One of my friends has a 91 or higher on ever single one of his subjects and this makes me extremely jealous. Of course I can't blame him, his parents let him stay up for as long as he wants since he doesn't have a bedtime and because of this he can study and work as much as he wants while balancing time on his games and phone. Unlike me, I kid who has to go at 8:00 P.M, like this is actually so stupid. The reason that I can't get up in the morning is because I'm, sleeping too much. 

You know that's a thing right? I literally sleep 11 to 12 hours and some of you might think that's cool and really good for you. It's not! If I sleep too much I will get the same effects as if I am sleep deprived, the bed will feel really comfortable and I won't want to get out. I need to find a balance but that results in going to sleep later so that I can adjust myself. Papa, if you are reading this. You can keep Monkyi's bedtime to 8 but keep mine to at least 9 because at this rate I'm going to get so used to sleeping for 11 to 12 hours that when I go to high school, college, and etc I will literally be in the worst possible shape.

 Going to sleep at 9 or 9:30 is definitely a good option or new time that I should have. Every day, I might go to bed at 8:00 but then spend 30 minutes just sitting down restlessly because I'm still not tired and it's not good for me. "Sleeping too much is linked with many of the same health risks as sleeping too little, including heart disease, metabolic problems such as diabetes and obesity, and cognitive issues including difficulty with memory. 

Similar to people who sleep too little, people who sleep too much have higher overall mortality risks.", this is quote from an article that I literally just read and hear it supports exactly what I've been saying. "

• Sleeping for extended hours at night (typically well beyond the 7-8-hour general norm) 

• Difficulty waking up in the morning (including sleeping through an alarm) 

• Trouble rising from bed and starting the day

• Grogginess on and off or consistently throughout the day

Trouble concentrating", here is another quote from the same article and it says exactly what I have bene saying. I can't get off bed because I'm too comfortable and whenever I take Math class my eyes start to get tired. And my classmates know me for one thing, "That literally every class I yawn" and that's one of the things my teacher has been telling me to stop because he says it's a lack of discipline. Well he's wrong, it's the fact that I SLEEP TOO MUCH. Please dad, if you are reading this please consider changing my bedtime cause this is ridiculous. Eight o'clock is way too early for me to sleep. At least I'm not asking to go to sleep at 11 or 10. Nine is a reasonable time and you can't tell me that I'm wrong because these are facts from professionals. Here is the link to the website that I got the quotes from. https://thesleepdoctor.com/2018/07/16/yes-you-can-sleep-too-much-heres-why-oversleeping-is-a-problem/. 

Today I told my father about how my ELA grade is a 97 and he just said, "good". Now obviously he's an asian parent and like the stereotype suggests he is going to expect good grades from their children. Of course, usually when I do good on ELA he ins't that surprised because my English is pretty good, today I got another 100 on my literacy test about personification, metaphors, similes, symbolism, and hyperboles. I think that this topic isn't exactly the easiest but I had retained enough information from my ELA teacher last year that it shouldn't exactly be the hardest. 

My friend was reading my high school application essay when I was at science because he showed me his and I thought it was only his. He definitely put way more thought into his then mine, I rushed into the last minute and still made 2 grammar mistakes. However, I did add good vocabulary words like myriad and edification. For extracurricular activities I only put soccer because I was thinking about being honest, but my friend put soccer, basketball, debate team, spelling bee, and much more that I didn't think we could put.

 I was surprised and wish now that I could redo my application but there's no hope for that. He didn't apply for high tech, just county prep since that school is relatively close to him, I hate whenever my friends call me Chinese instead of Tibetan as a joke because even though I know they don't mean I feel offended. There are only about 6 million Tibetans in the world and I am one of them. Like 5.4 million of them live in Tibet anyway so that makes my kind the minority. I am kind of blessed and happy that I am able to be a part of a culture that is so special and rare.

 I love asian culture and to think that my kind are the ones that have monks and temples makes me feel proud and amazed. If I was born a christian or some other race I wouldn't exactly be happy with myself, not trying to offend anyone, but no ones reads these blogs anyways, and that's surprising considering I have over 500 posts. I am trying to rush this post just because I ave to finish some ELA homework that if I don't do my grade will go from a 97 to a 95 or 93. 

And I can't afford that considering how well I'm doing as of this moment. To get honor roll I need a b+ on every subject that is way harder than last year. Last year if you got a c- it was fine because that usually resulted in an 81 or 80. Today in school I took a quiz about the Anne frank text and I got an 87 but the kid next to me got a 78 so I feel bad. My grade shouldn't be that drastically affected and that is the and thing with a grade being so high, you start to see it decrease when you get scores that are usually good. 

Today was the beginning of the week and on Mondays it's usually pretty fun. In social studies aside from the occasional unexpected amount of homework given in one day. At the beginning of the day it's usually okay because I for some reason don't hate ELA and Math at all unless we have a test that I haven't studied for. But most of the time it's fun and enjoyable, and I feel productive because I'm able to complete the work my teacher assigns me. Speaking of English Language Arts. I just found out when checking my grade that I have 97 as my grade! I was so surprised that I had a 97 because just at the beginning of the day I had an 89 for two weeks straight, but my teacher decided to add the grades and in total from the quiz that I aced today and the research paper I completed a month ago it averaged out to 97!

 Now I can worry a little less about this ELA grade and focus more of my attention on my Math because I am in a desperate situation. I have trying to do my Khan goals since I had already finished the assignments and gotten level 2 on all of them. But for some reason the website is only giving me masteries that I had finished two months ago and won't let me master them. I asked my teacher today during Math class if he can input some of my 100s and he said that tomorrow he will. But since it won't let me master my goals today I need to finish them tomorrow either in the morning or during class because I want him to do everything in total.

 Not just two 100s and that's it, I have 5 100s that I can get if the challenge just lets me master them all. I don't want to waste even more of his time by asking him to input my grades a second time to add the 100s later, also my Social Studies teacher said that the progress reports are going to be given to us by the end of the week and that worries me because I don't know whether my 97 will appear in the progress report and whether or not they already added in the grades and are printing them out as I speak. It doesn't matter, I'll just tell my father when the report comes in, in fact he'll probably know from just reading this so there is no point.

