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These are also pictures of my first day of the Boy Scout Camping Trip (part 2):

The garden at the school

  Today is the first day of Summer Vacation!

This summer, I have a lot of things I have to do:

Learn how to make Animations
Study Math(and possibly Chinese)
Go on a Camping Trip(3 days, 2 nights)
Go to 2 Non-Sleepaway Camps: Sports (Rock Climbing, Swimming, Etc) Camp (7 days) and Karate Camp (7 days)
Reasearch Workaway Camps/Farms for next/this summer
Finish watching at least 200 episodes of Bleach
If finished with Bleach, start watch One Piece(If it's good)
If finished with One Piece, or it isn't good, rewatch Bleach, Naruto, Avatar the Last Airbender, DNAngel, and/or 07-Ghost
Work at Dad's Office
Possibly go to America
Make a list of rules for my bedroom
Master my stamps 
Draw 
Read 

These are pictures of my first day of the By Scout Camping Trip:

This is a picture of the mountains from our bus

Day 2 has less excitement than Day 1. My day began when my cell phone alarm rang at 5:00am. The other told me the night before to set it at that time because theywanted to get up early and play cards or something. Fortunatly for me, I was the only one who woke up when it rang and nobody stirred when I called. So, I just shrugged, set my alarm for 6:30am, and went back to sleep.

When it was 6:30, I closed my alarm and seeing that no one was awake, I dozed some more, and when I woke up, it was almost 6:50am. Everyone except for me and my friend was awake and were attempting to fold their blankets and arrange their pillows.  When they called for us to wake up, my friend just groaned and pulled her blankets over her head. Eventually, we just pulled her blankets off and she just took her pillow and put it over her face! It was pretty funny. When we finally got everyone awake and dressed, we finished folding our blankets and packed our luggage, and ate breakfast, which was totally disgusting, porridge without anything edible to go with it! We were going on a hiking trip, they said, so just bring what you need because we'll come back here for our bigger luggage. They told us to gather at the front of the hotel and then when we did, they made us dance a stupid dance, but the music that went with it was pretty good. Then they passed out these small rice rolls with weird stuff in it and told us it was our lunch.

Afterwards, we all piled onto the bus, except for the people who were riding with parents. The we all set off to the mountains. In case you want to know, it was about 8:00am when we arrived. I was really worried because Jerry wasn't there but I met up with him at the base of the mountain which was a relief. Then the Scouts divided into 2 groups. Group 1 went up first and Group 2 was supposed to come up about 10 minutes later. Jerry, and the rest of the people I knew were with me in Group 2. While we were waiting they made us dance this other annoying dance without music. Then we went up. I can't really describe what the mountains were like. Have you ever seen forests? Well they're hard to describe. Green everywhere. Beautiful scenery. No rests for 4 hours straight. Mostly, I remember being very tired and cranky. Have you ever tried hiking 4 hours up a steep mountain without any breaks, trying to get the annoying, snail-paced person in front of you to hurry up and with with the kids behind you complaining hurry up, counselers trying to get you to sing a song? That was really irritating. My advice is: Don't try it. And since it had rained a lot the night before, the ground was all slippery and muddy. If you were unforunate enough to step into some mud, your entire shoe would get mud all over it.

Jerry and I went on a camping trip with his Boy Scouts about 3 weeks ago. Louis was going to come, but couldn't because he got a cold. I decided not to write about the Aquarium Camp because I've forgotten the details.

We were supposed to meet the rest of the scouts who were riding the bus at the front gate of ChingHua University at 8:00 exactly. This trip was actually for Jerry, but I could go because I was his sister. We were nearly late because my dad, the slowpoke of the family, wasn't very excited about getting out of bed at 7:00am on a weekend. Unfortunately, he was the one that was going to drive us to ChingHua University because Mom had gone to China for a vacation with Aunt Vicky, her younger sister, for a week without us. We finally got there with a lot of fuss, with about 2 minutes to spare. That's when I learned from Jerry that they always take another 20 minutes or more to take attendance and get everone to turn up. Since we weren't sure what bus we would be riding, we just sat down on a nearby bench and waited. There were 2 buses, Bus A and Bus B. We were told that we would be riding Bus B. After about 20 minutes of boring waiting, we finally boarded our bus and endured another boring thing-roll call. Let me describe our buses. You know thos small community buses that we see around Hsinchu practically every day? You know, the ones that say Science Park Shuttle Bus and have colors like purple, orange, pink, white, or green colored on the top and bottome, like an Oreo. Well, the Scouts had rented 2 of those buses, a pink one, Bus B, and a white one, Bus A. Anyway, after roll call, we waited maybe another 10 minutes before setting off.

