Summer School of Truth 2012

Summer School of Truth 2012

       This year’s SST was my first time and I really enjoyed it. Our junior high’s topic was the Triune God and the Person and Work of Christ. What I enjoyed the most in all of the messages was Christ’s Human Living.

      Through incarnation, Christ became a genuine man. He was the carpenter’s son, and has a mother, brothers and sisters. He ate with other men. He was once thirsty and asked a woman for a drink. These facts and actions prove that Jesus Christ is a man, not a bit different from an ordinary man.

       Christ was the most perfect and the finest. He was obedient. He cared for His Father’s will and also obeyed to His natural parents. Some of us, the young people may say, “I am of God!” But at home, we would be disobedient to our parents. This is not the fine and balanced humanity of Jesus.

       Mark 10:45 says, “The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve.” We, the young people may always expect our parents to serve us. No! That is not the humanity of Jesus. Jesus Christ was the son of God! He could just tell His disciples to get food for Him. But why didn’t He do so? Because that isn’t the humanity of Jesus! Instead, He served His disciples! The humanity of Jesus is one to serve, not to be served. We need a spirit to serve others diligently.

       Christ Jesus had no appearance of evil. In John 3, Jesus met an elderly man in the middle of the night. In John 4, when He spoke to a woman, He did it in an open place. Not only He was very careful to avoid evil, also He avoided appearances of evil.

       Jesus also had the finest personality. He was meek and lowly in heart. He was so meek that little children could come to Him. He was so lowly that a sinful woman could weep at His feet. In all things, Jesus was so fine and balanced.

       God wants a group of people who are filled with Him and can express Him. For this, we must have the proper humanity. Satan tries to frustrate God’s purpose by attacking man’s humanity, so man will be useless for God’s expression. We need to be careful and always remember the Lord is living in us. When we realize the Lord is telling us to stop doing something, or when we see that we’re short of standard of Jesus’ humanity, we should open to Him, call His name out of a pure heart and become one with him! Then His highest, finest and perfect humanity will be in us and that is what we need today for our church life! If we always have this humanity of Jesus, the others will be touched and become attracted to the church! Hallelujah! May the Lord be expressed through us!

August 3rd

August 3rd, 2012

      I’m back! I’m back in Canada. I love it here! I miss the freezing icing cold weather so much! J haha I’m just joking. Well, it’s a lot cooler here. It felt like heaven! I’ve been back for 2 days already. By the way, did you know my Grandparents from my Mom’s side are here!?

It’s really great that Grandpa came because we can play Ping Pong together. Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you that I had a Ping Pong table, but no one played with me. Mom was busy and Sister Soefae is too short and unskilled to even get my serve. Grandpa’s and my skills make no distinction of rank of Ping Pong skills. He knows some fancy tricks but he’s not really good at using them. So he teaches me and I learn fast. J

I’ve got a new basketball hoop in my back yard on the solid ground. It’s not only a hoop. It’s a full one with a pole holding the basket on a board. It’s really easy for the ball to get in because it’s got a big hole (I think it’s even might be even bigger than the ones at school) because the whole thing is put together by Dad. It isn’t very strong but shaky, so the ball can get in easily. Dad’s tough. You know what – I actually like my basket hoop better than the ones at school because it’s easy to get in and I wouldn’t be pissed for not shooting in.

I took out my Wii Player. I haven’t touched it for such a long time. I only have two sports’ CDs and one dance’s CD. It’s totally enough for me and Sis. I only play Wii Sports now. I’m too lazy to take out the dance pat. Sports are fun. Haha.

I’ve been thinking about inviting my friends to my house when school begins. Or I can open my house for home meeting someday. It’s going to be so fun! I’ll have so many cool stuff to show off – practicing basketball, learning Ping Pong, playing Wii. Oh yeah, and I have a baseball glove and some balls. I’m okay in baseball. I was on our grade’s team two years back in Shanghai at my school. We can play Frisbee too. It’s very suitable to play in my narrow but long and pretty big back yard. Also, what really excited me is that I think I’m getting a punching bag. When I say punching bag, I mean those ones that you practice with in boxing, not fluffy Teddy Bears that people punch when they get mad. I’m so excited, but I’m also a little afraid that I would regret getting one, because seriously, it’s a big-boy thing. :P

