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I had a sleepover yesterday. It actually began on Wednesday, when we started planning it.

On Wednesday, during lunch, Elysia told me she wanted to get her ears pierced. She had been saying this for months and I figured the sooner the better. So, I suggested a shopping trip with no adults to supervise us. We could ride the bus to the place where I got my ears pierced and after her ears were pierced, we could go do what we would tell our parents we were doing - shopping. She agreed and that's when we started planning our trip. First, we had to find a time and place that suited both of us. We chose the coming Saturday, when finals had ended and there was minimum pressure. We debated a variety of places to meet :the school, the place where we'd ride the bus, her house, but eventually, we decided upon the school. We also considered how Elysia should get home if the e community buses(aka green bus/purple bus/orange bus/pink bus) weren't runnning. I considered the possibility of her coming for a sleepover at my house. I knew my parents would say yes. But hers might not. We worked out our schedule:

1. I walk to school
2. Elysia and I meet at school front gate
3. Ride green bus, or if its not running, the #1 bus, to Chingda
4. Go to Starbucks and buy coffee for Elysia
5. Get pierced ears
6. Ride the #1 bus to the downtown
7. Get off at the last stop
8. Eat lunch
9. Go to Sogo
10. Wander around
11. Buy weird stuff
12. Go to bookstore
13. I read books while Elysia either reads with me or wanders around looking at the weirdo stuff they have
14. Maybe buy a book or some of the weird stuff
15. Me and elysia ride the #1 bus to either  chingda and change bus, or to my house for a sleepover
16. I walk home with Elysia if shes coming for a sleepover, or I call my mom

 We debated whether we should bring other people with us. We decided we should and asked 4 people, Ai, Sunny, Arianna, and Jamie. They were all busy, but eventually Jamie said that she could meet us at around 1:00pm in front of Sogo. We altered our plans to include Jamie:

I have finished 12 animes now. I ranked them from 1~12, my most favorite to least favorite (that does not mean I hate it so if your favorite anime is somewhere at the bottom of the list, don't get insulted, it just means we have different taste or that the ones above it are better). Now I don't know what to watch. I'm asking for suggestions.

1. One Piece

2. Mai-HiME

3. DNAngel

Yesterday was a bit boring. The most interesting part was that I was going to get pierced ears.  

       That morning, Jerry had to go to the office for a project. He promised his groupmates to meet them there. So, at about 8:40, I guess, he woke Dad up and made Dad take him to the office. At around 10:30, Mom woke up and took me to a shop to get my ears pierced. However the person who was at the shop hadn't pierced anyone's ears for a long time so she was afraid that she'd do it wrong and I'd end up having a hole through my cheek or something. So, she asked us to come back today because there's a more experienced person today. So I didn't get my ears pierced. So we decided to go shopping and have lunch.

       We went to I-Mart and got a hot pot for lunch. I tried to persuade Mom to let me have a cheeseburger from Mcdonalds too. She finally agreed, as long as I got a cheeseburger only, no soda, no french fries, no chicken nuggets, just a cheeseburger. After we finished our lunch, we went shopping for clothes. I got 2 One Piece sweaters(One Piece is my favorite anime). Then we went to the hair section. Along the way, Mom icked out 2 lunch boxes she wanted. I only needed color hair spray for Halloween. I wanted purple and silver. However, there wasn't any color hair spray. So we gave up on finding color hair spray in I-Mart and just bought Mom's lunch boxes.

       We decided that we'd go home and I'd ask my friends where to buy color hair spray. Meanwhile, Mom would take a nap. So I went online and asked around. Nobody knew, and the only likely person who might know wasn't online. So I played on the computer, waiting for more people to come online.

Our class relay was on Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Actually it was the class relay for all of the 7th, 8th, and 9th graders, bilingual and experimental.

It all began at 12:30pm, halfway through lunchtime. That morning, it had been announced that at 12:30 we all had to go to the track to watch the class relay. I totally forgot. At 12:25, I suddenly looked up from the book I was reading and found myself totally alone in an absolutely silent classroom, which totally freaked me out. I went out into the hallway and met Tinya, one of my classmates, on her way to the field. I walked/ran to the field ahead of her and met Hannah, another classmate, the new student, who was wondering where we were supposed to find the rest of our class. Luckily, we found the rest of the class soon and we all sat down to enjoy the relays.