After we finally set off and got to the mountains, the scenery was really pretty and I took lots of pictures. The bus ride lasted about 3 hours. During that time, Jerry and I ate the snacks my mom bought for us: yogurt-covered raisens (my favorite sweet snacks), Pringles, (my favorite salty snack;Sour Cream flavor for me and Original flavor for Jerry), raisens, this type of sticky candy that Mom shared with us, and M&Ms for me and gum for Jerry. I also made friends with the two younger girls sitting behind us, one of them was Jerry's grademate(there are 2 classes in each grade, A and B;Jerry is in A, she's in B), Ellie. Unfortunatly, I never paid attention to many names so I forgot the other girl's name. Anyway, they were nice.

I'm going to camp on Thursday!!! We're going to sleep with sharks!!!

The camp is three days and two nights. It's at a aquarium in Keelung, I think, My brother, Jerry, and my cousin, Louis are both going with me, This is the schedule:

Time

This year's Field Day was a total disaster.

Yesterday was Field Day. I woke up at 7:25am because my stupid dad took away my alarm clock the night before. My parents never wake up on their own and so, usually, I wake them up at 7:00am. This time, obviously, I didn't have my clock so I woke up late. We were supposed to get to school before 7:40am, so naturally, I went hysterical. It was complete pandamonia in our house and when I finally got downstairs, it was already 7:30am.We had to skip breakfast and my dad drove Jerry and I to school on our motercycle. We never actually made it to school because 1 minute after we drove off it started raining. So my dad turned around and went back home because I reasoned, well, no one can run or march in the rain. Then when we got home, we called the office to ask if there was still school, and they said that they were going to have a debate whether or whether not to have school at 8:00am. We decided not to go, even though they said we still had to go, because it was already 7:55am by the time we called. Then we all rushed to pack Jerry's bags because he was going camping with the Boy Scouts. The second we finished packing we rushed to the meeting place and made it with 10 minutes to spare. Then Dad took me to buy breakfast for Jerry to eat on the bus, while Mom accompanied him to the meeting place. Dad and I got a egg cake(dan bing) and a little meat dumpling for him and rushed back just in time. Then after Jerry and the other Boy Scouts had left we went back home and did random stuff(well I did random stuff and Mom and Dad did their boring grown up stuff) until it was time for bed.

Th Halloween Carnival this year was a bit disappointing.

 This year's Halloween Carnival didn't have many fun games, no haunted house, but there were some good booths.

One of the booths I liked was the ACC booth. They wer selling tonsand tons of comic books. There were Pokemon books and all these other books whose names I don't know how to write. I bought a Pokemon book for my brother, Jerry's, birthday present. I think he likes it. There were a LOT of people at this booth. If I had found some Naruto, Death Note, Ouran High School Host Club, 07 Ghost, or Vampir Night books there, I probably would have gotten it, unless I didn't have enough money or it was over 40NT.

Another booth was a treat booth. They sold awesome, but unfortunatly tiny, cupcakes at that booth. It was 10NT for one cupcake and 2 cupcakes for 15NT. I bought, like, 8 tiny cupcakes. They also sold chocalate-dipped apples. I didn't buy any of those so I don't really know how much they cost.

News for the past few weeks:

We had the field day class relay against the other 7th grade class, 7A, and the three other 7th grade classes of the experimental department a week ago. Our class got 2nd place and 7A got last place, which was, 5th place.

The walkathon was last Friday. I went with Elysia and got her brother Nickolas, an Elysia to sponser me. I walked 3 laps and earned 33NT altogether. I also saw Jennifer, Areta and other people.

We also got our uniforms last week. Only some of it though, which was the skirt and shirt. All of ours were too big for us. How we're going to where it is a mystery to me.  Do they expect us to grow fat by 3 inches and shoot up by 4 inches or something?

This weekend was a little boring, mostly for no good reason at all.

On Saturday, Mom and Dad went to Open House at about 8:00~9:00am, leaving me and Jerry at home. Jerry gave me his Gameboy and Leaf-Green as an early Christmas and birthday present. I think he only gave me his Leaf-Green because it was his oldest game and he barely ever played it anymore, and his Gameboy because Leaf-Green was the only game you could play on it. They came back at about 11:30am, an hour early, saying that is was too boring. I wish that we could leave school early sometimes too. Then after a while, we went to Taipei to visit Gran and Louis, my younger cousin, while Mom went to take care of her dad, who was having a surgery on his nose or something.  Louis, Jerry, and I played with the Gameboy and Nintendo, or rather, I played the Gameboy while Jerry and Louis played Nintendo DS. We played for a looong time, until Louis and Jerry got bored and started doing other stuff.

The next day, after breakfast, we drove to Jhong-li with Gran, Louis, and Uncle Weii. I stayed in our room playing Gameboy and Louis and Jerry did, well, whatever boys like to do on weekends, which basically means, secretly played on the computer and DS and watched TV secretly until I found out and made them let me play computer. Finally, after dinner, We went home, but first we had to go to one of Dad's really boring business places, where he stayed talking until almost 11:00pm and we nearly died of boredom.