Failure Happens...

     Well, if you haven't known already, I technically failed the 21-day challenge.

     I can explain, after that day, I completely forgot about writing on my blog.

     Yeah. So, now school already started and it's going to get harder to post than in the summer, but until now, homework hasn't been that tight.

     However, this is still the 1st week of school, and I wonder if our superiors just want to push that intensity lever slowly and slowly, we will get more and more projects and homework that most people just take their anger out on people.

     This is also why this my grade, 7th grade is the grade where most bullying takes place.

So, hello.

     I am here to announce to the people of the world that I am going to write on my blog without stopping for 21 days. Yeah, it sure sounds like a challenge, so, anyways, today is the first day and I have 15 minutes to write to you. Here we go.

     Recently, my mom opened a store in a local tourist area on the island that we currently live on, Puerto Rico. In fact, right now as I am typing this, sitting down hammering the keyboard of this public computer of the library, I am wearing a shirt that says Puerto Rico 1493. Did you know that in 1493 Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico and colonized it? Well, yeah, so that's why it's an important year for Puerto Ricans, the year Columbus took their freedom away.

     So anyways, back to the subject. My mom opened a store in Viejo San Juan called "Gifts to Go" and I work there for approximately 10 hours a day, earning 1 dollar per hour. Yeah, I know, that's below minimum wage, but that's because I am not 18 years old, and I can't legally "work". Yeah, I just announced to the world that I am not a legal adult and therefore cannot have a gmail account in the first place. Yeah. However, I think Google should really change the way their systems work, because anyone can just enter a year that's not their real birthday and get away with it, for example, me. OK, enough of that, let's get back to the topic.

I've been working there for some time now, about a week, because now, my mom owes me quite some money.

So, I guess I'm gonna end it here for today.

Bye!

     

     Hey guys, I know I didn't post, but there's a reason. Nope, there's no reason/excuse because excuses stop HERE. Anyways, hear my reason first, would you? So, on Tuesday 

Recent Summary

          Hey people, I know you just happened to stop by my blog just cause you're bored or because you just accidentally clicked on it, but can't you just spare a few minutes of your life to look at the lives of the people surrounding you? For example, ME.

 Anyways, let's just recap on what's happened in the last two months. Well, I don't have a photographic memory, but I'll just focus on the main points. 

         A really sad thing is that I only got 10th place in the annual school spelling bee. Guess what, last year which is to say fifth grade I actually got the fifth place which is kind of ironic. Do you see the pattern? Last year I got the fifth place and this year I got tenth. Maybe next year I'll get 15th and maybe after that I'll get 20th, but for now, I'll just tell you how I failed and what I learned from my past experience. 

The first thing and the most important thing I've learned from my past failures is to never overestimate yourself. Never think you have luck and maybe even god on your side. 

This year I've failed at planning my strategy to crush my opponents, but I've ironically happened to just completely crush myself. You see, I knew the words pretty well, I could basically go rapid-fire on the words if I really wanted to. See, I just overestimated myself, and that's what got me out of the bee. I went too fast. Too fast for even me to handle. Like about 3 words per second. Maybe that doesn't sound like a lot to you, but you're welcome to try for yourself.

See, I thought if I went supersonic on saying the words, maybe my adversaries would have extra pressure on their shoulders that would hopefully force them to eventually make a mistake. 

Unfortunately, my first unlucky victim was myself. I choked on the word "grotesque" even though when I made my mistake I realized it the second I made it. But there was no going back so my ultimate supposedly undefeatable strategy resulted in successfully defeating myself. 

Moving on, February 24 of 2018 was the regional for the math counts in P.R. I wasn't part of the team mostly because I was sick when they were ranking the students. In other words, I didn't take the qualification test. 

Though I still went to the regional I was only an alternate. After the results came out to the public I found out that I actually ranked fifth in my region. I had the second best ranking in our school after a math expert named Jessica. Jessica's brother won first place in the national math counts competition in the states when he was in seventh grade. 

Hope I filled you up with enough info for at least the night because I'm going to post again tomorrow. If you like reading my posts, please follow my blog and email me by jerryjiaruichen@gmail.com. Thanks for reading!