Author: Thục Lam

Hey guys it’s ThucDan I am 15 years old and I turn 16 in two days.  I went on the cruise last week in Europe and it was pretty litty.  First my fam bam and I got to Milan Airport and drove to switzerland to spend the day and night, the next day we were in the Alps and on the way down all the roads were blocked due to danger of avalanches, we were almost late but we made it, then we missed our train to Genoa which was where our cruise would take off, but this dude helped us find another train that was 10x more expensive but we took it anyways and the guy asked us for 10 euros and we were big ballin anyways so we were k den.  Then we get to Genoa and to the port and it’s getting litty because we met our squad of 16 people it was very hectic because there were like 30 kids but anyways we get on the boat and we ate and explored a little and then we went to sleep.

The next day we arrived in Rome Civitavecchia and left the kids at the kids club because it would be a lot of work to take them everywhere, we went to the spanish steps and vatican city and then went back to the boat.  We picked up the kids and they said they didn’t like the club and they didn’t want to go back, the parents were like whatever and then got them ready for dinner.  That night my mom, cau ngan, di xiu, and I all went to the resturant, it wasn’t that good so we decided not to go again, then we went to the buffet and ate some more.  Then we chilled and then went to bed.

The next day we were in Sicily and it was pretty cool we went to see some weird catacomb things and I got boba so it was an experience.  That night there was a teen club meeting so after i signed up I took a shower, got ready and went to go eat at the buffet, when it was like I went to the teen club and waited outside for like 45 minutes playing games on my phone until a dude told me to come in.  Then I met Emma, Ethan, and Aiden, who were all American but lived in Germany, Haley and Kaden who were American, Dan from Spain, and Leo from Lithuania.  We all spoke english and we hung out with each other, until around 11, which is when the club opened and then we danced all the way until 1 am and then I went home, which is the nice thing about being on a giant boat, because it meant I could stay out late without my parents worrying because where else am I gonna go, off the ship?  Then I went back to my room and my parents didn’t even wake up they were knocked out.

To be continued.

Hello my name is ThucDan, I am 13 years old as of today, that means I am now officially a troubled teenager.    For my birthday party we did tons of things like watch movies and make cookies, the cookies were kind of spongy but that’s OK. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about, I’m here to talk about my fantastic vacation with my cousins and my family.

 The first day my cousins came over, it was Christmas Eve (what about Chrismas Adam you men activist?)  so then me and Khang went to church I introduced him to my two friends that I have.   The mass was longer than expected, two hours to be exact,  but after that, my friends mom took me and Khang back.  When we got back we mostly just played on our video games and ate eggrolls, they were quite delicious I must say.  

The next day we got up bright and early, to go into a car for six hours.    This is the most agonizing trip I’ve ever had I believe, I was in the middle two rowdy boys  that refused to quit laughing at my face, like, they were actually doubling over, laughing, at my face.   When I went to sleep it was uncomfortable because I was in the middle.   But soon enough we were in there.   By there I meant California, I apologize for not telling you earlier that we were going to California.

When  we first got there,  we went to eat at a restaurant.  The food must’ve been delicious but I wouldn’t know because I was really sick.   I threw up four times a day, once at a corner store,  the second time in the car, the third time also in a car, and the fourth time it was just straight up tea because I refused to eat anything other than tea.  It was a good thing though because I did end up just vomiting everything I ate that day.  

We rented a house, it wasn’t the best but it did what it was supposed to, except for the heater working because at first it wouldn’t work.  I was mostly in my room for a while due to me having the stomach flu, which I believe was just fancy words for throwing up alot and a fever.  I had planned to take a nap but when I woke back up all the lights were off and my mom was sleeping next to me, figures. 

The next day I felt completely better and was ready to go where ever i was taken.  First we went to a historic missionary.  It was cool but could have been cooler because I had already hone there with my friend Cindy.  So that was pretty swag.

