A WISHFUFILLING DAY!!! JONATHAN!

Well sorry everybody that I did not update my blog in ages. I have been very busy these days. I just came back on Thursday and was sick for two weeks and still going. Well I was at BBM this Saturday and I was just so happy. Right before lunch I had the best present anybody could give me. Jonathan came bacl!!! I was so happy and was so suprised because everybody tried to suprise me. It was a good suprise though. Well that's how my day started. First I met so many new friends that day and they were really nice and funny. Their names were Sophia, Kenny(Alina),Billy and Jackson. They are sisters and brothers. Throught the day we had so many things to do and after lunch at BBM we went to visit my grandmother because it was almost her aniversary. Afterwards Julia and I were planing to go walk around downtown Berkeley. Since Sophia, Alina, Billy and, Jackson had nothing better to do then sleep(SOPHIA) so they came along also. I went looking for a few elf hats but came in no luck whatsoever. It was good though because it made their family communicate with us more. When we came back we had a game of basketball me and the boys, but then the girls were making fun of our "skills" so they came to play with us and wow they were right. They were really good the girls. They beat Jackson,Billy, and I really bad. What like 26 to 3. I am not kidding.LOL. After the game it was like 5Somthing so we just chilled in the hallway because Chinese Orchrastra was having their rehersal. At 6Somthing we started singing Christmas Carols. And just at the right time my brother came back(Jonathan) and I dragged him in to sing with us. Like in Star Trek they say"Resistence is FUTILE." So we also had some pizza. After the singing we started makeing gingerbread houses and that was fun. We made a gingerbread village just for Jonathan LOL because he does not have a pernament home yet so he needed somwhere to stay. Showtime was about to happen because Chinese Orchrastra just finished their performance. Then all the kids came up and we sang for the whole Berkeley group. That was the end of my big wish fufilling day.!!!

Gwan Yin Chi and A BLACKOUT!!!!!

The Sunday of the Gwan Yin Chi was very fun. Many people came. Some of us boys did the Three Steps One Bow. Although half of the dorm was gone that week we still had fun. The other half of the dorm went to Sacremento for Honoring elders over there. It was very cold in the morning but I could feel the chi in everybody. Just a very good vibe. During the week of the session there was a major blackout in the City. We had no power for Breakfest. Everybody woke up late though because all our alarm clocks did not go off. The breakfest was nice because it was so old fashined. We were so ecstatic because this was the first time we had a candle breakfast sort of like Hogwarts.LOL I went to cermony that day and it was so cool. They used the backup generator. Nobody could read the words in the Pu Men Pin so we used flashlights. This cermony was like no other I have ever seen because of the lighting. I felt very cool and comfortable. Altholugh I could not read the words I had to hold the book close up to my face in order for me to see the words.

Random things before and after lunch!!!!???? During Chinese Class

Well that day we had pasta beans and grapes. You guys know how people say don't play with your food. If you don't play with your food how can you create food? Well Raymond made a face of pasta grapes and beans. I guess he was reall bored or somthing. God the table I sit at has people with so much creativity somtimes it is annoying. That day at lunch I don't know how Weasly put four slices of sandwhich filled with pasta, rice and vegetables into his mouth. After lunch I usually go into my chinese classroom where I chill/relax. One day my whole chinese class was there even Ben(my teacher). Hansa started drawing on the white board and then next think you know Ben threw markers. The pictures are so hillarious. Can't you see the resemblance between Ben and the pig(LOL)!!! Just kidding but still it is pretty funny. We recreated the pig into a Ninja Pig and recreated it some more many times. During chinese class we are studying SAT II which is quite complicated. We went outside and sat near the school in the shade. We were all throwing Pine cones at each other and then Ben joined in and we all ganged up on Ben. After a minute or two we stoped and started going over the questions in the SATII.

