 Painting by a professional artist- Ann Marie I always dream of the weirdest things: Raining krabby patties, the sky turning black, having a cat fight with my little brother, dreaming of a blue rose tree, being lost in a desert and many more weird ones that I don't remember.
A few times, I dreamed of driving my dad's car and a random motorcycle on the 401, even though I can't drive! I think I crashed into a car once in my dream....Another car-related dream is I got into the car, then it started driving automatically to my elementary school, although I'm in high school now! I remember the car almost hit a crossing guard. Those dreams were freaky.
Here comes the weirdest one: A snowy owl with a height of 170 feet shooting fire arrows from its mouth! Awesomely cool or what? It was trying to burn down a school that is 10 minutes away from my house- St. Benny's. The owl was kind of cute though. o.o It was quite a vivid sight. The owl aimed for Fast Eddies. Next, it aimed for my sister and I! We were just running for our lives down the street, then guess what happened? The alarm woke me up. -.-" I actually wanted to continue that dream.....
Another dream I had was there were at least ten rabbits living in my basement. What's funny is it's the same type of rabbit that I used to raise, but it ran away. It's a black and white rex rabbit. Now, I really miss my rabbit. I named it Lucky. :(
Want to hear another dream? The buttons of a random elevator were animals, not numbers.... I remember pressing the elephant button then suddenly, the person standing beside me, my sister just disappeared! At first, I didn't know where she ended up, but then this random person told me she was in the hospital. I don't know how or what happened in that dream. It was quite scary. It appears that my sister fainted.
Last dream I want to share is related to manga/anime. The anime is Naruto. For whatever reason, I was Guy Sensei and I was fighting with Rock Lee. Then, I summoned nine tails. (which sounds very ironic) Instead of nine tails helping me fight Rock Lee, it turned against me and attacked me. I'm not sure if I ended up dead because my stupid alarm woke me up!! I really wanted to know what would happen next! That's the end of my dream telling. Now, tell me about your wicked awesome dreams!
 Again, for the millionth time, someone said to me that it's really sad that I still don't have clue what I'm going to be when I grow up. Honestly, I can't see my future at all- or should I say I won't even have one. I'm really lost. My mother, my father, my aunt, my cousin and my friends have asked me the same question, "What do you want to do when you grow up?" countless times. And yet, every time I would give them a blank stare and utter the words "I don't know." Apparently, I am prohibited from saying "I don't know" because I use it too often to answer questions asked by my parents. I think their joking though.
Well, I'm fifth-teen right now and I guess I still have time to ponder about this...But some people are already planning their career ahead of time! Some of my friends and classmates have decided what courses they're going to take in grade twelve, even though they are going into grade eleven next year. On the contrary, I still don't know what career path I'm going to follow so I chose all the hard courses for grade eleven such as university biology, chemistry and physics, hoping that I will show some interest in one of those subject areas.
Others have asked me have I decided what university to go to. I don't know what I'm going to study in the future and now you're asking what university to go to....Also, I have little knowledge of what universities or colleges that exist. If I were to have a post-secondary education, I would probably choose a college/university that is close to my home due to the fact that living in the dorms seems kind of "isolated". The one university that keeps coming up is Harbour. From what I heard, Harbour is the best university in the world. People think I should go there because of my marks, but in my opinion, marks don't matter that much! I think that being interested in that area you want to study matters most! I may be wrong, so you can disagree with me.
One thing that bothers me is that my younger sister says she wants to become an artist and my cousin wants to become a doctor. Yes, they have a goal now but will it stay consistent? For the next 5 or 10 years, will they still stick to what they want to become? Or give up on that career choice and choose something else? Another thing that bothers me is some people will be in college/university studying medical or whatever, then they will drop out and study another course, then they drop out again. I feel like I'm getting off topic... Anyways, my advice: Decide what you are going to study in your post-secondary education so you're not wasting time and money! If you find yourself not interested in studying, immediately leave and choose a different path. I really need to start thinking about this...
 Recently, I visited a few blogs from KCI talking about standardized tests. What I found debatable about this topic is whether or not do tests support learning and is it the best way to demonstrate a mastery of skills. There is more than one way to measure a student`s abilities but it seems that tests are the most used. These days, if a school's standardized test scores are high, people think the school's staff is effective. If a school's standardized test scores are low, they see the school's staff as ineffective.
We know that the typical multiple-choice and short-answer tests aren't the only way, or necessarily the best way, to demonstrate a student's knowledge and abilities. Skills such as teamwork, collaboration, and moral character -- traits that aren't measured in a typical standardized tests are increasingly important. Effective assessment should measure the full range of student ability: social, emotional, and academic achievement. Doing a pencil-and-paper test for hours doesn't provide good learning. In higher quality of education, students perform science experiments, solve real-world math problems, write research papers, analyzing stories/novels to evaluate different and important kinds of learning. The current way that standardized tests are used does not measure the learning ability of the student. It only measures whether the school system is able to write curriculum that produces good test takers.
