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~