It's Egg Day!

Today I woke up knowing that my sister was going to have her second day of school. Thankfully, I still get another 3 days before I have to go back to school. Though, it’s not like I hate school or anything. If it comes to it I’ll definitely enjoy it. I just want to empty my giant book-pack of all the supplies. I don’t understand how I’ll be able to carry everything, and it’ll put a massive strain on my body. Anyways, this morning my mom and me some eggs and bread. I know that the importance of working out if having the protein and calories to do so. You need to obtain more mass so you can workout and see results faster. And eggs seem to be one of the biggest suppliers of proteins, well more so “Egg Whites” but still just scrambled or an omelette is fine as well. Actually (just did some research), scrambled eggs are a lot better than raw egg whites. It’s just that some people who are really dedicated to their fitness regime will make the egg whites into a sort of drink which will give a boost of proteins.

But why mix egg whites together when you can just drink milk (since milk is a good source as well)? Because milk still has calories and sugar, I’m assuming that  something about egg whites makes it like water. So their only nutritional benefit are proteins and then the rest are 0s. Once I finished the workout I got onto my phone and started searching up a workout that will have mainly do with my core, but also lower body (legs). If I’m going to beat that pacer test and play soccer I need to be fast. So in doing so training my legs will be really successful in increasing endurance and muscle. Though sometimes when I workout my legs with a dumbbell I think I can hear my bones cracking so I decide to stop take a break. The same thing happens with my arms, accept I feel like my arms will be in much better shape since their easier to do. My father’s probably laughing at me right now but he shouldn’t be talking because he has a huge belly. 

Before I started my writing and picked up my sister from her bus stop I wanted to make a quick edit on IMovie so I did exactly that and it was about my favorite anime, “Tokyo Ghoul”. Then I posted it on Instagram and a lot of people seemed to like it! Not just my regular friends and followers but others who saw my edit though a hashtag. I got over 200 views and right now am almost to 100 likes! I bet my father’s never gotten 100 likes on any of his posts. Actually, every time I look on my instagram I see at least one comment and 3 likes. Back to the point though (I just couldn’t stop bragging), when I was heading to my sister’s bus stop it looked like no one was there but after 20 minutes a parent came. And even then, it went through the wrong side so I didn’t know where until another parents asked me if I was picking up a little girl. I’m just happy she called me or otherwise things would have gone bad. That’s it for today’s post.

Caterpillars!

As soon as my dad came home my mom was frantically asking him if he could take Monkyi to the clinic since her appointment was in 4 minutes. To me that seemed ridiculous but my father decided to go either way, and to my amazement they let my sister still take her appointment, even if she was 15 minutes late. While they were at their appointment I was waiting in my seat playing on my phone. There was this little girl that had barely any hair and was annoying her mother. She kept on falling on the floor (not accidentally) and was trying to open the door. I felt pretty bad for her and was happy when my my sister came back from her check up. After waiting a few more minutes we walked to another room where I was supposed to take my vaccine. Now let me tell you, I did cry or anything but the shot still hurt a lot. It was just sheer willpower that got me through that horrific needle. She told me to tighten my arms into a fist so she could see my veins and then picked the one nearest to the elbow.

Then, the little needle that she had was inserted inside of my vein and I could just feel the pain. I learned an interesting fact about Blood and Veins during school last year. When the blood is inside of the body it is blue but when exposed to air or formally known has carbon dioxide it turns the color to red. That’s why you can see blue veins when you tighten up your fists or strain your muscles. Anyway, the woman made a lot of jokes and I really liked her attitude. Laughter is always the best medicine, unless you have cancer or diabetes. Then, laughter can do a nothing for you, eating healthy will though! After both of our appointments my dad took us in the car and we drove back home to eat food with our mom. Along the drive my sister and I noticed that there was a living caterpillar on my leg! This is no joke, the day before a caterpillar was hanging off my arm for no apparent reason and I immediately saved it before it fell.

