2011年1月30日 星期日

A Story (Part 3)

It was soon dinner time. And Lythia told Beckor a story.
"Long, long time ago, a monster was born. His name was Mid, actually, it was short for something which no one except him could pronounce, so we called him Mid. He was the most powerful and cruel monster of all time.
"For five thousand years, he had been torturing all the people near him. We suffered all these time, and taught every children to fight. For many years, heroes had tried to defeat him, but none of them succeed. Well, there was one, actually, but he (or she, no one knows what or who that is, anyway) didn't have enough power to kill him. So the hero put him into a deep sleep. Years had passed, and the hero had grew weak, for he had been old. We gave him potions and blessings, so that he can live longer. He should die earlier, but we kept him alive for all these hundreds of years. The hero is dieing, and so is the spell of the sleeping creature. As soon as the hero dies, the spell will be broken, and the creature will rise again.
"I went to visit him (or her) with Sophia a few years ago, and he told us to find a traveler, who could pass the first level of FCD (Fighting the Chinese Dragon), and said that the person would pass our cave in these few years. But we also have to find a magical creature, who could defeat Sophia and my power, together."
"And that is the creature, who refused to come out."
"Yes, and don't call her like that. She's amazing. Anyway, after that, he went to talk to his other visitors. At the end, he told every of us to meet him the day he dies with the people he told us to fight. And meanwhile, we should train them, who is you and the others, and prepare them so we can fight the monster together."
"So you guys kidnapped me so you can finish the quest, huh? I don't like it. Tell you something, I don't think I can do it. Plus, it's not my own business, anyway. It's something about places faraway." Beckor talked for a long time about that, and started blaming all the people. He got angrier as he talked, and so did Lythia. Lythia tried to explain many times, but Beckor wouldn't listen. Finally, Lythia couldn't stand it, and said:"come on then, and think if you can beat me, if you think you're the boss." So Beckor raised his sword, backed to the entrance, and flew to Lythia in an amazing speed. Lythia remained seated. She held a leaf between her fingers, and pushed it outwards, from slow to fast, and released. Wham! The leaf burst into pieces as it hit his forehead, a drop of blood rolled down from Beckor's forehead. Beckor collapsed and felt numb immediately. Yet he was wide awake. Lythia began to explain as Beckor stared at her angrily, and unable to move. Suddenly there was a loud noise.

2011年1月29日 星期六

The Diaries of The Camping Days (Part 2)

親愛的日記: 1/28/2011

今天是童軍露營的第二天。我們一大早就聽到了值星官在喚醒我們的聲音。「嗶,起床!」我翻了個身,「嗶,起床!」我又翻了個身,順便用被子蓋住頭,「嗶,起床!」然後我就心不甘,情不願的被隊友拉出熱到不行的睡袋。我們快速的把東西整理整理,把自己的睡袋收一收,走馬賴的睡袋折一折,最後把門打開。皆下來我們就把所有的行李和我們的睡袋放到帳棚外,開始呼叫晨檢官。檢查的項目有:指甲、衛生紙、帳棚內外等。

接下來我們就去拿早餐,早餐是漢堡的麵包和肉鬆、蛋及美乃滋。我們本來要在弄完早餐和吃早餐之間唱謝飯歌,但我們弄完後都忍不住把早餐咬一口,所以我們就沒唱了。然後我們就去集合,舉行交接儀式,然後就是早操時間。教我們跳早操的人跳得很high,在臺下的我們卻心不在焉,只覺得早操內容很像土風舞。真是枉費了隊輔的美意。

接下來我們又在走馬賴裡完大地遊戲。不過這次跟昨天的不同之處是,我們今天是在學習。我們學了許多繩結與歌曲,非常的好玩。我們今天還是要諂媚關主,我們班的對呼很特別,叫做NIKE PUMA,關主們都很喜歡,也覺得很特別。對呼內容是:「讓我們給關主一個NIKE PUMA! N!I!K!E!NIKE!NIKE!NIKE!P!U!M!A!PUMA!PUMA!PUMA!阿~魯巴!」(我們可沒有完阿魯巴喔‧‧‧沒得玩!)

