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We had Mr Marogi’s class today. He handed out a new poem called Nothing’s changed. It’s about racial discrimination between black and white people. The author of the poem is a black person that returns home after his country abolished a law banning blacks to go to district six. He finds that everything’s still the same because blacks either can’t afford to go there or doesn’t feel welcome there. The poet feels angry about this and wrote the poem. We need to write a paragraph to explain how it’s different from the previous poem Island  Man for homework.

We also had an IA lesson today, we learnt the way to tell your own position with a map. 

CCC club again. We learnt how to make crystals today. The club leader told us to heat the chemicals and mix them in the correct proportion. After we put the substance on the windowsill, he started teaching us origami. The reason, he said, is because the crystals would look nice if they crystallize on the paper rose. He spent about 10 minutes teaching us how to fold a paper rose and failed in the end because the bell rang before he could finish. 

I heard that there’s gonna be a camping activity next week. I’ll give you the details after I return.

    It rained today, so the flag-raising ceremony was canceled(O\/O). We went strait to our classrooms and waited for Miss Liu to arrive and check our attendance. 

    We ran laps for most of the PE class, but then it started to rain and we went inside. The class ended five minutes later and we left.

    I had my first class at the CCC today. To be serious, I don’t think it’s a place for me because It’s a bit hard to understand. Of course, it’s probably because I joined in after they had the first class. I believe this won’t last long, as we’re moving on to experiments next week.

    We’re gonna have our second IA meeting tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to it......

    It' s still rainy today, so it’s a good thing I don’t have PE classes. 

     Nothing happened in the morning. I had classes and had lunch, and went to have my English Literature class. Remember when I said that the English literature teacher was really strict? Well, turns out he likes me a lot. I think this has something to do with me being one of those students that answers the a lot of questions in class while the other students just sit there and keep silent. So guys, you ever happen to meet a grumpy or really strict teacher, do remember to answer questions in class. They’ll change their attitude, I promise.

    We also had our second IA meeting today. We learnt some legends of maps and I think they’re pretty useful. We also got a form that we’re supposed to make our parents sign on. I’ve already got mine signed about an hour before I started writing this, so I’ll be an official part of the IA tomorrow, probably, since I don’t know when Mr Jami would start ticking on the website......

    By the way, guys, remember the doge ball game I told you about last time? It’ s gonna be held in the gym tomorrow afternoon. Remember to cheer for me! Golden glow!

Well, metal house lost in the house competition again(girl’s dodgeball).  We really tried but......

OK, let’s not talk about this for now and get to the other news. 

We had a drill today on terrorist attacks and earthquakes. We all locked the doors and windows and stayed inside during the drill for terrorist attack and all went downstairs during the earthquake drill. The drill washed away 20 minutes of the first class, which turned out to be English. 

Our English teacher talked about how different descriptions indicate a person’s different emotions. For example, when a person keeps looking form side to side, He might be nerves or scared. We were supposed to play a game of naming a word and letting the rest of the class guess what it means from three options, but the bell rang. What a shame, I was gonna bring out hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia(read as “hexa-koseeo-ee-hexe-konta-hexaphobia”, used to describe people who are afraid of the number 666). I bet nobody’s gonna guess that one.......

By the way, the whole grade’s gonna go camping by the sea on September 23. I’m looking forward to it......

    The IA Copper had its first meeting today. More than 100 students were seated in the auditorium (Definitely the biggest club in the SCIE) by the time the meeting started. The leader of the IA of our school, Mr Jamie, which is my Physics teacher by the way, begin with an introduction about the IA. 

*The International award includes voluntary service, the development of personal interests and practical and social skills, physical recreation and adventurous journeys. You can visit https://www.intaward.org if you want to know more. 

    He soon finished introducing and told us to take out our laptops. I took out my mac, typed in a website he wrote on the board, and entered my information. Ten minutes later, I became a member of the IA. Well, part of one anyway, because I haven’t hand out the 2000 RMB yet.......

    P.s: Forgot to register at the library again........

    Note to self: 1 Register at the library(Bring ID card)

                       2 Charge my Lunch card, or I won’t be able to by the Chinese textbook on Friday.

                       3 Finish English Literature homework before Friday(Did I mention that our English literature teacher is super strict?)

I don’t have much to say today, so I’m just gonna write something about my biology teacher.

    Mr Backstroke is a middle-aged Chinese teacher with a funny name. I don’t know why he didn't change it into something else that makes more sense, but the other staff members call him Back for short. He's pretty humorous in class and he always knows how to attract our attention. We always keep our eyes on him even when he is not telling a joke. The atmosphere is never depressing and a joke pops up every 2 minutes or so, either from the teacher or from the students. We don't usually have so many jokes to tell, but you can always say something funny in Mr Back's class. I guess it's because everybody's so active. Though it's only the second week, we’ve all fallen in love with his classes. 

    Mr Back has a heavy Chinese accent. I didn't really notice it until he pronounced the words “measuring cylinder”as“mayor ciylenda”. It’s not a really big deal, but we often joke with each other and say that If we go to Cambridge in the future and go “mayor ciylenda” this and “mayor ciylenda” that, you’ll know who to blame_(:3」L)_

    Of course, that’s only a joke and we all respect Mr Back really much and would definitely not mind a little accent.

    That’s all for tonight, see you guys tomorrow!

P.s: I went for an interview for the Channelkay club after school today. I do hope I’ll pass......

    I still haven’t got the letter from the IA(international award, one of our clubs) that I’m hoping to get. I know it’ll arrive one day, but I just hate waiting. 

