[CE]What Happen Next?

I find out that I would like to read every news article either is about education or events that relate to education. I think this is so important for me because that is about our future.

This is the link for the news article, click here.

This article is talking about OUSD decide to close thirteen schools to balance for the budgets. The affect for change school to school might have psychologically damaging those children. Most of the data in this article shows that OUSD have 43% of schools have fewer than 300 students, which schools don't have enough funding to cover every children's costs. And that become the reason to eliminate 13 schools.

I have two different point of view on closing 13 schools in Oakland.  First, from reading the headline, closing school is the worst thing you can do in Oakland, but when you crunch the numbers, it makes perfect sense. It is a really simple math problem, reduced student enrollment means less funding for schools. consolidate schools will have more money can be provided for each student enrolled. The article appears that the protesters are losing focus on the priority, which is the quality education for students. By cutting down 13 schools, what is the new student to teacher ratio going to be? Have they considered the growth of these areas and the affect on the student ratios? Are they going to guarantee the students have treated equally within a big class rate?? The students won't have enough attentions from teachers if the class becoming bigger and bigger. The main point in here is cutting education to be able to afford more law enforcement will creating a vicious circle that only end up badly.  

RIGHT?! What do you think??

[FREE] Frustrated!!

Since this is the free post, I might just talk about whatever I want to! XD I might just talking about the frustrated thing I have.

As school started, I found out that I do not have enough time to manage everything I want to do. School is so busy, too much work for me and I have to study for SAT I, II. I am so busy!!! I just finish the bill topic description in the second period, and I do not think that I did a good job on it. Sign, SAT is tomorrow, I do not even have time to look over it in the past few day. People might think that I am really stupid… “You are taking the SAT tomorrow, why don’t you study for it???”  My answer would be “so many works to work on, and no time to study.”

The good news for next week is that we only have four days school, a long weekends in October. Good!! So I will time to really do my work! ADD OIL!! College applications, homework, and to study for quizzes in AP Cal, lots of work I need to do. ><

By the way, I just received the senior portfolio package on Thursday, which a pack of work I have to do. The portfolio is not due until February, if I do not start right now, I might keep pushing to the next day and start to do it at the week that we all have to turn in.

Isn’t it lots of work to do??  RIGIHT?!  

[RE] dream schedule

“This year, I also have 0-4th period and it truly is a dream schedule." -- Katherine Chiang

Most of the seniors I have are at least having a period off in their schedule, and some of them can go home at the lunch time, which known as our dream schedule. I really jealous about the dream schedule because I do have a six periods schedule in my senior year at high school, which I think that is sucks to stay all day long at school. I want to have at least one period off!!!! I know that I have a kind of easy schedule, but I perfect to go home early.  I have been staying in the cafeteria for the last three year, I want to have a break and not a rush lunch time.

Katherine pointed out that she has a 0-4^th period, okay, I am really jealous!! Okay? I really do not like to have sixth period in the block schedule when my friends are going to home early. I really do not like my schedule when the badminton season starts, I would not have enough time to finish my homework before practice, which will shorten my sleeping time. Sigh, this is what I choose for… so sad, man~

Senior year!!! WUHU!! I am all set for the homecoming!! I am really looking forward for it, because that will be much exciting for me.  Getting everything that is red; like red nail polish, red hair, red shirt, everything is red!! !!!! I hope that everyone have a wonderful senior year! XD

[BC] UC Prompt #2

                                     

Hey everyone, this is the second UC Prompt, welcome to common on it or makes some change!!!

Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?

As a little girl, I like to see the birdie popping in the sky. I remember how my mother taught me playing badminton. We played badminton whenever we have time; hence, the activity of playing badminton influences me to become one of the member s in badminton team. The fact is that badminton is really a normal activity for me because I played it any time I want and anywhere I can and badminton in China just like tennis in the United States, everyone can play it no matter you are a professional  or just a new player. Badminton has done the work to push myself to work as hard as I can.