After that we went to NewPort beach, that was super swag because I had a hat that said California Newport beach, and I was like, “swag my doods!”  So then we into a boat to find whales, there was a snack bar so a bunch of people ordered foods.  After 45 minutes of nothing, Khang and I fell asleep, we then woke up at the very end when there were dolphins, but they were really far away so we couldn’t see much.

This is all I will be writing for today, I will write an update with all the other things we did, that post will also have pictures, thanks for reading!

Vietnamese:

Xin chào tôi tên là ThucDan, tôi 13 tuổi như ngày nay, đó có nghĩa là tôi bây giờ chính thức là một thiếu niên gặp khó khăn. Đối với bữa tiệc sinh nhật của tôi, chúng tôi đã làm nhiều thứ như xem phim và làm cho các tập tin cookie, cookie là loại xốp nhưng đó là OK. Nhưng đó không phải là những gì tôi đang ở đây để nói về, tôi ở đây để nói về kỳ nghỉ tuyệt vời của tôi với người anh em họ của tôi và gia đình tôi.

Ngày đầu tiên anh em họ của tôi đã đến, đó là đêm Giáng sinh (những gì về Chrismas Adam bạn nam hoạt động?) Nên sau đó tôi và Khang đi nhà thờ tôi giới thiệu ông với hai người bạn của tôi mà tôi có. Khối lượng dài hơn dự kiến, hai giờ để được chính xác, nhưng sau đó, bạn bè mẹ tôi đã cho tôi và Khang trở lại. Khi chúng tôi trở về, chúng tôi chủ yếu chỉ chơi trên trò chơi video của chúng tôi và ăn eggrolls, họ đã khá ngon tôi phải nói.

Ngày hôm sau, chúng tôi thức dậy sáng sớm, để đi vào một chiếc xe trong sáu giờ. Đây là chuyến đi đau đớn nhất tôi đã từng tôi tin rằng, tôi đã ở trong hai chàng trai ồn ào giữa mà từ chối bỏ cười vào mặt tôi, như thế, họ đã thực sự tăng gấp đôi lên, cười, nhìn khuôn mặt của tôi. Khi tôi đi ngủ nó cảm thấy khó chịu vì tôi đã ở giữa. Nhưng không lâu sau chúng tôi ở đó. Bằng cách đó, tôi có nghĩa là California, tôi xin lỗi vì đã không nói với bạn trước đó rằng chúng ta sắp đến California.

Khi chúng tôi lần đầu tiên đến đó, chúng tôi đã đi ăn tại một nhà hàng. Các thực phẩm chắc hẳn là ngon nhưng tôi không biết vì tôi đã thực sự bị bệnh. Tôi đã ném lên bốn lần một ngày, một lần tại một cửa hàng góc, lần thứ hai trong xe, lần thứ ba cũng trong một chiếc xe hơi, và lần thứ tư nó chỉ thẳng lên trà bởi vì tôi từ chối ăn bất cứ điều gì khác hơn so với trà. Đó là một điều tốt bởi vì mặc dù tôi đã kết thúc chỉ nôn tất cả mọi thứ tôi đã ăn ngày hôm đó.

Chúng tôi thuê một căn nhà, nó không phải là tốt nhất, nhưng nó đã làm những gì nó được cho là, ngoại trừ cho các máy làm việc, vì lúc đầu nó sẽ không làm việc. Tôi là chủ yếu trong phòng của tôi trong một thời gian do tôi có dịch cúm dạ dày, mà tôi tin là chỉ là lời nói ưa thích cho ném lên rất nhiều và sốt. Tôi đã lên kế hoạch để có một giấc ngủ ngắn nhưng khi tôi tỉnh lại lên tất cả các đèn đều tắt và mẹ tôi đang ngủ bên cạnh tôi, con số.

Ngày hôm sau tôi cảm thấy hoàn toàn tốt hơn và đã sẵn sàng để đi nơi bao giờ tôi đã được thực hiện. Đầu tiên chúng tôi đến một nhà truyền giáo lịch sử. Đó là mát mẻ, nhưng có thể được mát bởi vì tôi đã trau dồi đó với bạn bè của tôi Cindy. Vì vậy, đó là swag khá.