 I just want to let you know, that I have to wait 8 hours, otherwise if I didn't I would've continued trying to master them but the challenge probably still wouldn't let me. Anyways, let's focus back to the point of the post. Today was probably the first time in months that I took a shower at 6:00 and this was because I woke up earlier than the timer and decided that if I just took a shower now that I wouldn't have to worry about later.

 My aunt got pissed because this was usually her time to take a shower but I told her that if she has to go so early then why take a shower 30 minutes before you have to leave. She just got mad and started complaining before I suggested that she go upstairs. I finished getting ready at 7:20 A.M and was eating my breakfast in peace with no one to distract me since my sister was already in her bus. 

Yesterday I finished reading this book lied, "Fuzzy Mud" and  want to talk about it for this post. So basically this book is about something that was supposed to help the world but instead turned into something horrible. So, at the starlit introduces the 3 main characters. Their names are Tamaya, Marshall, and Chad. Chad bullies Marshall for reasons unknown and Tamaya knows Marshall because they live close to each other and her mother doesn't let her walk to school by herself. Tamaya doesn't exactly know that Chad is even bullying Marshall because Marshall tries to keep things private but of course that isn't helping things. 

He is just getting attacked more and more, the only people that really know are the ones in his class but they don't seem to care and think that Chad is super cool because he got kicked from every other school he had been to and would've gone to jail if he didn't come here. His parents are barely able to pay for the expenses for this academy since it is expensive, the only people that are in this academy are really smart ones or just rich. It seems as though Tamaya and Marshall are the smart ones. I'm pretty sure Chad isn't rich because it literally says that his parents can barely afford his tuition. 

Anyways, one day Chad tells Marshall that they are going to fight at the bus stop and this bus stop is literally in the way of Marshall and Tamaya's regular path home. So that is why Marshall tells Tamaya that he is taking a shortcut and heads behind the school into the woods. Tamaya knows that she has no choice and follows him because like I had already previously stated she isn't allowed outside by herself. Soon enough, they get lost into the woods and somehow Chad is able to find them without mentioning any details. He starts to beat Marshall but then Amaya grabs some mud off of the ground and throws it at Chad's face. 

Marshall is then saved and together they run away while Chad starts grunting and screaming. When Marshall and Tamaya separate and go home Tamaya notices that her hand has a rash and tries to put her mom's favorite lotion on it but unfortunately it doesn't do anything. The next day her hand is all crusty and red, she can see specks of blood and tells her mom. Tamaya's mom says that she will take her to the doctor after school and Tamaya stops worrying, noticing some white powder on her hand which she assumes is from the lotion she used the day before. Chad isn't at school and Marshall is relieved but then when Tamaya shows him her hand he starts to get really worried. 

Marshall says that if she's going to the doctor it will be fine and in the mean time she better not mention anything about Chad to anyone. Tamaya promises she won't and Marshall leaves, but then she runs into the wood with her food and finds Chad in the exact same spot where she smacked him with the mud. Apparently he can't see anything because of the mud and then Tamaya realizes that the same hand that she used to throw the mud was the one where she had the deadly rash on. The fuzzy mud was the reason why this was happening, and it was all over the woods! So she gave him the food, they settled their differences, and she helped guide him back outside until the police found them. 

Remember when I was talking about those people that came by yesterday in my school to talk about virtues and whatnot? Well, I'm not done with them yet. Yesterday I only ended about half way, there was still an ending and the main speaker who came to talk to us kids about how they are worth something and unique in their own ways, while still remembering that whatever troubles they are facing there are many other people who are experiencing the same thing and that they are not alone. So, after everyone finished crying one of the workers grabbed the mic and told everyone that this is what they had hoped for. 

For people to not be scared to open up to their feelings and to make them feel like they have friends to support them. Then, this person introduced the last speaker whose name I also forgot. But the point is that a lot of people were laughing when eh was talking because we could all tell he was very passionate but he would start spitting and his voice would crack. It sounded older and he even half looked like on of our old gym teachers who everyone loved. Some people just plain hated him because of the way that he was spitting at us but I didn't really care, at least he wasn't doing it one purpose. 

Apparently, the dude was really famous and known for making speeches, so I feel bad for all the other people who had to endure his voice cracking speech, although to be honest his speech actually meat something really important and continued to repeat the message that we were not alone and that our school could be a virtue school that organizes things like virtue meetings every week that help people who feel as though they are alone and with no one to support them. Once this guy was done everyone started crying again and the members of the little group started to pack up everything. 

Apparently, the only reason that they were even able to get in touch with this school is because the vice principal or whatever knows them and always asks them to come to every school that she works for. But this brings up the question, how many schools has she been through before this one if all of them allowed the virtue group came to them. It just seems kind of funny, if she left or got fired from all those other schools before ours. The 7th graders left and then there were 4 group members who came and they were each assigned to a different class (there were 4 classes). 

Then, everyone in that class had to tell them about their thoughts and what they were going through, or what their greatest challenge was. Some people just didn't feel comfortable and one kid said child abuse, I just told them it was my high school rejection even though that definitely wasn't my true answer. THat's it for today's post and hope you enjoyed, also I don't know if this is a coincidence but almost all of the members in that group had dyslexia, the eye problem, or at least the side affects of dyslexia. 

Today something very interesting happened in class. So obviously, it was a dress down so that was extremely fun but besides this there was a 5 hour assembly that I was talking about yesterday and if I didn't then I'm sorry. But apparently, there was this group who's name I forgot but their name had something to do with the word Virtue because that was the main focus of their speech. When everyone was getting ready for setting up me and my friend were sitting in the front row. We were surrounded by 7 and other 8th graders behind us who were talking. And it just so happened, that one of the members came over to us and asked our names. 