When I came to the United States, I stated to join the badminton team in Alameda High School. In the Badminton Team, most of us are Asians. Maybe badminton really is an Asian sport, in our team; I do not see people that other than Asians accept our Coach Ruiz. When I join the badminton team in my first year of high school, I chose to be a single player instead of double player. Unfortunately, I was not that good in playing badminton because I have not been training when I started to play in my second grade. As a result, I ask one of my friends to teach my friends and me how to play badminton more professionally.  During the practice in the badminton season of my first year, because I have not got in the varsity and I am a JV 1 in the single, I only need to go to practice on Monday but I choose to go every day.

Second year in badminton team, I choose to not to be a women single player anymore and I paired up with Angela for try out and got separated when we really got into the second place of women double. As a result, I paired up with Kayla, a junior in that time. With a partner that does not speaks the same language as me that is really difficult to communicate while we are playing game, so that we could not say anything that is secret. Because we are two different types of people, I choose to be the one who defend and Kayla’s job is to keep track of the front. We have not played together before, so we need have to take more time to practice the role turn. The role turn is known as the hardest thing for both of us, but my mind just keep saying “Do not give up, Stephy, you can do it! Just do not give up, wait for the last minutes then you will success!” By putting in many hard working, the result turn in much better for my freshman year in team. One of the away games that our school play against Berkeley High School, a school with really good badminton players, even our really good players still lose to the Berkeley School, but my partner and I do our best to play the game, and my extra training have pay off into this game. 

Third year in Badminton Team, a really meaningful year, Angela and me both got the first place in badminton women double in Alameda Contra Costa County Athletic League. My extra work out and spend extra time with my private coach to improve my skill, those have pay off in ACCAL. I am really grad that has done a good work. 

Though great effort, I have done a really good job and by joining the badminton team in the pass three years not only means the experience I have earn had become an accomplishment in my high school year. I learned to become more independent and working as hard as I can.                                                 

[CE] How Can We Afford High Tuition????

In nowadays, tuition had becoming a popular topic, I believe that all the students do very care about the college costs, and I do care about that too.  Why not?? Are not you gonna go to college after graduate high school? Reading an interesting article in San Francisco Gate Newspaper, which mention that the students of UC Berkeley are protesting the increasing tuition.[Click here to see the article] The article also pointed out the tuition in UC Berkeley is twice as five years ago, the increasing tuition fee is just like a increasing infinite function that never have a ending. I do not know how much are we gonna to pay after a year. :(((( maybe increases 2 or 3 percent? (which is another extra money for each year...)


This is a really sad news!!!! It means when the day we are going to college, we are going to much higher tuition!!! OH ＭＹGOD!!!! Are we gonna afford this high tuition????? The answer is either the yes or no; yes for the rich families, no for the middle class and lower class families. The question is not saying "Oh~ you can also apply for financial aid and scholarship to help you to cover some of the college costs." Really?? Do you think that is possible for soooooooooooooooo many families to do this?? Is that have a lot of financial aid that you have apply for? The higher the college costs, the harder to go to college!!!! Within high tuition, our parents will work like dogs in order to support both my brother and I. How can we afford for the high tuition???? Not attending to college really a bad idea, however, if we do go to college, how can we pay for the college costs that increase every year??  HELP!!!!!!!

[FREE]Why I So Lazy?

I do not know why I always to publish my posts in the last minutes before twelve o'clock Friday.Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why??? Why I becoming an lazy ass??? I think I just push all the homework at nighttime tries to do them all together at once. As affect, that thus I do not have enough to sleep.

Let's talk about my daily schedule.

I think I have really easy schedule at school everyday except every Monday. I have AP Calculus for first period, I do not really wake up until 8:30, I was kind of day dreaming for the first half hour. Second period I have Ms. Sigmon for student accident, which is a really easy class. I only need to grade the assignments and do the record. Third class of day is English, I can say that this year's English class is the easiest I ever have. I have government at fourth period, which I do not that much of homework. Tech Aide and AVID are both easy classes, which means no homework at all.

