Letter 12 - Christmas Special + Xmas snowman card

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Letter 11 - What I'm up to before Christmas

BUSY: Making the School Magazine

Well... I'm kinda busy these days making this. And I tried to combine poems, pictures, and the landscape I'm writing that will of coarse be the 228 memorial museum, so I visit it the second time this week. Why am I making this because I had joined the club called "Chinese School Magazine Club" and so I was forced to write something. (I think it's really not fair that we're not allowed to write English stuffs in it!!) 

but I'm not finished with it yet... I'll go work on it.

When Christmas comes around + Write for rights

When Christmas comes around, what will we do?
We'll be exchanging Christmas gifts, but we'll have our ideal gifts written out for the person who draws our name out of the box to buy for us. I have made my mind although there's rule that the price have to be in 100-300, what I really want is a black otamatone, which got the price between 409-3150. (it depends on the size of it) I told this to my little sister, and she told me I can try asking the person who is responsible for my gift to give me 300 dollars. Well...that may seemed a bit awkward, right? So I think I'll just ask he or she to buy it, and I'll make the difference after.

Letter 10 - police office

A visit to the Police Station

  My mom took me into a police station this Friday. when my mom is angry she turns into nuts! She took me there because she got really angry that she and my father went to pick me up at Taipei Main Station and I thought she told me to take the MRT, and she thought I went off running away with a boy, but no I didn't, and I was really angry that she said she saw me running toward the stairs  ( which lead me to the MRT) as soon as I left the building (my cram school)  and a boy was chasing after me, whereas I know I didn't cause I stop in front of the building to see if Sherry is waiting for me there, and it even took me about 5 minutes to text her and trying to make sure she had already gone away. I'm so pissed off that my mom can't even recognize her own daughter.(this isn't the first time)

  She said if I wanted to go home myself I have to try contacting her, which I did called her, but she left her cellphone at home, and I thought she answered it and said I can take the MRT. *Taipei Main Station is a noisy place so I didn't hear it clearly, I think the only voice that came out of her phone was the voicemail. (why I called her is because I'm scared that my father is driving the car and my mom barely came to pick me up with dad, there's only been two times) When I got onto the MRT I text them again just to make sure they know I'm on the MRT, and my dad called me on the phone, and first I thought was crap, my father did drove his car here, so I answered without thinking for a minute I'm on the MRT already. 

  They claim that I have communication problem and was really angry with me, but what they were probably really angry about me was running off with a boy(I told them I didn't they didn't believe me) or they claimed that I planned to run away from them and went for the GASHAPON. (which I did but I didn't meant to run away from them)
  We went to the police station while I was crying, she expected the polices take notes about this, and wanted me to be awkward in front of other people. But the police asked her 3 times why did we come here, she was acting crazy in front of them saying what I had done 3 times and claimed that was communicating problem and I meant to leave them there. The cops were like "Hey, hey, hey cool down let's talk outside the station." At first they were on my mom's side, but after I told them my mom was attempting to kick me outside the house for this, their attitude changed. "Your mom was kidding! And she was worried about you." "No you don't understand, she threw my sister's backpack out the window one time to kick her out."(I remember another time she locked my sister outside the door too) and the police officers were shocked. "Let me talk to your mom alone." After talking to her the cops told me not to cry anymore and they said my mom promised them not to blame me or scream at me anymore, I couldn't describe the feeling I felt, I was crying on the outside, but happy on the inside, for the first time in forever, I achieved a goal I always wanted to achieve since I was in elementary school grade 3, she finally noticed she was wrong, she had always been wrong she never try to listen to me. (this is why we have communication problems, right?)
  I think she wouldn't take any of her children to the police station again. This is the second time she went there, she was with my younger sister last time, because my sister didn't do well on the exam and screamed back at mom while Mom was yelling at her.
  I was really both grateful and sorry to the cops and I really like how it turned out in the end of this fight. I fought back, and didn't keep silent like i usually does.

Study questions

1. Where is Jason going to attend school in January?  What will make this a “shocking”  experience for him?  What should be his new baseball team?