I was immediately shocked by this but tried to not act weird and told him my name. Of course, everyone who they hears my name has to take a couple of seconds of asking me to repeat it before they can get it somewhat correct. The only people that don't do this are Tibetan people and that is because for them Rinchen is one of the Dalai Lama's who passed away a long time ago. I wonder if that's what my parents were thinking when they picked my name, I'm happy it's not Tenzin because that name is pretty common in both Nepal and Tibet  culture.

 But the point is, he asked us if we wanted to come up when he called our names to do Jousting. I was immediately taken by surprise but all three of my friends shared our heads and looked at one another to see if anyone said yes. I was the only one that told him personally that I was shy and didn't have the courage to come up. Anyways, for the first hour the group was trying to get everyone's energy up and they were doing things like dance battles, relay races, and much more. I thought it was pretty fun but of course didn't raise my hand to go up because that's just who I am.

 This is when the really "cool" but sad things happened. There was a bunch of things that the people said but their final message was that they are not alone and that whatever problems they are facing millions of others are experiencing the same thing. And that if they can just talk about it and have people too support them then everything will be okay. That's when they said that if you see someone who you are thankful for go up to them and say sorry. 

And if you have ever hurt someone who was in that room at the same time go ahead and say sorry to them. It was really emotional because a ton of kids were crying and many of their friends were hugging. I wasn't crying just because I didn't drink much water but I was sad and thinking about my high school rejections. I saw one of my friends was crying because his father was pressuring him about this education and hitting him, I heard of this story before and the guy really looked liked he needed a hug so many people including me went up to him and hugged him. What I'm trying to say is that it was very emotional and a bunch of people were telling each other that they were thankful for them. One of my friends went up the stage and said that he is thankful for his girlfriend and she literally ran up to him and they had a little moment together. It was happy and sad at the same time.

Today I feel a lot better because for one my keyboard just looks really cool and when I told my friends about how I got rejected from those two schools many of them told me they got their letters was before and got rejected as well but were afraid to say anything. So I'm happy that I am not the only one who got rejected so its not a me problem, and that I was able to help other people open up more and help make sure that they aren't sad. Also, today in Math I was taking a quiz and right now my math grade is in it's 40's with definitely is not good. 

But I got an 80 on this topic 4 assessment and my teacher said that for one of the questions that I got wrong the only reason it was wrong was because a couple of kids didn't put the dollar signs. So he said that he's going to automatically make it so that as long as you got the right number he would count it (which I did), so that makes my grade an 85. And an 85 on a topic assessment may not seem good to you but that is gonna bring my actual grade to like a 60, and in addition I just completed all give assignments that my teacher posted on Khan-academy. 

The only bad part to this is that when I was trying to master the challenge it wasn't showing any of the quizzes that I needed so I could get a 100 on. It was only showing me past assignments that weren't even in the grade book so I didn't need to worry about them. And in the end it just reset and I need to wait another 8 hours before I can mater them, or at least have another chance at them actually letting me answer the questions.

 The only problem is that when my teacher was handing out retakes for a previous test (I took the retake so he gave me and a couple of other students more time in the class since it was such a big number), he also started a new lesson which apparently was the last lesson of topic 4 before we were supposed to take the assessment. You know, the only reason we even took the test today was because tomorrow we are going to have a 5 hour assembly and all of the kids and teachers will be in the gymnasium doing who knows what. All I know is that it's going to be really boring and I definitely won't enjoy it.

 But that good thing is that there is going to be some type of 1 dollar dress down that is on the calendar and the morning announcements said it so I'm happy. I've noticed that every week there is either a half day, dress down, or both because our school needs money for the graduation and today we literally just had a fundraiser for the pro bake sale, probably just to raise more money. 

This post is going to be about how I got rejected from two high schools already. okay, so at the beginning of the year I remember everyone telling me, you kids need to realize that high school is right around the corner and if you feel like you want to leave this high school that we are building for something new then that is on you because its your choice. I am pretty sure that at least 80 percent of the kids who heard that anyone who is here in 8th grade has automatic access to the new school decided to stay and not try to get into a better high school. The teachers have been a bit too many things about how good the high school is and it's actually starting to piss me off. 

My Math teacher said that for him he is going to the doing an Algebra 2 class in Beloved since he is going to be the leading Math teacher there and anyone who passes the Math end of year test that all students are supposed to take if you are in the advanced class gets automatic access to the Algebra 2 course in the school. I was pretty happy in hearing this because that means that if I don't make it anywhere else than this is a pretty good alternative for me. I will have connections with a ton of teachers who I have known for quite a while. But when I got rejected from the two leading schools that I applied for I almost started crying. 

Now obviously I can still go to a different school if I get accepted into the other two schools but the chances of that are extremely low and I'm not even sure that I put the right zip code for them. I know now that my zip code is 07306 but I may have put 070736 for one of them and know that I think about it that number does seem super long. Anyways, if I made this mistake when applying to the high schools that I got rejected from then there doesn't seem to be a problem with this. 

It would be really good if I got into County Prep or High Tech because those are the schools that I actually have classes that I want to study, this may seem really stupid but for County Prep I picked exercise science and for High Tech I am pretty sure that I picked something to do with Technology and my second class was culinary arts because why not? 

The only real reason I applied for high schools is because of my dad, the fact that I have been in this school for about 5 years now and I can't deal with another 4, and for the main fact, which is that most of my friends are applying for high schools as well and I don't want to be that one person who just stays here while most of them have high goals and are working hard. I want to work just as hard or even more to achieve the things that I want to achieve. 

For this post I was thinking about doing a poem but then later decided that it's really not worth my time and I should just do something else like another 5 paragraphs on what I've been doing. So to begin let's finish talking about that movie that my past couple of posts have been about called, "The boy in the striped pajamas". Basically, the boy's mother finally has had enough and goes to the father and they have a huge fight about how the kids shouldn't be in this environment and the mother questions him to see if he will tel the government that she does not support what they are doing. T

he husband says that he a soldier and because of this he doesn't have control over what's happening. Otherwise everyone will go ahead and criticize him until eventually the government will personally deal with him. So the mother convinces him hat they need to move, but before going he asks the kids if they would like to move away from here. The sister is adamant and persistent in saying yes but Bruno says no as he doesn't want to be separated from his friend, "Shmuel". The father is confused because at the beginning Bruno was so mad that they were moving but yet now he wants to stay. 

