Saturday, August 27, 2022

Induction Ceremony

Hey there. This post was supposed to be made a few nights ago, but I forgot. 

So, August 24th was the day of the official induction ceremony of the Student Council. And so that was the main event for the day. 

For the ceremony, as the Vice-President of the Executive Student Council, my role was to read out the names of all the members of each class board. The main thing I focused on was not pronouncing any names incorrectly, so I made sure to practice the extra tricky ones beforehand. And, it worked. I pronounced every name perfectly. However, because I gathered all of my attention on the pronunciation, I didn't notice that the names and roles of some of the council members were mixed up. Basically, for each grade, the treasurer was announced as the secretary and the secretary as the treasurer. It was written as so on the script I was given, so I didn't pay any mind to if it was correct or not. I guess I'll have to check the info myself next time to ensure that there won't be any errors. 

In any case, it was pretty much a success. Hopefully, it'll only get better




Tuesday, August 23, 2022

double selection

It's 10:30, but I already slept for 30 minutes. I kinda set up alarms in 10-minute intervals so I didn't enter deep sleep and miss my alarms. It's painful, but I do feel a bit less tired. Anyway, here we go. 

Chemistry was just going over more molar mass problems, nothing fun there.

Spanish, the grades for the quizzes hasn't come out yet, so we just spent the class working on the project which we'll present probably next week. 

OH YES, so I'm not sure if you remember, but in my quick recap, I mentioned that I took an Olympic math selection test Saturday morning. Well guess what, I GOT SELECTED BABY.  

I ended up getting into both teams too, for both the IBERO and CENTRO. For the CENTRO one, the date and place are still undecided which means it could end up becoming virtual again, but, the IBERO one is set. It's going to be in Bogota, Colombia, with an accent on the a of Bogota, and the trip will last from September 25th till October 1st. That's 7 days, which means I'll miss a full week of school. DAMNNN. I'm kinda worried about all the catchup work I'll have to do, however, at the same time, it's also pretty cool that I'm getting a free trip to another country LOL. Everything is paid for too, hotel, food, the tickets, etc. 

Oh, so back to school. APUSH consisted of doing a couple of worksheets and doing a quick review for the quiz tomorrow on Unit 1. Since Unit 1 is just some context for the actual material, we're passing it by pretty quickly. 

For Bio, we learned how to draw molecules and also constructed some of them using these biomolecule building sets that the teacher gave us. 

Lastly, in Calc, we just did a progress check in AP Central and that about wraps up the day. 




dreadful quiz

Ello. 

Woke up at 6 to try and get in some last-minute studying before the Spanish quiz since it's the second period and I won't have another break in between to study once I got to school. The way I studied was mainly to understand the relationship each couple had with each other, the type of love it was, and the overall gist of the story. Since there were so many, just trying to remember the basic plot of each story was quite difficult. 

AP Chem was my first block before Spanish. During the teacher's explanation of molar mass and what it was, I had my computer in front of me open to the study guide to glance at it in between problems. The chemistry content still hasn't started yet, and according to the teacher, we're still in the review stage of our course. That being said, she DID assign a ton of homework problems for us to do. Tedious ones too at that. I spent pretty much all of my free period working on that and I still couldn't get it done completely LOL. 

Right after Chem is the dreaded Spanish quiz. The problem with this quiz was that the questions were WAYYYY too specific. At least I didn't remember which pair was separated in Brussels. ALSO, some of the descriptions seemed like they could've been applied to more than one couple in the book, so I had a hard time figuring out which was which. Not to mention that you COULD repeat couples which made the whole thing even more of a pain. 

Ah right, so I fell asleep right after I wrote this^^

I don't really have the energy to fill in what happened for the rest of yesterday, but it wasn't anything too exciting. I did have volleyball practice though. 


Sunday, August 21, 2022

 quick recap

Yo, I'm back again. 

This weekend has been pretty crazy. 

On Saturday I had an OMPR selection test which started at 9 AM and lasted until 1:30 PM. Shortly after, I had to hurry to the Convention Center for the first volleyball tournament of the season. The first game was supposed to start at 3 but it got delayed like 2 hours. We had three games in total that day, won 2 lost 1. The final match ended at like 11 PM and I slept pretty late. 