  /1/ "Jason is off to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in January." 
  /2/ Enjoying the hockey season there might be a shocking experience for       
          him.
  /3/ Fortunately, he probably get to enjoy the game played by the Toronto Blue 
       Jays. 
3. What did Mr. Maher do to qualify for his “free breakfast” on this holiday?

     To let his son Patrick, who is a sergeant now, show his military ID card.4. Why are Collen (the mother) and Echo (the daughter) in Ireland at this time?

    Echo who is working, just has the occasional day off. She was looking forward to the ice skating shows.

Letter 9 - 228 memorial Park

Letter 8 - Halloween

Letter 7 - HaLlOWeEn + study question

What am I doing on Halloween

  Well... all the things got complicated, cause before we're planning to go to an elementary school and give out some candies to the children there, whereas the teacher who can arrange this for us is not willing to arrange this activity (she said the last year we went),so unfortunately, we'll be staying in school the whole time on Halloween.
   But we still want our Halloween to be special so we planned to share candies in class and perhaps go around the campus and share some with others.
   I'm wearing my mask (the one I painted) to our candy party.

meow

Letter 6 - Unique Bubbles + Into The Woods + Q

Unique Bubbles

  Have you ever had this kind of bubble tea with "the white jade bubbles"? You should try this if you haven't, they tasted better than the normal bubbles. Cause it's not only chewier but also sweeter than the black ones. (but not over sweetened) Actually, I hate drinking bubble tea, because I think the black bubbles are hard to chew and swallowing it feels weird, whereas the white bubbles taste so good at everything, and chewing on it just got me so addicted.

Into The Woods

  We're thinking about the STORY CONTEST that will be held in December and our yearly presentation since we went to TAS. Then we came up with an idea of presenting an opera, and our drama teacher said maybe we can  present "Into the woods", then Hugo started to sing the songs in it every day, and got me addicted to the song, I've seen the movie twice before and I really like it.(I'm listening to this now "Into the woods")

  And I've tried to sing the song, the characters that fits my voice are Cinderella and the baker's wife. Before I was thinking about being the witch inside (I love being a villain), but her can't do the "villain laugh" and a small part of her song, I can sing the most part of them, but not the part with a lot of vegetable.

study questions

1. Why would the citizens of Tempe think that they lived in a civilized society?
     Cause they thought that having all those facilities they have is being civilizing. They have all kinds of infrastructures and facilities, such as indoor running water and plumbing, paved streets, electrical power, and respected schools.
2. Why would they be wrong?
     Because they were satisfied with only the over sweetened dessert drinks that being called "Starbuck coffee".
3. What’s still missing, that keeps them from being completely civilized?
     They need some "Tea and Juice shops", like Da yung's.
4.Bonus question for Asian readers:  There is “pearl tea”, “boba tea”, and “bubble tea”.  Are those just different names for the same thing, or are they different.?  How are they different?
     I think they are basically the same, they all refer to tea with chewy tapioca balls inside.

Letter 5 - A postponed blessing + + Q&A

Study Questions Part

1. When is the “Moon Festival” celebrated? Give the date according to the traditional Chinese calendar, and a more reasonable date for calculating the date.

  It's on the "15th day of the 8th month" on the lunar calendar. And in other words, it's the day of the first full moon after the autumn equinox.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! YEE~

Letter 4 - Tas + answers

12th Night in TAS

  This Thursday the whole class went to TAS, which stands for Taipei America School. This school only allows born-in-America-students and teachers. The show was performed by high students, whose ages are about the same with us. But they have a very high budget I must say. They actually made two small architectures with some shining lights on them. I must say that they are getting more and more good at performing things, alas, the story that they are performing is a bit short, we were all expecting to stay there longer, just to enjoy their interesting show and the moment being with our classmates. Well, the whole story is a little bit complicated, I think Hugo will explain the whole story in the letter. But another thing I don't really like is I think the one second of the show was made by all the dances, there's way too many dances. The part I love the most is when Sebastian showed up on the stage, I don't know why he looks like Super Mario with his cap, I'm giggling downn the stage every time I'm staring at him. On the side note, my Sunday school teacher is teaching elementary school chemistry in TAS, I must say that Americans are very good at making cookies and cakes. (she actually made a cake for me in one of my birthdays)

