Slice Of Life #296 - False Alarm - Tuesday, August 18th, 2020

    I was working through a really hard question on the Language Usage MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) test. Suddenly, the fire alarm rang. "Evacuate, evacuate," The monotonic voice repeated boringly.

    "Now, out of all times?" I questioned. We were taking a very important test, the test that I cared about the most, and the fire alarm had rung, asking us to get out of the building.

    "It's probably just a false alarm," My teacher, Ms. Larsen, told all of us. "Let's just stay in the room and see what happens..."

    We pointed out to her that the high school classes had all turned off their lights and were heading outside. "Okay, you know what?" She continued, "Take that back. Let's go. I'm suspending your test for now."

    We rushed outside and were met by high-schoolers rushing around. "It's a false alarm," A high-schooler told us.

    "Okay then," Ms. Larsen said and sighed. "Back to the room!"

    "There goes 5 minutes of MAP testing time!" I mumbled sarcastically to myself.

    We headed back into the room and resumed the MAP test. And the bad news? The question now was even harder than the previous one.

Slice Of Life #295 - I Don't Have Any Ideas - Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

 Today, I'm out of ideas regarding what I should write. So, I'm just going to talk about how my life is going and how 7th Grade has been treating me so far. I'm loving 7th Grade so far. I have some pretty good teachers that all have a great sense of humor, so I'm feeling pretty good going into 7th Grade. This morning, I borrowed the book Illegal from my humanities teacher. I've just finished it not too long ago. It's a really good book about refugees and the tough moments they go through. Having seen refugees myself, I think it's a great book that helps let us know that we are the lucky ones and that we should in turn help others and come together as one as a society so that our world can become a better place.

I just realized how late it is, so I'm going to end this post here for today. Bye!

Slice Of Life #294 - First Day Of School! - Tuesday, August 4th, 2020

    Today was the first day of school! Except that it was online. However, before you go ahead and complain about me leading you to the "climax (not really)" and then going all the way back down the "story hill" by telling you that it was online, let me tell you that the rest of the school days are back at school (physical school).
    Only 2 grades in the Middle School can go to physical school during one day, so today my grade, Grade 7, is tuning in online. For the next two days, Grade 8 will be online, and Grade 6 will be online on Friday. Fortunately, after this week, we all are 100% back to school (except for some others that can't come because they are not in Malaysia, who will be online).
    I'm actually pretty excited for 7th Grade, because I got some pretty fun classes. I got the elective that I desired for, and also got a pretty fun Wheel class (which is kinda' like an elective, too). However, because school's reopening, it does mean having to get up a lot earlier. Tomorrow, I will have to wake up at 6:30am so I can get ready and eat breakfast before leaving for school at 7am. Well, with that being said, it's getting pretty late, so I'll have to end this post here. Bye!