The first class relays were for 9th graders. There are 6 classes for each grade, 2 bilingual and 4 experimental. Each class was given a different color uniform. There'a green, dark blue, light blue, yellow, gray, and pink I think. The winning team for 9th grade had a green uniform. The yellow team, I think, got last place. Then, after the 9th grade relays, was our relay, the 8th grade relays. 

This is what I remember of what happened on the bus ride of the Boy Scout Camping Trip.

It took a looong time to get to the camping area. We got there at about 2:00pm. During the bus ride, the first place we stopped at was a place with a restaurant and a huge public bathroom. In the restaurant, there were 2 fish tanks, a huge rectangular tank and a smaller circular tank. In the smaller tank, there were tiny fish, clownfish, etc, and small jellyfish-like things. I took a lot of pictures which I'll post when I have the time. Jerry, Louis and I, and my friend from last time with a couple of other people, went over to look at the fish. In the big tank, there were big fish, stingrays, and other weird things. We all spent a lot of time at the fish tank. The big fish tank had 3 sides open to the public, the other side was a wall. It was a small staircase going down on one of the sides so the ground of the tank looked a bit slanted from that angle. After we finished looking at the fish, we went down the staircase and explored the room. It was basically another place full of restaurants and other goods. It looked like some sort of mall. One of the places was a perfume shop. Behind it was a huge collection of stones hung on strings. I have no idea why they did that though. It was weird. We didn't buy anything, because the stuff st this place was mostly for adults. The only stores there that had stuff that kids liked, was a 7-Eleven and a candy store. The candy store had all sorts of candy but was way too expensive to me so I didn't let Jerry or Louis buy anything there. The 7-Eleven was too crowded so we skipped that too. Soon afterwards we finished browsing, we took roll call at the bus and went off to wherever we were supposed to go next.

The next place we stopped at was another building with restaurants and a bathroom next to it.  There were only like 5 small restaurants in that building, if you count a 7-Eleven and a tea shop. We were supposed to buy lunch here, they told us. I remember I was thinking something along the lines of "It's only 10:30am and it's lunch already?" We browsed the 7-Eleven and I was about to pick out a dried noodle when Louis said that he didn't want to eat 7-Eleven stuff so we had to go to one of those other small restaurants. We evetually ended up with 2 servings of fried noodles and meatball soup. Louis didn't feel like eating fried noodles so he just got soup and shared our noodles. We only had about 10 minutes to buy our stuff because there was a storm coming and it looked like it was going to pour buckets any minute. So we ate hurriedly, but before we had finished, the "teacher" told us to go to the bus and finish. I was glad that we had gotten take out food instead of those food you have to eat in the restaurant. After that stop, we stopped at a few more places that I don't remember. The trip was mostly uneventful as far as I remember, afterwards. I remeber falling asleep, switching seats a lot but that's pretty much it.

Some Peanuts comics I like:

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Random Comics

Other comics that I like:

These are some Garfield comics that I like:

Today was the day that we moved into our new office.

We moved into our new office today. Technically, we've been moving in the furniture and other stuff for the entire weekend, but today is the first day we've actually sat down and did computer work at the new office. Not much has changed except for the fact that we're in a different place, diffrent arrangement of the  furniture, more space and some other stuff. Actually almost everything is different except for the computers and other electronics we're using. Our new office has 3 ACs, a couch, a water fountain, an elevator outside, and a private bathroom and kitchen reserved just for the people in our office. It even has a balcony. Outside, right next to us is a vegtable garden. Nearby are some restaurants, a small river, a place for free outdoors movies, a 7-Eleven, a free shuttle bus stop, a Costco(or so they say) and my friend Elysia's house. Unfortunatly Elysia is away at America now so i can't visit her. I will have to explore more to know what else is here, because that is basically all I know about our new office, excluding the fact that it's on the 5th floor and obvious stuff like that.

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Tommorrow, I'm going to another Boy Scout Camp.

This time's camping trip is really long. It lasts 4 days and 3 nights. Plus, other scouts from around the world are coming to Taiwan. The scouts are from places like America, Australia, and who knows where else? This time's camp is probably going to be a bit annoying though. We have to meet at 6:30am and wake up at 6:30am too! And we're not getting any lunch on the first day. We have to buy it ourselves. Plus my dad won't let us have any snacks, which is stupid and totally sucks. And he won't let me buy a watch for an alarm, and mosquito repellant! The only good part is that my cousin Louis is coming too. And that we'll be away from annoying parents for a while. I'll write about the camp after we get back, which is on Thursday, so, look forward to it!