Sau đó chúng tôi đến bãi biển Newport, đó là siêu swag bởi vì tôi đã có một chiếc mũ mà nói bãi biển California Newport, và tôi là như thế, “Swag doods của tôi!” Vì vậy, sau đó chúng tôi xuống thuyền để tìm cá voi, có một quán ăn nhanh do đó, một bó của những người ra lệnh cho thực phẩm. Sau 45 phút thi đấu không có gì, Khang và tôi ngủ thiếp đi, sau đó chúng tôi thức dậy vào lúc cuối cùng khi có cá heo, nhưng họ đã thực sự xa vì vậy chúng tôi không thể nhìn thấy nhiều.

Đây là tất cả tôi sẽ viết cho ngày hôm nay, tôi sẽ viết một bản cập nhật với tất cả những điều khác mà chúng tôi đã làm, mà bài viết cũng sẽ có hình ảnh, nhờ đọc!

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Hello, my name is ThucDan, I am currently in eighth grade, I have no clue what high school I want to go to, this is quite scary because I have to know in order to take my HSPT (high school placement test), it’s a test that you need to take in order to apply and enroll in a Catholic high school.  There are only 6 Catholic high schools in Arizona: Xavier college prep, Brophy college prep, Bourgade Catholic high school, Saint Mary’s, and Notre Dame Prep, there’s another one but I can’t remember.  So let me tell you about each of these schools.  Xavier is an all girl’s school, and is one of the most prestigious schools you can go to in Arizona, I would like to go here, but it’s a bit far from my house, so I can’t.  Also, the tuition is 15 grand.  Brophy is the same as Xavier only it’s for boys.  Saint Mary’s is at the bottom of the scale, although it”s not a bad school, it’s not the best.  Last of all, Bourgade, this is the school I’m looking at, it meets all of my requirements, it’s affordable, it’s private, and it’s close to my current school, which is where my sisters are going at least until next year.  Anyway, high school is not what I came here to write about, I’m here to talk about my Marine Biology trip.

For those who don’t know, each year, at my school, the eighth graders go to California and get on a boat, we sail to the Chanel Islands, which are a few islands that are part of the national parks system, which means we need to bring a nature specialist.  We stay on the boat for 3 nights and 4 days.  We kayak, snorkel, do a science labs, and hike.

So the bus ride there was 8 hours, since it was in California, when we got there, we took our bags and put it in the boat and went to the beach to play, my friends and I took lots of pictures and played in the water, there were a few sea lions, they got really close and you could touch them!  Of course they kept their distance, the teacher ordered pizza and we went to the boat galley to eat, it was about 7 when we finished eating, we went to the top deck, and yelled at the boys (They were in a different boat and both boats were docked because we haven’t set sail yet.)  We sang songs and took pictures until 9, that’s when we went to sleep.

We started sailing at 4 in the morning, and I woke up when we started sailing, the boat was really rocky, and it took me a while to go back to sleep.  We woke up at around 7 or 8, we upstairs where the galley was, placed our breakfast orders, and brushed our teeth.  That morning, I believe I got scrambled eggs and some meat I don’t remember, it was probably ham.  We then went down to the bunk room and changed into hiking clothes, this hike was 4 miles long, and it was very beautiful, the nature specialist told us about the island, and had an answer to almost every question we asked, her name was Tara.  After hiking, we went back to the boat to eat lunch, and the real fun started;)))  My first station was snorkeling, I got on my wet suit, which was sooooooo hard to get into, I then proceeded to slip on my booties and fins.  My group snorkeled to a rock and saw a ton of things, I managed to collect a shell, but then I accidentally dropped it and so it was gone forever.  On my next station, I dissected a fish.  And the best part of the day started, we went kayaking, I had never kayaked before, so I was pretty bad, but my mistake was was choosing a partner who also did not have any experience, we were always last, we were also very slow, my arms got really tired, it was draining.  But still fun.  In between these activities, we would go on the top deck, sit over the ledge, and watch the waters move,  after sitting there for about 10 minutes, we got salt on our knees!  We went back to the boat and showered, changed into pajamas, and ate dinner.  That night, I think dinner was string beans and steak.  When we finished, we brewed a cup of hot coco, and went to the top deck, we had a concert, one of us would dance one of the platforms, and someone else would sing on the other.  We all had this odd dance, I’m not sure how to really explain it, but it was pretty funny.  A few kids didn’t know how to do it, so we would pause the concert to teach them, we ended the concert and held a dance class.  Then, we went back to the galley for desert, that night, we had brownies and ice cream, it was quite yummy I must say.  I went to sleep that night and woke up at 3 in the morning, it took me a whole hour to go back to sleep.