接下來我們就去煮午餐。我們這次聰明多了,用了兩個火種。火非常的旺(這又是我的功勞~我是人力吹風機~),因此炒菜時只需花及秒鐘就可以把菜炒得色香味俱全,這就是所謂的快炒。炒完後,我們就把湯安置在火上,加點料,然後就開動了(在等待湯時)。今天的午餐非常的可口,鹽巴加得剛剛好,湯有熟,因此三兩下就吃完了。

接下來我們就去集合了。不過我們一集合就被值星官罵,因為我們原本要在一點五十時集合,我們卻在兩點十分才集合完畢。接下來我們就又去玩遊戲了。我們在走馬賴的步道上行走、尋寶。遇到差路時,便運用早上學到的技巧辨別路邊的提示來辨別方向。我們在其中一關找到了一張紙條,上面的只是教我們不要讓隊輔看到紙條。原來那一關是要對隊輔們潑麵粉。我們瘋狂的搶麵粉,丟麵粉,連掉到地上的也撿起來丟。我也發揮我偷襲的實力,躲在隊輔身後。趁他們轉過身時,把手往上一揮,然後就跑了。隊輔們的臉上、手上和衣服上都是麵粉。

我們回帳棚後,就去比賽炊事(順便煮晚餐)。我們的火還是很旺,菜也是快炒,湯依舊好喝,大家還是三兩下就吃完了。

接下來我們就又去集合了。隊輔們要我們閉起眼睛,想想這幾天發生的事,然後牽著手,在黑暗中來到不知名的地方(因為大家都閉著眼睛)。當大家張開眼睛時,我們都站在為點燃的營火旁,圍成一圈。接下來節目就開始了。只見營火像鳥般的從樹上飛下,引燃營火後,煙火就從營火四散飛出,非常美麗。接下來又是一連串的節目,其中當然也包括了我們練習已久的舞。總之,非常精彩。

回帳棚後大家都累壞了,倒下去就打呼聲不斷,更不用說要吃宵夜了。

The Diaries of The Camping Days (Part 1)

Dear Diary,

Today is the first day of the three camping days. The whole eighth grade were very excited. I, too was very excited. First, we got together at our school. A teacher was telling as to do this and do not do that. After that, we met the counselors.

Then we got on the bus and went to a camp ground in Tainan county. It was a torture to me. I didn't sleep well last night, therefore my left eye was so itch. It was a bad decision to scratch it because my eye got more itch and it was swollen. Then I got hyper-dizzy on the bus, and couldn't do anything but throw up.

We arrived at ten a.m., when we got off the bus, I quickly asked the counselors about what I had missed on the bus and quickly caught up.

We learned and put up our tent then. It was a very small tent for seven of us (our team). Then we went to get some sleeping bags for our tent floor, and put our sleeping bag and luggage inside.

We were all very hungry after the tiresome work. So we went to have our lunch. As soon as we got to the cafeteria, I found that I had forgotten to bring my utencel. Since I didn't know what to do, I told our team counselor about it. So he went to get a pair of chopsticks for me (I didn't know where he got it). Though lunch was delicious, we didn't eat much.

After that, we went to watch the counselors' play. It was very funny and interesting. The next thing was to play a game in the camp ground. We walked from here to there, and the games were competitions with the another class, and we had to flatter the quiz master, like to say something like "You are so handsome" or "You are so beautiful" (with fingers crossed behind our back) to get more points. It was fun.

After the exciting, long, walk, we went to have our dinner. We cooked it ourselves with char coal. We had to build the fire ourselves. I was the human fan, which is the best job in the team. Too bad the fire was too small. When we were cooking our soup, I put too much water in the pot, and the soup never get ready. So we decided to stop cooking and take the pot away from the fire. The dishes were eggs with meat, meat with too much salt, vegetable with too less salt, soup with cooked duck meat and with raw mushroom.

Our lunch was the worst meal ever. Our team ate all the egg, and no one wanted to eat the rest of the meal. I was still hungry (or not full), so I ate the rest of the too-salty-meat with the rest of the vegetable together. The soup was terrible. It was full of the smell of the raw mushroom. So I ate the rest of the duck meat, which was the only eatable thing in the soup, and drank a few bowl of the horrible soup, and poured the rest away.

Then we went back to our tents to put away the things, and got together in the dark night to listen to a counselor, who was talking in a soft, slow, ghostly voice. She told us not to call someone by her name, not to turn around or react when someone calls your name, for you don't know who or what had called you. Don't wear anything red, red is a harmful color. She also told us not to speak too loud, it might attract something. She told us to hold hands with a friend, but don't rehold when we accidentally let go, we won't know if we what we are holding. Don't tap on someone's head or shoulders because we have some kind of important fire on them, she said.

After that, we went to listen to our counselor. He was telling us some ghost stories. Dilemma was very scared. She held my hand tight in her pocket (not in mine since I wasn't wearing my coat because of the color of it). She was also trying hard not to hear a thing. Well, she was very good at it since I had to call her twice to draw her attention. We decided to call her The Goddess of Novels (a nickname I named her), and call me The Goddess (we didn't want to get to Athena's bad side, my nickname was The Goddess of Wisdom). I suggested that we should pray to the Wind Gods, so we did.

