ah monday

So it's that day of the week again. Monday. 

First weekday, first school day, first of the five days it takes for the next weekend to come again. Ah, I once saw this guy that said "I wish there were 2 weekdays and 5 weekends." Genius. 

I mean humans would most likely be less educated but some people would prefer it that way. The point is I had a day full of classes and I was exhausted by the end of them. 

Luckily I didn't have much homework today becuz otherwise, that would've been bad for me. So let's start, shall we? 

First class physics, talked about speed and velocity, scalar and vector, distance and displacement, and did a worksheet. 

Music, basically nothing, read easy notes on the treble clef and clap to the beat of the score. 

PE, a little vocab exam, then ab exercises like all sorts of crunches in all kinds of ways. I never knew there were that many ab exercises. 

Algebra, review of homework, quiz on Quizziz, easy 100. 

English, reading and discussion questions of the text I was talking about the other day, and a quick write of two specific words in the title and epigraph that evoked a sense of place, a lot of people chose different words but I think as long as you give enough evidence to bolster and buttress your answer there should be no wrong or right one. 

Spanish, a little quote that we needed to relate with ourselves, and then go over the quiz last time, I got 3 points off from the one I filled with fluff so that an 85% dang, I'll need to raise it up in the future. 

Then finally History, watched an advertisement video of Puerto Rico, discussed, and basically just talked about a little about what we were going to do next class, it's gonna be a project thing with Google Earth. And that was my school day. 

30 seconds ago my mom just waltzed in through my door, looked at the time, called me crazy for being up at 12, took my phone, and waltzed out. wow. 

Guess that means I don't have phone for tomorrow, jeez time is so dumb. 

Why can't you help me out sometime huh? It's not nice always being on my mom's side. 

Oh well, maybe I can convince time to help me out later but for now, it's forcing me to go to bed. so bye

the whole package

Today I did some math. Well, mostly homework that I had from the AoPS classes that I missed. It was mostly ok but some problems were still a bit tricky, like a little detail that messes up the final answer. 

Uh let's see, oh yes I also briefed a friend of mine on well a lot of the stuff he needs to know since he's new to the school. 

Let's refer to him as Friend L, or just L because I'm a bit short on time here. L is the son of a friend of my parents, he's been living here for a long time but he's always been going to another school and he's two years below me. 

Anyways first off I asked him how all the classes were going, he said he liked them and that the teachers were nice. There is a little problem with L though, his English isn't too prolific, just from his emails (becuz he doesn't have a phone) you can tell that he has some simple grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. 

Now, this isn't too hard to fix, and it's understandable since he had been going to an all-Spanish school for the past few years. However, L did say that they taught English classes at his old school so I guess it's kinda like Spanish for me. But then again, I think my Spanish is a little better than his English, although I AM technically two years older than him so that should be taken into account as well. 

L is pretty good at math so his dad wants him to get into Mathcounts and compete, but I think he might struggle a bit at first with problem reading and comprehension of what the problem is asking for. So I told him all about the Mathcounts rules, process, where to find the problems, solutions, and all that. 

Subsequently, since he IS new to the school he doesn't know anyone in his grade yet. And me being moi I decided to introduce him to a couple of his classmates since I happen to know a few peeps from his grade. 

Not flaunting or anything, but I have quite a reputation at school, I think a lot of people know me from all kinds of places. Uh so yeah, got L a couple of people's contacts so if he ever had problems with his classes or stuff he could contact them and it would be a lot simpler for them to help him out than me since after all I don't take classes with him and I don't know what the teacher has taught and is specifically asking the students to do. 

And I also helped L set up his Instagram account because L doesn't have a phone and Instagram is compatible with computer and it's also easier to contact his classmates and just overall facilitates the communication process between the two of us as well. I don't check my email every day either. Basically, I gave L the whole package he'll need for the next two months or so. 

So that's about it I think, this weekend went by quite fast I was just talking to Psi about how time disappears as we wish for the week to go by quicker and for the weekend to arrive sooner only to find that the weekend is already over and the whole process is put on infinite loopback. 

Yeah, pretty scary when you think about how time just flies by as your hopes for the time to go by faster seems to speed up your every day, every hour, every minute, every second. 

I'm gonna get some rest now, too much philosophy for one day. good night

Cueva del Indio

Today is a Saturday so my parents and I went out to see this tourist spot that we've never been to before. This place was called "Cueva del Indio", and it's a pretty big place. 

However, the cave is very hard to climb, and it's hard to get to the cave too. There's no carved out path or anything, just a ton of weirdly shaped rocks, like spikes but not that sharp, however, I'm sure you could get hurt really easily if you weren't careful about your footing. 

Too fast and you'll stumble and fall onto those jagged rocks, break a bone, or at least it'll leave a really deep scar, one that'll probably accompany you for the rest of your life. But those spiky rocks aren't the worst part, to get to the caves you need to descend into them. 

And how you ask? There were two ways going down, one was the usual one that people use, this little hole that you can hold on to both edges of a narrow cavern passage as you go down bit by bit. Then there's this other one, it's a lot more open, but it's also steeper and slipperier. Fewer footholds to grab onto to, more chances that you'll slip and fall into the deep, cold, uneven rocky ground below. 

So, at first, I didn't want to go down into the cave but my dad made me cuz I said that I would go if he went first and he went first so yeah. I made it to the bottom of the cave, now, going up through the easy entrance seemed to be difficult now. 

It's like a slide that goes down so I knew that it would be hard to go up through that one. That's when I started going up the hard way. Basically, there are three parts to this entrance/exit. 

First, you need to use the sides of the cave as leverage and push yourself up to this half platform thing, when you're there then you need to put your foot up to this high place. Mind you, doing that was hard considering you had barely any places to help you. And you since you were basically rock climbing freelance, no protection, you needed to hold onto the little nooks and crannies of the steep cavern wall just to not fall down. Then after you get your foot to the high ground you use that foot to push yourself away from that wall and basically perform a small jump to another foothold and from there it's quite simple to get to the top. 

So basically I had no trouble with the first one, it took some time for the second one, but the jump was a little too much for me. I mean letting go of all the holds, all limbs midair with nothing to grab onto to, then you need to find another one taking into account the momentum and force of the jump. 

Pretty hard, luckily there was a rock-climbing expert guy there, and he pulled me up from the second part lol. Pretty fortunate for me that he was there so thank you. 

Yeah, great day overall, after all, I haven't been outside for quite some time so it was refreshing. 

Yup and tomorrow is Sunday so, gotta go to bed. bye!

Educated Guesswork

Today was a, let's see, interesting day. 

First off we had English, we read a little excerpt from a book called uh oh wait I forgot the first part of the name. Um, something something Girls Raised By Wolves. Yeah and there's a St. Lucy's in there somewhere.  Then there's that part where we started to do some questions on google slides but we never quite finished. We didn't have it for homework though so that's relieving at the very least. 

