A Very Busy Week 

   This week has been one of the busiest weeks in my life. I literally hate this week. I have had a lot of quizzes for the past 3 days and I still have about 3 quizzes and 1 test left. Even though I am finished with my oration, I am still very stressed. I have a lot of homework to do. I have a math project that is due on Friday, and I haven't started working on it yet. It is 12:33 am and I am writing this blog about my horrible week. I feel very bad that I couldn't find time to finish my math project. 

   The only positive thing is that it is a Thanksgiving Break this weekend! I get to go to California! I am very excited about this trip and I will finally be able to rest. I am really tired of studying, and I can't keep working anymore. Test, quizzes, essays for English, AP tests, and lots of other things ambushed me and I couldn't do anything about it. This week has been so spontaneous.There is a quiz after another quiz. I am also applying for the governor school, and I have to write about 6 essays to apply, but I don't have time! Hopefully, I will be able to finish all my work during the Thanksgiving Break. I am hoping that I will have a lot of fun and will be able to mentally and physically rest.    

Fall Break 

   I have had a wonderful fall break this year. I visited a lot of places, met new people, and had a lot of fun. I have also wasted a lot of money during this fall break. I spent a lot of time outside with my friends. We went to Six Flags last Saturday. It was so much fun! I don't remember the last time I rode a roller-coaster. I have ridden about 4 of them. The scariest one was Goliath. It is about 150 feet high. First they lift you up very high and drop you 3 times. It was very scary. I also went to the one that is called "Free Fall". It is not a roller-coaster, but it was fun too. It is a huge tower which is about 200 feet high. They lift you up and drop you. In my opinion, it was the scariest ride I have ever done in my whole life. It was also my first time to ride a roller-coaster with loops. It felt like I was flying in the space. Besides going to roller-coasters, I went to 4 scary mansions. I love scary mansions. I think that scary mansion is a place where you can become a character of your favorite horror movie.  

   On Sunday I went to the Avenue in Murfeesborrow. I got a haircut and ate in my favorite Chinese restaurant. I spent about 70 $, and I was very upset about it. On Sunday I went to the movie theater and watched the Maze Runner. It is a very good movie and I was very happy to see it. If you like action movies with a plot twist, you should see it.

   I think that I have had too much fun because yesterday(October 13th) I didn't want to go to school at all. The fall break was about 1 week long if you don't count Field Studies. That's why after having a week of break, I didn't feel like going to school at all, but you always have to know when to stop resting and when to start working.

2014-2015

   During this summer break I was thinking a lot about 2014-2015 school year. I was very excited about my sophomore year and I still am. I have a lot of plans for this year. I also have a lot of things happening around me and I can't control some of them. That's what I am going to talk about right now.
   First of all, I want to talk about oration. Two words that describe oration are scary and mortifying. I am very scared to do oration this year. It is the most horrible thing on earth. Our oration drafts are due on Tuesday and I don't even know what to write about. But I am not afraid of writing, I am scared of speaking in front of 300 people.
  Even though oration is one of my biggest fears, there is one more thing which is attendance. I have 3 tardy unexcused, whereas 5 is 3 strikes. And the biggest problem is that I can't control it. I don't have time at all because I have a lot of work to get done like my homework. Almost everyday I have a quiz, test, or an essay. I hope I won't get in a trouble.
   And lastly I want to talk about my goals. The most obvious one is to get all A's. The second one is to learn 2 foreign languages. I want to know a lot of languages because it is very important this days. And my third goal is to learn something that I am going to need in my future life which are Anatomy and Biology.
   These are all important things that are happening in my life right now and I am not really happy with some of them.

My everyday problem 

   I have already talked about how hard is it to be an international student, and now I want to talk about my everyday problem. You are probably thinking right now that the only one problem that all students have is homework. It is actually true, but I am not going to waste 200 words on just writing about my homework. The other main problems that I have are friendship, sports, knowledge(not homework), my own free time, activities, and rest. All of this problems are actually partly related to homework problem, but it doesn't mean that all of them are about it.

   The first and the most important problem is friendship. You must have a friend that you can trust and that you can talk with. In my opinion, there is only one match of a friend for one person. I have a friend in Russia whom I can fully trust, but the problem is that I don't live there anymore. So, I had to find a new friend, whom I can trust. He is actually my roommate. But the problem is that we always argue which is a lot of stress that has an effect on the human brain. 

   The second problem is sport and activities. They take a lot of time and energy. I don't do any sports, but I still have 1 hour of SAT prepare and WILD. It takes a lot of time and therefore I can't finish my homework on time.

   The third problem that derives from the second one is knowledge. I don't have enough time to study something that doesn't concern homework. For example, medicine or a new foreign language. 

   All of this problems make my live harder every day and therefore I am always stressed, sad, and angry. I can't manage my time at all. If you have the same problem, the solution is the right management of time which I don't do right.

My first day of school and what's it like to be an international student 

   I am going to write about my first day of school. It may sound boring, but it's actually not. Most of the interesting things happen on the first day of school. I was very nervous about my first day. I had a lot of homework, a lot of things to do, etc. But besides homework, my feeling were crushing and destroying me. I was worrying so much. My parents left the day before the school started. This was one of the main factors why I was depressed. Before I am going to talk about my first school day of 2014, I wanted to share an idea what's it like to be an international student.

  First of all, I have already said that I was very upset and depressed when my parents left. If you are an international student, that's what usually happens–you have to live without your parents. It is very hard to understand that now you are going to be the one to take care of yourself, not your mother or your dad. It's not that easy to live by yourself and see you parents maybe 2-3 times a year. But eventually you actually get used to it. 

   Secondly, when I first arrived in The Webb School, I didn't have friends at all because of my language education level and the different social environment. The first thing that came up to my mind was to go back home! But at the same time I wanted to study in America. And here you go, a huge dilemma between two most important things to me. It is hard to choose. Some of the students choose to go back, but some students choose the knowledge and being away for their own homeland. I couldn't just go back home and say that I was to scared and depressed to be far away form home. I came here with the only one goal–to become an excellent student and to get in the university in USA. So I did everything to forget about my thoughts of going back. 

   By telling what's it like to be an international student, you can now imagine how did my first day of school go. It wasn't easy, but I got it over with.