Then, today, I took my Chinese class with grandma in the morning till 11 and then laid back a bit before leaving the house again for the second and final day of the tournament. We made it to the Top 8 yesterday, so we'd have to win 3 matches in a row to take the crown. Unfortunately for us, we met a formidable opponent and lost in 2 sets. It was quite a bleak sight since we were aiming for the top spot, we came in second last year after all. 

I did some APUSH and Calc homework when I got back, but the main task was to study for the Spanish quiz tomorrow. It's on the summer reading book of dark love I mentioned a few days back, and since there are so many couples, I'm kinda struggling to remember the specific stories and the context behind each one. So yup, that's what I'm working on right now and I'll continue until I'm ready for tomorrow.

I'll see you tomorrow. 

Thursday, August 18, 2022

#15

I've got to keep it short today because I need to wake up real early for volleyball practice at 6 AM.

Life was nice today. AP Chem, just familiarizing ourselves with some glassware. 

APUSH was answering some questions on this packet the teacher printed out for us in groups. I was with Fox and Dex today. Yesterday I was with Toro and Psi and I think I forgot to mention that. 

Biology consisted of us watching a lab safety video and splitting off into groups again for another challenge. As I said before, I'm with Dex and Mint for this month, and the groups will switch up monthly. The challenge was just recognizing the names of the lab equipment at each table and describing their functions. 

AP Calc was just doing problems. 

AP Lit was mostly just a discussion on what archetypes are. There wasn't anything to write though, but I'm glad she didn't assign any homework either. 

And that's it. I had salmon for lunch. Free block to top it off. 

Lastly, I had Science Bowl practice after school and the coach gave us our uniforms. I'm #15 this year. 

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

dark love

It's only the third day back, but it's beginning to feel normal now. 

Chemistry is still going slow, we're basically not going to cover any actual material for this first week since today was dedicated to dimensional analysis and tomorrow is going to be used for recognizing different lab equipment. I'll probably have to start studying ahead by myself at this rate. 

Oh, and we finally did start that Spanish project today. It's a project on the summer reading book which was mandatory for Honors Spanish students. The book's name is Pasiones, and it's a compendium of roughly 20 "reportajes historicos" or historical reports on couples/lovers who had an effect on history. However, please don't read this book expecting love stories of rainbows and happiness because it was anything but that. It can better be described as tragedies rather than love stories. Pretty much every single one of these stories had somewhat of a dark ending to it. For this project, I'm partnering with Fox. Essentially, each group chooses two pairs of lovers from the book and has to answer a series of questions for each one. We got started in class but we're nowhere close to being finished yet. 

Ah, and then we had the welcome-back-to-school assembly. I thought I was going to have a say a few words as the executive vice president, but it turns out all I needed to do was to stand up when they called me, wave, and look pretty. After the head of school, principal, and dean of students finished speaking though, the Outreach Program got the stage. As a member, I also talked for about a minute or so about the importance of having such a program in school and ended with a simple call to action. 

After the presentation, most of the grades were dismissed, but the 11th and 12th graders stayed behind. The college counselors had prepared to give us a talk about some college preparation stuff. Nothing too exciting. This did, however, take up all of our supposedly "free time" for the day and so we had to head off to our next class immediately. 

This brings us to AP Lit. In a similar manner as last class, the central question for today was "Why study literature?". Firstly, the class had a quick discussion about the topic before individually writing 2 paragraphs responding to the question. I'll copy-paste mine here for you:

Why study literature

Literature allows one to step into the shoes of someone else, whether it be from another country, another continent, or perhaps a whole other world. It changes the perspective of the reader by immersing them into this newly formed universe that exists within the paper and the words. If literature did not exist, and there were no written records of the past, then society would simply not advance. Even if, by some marvelous chance that it does, it would only crawl forward at a mere fraction of the speed it is going at today. Each person lives only once, so if literature were not recorded and passed down, mankind would not get very far in terms of technological, scientific, and societal advancement. 

Through written works and literature, one is able to experience countless events and encounters, and learn invaluable lessons that they would have otherwise never come across. Reading makes one wiser and improves a person by having them broaden their horizons and open their eyes to various ways to view the world. Human life is ephemeral compared to the centuries and millennia of years that have come before it. Literature makes it possible for a person to live beyond their age, undergo a myriad of experiences that may trigger their own metamorphosis, improve their skills and, of course, obtain novel knowledge and vocabulary. Literature is an indispensable part of human progress, and to study it is to understand and familiarize oneself with the very force that pushes forward the human race.