Either way, it wasn't like he wasn't going to listen to them anyway. The father started to explain that he didn't care what they thought and that he wasn't to move them to the nearby aunt's house somewhere in Berlin because it wasn't good for them as children to be in this area. He would have to stay here and take care of his business but sooner or later come and join them. Because of this Bruno made a sandwich and started to run to the concentration camps where he saw Shmuel just sitting there waiting for him. He gave Shmuel the sandwich and then Bruno gave away the bad news that he had to go. T

his saddened the little boy but then Shmuel asked whether or not Bruno would help find his father. Bruno decided that this was one thing he could do to make up for lying to Kotler about Shmuel. Shmuel grabbed some of the spare uniforms and then a cap so that Bruno could hide his hair. They entered the concentration camp and Bruno got hesitant at first because of how terrifying the place looked with all of the older men all dirty and the place just terrifying in general. 

Shmuel made him feel bad though because he knew that Bruno had to make up for what he did and because of this they continued on. The first place that they went to was a camp that had a bunch of different men wearing uniforms. Suddenly, the soldiers started to come and tell everyone to move on to a different building and take off their clothes. It was such a sad scene because I knew this was where they would die because of the gas chamber. I didn't feel like typing after that scene.

At school there are about at least 10 different people in my class who enjoy watching k-pop but my problem is that the only band that I have been listening to is BTS because I like all of their music. However, there are other bands who I enjoy like one or two of their songs and then forget. BTS's music just seems to please me every time I watch it. So there are two bands that I have been keeping my eyes on for a while (past two days). They are called, "Twice" and "EXO". I've been hearing these bands too many times for me to not check them out because one of my buddies just adores the girl group, "Twice" and is usually spoken about every day even if it's just slightly. 

In both groups there are currently 9 girls and there are 9 boys. One is a girl group and another is a boy group. I don't know why, but I k-pop there seems to never have been a girl and boy k-pop together. I guess the members or the companies have all just been so used to the idea that they are scared to revert to a different thought of mind and be creative, fearing the media and fans will either abandon or start to leave hate comments. 

Anyways, one thing that I want to say before continuing this post is that I always hate having to spell or say the names of members in K-pop groups because sometimes their names are extremely long. Thankfully, they have less lengthy nicknames that the fans can address them faster and easier. Because even something as the name can prevent a fan from liking a certain member of a group. ow twice is the girl group and they have a hit song that has like 100 million views called, "Baam" and it's a hit. 

I already have a favorite member and I'm going to be talking to one fo my friends about this when we come back to school. Unfortunately, I think that only 200 million or 100 million is their highest amount of views. Right now BTS is the most popular k-pop group and their most viewed video has above 600 million views. And the other girl k-pop group which I like called, "Black-pink" only has 4 members but their highest song is 500 million views. 

Never mind, I just checked youtube to be sure and Black-pink's most viewed song actually only has one million more views than BTS DNA! Making it the most viewed k-pop video on youtube. Anyways, the point of this point is just so you know that I ma acknowledging other groups besides BTS and Black-Pink, they are the most popular ones so sometimes it's good to go for the less popular ones. Exo's highest viewed video is 86 million just to let you know. 

This is going to be my last post talking about this movie because I'm pretty much finished with it. After the incident with the part where Kotler accidentally tells Bruno's mother how the Germans were killing the Jews with the crematorium and where their smoke is coming from she starts to scream at her husband. They get into a whole conversation and the father makes the excuse that this is all for the better of Germany but the mother knows that this is definitely not the way that they should be dealing with this. At dinner time, the whole family, including grandfather come and the whole time the wife is just staring at Ralf with hatred. 

Soon enough, grandfather tells Bruno that school is good for them and that history used to be his favorite subject. However, the conversation switches takes a turn because the grandfather asks Kotler where his parents are. Kotler says that he doesn't know about this mother but his father left the country a while ago before the whole hatred towards the Jews happened. Afterwards, Ralf tries to expose him and asks where his father is and why exactly he left. 

Kotler tries to be quick and say that his father left to Switzerland and Ralf could tell that he was lying. Then, starts to question him even further by asking why his father left. Kotler doesn't respond for another 15 seconds and then Ralf pushes further saying that if his father had left because of political reasons that Kotler would have told the government on him. Kotler starts to sweat and its nervous because everyone is staring at him. 

However, he uses the fact that Pavel (old Jew who Bruno has be-friended) accidentally bumps into his cu of wine and it spills on the floor. Then, he starts to beat up the old Jew with anger and the next day no one has seen Pavel. Everyone in my class was extremely sad because the old man was probably dead. Then, Bruno finds out that the person who they hired to replace Pavel was actually Shmuel. 

He is delighted because now he has someone to play with in the house and actually gives some food to the boy because he notices that Shmuel is hungry. However, Kotler comes in and finds out that they have been talking to each other. He gets pissed and tells Bruno if he gave it to him, Bruno lies and says he never gave anything because he was scared and then Shmuel gets beat before heading back to the camp. 

The boy in the striped pajamas

After the incident where the man cries he continues peeling potatoes as that is his job in the house and lets the boy sit on the table while they wait for his mother. When the woman finally comes she stares at the man with almost a form of disgust but the man doesn't stop to look up. Instead, he continues with his forced job as the woman tells Bruno to go back upstairs and rest. Then, before she leaves the kitchen she tells the old man thank you and hurries off to the other room. 