Then there's Spanish, probably the most intense class today in terms of time limitations. We had a quiz of 6 written problems and we basically only had like 20 minutes to answer all of them and that included the time it would that to send it to her email. 

Anyways, when there were only 3 minutes left I still had one question entirely in blank so I kinda wrote a lot of bluff and fluff on that one, kinda guesswork. Educated guesswork one could say. I'd say I have a good chance at getting a B+

Yup and last class geography. First, we did our little presentation, we didn't need a PowerPoint but out of the four groups, two of them made PowerPoints. ugh. I should've made one too, I mean I really should've thought of visual representation. 

But anyways, at the time I needed to make the best out of what I already had. We wrote the most, I did most of the writing, the rest of my group came up with one or two ideas and I put their ideas along with my own into one big, great script written by moi. I was praised shortly after the presentation for my sublime word choice lol. 

And tomorrow's saturday, yes!! First day of the weekend. We made it past another week now. Two weeks down, aaaand a lot more to go. welp, guess Ill go get ready for bed now. bye

physics is sad

Well, another day has gone by. Wow, time really does fly doesn't it. 

Today in Physics we took a little quiz and according to the teacher, no one got a perfect. He used my quiz as an example to show all the answers to the corresponding questions. 

The topic was significant figures, like adding, multiplying stuff, and rounding them to the correct amount of significant figures. I got one question wrong and it was because I didn't know that in adding and subtracting numbers, you round it to the least amount of significant figures AFTER the decimal place, so when I did it to the total amount of significant figures I got it wrong. saddd

Anyways, then in Music, as I said last time there are only two kids in my class so we divvied up the time and I gave the other kid the first half because he said he needed the time after to get from one house to the other before lunch break ends. Anyways, I had the second half of the class. 

Today the teacher sent me some charts. Piano chord chart, Chord inversion chart, and the scales and chords in key C. The Key C one was pretty simple but the other two I'm still not too familiar with. There are tons of chords and all sorts of keys, not to mention inversions. First inversion, second inversion, blah blah blah. 

So yeah, I'm gonna try to familiarize myself with these chords and inversions before the next class. 

Then there's PE, oh my, everyone just LOVES PE. jk. First, we needed to do a presentation, my group needed to present about Impulse Control. 

Pretty simple stuff anyways, the work-out today was pretty intense. Basically, I did 450 jumping jacks, not in a row ofc but it was still pretty tiring. Scratch that, really really tiring. 

Yup, and then final class Algebra. 

Really simple topics in Algebra today. Well, it was mostly only one. Basically, it was just polynomial multiplication. Multiplying different polynomials, I mean it's straightforward I really don't know why we spent an entire class on that. 

Oh well, yeah that's about it. cya!

big literature day

So I'd say today was a big literature day. 

Well, first of all, I had my two language classes English and Spanish one after the other. 

In English we needed to choose a prominent and significant quote from our summer reading and justify or explain why we chose it and how it is significant in the text. You know that amazing poem I told you about from the book I read? You know "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost? 

It was in The Outsiders so I chose that poem as the quote and wrote a little summary of the novel with verses of the poem accompanying it. 

At first, I thought I wrote a little too much because the people that were presenting before we only had the quote along with one or two sentences whereas I had like at least 7-10 sentences. Anyways, when I finished my presentation I was pretty relieved because apparently the teacher really liked it. So much in fact that she had the whole class unmute their microphones and slow clap for me lol. 

It was truly a sight to behold. That's the highlight today. 

Then in Spanish, the next period just before class started my internet went out, not my electricity, only the internet. And as I said yesterday my phone was taken away, plus my parents were out so once again I had no contact with the outside world. 

The only thing that's different this time is that my Spanish teacher is super stringent when it comes to these things, the absence is viewed really heavily so I ran down to my neighbor's house and knocked on their door. Luckily they were home so I borrowed their cellphone and dialed Psi's number because it's the only one that I've memorized out of my friends. 

However, Psi isn't in my spanish class so I told him to tell Rama that my internet was out to the teacher. It took like 20 minutes for the internet to come back but apparently, Rama didn't deliver the message clearly because as soon as I joined the teacher called on me to answer the questions they've been working on in class for the past 10 minutes. 

But, as I just joined I had absolutely no idea and I thought she would get that I wasn't in the class for the last 20 minutes but she didn't know for some reason. Anyways, it took like two minutes of explaining to get the situation clear to her. And as I thought I was catching up with the class again, you know answering all the questions and the ones I didn't get to do my internet went out again. DAMN IT!! 

It sucked. I didn't go to my neighbor again because I saw them leave in the car so right then I was really kinda helpless. In the end, I think I only took 1/4 of my Spanish class. 

When the internet finally came back again I spent like 10 minutes writing an email to the Spanish teacher explaining my absence but to this moment she still hasn't replied. WOW. 

Anyways, that's pretty much it. For the clubs, I didn't get to visit all of em, I think I'm just gonna chill in investment, and I'm still in the UNICEF group chat so I think I'll be fine with that. 

Then maybe I need to look more into Green Key because it sounds pretty cool, you tour new kids around and explain stuff to them. That kinda thing is right up my alley. 

I also wrote this amazing chinese paragraph, that started out as a descriptive paragraph about the ocean and it slowly evolved into, well, idk what. You know what I'm gonna post it here. I did it pretty quickly so don't judge too much on grammatical errors. 

到处都是黑暗，右边看是黑暗，左边看是黑暗，前面有着无边无垠的大海。月亮的白光映在暴力的海浪上，像极了打散了的白米饭。听着刺耳的狂风暴雨，暴风骤雨，又看看身上湿透的衬衫，感觉就像一个无助的小孩。即将被疯狂的海浪吞噬的孩子。但是，在这一刻，我能真正零距离的感受到世界是如此的大。海水是如此的冷，就像世界是如此的冷漠。突然感觉裤子挺暖的，哦，这代表着生命是如此的暖和。虽然这个世界让我们存活，自力更生，这并不代表它的善良。就在这一刻，世界可能都在嘲笑我们。就像宇宙是一个大教室。我们是学渣，它是学霸，它对世界的所有道理都了如指掌，玩的溜的不得了。我们呢，只能通过碰碰撞撞才能发现一个行得通的方案。大部分的时候这个方案还不是最佳的，这就有点像考试上的多项选择题。可惜的是，我们不仅不知道那个是最佳选择，我们连看所有选择都做不到。现在，你还觉得世界很公平嘛？公平，公平这个词，这个想法，本来就是人想出来的。世界又怎会遵守人定的规则呢？海里的生物也不公平，你说鲨鱼对抗小鲸鱼，这场比拼哪里公平了？碧蓝的海水，白天是多么的平静好看，一到太阳迫西山它就会露出它丑恶，恶毒，丑陋的一面。力道十足的闪电劈向海面，你说如果有人那时正好在哪里，那不就真的遭到天打雷劈了。哎呀！想着都害怕！三二一，闪电雷击！一二三，现在就散！

btw I'd say it's like super funny. So yeah, good night

oooh which to pick, so many to choose from

 so many options

So a little late on schedule today. And because of that my phone got taken away for 24 hours, dang it.