The last class of the day was APUSH. There was a class discussion about the reading that was assigned yesterday, the homework was checked by the teacher, and then an additional worksheet was handed out to everyone. We were told to divide up into groups of 3 or 4 and fill out the worksheet using the notes we took yesterday or the book itself. Upon completion, the whole class went over all of it completely, and that marked the end of class. 

After school, I just read a bit of the book that we're supposed to finish next week for AP Lit. Then at 4:30, I had volleyball practice. Today's the official "tryout", but in reality, we've already been training for the last two weeks, so it was just to get it over with formally. The first tournament is this upcoming weekend, so we're taking a break tomorrow and hitting a slightly less intensive practice session on Friday. 

That's all for tonight, bonne nuit. 

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Cornell

Hey there. Second day of school. 

Today I took my APUSH class for the first time, but of course, the first class is always more of an orientation than an actual class (except spanish cough cough). Anyway, the teacher had us write on index cards: name, pronouns, expectations, one fun fact about ourselves, and the score of any previous AP history courses we took if any. Honestly, for fun fact, I bet I could've come up with something more original and creative, but I wasn't really going to spend too much effort on that part and basically, everyone in my class knows me already. On that note, I simply wrote that I'm trilingual and listed out the languages. She did assign homework on the first day though. A reading of 11 pages, and she has us take these Cornell notes which is a special kind of way to take notes?

Looks like this: 


I spent my entire free block finishing this. 

Oh yes, so for Chemistry, our teacher's original plan was to have us come in early every day we had her class due to the fact that we had her first period every time. This entails that we would arrive at 8 AM instead of 8:30, the regular starting time. This was said yesterday, or Monday, so it was in effect today. Yet, I'm the Vice-President of the Student Council and we have our weekly student council meeting on Tuesday mornings from 7:45 till 8:20ish, so that became a conflict. The teacher deemed it to be unfair for us to miss out on material due to official meetings that we are required to attend, so she said we'd be returning back the regular starting time until further notice and a better solution is formulated. 

I'll skip talking about Spanish for today since it was mostly just the teacher going off-topic and the class ended without us doing any actual work. 

As for Biology, the groups were decided today and I'm with Dex and another person who I shall name Mint. Just so you know, sometimes even I forget why I name them what I do. But I assure you, at the time of naming, there was definitely some thinking involved. ALSO, THERE WAS SOMETHING INSANE THAT HAPPENED. Right before the groups were chosen randomly, I made a prediction of who I'd end up with. AND I GOT BOTH OF THEM RIGHT. The odds on that are so extremely low, that I just had to include that here today. So we divide up into groups and we're given a test. This was one of the "challenges" which would count towards the bonus points that I talked about yesterday. You might be thinking, how in the world are we supposed to take a test if we haven't even learned anything in class yet? Well, there was a biology textbook on each table that you were allowed to use, but only one, and you could also only write on one test. Oh, and in my class, there are 3 groups of 3. It wasn't the best test, but I think we have a shot at first place for this one. It's not entirely impossible is my point. 

Lastly, we have calculus. Basically, the class is split into two halves. 4 people on each side, so 8 students in total for the class. On one side, you have 4 seniors. On the other side, you have Rama, Fox, me, and a 10th grader who skipped 2 grades ahead in math. Essentially, on my side, all of us were in the same class last year as well, and so we move along the material extremely fast. Last year, we finished everything there was to cover 2 months before the school year ended. So the thing is, this year, with the seniors, the pace of the class will probably be decreased to some extent. We'll see how it goes though. 

So that's all the classes for today. Tomorrow, there's a back-to-school assembly where I'll have to speak a little bit as a member of the Outreach program to introduce the club and emphasize its importance. I wrote the script for that tonight, after volleyball practice, and practiced it a couple times to make sure I won't freeze up on stage haha. Alright, thanks for reading, and have a good night!!




Monday, August 15, 2022

 First day back

Hello there. Today was the first day of school. I'm a junior now, eleventh grade. 


This is my schedule^^

6 APs, 2 Honors, and 1 free block. 
Technically, I could have chosen another elective... however none of the choices available for that specific period seemed particularly appealing to me. In reality, there was one elective that I was planning on taking, there was a nanotechnology and modern physics class which was split between two semesters that I wanted, but it conflicted with my AP Calc BC class so I had to let it go. 

