No Report Cards (T3B71)

I heard that the reason why we are not having report cards anymore is that the ministry of education wants to save resources in order to pay teachers a higher wage. I can't believe they are sacrificing students for this.

Sub Teacher (T3B70)

Today for AS, we had a sub, and he still made us present our presentations.

Filming (T3B69)

Tomorrow, I'm going to be filming at my friends house for a Science Project that's due soon.

Band Concert (T3B68)

Today was the junior night spring concert and all band students had to stay for the whole performance. Apparently everyone in the junior band ditched though. I wish I left early so I could finish all my homework earlier...

Gauss Competition (T3B67)

The results for the 2016 Gauss Math Competition is finally out! Sadly, my teacher lost her sheet with the results (since I missed last week of school), so I probably won't know my score any time soon. I hope I did well though.

Homework (T3B66)

After coming back from the CWSF, I have sooo much homework to catch up:

• Applied skills presentations, observations, and power point set up.
• French Montreal memorized presentation
• English poetry presentation, memorization, practice, research, and power point set up.
• Science worksheets, filming, script editing, footage editing. (Angeline is not cooperating :( )
• Math quizzes and homework.
• Band practising pieces for upcoming spring concert.
• Socials Studies gardening and story writing + interview transcript typed out.
• Gym practice softball + running.

Better get started....

CWSF Conclusion (T3B65)

I gotta say that the CWSF was one of the best experiences in my life. I met so many new people that were unbelievably well-rounded, and I had a very fun time. I'm really looking forward to next year's science fair!!!

Day 6 - Departure (T3B64)

We slept at 12:00 am to say goodbye with everyone else, and we woke up at 5:00 am to get on our buses without breakfast. It's kinda sad to see everyone go, especially the grade 12's who won't be coming back next year.

River Cruise (T3B63)

This was perhaps my favourite day. There were three floors to the cruise boat: a bottom relaxing floor with giant windows, a second floor with refreshments and snacks, and a final floor with was open to let wind come inside. Also, there was a dance floor with cool multicoloured lights, loud music from a DJ. It was absolutely wonderful!!! The cruise lasted from the evening to the night, and we saw many beautiful buildings and amusement parks on the way.

My favourite part was taking the bus back to the dorms, since we got to see whole downtown at night!!!

McGill Bookstore (T3B62)

Visited the bookstore today! The clothing is sure overpriced...

Day 6 - Meet the Winners (T3B61)

I literally spent my whole morning reading the platinum award winner projects. Strange enough, they were all girls... (Maybe a bit biased). Anyway, I was surprised to learn that those projects were actually not as good as I thought they were. I also had a giant ice - cream sandwich that unfortunately melted because it was sooo hot. It's pretty  weird how it was actually snowing a few days ago...

Day 5 - Awards (T3B60)

Awards ceremony was pretty cool. My friend got silver. We also had a cool video dance with glow sticks. I wish I actually like dancing.

Talent Show (T3B59)

On the same day, we had a talent show during dinner. A bunch of people went up to sing, and one person also did a comedy act.

Day 4 - Public Viewing (T3B58)

Basically Day 4 was the most boring day of the whole trip. We had public viewing for the whole day.

Sugar Shack Evening (T3B57)

The sugar shack evening took place in the fancy McConnell Hall again. We had a lot of cool maple syrup snacks including maple syrup basted ham and maple syrup lollipops. We also had the famous "taffy on snow" snack on popsicle sticks.

Day 3 - Bus Tours (T3B56)

The bus tours were pretty cool. We went on the double tour buses with no cover on their second floors, and we toured around Montreal, getting off whenever we wanted to. We visited a whole lot of churches including the Notre Dame.

Block Party (T3B55)

After a great lunch, the BC team proceeded to the Block Party. It was fascinating! We were given ultimate disks and 4 coupons to buy dinner, drinks, and desserts from the variety of Italian, French, and Chinese food trucks.

The party itself was awesome! The field was surrounded with cool bouncy castles which were pretty scary. For example, we had this cool bouncy free-fall castle! Anyway, dinner was a margaritas pizza with bacon poutine and coke.

Day 2 - Judging (T3B54)

Today was judging day!!! I got up extra early at 5:00 am to shower first, and the down town view from the dorms was very pretty! Lots of tall skyscrapers and lights everywhere... Also did I mention that it was snowing?