On Monday night,I have to go to college at 5:30, and go home at ten; that is so tired when you have been going to school for at least eleven hours. And the main point is that I did not do any homework in my classes. AP Calculable always has two different part assignments, which contain class work and homework, that just like that I have double the amount of homework.

I can do a little bit of homework daily, then I do not have to finish all the homework in the weekend. I really have to make a new plan to help myself not being an lazy ass... If not, I am gonna XXXX my life lor. :)

[RE]What Is Poverty? What Is Wealth?

On Thursday we take a look at Mr. Sutherland's  post and we discuss about it. I am really enjoyed to listen to my classmates to talk about many different points of view on what poverty is. Personally I think that poverty and wealth are really wide topic, it is relate to so many thing, such as money and money related to other thing, such-and-such. I remember someone had said that money just a piece of paper, itself does not have any value, people make money valuable.

In nowadays, many people think that poverty is just a lack of money or things that you need to be service or there are no available sources of funds. Finances because of lack of initiatives to find where, poverty means you do not meet the standard living like eating three quality meals a day, or people have to relay on each other to continuous to live.  Wealth is known as people have a lot of money, where they can.  But I do not really agree on that poverty is based on some one’s financial to determine, that do not mean that people they are lack of money, also the rich people usually do not have happiness when they are really rich. When people are rich, they usual to use money to buy goods to cover their loneliness and pretend they are living so good, but really, how many people are knowing what the rich people's life really are... I do not think that poverty either good nor bad, but I know that in today's society, if you do not have money, you will hard to service.

[CE] Child mortality rate falling

This is the link for the article I am reading, which is about the child mortality rate decreasing in sub-Saharan Africa. Both of UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said they had did a good job to make child mortality decreasing from 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010. And the article also mention the death child rate have been increasing 82 percent in 2010, compared with 69 percent in 1990. Oh man, really... but please do not forgot that still have 12,000 more children's lives are being missing(I mean die) each day, most of them are under the age of five. The main reasons thus the result of this happen might be the immunisation, unclean water and not enough nutrition and it is often happen in the poor countries.

After I read this news which is force on the child mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa, I do not feel as well as usual. I though a lot,and I feel I was so luck that born in a better place to the sub-Saharan African babies. At least I service after I have a serious problem with the immunisation system. This news remind me that I have to do something to help the poor little babies over there, may be just donate money or I will joining some organization to helping children. I know that just a tiny little power, but that is better than nothing. By the way, children is the future; we should give a little bit, that might make a big change for them.

[RE] Help Is A Wrong Decision?

I was reading every one's free post in google reader, and I found out that Angela 's free post is a interesting topic to talk about. 

Basic on Angela's post,  is it a good idea that helping each other with the work?? The answer maybe is yes or no, that just depend on the position you are looking at. Personally, helping each other is a way to improve friendship, yet if over help, it might turn into a bad decision to do. 


Here is Angela's statement that I want to response:

One day, one of my friends had trouble on the project. I am pretty..... However, I forget that she won’t know another way because she doesn’t understand the lesson.

Okay, Angela basically is talking about how the thing happen, and I feel so bad for her. When your close friends ask to help, of cause you go help them. But if they still do not know how or you do not have the time to help or they still do not understand after you taught them, you might just take out the work that you have done and show it to them. I would do the same thing as Angela did, but this may affect your grade, teacher may say that you guys are cheating.  In the other hand, can you really say no to your friends and tell them that you do not want to help because you do not want the teacher found out that both of you guy are copying???

 NAhhhh... that is a really complicated question....
I feel like this is the shittiest response post I ever write:((((((((

[FREE] ONE

Whenever I am bored, I try to write some lyrics, poem,or free writing that express my feeling toward some thing in my day. I was usual to write about the secret story or some stories that has hidden message. I think this "poem" shows a person who wants to express his or her feeling to his or her lover.