The man is hit with chock as a German would actually be nice to him besides the little kid and goes back to being silent. As the movie proceeds the wife finally discovers that at the concentration camp they are actually killing Jews and that is where the smoke comes from. Kotler, the solider that lives there to help Ralf (father) and protect the family is the one that tells her not knowing that she doesn't know. Later on, Kotler gets in trouble because Ralf's is extremely displeased with this and is mad at her husband for not tell her.

 Later on, Bruno finds a little exit in one of the little storage rooms in the backyard which by the way, he isn't supposed to be at and is actually able to see the concentration camp. From here, he isn't inside of the camp but right outside of the barriers and sees a little boy whose named is, "Shmuel" and this boy is a Jew that also doesn't exactly understand how the camp works. He just knows that this isn't a game and that people are actually dying. He had a number that the soldiers gave everyone on their uniforms and knows that he is supposed to be helping build the new hut. 

But since he wants peace and quiet he goes to the far right of the little courtyard and uses some of the rocks which are bigger than him as cover. The only way he gets away with this is by carrying a cart from the distance to and from his little hideout. When the soldiers ring a bell he is supposed to go back and cannot continue hiding, otherwise they will notice that he is gone and probably kill him. I feel very bad for the boy and many of the other kids in my class feel so too. 

Shmuel and Bruno become friends and talk to each other about the camp. They both know that although they are from opposite sides of the war they can still be friends. Okay... I take that back, they don't know that there is even a war but become friends either way. Shmuel asks for food but Bruno doesn't have any and then he is forced to go back to the courtyard where the entrance to the camps are because one of the soldiers rang the bell. Bruno says goodbye and then hurries off home so he doesn't get caught, but remembers to bring food next time. 

I was watching a movie today called, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and it was so sad, the reason that I was watching it with my class is because we are still talking about the Holocaust in my ELA class. You might wonder why we're learning about the Holocaust in English and to be honest I don't know but it makes for an interesting topic and we actually watch interesting movies about it like this one. So basically this movie talks about a boy named Bruno who is apparently who enjoys his time in town with his friends by pretending to be airplanes and running across the courtyard and streets. 

This is their way of having fun, that is until Bruno's father says that he and their family are going to be traveling to a new location. Bruno starts to complain but the mothers tries to comfort him by saying that the new house will have a garden and lots of friends for him to play. He says goodbye to his friends as him and his family start to drive towards the new house with the help of German officials. Just for some more context/background information for you. The dad is a very high Nazi official that works to help "bring peace and prosperity to the country" even though in reality they are just killing the Jews and not realizing that they are the problem.

Of course, Bruno is still only 8 years old so he doesn't understand anything about the history between the Jews and Germans, and why they hate the Jews much. That is until, when they move into the new house that Bruno starts to realize the bad things that are happening around him and that things are not going to be good for the Jews. This is the first step to him losing his innocence. 

While in this predicament he knows that there is a Jew that helps in the house and his name is, "Pavel" and the man is very old. One of the soldiers that lives in the house alongside the family to protect them has the name of Kotler and one day he yelled at the old man to Bruno's surprise and ordered that the guy made sure that Bruno would get whatever tire that he wanted and that he would pick up the tire and carry it all the way back into the front yard so that he could make a swing. 

Sooner than later Bruno gets hurt by falling off of the swing and Pavel comes and helps fix his little cut. Then, Bruno asks Pavel why he is a farmer and the man answers by saying that he used to be a doctor and was practicing medicine. Bruno insults him by saying he must not have been good if he was only practicing medicine, however it wasn't intentionally meant to be mean so the old man wasn't taken by offense. Instead he started crying and laughing because of his old life and wished the Nazi's had never done what they had done. This is the part of the movie that makes me really sad and then we stopped watching.

Today was a half day so I am just going to be talking about the whole day. This morning I woke up at around 6:40 A.M and I was just having a peaceful dream all to myself about be being in some medical war and just saving lives. It was really cool, do you guys ever have those dreams where you are losing someone or something? 

Because I don't know if this is a bad sign but for the past couple of my dreams they've either had something to do with one of my family members dying, or just in the ocean and getting eaten by huge animals like the Great White Shark or some huge dinosaur. I've been having many dreams about being in the Ocean and it's so scary because there is nothing surrounding me, just water and empty darkness. The picture that you see is a perfect representation of this. 

It's just countless emptiness and you feel like there is something watching you. If you look at the picture it shows one person who is not even a couple of feet away from the surface but is already surrounded by nothingness and there is a giant see monster all the way at the bottom. Now I know as of right now there is nothing that big in the ocean (at least from what we know) but that doesn't mean a shark or a giant octopus can't kill you or drag you down away from the surface. 

This almost makes me terrified because I almost feel like this is scarier than space. My reason being this is because at least in space there are a ton of beautiful stars and no monsters trying to kill you. Of course you won't live long enough to survive a couple of minutes at the most in space, but the same thing goes for the sea. In both scenarios you will have an oxygen tank if you're lucky but that won't help you after an hour or two. 

And going back to talking about those dreams about my family members dying. I don't just mean my family members. Sometimes I meet some made up character in my dreams and then after meeting them they just die. It's actually so sad and terrifying, sometimes I get pissed or sad because my dad or sister wakes me up in the middle of the dream and it makes me feel like they really are gone. Dreams can be some of the best experiences in the world and I'm happy to be a part of that experience. 

In my English Language class my teacher has been working with the students to make this research paper about the Holocaust and let me just tell you that this has bene a real pain for me. I barely finished the essay but to my surprise a couple of my friends have said that overall its pretty good. And when I say friends I really mean just the people who are in my row. We are supposed to be in rows of 5 kids each and in each row the kids are supposed to either switch their chrome books or just walk over to their desk and comment on their writings. 

But each kid is assigned a different topic to comment about. So one of the kids in my group got topic sentence and thesis statement, meanwhile I got context and background information, finally another kid got transitional phrases and MLA format (this is basically the font and whether or not it has double space lines like I should, New Times Roman, and then 12 as your font size. I know what you're thinking, why is it so specific? To be honest, I don't know but the essay looks very formal as long as you don't read it. 