The next day was the same, but the hike was very tiring, it was also 4 miles, but it was also up hill the whole time, I don’t even know how I survived.  That day was just the same, except for a few hiccups, when we went snorkeling, we found out that some irresponsible person had left their wet suit out and when the boat moved, it flew off into the ocean, that one suit happened to be my size, so I had to downsize, I was very uncomfortable, and it was very tight.  That day we looked at sea water under a microscope, and tried to find plankton.  We then went kayaking.  This was my favorite day because the boys and the girls had a kayak war.  There were 2 seats for each kayak, but for reasons of the war, we would put someone in the middle.  The front person was the rower, the middle person was the offender, and the last person was the defender.  I was the rower, and it was hard, because we kept being attacked.  If you haven’t already picked it up, the boys were climbing on the girls’ kayaks and they flipped us over.  We, of course, retaliated and flipped them.  Of course, there were people who weren’t involved in the war and they paddled around in their kayaks and they picked people up and dropped them off at their own boat, we called these people taxis.  I got flipped over so many times it almost got not funny.  

This is all I will be writing for today, I cannot attach pictures that I took because I do not have access to them at the moment, for pictures of this trip with me in them that I did not take, visit  http://www.simonjudeschool.org/archives/2016-8th-grade-marine-biology-trip-to-the-channel-islands/  I will post the pictures I took in another post.

Update: I have now gotten access to my pictures, which i will insert here.

 

 

 

My friend Bianca has a blog spot on the school website, she also had posted a post on her page about this trip, hers is much shorter, so I suggested you read it if you mostly skimmed over this one http://www.simonjudeschool.org/student-life/

 

 

Hi, my name is ThucDan and I am 12 years old, guess what? I’m being forced to write a very long post that only 2 people read.  Isn’t life wonderful?  So here is my very long post about the wonders of Singapore, ugh. (Disclaimer-these are in the wrong order, I totally forgot what happened in what order, sorry)

OK, let’s start off with the fact that it isn’t as clean as you would think it would be.  It’s only so much better than America.  I kinda sorta but not really did not enjoy the trip because I had no friends, I was force to play with little kids, which gets boring after a while.  

When we first got there, we had to take then subway from the bus to the nearest station to our hotel, which was a 10-15 minute walk by the way.  After we got there, we went to eat and I got a durian smoothie but apparently, Singaporeans don’t like durian, so we had to secretly bring my smoothie up and went to sleep cause we were boring people.  The next day and the day after that was the worst, we had to walk everywhere, except when we were on the subway.I actually don’t know what where or when this was taken.  So I apologize for misleading you, Which is 2 people.  Anyway, our first stop was china town, which makes no scene because Singaporeans are Chinese, which makes all of Singapore china town.  Once we got off the subway, we walk 20-30 minutes to get to the place where we were going to eat.  It was supposedly a dim sum, but there were no cart mulling food heaven, so I would call it a dim sum rip off.  After we went outside, a Singaporese lady came up to us and started talking in Chinese, we answered in Vietnamese, which is stupid, and the lady went on in Chinese.   Eventually, we said our foreign goodbyes and went to the shopping place.  Now, just a quick side story (I bet all of you already know),  I had brought 2 shoes along with me on this trip, but one of them was too small.  So I was stuck wearing my wheel shoes everywhere.  I know that none of you have worn them, so let me tell you how they feel.  They are a very clunky shoe, and if you are not rolling, you are uncomfortable because 50% of the shoe’s thickness is for the wheel stuff.  So naturally, I rolled anywhere I could, to avoid being uncomfortable.  Here is when the story begins.  So I was rolling around the store, and I was pushing myself with the shelves around me.  Soon, I come across a temporary sign/shelf.  I push and it rolled 2 inches away and the sign fell.  I did all of this in front of the shop lady and she rushes over.  I tried to help my picking up the sign but she snatched it away from me.  (I don’t remember what her exact words were)  And she says,Why would you do that? In an accent, I could see that she was angry so I slowly backed away.  After I finally turn around.  I heard her say something under her voice, “stupid girl,”  So I rushed out of the store and stop rolling, I was so scared that I didn’t touch anything in that store at ALL after that.