For AP Chem, we have a teacher who's new to my school, but she's already taught for over 20 years at another school so she isn't lacking in the experience department LOL. 

I got the same Spanish teacher as last year, so we already know each other. Good or bad? I've yet to determine that. 

Free block right after, I still gotta discover what kind of stuff I should work on in that time. For today though, I just chilled in the AP Physics class for a bit before going to the classroom where Biology (my next class) would take place. The teacher had a free period too so we talked for a bit about the class and some expectations. She said she was gonna make the first test extremely difficult in order to filter out some students to leave her with only the students who really wanted to do well. 

Speaking of Biology, this was probably the most interesting class in terms of structure. Essentially, the teacher would have the students divide up into random groups every month and those groups would compete in challenges. The winning group of these challenges would, of course, receive a prize. This prize would come in the form of bonus points which can directly be applied to increase your grade on anything you didn't get a perfect in. This kind of class would give a more competitive atmosphere when compared to others, so I think it'd be pretty fun. We didn't have enough time to choose the groups today though. 

For Calculus we just enrolled in AP Classroom and Khan Academy, that's about it.

Lastly, AP Lit was pretty standard. Went over the syllabus, and talked about what literature was. Gave a little assignment, search up definitions of literature, come up with your own, and submit. 

That's all for today folks. 




Friday, January 7, 2022

delayed again

The schedule I'm trying out right now for my blog is writing every morning but then again once school starts up we'll have to figure something out. Speaking of which, remember when I said hopefully school won't be delayed due to COVID worsening? I mean our trip already got canceled because of it but well, school got delayed a bit too LOL. So we were supposed to start on the 10th right? Now we start on the 13th and it'll be virtual until the 18th. Plus we're going to have to go to school to do a COVID test too so if anyone comes out positive they might not be able to go in person on the 18th either.

So I was wondering if this is a good thing or a bad thing? On one hand, I should be happy that I have a few more days off but then again, the AP tests aren't going to get delayed just because our classes got pushed back. So then technically we're the ones getting the short end of the stick here since we actually have less time to learn the material before the test. Just some thoughts I had. 

Furthermore, writing my blog now day after day reminds me that I haven't really done any Membean recently. Maybe I should get on the grind again LOL. However, recently I've learned that using a ton of really advanced vocabulary may not always be the best when the reason you're writing is so people can understand you well. If your audience was more formal then more formal language is obviously necessary. 

Yesterday was also Three Kings Day, also known as Epiphany, basically, 3 men came and gave gifts to Jesus when he was still an infant. This day also marks the end of the Christmas season so now we're back. I don't have that much today actually so I'll just leave it here.


Thursday, January 6, 2022

a little info on muscle memory

This is the bad thing about writing your blog the next day because after sleeping everything you did yesterday sort of feels like a dream. 

I remember back when I used to be really dedicated on Nitrotype and would type like 200 races in one sitting LOL. So I revisited it yesterday and typed 119 WPM first try which is amazing since my highest ever is only 127 WPM. The way they calculate WPM or words per minute is that they average every word to be 5 characters so it's just (the number of characters you type in a minute)/5. So if I got 127 words per minute that means I type 635 characters in a minute or 10.6 characters every second. That's insane. But the thing is, when you're typing, you rarely focus on what the next letter is going to be but rather your brain already knows certain patterns that are common and executes those patterns instead of letter by letter. 

Now, this leads to my next topic, muscle memory!! So I did do some research and I watched a few videos on people explaining it. The first video was a guy talking about how it applies to playing the piano. Basically, the term muscle memory itself is a bit misleading since muscles themselves do not have memory. Instead, a part of your brain called the cerebellum allows you to control your motor skills to complete complex tasks such as playing a sonata for example. Over time, after 300-500 repetitions of the same thing, your brain gets accustomed to the particular sequence of muscle control required to do the task and it stores it somewhere so it can be fetched with ease at a later date. This is also the reason why learning how to ride a bike takes less time than learning how to play a sonata from memory since 500 repetitions of cycling take way less time than playing a complicated piece 500 times. 