I’m so happy to be back and finally, I found some great things to do other than wasting my whole day on Facebook. Yay~ I’ve been seeing visions of my fun and awesome future these days in my head!! Haha, I’m really happy. Let me fill my summer and school time with happiness but not boredom. :D

PS: I’m going to Summer School of Truth next week for six days. SST is a Christian camp for Grade 8s to Grade 12s. It’s going to be my first time. I heard it’s really cool. Both of my great friends, Selina and Rebecca, are going. So I’m not nervous at all but excited! J Lord bless the trip and may you be with us all the time. May the evil be away and our hearts be turned to you. Let me enjoy you fully and through this trip, I hope I can love and understand you more. Lord Jesus, I love you for that I’m your lamb and you are the powerful and mighty God and shepherd for eternity. J

July 27th

July 27th, 2012

      I went to the hospital again today. I’m a little better but still coughing and having fever. It’s annoying. But who am I going to blame? Myself? Yeah, I guess, then I’ll shut up complaining because being sick is my fault anyway. L

      I had to have a blood test again. I was so scared when I was in line. Having an hardly-enjoyable experience made me nervous and unwilling. This time, this nurse was really bad and stupid. Lord Jesus, forgive me for judging other people. Anyway, The nurse is really slow and she makes every move as slow as possible. She pushes the small needle deeply into my ring fingertip and takes it out slowly. She leaves my hand on the table and grabs the tube slowly. I can feel my blood flowing and going through the tiny hole that seems impossible to allow the blood to come out. Until she’s ready to suck the blood into the tube, I was almost dead. She squeezes my ring finger hard until it was numb and, I believe, pale white. She stops and threw my hand onto the table and stuffed a piece of cotton on my tiny hole where the needle was stung. (Oh Gosh… I can’t write this anyway. I’m going to faint.)

Though I was not watching her doing it, but my imagination was incredible. Lord Jesus, what you gifted me can be very helpful and sometimes deadly. My imagination told me not to ignore the pain but remember the blood scene in my brain. The moment kept repeating in my head like and echo that never ends. I tried to stop my own mind, but I felt so helpless. As my mom and I were leaving together, I couldn’t take it anyway. I told her I need to stop for a second. Good that she knew I faint blood, she held her questions and doubt, and rested on the side with me. Suddenly I felt so tired and dizzy that I couldn’t even make myself to keep my head up. Randomly and suddenly, I was dreaming and it felt amazing. I don’t remember what I dreamed about but it was sweet. I couldn’t remember how I even fell asleep and I didn’t care. It was nice. Suddenly I opened my eyes and couldn’t remember where I was temporarily. I quickly realized I was on the floor and I freaked out. I sat up, saw people walking by and looking at me. It was strange, because I felt I was the center of something. Embarrassment rushed through me, however, mom told me to slow my moves down and don’t worry. Then people who were sort of watching me walked by. I felt better and I asked for some water. I knew I only fainted for a few seconds as mom told me. Mom told me that I was too heavy after I fainted so she had to put me on the floor slowly as I was falling. I said I was fine and told her not to worry. She wasn’t worried because she knew I faint blood. It’s probably a gene thing, because mom used to faint blood too. It was really no big deal. We then kept on moving and went home. It was okay. I’m glad mom didn’t freak out and call the ambulance and that will really be awkward.

That was the second time this year. I was glad she was with me that time. The first time was because of a paper cut. I was at school in the washroom trying to wash away the blood. I tried to hold myself, but it was bad. I fainted and went to the nurse. Then my teacher, Ms Duteau knew and even came to look at me when I was in class. By the way, I’m going to tell you a story Ms Duteau told me of her husband. Once, she was out and her husband was doing chores. Her husband cut himself very deep and told his brother beside him to call 911. However, his brother fainted as he saw the blood dripping down. Her husband was cut really deep and his brother fell and trapped him at the corner. So he had to do something. Her husband kept kicking his brother to wake him. He kicked his brother until he woke. Haha. It’s really funny, but it can be dangerous. Trust me, it’s no fun. Gosh, I can’t be a surgery doctor. :3

July 26th

July 26th, 2012

      Last two days were hard. I went to somewhere I haven’t been in two years. I went to the hospital.