So I go to my mum and she asks me if I want a custum necklace or bracelet.  I look back now and I wish I had have said yes, they were so cool.  But I did’t, I hate myself.

So after china town, we went to some garden thingy that his nothing but plants, so that was pretty boring.  The one fun part was when we went on high briges that my mum refused to look down on.  Everyone was worn out and tired so we weren’t really excited about anything. Soon it got dark and we went back to the hotel.Now the next day, we went to a Temple that had Buddist tooth in it.  Which is prettly dang cooler, but it would be even cooler if I wasn’t catholic.  They had a garden up the temple and it was really pretty.After the temple, we went to a mall, which was really far away.  When we got to the mall, a couple of girl decided they would rather shop than go to a theme park, (so stupid).  While we were on the train to get there, we passed through a mini Hollywood and I saw Marilyn Mon Roe.  When we got to the theme park, we went to a little car ride, it was really fun, but some of the adults freaked out on the lift to the top of the ride.

So that night, we went to eat at the sushi place.  We were very cheap and all the grown ups drank out of one beer bottle.There was an ice cream man at the eat out place and he tricked us when he gave up our ice cream.  So that was my Singapore trip, it was avually really boring if you counldn’t tell…

Hello, my name is ThucDan and I am12 years old and I like to cook.  Mostly because in the end, I can eat it.  So I guess I will start of with just that, Food.

As soon as you step outside the airport, you are greeted by tons of people holding up signs that have names on them, my family walked right past those people and called a taxi.  From there, we went to a relative’s house.  Just so you know, we were not cheapos.  So almost immediately went out side and bought food.  There was street food everywhere so we didn’t have to go to burger king, cause there wasn’t any Burger King on that block, or street, or city, ok maybe city.  Anyway, then came my uncle and he had brought his kids with him.  That night, me and my mum went to her old friend’s house, we went up to her garden and literally just stared at it for 20 minutes.  We then went down stairs where we drank water at the dinner table and talked.  Since I was still used to USA time, I passed out on the dinner table until it was time to go.  We got on the taxi and I slept again till I got home, also that certain taxi driver was annoying because my mum asked a couple of times what street it was and after a while, he asked and my mum told him we were from America.  And then he was like, “I KNEW IT, OMG I JUST KNEW IT,”  And he did that 10 times.  So I couldn’t sleep.  When we got home, I can’t remember what we ate, but I think that we totally did.