That’s right, heh heh. I’m compassionate to bugs as well. Thankfully, it didn’t die through the ride home and I was able to pick it up and drop it near a plant so it can enjoy itself. This is because technically it’s still a baby so it needs as much food as possible. And staying in the car for more than hour probably isn’t good. Now I’m starting to get curious, when I’m finished with this post I’m going to search it up on the internet and see what type of caterpillar it is. I really appreciate all of the support that I’ve been getting, from me to me and also me. Yeah, I know my father’s the only one that reads this. And possibly my ELA teacher, but anyways thanks for reading and hoped you enjoyed another journal entry of Rinchen Sangpo’s World!

Vaccination day in clinic

I can now say that everything that I’ve needed to do during the summer is complete because yesterday I was able to give the doctor my physical exam paper and he’ll let us pick it up on September 10th, which is the day that my school starts, but I can pick it up in the afternoon. Because I’m pretty sure that the school doesn’t end after 5:00 P.M. Which is when the hospital closes. Anyway, when my mom came home she asked my father to take me to the doctor’s appointment while she picks up the uniforms from store. My mom is a mad at the uniform lady who promised to put the logos on the clothes because that woman should’ve finished about 2 weeks ago. But it took her almost a whole month to complete it. Or maybe she just remembered about my mom’s order and rushed. Either way, that’s one less thing to worry about. My sister needs to put her school supplies inside her bag today because tomorrow she has school, hopefully my father remembers. I don’t think she’ll have a problem fitting the supplies inside her book-pack, because she only had one bag worth of stuff. 

While waiting for the doctors to call us I was on my phone looking at Instagram and my dad was posting some stuff on Facebook. At 4:20 P.M the lady called my dad to sign the forms so technically we were waiting or nothing. Eventually, a doctor came to check my weight, height, and eyesight. I could tell my father was impressed by my height since I was 5.4 and he was 5.5, but my eyesight was something he was a little disappointed at. He blamed it on the game saying that it really damaged my eyes and he was happy to “throw” it away. My mom just can’t stop talking about how she hates my game and was so happy that it’s “gone” for good. Most of the time I just ignore her because she goes on and on about it. It really irritates me! Like, I know my game is gone, stop telling me! And then she gets mad when I talk back to her, it’s just so stupid. 

You know? One time when we were in the train the train conductors told us that the reason it was so hot inside is because the train has been on sun the whole day. Then, my mom told me to go into the next train and check if it was cold! Like did she not here what the train conductor just said? When I told her no she started getting super mad at me saying I was lazy and blah blah blah. I told her my legs were sore and she thought I was lying. I can’t believe her! And whenever she gets mad she says stuff that doesn’t even make sense. I’m “sick” because I took my sister’s phone to see if she was doing anything bad? I’m disgusting because I didn’t fold my clothes? It’s just really gets on my nerves and I hope that one day she’ll stop saying stuff like that. Anyway, when I finally got into the doctor’s office they gave me a little vaccine that made my arm really sore for a short period of time. But the woman was super nice and kind. That was what I did.

Hot Chocolate in Queens!

Today my legs are finally not sore (my thighs still hurt a bit) and I feel so much better. My arms don’t feel like burning and it doesn’t take 2 minutes to stand up when sitting. But first, I want to talk about my adventure in New York. My mom wanted my sister to get a haircut and have new shoes for school since there were only three more days, I decided to tag along since I didn’t want to go to the park (my body was still sore then). We took a bus to Journal Square and took a train to Queens. There, my mom wanted to eat some Tibetan Food and talk to one of her friends. I know this because while we were sitting she was chatting with some other Tibetans at the table in front of us. I ordered Beef Momo and “Tiemo” while my sister only had Momo. Now that I think about it, we should have just ordered one plate of 8 because I barely finished all of them and she still had 4 left on her plate before we left. The one habit I hate about my mom is that she always asks random strangers who are happily on their merry way to take a picture for her.

This is because she wants the perfect shot with everyone in it. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing bad about taking a a picture with your family. But asking strangers to take multiple photos is a bit too much and embarrassing. Once we finished eating the Tibetan Food my mom met another one of her friends at the Express (the lady actually works in the Express which I think is really cool). We walked across a small bridge that had a sign called, “Queen’s Plaza” and ate at the nearest Dunkin Donuts. The two of them were having a conversation before asking if we wanted anything to drink. I asked for a “Hot Chocolate” and my sister had a Apple Juice. Also, just to let you know this was 2 hours after we went to the Tibetan Restaurant. The lady asked for a “Latte” as well, while waiting I charged my phone since it was already dead. My sister and I played a game called “Stack Jump” that I personally enjoyed for the time being. 