Anyway, judging wasn't as terrifying as I thought... Although some were rather difficult to talk to.

Opening Ceremonies and Flavours of Montreal (T3B53)

We had an absolutely excellent opening ceremony. There was a gala dinner in McConnell Area, which was SUPER fancy! There were white sofas, bar-like chairs and tables with pretty centrepieces, a variety of gourmet food, and super formal looking waiters. The flavours of Montreal Dinner was wonderful, although it was super crowded...

Day 1 - Project set up (T3B52)

In the morning, we started out with a great breakfast in Bishop Mountain Hall: scrambled eggs, sausage, and hash browns with a drink. I also got two servings of their delicious chilled strawberries and watermelon!

Later on, we got assigned groups to set up our project boards in the exhibition hall. The projects all look great! I took particular interest to the silver-nano particle antibody complex cancer treatment method in which the silver nano particles were engineered to specifically target cancer cells. This project seems like its gonna win platinum, especially since he worked on his project since grade 5...

Arrival (T3B51)

I got up at 6:30 am to get to the YVR airport at 7:10. Unfortunately, I was a bit too early... Anyways, we received our red BC jackets and climbed on the air plane. When we finally got to our dorms, we discovered that we received a bunch of gifts! I got a CWSF backpack, water bottle, key chain, and an umbrella. Dinner consisted of some lasagne and some salad with a drink of choice. Definitely a great day!!!

Montreal! (T3B50)

I had a great time at the CWSF in Montreal! For the next few blogs, I'm going to write about my experiences.

Cyberbullying (T3B49)

Topic assigned by teacher: Cyberbullying.

Recently my friends were getting upset over a student named Karl because he wanted to control our behaviour. As a result, people were getting mad at him over our class chat. I wasn't contributing to the texts because I rarely use Google Hangouts, and I was only able to read a few comments on Karl. Although Karl was somewhat being annoying to the rest of the class, no one should have criticised him.

However next time, I would suggest that Karl not be permitted to take our phones in class. It is time we don't get treated like kids.

Raindrop Cake (T3B48)

I seriously don't understand why raindrop cakes are so popular. I mean, they're just tasteless agar shapes.

Raindrop Cake - Looks visually disgusting.....

Hillary Clinton Probs (T3B47)

Wow. Apparently some people related to Hillary Clinton were tied with the Panama Papers. Of course, it could be her pretending to be her relatives during the transaction. Why We Shouldn't Vote Hillary.

Expensive Printing (T3B46)

For the science fair display, we are required to print a large poster with dimensions 190 cm x 126 cm. I never knew that the poster could cost more than a hundred dollars!

Fire (T3B45)

So apparently some students that are going to the CWSF this Saturday were affected by the recent wildfire in Alberta. They don't have anything to pack as a result. We're supposed to donate some money for them so that the trip stays memorable.

Science Fair (T3B44)

Science Fair is in a week! Track city championships is next Thursday. Sooo excited!

Class Leader (T3B43)

Wow my class is sending so many complaints to our teacher.

Term Without Grades (T3B42)

So I have to write about a term without grades and my feedback for today's blog.

I personally don't think that school without grades would be successful. Grades are important for university and jobs. How will they know who to recruit for jobs without knowing how academically successful a student is?

If they don't use grades, they would probably use leadership and volunteer work instead of grades. But then what would happen to those who are more shy like me?

Everyone I talked to so far agreed we should keep grades, except for those who aren't doing very well in school.

Playland Transit (T3B41)

I got lost on the way back home from Playland with my friend. We ended up in Downtown where people dressed formal tuxedos. I ended up taking the skytrain back.

Yogurt (T3B40)

Apparently if you mix yogurt with milk and let it set overnight, you get more yogurt. Totally gonna try that.

Track and Field (T3B39)

Just had track a few minutes ago. My friend got first for high jump with 3.5 meters, and I got 3.52 meters for long jump. I hope all my friends get to go to city championships!

Playland (T3B38)

Yesterday, my class went to Playland to have fun, but I ended up working on 7 + pages of science physics questions for the whole time. I think I only went on 3 rides. Never paying $22 on this anymore.