The next day was the day me and my family got in shape, so me TL and my mother went out to take a walk, (and buy food)  And we came home with a lot of food, we came home with lots of sandwiches, hot tofu, and coffee.  Everything was quite good, and after that, we rested for 20 minutes and took another walk to buy food.  It was like the word thrifty was never invented, if we saw food and we liked it, we bought it and we ate it, no mercy.  There was a smoothie shop that was 2 seconds away from our house, (I am not kidding, I went out there by myself). Everyday, me and TL bought 5 smoothies throughout the day.  Everyday, we walked a lot, like, a lot.  One day, we walked all the way to the  local store, which is 20 minutes away.  While we were walking there, we passed by my mum’s hospital in which she was born in.  Along the way, you could see studends going to school and buying food.  The kids there don’t go to school until 10 or 11.  Which is totally unfair, I wake up at 6:00 every morning to got o school.  Anyway, if you read this post, comment and say that you did because I think only 2 people read this.  So one day, we were running pout of money because we bought too much food.  So my mother pulls out an amazing zip-bloc bag will gold in it.  Yes, gold.  In the bag were necklaces and  earrings and bracelets that have been abandoned.  So we walk in a new direction that day and we find a jewelry shop.  So they take my mum to go help the gold and he tells me to watch the shop.  After seeing this advantage, I stole a pretty necklace that I liked.  Wow, you actually think that I would do that?  That’s just rude and I no longer like you.  I kinda was confused on how I was supposed to “watch” the shop, it’s not like I can tackle somebody if they rob the place.  So the guy and my mums comes out and the guy is holding a lump of melted gold.  It turns out that it was 300 USD.  But it didn’t matter that much since my mum gave all of it away to my gramma and uncle.  Apart on the money she spent to eat sticky rice.  On the way home, we also bought a lot of jello and a smoothie.  I can’t really remember anything else.  But I do remember when we went to the store, it was a lot like department stores in America.  We spent a lot of time looking at PJs cause they were all pretty.  But it was really hard finding my mum and gramma’s sizes D=.  After that, we went and looked at silverware and bought some cool stuff, and then we went to check out everything.  When we went down stairs and saw a food court.  And for the record, the food was disgusting.  When we got our coconut jello had wayyy too much coconut.  The cool thing about this place was that you can have them deliver what you bought to your house so we didn’t have to drag it all home.  After that, we went to my gramma’s old house and bought noodles and took a nap.  When we got home, everything that we bought had already been sent home.  All of this took a lot of walking and TL had seen a rat the very fist time in her life, so I would say that we were traumatized, in  some sort of good way.  By the way I got a haircut in the last few days and I am sad.  On the last night of ,my stay we had candy tortillas.  Which was molten candy(not really) inside a tortillas with coconut, I was not a fan of it because I refused to try it, the candy was super sticky so my uncle got it all over my cousin’s hair.  While I was there, I expected some to reach behind me and pick pocket me, but it never happened.      

That last picture is lopsided because I didn’t know how to turn it back again, because I am stupid (words of someone who will be un-named for their own protection) And for the record, this post is 1007 words long.

Hello, my name is ThucDan Huynh, I am 11 years old and my birthday was a month ago.  so I’m actually 12.  Someone said that I have to write about our trip to Vietnam.  But I am rebellious, so I will write about Hong Kong, so I will give you some random words.  Papaya(say it in a deep manly voice) pineapple(that’s pronounced pin aple) cookies, cheese, ramen, noodles in general, and tea.  Notice that all the words are edible, saying that I am a lover of food.

Now is the part where I actually talk about Hong Kong.  To start off, the plane ride was uncomfortable but kind of yummy.  There was ice cream and pasta so I guess it was actually super delish.  when we got off the plane we realized that the Hong Kong airport is the biggest airport in the world.  So we got lost a couple of times and it takes so long to find you way out.  Then, when we finally got to the ticket counter, we saw Cau Ngan. 

After we got our tickets, we went to the bathroom to brush our teeth because we haven’t brushed our teeth in a long time.  Then, after we did THAT we went to go buy food, but the food was too expensive.  So we just starved to death cause we were cheapos and would rather die than lose money.  That’s when God came to us a revived us.  But we didn’t know it happened so we just carried on to our gate(I can assure you that the gate was very far away)  BUT WHEN IS LIFE JUST AS SIMPLE AS THAT?  My family didn’t make it on the plane, so we had to sleep there.  So I guess you can say that I was stranded in Hong Kong  When we woke up got to the ticket counter, they told us to wait until we hear our name, because that meant that they found seats for us, while we waited, we decided to be smart and not cheapos.  So we bought Starbucks and a muffin to survive.  Then, we charged our stuff until they called us.  That’s when we went to a different gate and got on the plane to Vietnam.

