Tomorrow'll be the day of the final term Tomorrow I will have the final test of this term. I can’t write any more things! I have to have enough energy for tomorrow’s test.

A Happy Day Today my mom, dad, brother, and I went around Xuefu Road. First we went to my piano lesson. My teacher is Mr. Zhang. I practiced for twenty-five minutes. Mr. Zhang said that I did well. Then we went to Lvsewujizhoupu (a porridge restaurant, it had foods too) in Auchan Supermarket. I looked at the menu. Let’s eat some original porridge! Then, we’ll have a roll with some beef and vegetables. When my dad purchased, he asked for a little monkey, and gave 1 yuan to the cashier. I then gave the red monkey to my brother Henry. When the food came, I ate as fast as can that some of the food fell! My dad told me not to eat so fast. After we ate at the restaurant, we went to the supermarket. Just as I got in, I got an ad paper for Henry to play with (he’s a baby). Mom then took us to buy some toilet paper. I helped mom find the price for each roll. This Auchan brand is 23.8 yuan; it has 12 rolls. The Vinda brand is 19.9 yuan; it has 10 rolls. Then I got out mom’s phone, calculated 23.8÷12, it equals 1.983333… yuan/roll. Then I found out that the quotient of 19.9 ÷ 10 is 1.9/roll by heart. I was just going to get the Auchan brand when mom said, “Take the Vinda one, it’s nice.” Then we went to eat some bread. It was so nice that I ate a lot! I’m a foodie, am I? Then I gave my brother a piece. Meanwhile, we met dad. He bought the other goods and put them into the cart. At last, we went to the checkout line to pay. I then stole out two ad papers for Henry, then went home.

The 3-Day Countdown to the Final Test There’s a 3-day countdown until we’ll have the final test for this term. I am reviewing real hard. I’m a little bit nervous because I’m not doing real well on the practice tests done these few days. What I’m doing now is turning over all the main subjects’ books: Chinese, Math, and English. I’m not only turning over them, but also having dictation. After I pass, I move to a higher step of learning. Today we had a practice test on math. I got 99 points! Just one to 100! I just wrote one wrong problem! “Must get 100 on the final test! Must get 100 on the final test! Must get 100 on the final test!” I “fortune-told”. I really want to have a great result on the final test on Monday!

Researching in Writing Class (The First Week) Today I learned about researching in my writing class. Today we learned about plagiarizing. Plagiarizing means to copy other people’s work. What we did is to look at several pages that our teacher Debi cut from certain websites. We first collected information from it. It was about the Triple Crown. We collected some information from picture A, some from B, and some from C. The next one we did is hard! We had to look at information from the website and put it in our own words. Debi said we couldn’t have more than 3 words that are the same as the article (each row). It was so hard that none of the people had less than 3 words of “plagiarizing”. Then, Debi gave us homework! She said it was very simple and I think it is too! You just fill out the form and answer some questions and send it to the teacher. I think writing class is very fun, easy to the level of less homework, and hard to the level of knowledgeable.

Black Hole Numbers This afternoon, I looked at my Olympic math book. It had an interesting story after each section of the book. I read an interesting one about black hole numbers: Take any natural number, and split it into three parts, one part is for the odd numbers, one is for the even numbers, and another is for the sum of the number of odd and even numbers. For example, use 892,102,345 (it’s not the same as the book). There are 5 even numbers and 4 odd numbers, and the sum is 9. So we get 549. Then repeat doing that. There is 1 even number and 2 odd numbers. Then you get 123. After that, you can’t do anything. Then use another number, 296. There are 2 even numbers and 1 odd number. 2+1=3, so you get 213. There is 1 even number and 2 odd numbers, and the sum is 3. At last, you get 123 too! Some people say maybe it’s just a coincidence. Use 8 as an example. 1 even number, 0 odd numbers, and get 101. Then, there is 1 even number and 2 odd numbers in 101. At last, you always get 123! You can never leave 123 in this rule; mathematics is fun, isn’t it?

Learning from Idioms The final test of this term is coming soon. I am reviewing hard on all the subjects, including Chinese, Math, and English. Today I reviewed Chinese. I first reviewed the synonyms and antonyms. There were a lot of synonyms. I first looked at this one. What does “very” go to? Yes, “especially”! There’s another antonym here. What does “soft” go to? That’s right! It’s “hard”. Then I reviewed some idioms in Chinese. I looked some idioms about learning. One was about tireless learning. Another was about studying very hard. I always remember the story. It’s about a boy named Kuangheng. He loved learning. His family was very poor, so he digged a hole. The hole was for collecting light from his rich neighbor. That’s how he learned. I think he is very diligent. From these idioms I know that we have to work hard when we are young, or else we won’t have a free choice of selecting jobs when we grow up.

Previewing Half Magic I have an English lesson about reading books. One book is called Half Magic. Our teacher gave us questions on the book to answer. I looked at the book real careful and real fast. Then I answered the questions. Oh! There were some that I don’t know! So, I had to look at the book carefully again, but not fast. Finally, I finished all the questions. I am very happy. And I saved the already-answered file. So I could look at it in class (I’ll cheat).

Reading and Writing Class Today I went to the class for reading and writing. I go there every Saturday, but today is special. It was Liyeyao’s (Liyeyao’s mom managed the whole series of training [including Chinese, math, and English]) birthday and it was the last class of the term. I took a colorful necklace (worth 7 US dollars) there. Then Liyeyao’s mom gave everyone a big piece of cake, and everyone begged for more. So Liyeyao’s mom had to give more than half of a piece of cake to everyone. We ate as fast we could and returned to the learning status. This class had a monitor, one by one. Today’s monitor was Lixiao; he was very tall. We then learned two articles of reading comprehension. The monitor of the class always read out loud first. When it was my turn, I read fastest and loudest. Then, our teacher let us say the synonym and antonym of certain words. At last, we wrote compositions. After I did that (I was the fastest in the whole class), I went to see if my dad came. Xiaochenxi’s (a friend of mine) dad was there. He showed me a message sent from dad. Xiaochenxi’s dad sent, “I’ll pick up your son!” Dad sent, “Alright! Thanks!” So I went home on Xiaochenxi’s dad’s electronic car. I enjoy reading and writing class very much, it could let us me knowledgeable.

My Brother Henry My baby brother is very naughty. His name is Henry. Henry plays with himself. He sometimes holds big diaper bags and carries it around the room. He also carries a broom and dustpan, pretending to be a cleaner. I often laugh at his cute behavior. Henry plays with his ball. He puts the ball in the basket. Look! He’s just like a basketball athlete! Henry plays with me. He often plays with me on my bed. Grandma sleeps with me, so he often goes to her bed and coming back. So Grandma and I must take care of him. When he comes to my bed, he just jumps and plays with me, naughtily. I love Henry very much!