Finally, when we got the cups the lady made the mistake of taking my hot chocolate instead of the latte and she got kind of mad. Thankfully, with my amazing skills I was able to perceive the situation and stop the madness. My mom insisted that the employee was the person that made the mistake was the one to blame. But I knew better, so I explained to her it was the lady’s fault that she couldn’t tell which one was which. In the end, the worker felt bad and gave us a free latte and Hot Chocolate since I already drank the latte by mistake. Before going home, my sister needed to get her haircut and at first I though she looked a bit weird. But after second thought she didn’t look worse than most of the girls in my school. Getting shoes weren’t an option because it was too late so we just took the path train home. 

Productive Day!

I probably had one of the most productive times of life yesterday because I played Soccer and burned a full pound worth of calories. Basically, my told me that I could go outside since he didn’t want us staying in the house the whole day as usual. So I took this chance and immediately packed all supplies before my sister could see me going, because I knew she would ask to join me if she saw. Once outside I walked to Lincoln Park and started thinking about where I wanted to play in the Soccer Field. Eventually, I picked the goal that was closer to the fountain so I wouldn’t have to walk back and forth if I wanted to drink water (once I ran out). For the next three hours I stayed practicing my shooting on the goal with my volleyball (since it was the closest thing I had to a soccer ball). The only problem with the volleyball was that it was a bit lighter so I was able to kick it higher easily. 

That worked against and for my favor. The reason it was against me was because sometimes the ball would literally go just above the crossbar and I knew that with a regular ball I would’ve have hit those shots. But then it wasn’t as hard to hit as a regular ball because those can sometimes hurt your feet if you hit it with your toes. Anyway, it was at 5:00 P.M that I was finally feeling hungry and so I walked over to McDonalds, I didn’t want to go home because it was at this time of day that people generally came to play Soccer at the park. At McDonalds, since I had already burned about 1000 calories I didn’t want to eat anything that would go above that. So I had a wrap and soda which equaled to 600 cal.  The wrap had chicken tenders so it would give me protein and it also had lettuce which is supposed to be healthy. Plus, it was either the fountain drink or a vanilla milkshake, and that went above my budget as well as 500 calories for one shake. 

Once my Lunch was finished I headed back to the field and like a hoped there were a group of kids at the same goal I was just at. My dad is right about one thing, I am a bit shy so at first I just walked right past them pretending to be on my merry way. Then, I noticed that I used to play with one of those kids. So I hurried over and he had no problem letting me join them. We had a competitive match of penalty kicks and then tried going for a real 3v3. However, they were arguing too much in Arabic so I couldn’t say anything to continue playing or understand them. Before I knew it, they had to go and we barely even kicked the ball around. All the conversation was directed towards who fouled who and how big the goals should be. Thankfully, I was invited to play with a  group of teenagers that were 15 to 18 years old. One of them was even 21! My team won 10-8 and I was extremely happy. Though I didn’t make as much of an impact my legs were very sore and I knew it was because of how hard I played! I walked home satisfied…

Sore Body

I don’t know whether I’ve talked about this yet but my whole body has been sore for almost 4 days now! This is because last week I started to do my exercise routine but the amount of effort I was putting in was too much. Basically, my body couldn’t handle the strain and started to stretch. When I say that I mean it’s called, “D.O.M.S”. Something most people who workout have felt from time to time. This is happens when you try to push past your limit and the muscles in your body aren’t used to it. So if your talking technical, my muscles literally teared up or ripped small holes in my tissue. That’s why my legs (thighs especially) and arms feel very weak and hurt when I walk up and down the stairs. Hopefully, tomorrow they will start to feel better because it’s already been half a week (they video that I watched said to get at the very most 8 hours of sleep but I’ve been getting 9 to 10 hours, but still no effect). If this soreness somehow lasts all the way to my Physical Fitness Exam in school then I am most definitely screwed.