Here is the writing:


As long as I am with you
I can not go wrong
Oh baby, what you do to me?
You are the one

I have been trying to see you
For such a long long time
Maybe I am just sad to face that I
But I would not lie
When it comes to loving you
All the things that I would do
No matter what it is

Been waiting for this day for far too long
I never could imagine it so strong
Have not change to loving another
But as long as I am with you, I can not go wrong
Oh baby, what you do to me ?
You are the one

How I try to reach you
Oh, in every way I can
Whether it is so far
But it is hard to find a way to show
That I am your man

When it comes to loving you
All the things that I would do
only for you, baby
 I will continues to love you
Until you said you say stop to me

I am loving you, baby
my forever love!




What do you guys feel about the writing?? Good or sucks or normal ?????

[BC] PROMPT DRAFT #1

Hey!! This is my first biweekly post, and this is also a personal statement. I am welcome everyone to help me improve because I am really bad at writing. Thanks! XD

Describe the world you come from – for example, your family, community or school – and tell us how your world has shaped your dreams and aspirations.

From a familiar environment to a diverse foreign country, I had to adapt to a whole new way of living. My usual friends had no longer my company, freeways no longer consisted of only two lanes, and going to school was no longer within walking distance. Receiving my education in English was a huge obstacle as I was still learning the language, but it also taught me to push myself harder when it needed. When I first started school, i was reticent to participate in class because I could not understand what the teacher or the classmates were saying. Acknowledge the fact that I was a new member of a completely different and a multifarious community, I felt the need to stand out as a Chinese American and was determined to expand my knowledge beyond the English language.

I was thirteen years old want the news of my immigrating to the United States reached me. Since I immigrating to the United States, I knew my life would be different from my parents who have been spending more than 3 decades in China. Both of my parents had only up to high school education and my father is barely know how to speak English. My mother, who is learning English right now with twice as much of pressure compare to her work. My father is a regular worker who have barely earn enough money to support our family needed. Both of my parents needed to go to work that is far from our home, they send my younger brother and I to live with my aunt. I chose to live with my aunt because she can help me with daily homework and take care of her four ABC children, which known as American-born Chinese, so that I can communicate with them in order to improve my oral skill.

As I grew older, I began to understand the tremendous importance of seizing all my opportunities and pursuing a good education; this is related to my dream and the aspiration in my life. I like to help people and I can build a really good relationship between people. I became interested in dentistry because of my family history, one third of my family members have teeth problem, such as I broke my front left tooth in accident while I was playing with my brother in the playground. My grandmothers are both have missing teeth because they did not have enough Calcium and other reasons.  I understand suffering pain is the most terrible thing ever, so I would like to help people to fix their problem and I became interested in dentistry.

I want to make my parents proud and accomplish what they could not. I want to be able to provide for my own family in the future. Education is unquestionably important to me; it has instilled an efficient work ethic in me, as I constantly try me best in everything I do. I appreciate being given the opportunity to be in a diverse country. I will take this past with me and continue on with my education to make my father, my mother, my grandma, and my own family in their future very proud.

[CE]Decade of the September 11

Since the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks that shook the nation is coming closer and closer, and many people have beening talking about it in these days. This would be known as the most popular topic in the following week, which means I will choose a 9/11 attack to be my first event post.

Here is the video:




9/11 could be argued as the most tragic and life-changing day in the history of the U.S. Everything changed that day, and so many people were killed trying to save others. Those people should always be remembered. Relate back to our lives, I was 6 years old when the 9/11 attack happened. I found out the news about the destroy of the Twin Towers in the next day, the news was sock! After the 9/11, many thing have been change, and become more strict, such as the airport security. Many people feel that is  uncomfortable and dislike the way how others touching their bodies in public, this especially for women. In the other hand, why Osama bin Laden want to start this attack? Is it just because of his hatred?? Is it something that the US did wrong and led to this situation?? This kind of the questions have been questioning me. Because the 9/11 and led to war in Iraq and Afghanistan,which spend $87 billion and many soldiers' life,  is it really pay for the missing life in 9/11?  There really don't have a specific answer for the question. I don't think that is pay for the life of their loves, and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan keep making us to lose our loves. Really, if you keep fighting to each other, will there have a day to stop???

I just keep making so many question to myself. Anyways, 9/11 really is a special day that everyone shouldn't be forget.