I was sick. First, it was Mom who was sick. Then my dad was sick, but they both healed in one day. Then my sister Soefae is sick. She was very sick and it never ended so far. After a few days of her sickness, I got sick too. I thought it was her who infected me until yesterday. Yesterday, Soefae and I went to the hospital (of course, with our parents). I had a blood test. It hurt even though it’s just a teeny tiny hole on my ring finger. However, I hadn’t had one since at least two years ago. I wasn’t used to it. It was bad, but I went through it. Then the doctor told us that I am of the virus(病毒). I’m sorry but I don’t know the English character for it. My sister’s of bacteria which means I didn’t get sick because of her. Darn, I was so disappointed! I didn’t get anyone to blame now.

      Today is the third day of me being sick. I really don’t like being sick anymore. I prayed so much. I wasn’t better at all. Well, today’s over. I have to keep praying and hope I get better~

July 24th

July 24th, 2012

I saw a great movie few days ago. It’s called Tom and Jerry! Haha, I’m just joking, man. It’s called Inception.

It’s made in 2010. It’s not very new but it's fantastic. It is about people with technology that can enter people’s dreams and search for their secrets. This skilled thief called, Codd is offered to plant an idea into Robert Fischer’s mind by a professor named Saito. Robert Fischer is the son of Maurice Fischer who is the boss of a big company. Maurice Fischer was dying, and Robert Fischer is taking his company. Codd’s job is to make Robert Fischer think that it’s the best to split up the company by making three layers of dreams – enter the first dream, enter the second dream in the first dream and enter the last one in the second. It’s really complicated but so awesome. This movie is really exciting because the problems they’re facing were all out of their expectation. There were people against them. Not people from the dreamer’s reflection but real people who were trained. Then, they had to run and fight. Also, no one can die. Normally, if you die in a dream, you can wake up. However, in this case, if you die, you don’t wake up instead you go to the Limbo where it takes forever to wake up because the thieves took drug-anesthetic to keep them sleeping. Saito got shot and was dying. Robert Fischer was dying too. They had to keep out and make time and wake up. It’s so complicated to write about because so many happened. However, this is a great movie but not hard to understand. Just watch it, people. It’s amazing!

July 20th

July 20th, 2012

      Guess what, I’ve got a new account for QQ. My Math tutor told me the best way to keep up my Chinese is to get QQ. I had one in the third grade, but I didn’t use it much. So it was hacked. I had one in the fourth grade, and I had membership on it for more than forty years. Thanks to one of my friends. That must had cost him four-thousand RMB/seven-hundred Canadian Dollars. Well, my friend didn’t use his money. It’s just his dad’s friend can just give him free memberships. It’s cool and luckily, I’m the only one in my class who he gave membership for free. Haha~ anyway, it was hacked one year ago and I don’t even know who did. It’s crazy. Well, I had Facebook, so I never make a new QQ account. Until, yesterday, I made one. I didn’t think I was going to use it. But Matthew, asked for my QQ and I gave him. Then, I knew he has Jerry’s QQ, so I added Jerry. Jerry gave me many old friend’s QQ and I had most of the people I had. At the same time, I also remembered the Yearbook. We all wrote down our QQs. I added them according to what they wrote. It was cool. I had mostly everyone who had written down their QQ for me – mostly everyone in the class who has QQ! It’s amazing. Chatting with old friends is fun! It’s like picking up a piece of memory that’s lost. Haha. Bye.

July 14th

July 14th, 2012

      I could barely remember my goals. You know how hard it is to keep everything in mind. This is only the fifth blog I wrote since arrival. I realized I should spend more time on this. My goal is to write two blogs each week. I only read one book, PLAGUE so far. But my goal is reading at least three books. I borrowed, like ten books, from the library in Vancouver. I was addicted. However, after arriving Shanghai, I found so many better activities to do. For example, watching movies, designing houses, checking out the new songs, organizing my phone etc. Also I got my laptop reinstalled. So I had to download software I want. Trust me, it takes time. I expect everything to be perfect, so I had to set up and edit. Well, anyway, my point is, I need to spend more time on my goals to…… not disappoint myself…? Yeah whatever. I need to finish the New Testament of the Bible. I’ve only done half of it, and actually, I finished the half in Vancouver, not here. Play basketball for more than four hours per week. Yeah, I think I got it going okay. I like playing basketball. However, I can only play with my cousin, LiuWei because his neighborhood’s got a court. I think asking him to play with me twice to three times a week might be too annoying for him, though he says it’s fine, which… who knew? Only of my goal is losing weight. Bahahahah!! Hell no. Not even a chance. I eat ice-cream, popsicles, a bunch of meat, orange juice, grape juice, a lot of fruit etc. They make me fat. Losing weight is impossible. Glad I’m still at the same point in Vancouver – forty-three KG. F on guitar, I’m getting there after a bunch of lessons. Play piano every day, yeah, I can do that. At least I thought I did, sorry I didn’t keep track of everything on a notebook. Run on running machine or trail at least thirty minutes a week. Nah, I quit that one. Don’t even have time for it. Haha. Okay, I got to go to catch up on my goals. J Bye.