We saw some interesting scenes when we were talking. The were some candles on the road. The light of the candle was painful in my eyes, and it was hard to see things in the dark. How I wish that I can be a vampire in the dark, that way I can see more carefully.

After the walk, we went to see some more plays played by the counselors. It was very funny. Then we went to get supper, and went back to our tent. It was about eleven p.m.

What a tiresome day!

Judy

日記

2011/1/26
親愛的日記:

今天又是個美好的一天。我們初二一大早就在早自習練童軍露營要跳的舞,接下來就是一連串的課程:國文、數學,然後又是數學、國文、午餐、理化、英文,最後就是共同自習時間。

因為明天就要去童軍露營了,我們都加緊練舞,希望不要在營火晚會跳舞時出糗。我本來就很喜歡唱歌跳舞,這下子我就跳的更high更快樂,只想在多跳幾次。

今天上課時的進度速度跟昨天恰恰相反。昨天只花了五分鐘就交完整課的注釋,而今天花了半節課卻只上完題解和作者介紹。不過今天小神鳥老師(我們的國文老師,也就是我們的導師)今天補充了許許多多的資料,一節課下來獲益良多。

今天的數學課跟昨天的一樣無聊,所以不必多說。

我們今天在第二節國文課寫作文,題目是《鞋子》。雖然我昨天想了半天只想出第一段,但寫作文對我而言就像在挖井般,一把第一段寫下去,文句就像泉水一樣不斷地湧出。

今天的午餐非常的好吃,不過我又吃太多了,午休時只好把庫子的扣子解開......反正用上衣和外套遮住大家都看不到。

今天的理化依舊無聊。我今天在英文課看兩難(匿名)借我的Wayside School的第三本,非常的好笑。我差點笑出聲來。

我們為了要讓我們在童軍露營時跳舞跳得像樣些,我們也有利用共同自習時間練舞(我們跳的舞中有、<撐腰>、<姊姊你太美了>、<愛我恨我>等共七首,有些實在有點難)。我也因為過人的舞技被安排到外圈,也就是較接近觀眾的那一圈(其實我並沒有什麼運動細胞,一切都是練出來的)。

雖然我說周碩寫日記的時候,但因我每個星期一到五都沒有機會上網,且媽媽有時還沒有時間可幫我把日記刊出,所以通常周五的日記都會在周六刊出。

2011年1月25日 星期二

Jan 25, 2011 Diary

Dear Diary,

Today is one of my favorite days. This morning, all of us, eighth graders, went to listen to a teacher’s speech (it wasn’t actually a speech; she was just telling us some information). After that, we had English class. Then we had math, civics, science, lunch, geographic and history.
Listening to the speech was fun. The teacher was telling us about the camping, which the whole eighth graders are going to have two days later. She told us not to ruin the food we need to cook, and not to be “romantic”. She made some examples and those were really funny that I fell off my chair.
My thoughts were drifting away in the next two classes. Well, not actually, since I was writing yesterday’s diary in the English class.
The science class was divided into two parts. Our teacher was answering our questions in the first part, and we had a quiz in the second part. Well, my thoughts were floating away in the first part, and I was really floating in the second part. That was because I got 100 in the quiz (how wonderful!), and many of my classmates only got an egg 0 (how pity!!).
Oh! I think I left out the civics class. I had to get the heavy civics text books from the teachers’ office to our classroom. It was a heavy, slow and tiresome trip. I was sweating and panting, and my shirt was wet.
Lunch was wonderful. We had potato and bacon, seaweed and egg soup, chicken and pork with sauce. I took too much since every dish was delicious and I ate too much with the same reason. I was too full to sleep well.
Our Chinese teacher, Mrs. Phoenix, who is also our homeroom teacher, spent most of time in reassuring camping safety, and only used 5 min in teaching. Surprisingly, she finished what she could usually cover for 40-min teaching.
How about the next two classes? Nothing to talk about actually. In the recess, I spent my time reading the book Dilemma lent me (it is called “Wayside School”), and laughed through the recess.
I have deciced to write the next part of “The Story” on the weekend so it can be a weekly story. What will I write after that? Diary? Of course not. Diaries are only for the weekdays. I’ll write another story but don’t ask me what it is called. Finish this one first! What a day!!
Judy

2011年1月22日 星期六

A Story (Part 2)

When the boy woke up, he was in a cave. There was a girl about his age by his side. He wanted to sit up, but the girl pushed him back.
"Lay down. You are terribly injured. I'm Lythia. What's your name?" The girl's voice was quite deep (for a girl) and strong.
"I'm Beckor. Was it a dream?"
"What?"
"The creature."
"No." She pointed to the entrance of the cave. It's a Chinese dragon of mine. Her name is Sophia."
"Wh--"
"Don't ask. Enjoy your breakfast, I'm going to hunt. And don't try to get out. There are a lot of animals out there, and don't even think about beating Sophia. She is way stronger and better at fighting than you are."