However, is muscle memory really a good thing when it comes to piano? Well, the answer is yes and no. See, without muscle memory playing a 1-hour concerto would be virtually impossible because you'd have to memorize every single note and the order in which every single key is played. A tiny distraction like a cough in the audience or a flash from a camera could be enough to completely throw you off and make you mess up. That's where muscle memory kicks in. It ALLOWS up to a certain degree of distraction and even your hands play by themselves the correct notes like a machine pre-programmed to do so. Albeit muscle memory is awesome in that sense, it would be a mistake to completely rely upon it. You still need to keep a part of your brain focused on where in the piece you currently are because if you don't even know that much then you could very easily skip past half of the piece and go straight to the ending or somehow loop back to the very beginning. Aaaand I won't deny that it's happened to me before but at least not in public LOL. 

Lastly, since muscle memory is used to build these programmed sequences of motions, you can build really good habits but also cement bad ones after enough repetitions. That's why it's extremely important to correct what you're doing wrong before it becomes a habit. Okay, that's all I have for you today. Seems like today was more of a lecture than an update on my life post but I enjoyed it LOL. cyaaa


Wednesday, January 5, 2022

research results

Hey there, we're back! 

So today was pretty nice and I'm going to talk a little about what I researched for the project. 

The main thing I researched today was infinite scrolling. Now, what exactly is infinite scrolling? Well, basically it's quite a simple app feature that just allows you to keep scrolling down and down with an unlimited amount of content showing up on your screen. This change proved to make users stay consuming content for longer periods of time since it has the effect of a bottomless bowl. There was research by a professor in consumer behavior that yielded results showing that people having soup from self-refilling bowls actually consumed 73% more than those with regular bowls. 

Basically, the reason behind this effect is that before your brain even has the opportunity to react to your impulses, the system makes it so that it feeds you more automatically. That's what hooks you and makes it really hard for you to escape the loop because there's seemingly no end. If you think about it, really sharp minds such as those working in Silicon Valley, dedicate all their time and work solely to making you addicted to their apps. And sure enough, it works on a huge amount of people. 

So then, what can we do to stop getting hooked? What you could do first is to dismiss triggers. If there's no trigger to get you hooked in the first place then obviously you'll be reducing the time spent on social media. An easy sure-fire way to do so would be to turn your notifications off so that you're the one who decides when and where to open your applications. 

Now, what happens if you turn all your notifications off but still get into the loop of endless scrolling after opening up the app? The next method would be to set pause-reminders that serve as wake-up calls informing you that you should take a break after a long time on the app. The reminder will be able to interrupt the infinite scroll cycle effectively and could save you lots of potentially lost time on mindless consumption of the limitless content out there. 

Lastly, you could set up feedback nudges that show you how much time you've been spending on the platform lately and this could help you gain an understanding of whether you should mind your time more carefully or if you're happy with what you're doing right now. 

So that's all I have for you today, see you later!!



Tuesday, January 4, 2022

auto-pilot

Mmm, so last night I fell asleep too fast so I wasn't able to write my blog, therefore here I am to catch up on the missed post yesterday.

Recently I've been writing schedules to organize my time during the days of break in order to maintain some sort of productivity. By doing so I was finally able to do some AP Euro annotations during break LOL otherwise I probably wouldn't have remembered or have done it. Additionally, I wanted to get some more school work done so that when we do go back then I'll be a bit more relaxed and not have to be running from deadline to deadline for every assignment given. 

Now, one of the school assignments I need to finish is this Spanish group presentation on the negative effects of technology on society and the specific frontier that our group landed on was social isolation due to tech. Oh, and I have Pen in my group which is really cool and I think he's already done some research before we even knew about this project for another class so we already have some information and sources thanks to him. Personally, I do think this topic is really interesting just because of how much time technology consumes from us in this day and age, especially during the pandemic. That's gotten a bit better now though but nevertheless, screens still take up a portion of time that sometimes we don't even realize it's taking. 

Aside from that, I'm doing a few hours of math a day to keep up the grind and also some piano to keep my pieces from leaving my memory LOL. Honestly, I don't even know how remembering pieces on piano works, sometimes I don't even know what note comes next but my hand just plays it by itself without needing my brain to tell it where to go. It's pretty insane. That's why I think muscle memory is really cool but at the same time, it feels like I don't have complete control over my playing because it's kind of just operating in auto-pilot without me. Actually, maybe I'll do more research on that and report to you another time on my findings of muscle memory and how it works. 

Anyway, I got the inspiration to write again so expect to be able to see a new post up every day... i mean every night. 




Sunday, January 2, 2022

the trip that never happened

Another day, another post. I think I'm starting to get the hang of the routine now. 