    We finally started to learn coding in our CS (computer science)class, and solar, so good. I’ve managed to understand everything our teacher taught us(though it might be because it’s our first class).Our teacher, Miss D, is still begging us to give her the white form(A form someone need when they change from one form class to another ). She said their’s too many students in her class for her to concentrate on each one. I wonder what she’ll think next year when we move into our new campus. I don’t know how many new students there will be by then, but it’ll be lots more than this time. I guess the SCIE’s going to hire more teachers next year, so Miss D won’t have to face the flood of students alone. It’ll be a big challenge, but she’ll get used to it.

    Miss D is a plump teacher that’s rather nice if you don’t break the rules. I really like her and it’s a shame that she’ll only teach us for a few weeks. I’m pretty sure I'm gonna miss her a lot.

    The library is closed at 3 p.m on Fridays, so I didn’t succeed in registering a library account. Maybe I'll go there in the morning next time........

    I’m gonna go to a figure show at the exhibition center tomorrow. I’m going there with XuPengChen and I’m looking forward to it........

    Well it’s been quite fun writing  here, but dinner’s ready, so I’ll just leave it here for now. I don’t have anything else to say anyway.

    P.s.This place is loads more fun than normal Chinese high schools with the GaoKao and stuff.

    P.p.s.My friends are still on vacation.......

我是Eric，我刚开始我在SCIE国际高中的生活。我很喜欢我在这里的经历，所以我想把它录下来，顺便帮帮所有对国际学校感兴趣，希望能更多地了解他们的人，我要用英语这个日记来练练写作技巧，所以如果你看不懂英语，我对此也无能为力（当然，你可以用机器翻译，但那玩意儿翻译出来的东西实在是让人有点。。。。。。）我希望你能在这里找到些有用的东西，祝你阅读愉快!

Hi guys, I'm Eric, and I'm just a kid that just started my studies in an international high school, the SCIE. I really enjoy my life here, so I wish to record it and post it up to help anyone that's interested in international schools and wish to know more about them. I'm gonna write everything in english to practice my language skills, so if you can't read English, well, I'm sorry to say that I can't do anything about it. I hope you’ll find something useful here, have fun reading!

    Miss D checked our homework today. Last class’ homework was to make a program that makes the user guess a series of “lucky numbers”. She said that if you type in the lucky numbers as a string(like the lettres a b c d), It’ll be alright, but if you type in the lucky numbers as an integer, she’ll be able to crash it. Well, she did crash some programs by typing in random letters, but not mine. I typed the numbers in as an integer(because programs using integers would be loads faster than the ones using strings when there are 100 lucky numbers), but I’ve already thought about the problem last night and made some improvements. By using a line of program:

    If number==int(number):

    *the program would just ignore the coming codes if you type  something like”x” , “apple” or “asdfghjkl”.

    I succeeded in preventing errors from occurring. Miss D was both delited and surprised and asked me to send my program to her e-mail so she could have a better look.

    I had my first class at the USACO club , or coding club today. The club leader was pretty nice and taught us a lot of stuff like len(x) and type(x). He was quite confident in his speech and made everything  easy to understand. We learnt more than we did in our computer science class(Of course, that’s only because we were learning flowcharts in our CS classes, not python). I’m really looking forward to our next USACO class.

P.s: I got into the Chemistry club! Hooray!!!  (/^0^)/

2019.8.30

     First of all, I got into the team for the dodgeball game on the House competition next Wednesday. Hold on a second, I know some you don’t know what dodgeball or House competitions are, so I’m gonna spare some time explaining. You’re free to skip this part if you already know. 

    The students in SCIE are put into four different houses(Metal, Wood, Water and Fire) before their first day of school. The four houses compete against each other on the house competition on Wednesday. The house competitions are different every week. For example, we had a tug of war last time. I’d love to tell you that Metal, which is my house, won last time, but the truth is, we lost. That’s why we want to win so much this time. 

    The house competition next week would be a game of dodgeball. Here are the rules:

    Two groups stand in a big square with a centre line. A player mustn’t cross the centre line or get out of the square. A “spy” of each team stands outside the square, behind their rival teams. For example, the spy of team A stands behind team B, and vice versa. The spies has the ball at the beginning of the game, but they can’t “kill” anyone on the first round. Instead, they have to pass the ball to their teammates in the square. The game then officially begins. All the players inside the square would be counted as “living” while all the ones outside the square would be counted as “dead” and would join the spies of their team(except the two spies that had the ball at the beginning of the game, as they would be resurrected at the death of their first teammate and join their comrades inside the square). Three things can happen when you are in the square:1, you got hit by the ball thrown by a rivaling player or spy. This way, you will “die” and become a spy. 2, you saw a ball coming and you ducked just in time. This way, nothing will happen. 3, you caught a ball thrown by a rivaling player or spy. This way, you have one extra life. A spy can catch and throw balls as well, but they are still counted as “dead” and can’t get into the square. Similarly, a living player will “die” if he or she gets out of the square. If you have the ball, you can choose to pass it to someone else or throw it at your rivals. A “living” rival will die if you succeed in hitting him. A team wins if the other team has no more living players.

    That’s all there is to know about the rules of dodgeball. We play it every sports class. 

    I signed up and got chosen into the house dodgeball team because of my great dodging skills. We did some practice at noon. Com’ on guys, wish me good luck.Golden glow!!（that’s the slogan for Metal house, by the way）GO METAL!!!! (/>o<)/