Study Questions:

# Why is Chloe considered to be the “Queen of the House”?

Chloe should be considered the Queen of the House because…. (in your answer, mention the dogs, her eating, and how she has us all trained…)

"Because Chloe goes where she wants to go, and does what she wants to do, and all of the dogs just let her." "Chloe snuggles in close beside the napping dogs" "She has no fear of dogs"

"Chloe doesn't get her own dish of food because she eats out everybody' else's dish."

She even has a "cat door" in the window to go into the front yard without being pestered.

someone would even open the door for her if she lets out the pitiful howl.

# Why might Chloe be putting on a little extra weight?

  First, she likes to eat. Second, She eats out everybody else's dish, including the two outdoor cats. And maybe gray lizards have high cholesterol.

Letter 3 - It's always about eating + final masterpiece

Eating with Melvyn

 This is what happened on Thursday, I happened to found a restaurant that I really wanna try out, But my mom was a little bit lazy to take me there, so I got her permission to go there with my friends or classmates. Then the first friend that came into my mind was Melvyn.(I really don't know why)  So then we planned to go there together on this special Thursday. I really enjoyed this day I spent with old friend Melvyn and my friends ---- pizzas.

It's on the second floor. Did you see the big billboard with charming pictures of pizzas on it.

This is what Melvyn ordered. I think there's beef  in the curry. The beef is extremely good, with it's very soft texture mixed with curry. On the side note, Melvyn is the kind of person who orders very very very slow, I think he almost took 20 minutes just looking at the menu, figuring out what he really wanted to eat.

This is my main course of the day, it seems to be a very small pizza, but when I finished i was so full that i get feeling of almost vomiting it out.  But also it's amazingly tasty.

"Don't doubt me! I'm also a pizza, actually I'm a choco-banana-flavored pizza. "
And I must say it's the best pizza I've ever tasted ever, I'm not exaggerating, we actually ordered it for our dessert, we planned  to eat it together, but I was really really full when I finished my last pizza, like I just said before, but... I thought well... cuz I already ordered it, I have to at least take a little bite on it, and after took a teeny-tinny bite, I then fall in love with this weird little pizza. I wish I can describe the feeling and the flavour of it, but sadly I can't...
So I ate only two pieces of it... because I only stopped, when I really feel like my stomach is gonna explode if I try to eat another one. 

Letter 2 - Spiderman

Spiderman Pencil case

  This is another  thing I am making this week. In our DESIGN THINKING &  CHANGE. It's a pencil box for Patrick my teammate. This is my homework.

I decided to design a marvel character. (He really likes marvel-series-movies)

He said he doesn't want to fall asleep in class. so i designed something to move inside the pencil box, then I SAID i wanted to put water and a surfing spiderman in it. He said ok. Then I asked him what colored water will he prefer, he said blue. The major obstacle of achieving the goal is stop the water from dripping out, the minor one is the water's color, which I SACRIFICED my two blue highlighter for it. In the middle of everything, the spider man fall and got wet (i don't know how). so i redo it and added a pin underneath it.
   By the way, thank you for posting my drawing on your letter. (smile☺

                            

Letter 1 - Art + EILTS / Occupying new cleaning jobs

Spare time = Producing more arts

  Well, since my dream job is about architecture... teachers said that school will require us to show our work collection to them. My mom said since I had a myriad of time in  summer vacation after I went to help out the summer camp which was held by her friend Rebecca. (Yes, again! the same organizer of last winter camp!I went there again this time apart from last time, I'm not the team leader, I became the coordinator of the whole camp!) So, I started creating some weird stuffs , I mean arts! I scanned them below to show everyone ↓↓↓

It remained uncolored, I think this drawing represents the craziness of imaginations inside me :) 
I think I'll call this the "opposite world".