 Anyways, can't ruin the streak so here we are again. 

Guess what, speaking of speed, new highest words per minute, 109 WPM LETS GOOOO!! This means my next goal should be 120 WPM. 

Hmm, I really should've recorded the time that I got 109 so I can learn what I did in that race that I didn't do in other races. Yeah, and school was pretty boring today so I'm not gonna run you through it. It's Tuesday so I had physics, music, PE, and algebra with 80 minutes per class. 

Ah yes, so I remembered what I was going to write about lol, i almost forgot about it. Tomorrow there's going to be a "virtual club fair". 

Basically, there's a bunch of google meets and you join the ones that correspond to the club you're interested in at the designated time and there will be people there that will tell you about the club and what you should expect. 

So when they sent out the email with the whole list of google meets I was quite surprised at how many there were. I think maybe about 36 clubs. Obviously, we won't have enough time to join all of them so I chose a couple that I think I would hit up. 

First, we have the investment club, and btw the MarketWatch game ended, and at the very end, all four of my accounts made it onto the leaderboard. 

That means 4 spots in the top 10 belong to moi. MUAHAHAHHA, see what I did there? moi and mua? no? ok whatever, cough cough

SOooo as I was saying, first there's investment, then I think we would check out this thing called green key society, I heard it's pretty important so it would be cool to check it out. 

Then uh community service club and UNICEF just for the constant update on opportunities for hours. Who knows when you'll need them and this is a good way to get them if we ever dO need them.

Maybe I'll hit up the mathcounts google meet just to talk a little with whoever's there, maybe even help advertise a little. 

There's also this one called SPECTRUM and the name is cool, they didn't give a description so if I have time I'll go and see what that one's all about too. 

Then there's an interesting one called the Ted-Ed club rofl, ptdr, mdr, lol, too much? yeah i think so too, jk LOL. 

ok ok ill stop lol, so that's pretty much my rough list of which google meets I'm going to check out. yup yup, and I'll be going to bed now. cya!

pretty packed schoolday

Today is a Monday, which means I have all of my classes, all 7 of them one after the other without that much time in between them. I mean the duration of the classes is less when compared to the other weekdays, 40 minutes when on a regular day (tuesday - friday) there are 80 minutes per class. This means that we would do less in every class but all the teachers get at least some time, enough to assign homework or take an assessment lol. 

Anyways, in Physics we did conversions, unit conversions, conversion rates, all that stuff. 

In music we just did some more talking on the different uh musical notation? is that what it's called? But nothing really too substantial. 

Then PE, today's exercises weren't tooooo bad, basically, I define bad by push-ups, a long period of planking, lots of squats, and uh dumb exercises. 

Today we did have planks, but it was only 20 seconds each time. Again a set was comprised of 6 exercises and 20 reps of each. We had sit-ups, flutter-kicks, plank, one leg plank, russian twists (i think), and like one that i forgot the name which you had to keep your legs in the air. 

It wasn't too bad so I did 5 sets, the required amount was 3 btw, Psi also did 5, Rama decided to play it safe and did 4 lol, claims that he didn't want his abdomen to hurt tomorrow. I mean it's good reasoning, I hope it won't happen to me cuz that wouldn't be too nice. 

Uh, then algebra, first thing in the class the teacher said that we were going to have an assessment after we went over the homework. And then, well idk if they did it on the spot but suddenly everyone in our class had a question regarding the homework, it wasn't too bad in my opinion but I guess for some people it does prove to be a bit challenging. 

Anyways, the time it took for us to go over the homework lasted the entire class so the teacher moved the assessment to tomorrow. 

Then in English, we did a quick write on the superman reading we did last class. I need to work on my quick writes cuz they make up a part of our final grade. 

Spanish, still the most intense class, we did questions that the teacher gives, pretty hard, and as the teacher calls on people for them to read out their answers she corrects their grammar and vocabulary so it's kinda embarrassing but it's fine. for me at least. 

Then uh last class we have history, well actually today it was more like geography since we were just looking at geomorphic features of Puerto Rico, copied slides from a PowerPoint, annotate in the book, upload notes onto google doc, yeah you get the procedure. 

And yup, that was my school day. cyaaa

 Memorization

Today first thing after breakfast I took my Chinese class with my grandma. We read a couple of poems, memorized them, and deducted their meanings. 

I'm telling ya, memorizing right there, and then saying it out loud isn't the hard part, it's retaining the information after a period of time. Like last week I had three poems memorized but today I couldn't remember any of them so you see how short-term memory is so different from long-term memory?

Anyways, I think what makes your memory last is to remember it more often like how to spell banana, ok well banana, b-a-n-a-n-a and you can just spell it in your find a number of times and at some point, you're gonna remember how to spell it without even needing to job your memory. 

I also did some math with my dad, homework from my AoPS class, and some more problems with hyperbolas and ellipses. I think the problems aren't too hard, the hard part is still when you need to graph the thing. 

Then I did some Centro problems with Beam, well we didn't do THAT much today, the problems we encountered today were pretty hard, we spent like 45 minutes on the first question we decided to do and we didn't solve it. 

I even asked my TA's from the AOS camp and they were stuck on it too lol. 

So yeah, basically that's it for today. cyaaa

 graphs are not fun

Today is Saturday. Mostly free today, I did some math with my dad and oh yeah I started playing a new song on the piano. It's called "Elegy for the Victims of Earthquake and Tsunami" and it was composed by a blind musician. It's amazing how people can still compose such beautiful pieces even when they lose one of their five senses that we humans rely on the most. 

But, it's stuff and examples like this can keep on reminding us that if they can do it, why can't we? So maybe I'll get back into composing a bit.

I also played this game with Psi today called "Among Us" and it's pretty cool. It's sorta like Murder Mystery except you need to do tasks and if you can complete all the tasks before the killers kill everyone then you can win that way, other than that you could also win by voting out the killers by majority based on evidence and suspicion. 

But there's also a chance that you could vote out the wrong person, but there's always a risk for everything. 

Hyperbolas and ellipses are not cool, I don't like them. Especially when the problem asks you to graph them and label out all the "critical" points. There's so many, you need the four ends of the ellipse, the two foci, the center, and any intersections with the x-axis or y-axis. 

