Cindy's Blog

Today was the second day of the "science camp" that Mom signed us up for. Today wasn't as bad as yesterday.

Like yesterday, today, we were about 40 minutes late because Dad kept talking to Uncle Weii who works in Dad's business, Car2tw. And then, we found out that he didn't know the way to the teacher's house. Well, we didn't know the way either because yesterday, Dad kept forgetting things in Mom's car, like the house keys and stuff. So we had to keep going back and forth and around in circles and back to the house and...oh whatever. So we had to go all the way to mom's office, and find out that Coco's Mom is coming to get us.

So, when Coco's Mom dropped us off where the teacher was waiting, we were about 40 minutes late. When we got in his house, we found the rest of the kids playing some card game they called nine-nine or something. When the teacher announced that class was starting, he also announced that 2 of the kids were taking a vacation or something which is why they weren't there. The first brain teaser we did was that we were each given 25 paper pigs. 4 of them we weren't allowed to use. We were supposed to make 4 pens for them and each one had to have at least 1 pig in it, but every pen had to have an uneven number of pigs.

The next one was a Japanese invention. I was the first and only one to solve it by myself without copying someone else. You were given a piece of paper 9 cms tall and 16cms wide. You were allowed to cut it as many times as you wanted, but you could only cut it into 2 pieces. And then you had to be able to use the pieces to make it a 12x12 square.

Then we had lunch. We had cassarole and clam chowder. It was delicious! We all watched Avatar execpt me. I read a book I brought.

ASfter lunch, we did this thing with a lot of triangles in a triangle shape. We were supposed to draw through every line without lifting the pencil and not drawing over any line that has already been drawn on. This was easy and everyone suceeded, even Jerry(my brother) who, so far, has not done anything without copying.

Then we were given a sheet with a lot of Naruto characters and told to cut out the one we liked best. Here's all of them: Kabuto(?), Shikamaru, Itachi&Sasuke, Naruto, Jiraya/Purvy Sage/Toad Sage, Hinata, the Chunin Exam's Part 3 Examiner, Neji, Orochimaru(?), Tamari, Gaara, and, I think, the 4th Hokage. I chose Tamari. Then he gave us a paper that had a building with a 5m long moat around it. The mission was to get the character into the building to rob something with only two 4m long boards for tools. There were hundreds of ways but the teacher said he was thinking a better way. I said, None of them even need the boards, they can focus their chakra in their feet and walk across the water without sinking. I also said, Tamari can fly with that fan of hers so she doesn't even need to do that. And Gaara and sort of teleport with his sand and anyway in this movie all the characters can jump really high and far.

Afte that we went to the playgroung and played until it was nearly 3:30 and started raining.