An Saturday of Haircuts

Man the Saturday of Hircuts was so hilarious. I also had my haircut that day but I cut it short. Mr.K usually wants our hair really short but this time one of the parents cut our hair and man she knew how to cut. Although she did not know that our hair had to be a certain length so all the dorm students hair was still pretty long. Well that's how they like it long. I had the shortest haircut because I did not care about how my hair looked as long as I still have hair. Mr. and Ms. Bostick were there just watching us . Looks like they were having fun watch us get hair cuts. hahahaha.

A Day of Rain ,Rainbows,Clouds and a Peacock?

Well this was from the week that the Humbolt state students came. It was part of the class or you just went to get a half a unit. That day was a bit tiring because it was raining and we the boy school students had to bring the men to their rooms. That day the clouds were very nice and beautiful. There were two big as heck rainbows overhead and some of the Humbolt students told me they followed the rain bow to get to CTTB. I thought that was so amazing because how would they know it would lead to the city. But yeah. A peacock eating a rainbow. Just kidding. The sky was so majestic that day it was unbeliveble.

The First Month Of School!!!!

Well alot has happened the first month good and bad alike. Well because I went up a day early not many people were there but some where. I got the best bunk in the room and ironicly I got the same room as in my first year as a dorm student. I was quite suprised though. On the first night some of the other kids and I were waiting for two taiwanese kids to get to the dorm that night and when they came they all came to my room and we slept at 4:00 in the morning. That was such a night because we were talking what we did the whole summer. Adding that everybody was really jetlag. I managed to get some pictures at like 2:00 in the morning with out them beating me up lol. Well the next few days everybody started to come and we soon became a new family with only what 3 or 4 new students in the dorm. Then it came the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL which was really fun believe it or not. My classes are very nice. Meditation, Chemistry, Geometry, Chinese 4, English, U.S History, Buddhism and then P.E. Well my teachers are really cool but my hardest classes are Chinese and Chemistry. My teachers are really weird especially my chinese teacher. Who is BEN CHEN. (just Kidding) He is a really good teacher just like Heng Jen Shr which I really miss because she is not my chinese teacher but I am happy Ben is my teacher.

He sure knows how to push us students though maybe just alittle too much. During one of my English classes we acted out the tragedy of hamlet. Which we are using the girls schools supplies.

Then came peace day which was not bad either the little girls were really cute when they sang their song though. Just to say the first time the Jr. High and High School went to the Peace day event which is usually dominated by the girl school.

I am so busy after school this year because I have a Student Body meeting every Tuesday and then on Wendsday I have Chinese Orchrastra whis I am trying out the flute just for the heck of it. The Moon fesitval then came and that was a hit I think the best one we ever had. We had skits the 2 wise men which I did it with Ben(my chinese teacher). The school started a T-Shirt club which everybody spent lots of money and the T-shirts were really nice. There was also a really cool juice foutain looking thing was really really neat.

Then we played musical chairs which was full of pushing and luckily nobody pulled the chair from underneth of them. After the moon festival we had a long clean up and everybody was happy. On Sunday as usual we had a study hall and then a tragic accident happened which was truly a tragedy. Ms. Sutherland passsed away and we recited for her and hopes she goes to a good place. On that Thursday we held a memorial in the Confuscious Hall which many people attended . We recited the Amitahba Sutra for Ms. Sutherland.

And finally ending my first month I came back home for an appointment. On sunday there was a kids session at Berkeley Monastrywhich I attended and it was nice sorry I don't have any pictures of that and that concluded my first month of school. I am going to go back to CTTB toaday and the next time i'll be back is around Novemeber 12 which is Veteran's day for another appointment for my braces to change colors and tighten them. So until then I will be at school and I hope next time I come back I can update my BLOG SPOT hahahha so see you all later and until next time!!!!!!!! Ohhh yeah HAHAHA I changed my brace colors to blue and light blue hahaha that is so cool huh.!!!!!!!!!!!!

BYE BYE!!!!!!!!!!