And with hyperbola, you have two foci, two vertices, two sub vertices, a conjugate axis, a transversal axis, and some other stuff. So yea, lots of stuff that are dumb and not really necessary. 

So yeah, if you want you guys can go listen to the song, the website I usually use to find all the scores is musescore, idk if there's a better one be sure to tell me!

https://musescore.com/user/399621/scores/2060411

that's the link to the song and there you can just click the play button and it'll play through the song while seeing which part of the score it's playing. Pretty neat huh so I'll leave you there for now. cya

 real chill

Today classes were all pretty chill. 

First was English, we did some reading and then answered some questions on a shared Google Slides. But first, we were divided into groups, since we were 18 students in total today we had two groups of 5 and two groups of 4. 

I was kinda nervous about how the teacher was going to divide the groups because since we were going to work in groups to answer the questions the members that make up your group basically make up your grade. Luckily, the teacher said that she wasn't going to grade us on this so that's good at least. 

However, I kinda wish she did now because my group was like the dream team. We had Psi and Beam and two other kids that were pretty cool too. 

So yeah pretty awesome, In Spanish we just answered some questions that the teacher gave us from the summer reading book. The questions themselves weren't that hard, it's just that it would be hard if you didn't know where to find the answers. 

Then finally in History we just copied some notes of a PowerPoint. The teacher embedded little videos of her talking and saying stuff to the appropriate slides but at that moment my internet sucked so it would take like 3-5 minutes for a 30 second video to load and I thought it wasn't worth it since there were 18 slides of those and the teacher gave us a time limit to finish copying all the info. 

And then after class I played bombparty with Psi and Beam and it was amazing. They're still new to the game so I didn't expect them to do that good at all but they did better than I expected. I mean when I first played my vocabulary sucked and I couldn't match any of the letters given with words that I knew. 

But after a couple of games I started getting the hang of it and today Psi and Beam only won one game and I won all the rest heh heh. 

Anyways that was really fun so we agreed to all do it again sometime. Tomorrow is saturday lets gooo, so byeeee

 very creative

So today's first-class was honors physics. As soon as everyone entered the class and the teacher took attendance we took a 4 question quiz about the stuff we learned on Wednesday. Significant figures, measured numbers, and stuff. 

Then we did a "lab" on this website called Pivot Interactives. Basically, there was just a video with a person pouring a liquid into a graduated cylinder on a scale and stopping at intervals, during those intervals we needed to record on a table what was the liquid volume and mass. And then make that into a graph. There were also some other problems but the rest was pretty simple. 

Then was music, today's music class we didn't really do anything at all. The teachers showed us a picture of a page from a music workbook and asked us to name all the stuff that makes up a score. However, there's a catch, we had to do the entire thing in Spanish. 

yeah, it sucked, I didn't know anything so I just sat there. Apparently, in Spanish a whole note is called "redondo" which is round lol. And then half note they call "blanco" which is white since it's empty and quarter notes are "negro" for black since they are filled in. 

Whoever came up with these sure were creative. And then eighth-notes are called "colchea" which I don't know the meaning so I wonder what happened to the guy that invented the previous three terms. 

Anyways, PE actually wasn't too bad today, we only had to do 3 sets of 6 exercises of like 10-20 reps each. And they were like easy exercises like squats and high knees and lunges. 

The final class was Algebra II, Didn't really talk about too much new material, mostly just did a deeper version of what we talked about on Wednesday. Making tables and finding out equations when given the corresponding inputs and outputs. 

Yeah, and then later on I called up Beam since he also passed TST and is going to partake in CENTRO together with me and we did some CENTRO problems. Not that much though since I had an AoPS class at 7:30 and I still needed to eat. 

In AoPS we talked about ellipses and hyperbolas and like their equations. How to find their foci, transverse axis and conjugate axis, blah blah blah. 

Yeah so that's about it for today. cya tomorrow

 CENTRO LET'S GOOOO

I'm a bit off schedule today. It's pretty late now but I figured that I shouldn't ruin my streak. 

So good news! You know that Team Selection Test that I took where I was hoping for lots of partial points? Well, guess what? I made it into the CENTRO team! 

That means that I get to actually take the test and compete in the Central American math olympiad. If we were in usual times, (which we are not), this means that I would get to travel to wherever they were going to hold the test, (this year it would've been in Panama), and well take the test. There's probably also like excursions and touristy stuff since we spend a week there I think and like the two days in the middle are when we take the exam. 

If I do really well maybe I can get a medal. I don't think my odds are too good for a gold medal, but maybe aiming for a bronze one is still a good goal. 

School today wasn't that fun, Spanish wasn't THAT bad, I even got complimented by the teacher at like the first 20 minutes of class so I got my confidence boost and pretty much powered through from there. 

We learned 12 new vocabulary words and needed to write a "personal" sentence with each one that showed our understanding of the word, at first the teacher said that we needed to have it done by the end of class so I got scared because at that time there were only 6 minutes left and I needed to write 12 sentences with words that I've never heard of before. 

However, she saw that no one finished at the time she first set so she decided to assign the unfinished sentences for homework and show it to her next time in class. 

Uhhh, oh right I completely forgot about English, um we didn't do anything too interesting so I think i'll just not talk about in considering the time it is rn.

 Finally, I had History of PR, which mostly was comprised of the teacher just playing a PowerPoint and telling us how amazing Puerto Rico is, largest rum distillery in the world, 3/5 bioluminescent bays in the world belong to Puerto Rico, only rainforest in the US of A, largest statue with two times the height as the Statue of Liberty, top 3rd largest cave formation in the world, blah blah blah. 

I mean some stuff was pretty interesting but there was just too much. And yea that's about it, cya tomorrow as I get utterly demolished in PE. 

btw my legs are still sore from yesterday.

not educating

Let me think of what happened today. Hmm, well the first class was Physics, and we copied stuff from a PowerPoint that the teacher prepared and did some examples of significant figures, exact numbers, measured numbers, and then we were assigned two worksheets for homework where we had to fill out this PDF. 

On the PDF there were graduated cylinders with liquid in them or a metric ruler with a stick next to them and we needed to measure the thing. But to fill out this PDF you needed Adobe Acrobat Reader and almost no one had it so it took a very long time to get it set up and running. I just used the free Adobe fill and sign feature on their website but at the end when I had finished the homework it didn't let me download a copy of the PDF but instead gave me a link, and with that link, you could go to the finished worksheet. 

So it isn't ideal, maybe I'll figure out a better way later on but for now, I think the teacher will be fine with it. 

Then in the music they switched teachers, so the teacher we had yesterday is now no longer our music teacher, she went to teach advanced band and we were stuck with a new teacher. This guy has never taught before and he's also never been to my school either. I don't even know where they got him from, and moreover even though this guy is a musician he's a percussionist which is way different than a pianist. So I wonder what we're gonna do. 