Also, something really exciting for two kids in my class happened. There are about 3 kids in my class who I know applied to Saint Peters but as of right now 2 of them got their letters and both of them were accepted. Just to let you know, Saint Peters has a High school called, "Saint Peters Prep" and it seems to actually cost money, I was very surprised by this but know that the education is what matters and Asian parents will do anything to get they're children's smarts up. Yes, all three of those kids who applied are Asian. 

Saint Peter's Prep is supposed to be very hard to get into and one of them was even bragging about it, but I don't blame him because if I applied and got in I would be happy too. Also, some teacher graduated from College or something but I don't care because she's mean and I don't like her. So I started saying stuff like, "Your so bad, and I hate you!!!" but the only person who heard me say it was my friend sitting next to me and he just started laughing over all of the clapping. 

After ELA was Math and I was just listening to my teacher as he was lecturing the class about kids who were still talking. He said that as of right now only about 7 or 8 of the class would pass the PARCC which surprised me because I assumed we still hadn't even passed the first half of the book. Anyways, I do appreciate the way that he was putting heart and feelings through his speech. Although, the way he was yelling and slamming the desk wasn't exactly pleasuring. 

I am going to be talking about BTS for pretty much this whole post because I have nothing else tot all about. I didn't go outside yesterday because my mom was tired and of course my dad was sleeping. It was already night anyways so I just stayed on the computer until my dad told me to get off because the computer was overheating. Then, for the rest of the day I was learning some choreography from some of my favorite music videos from BTS. The dance looks hard to do but after a couple of minutes I got the hang of it. And of course when I say a couple of minutes I mean like 2 hours. 

However, apparently the main dancer learned his dancer in under 4 minutes which I find impossible. But that is what the fandom is saying and apparently he is doing a really good job. Anyways, when I was at school on Friday there is a group of kids who are actual practicing the choreography as well except they want to perform it for the school. I wasn't interested in it at first but then I listened to the song that they are doing and really liked it. The song is called, "GOGO" in English and is honestly a hit.

 It came out last year but I like it a lot because it has a very catchy beat, the dance is modern and applies western elements, and it just sounds cool as well. Something that I learned when watching the lyrics with subtitles are that South Korean words are honestly super long and I don't understand how anyone who isn't already forced to learn it can understand it. Like, to say hello it's like 3 times the letters in English. I made sure of this by seeing the English and South Korean lyrics side by side. There is a definitely a pretty big gap. 

Also, in some of the videos BTS is wearing really expensive clothes from other brands like Supreme and Gucci, but I don't understand if they have to pay the clothing companies so that they can wear the clothing in their live performances. And I feel like the clothing companies would sue them if they had someone who made the clothes for them but still had the words of the brand on them. I just don't think that Big Hit (BTS company) would want to pay money to the clothing companies every time they make a new music video. 

Who knows honestly, the point is that I wonder if Gucci and Supreme are letting them do these things because they already have enough money for themselves and don't need the money so suing isn't an option. If this is how Big Hit gets away with stuff like this I am pretty jealous. Also, one last thing I want to talk about. The new K-pop group that Big Hit released is called "TXT" standing for "Together x Tomorrow" or the other way around, they just revealed their second video starring the second member of the new group and people are going over him since he is the oldest and only 18 years old. 

Yesterday I was informed of something really scary. There was a shooting at Newport Mall and a couple of my friends were there. I don't know why the shooting happened but it occurred on the top floor (food court). I was notified about this because my mom made my sister and I download an app on our phones called, "Citizen", this app makes it so that every incident that is reported will be notified onto our phones, at least in our area. I was looking at the details and it was talking about how there were 2 victims that were injured but thankfully not life threatening, and a third one that was not confirmed as of yet. 

Something that I wonder is whether or not the people in the move theaters even hard what was happening. I saw on an Instagram post today that one of my friends who was there recorded a video of people screaming and one guy saying I'm outta here!". It was funny because of the way the guy said it but I know that it has a deeper meaning. I can't believe that that with the amount of shots that I heard on a video about this how no one died. It just seems unbelievable to me. One of my friends posted a video of either himself or someone else's perspective of being at the mall when this happened. 

He used the video to represent being funny because it was the same one that said, "I'm outta here!". And it showed a dude running down the food court and at the end of the food court he edited it so it said 2019. I also thought it was pretty funny but know what actually happened. On the Citizen app there is a section here people who have downloaded the app can talk about what happened and I checked it out as soon as I got the notification. There was a ton of people talking about where they were in Newport Mall and even some folks hating out together. 

Obviously this was not the intention of the Citizen app to let people who downloaded it using their cheating service as a place to make friends. But I was kind of concerned, one of my pals who I was playing an online video game with said that he was concerned when I told him because a couple of his buddies were at the mall or said they were planning on going there. I think that this was really terrifying for him so I calmed him with a few soothing words until eventually we forgot about the whole thing. 

This is all of the information that I have on this topic but let me mention something else. A couple of weeks ago one of my friends made a story on Instagram reporting a missing girl who used to go to our school the year before. Apparently, her mother was really worried for and that is why she asked my friend to spread the news. This was the same girl who tried to kill herself in the year before that. It was attempted but thankfully the police stopped her, I just thought this was a coincidence and hopefully she's okay. 

I just came back from school today and it was pretty good. I took a quiz on Math today because my teacher had taught as a new topic. We were learning about the system of equations and three different methods on how to solve different problems. Those methods are graphing, substitution, and elimination. I believe that Substitution even though I'm more comfortable with elimination and yesterday I forgot to study on how to solve for word problems. However, when I took the test it wasn't that hard to find out. All of those problems each looked extremely difficult when I first looked at them but after 5 minutes of trying out different things I knew what I had to do. 

I was part of the first couple of students that finished and handed in their paper before my teacher told everyone he was going to start talking (but reminding them they had a little bit of time left). He was saying about how the kids who weren't finished derived this because they had been talking, dancing, playing, etc the past week and the grades for the test was proof of that. Then, he said that for the papers he had already received from other students that they were good because he checked over their papers when he got them. This gave me some confidence and I was happy to have heard this because it gave me hope that I did well on the quiz. 