1.     Finish the Bible: the New Testament

2.     Play basketball for more than four hours per week

3.     Write at least two blogs per week – that’s 8 for this whole month

4.     Weigh lesser than forty-three KG when I get back to Vancouver (I’m now about forty-four KG)

5.     Know how to play F on guitar

6.     Play piano every day – at least open it and touch one key

7.     Read more than three books

8.     Run on the running machine or on the trail at least once a week for at least thirty minutes

July 12th

July 12th, 2012

I am right now listening to music and writing a blog. Days in Shanghai are spent half way already. I had a lot of fun here. What I do every day are, eating proper meals, eating ice-cream, eating snacks, drinking juice, sleeping, playing piano, golfing, playing, singing etc. What I do every two days are, Math tutoring, history and geography tutoring, piano lessons, homework, playing with my cousins etc. What I do every week are, playing basketball, reading, watching movies, listening to music, writing blogs, shopping, cycling etc. etc. J My life in Shanghai right now is amazingly healthy and happy. Home-schooled, playing, exercising are all I need. I’m kind of excited to go back to Vancouver too, though I knew it would not be as relaxing as now.

       Well, I’m just gonna tell ya about what great happened in these two weeks. First of all, as in my first blog of summer, I wrote about getting TOMS. Guess what, I got them the night I arrived home. They’re very comfortable and beautiful, and gray. :P What’s quite funny with them is that the left shoe is a little bigger than the right one, though both says they’re size 6. Laugh out loud…

I got my time difference fixed in two days. I never had a bad sleep. I was really proud and happy, because my mom and sister corrected their time difference in more than four days.

One of my cousin, Shawna and her little brother, Mark visited us the second day after arrival. Shawna and I pretty much grew up together. She is almost three years younger than me. She is very understanding and obedient. We didn’t used to go to the same school, but we were like best buddies. She really trusts me and always relies on my decisions. When we were younger, we played Tea House when she comes over. Sometimes, I did homework for her when she couldn’t finish. Maybe I wish Shawna’s my sister. Her little brother, Mark is nice and fun to be around. Also, he is born in Toronto, Canada. He is a few months older than my little sister, Soefae. Shannon thinks Mark is annoying. But I like Mark. Maybe it’s because I like dudes who are fun and open, and who don’t incur my displeasure and hate me for no reason, like Soefae. He comes over a lot, to play with Soefae. He always obeys.

On the fourth day, my oldest cousin, LiuWei and my youngest cousin, HaiBo’s family visited us. He is four years older than me. He will graduate high school next year. I didn’t know that LiuWei and I would become good friends like the old days. Like Shannon and I, LiuWei and I used to play together. However, I believed that we both grew up, especially him. I don’t think he would play with his cousin who hasn’t seen him in two years anymore. However, I realized he is still the old him. He played Hide-and-Seek with Soefae and HaiBo when the parents were talking. Then I joined them, to help LiuWei taking care of the little ones. LiuWei, Shannon and I and LiuWei’s mom went to watch a movie together that night.