Anyways we spent the first half of the class just adjusting to this new guy and the second half just like showing him what we could play, small-talk, and coming up with some ideas that we could do,. Oh my, hopefully, this teacher will be more prepared for the next class. 

OOF and then we have my personally ranked worst class, PE. This teacher I've never had her before but I already don't like her too much. I mean PE stands for Physical Education, we should also be learning instead of just dying of fatigue with nearly an hour and a half of exercise. We aren't being educated, we're being tortured and we have to do exercises over and over again, plus she said that we were going to be evaluated on this so I can't even slack off. damn it. I hate PE. 

Anyways, the final class was pretty chill. We were introduced to linear functions, quadratic, cubics, patterns, and a bit of a review on how to read graphs. With the slope and all that. So yea math was ok. And then that pretty much concludes my day. 

I also made my school schedule on a word document and taped it onto my door so that I wouldn't need to log into my account every time I forget what my next class is. 

And tomorrow I have Spanish so basically, I have my two least favorite classes on different days, so is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not sure yet. 

oh well tomorrow is a new day, cya

First day

Today was the first day of high school. Am I considered as a high-schooler now? I'm not sure I haven't even gone to the actual high school yet. Anyways today classes were pretty boring, in almost every class the teacher talked about the course description and what we would be doing for the rest of the time we were going to be taking the class. 

From what I experienced today, I feel like Spanish is going to be the class that I'm going to be struggling the most in. At the start of the class, the teacher was already giving us tons of classwork and saying that even if we miss one thing she would deduct points. And she also is the teacher that gives time limits for everything, you have 3 minutes to think up a class rule that would help out our current distance learning class. And then once you're done you need to orally share your rule with the rest of the class. 

Besides Spanish, Physics might be a little tough, but today the teacher said that the class would have a lot of math in it so heh heh, you know what that means... There's a good chance that I'll do good, I won't get too full of myself yet, not when we haven't even started learning any real physics formulas and stuff. Honestly, I don't think the memorization of the formulas is going to be much of a challenge, I'll just take a peek at them before every class and as time passes I'll have them memorized even without needing to look. 

Algebra, the teacher is pretty cool, he says that he won't give any homework so there's that and also he says that his class is basically the most intensive one but I'm not scared of Algebra 2, not compared to Spanish at least. 

Oh well, I guess it's about time for bed now so I'm gonna go do that. cya and I'll be sure to keep you updated. 

 last summer day

Well, would you look at that. Summer is officially over. 

This year's vacation was a bit different than the years before but every year is unique in its own way. I mean, this one is sure to go in the history books. 

In the year 2020, the world was in crisis. A deadly virus rampaged the streets and citizens coward in fear. Nations shut their doors and enforced laws that kept everyone within their houses' walls. But it was with this virus that people realized how lucky they were to be able to walk to work every day. To see the smiles light upon peoples' faces as they greeted them every Monday morning. 

To see the flowers and trees grow with every passing day, every passing week, every passing season, every passing year. Now, all you can do is stare at the empty streets with a pigeon flying over every once in a while. Why? That's a great question. I'd be happy to answer you another time when I've figured it out for myself. 

Anyways, what's with all the sad poems of passing time? Let's cheer up a bit, shall we? 

Tomorrow's first class is Physics, Honor Physics. A person once told me that I won't get a 100 on an assignment without a curve in Honors Physics, and I'd be more than happy to prove him wrong. 

Also, I have that music class which I still don't know what it's about. So I'm also curious to see what that's going to about. Yup yup, my mom even made me get a haircut to celebrate the commencement of classes. So I'm going to go get ready for bed and the very first day of school. 

My last day of summer also signifies the beginning of the new year. The new academic year. Academics has always been a place where emotions didn't matter that much and all you need is a good memory and application of skills. 

It's pretty cruel actually. But nevertheless, it's a path every kid needs to walk on. However, there are lots of other skills we learn along the way of the 12 years we spend in grade school. 

Socializing, one of the most important ones, is now cut off in the form of online classes. 

Yea, so this year is gonna be tough, oh well the first day is important. Gonna go off now to bed and get a fresh start tomorrow. byeee

 partial partial partial

As you all know, today was the Team Selection test hosted by the OMPR organization. So as I predicted yesterday it was 4 questions and we were allotted 4 1/2 hours even though in reality only like 4 hours because you also need to take pictures of your answers and upload them onto the right assignment within that time frame as well. 

Not to mention the spacing out and thinking of dumb stuff that was not related to the test in those 4 hours. Anyways, the test didn't go too swell. I finished the first problem early on, it wasn't too bad. Number 2 was horrible. Somehow I just could find a way to solve it, I must've filled out at least 10 whole papers trying to figure it out. Anyways, in the end I wrote my process and thinking down hoping to get some partial credit. 

Then for number 3, I think I did pretty good. I made this great auxiliary line and did some proper angle chasing so I think I got that one down. 

For number 4 I kinda gave up on the end because at the time I was still stuck on number 2 so I thought if I couldn't get the second problem done I shouldn't waste my time on the hardest problem first otherwise I won't get either done. I narrowed down the answer to 3 possibilities though, so I'm expecting partial for 4 too. 

So at the end of the day partial for 2 and partial for 4, and then aim for full marks on 1 and 3. That's basically what we want rn. Also I learned some french online slag today. Just a little. 

mdr is lol and ptdr is lmao or rofl. Actually now that I think about it I barely use rofl. For those of you that don't know ROFL is an acronym like lol and lmao and it means rolling on the floor laughing. Basically is someone said something funny, like really funny then you'd use it. 

Oh, you're wondering where I learned it? A person I met on Bombparty taught me it, bombparty is this website online which is like a typing, vocabulary enhancing game where there are people in a circle and a bomb in the middle. 

The bomb points to one person at a time and gives that person a certain letter group, for example, io, and then the person who the bomb pointed to needs to type out a word correctly that contains the letter group in the right order. So in this case, if the person writes automation then the bomb would defuse and move on to the next person. If you get it wrong a lot or misspell or run out of time, the bomb explodes and you lose a life. 

You can change how many lives you want to play with. Yea so basically those are the rules and a lot of the people that play this game are french. And one of them taught me the slang i just taught you. yea so that's all for today, I also went out and got myself those notebooks since school starts in two days. cya

Live the life you'd RELIVE.

So as you know tomorrow I have my Team Selection Test for OMPR. 

So based on the past tests that I've done so far, the test shouldn't be too hard. Mostly number theory and geometry. Geometry I didn't really focus on all that much so I think I'm going to mainly tackle number theory problems tomorrow and do what I can for geometry. 

I'm pretty good at angle chasing so if there are any problems with that I think I'll be set. 