Now let me tell you about the trip back.  On the plane the food was disgusting and I didn’t like it to say in the least.  And when we got off the plane.  It was just h.e. double hockey stick from there.  first, we had no idea where to go, after we waited for 20 minutes at the ticket counter, they decided to hate us and said that we couldn’t get stand by tickets there.  So we went to terminal 3 and looked around for an hour before we decided to ask somone (this whole time, I was running around because I thought we would be late) the lady said that the American airline ticket counter was in terminal 2.  So we retraced our steps until we got to terminal 2, section E.  THEN we couldn’t find American Airlines ANYWHERE.  So we asked another lady and she said terminal 3 section E.  So I took another look and realized I had passed American airlines half a million times, it was just that the letters were super small.  So while we were in line, I was freaking out because I thought we hasd missed our flight.  AND THEN MY MUM DECIDES TO TELL ME THAT OUR FIGHT WONT BE FLYING FOR 4 HOURS.  So then I just relaxed, the lady said come back in 1:30 hours.  That meant we could eat lunch.  We, (again) decided to not be cheapos and got some wonton soup and 3 cakes, and for the record, they were all delightful.  Then we came back to the ticket counter and they gave us our tickets and we check in our luggage.  Then we had to go through security.  That’s when we finally got on the plane and home.

Ok, so we didn’t exactly go home, we just went to the Dallas airport.  And this is where the REAL h.e. double hockey stick begins.  Once we got there, almost every flight to Arizona was booked full, which really sucked for us because that meant we had to spend the night.  After spending the night, things still didn’t work for us.  That is when we had this brilliant idea to dive for 16 hours to Arizona with a rented car.  So yeah, we did that.  But we were all just so sleepy and drowsy that we pulled over to take a nap, 30 minutes after we woke up and started driving again, we took another nap.  Right before we got to El Paso it started raining, and then the rain turned into snow!  It was cold and none of us has sleeves.  After a while, we were completely out of gas, like, it was completely empty!  So we drove for a few more miles and we found a gas station and thanked god.  I feel asleep for the rest of the trip until we got to the hotel.  When I looked out the window, there was a good level of snow outside.  The car was just completely covered in snow and my hair have white sprinkles in it.  So we went and ate breakfast.  After that, we got on the road and that was also h.e. double hockey stick.  We were driving at 5 mph because the road was iced clean and there was major traffic.  A couple dozen cars and trucks fell down the highway too.  It was a good 3 hours before we were driving at 80 mph again.  Before I knew it, we stopped to eat at a Vietnamese restaurant in Tucson.  I then fell asleep again and this time, when I woke up, we were in Pheonix Arizona and my dad was about to pick me up.  It took us a while to find my dad and when I did, the only thing anyone could hear for miles was ThucQuyens scream.  And just for the record, this post is 1005 words long.

 

 

 

 

A note to Nam, you have crossed the line, get more posts then my sister? Fine, But get more posts than me?  That’a almost absurd enough to be true.  Which is why I am saying this, I do not declare war, but I declare a truce, as long as you don’t have more posts than me, we will be friends, but when you cross the ThucDan mark, I will hunt you down, (not really cause I already know where you live)  take off you basement door,  install a new one with a lock on the outside, break all the light in the basement, take the chips, (and any other food down there)  lure you down with an uncharged iPad ( assuming you’er stupid enough to think it’s charged)  and lock you down there.

Hello, my name is ThucDan, and I have 71 posts, that aren’t little tiny posts that are 1-2 sentences long,  Whoo hoo for me.

Anyway,  as a 7th grader,  I have to do 10 hours of community service.  I already finished my 10 hours so yeah, I’m awesome, I know.  Today I found out that between this year and next year, if I do 100+ hours of service,  I will be nominated for a 8000 dollar scholarship to a catholic high school of my choice.  There are 20 scholarship, and I am determined to get one of them.  Well, because, 8000 dollars is a lot of money, who am I to pass up that amazing change to go to a school of rich people.