The next day, I went to his place and played basketball with him. There were around seven teenagers at each basket. When I was in Vancouver, there’s always one person on the full court at the school nearby and that’s me. Alone but peaceful. It was difficult to even get my rebound. Also I realized there was no girl at either basket. I wonder what they’re doing. Probably QQing or watching TV at home. I used to be one of them too. I got a ball from LiuWei and I did a lay-up through the crowd the players made. Though I didn’t make it in the hoop, but the guys were impressed. They made sounds like, “Wow”, “Nice”, and “Whoa”. I think I blushed. But I’m pretty sure they don’t always see girls dribbling low but fast and finish a proper lay-up which made me proud at the same time. After my lay-up, LiuWei did a lay-up and didn’t get it in either. It was funny. I got a lot more open after a few shots. I got a three-point shot in and LiuWei tried to make one in to even our scores. However, he still needed to practice more. J To be honest, I was just plain lucky. After half an hour, my age-closest cousin, YiXuan came. He’s one year younger than me. Yeah, I have five cousins. He was eating dinner when we invited him. He’s a great guy actually. When we were young, LiuWei didn’t like him and he treasures me a lot more than him. I don’t know why. I thought guys would like to play to guys more, like girls understand each other more. Well, that was the truth. I didn’t mind YiXuan. He was just so pure that makes him seem so young. He’s different now though. However, he’s still the great dude after all. He has no siblings. He has a dog though! Ichiro is the dog’s name. He was a tiny puppy two years ago. Now, he’s smart and big. His sensitive, strong and upward spirit was hidden under his soft, beautiful, black and white fur. Okay, let’s just say this straight: he is scary. No, terrifying. Always over-excited. Sorry, back to basketball, YiXuan isn’t as good as LiuWei. He doesn’t know how to dribble or shoot with one hand on the side. He shoots the way I shot when I was ten. Not bad for him actually, he’s able to shoot some in from the far. I had a lot of fun. LiuWei invited me to come over next time when I’m free.

I play golf every morning. I improved a lot. I learned golfing last summer in Vancouver. I can hit seventy-five meters with an Iron. I’m happy with it though mom is a lot better than me. I’m okay with my ability now. I believe I will improve more during the next two weeks.

I got my laptop fixed. The disk was destroyed by mom in Vancouver in June. I finally got it fixed at my dad’s company. However, they said all my laptop memories were destroyed unless I pay thousands of Chinese dollars. It’s such a rip-off. So I had to send it to my dad’s place and get it fixed. Sadly, everything in my laptop is gone. Luckily, I don’t really have anything that’s that important, other than a lot of photos and some of my blogs I haven’t post on my website. Oh well, what can I do?

Oh yeah, almost forgot a big event – a classmate gathering. David, Shawn, Sofie, Jerry and I were gathered together once. It was David’s birthday and his dad invited us to play badminton. He rented a court in the gym. We played badminton. Jerry and Sofie were okay. They knew how to play. Jerry was just like, whatever. More about Jerry: he’s a great guy. Nice and forgiving and kind and decent and generous and carefree. However, he’s not really a guy who cares about school, which basically means, he’s no good in grades. Or he would be perfectly perfect. Oh yeah, by the way, I used to be his “secretary”! I was his deskmate and he’s really unorganized. However, I am just the opposite. I hate seeing messy desks stuffed with ripped textbooks and crunched-up papers. So I organize his desk every afternoon and I’m proud. Also, I am his tutor. I check his homework and make him study. After a while of all these, I knew him more. It was a great memory. Sofie used to be a girl who liked playing with guys. She is so boyish that girls didn’t like her a lot. I tried a lot of times making her one of my best friends. However, she was totally a boy which I can’t take. Oh well, she was a good friend, not a great one though. She’s changed now. She’s not as talkative and don’t play with guys anymore. It’s probably because guys and girls are so different that they don’t have anything in common. Sofie was good in badminton, but just too powerless. As I’m writing about her now, I remembered what LiuWei, my old cousin said while I was encouraging a girl to play basketball. He said laughing, “Not every girl is as tough as you”. Yup, not even for a girl who used to act like a sporty boy. Okay, back to topic, Shawn was good at playing badminton though he’s not as good as he used to be. He’s really sporty but he said he hasn’t touched his racket since Grade 5. I guess he studies hard too. I knew him since Grade 1 and he hasn’t changed, other than height, of course. David, who used to be shy in Elementary school, was changed. He was open and funny. He still looks the way he did but his personality really changed. He’s great at badminton. No wonder his dad gathered us to play badminton. After thirty minutes, we were all tired. We went for our parents who were enjoying themselves in a café. Then, we went skating. Sofie was not so good. She quit after twenty minutes because her teeth hurt from tightened braces. Jerry was great. David was good too. I can tell that they come skating often. Shawn couldn’t even skate without leaning on the wall at first, but after ten minutes, he could skate faster than me. We were collecting ice from the ground and make ice balls from it. We hit people with them. Jerry and David were hitting each other with them. Shawn and I were hitting each other with them. It was crazily fun. Once, Shawn was chasing me, trying to revenge and he was amazingly fast. However, as a gentleman, he caught me but let me go. It was really fun! I look forward to play basketball with them again some time.

