Hello! An Update On a Big Event!

Hi! I know that I have not been updating this blog for a while now, so, here is a BIG, HUGE event that JUST happened yesterday night, January 13th, 2009, at 7:00 PM at Leon High School! I will start at the beginning: A few months ago, my teacher gave out a tiny, little spelling quiz. It was a written quiz. A few people passed the quiz, or should I say, TEST! This is actually a quiz to see who is going to compete in the school spelling bee! I was one of a lot of people who passed. The test consisted words like, "tutu," or "clothes." So, that means, since I passed, along with a few other people, we will be competing in Round 2 of the spelling bee. They gave out booklets for us to study (the booklets are the size of an average piece of paper, and in black-and-white), and they gave us a limit of five lauguages to study. The words in those five languages are the ones who will be in the spelling bee. Then the day of the spelling bee came. It was also a written quiz. After the bee, I felt relieved. Then, I felt excited because I passed! That means that I, and some other people, will be going to Round 3 of the big spelling bee! But, this time, we got smaller booklets with color, AND we have to study ALL of the lauguages!!!! The big bee came. It was the school spelling bee. I felt really nervous, for the whole fifth grade was there, in the cafeteria. The vice principal was there. We started the bee. It was REALLY tense. I was REALLY nervous. But, I made it to the top 3 spellers! My champion word (the champion word is the word that if you get right, you, well, become champion!) was, "worrisome." It may not be THAT hard, but it CAN get pretty challenging if you were up on stage, with the whole entire fifth grade staring at you, your vice principal there, and you knowing that if you mess this up, you will have less chance of becoming champion, and you won't be able to move on to county. How hard do you think that word is now? I spelled "worr," then paused. Then, I kept going "isome." I got it right! The next thing I know, I was the school champion! I got a blue medal with the words "Spelling Bee" on it. BUT, that means that if I win, I am going to the COUNTY! Ok, so, we are back to January 14, which is today. I am going to tell you what happened last night. I was at the Leon High School, we checked in, and I got a certificate for being the school champion, they give that to every body in the county spelling, because, if you did not win the school bee, you would not even be there. So, we went to the auditorium, and the bee took place. They only give out trophies for 2nd and 1st place. So, if you took 3rd place, you are not getting a trophy. I did pretty good. I got in the top 2 spellers. This girl from Fairview, 8th grader, won. I took second place in the bee. My word was "kasha" and it was pretty hard, because I don't recall having seen it before. Her word was easy, which was what made it so unfair "thesaurus." And that's what happened. I did not win, but I took second place out of 40 people and many of them were 8th graders. I got a trophy. My teacher and the principal were very proud and so my mom and dad.

My Birthday and Experience Asia

These pictures were taken on my birthday, and on the day of the Experience Asia festival:

People with skill can carve fruits out of fruits and vegetables

This is a fruit carving (a peacock) from a watermelon, squash, and some carrots.

This is our Experience Asia booth.

A closeup of a watermelon and a fruit carving arrangment.

There are edible fruit kababs inside the watermelon.

A closeup of the fruit kababs

A line of people at our booth.

More fruits. The person standing behind is the one who is carving them.

A closeup of a carved watermelon.

The inside of the carved watermelon.

Me, behind the LUCKY EASTER EGGS booth.

It's my birthday! Here are some pictures.

That's Mega, we went to her house on my birthday to help her family move.

That's me, Mega, and that's my dad.

That's Mega's mom, in the black.

Halloween and the KLES Family Fun Day

October 31st Friday was Halloween. I had lots of fun. My dad took these pictures while we were trick or treating:

Mega (2 years old) is is the chicken costume, I'm right beside her. The girl in front of me is Faith, 7 years old. The adult beside Mega is Jasmine's (a friend of mine) mother.

This is Pa Petch in her Cleopatra costume is the kitchen of Na Tai's (Faith's mom) house. We all stayed in Na Tai's house until it is time to start trick or treating. She won $100 from costume contest for adults at Silver Slipper.