Today I volunteered at my churches Life house, and got 3 hours of  service out of it, yum.

Hi, my name is ThucDan and I don’t have a favorite food, that’s cause i like all food.  Did you know there is only 2 food groups in the world?  Foods that i have eaten, and foods that i will eat.  BEEPBEEP.  Quoted line from the show: Beep beep.

I don’t know what to write about, I’m honestly just writing this to get my 70th post, THIS IS SO EXCITING.  Anyway, I think that I know what to write now, I get top lockers because 6th 7th and 8th graders get lockers, so obviously 6th graders get bottom and the older people get top lockers.  I pack lunches.  I am having second thoughts about this blog.  Only one person reads these posts and they already know everything because they are on the phone 24/7 with my mom.  Meeeeeeeep 🙁

I wish I was Lady Gaga, she’s so crazy, and nobody judges her.  Smerph.   i think that when I turn 12 this year, I will finally be able to stay home alone… Now this is the part where I post pictures because I am too lazy to write, accoriding to the one person that reads these posts.

A picture she took with my phone xD.

A random photo from a couple of months ago because I couldn’t find a double chin photo 🙁

A random picture of beer

A lopsided picture of ThucLam

Hi, My name is ThucDan, and I am  RICH SPOILED BRAT.  One of the people who will be reading this will think the brat part is true(you know who you are, yes, I’m talking to you).

So my new school is totally super awesome, I  get to have an iPad and other cool stuff.  I got into the Pre-Algebra math class!  There are 3 math classes, 7th grade math(for the lower brained people)Pre-Algebra (for the upper brained people) and algebra, (for the super brainy people that are much better than the rest of us because they are smarter and that makes me really mad because it isn’t fair that we judge each other by the math class that we are in and that makes me really mad).

There is a really pretty science lab with test tube thingys(beakers) and sinks and everything!They teachers are really nice and so are the sudents.  7th and 8th graders get top lockers and so we tower above the little 6th graders.  We also get to sit on the bleachers at every assembly.  So yeah, 7th graders are cool.

I stay in the after school program and there is a little 3rd grade that is really clingy to me and my friend(my best friend and me just happen to both go to the after school, her name is Embrey, I also have another friend and her name is Jenny but she doesn’t go to after school)

The other day, the little girl was with us and then me and my friend were talking to other people, then, the little girl wispered:are they cool?

Hello!  My name is ThucDan and I don’t like BANANAS, MUA HA HA. THEY’RE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, BE CAREFUL.  Anyway, I’m doing an extra long post cause I haven’t blogged in a long time.  Oops, I wrote 2 words in the same sentence.  How do I have a blog again?

So I was in Ohio after the last post and I suffered though lots of abuse from a chicken nugget.  Don’t ask.  Also, when we got to Tennessee for the Smoky Mountains trip, I mostly hung out upstairs with the “Virginia” people.  If you want to know, People From Florida are called the Florida People, people from New Jersey are called the New Jersey People and so on.  Anyway, the hike on the trip was TERRIBLE.  OUT OF ALL THE TRIPS I HAVE EVER BEEN ON, I WANT TO KILL THE PERSON THAT THOUGHT OF THE HIKING IDEA!!  But I guess we all need some type of adventure.

That night was the Fourth of July so we were going to watch fireworks.  Sadly, the person who thought of the hiking idea probably also got us lost.  So we ended up going to a small little amusement park.  We kinda got to see fireworks through a bunch of tress.  But I guess that was fine.

The next day was much more delightful, we all went boating and some of the Virginia People has to stay back because of phobias and sickness.  It was very peaceful there were some rafts and they tipped over a couple of times, but I won’t tell you that because you probably already know what happened.  That was also the best night of the entire trip.  We made s’mores and did the chubby bunny challenge we being Phi Vincent Tien Kim And Me.  I got forth place out of  five.  Vincent ended up winning with 5 marshmallows.  We also told host stories, I busted one of them and yeah. That’s the smoky mountains trip:3