Alright, that’s all I could write so far about my summer events. LONG STORY! I really enjoy this summer. See ya~

July 4th

July 4th, 2012

MY IMPRESSION IN SHANGHAI (the weather)

      Shanghai is a great place, as I mentioned in the previous blog I wrote, but it’s just too hot. Well, I actually don’t know why technically it’s so hot in the summer. I only know that Shanghai is pretty close to the Torrid Zone. But that shouldn’t make Shanghai a place that temperature reaches 40 C in July!

      I arrived in Shanghai a week ago. The weather was pretty okay last week. It wasn’t so hot, but warm enough. It was about 20 to 25 C very day last week. It would be like 20 C in Vancouver. It’s not bad last week. But it’s so hot this week. We turned on air conditioner every night.

I guess it is sinful complaining like this. So I found a few Chinese cold jokes to cool myself down. ;) I just simply translated them:

1.     The weather is so hot. I was just buying some eggs. But when I arrived home, the eggs bore chicks! I got a bamboo mat yesterday. After sleeping on it’s a heater! I don’t need to start the car, because the car tuned up itself! The table was too hot. When I just start playing Mah-Jong, it was Hued胡.

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      Oh man! Today’s July, 12^th. I haven’t been writing blogs for almost a week. Well, I got to write my next one. J

June 29th

June 29th, 2012

MY IMPRESSION OF SHANGHAI (Mosquitoes)

      Summer in Shanghai is actually great. It’s warm ---- technically hot ---- but great. However, what really sucks about Shanghai ---- I mean really sucks, is that you get approximately five mosquito-bites every day. Can you even imagine how much they would bother you!? Five itchy, awful, turgid, bumpy mosquito-bites every day! They are crazily annoying.

      On the first day, I got three mosquito-bites. It was okay. I found them itchy but also a little proud of getting them. On the second day, I got only one. I was pretty happy with it, because it didn’t drive me crazy when I am playing piano or reading a book ---- it didn’t distract me or annoy me. On the third day: today, I got two bites in the morning. I started scratching them a lot, because it’s such a relief to release the terrible itch. However, I started getting pissed of seeing red huge spots on my calf. They are ugly, and of course they annoyed me. I knew I shouldn’t scratch the mosquito-bites because they would getter bigger and redder. And uglier. Thus I finally stopped by applying a bunch of medicine time by time. Well, this afternoon, while I was playing and enjoying piano, I got three mosquito-bites. I didn’t care. I endured the itch and went outside with my family. When I was outside, I got two more mosquito-bites. Yeah, I know. It’s crazy. Is it my bad luck day? Because they’re really annoying. I was so mad and I wasn’t able to kill any of them. So I came inside again to read. Just wished the mosquitoes would leave me alone, because they drove me insane with the bumpiness and itch. Both made me uncomfortable. I was reading on the couch. I half laid, half sat. It was peaceful but it didn’t last long. I guess I was too focused that I didn’t realize that I got three more mosquito-bites on my forearm. Suddenly, I saw a big black and white mosquito went right in front of my face. It was probably full of blood. My blood. I tried to swing my hand together to hit it to death but it just suddenly disappeared. I was angry but I had nothing to express my anger on. I couldn’t control myself from yelling at the ‘invisible’ insect. After I just sprayed myself with half a bottle of bug spray and applied more medicine that went over the mosquito-bites layers and layers.