Well, when I first came up with drawing a flying fish, I'm thinking about drawing a thing to represent ''Freedom". And I thought of it. To be frank, the background wasn't like this before. I did it's background with painting and I wanted to draw waves in it, whereas it turned out in vain, then I have to cut the fish out and draw another background for it. Then I thought I always love ducks, they are supper dupper cute, so I started drawing a mallard.  incidentally, they are called "Freedom" & "Quack".

Letter 30 - Plum rain

Plum Rain

  I hate this time. Because I don't know why, but somehow I'm seriously allergic to the rain in Taiwan. When it's about to rain I can't stop sneezing, and too many sneezes really makes my head hurts, and it's hard to listen what the teacher is trying to teach you when you can't stop sneezing and the running nose problem. And sometimes it makes me really sleepy in class.(maybe this is why I like to sleep so much) If you've got this allergic problem you may not really want to exchange the weather, though really hot is annoying too, but the most horrible weather in Taiwan is when you've got lots of hot and humid days, you feels the hot and sticky feelings all around you. Another horrible thing is before the rain starts it gets extremely muggy, and anyone will fall asleep in class. I remember one muggy day with math class, everyone (except for Melody, and we all don't know why, she often sleeps in class, but not on this day) fall asleep, even the most hard-working student Cathy, who doesn't sleep in any class.

Letter 29 - A whole bunch of tasty Turkish images

Reply to the letter

  I'm really excited for my future college, and whenever I heard something interesting about Australia, I go a bit crazy, thank you for putting the big eucalyptus tree's picture on your letter. This is the first time I've seen the tree "eucalyptus" written in English, and it's really funny when I try to pronounce it the first time, and I'm like "yuki?" "lipstick?" "no...no...no...I'll try reading it again...". And it took me a while to get the pronunciation correct...

  I've been putting really much effort into English, it's hard to keep up when you have advanced English to study and have to study other subjects too. (or you'll have to stay in senior high repeating the grade forever...QAQ) But I've really made up my mind to study harder, no matter how much my math and social study might regress, I clearly know what I'm aiming to.

  As I read through the letter, I felt a bit sad for Superior, all the prosperity was gone, all that's left is the gradually emptied town...

  The last part of the letter made me really hungry, that I forgot about all the sad part of Superior. Here's some picture I googled. (hahaha...It's a revenge to make you hungry too) 

tavuklu pilva

Letter 28 - Mango Season + Song

The Mango Season

  In summer, Taiwan is abundant with all kinds the fruit. But the most popular one for the foreigners is Mango. And the smell and the taste would 200% get you addicted. Personal suggest the "Golden Mango". It has the unique texture, sweet, juicy and quite chewing.

  The best ways tasting mangoes. If you hate peeling fruit, you can try cutting it like the picture below. First, cut it into half. Next, cut the net shape inside the mango. Last, turn the pulp inside out. Then, well done, enjoy your mango.

Letter 27 - Memorial Day + What I did in Dragon Boat Festival... + Cyanide & Happiness

Memorial Day

  There are some pictures I saw on Instagram I wanted to share.

Letter 26 - piñata + The useless box + Don't Say + drawing + Purify

 piñata 

  I made this once in our cram school, I had a teacher who wants to make it, so she told the whole class how to make it , and we started making it. I don't really remember what I made, but it recalled me that my teacher made a chicken, and the neck of the chicken was a really challenging part to make, and we did put some candies in it. it's really fun back then. (it's when I'm still in 3 grade)

Letter 25 - Picture book + B-day 4/30

Picture book

  We did a picture book. Link in the video: Teddy Bear, Louis, Toby and Peter.
Watch it on my Facebook... cause I can't upload it here.

Letter 24 - Easter egg hunt + About the basketball tournament + Singing competition + Campus cafe

Easter egg hunt

  Wow putting on the Easter eggs on the tree branches...isn't it a dangerous action. I mean what if the wind blow throw the branches and the forked egg fall?

