Judy

When I started middle school, I was most excited about the freedom they give you (like the ability to choose) and also the lunch in the middle school cafeteria. In Grade 5 step-up day, I saw how good middle schoolers eat. There are so many choices to choose from.

Though, at the start of the year, I was really worried about the teachers I’m getting for each subject. I was worried like “how am I going to survive a year with an evil teacher??” But it turns out all my teachers are very nice. I really liked all of them.

The highlight of the year is the overnight trip to the Olympic Park. Even though it’s really hot there and my skin turned a bit black after I got back, but it’s fun to spend a night with your roommate in a hotel room. Though, the lowlight of that trip is that there is a bunch of mosquitos and the food isn’t as good as Singing deer lodge.

For me, the tests for all subjects are challenges. I always want to achieve a good grade in all subjects. But it’s hard for me to do that in science. So I turned my attention and tried to focus on math, humanities, Chinese, and PE. I tried my hardest and there are nights that I need to stay up late to study. Studying is like, the best way to confront tests.

I didn’t really get any feelings for e-learning and the coronavirus pandemic. I’m like, kind of a neutral. So if you ask me did I change? My answer is probably not.

The thing I’m most proud of is the grades I got for different units. Especially humanities. I did the best on that subject.

If I get a do-over, I would try to work on my science and math harder. My test scores didn’t come out that great. Also, I would try to make sure I wake up on time so I won’t miss the bus. There’s once in the year that I miss the bus during MAP testing, so I had to walk to school. And after I got there, I missed the MAP testing time in the morning.

This unit, we created a major primary source about the coronavirus outbreak mainly based on our own experiences.  I’ve created a thinglink and organized the list of things I need to include mainly by date. I made the thinglink like a timeline “journey” through the start of coronavirus outbreak till now, putting every source I had collected/made throughout the unit by date. But, there are times that I grouped the things that related to each other. For example, I grouped an article about the developing vaccine along with one of my diary entries which mentioned the vaccine for COVID-19 too. They’re not placed by date but placed together because they have something in common or at least, talking about the same topic. They’ll get an idea of how the COVID-19 outbreak had impacted one’s life. Also, what strategy people used to face it.

I think what really went well during this unit is while creating my performance project. I’ve thought but a full three pages of advice and suggestions I could use while going through the coronavirus, school shutdown, e-learning, and all that stuff. I’m very proud of myself when I look back at all of the suggestions I came up with. And most importantly, they are all pretty useful since I tested every single one of them out.

During this unit, I found writing diaries a little bit challenging… I would be the first one to admit that my writing skills need improvement. There are times that I don’t even know what to write, or worse, fully express myself…

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/10/god-of-cake.html

My favorite book when I’m a kid is hyperbole and a half. And in the book, there’s my favorite story, which is “The God of Cake”. The link up there directs you straight to the story. What I mainly like about this book is that the pictures sometimes are so funny. And the stories usually reflected some of me. The author really knew exactly what kids are thinking.  When I’m reading, I thought the main character is sometimes spilling my heart out and expressing things I always try to keep inside and not speak it out loud. Like the stuff I usually say (to myself) when parents make us kids do stuff against our will. And I’m including all the um, not-so-nice words. So now when I think about it, dad is actually the one that recommended this book. I remember reading the start and thought it’s going to be as boring as Moby Dick (which I had NO idea how I started with that book. Though, I think I just snatch it off my mom’s shelf randomly). But just to be nice (and obviously, for the most important reason: not to get in trouble about NOT being nice), I reluctantly read the book. But just shortly after I finished the introduction, the author started to tell stories that were so interesting (yeah, at least for me) that I got so sucked up into the book. I actually finished the book for under 3-4 hours (because, for some strange reasons, as the book got more exciting, I always read faster and not feel tired after hours of intense reading).

Though the main reason my favorite story is “The God of Cake” is because 1) It involved food. 2) It let me remembered some of my childhood memories of my brother, traumatizing me when mom told us to share something. But usually, I never get my portion because my brother always ate the whole thing in front of my eyes and left me nothing. Talk about cruel. This story made me felt bad when she didn’t get the cake and made me feel victory when the main character gobbled the whole thing.

So even though the story started some of my tragic memories, I still like it because of the biggest reason: it involves food.

This is the thinglink project I’ve been working on and it’s about how has technology influenced humans throughout history.