      Well, that afternoon was uneasy and uncomfortable. But I had no other choices than endure. The good thing is that I got more experiences. I learned that I have to spray myself some bug spray and apply medicine after getting bitten by mosquitoes. J

June 25th

June 25th, 2012

I haven’t been posting blogs for a long time. I’d say --- as my excuse --- I was quite busy studying for final exams. Yeah, by the way, I got pretty well on my final exams. French wasn’t as good as I expected. Math, I did great comparing to the others, but not perfect for my dear mother’s request. I did pretty good in Science, and English. What really surprised me was my Social Studies’ mark. I got a crazy 94%! Woah yeah! My Social teacher, Ms. Morris said I got one of the highest marks in the whole grade! Well, one of the highest. Haha, good enough actually. My score proves effort create miracles, because I studied so hard for Socials. I’m glad and proud. However, to God --- Jesus Christ --- be the glory! Praise the Lord.

Time passed really fast actually. My Grade 7 life is finished. Next year is Grade 8! Oh my Gosh, how did it all happen? It feels like a miracle right now. I’m terribly happy, and I can’t even describe what it feels like. Well, I just wish with my whole heart that summer wouldn’t pass as fast as the school year. Nah, don’t wanna bother putting my hope too high, because I knew it’s going to be like, shoo, in a heartbeat, and I’m back in school in Canada. Sad life… okay, I’m only joking. With the truth…

School ended on the 14^th of June. I am now on the plane going to Tokyo, Japan from Vancouver, Canada. This wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Time surprisingly passed fast. Listening to music and reading books is always one of the best ways to make boring moments pass faster. Especially listening to music works the most, because a song is approximately four to five minutes, and listening to twelve to fifteen songs. It’s not so bad. Just always remember to download a bunch of new songs before going onto a plane. Old songs bored me and I would keep switching songs before they even finish. ;) I’m in business class, and thanks to my dad. It’s awesome: food is great, and the servers are super nice. J By the way, it’s Japanese Airline. Again, it’s great. J You think I’m making ads and doing a good job for Japanese Airline? Eh, yeah, totally, if you can even imagine that…

I’m super excited, like I was when I was in the Vancouver Airport waiting to get on board. I tried to sleep twice --- half lying half seating in the comfortable seat --- but I just couldn’t. To be honest, I don’t even know why I’m this excited. It’s strange right? Probably it’s that I’m looking forward to go shopping? Then I can get onto another cool plane? Then I get to Shanghai? Then I can get used to the time difference (which I actually do look forward to)? Then I can get my gorgeous TOMS shoes which we bought on TaoBao.com? Oh yeah. I believe that’s the reason. I remembered now --- thanks to the shoes we ordered, I kept on getting distracted and all excited when I almost fell asleep. Yup, good job, I found the reason to be all happy and excited. J

After arriving in Japan, we’re going to spend four hours shopping while waiting for the plane to Shanghai. Shopping! I wish I could have enough energy for the next four hours. It’s really weird how the four hours seemed so short when I was at home in Canada. I was confident and prepared. However, now, it sounds like eternity. Which kind of freaks me out actually.

I planned my daily activity one week ago, as my mother told me to, as well as my goals. Pretty much what I’m going to do in China are probably just: guitar lessons: yay, basketball practices: yay, blogs: cool, Bible studying: okay, Math tutorial: whatever, and shopping: yay! Right, one more, I’m getting my TOMS shoes! What I’m going to do is pray and hope that they’re my size.

Well, my goals for this month are:

1.     Finish the Bible: the New Testament

2.     Play basketball for more than four hours per week

3.     Write at least two blogs per week – that’s 8 for this whole month

4.     Weigh lesser than forty-three KG when I get back to Vancouver (I’m now about forty-four KG)

5.     Know how to play F on guitar

6.     Play piano every day – at least open it and touch one key

7.     Read more than three books

8.     Run on the running machine or on the trail at least once a week for at least thirty minutes

Okay, that’s it. I wish I had an awesome full of joy, of God’s word, of sweat, of music, of knowledge and of unhealthy but tasty food. J I wish you, who are reading my blog --- probably Mom and Dad, a great summer as well, full of screams and laughter of your children, of clothing you bought online, of air conditioner, of shades under the hot sun, of relatives asking about Canada, of never ending business and of the happiness summer brings. J Thanks for reading my blogs, for the clothes you got for me, for taking me back to China for the summer, for buying business class tickets (again), for allowing me to bring my guitar, for choosing a tutor for me, and for all the other things I didn’t mention. I really appreciate the decisions you made and thank you for everything. Anyway, have a great summer!