Last Day of Sophomore and Home School Presents: The Demonstration of the Professional Tennis Serve

Since this is my last day of school, I thought of putting up one last post about it. :'-( On the bright side, this may or may not my be my last blog post period. Anyway, I have a video and several funny takes underneath it titled Bloopers. Enjoy!

Performance

BLOOPERS! :-D

Practice Round

Take 1

Take 2

Take 3

Take 4

Almost There!

Back to Work! = :-( Last Day of Internship! = :-)

Hey, Blogger readers! I was just catching up on my blog and just posted my last three drafts, which are like up to three weeks old! Anyway, here is the most recent event of the week: Internship.

Yesterday morning was rather boring, for the most part, because this time, I was in the library, instead of observing an English tutor. In the library, I was allowed to organize books in order, which I am good at, or read some of the books if I wanted to. I did not look at any of the books, because I had my own book with me, but eventually, I got bored of it. I was there from 10 a.m. to 11:15, until I decided to look for Ms. Alex, who was in the middle of a meeting. I went to the lady at the front of the library, and told her I was going to leave. She was then under the impression that I was looking for my mom, and was about to call her, but I explained that she did not have to. She went out looking for her anyway, though, because Mom arrived while I waited in the hallway.

I did 2 hours this week, 3 hours, and then a half hour the first day. So that is 5:30 hours.

The United Nations Interview

About a week ago, in history, we learned about the League of Nations and the United Nations We all wrote down different question based on what we wanted to know. For example, I wanted to know what the UN actually does when handling a conflict, so my questions were about actions; Rima wrote questions like "What is your name?" "Where do you live?" Some examples of my questions were "Are there any Dos and Don'ts in the UN?" "Is there a UN uniform?" and "Are some situations hard to solve?" Our interviewee said that there are some difficult situations where there is no clear cut to the solution. One example was a recent one between Ukraine and Russia. The interviewee also taught us that some workers of the United Nations wear their cultural clothing from the nation they represent. She also taught us about the Melennium Declaration and the Court of Justice. She even said that there are different companies that are connected to the UN, such as UNICEF and the WHO. One of my other questions was "Are the UN reactive or proactive?" and she said that the UN is proactive.

Define Education

For the Wizard 101 website, I thing it makes you socially educated; as in you learn about making friends and teamwork. It also teaches you how to handle money, as in being careful about deciding what you would like to buy by looking at how much money you have and looking at the price of the item you would like to buy. Another thing it teaches about is finding your way around. You can even learn how to use a map or a compass. And finally, it also teaches you about caring for your pets. You can take your pet to a special place where you can train it and reward it with snacks.

For the IXL website, I think it makes you mathematically educated, as in it helps you improve your math skills.You can select any grade level and select any lesson, such as fractions, Roman numerals, and integers.

For the Free Rice website, I think it helps you improve your vocabulary skills and also helps you understand how to use them. Unfortunately, it does not explain what the words mean, but for each word you get right, a certain amount of rice is donated to a UN food program country.

My Autism Reflection

Today, we interviewed a teacher from Austria, Anita. She has been to many places around the world, and one of her students has a condition called Asperger Syndrome (AS), which is similar to Autism, but a rather mild version. I too am an Aspie, and I have never met anyone else with AS, at least nobody around my age. I have one friend who is an autistic Aspie, and I consider Temple Grandin my personal hero, but, again, I have never met anyone my age with AS or Autism.

This 13-year-old Aspie boy and I seem to have a lot in common in most ways but we are different in other ways. We both have occasional freak-outs, and we both understand our condition.We are different because I think he sounds more aggressive than me. Anita said that she would sometimes call the police, which put him higher on the Autistic Spectrum, and I am rather low.

I was really amazed to learn about another kid with autism, because I could totally relate to the problems that he and I both occasionally struggle with.

Our First Yoga Class

Today, we had our first yoga class. I have done yoga before, so it was not as new to me as it was to everyone else. I started doing yoga when I was little, like maybe first grade. My physical therapist gave me a deck of cards with different yoga poses on them, most of which were animal poses, such as the downward-facing dog, the cat, and the cobra. Other poses I learned were like the tree, or the hero/warrior. Anyway, the class lasted for 45 minutes. We did our first round of sun-salutations after listening to a long 5-minute lecture about yoga and its benefits. We then finished the class with an imagery exercise, and then I felt purely relaxed, and I think everybody else did too.

Internship Day 2

This morning was rather boring for the most part. Aside from waiting for Ms. Alex to know that I arrived, it all started when I was waiting for a tutor session to observe. Then Ms. Alex asked me to join a couple of the PTs in a game for teaching English (so I was told). It was more of a Get-to-Know-You board game. On each space it said something like "Your pet" or "What country you are interested in". The PTs, who are girls, started the game by saying "If you had to be anything but a human, what would you be; and why?" It was tricky for me to answer that question, so I tried to think hard. "Spring, I guess," I said. "Why?" asked the girls. "Because it's nice and warm, but not to hot or too cold." I was allowed to be something like a season, by the way. Then they asked me "What kind of person would you be?" In other words, who do I want to be someday? "Actress or singer." That was when they got excited and my morning was suddenly interesting. "Sing to us!" they begged. Of course, I get nervous when I have an audience to sing to, and I was already really shy to these girls. I then sang three songs to them, and they still could not get enough out of me. Then, to my great relief, Ms. Alex returned with my bag and said "Your mom is here waiting for you." I had already seen Mom pass down the hall after singing my last song, so I knew she was there. Apparently, she and the girls were not the only audience I had. "Was that you singing? I thought I heard singing." said Ms. Alex. When I got to school, Ms. Rachel, as I expected, asked me how my internship went. I told them how boring it was with no PTs and tutees to observe, and she said: "That's how it sometimes is."