I already know from talking to my friends that half of the questions that I answered were definitely right but I don't know about the other two. One kid was talking about how there was a fraction in one of the questions but the other two said there wasn't. This really bothered me but I kept my mouth shut and just followed my teacher out the room as we were going to community circle. There were college people speaking to us students about their life and how they should go about living their lives, and ways to become successful. One guy was talking about how he wanted to become one of those agency people that work to help NFL stars with money and photoshoots, advertisements, and endorsements. 

They get roughly about 3 percent of the star's shares but sometimes they can get up to 10 percent if they can get a good endorsement for the player so that he comes more popular and receives even more money. This is good for him, and after college this is what he said he wanted to become. Another person said that they were already playing college level football and one of the best on their team, I wonder if he makes it into the NFL world, but he reminded everyone that they should always have a backup plan so that things work.

 Finally, there was another guy who came in later. He is a guy who makes custom shoes and has met many popular people who have paid him good money to make shoes for them. The guy had gold sunglasses, a pretty expensive watch, and was wearing a pair of his sneakers that he personally made. The guy was a bit swag and his accent was definitely more slang so I wonder what the teachers thought. 

I haven't written in a long time so here is a post, since my dad finally gave me back the keyboard and mouse so I can write, yesterday I would have written but the keyboard was losing battery and I needed to charge it. When I found out that there was a little outlet behind the computer I was about to do my writing. But then I checked the time and I noticed that it was literally already 7 o'clock and there was no point of doing those five paragraphs. That would have bene all for nothing because then I wouldn't have any time to relax, but of course when I did came in the room about ten minutes later and saw me watching youtube I was scolded and got the thing taken away from me. 

It was a very dreadful period of time. After this five paragraphs I am going to be focusing on my Math for like ten minutes. I just need to master working with word problems on system of equations. I have a quiz tomorrow that I need to get a good grade on because I have been practicing really hard for the past week, considering how my dad refused to give me the keyboard so I had way more time to study and prepare, while still getting some free time. My free time in these past 4 days were just watching videos of BTS (favorite k-pop group) and just watching music.

 I don't remember the last time I watched a video on youtube that was just English, that has been so long ago. All I watch nowadays is K-pop. And obviously there's nothing wrong with that because if I don't watch music on a certain language it isn't going to kill me, it's not like I'm looked at by the public as weird or disgusting. It's what I enjoy listening to, especially since the beats are usually very good and it's very happy (most of the time). Now, there is this new band that Big Hit entertainment has created with approximately 5 members called, "TXT" and apparently they are very popular. 

They were on the news and many people have written about them, but the company actually released a video on youtube introducing the first member of the band and it's pretty cool, and I guess cute for the ladies. What I mean is that if I was part of a k-pop group and my company introduced me that would be something that I would do. It's basically him posing for a bunch of photos but in reality it's a video and a montage of his face and him doing things around different scenes.

 I dig it a lot and can respect it. Here is a quote from a article I read, "It looks like the time has come for Big Hit Entertainment to tackle its next venture. With the label living large under the success of BTS, it has decided now is the time to unleash its next boy group on the world. So, if you are ready for more K-pop bops, then you will want to keep an eye on TXT.

Taking to Youtube, Big Hit Entertainment took everyone by surprise when it uploaded a new video that had nothing to do with BTS. Instead, the video is an introduction film to TXT, the label's new group. The clip introduces fans to a member named Yeonjun, and it is pretty adorable.".

Yesterday I went with my mom, aunt, and sister to Newport Mall because we were going to celebrate the last days before school started in January. We watched two movies each. The first one for me was Bumble Bee. It's this movie that is related to the Transformer's series. I was calmly watching it when my watch started beeping. At first I didn't realize it because the movie was pretty loud but it just so happens that the couple next to me did. Now, the wife who was actually right next to me asked if I could turn the alarm off and when I finally heard the sound I did but the husband who was next to her started cursing at me.

 He told me to "Can you shut the fuck up" in a pretty standard voice where no one besides us three could hear. So I turned it off and then then started cussing quite a bit, but only to the point where is wife could hear and not him. Otherwise this guy would probably get up and make a scene in the theater. A couple of minutes later, my watch makes the same noise and I still couldn't hear it, but somehow the couple did and the guy started cursing at me again, you best believe I told him a thing or two before his wife shut him up and went outside to tell the people working at the movie theater.

 They came in and asked if I could turn off my watch so it doesn't make the noise and unfortunately, I had tell them that I didn't know how to turn the thing off (and just a side note: my watch only ever makes these type of noises during 8:00 and 8:30). So you can probably imagine the bad timing. I should've never brought it in the first place but for some reason the watch gives me a sense of self security. Anyways, the bad thing about telling them that I didn't know how to turn it off was that it made me look like a complete loser. I would've loved to smack that guys face. 

I made my decision, I went outside of the movie theater and I asked the guy who was letting people in with their movie tickets to hold my watch for me (like to just put it on the podium). He didn't have a problem as long as I came back for it and with that I hurried back to the movie so I wouldn't miss any parts. Believe me, it pissed me off that the workers didn't know the actually story but as long as I got the opportunity to continue watching the movie I was good. It was pretty awkward when I came back because they were looking at me all weirdly but I just ignored them and finished the movie. 

This experience was definitely uncomfortable for me and I was for some reason expecting an apology once the movie was over but they just walked right past me, it really got me mad. This guy was like 30 years old, and he's trying to start a fight with a 13 year old in the middle of watching a movie where almost all the seats are filled with bystanders. This was honestly crazy, I know I may have started it but he definitely and without a doubt escalated the situation. 

I have been reading this book called, " Wings of Fire: The Hive Queen" because my dad bought it for me a couple of days ago and I am really enjoying it. I am actually quite surprised but proud of myself for being able to read the whole series, even if it wasn't in order. Seems pretty accomplishing that the author was able to create another two books by adding a totally different continent filled with other dragons, and then somehow being able to add that into the storyline, so that it creates curiosity and excitement for the reader. 