Anyway, I want to talk a little about how I dealt with this soreness yesterday at the park. I walked about half a mile until I reached Lincoln park and was burning in the hot sun. Even though my muscles were just as sore as the day before I was still able to play Soccer then, so why couldn’t I do it now? Well turns out, all of that running from the day before really got on my thighs since my arms were perfect. There was no chance I’d be running and even walking was a pain. On Safari I searched how to deal with thigh soreness it and it showed a couple of exercises that looked like they would work. One of them was to pull your foot behind your butt and keep it like that for about 20 seconds. That way it would relieve some stress from your muscles. Another technique, was to just massage your muscles (squeeze certain areas). Once I reached the goals I tried kicking the ball at least a few inches but as soon as it touched the ball my legs burned. 

That was when I made the final decision to just go to McDonalds since I had to use the bathroom. When I reached the fast food place my sister called me and asked where I was. I told her about my bathroom situation and she had no sympathy. Then, I asked if she wanted anything at McDonalds for me to get her. Since fries were already a no (can’t carry them in my bag), we agreed on some chicken nuggets. While walking to the playground there seemed to be like a family of Asian people gathering around and one of the woman were looking at me like she knew me. I awkwardly continued walking and then she started calling what she thought was my name. It was pretty weird but I just ignored her, wonder what would happen when she realizes her mistake. That’s it for today’s post, until next time.

Jack and the Geniuses

I just found out that the Middle School first day is delayed for an extra 4 more days, or on September 10th. This is because the new building still has some minor developments needed before it can allow start children to enter it. They don't have to work so hard on it because the 8th grade are only going to stay one year in it before the High School is going to be built. But I guess the 5th graders who are going to 6th grade need the building as well. Unfortunately it won't have that thing where every student gets a different schedule so they can meet up with different kids every class. But the gym is supposed to be a lot bigger and they should have that buffet option, because if they don't I'm going to get pretty mad. Because there are more days for me and not my sister I can spend time with my mother since shes going to be off during those days. I only have to go to school at Monday so it's also good itme for me to be excercising. Yesterday, I may have overdone my excercising because my arms and legs hurt a lot in the morning, including my glutious maximus. I read an article online syaing excercising too much at such a young age could cause your muscles to burn up but it's the only way to get results. 

I've been reading this book called, "Jack and the Geniuses" and it's honestly not that bad. The main character is a boy named, "Jack" and he stays with his "sister" and "brother" most often. The reason I put quotation marks around the sister and brother is because they were all abandoned by their parents and then a man named, "Hank" brought them together. Ava is the name of his "sister" and Matt is his "brother". The two of them and Hank are very smart but Jack is more average. He has a hard time understanding most of the stuff they know and can only catch up by reading stuff ahead of time. In this book he and his "family" are invited by a billionare called, "Ashley" because she apparently wants to show them her powerplant. However, Ashley later reveals she only wanted Hank and needed some kids to help celebrate her son's birthday (since the kid has no friends on a deserted island with his mother). Jack, Ava, and Matt aren't enthusiastic about the idea, mostly because Steven (son) is super annoying but they have no choice. Someone sabatoged Ashley's powerplant and they are suspecting the islanders who don't want Ashley here in the first place. But Jack thinks there's something bigger happening.

Anyway, last night my dad said that my sister and I could wait until our aunt came home so we stayed up until 10:30 P.M. She had just entered the room and brought food for us to eat. I couldn't say no because she got the food for us so I kindly accepted and ate some of the noodles. I now regreat eating those noddles because I gained about 1 and a half pounds just by eating that. And on top of that my aunt brought ice cream, thankfully it was only for her because I couldn't eat anything else. She said that Ashan Karma (my mom's side of the family/uncle) wanted to get me a sweater that was for kids and had a chinese collar. Since Ashan Karma was always so nice to me I accepted the offer not knowing what it would look like. He and his wife (who I also know) asked for my WeChat Id so they could text me the picture. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to accept his friend request because I was going to sleep. I'm worried that because I don't get notifacations on WeChat I might not be able to repond when he's messaging me. But that's it for today's post.