Jasmine, Hope, and me at the doorstep of someone's house (Southwood).

There's Pa Petch outside an archway to the "cemetery."

This is a group picture of the trick or treaters(Left to right). I'm at the VERY left of this picture (50's costume, poodle skirt), Faith next to me(also 50's costume), then Pa Petch (Cleopatra), Mega (Chicken), Jasmine (violinist) in the back next to Pa Petch, Hope (Faith's sister, the princess), and in the white costume at the right is Crystal (Jasmine's sister, also a princess).

This is my full costume in the kitchen of Na Tai's house.

We're all eating after going out to trick or treat

This is the end of Halloween! November 1st on Saturday, Killearn Lakes Elementary School had a Family Fun Day. And of course, it WAS fun. Here are some pictures:

This is the Dunk Tank. You get to dunk TEACHERS! I really should have waited and spend my 8 tickets on MY teacher, Mr. Mazur from fifth grade...

This is the big bounce house. Bouncy! Although, I didn't have time to really bounce on it.

I dressed in my 50's costume again because it is the school theme that day (I wore it for Halloween too). I got my VERY first face painting in my whole ENTIRE life.

This is a picture of my dad and me out in open parts of the school fun zones.

They're having a costume contest in the Clover Court. I was one of the contestants. I'm the second one from left, in the pink satin skirt.

That's me, I took second place in the contest.

That's me (after my face was painted) with my close friend, Arya, from Ms. Buckingham's fifth grade class. That's the certificate I recieved from the contest.

My mom volunteered to help out in the "Treasure Booth." After I spent ALL of my tickets, I went and helped out at the booth, like tear the tickets in half (you can only use a ticket ONCE, then, it will be torn into two after you spend it), or hand out shovels to the kids who want to dig and try to find the "treasure."

This is me again, but this time, I'm standing in my own home, in the living room after Family Fun Day is over at around 2:00 PM.

Family Fun Day has ended at 2:00 PM. Below, there are pictures of me unwrapping a VERY large package sent by ship (it took 3 months for it to arrive from Thailand, Asia) and, me, at my school on the Science Fair Project Day.

This is a very honored Thai musical instrument called the Ranad Ek. It is very fragile, just look at all the cardboard and paper!

The sender, uncle Tu, has even built a wooden skeleton to help support the
Ranad from damage.

This is me standing beside my science fair project in the cafeteria at KLES (Killearn Lakes Elementary School).

This is my mom and me, at the Science Fair.

We got up early and picked the sweet persimmons in this orchard along with Na Gap, very left, Na Kae, in the blue shirt, Mega, the 2 year old, my mom, in the brown shirt holding Mega, Na Kun, between my mom and Pa Petch, in the turqouise shirt, me, in the tanish long-sleeve and white cap and right (from YOUR point of view) of Pa Petch, and Pba Aree, in the white shirt at the right.

Again, another group picture, my dad took both of these pictures, I think.

THERE's Na Kun, in the black sweater. There's my mom, in the brown sweater and red cap, Pba Petch, the one at the right and has a white bucket, and Na Kae, the very left one in the blue shirt that's bent over the bucket, probably peeling a persimmon. My dad came prepared, with a knife and and probably everything else that we might need. We were almost full by the time we paid for our REMAINING persimmons.

There's me, helping Mega pick a persimmon almost by herself. I had to bend down the braches because Mega couldn't reach the big and healthy persimmons by herself.

That's the end of our persimmon pictures! See what's next!

I volunteered for Fruit Friday once. The volunteers are supposed to bring fruit in on Fridays. I brought cantaloupe stars and flowers, and strawberry mice. Somebody might taken more than one mice, I have not even get a chance to get my own mice...

This is the whole platter, you can see everything from this picture!

Cantaloupe stars and flowers, and strawberry mice...

This is a picture of me in Ocala, helping to whiten the driveway. See the difference? Our grandparents are elderly, so we have to go there once in a while. Each drive takes 3 hours! That's 6 hours total for a whole visit! We're about to go next week too on the 22nd.