Letter 23 - thank you + a red eye + sing sing sing + eggplants + Akita + Easter

I was astonished To Tim

  In the last letter i sent to you, you showed care in your comment, and you do comfort me a lot, thank you Tim. When I saw the comment I was surprised to see your long long comment, because I think it's two to three times longer than the other comments you sent before. I'm an emotional person, when I saw that I felt so warm and almost cry... I really thank you very much. And for the stress part me and the teacher figured out when we have time to talk about it, but I'll have to do it in one of Summer's class on Tuesday and I'm not quite happy about it.

Letter 22 - NCCA "March madness" + "Gazebo" + Sick AF + Stressed

NCCA "March madness"

  The total number that we got right were #5, and we received a small reward(strawberry-flavored POCKY) from Summer, because the other two teams in our reading and writing group got #4 and #0.(they didn't calculate) I was quite happy. :)

Letter 21 - NCAA "March madness" + Cup song... right... + Hugo

NCAA "March madness"

  It's really weird that we had got 23 guesses right by choosing the states that sound familiar or we like,(ex. I choose Purdue because it made me thought of the beautiful color purple, and I remember the most id Kansas it sounds a bit like cancer so I chose it.) we didn't do any research about it and we don't know much about them. We take turns picking them, we were really good at guessing and predicting, huh? But this talent always disappear when I'm taking the test, ha ha!

Letter 20 - Water Birds + An Apocalyptic Dream

Water Birds

  I thought you are going to write about the cutest bird -- "the mandarin ducks". They were also very beautiful birds, and in traditional Chinese culture, mandarin ducks are believed to be lifelong couples, unlike other species of ducks. A Chinese proverb for loving couples uses the mandarin ducks as a metaphor"Two mandarin ducks playing in water". 

Alice+Fox+Saturday

Tim's old friend -- Alice

   I went and visited Alice's website, it's fulled of interesting snacks, recipe and impressive short sentence. There's one it said, "I won't be impressed with technology until I can download chocolate." Another one said, "Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies." This one makes me a little bit confused, can't quite get the meaning of this.

The Portfolio of My Literature Circles (Doris)

Book: Loser 

Author: Jerry Spinelli

The Portfolio of My Literature Circles (Doris)

Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Author: Mark Haddon

Letter 18 - Rats + 2/28 + Baseball + Nosedive

Rats

    One time, when my mom was sun-drying our clothes on the porch she saw a string like a wire on the plat form, so she thought why is there wire in this place, then she pulled it out and astonishingly she found out it was a dead rat's tail. But luckily the orange at the front porch of my house hadn't suffered from the pain of rats' bite, but it's probably because it rarely grow oranges out of it's branches.
    Another time I saw a dead rat at the marketplace, it was caught by human and guess how did it die? It was caught by a mousetrap and put into a box made out of Styrofoam, which is full of water. It was drowned to death! Though I think rats may seemed really annoying in our life, but when I see their sparkling and innocent eyes they seemed quite cute.
    I think the cutest kind of rat or mouse in the world is a "jerboa".

Adorable little thing

Letter 17 - Hand-made book about Winter Camp 2017

Letter 16 - Groundhog+Chinese New Year+The hand-made book Winter camp+pop game

Letter 16 - Groundhog's Day

Groundhog?!

    I'm not really sure what is a gopher and marmot, so I went searching on the Internet and this is what I found out. And I don't think any of them exist in Taiwan, so I can't really tell their difference. But I think it's really a clever idea to predict the weather by groundhogs. 

This is a marmot which is called "土撥鼠" in Chinese, but somehow a groundhog is also called "土撥鼠", too.
Marmot, "Hug me, hug me, plz!"

Response to Tim's letter

Letter 1 - Say hello

Letter 2 - Moon Festival

Letter 3 - Why I can't get a pet + My sis's new hobby

Letter 4 - Pressure and test+++

Letter 5 - No one knows LOL...+Halloween+Donald Trump 0-0

Test, test 123