Remember how a couple of posts back I said that I had forgot to get notebooks for my upcoming classes? Well I still haven't gotten them so I made an agreement with my mom that we'd go get them after the test today. 

The duration of the test is four and a half hours, yea you read that right. Nearly 5 hours for the test that only has THREE PROBLEMS. At least I think it's three problems. 

All the previous years were three problems each day for two days, but since this year it's only one day, maybe they'll make it 4 problems. I doubt that it'll be more than that though. 

For dinner today I ate idealized ramen. You know how all the cup noodles and instant ramen packs have pictures of a big bowl of ramen with tons of toppings like beef, eggs, vegetables, etc...? Well, my mom used instant ramen and added all those things to make it resemble the picture that we all know and love but have never gotten to eat. And it tasted great. 

Maybe I'll learn how to make her version of instant ramen someday. Oh wow, I can't believe school starts in about two days. 

My class rosters came out and it turns out that I have a bunch of classes with the popular group of my grade. I mean like a ton. I don't have that much with my friends though so that's pretty sad. I have like 3 or 4 classes with Psi and Rama so that's good at least. 

You can't always get the best classmates but you should make the best out of it. Maybe I'll get to know a new side of these people after 9th grade is over. who knows. Everything has a possibility. 

Oh and I don't recall if I told you this already or not but the other day I made a quote from a school project that I fumbled across when I was organizing my emails. The quote originally was "I hope to live a life that I would relive." It sounded really profound when I first read it so I decided to make a quote out of it. 

Today I tweaked it a little to become "Live the life you'd relive." I'm not sure if it sounds better or not but I made it the home screen of my laptop so I can see it every day.

Leave a comment on which version of the quote you like better! cyaaaaa

Progress

So nothing really happened today, i took my algebra class on aops, the class was pretty easy. 

Well, not exactly easy, it's just that I've seen them before so it's not really learning, it's more of a review. We did maximum and minimum of parabolas, circle equations, minimum distance, blah blah blah. 

Hmm, there's barely enough time for me to go exercise and sleep on time so I guess my phone is a goner for today. 

Also for the new discord server, I was talking about the other day, well today it went from like 6 members to 38 members. I used a bot for it, and with that bot, you need to join other servers to earn coins to advertise your own server, and because of that the members that join thru that bot usually aren't active. They are basically ghosts that just take up a spot when we do a member count on the server. 

But nevertheless, it's still progress. And progress never stops. 

I also got a typing speed of 93 on type racer, which is basically nitro type but you need to backspace if you typed a character incorrectly so it's like more realistic, also there are no nitros so you can't just skip a word instantly like in nitro type. Yea not bad, I still get occasional 50s and 60s but mostly 70+. Again, progress.

 finished

So I upheld my oath, and I finished my Spanish reading today. wow. It feels like that book took forever to read. 

Anyways, I'm finally done with it, the ending was pretty cool, they found that the supposed "heart of Voltaire" in the National Library was a fake, and the real one was in a coffin that was actually really close to the protagonist in the second half of the book. 

Like the protagonist was looking for clues in this really big beautiful library, and there lay hundreds of coffins with monks that lived in that place. And the great Voltaire was in one of them the entire time. So anyway, at the end they found that the real one was in a coffin and the heart in the library was a fake, but the government chose to not announce that the one in the library was a fake, but instead change the real one for the fake one, and say that they have now confirmed the authenticity of heart in the library. 

And the protagonist became famous, known worldwide for his great studies, he would have gotten greater fame if they announced that he found the real one and proved the other one as fake but I suppose he didn't care about the fame. 

So yea, also ive been working on a discord server recently, and rn there's barely any members but idk what i wanna do with it yet. Any suggestions?

Open Sky

Today wasn't particularly productive, my parents went out shopping at Costco... 

Oh so their original plans were that my dad was going to drop my mom off at her store and then come back home to do math with me but then when they got to the store they found that one of the bricks that made part of the ceiling fell down since the last time they were there. 

And the brick fell down right where the customer would've been standing if there was any that is, but luckily no one was hurt and my parents are trying to figure out a way to fix it. However, since it is the ceiling that broke, technically that belongs to the owner of the apartment and my mom is only renting the space for her store but the upper floors don't belong to her so if the ceiling broke they need to contact the owner, that usually isn't in town. 

So since that accident happened my mom couldn't open her store with a hole in her roof so they just went shopping at Costco. They bought quite a lot of stuff so I think that we should be fine for at least another two or three weeks. I was really bored today and for some reason, I also didn't get much reading done on Spanish. This is it, tomorrow I NEED to finish Spanish once and for all. If not, then I'm not touching games until I finish it. 

Now as the Internet as my witness I solemnly swear that I will finish my Spanish summer reading tomorrow. 

bye

getting used to it

So as you know my school is starting next Monday, all online. I wonder if we're still going to use google meet, but I hope not and we use zoom instead. I just feel like Zoom is more professional and it's less laggy too, for me at least. Google meet is like the pirated version of Zoom. 

Anyways, now that school is starting quite soon I need to change my sleeping schedule back to normal. It needs to go from 12 AM and 1 AM to 11 PM, and then on school days, hopefully, 10:30 PM. Maybe there's a little room every now and then but that's like the average time I'm aiming for. 

I read like 50-60 pages of my Spanish summer reading today, only 60 more to go. With any luck, I'll try to end it tomorrow, but if it gets really boring maybe the day after tomorrow but no later than that. I'll also need to start prepping books I'll need for school, like the essential ones and make them more accessible than the other not so essential books. 

Oh right, that reminds me of something that I forgot, I really need to go out with my parents and buy myself some notebooks. The ones I had last year are nearly all written up so I'm in need of new ones when the new year starts. 

Hmm, I don't think I need to get any materials like pencils and stuff, I have a mechanical pencil and a ton of leads so I should be good to go on that end as long as I don't lose any of my oh so little mechanical pencils. Yea that's about it, cya!

 

final commentaries

 Performance discussion

So our business teacher sent out an email telling us that we should all meet up today for a final overview on our presentation yesterday. Let me just cover some of the points I wrote down regarding Intergen's performance and presentation.

The notes I took were both what we could've done better and what we did good and should keep later on. 

Show a better relationship between features and customer's needs.

Better organization

More advertisement

Enthusiasm

More photos

More prepared for Q&A

How the product actually works

A better understanding of the product

Know who your competitors are

Know who your targeted customers are

Yea that's basically it, pretty short but since he was talking fast that's what I was able to capture.

Besides that today I pretty much took a hiatus on learning and just relaxed for a bit. However, starting tomorrow I need to grind my spanish summer reading, only a couple days now until class starts, all online, not really looking forward to it tbh but I guess it'll be nice to be able to see all my friends again. 

Even if it is through their cameras.

I can't believe it's really over

 go out with a BANG

Today was my final presentation. 