However, something that really bothers me is about how me as the reader doesn't know what happened to the heroes of the original series, or when the first prophecy was filled. Of course one of those heroes is part of this new prophecy but the others seem to have just been forgotten, well not forgotten, just never mentioned to me. I'd like to know how those "dragons" are doing and hopefully they will help defeat the new Hive Queen that the other continent has to deal with. 

I'm pretty sure that I remember all of the villains that occurred in this whole series. So it starts with the first continent (or the one where our original heroes lived in) where all of the tribes had to fight each other because there was a battle for resources and glory. Some of the different dragon tribes teamed up with each other so that they together could work to defeat other dragons. I thought that this was very smart, and every one of these tribes a queen (no kings for some reason that I don't remember).

 It's up to the original heroes or dragons (one from each tribe), to find a way to end these wars but that starts with making allies and stealing a weapon powerful enough to defeat the queen of the Sky-wing tribe (she's the main evil one). Afterwards, the next evil is of a dragon that killed thousands of years ago. Apparently, back then there were dragons that could use animus magic or just magic in generally. This magic gave them the abilities to make themselves or anyone they wanted stronger with a simple spell, or giving attributes to different dragons and objects. 

There is a dragon named, "Deathstalker" that was basically the evilest dragon around and used his animus magic powers to destroy his foes and make himself 10 times stronger. The other dragons of his tribe hated him for it and together they defeated him using just raw physical power. Finally, it seemed as though he was kept in a living condition but trapped in a mountain with no escape. That is, until a dragon from the same tribe, only a couple thousand years later, had the same power as him (not animus magic but to be able to read minds). Using this he was able to communicate with the little dragon (whose name was Moonwatcher) and she accidentally let him free not knowing the horrors that he would cause upon the world. 

This post is going to be about this new game that I have been playing for quite as while now and then what I did yesterday with my father. So this new game that I have been playing definitely isn't new in itself. It's been around for more than 15 years and you might think just how a game that's been out for that long is still popular. Believe me, I don't know either, but the point is I am definitely starting to enjoy it and this is what I think about the game. So CSGO stands for (counter strike global offensive). 

Basically, it puts you in different scenarios where there are two teams. The terrorists and the counter-terrorists, these two teams are either supposed to just kill each other until a certain time limit, have to rescue a hostage (or for the terrorists make sure the counter-terrorists die), and finally defuse a bomb (that the terrorists have placed and the counter terrorists need to stop before it kills everyone. I heard about this game maybe two years ago but never got the chance to play it because it cost money, and at the time I was only ever playing video games on my playstation. 

But there was a major update that came like two weeks ago in the game where Valve (company) decided to make the game free, and this in turn made it so that the game's player base soared sky high. But unfortunately, at the same time this in turn invited a ton of hackers who were able to shoot through walls and have aimbot. Valve as this feature called prime that means you get to play with other prime members and these people definitely don't hack since there is this trust policy going around that means they have to play a certain amount of games or whatever. 

However, I am not able to do this and in turn will be cursed for the rest of my life. Just kidding, you can unlock prime for free but you need to play until you reach level 21 and for people who just want to see how the games like this will not be a god approach. The reason I actually adore this game is because it's first person, it's not super happy and over the top (like Fortnite), and it has that serious slash war type of feel. I just love games like these wear they take place in locations that look totally real and they give off a serious vibe. Fortnite, is just fun, fun, and more fun. 

Sometimes I just get really pissed at the game too. I hate the Battle Royale feature since there are literally 100 players around the whole map and the building aspect pisses me off because it doesn't take skill after an hour of practicing. So a game like CSGO that revolves solely on aim and game sense while still giving off that war type of feeling is really cool and I heavily enjoy it. I know I said I was going to talk about my day yesterday but I feel like I always do stuff like that so I won't. 

Yesterday I was super happy because my BTS hoodie was delivered to my house. I was only waiting for 2 das but in those two days I was just super tense and looking at other people's reviews on the hoodie. I personally really like the design and hope that anyone who is reading likes the hoodie as well. When it came was so happy since it was my first piece of clothing that represents BTS and I've never bought anyone else's merchandise besides my favorite YouTube named, "Ricegum" but that was a windbreaker and it hasn't rained in quite a while. Besides, I can't seem to find it anymore. 


Now, the quality of this hoodie isn't the best. It's made from some type of T-Shirt material, the sides of the pockets looks weird cause of the way they are stitched, and the strings used to tighten the hood are loose. But the design is really cool and it still feels comfortable to wear while in the house or warm weather. I never enjoy wearing just a shirt and pants because it doesn't feel comfortable to me. Unless it's school but I have no choice there.

As you can see from the top of the post there is the picture of the hoodie when I was looking to buy it. It looks extremely good in the display but in reality it isn't nearly as good. The cover makes it look soft and comfortable. Anyways, when I tried it on I was so happy to just have it in general, I'm kind of sad that I couldn't get the color red because I think that looks good but my mom insisted that I get black. 


Something that worried me before purchasing it was that in Asia their sizes are different from America's and I saw a bunch of people saying that they needed to order 2 sizes up, I being the daring person that I am only ordered one size up and I got to say it fits just fine. It isn't as oversized as I hoped it was but it definitely isn't tight. On the back of the sweater it has the names of all the members BTS written on the very top, also there is some Korean writing but I am just assuming that says  BTS (hopefully). 

I remembered seeing one of my friends sweaters having the names all spelled wrong and that really worried me, but thankfully that isn't the case. She must've bought hers at Target or just gotten it from a really sketchy seller. I don't feel like returning this just because I don't know how and they won't give me the money back. Just a discount to buy a different product from the same seller, but I don't like anything else that he has. Which is why I am going to think only positive about this hoodie and just wait until my birthday to get a better one. Thanks for reading this post.