Some stuff that happened
Monday was an unremarkable day. Military training was cancelled and we 'got' to study for the whole time instead. Some girl I know said that, "It's not fair you guys get to study while we have to take Army Nurse." Even some of the other students took askance at that.
The reason everyone is studying their asses off to some extent or another is that there are exams coming up on Thursday & Friday. They're midterms, & there are two sets of midterms; however, I think they still matter somehow. Language class Monday was good as well, we have a new guy teacher who is very good (one of our old ones quit because we're terrible in more ways than one, or at least some of us). In the evening I listened to Linkin Park's [hybrid theory] and worked out (push-ups, crunches, tricep work, light biceps & pecs & forearms). Earlier in the day I'd done some pull-ups and ran laps at school.
Today, there was a Grade 10 assembly in the gym. Except it was before school and the gym is on the 4th floor. After the usual militaria, saluting and standing in ordered ranks in various postures, we sang the Taiwanese national anthem: "San Min Zhu Yi." Though we do it every time I thought I'd mention it, because this time (though I didn't remember all the words) I sang quite loudly. Now, normally, I don't really have any volume; however, recently I've been developing my voice and learning how to sing loud without strain. Also, the kids--hundreds all told--are actually surprisingly quiet. So I stood out a bit, but whatever I was also a head taller than the guys standing next to me (there's one guy in my class as tall & they're all younger though).
There was a bunch of stuff giving out awards to top students in each class... but I was confused, because the big exam is coming up in a few days. Whatever. Scout today was o.k. - we've learned numerical flag code, & have a codebook of about 9000 Chinese characters, so the teacher was sending us messages. Then we had to encode something, but the order is by radical not pinyin. So guess who figured out dictionary technique by radical in about 3 minutes? That's right, now I can look something up even if I don't know how to pronounce it: bye bye, children's newspapers. w00t.
Anyway, in Art most people were studying, and I ended up doing something kind of crappy which I am not too proud of (though I misspelled "blue" in Chinese then fixed it). A girl lent me a Simple Plan CD though. After the upcoming exams she'll send me a scan of the well-received piece I did last week, so you can maybe all see it. This evening I cleaned my room good (as the family was cleaning house) while listening to aforementioned Simple Plan. Also I called Scott & we talked for most of our conversation, including all information exchange, in Chinese. it was neat. Also, my dad was teaching my little sister English, so I reverse-engineered his lesson and learned a present-continuous in Chinese. & that's about it
6 Comments:
Ah Kevin!
('tis Tim, by the way) I do remember you quite well. You were, of course, the person who first got me hooked on Milton. Terribly interesting person, if I recall correctly. I don't forget interesting people, if I can help it.
You seem to be in a world of musical void. My musical taste is far too ecclectic to handle this state of mind for long. Singing helps, but sometimes you just want to attack a piano or listen to a new CD. Simple Plan and Lincon Park would fail to tide me over.
Nevertheless, you see to have a very eventful life going for you. compared to my rather dull blog, you ensue a work ethic and desire for interesting times in me.
There is a curse: "May you live interesting times..."
don't curse him like that! seriously, someone said that to me in February of this year--a couple weeks later, MY HOUSE BURNED DOWN!!!!
do not fear curses, for you know little of them. Fear and ignorance combined equals certain misfortune. Well I was wondering about the editorial brackets around Hybrid Theory. I, too, was listening to that CD recently. Simple plan eh? tsk tsk. where is the hammerfall and BG??? A more interesting title would be "Some stuff that went down"
For a title, how about "Living in Interesting Times".
What was the piece that we might be seeing a picture of?
Mrs. Sinclair is interested in hearing more about the two choirs you are in. She'd be glad to hear about how you are learning to make your voice'bigger'. M.
I understand, sometimes I get random urges even now to listen to linkin park. a more interesting title would have been:kevin's wildly exciting eventful foreign happenings. all in capitols and bold. and i'm curious--DO you know what that quote is from?? (from my blog)
YES, the woot is annoying!!! Simple Plan beats Blind Guardian and the Eagles all to hell, but what about Joseph? I think you need a little broadway in your life. And you'd better have been introduced to Muse, because no-one should have to live in that kind of musical darkness. And have you found a set of drums to play? It will be sad if you don't.
-Laura
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