 20 minutes of Istation which is extremely boring. When we finish that early, we have to read or go on typing.com. Everyone is so slow at typing. I am a bit slow too but its about 3x faster than them. They also type with 2 fingers. Then at 7:45 (the time you have to get to school), we go to music, art, or PE depending on the day. I think art is the most fun. They keep making us play in the mud with balls, so we have to pick the muddy balls up with our hands, and so they also get muddy. We then go back to class. Carroll then makes us read City of Ember, which is about a city that is “the only light in a dark word.”. Its an okay book. We are going to watch the movie on 12/22, but today I saw the cover of the movie and the characters looked nothing like the characters in the book. Carroll keeps making us write so much on the paper which makes my hands hurt. Im too lazy to get my headphones when getting on brain-pop or Istation, so I just put on subtitles. There are no subtitles for Istation, but you don’t even need them.

We pack up before going to lunch, which is the most exciting part of the day because I can sleep. When Im putting my head down to sleep, people keep asking me if Im okay and I have to keep telling them Im fine. It wouldn’t be a problem if it were different people everytime, but its the same people over and over and over again. They know that I’m trying to sleep. Then comes recess. Recess got kind of boring because the people playing kickball were fuming over random stuff so I just stopped playing. I usually just sit on the bench because my friends are either playing kickball or in another class. Sometimes I play pass with this random person, and their friend is very annoying. She keeps trying to take the ball.

When we get back to class, we grab our stuff and switch to the other classroom (which is next to ours). I like Lewis better than Carroll cause she is more fun and we get to do experiments. I have to sit behind this guy named Eric, who likes to annoy people and mess with them. He isn’t even supposed to be in our class. He is in Lewis’s class. Apparently he was causing such a ruckus in the other class that he had to be moved into our class. He likes to mess with me the most because I am behind him. Right when we walk in, we have to solve 4 questions. They call it Math 4 Today. Then, we do something called What Year Am I? We have to write the correct year using the clues they give us. They give us a small cone if we get it right. People love to flex their cones. Then we do some lessons and then we move onto science. We went to the science lab for the first time. Its actually just a portable. We are seeing how insulators affect how long it keeps water warm. Lewis said that there are groups of fours, and everyone in the group will get the same grade, so choose wisely. I don’t think I was wise enough though. I chose a group with all my friends, and 2 of them are smarter than the others. However, all of my team mess around too much. We recorded 2 out of 5 trials, and we were going to do the last 3 tomorrow. But the guy who weren’t as smart as my other friends had do it by himself because the rest of us had to go to gifted. He was also the guy who loved to mess around the most. Our grades rely on him. We still don’t know what grade we got for that.

On Thursdays, we go to gifted. 4 of us go, but last year I was the only one who went. I came mid-year when I first went. We start the day off by getting our laptops and going to Armstrongs class. I think Armstrong is the best teacher Ive been with. There is an open ended question on the board that we have to answer. We then get on the carpet and form a circle. There is also another question she asks and we have to answer it in a circle. We actually get recess first, and she also gives us snacks before we go. After we get back from recess, we do some math. The math isn’t easy but it isn’t hard. Its fun sometimes. About an hour after recess, we go to lunch. Lunch is pretty much no different, except that nobody asks if I’m ok. After lunch, we listen to a book called “I Love You Micheal Collins”. Then we do some researching for a topic that we pick. I probably shouldn’t have picked communication because its hard to find info about it. At the end, we go back to our class and then leave to the car line.

The end of the day is my second most favorite part, but I have to sit in the hot sun waiting for my car. Grandpa picks me up after 15-25 minutes. I cant go home right away because we have to pick Khang up, which is about a 25 minute drive from my school, to his school, and back home.

This was boring

 

We jut arrived to Ohio from the airport and was going to the supermarket to buy some stuff before we get back. When we did get back, Khoi, Vien, and their dad was there. We played around in the basement for a couple days. E Vien was so scared, she peed and made a loud fart every time I chased her.

The drive to C anada was pretty long and it took 3 hours just to get to New York buffalo. There was a giant long white van we rented, which had 12 seats (including the driver seat). We stayed in a AirBNB at New York, and I didn’t really like it because it was old and the basement was uncomfortable. We ate pizza that night for dinner. That night, I stayed up for about an hour or 2 because I had almost no space to sleep and there was a loud noise coming from the boiler room. The next morning we grabbed our stuff and headed to C anada.

Someone (i forgot who) handed me this paper about a castle we were going to, but when we were going there, it was all for nothing because the gate was closed. And of course we had to drive RIGHT up to it to look and see if it was closed. The road was also very cramped for our giant van, so we almost fell into the water.