These tests aren't fair to certain people who lack in certain areas like English in general. They can carry consequences for students such as low scores can prevent students from progressing to the next grade level and can totally stress them out. Not only are they a waste of time for students, but for the teachers as well who needs to spend time marking all these tests. Standardized tests trouble both students are teachers.
Some schools in the states have boycotted these tests. Does anyone think standardized tests are necessary? Feel free to state your opinions.
 They don't look alike at all o.o Today I decided to research about red pandas because I found out Shifu is a red panda. Whoever watches Kung Fu Panda knows what I'm talking about. As you may know, Po is a panda, Tigress is tiger, Monkey is a monkey and the others are pretty obvious. But, neither my siblings or I knew what Shifu is! So, I looked up what species he is and found out he's a red panda. I didn't even know that red pandas were a type of species, but I now I do. For those of you who didn't know, shifu means master in Mandarin, Chinese. Basically, Po is calling Shifu Master Master............. Anyways, they are extremely cute and adorable. I find them a little more cuter than giant pandas. Here are a few facts I found out about them:
| - Their average lifespan in the wild is 8 years
- Over the winter, they lose up to 15% of their body weight
- Their other names include: Bear-cat, Bright Panda, Cat-bear, Fire Fox, Lesser Panda, Petit Panda and Poonya | - Their tail is about 12-20 inches
- They weigh 5% of the giant panda's weight
- The red panda is about the size of a raccoon and weighs 7 to 14 pounds
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 Our FFP class decided to do a Harlem Shake video!! At first, I was freaking out, strongly opposed to this idea. This is something I normally won't do and I don't like to do. But, I found it an interesting experience after a while.
In one scene, we had to do the shake in the cafeteria. It was mortifying doing it in there where fifty pairs of eyes were turned to our attention! I tried to hide behind the scenes, camouflaging myself, while the others are dancing like maniacs. I may not be noticeable in the videos, but I'm there, embarrassed as ever. As we progressed through the scenes, I got more and more comfortable doing the Harlem Shake. Especially for the last scene, everyone just got all crazy and intense. The scene I liked most was filmed at the balcony of Tassie Hall, where our teacher was dressed as the GCI ghost!
The theme of our Harlem Shake connects to GCI and its the school's spirit. I used a gym shirt to represent GCI. You would probably ask what would a gym shirt represent. It symbolized me as one of the athletic students of the phys ed department of GCI. It even said the school name on it.
I' m just a fifteen year-old in high school, creating this website for a class project. But here, I will be posting personal things about what I like to do in my spare time and school-related stuff.
All About Me  My name is Carolin Tu and people tease me about my last name because it sounds like the number two, though I don't understand what's so funny about it..... You can probably guess I'm Asian just because of my last name. I was born in Canada and have been living here in Cambridge since my birth. I went to Vietnam for a year, realizing that Canada is a great country with all four seasons! The winter in Vietnam is the equivalent to summer in Canada and sometimes I wonder how can people survive summer in Vietnam. I would say that winter is my second favourite season for the reason that I love snow! I think Canada is a great country. Don't get it wrong, I'm not Vietnamese. Both my parents were born in Vietnam and they have the ability to speak both Chinese and Vietnamese, because my grandparents were Chinese. At home, I only speak Cantonese Chinese to my parents. I wonder why they won't teach me Vietnamese; that makes me kind of furious. I know that they will talk in Viet whenever they are talking about my siblings and I. That makes me even more furious! -________-
Music- A Part, or rather, a big part of My Life
 I've been playing the piano for almost two years now, without taking any lessons. My parents bought me a keyboard when I was six years old, but I didn't start officially playing until the summer of 2011. Now, I have a digital piano! I will spend at least an hour playing my piano every night (if I have no homework), searching for random songs to learn and finding tutorials on youtube. If I'm depressed or something, I will go up to my room and start playing until I'm happy. Sometimes I will leave in the middle of homework to play. What I hate though is the fact that I can't read sheet music and my siblings will do their best to irritate me in many ways until I stop playing. Great siblings I have there. Anyways, most of the songs I learn to play are either classic piano, k-pop (Korean pop) or j-pop (Japanese pop). Some of the songs I already learned on piano are Gangnam Style, Canon, Turkish March and Payphone!
Learning New Languages
During my life time, I hope to know 7 languages in total! This includes: English, French, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. If anyone doesn't know, Cantonese and Mandarin are both Chinese. The difference is it's spoken differently and some of the words are written differently. Cantonese Chinese is my main language. Currently, I can read Japanese and Korean, but the sad thing is I don't know what they mean!! What motivates me to learn all these languages? No idea. I just want to learn them for learning's sake. :P
| Listening To Music
Although I am Chinese, I listen to other country's music as well. I cannot stress how much I love K-pop (Korean Pop)! The music is just simply amazing and many of the artists are extremely talented. Most of their songs are so catchy that you just want to sing and and dance along. Some of my favourite groups are Girl's Generation, T-ARA, Super Junior, Rainbow and U-KISS.Talking about J-pop (Japanese Pop), my all-time favourite singer is Amuro Namie, (安室 奈美恵) the Queen of j-pop! The song below led me to listening to k-pop even though it's Japanese. It's very catchy, listen to it! |
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