It was noon already before she was back. She was carrying a big bag full of desert animals.
"What's for lunch?" Beckor asked.
"Desert rabbits. Help me with these. From now on, you are going to live with me. I'll tell you why at dinner time. Everyday, I'll leave in the morning to hunt, you and Sophia will guard the cave. Remember, Sophia and I are the boss here, not you. I'm stronger and better than you are, and she is more than I am." Said Lythia.
They finished peeling of the skin of the rabbit when Lythia finished her talk.

Then Lythia made an armor for Beckor. It had scales from the dragon and cloth that can protect people from everything. After that, Lythia took out a new, shiny, sharp sword from another room, and gave it to Beckor.
"Don't use the old one you had. It's not good enough. Use this one from now, and wear the armor every time you fight. It can protect you from knives and swords and any other weapon. The sword can cut through anything except for the armor."

Then Lythia showed Beckor the rooms and her territory in the desert, but she left out a room.
"What's in the room? Why did you left it out?" Asked Beckor curiously.
"An animal."
"Can you open the door?"
"I can't the creature is stronger than me, and so is the door. It is the master and the boss of all of us. It doesn't commands us often, and doesn't need to be feed often. It will come out when it's ready."

2011年1月21日 星期五

A story

Once upon a time, there was a boy, who was going to sell the things he had made. He was an orphan, and he lived on selling things. He never knew where he was going, so he sometimes accidently got into a robber's home. His parents had taught him how to fight before he became an orphan, so he never had lost any robber before.

When he got to the desert, he was tired and thirsty. Quickly, he rushed to a small river, and started to drink. Suddenly, a large creature flew out of the river. It was covered with the golden scales of a snake, and it had the bright eyes of a shrimp, the horns of a deer, the teeth of a saber-tooth cat, the nose of a cow, the tail of a fish, and the claws of the birds.

The creature roared, and attacked, so the boy quickly defenced himself, and charged. He waved his sword at the creature, but missed. Before it could attack him again, he drove the sword into its tail.
"GRRRRRRRRRR!" The creature jerked its tail away, and blew a big ball of fire at him. He dodged, and ran for his sword. Quickly, he jumped at the tail and took a tight grip. Suddenly, the creature flew high into the sky, and into the river. The boy pulled out his sword from the tail, and swam to the shore. Then he sat down to rest. as he was panting, the creature flew into the sky, and suddenly dived at him.

It opened its muoth, and this time the boy was ready. Splash! the boy splashed the water at its mouth, but instead of smoke, lots and lots of water came out of its mouth like the waves of the sea. The boy jumped as high as he could, and hid under the creature's chin. He tried to drive his sword into the creature's chin, but it was no use. The scales were too strong. The creature shook and jerked its head, but the boy would not let go. Last, the creature got tired and went back into the river.

2011年1月20日 星期四

期末考心得

終於考完期末考了。大家戰戰兢兢的等著考卷。

我這次國文出乎意料的考了八十九分,明顯的進步了很多。其中作文得到了八分,滿分十分,原本得到九分,但不知為什麼變成八分,不過我還是很滿意,因為作文也是進步神速(不過其中一半是抄引言)。

數學的成績也讓某些人(不是大家)跌破眼鏡,因為這次我竟然拿到滿分,而且班上除了我以外只有一位考滿分!我上次在月考時數學滿分已經是小學三年級的事了,我當時是班上唯一一個呢!我的數學成績一項都是像雲霄飛車班忽上忽下的,這次大概又遇了高峰。

雖然剛剛提到的兩個科目都考得不錯,但我的英文成績卻退步了許多。這次英文考了八十七分,不但破了我的英文最低紀錄,還被老師取消以作文代替功課的資格。不只如此,回家後還一直被爸爸念。總之,考得很不理想。

我這次終於把大多的理化實力發揮出來(保留了兩分),考了九十八分。同學們都既羨慕又嫉妒,當然,我說的並不包括那兩位考滿分的同學。我下次一定要把實力毫不保留地發揮出來!

這次地理實在是考得太差了,竟然連八十分都不到!我不想告訴大家我的地理成績,因為實在是差到極點!公民考得不錯,八十八分。歷史沒進沒退,跟上次一樣九十分,可見「學如逆水行舟,不進則退」這句話是錯的(呵呵,開玩笑的啦,其實有學到就算有進)。

這次成績的加權平均是九十一分多,超過上次的最高分紀錄(九十點一一一…)。我要再接再厲,才能有更好的成績!