Okay, so as I said yesterday, I'll talk a bit about our trip that was supposed to take place. We were supposed to leave on Christmas day, the 25th of December, and we would come back today morning, the 2nd of January 2022. That way we would be able to celebrate the new year in Canada. 

So due to the Omicron variant of COVID, the Canadian government required a PCR test that was taken within 72 hours of the flight. We had asked this lab just minutes away from us and they told us we would be able to take the test at their lab on the 23rd of December in the morning. We didn't think much of it at the time and we just kept on with our other preparations such as buying clothes for the winter. 

Then the day rolls around and we get to the lab only to find out that they ran out of PCR tests. We then consecutively went around to around 20 other labs only to get the same answer every single time, "We have no more PCR tests". Although we were rejected all those times and were prepared for the worst outcome whenever we pulled up to a new lab, it was nevertheless still disheartening to hear it again. At the end of the day, we couldn't manage to find a single place to do our tests and we were told that PCR tests had basically run out throughout the entire island. 

The following day would be Christmas Eve and labs don't open so there was no more chance. That's how we ended up canceling the trip we had planned so long for. A little background information is that at the time Puerto Rico was really being hit hard by the virus with the numbers of positive cases rising exponentially and people were in heaps to get tested if they had it too. Furthermore, the fact that it was the holiday season and a lot of people probably had to take the test to visit their families too most likely affected the result as well.

Anyway, starting tomorrow I think I'll start going out of vacation mode and take things more seriously. After all, there's only one more week left till school starts back up again. Will we have to go back online due to the increasing amount of cases? I have yet to find out the answer to that and the headmaster of the school has not sent out any info notifying us of this matter either so I assume it should still be in person unless the situation significantly worsens over the next week. 

Oh, and when break started, I made myself a to-do list for tasks to complete over the break. To be honest, there's quite a lot of work left and I haven't really accomplished as much as I'd have liked to by this time. However, you gotta start somewhere, so here we go. Buenas noches.

Saturday, January 1, 2022

traditions

Okay, we're back at it. 

Last night, we were invited to a friend's house to watch the fireworks go off at midnight. All around us, there were loud flashing lights going boom boom boom in nearly 360 degrees. What really caught my attention was the duration of the fireworks, the cost is around 30 dollars for every 30 seconds worth of fireworks, so a dollar a second basically. And these aren't even fancy ones with all sorts of designs, just plain old fireworks. 

The fireworks coming from one particular home lasted around 10 minutes or so. From 5 minutes before midnight to 5 minutes into the new year, that's literally 6 thousand US dollars just bursting into flames in the air for entertainment. The things people do for some fun LOL. Mmm, although I do think that tradition is a big part of why fireworks are set off year after year. 

Anyway, today in the morning we decided to go for a drive around some beaches in the vicinity. I was the one driving btw, first time this year heh. It's honestly quite a scenic route, lots a greenery, a great place to learn how to drive too since it's just one road and not much complex situations with crossroads and cars coming from different directions. Amittedly, it isn't my first time driving down this road either, in fact, I've come here enough times to memorize how to get to and back home from there. It's a little tradition of our own to buy some local fried foods at the small shops on the roadside and we eat it while enjoying the view. 

We got back home and I attended my last TA session of this class I had signed up for. Originally I was going to take this class while in Toronto, Canada but some complications regarding COVID made it so that we had to cancel the trip at the last moment. I'll talk about that tomorrow though since it's already quite late today. Then, I ate my first dinner of the year LOL, nice steak and a spicy dish too, and then it was about time for the closing ceremony of the camp. The camp is basically where they give all the classes, but I only chose to take one of them. 

The ceremony itself was kinda boring for me since it was mostly the demonstration day to the parents to show them what their kids have been working on for the past week in class but my class is just lectures so there isn't anything to show. The other classes all yielded projects or skills that can be presented, y'know? There's probably a better way to word that, some skills are more tangible than others, they're easier to see and to show. Others, meanwhile, are more hidden and work behind the scenes. 

After the ceremony, Psi had planned a group call for us to attend. A workshop on his interpretation of the meaning of life LOL. I must admit, it's definitely an interesting perspective and one that I've never thought about so I appreciate him talking to us about it. Oh and recently there's a new addition to my name collection, welcomeee Mahi!! She's new to the school but she's nice and outgoing, also Rama's girlfriend! Anyway, that's about all the time I have for tonight so I'll be seeing you tomorrow. cyaaa


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