It went pretty great, I even made my opening speech and got the crowd warmed up for the other groups that went after me since I was Team One. The rest of the presentation went pretty smoothly, we didn't screw up at all and the results were amazing. 

However, after all the groups presented and the coordinator put up the poll where the participants of the zoom meeting would vote for which company they thought was best, we tied with Team 4 for second place while Team 2 got the trophy. 

I don't feel bad tho cuz I think I did my best for this project, the only thing I believe that could've been better was the advertising. Other groups put a lot more effort into that part of the presentation when ours was just my rush work from 3 AM this morning. 

Oh right I forgot to tell you didn't I, the teacher sent out the rubric with all the things that they would be grading us by and we were missing quite some stuff and since I didn't have my team around to help, I just decided that it was my duty as CEO to make sure our presentation was up to standards. That's why I was up until 4 AM working on it. 

Funny thing though, I didnt feel tired when I climbed onto my bed, I guess it was the excitement of presenting in front of a crowd. The audience was like over 100 people, maybe 120. Also after the presentations ended the camp counselors gave out awards for most outstanding students and also funny awards. 

Guess what, yours truly was fantabulous enough to get TWO most OUTSTANDING student awards out of the three classes that I take. 

I mean I obviously wasn't gonna get one for USACO intro, the pace was just way too fast for me. I was expecting the math one but not that much for business, that really surprised me. 

Here are some pictures that my mom took lol

Boom, I got three awards in total, I could say that this camp was a complete success for me, pretty popular around these parts now. 

And while some people didnt get recognized at all so I'm proud of my achievements. But still, I can't believe it's really over...

I'm going to sleep now to make back those hours I deprived myself of last night. cya

 FINALS

Well, it is currently 1:16 AM, my blog is late but nevertheless, I am still here writing away. 

Today I took my "final exam" for math. It was a lot easier than I expected but then again since it was all online they couldn't accept proof problems so all the problems were answer problems. Where an answer is just a number. There were 6 problems in total and they gave us 40 minutes to finish it. 

Of course, since yours truly is a god, I finished in 4 minutes, but I decided to triple check my answers and good thing I did because I made a dumb mistake on my first go at one of the problems. However, the rest of the problems were a breeze. A walk in the park. Easy peasy lemon squeezy, wow I don't think I've ever had the chance to type that before. Anyways you get the point, I submitted the exam 14 minutes in and got full credit. YAY. 

Anyways, as soon as my busiest class started, business, my internet went out. wow. just wow. I had already gotten into zoom and the teacher was already starting to begin his class and then suddenly zoom disconnected and said error, connection failure. 

aww cmon, so since today was the final day to work on the project before our big presentation in front of a very large audience, I just couldn't afford to miss this class so my and my dad drove all the way to a burger king where I took the entire class in the passenger seat of the car connected to my dad's hotspot. I mean the environment could've been worse so I'm grateful that it was just that. 

We did quite a lot during class but now I'm starting to think that we didn't do enough. The teacher sent out the rubric like 3 hours after class had ended and in the rubric that we were going to be graded on was stuff that my team never discussed in class. 

Job functions, the relationship between the value of the product and the customer's needs, the advertisement's proposed advertisement channels and efficiency, and some more that my mom pointed out that I hadn't even thought of. How much money are we going to charge for the kids, and for the elderly?  Those are just some main points. 

So I don't know if I'm going to get in any sleep today. I really don't want to have to go into tomorrow's presentation sleep deprived but if it means that I get to make my presentation fantabulous, then I'm gonna do it. 

USACO class I basically didn't do anything. 

The teacher was explaining stuff that was way over my head and I had trouble just comprehending his speech, much less his code. and since it was the last day the teacher decided just to do very complex code and explain to us how it works instead of us actually doing any work so I didn't need to hand in anything. 

Therefore, I spent a lot of the time of USACO class into my presentation. 

Now, If you'll excuse me I gotta run and try to finish this thing before daybreak.

 oops

So I didn't post last night so I'm making up for it rn in the morning. As you know, today is the final day of the camp, well, the final day of classes for the camp. Because tomorrow on Saturday the business class students still need to prepare a fully-fledged presentation showcasing their product to all the parents and other students from other classes. I was kinda swamped last night trying to do a lot on my presentation and also organizing my executive team to do their work, but this time there were still two people that didn't do it but at least it's better than last time. It's called improvement. I'm going to go work on it rn and I also finished my nt homework which is good. Oh right, I'm going to be taking a test in my nt class today for the first half of the class, wish me luck there. Hmm, I guess im going to go work on my Intergen presentation now, cya

101 let's goooooo

New record today on nitro type! I finally passed 100 wpm after constant races and I guess since I've been in front of a keyboard for the past week because of the camp I got even more used to the keyboard and it helped boost my speed that extra bit. 

But still, when I got my whooping wpm of 101, my accuracy was only 95%, usually when I get 98 wpm my accuracy is like 99% or at least 97% so if today's accuracy was around that then my wpm probably would've been even higher. But oh well, we'll get em next time. 

So far, this camp thing isn't half bad, math was a lot easier than I expected but the homework still gives me a hard time, jeez they should really make the classwork be at the same difficulty level as the homework. 

Ok my mom just commented that my sentences are too long. So I'm going to make them shorter. Well I will try. 

I made another friend on Instagram today. And it's all thanks to my amazing chatting strategies. wow you have no idea how well it works until you try it out. 

Um, the business class was pretty boring today. We did another one of the "micro-simulations" and there was like a person narrating your progress as you go through the simulation step by step. It was one of those voices that are super ecstatic that it makes you feel down instead of also passing on the joy. Eh, so it was humdrum (membean word, also ecstatic was one too, wow I haven't done membean in quite a long time) and we didn't really get much done on our final project. 

Apparently, this Saturday, mind you the camp is supposed to end on Friday, my business class, and only the business class will be presenting their final projects which will be their products. Ugh, we are even obligated to wear formal attire, but obviously, I'm not going to be wearing long pants in my house which is located on a tropical island in the summer season. 

Oh no, that was a long sentence. Anyways, as I was saying... 

Our product isn't fully developed yet, it's still in its development stages but now that I think of it there are only two days of class left until we gotta present this thing. OH NO. 

and speaking of time-sensitive matters, MY SPANISH SUMMER READING IS DUE WHEN SCHOOL STARTS IN 10 DAYS!!!!! 

And these next two days I'm totally not gonna be able to squeeze in any reading time without taking time away from my homework which I still haven't done yet btw. 

I mean I did one problem already for my math homework and I have a pretty good idea of how to solve another one but that still leaves three more. oh well, I guess I'll see what comes up tomorrow morning. Oh, why of course, the sun is coming up in the morning. 

uh oh, I don't even remember the USACO homework anymore, what do I do... ah I guess I'll pour my time into it during study hall tomorrow. 

