Well, hi there. Remember me? Yeah… I’ve been bad about posting. Whoops! I suppose life got pretty busy after school started. Where to start, where to start... I’ll talk about school, first. So far I’m like school for the most part. My classes are fairly easy (except for math and Chinese) and I’ve been receiving good marks. I’ll update you on what I do in each class.
Science: We finished out unit on physics (I scored fairly well on the tests) and are now doing biology. I much prefer bio—not as much math involved, hahaha.
Math: We’re doing quadratics right now… fun, right? I despise completing the square! We also had the super tough assignment that I ended up writing over one thousand words for. (Yes, I am a bit of an overachiever!)
English: At the moment, we’re reading The Crucible. I quite like it, which is strange, since usually I prefer to see plays performed and not read them! It was great, I got 30/30 on an essay on dramatic tension that I wrote and the teacher said it was the first time she’d given full marks on a 10th grader’s essay! :D
History: We went on a field trip to these old forts in Dongguan from the Opium War. It was pretty interesting, but the hiking was very hot and tiring. We went to a museum after lunch and since we had extra time, our class went bowling! Yes, only in China will you finish up a field trip with bowling. xD (I attempted to upload some photos for this, but it took too long, so I'll just show some pics of it in a later post.)
ICT: We’re still working on our organization/campaign thing. My partner and I chose skin cancer prevention and awareness. First, we made a poster and now we’re working on a brochure about it. After that, we’ll make a website for our organization.
PE: We’re doing swimming right now. Yeah. Nothing else to really say…
Drama: We’ve almost finished our unit on protest in art/child soldiers. We should be finishing up the play that we’ve created and performing it after the holidays! We’ve worked quite hard on it, using different techniques, so hopefully it will be well received.
On friends: I feel like I’ve made a fair amount of friends. Most of them are in my grade (my huuuuuuuge class of 18 people, hahahaha), though I’ve made friends with some younger grades as well. My friend Julie helps me with my Chinese and Hye Kyung, Ha Eun and Eun Ji have helped me with Korean.
On CCA’s/co-curricular activities: My CCA on Tuesday is paper-cutting. This is the time where I hang out with my Korean friends, listen to music or sometimes watch a drama… all while paper cutting! Hahahahaha. On Thursdays I have drama club, which is run by the English teacher. We’re coming up with clowning routines, which will be shown to the school in… November? December? I don’t know exact dates.
My awesome scissors for paper-cutting! :D
Other random school stuff: It can be quite exhausting getting to the canteen for lunch, especially if it’s super hot out. The walk is around half a mile each way… I tend to melt on really sunny days. The food is… okay. Some days it’s good and others, well, let’s just not mention those days! I like my teachers, which is a good thing. xD Every morning we have homeroom for 20 minutes before classes starts. I’m in Wind House and last Tuesday we had a carnival during break time to raise money for the Year 11’s trip to Thailand. I think we raised a fair amount of money for them :D
Sooooo, that’s all for now, folks! I have a few other posts planned—outings away from school (into Zengcheng, Dongguan or Guangzhou) and our weekend trip to Hong Kong! :D We’re leaving for Beijing this evening, so expect posts about that as well in the upcoming week. I hope to be more frequent with my postings now that I’ve settled into a routine here.
Love y’all!
Emily