The entire drive I didn’t sleep because it was also impossible to sleep in the van. We got to the border and it looked different from the one I went to last time I went to C anada. We got past the border and went to a place with a bunch of asian food for some reason. Khang, Thuclam, and I forgot who else went to a different restaurant while the rest of us stayed in a different one. Nam and I ordered udon but I don’t know what the others ordered besides pizza. The udon was ok, but the pizza was better.

All of us went outside and got to the van. It took a while but we got to the next AirBNB. At first, I thought we were going onto the subway next to it. The building that we were actually going to towered over us. I got my stuff and went into the door, which needed a code for you to open. There was a very, very long creaky staircase, and I was afraid that I would fall over while trying to help Khang with his luggage. When we got to the top, I didn’t expect it to be so big. There was a big living room with a tv, with doors that led right to the dining room and bedroom. The dining room had a long table, set with plates and utensils. There was also a weird spider-like bug on the ceiling. In the corner, there was some alcohol that my dad was very busy inspecting. Khoi, Angel, Vien and I played some “ghost”, but they were screaming very loudly and I had to keep telling them to quiet down.

We quickly put all our stuff into the van and drove over to a Vietnamese restaurant. I ate some nice egg rolls. I also shared with Khang and Grandma. We walked over to our van to pick Thucquyen, Thucdan, and their mom up. We needed another car to fit people in. We then went to the library for no reason. It was huge though. They make everything huge in C anada. Some of us stayed back while we went back to somewhere because I forgot where we went. Lets pretend we all went home. Wait no.

After that, we went to the area where I ate the pizza and udon. We went to a Chinese place, where they gave us hot water for some reason. Dad said people don’t want to drink cold water after being in the cold. For me it made no sense because I warmed up after about a minute of being in there. So I ate Wonton soup with duck, while having no water the entire time because I HATE warm water.

Khang has told me to sleep in his room, and so I did. Not. I forgot to say that there was also and upstairs, but it doesn’t matter because you’ve already been there. Anyways, Khang’s room was upstairs, and dad’s room was downstairs. Just when I was about to fall asleep, I heard dad calling my name loudly from downstairs. So I slowly walked downstairs like I was drunk and went into dad’s room, not before stepping on the very creaky floorboard. And so I didn’t fall asleep. The same thing happened. Dad wasn’t in the room, so when I was on the brink of sleeping, khang walked right up to my face and told me to sleep in his room. I again walked up the stairs but annoyed this time. I went into his room and almost fell asleep again. Almost. Dad called my name AGAIN so I went downstairs AGAIN. I was glad that Nam slept in the living room so I could sleep without having to stay up 2 hours. Thucquyen’s dad was snoring a bit too loudly so he came into our room. I almost had to sleep sitting, while also coughing a lot. I didn’t think that this part would have the longest paragraph in this blog.

We woke up early in the morning and I brushed my teeth. And showered. The night before, Khoi’s dad told us that we would be making pizza this day. We packed up and headed down the long stairs. Through the glass door, it was raining outside. We quickly put our stuff into the van and drove away. It was a very long and very bumpy ride. And then we finally made it to the AirBNB.

It was a 4 story house. The kitchen was connected to the dining room. Above the wall next to the dining room, there was a crack that lets you see the floor above. The stairs right in front of the door led to the next floor. It had a couch, some chairs, and a piano next to the crack, which looked like a balcony. Im not gonna talk about the other floors.

We immediately went to a pizza restaurant, were we don’t get to make pizzas, and I didn’t even get the pizza I like. The french fries were ok though.

We then went home and slept. For the first time since we left Ohio, I could actually sleep. It was just dad and I who slept in the room.

We got up the next morning and drove to a friends house. I don’t even know who they are. We had to stay for about 30 minutes. Anyways, we said goodbye to Thucquyen’s family and made the trip back to Ohio. We stopped by a store and got snacks. I didn’t get anything.We then visited Niagara Falls for 10 minutes and then we drove to another store, where I got sour patch kids. I somehow fell asleep on the van, and when we woke up, it was night. In 30 minutes, we finally got back home. I played some TF2 on the computer, and went to sleep. The next morning, we headed to the airport. Khoi, Vien, and they’re dad would be coming too.

After saying goodbye to Nam and dad, we got through security and ate Auntie Anne’s. I drank a lot of lemonade and played smash with Khoi and E Vien. I also ate cinnamon rolls.

I said goodbye to them and bought Cheetos. We waited for about 2 hours and then got onto the plane. The entire flight, there was always a kid or baby crying, whining, or talking. I stayed awake the entire time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We got home.