Or I mean today, since it's already 1:13 AM. ah, it's getting pretty late, good night ladies and gentlemen, we'll see you, next time. 

two golds

Oh look the format for writing a new post changed. 

That's cool, um today was ok, number theory was as easy as always, out of the four times where the teacher asked a student to explain in the entire class I got picked twice cuz no one else could or wanted to do it. 

Oh well, I guess it helps my reputation in the camp. The homework always seems to be so much harder than what we learn in class though so I think they should make it more proportionate so that they are equal in level of difficulty. Today we didn't do all that much in business, we did a "micro-simulation" as the teacher put it where it was like classwork where the four companies were again split up into groups and they each needed to come up with a ton of product features for a bicycle. 

The features needed to be part of four categories: style, function, experience, and quality. Since there were 28 people in total the entire list was pretty long and detailed. So then following that we were separated into breakout rooms again to do the same thing for our own product. We needed to list 20 product features and choose 10 to figure out what the top customer would be for that feature. It didn't take us all that long to get it done so that's good. 

USACO was boring but it was also kinda hard to understand and that's probably why it was boring. It's like someone's giving you a lecture in a foreign language, you can't get that interested in it no matter how many facial expressions the teacher can make while pronouncing the foreign words. Well that was a weird analogy, anyways we did functions again and also some recursive stuff that I didn't really get. 

When I explained the hw to my mom she claimed it to be super ez and just walked away. great. now I'm on my own and I haven't even done my number theory homework yet. damn it. 

oh right, some good news before I go, OMPR announced the medals for rounds 2 and 3 of exams and guess what, yours truly got gold medals on both of em. boom. I mean I was expecting it for round 2 but not that much for round 3, but it's good so I'm happy. bye

Intergen

So yea Intergen is the new name of our company. The name we had before, which was Jerry's,  btw it wasn't me who came up with it, didn't really say what the company was about. I told that to my team so we came up with two more names, and then we had a vote, which made the winner, Intergen. As in Inter Generations because our company is a combination of a caring center for toddlers and the elderly. Ah so the presentation didn't go perfectly, well to be perfectly honest I didn't expect it to since none of my team members actually knew the information since I was the one that wrote it all. But I was even more disappointed at the fact that none of them had their slides assigned between themselves even after I explicitly told them last night. Yea, but besides that, I think our group had the best PowerPoint slides in terms of visual aid, other teams either had the information too cluttered together or their slides were just too plain. mhm so yea, in USACO we learned functions today which is basically just another word for definitions. It wasn't that hard in class but I haven't really looked at the homework yet. And this week for math we are doing number theory, the first day was pretty simple but personally, I think the homework is a lot harder than what we did in class. I've already done 3 problems out of the 5 required problems and the fourth one looks pretty simple so basically I'm only missing #5. Anyways, I guess i got to get to it, cya

CEO, is a hard job

So last night, I didn't have time to write my blog cuz I was up until 1:30 AM working on a job that was assigned for three people of my executive team, so basically having done my own part, I did a job for 4 people yesterday. yea. I mean they all had pretty sound excuses, well not really, one person even had an excuse from the teacher saying that he was participating in a chess tournament somewhere, I was quite surprised because I mean in a chess match two opponents need to be sitting face to face and that's not exactly what people call six feet of distance. Another person claimed to have a math class when the meeting was going on but a math class takes at most two hours, if it's extreme maybe three but still you could've still have had like 7 hours to work on it after the class, ugh and then there's the final person who actually did show up to the meeting but wrote like one line of needless trivial information and left. So basically even after their excuses ran out of their best by date, like the end of the chess tournament, and the dismissal of the math class, they just forgot about the whole we have a big presentation tomorrow stuff and left the presentation alone. So that's the whole story of me having to do 4 people's worth of work in the time frame meant for one. And it wasn't THAT much work but before making the presentation we each were supposed to do our respected research of that specific thing we were assigned to so I had to start from the research step. I think it turned out better than my own slides tbh, maybe ill steal the slides when we're presenting, who knows. Only time can tell. But if i do, they shouldn't complain since i did all the work in the first place. ok maybe that's not the mindset a CEO should have, i should probably let them say it in class so the teacher wont call me out for bad leadership and not telling my team to finish their presentation even though i did a lot of times. ah, also I made a new friend thanks to my op strats of talking to people. Just say what you wanna say, and make yourself interesting like the person you already are. And if they can see that then they'll like you, so thanks to that I have a new reader. For anonymity, we will refer to her as um, AC. As in air conditioning. Yes, that's right, its definitely not her initials. ok then, cya

late

OK so I know that I missed two days of writing on my blog, but I have a perfectly reasonable reason for it. 

Since a tropical storm just passed over our island the strong winds and thunderstorms did a considerable amount of damage to our electrical systems and supply. We lost electricity 2-3 times per day for three whole days and then when they finally fixed the electrical supply the internet servers stopped functioning. Basically, there was electricity and everything, but the internet just doesn't work so I had no way of uploading onto my blog. However, one good thing that came out of the storm is that we no longer have a water rationing thing in place so we have water access every day!

So let me just quickly fill you in on what happened for days 4 and 5.  On day 4, math was just the same as always, pretty easy and boring at the same time but business was, well, on that day business wasn't all that much fun until the very end. Because before the end the teacher went through a very long PowerPoint presentation on ways and rules and strategies to negotiate. 

Well, he didn't really talk all that much but he just emphasized the few main points a lot by giving all sorts of examples and things to look out for. Then finally, remember that house price negotiation I talked about in the last blog? ok, so the teacher then sent out a second document stating what actually happened with the deal and some additional information. 

So according to the information we were given, the two families signed the purchase agreement at the price of 408,888 but now the seller family says that before they signed the agreement the wife of the buyer family had an oral agreement with the wife of the seller family stating that the two families would split the transaction fee of the house which was a total of 2000, so each family had to pay 1000 for that fee. 

The buyer party's husband was furious because they already needed to pay for the repair fees of some interior and exterior deficiencies in the house and now an extra 1000 based on some oral agreement? Also, the seller family wished to stay in the house one more night after the purchase agreement was put into effect because their flight was scheduled for the next day and it would just provide them a lot of conveniences to not have to stay in a hotel with all their stuff for just one night. 

So basically that was the additional info and so the same groups were put into breakout rooms to negotiate what they were going to do about the transaction and repair fees along with the extra night. In the end, my group ended up negotiating that we didn't have to pay the 1000 dollar agent fee but we still need to cover all the repair fees, however, the seller party were granted permission to stay in the house for another night. not bad huh.

Also usaco for the past two days has been ok i guess, i mean its still really hard and everything but at least we're not blasting off to mars on the first two days of learning what mars even is. Yea, that's about it. cya