Wow! I'm at the end of my second week of school, and it's going so slowly! In chemistry class, I have learned so much! We're starting to learn about matter. We did a lab where we tried to guess the weight of an object and measured it. I was way off! That was also pretty disastrous, since some of my lab buddies dropped the glass test tube. It created quite a mess... Another lab we did was turning an ordinary penny into a silver penny, then to a gold penny. That was pretty fun, because we got to use fire and burn the silver penny and turn it gold. I really love safely playing with fire. Another crazy thing in chemistry class is that our class is now split up into groups called metals and nonmetals. For some reason, and this was a "random" pick, all the guys are on one side (so I'm a metal), and the girls are on the other. What a coincidence ehh?
Oh, I have to add, I have been keeping up to my goals! On Monday and Tuesday, I cooked up some quesadillas for breakfast and for my swim buddies after practice. I also should tell you about this test set we all did. I didn't do too well, but our set was to swim twelve 100s on the minute forty, and get our best, worst, and average. My best was a 1:13, my worst being a 1:15 (which I only got once by the way), and my average was 1:14. It's a start, but I seriously wish I went faster!
Well, that was sorta my week. Wait up for next week!
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
My First Post!
Hey! My name is Harrison Kwan, and I'm starting this blog as part of my 10th Grade Chemistry Class. I am so excited to write this blog, it's a whole new experience! Our first post: our goals.
Goals are very important. They are a bit annoying to me, since every year we have to think up of new goals to make and break. As a swimmer, I always get the lecture from my coach about how important it is to make goals, and the higher your goals are, the better you will get at swimming. So, now, making goals in swimming is quite easy for me. My first goal would be to get better in swimming. I am supposedly quite fast, but I don't feel that way. I want to be faster! In swimming, your times are rated in standards, starting with the B time, to the A time, then JO (junior olympics), Far Westerns, and Pacific Record Time. My times are currently all B times, but I am getting ever closer to A times. It's a small step, considering that I have only started competitively swimming last year. I am so excited to swim, and I hope that by the end of the year, ALL my times will be A times.
Enough with swimming now, it can't be my WHOLE entire life! Another goal I have for myself, since this is the first week of school, is to do well with school. I have to say that I've gotten a bad start. Just a few days ago, I messed up on my first English essay, not writing a rough draft or correcting my typed draft and leaving a final. I felt horrible when I found out, which was just a period before that class! From there, I knew that I have to get my head together and get ready for school now. I had a successful year last year, and I'm sure I can have another one this year! Hopefully, I can achieve this second goal, to do well in school.
A passion I have, besides swimming, is cooking and baking. Kinda weird for a fifteen year old guy, but it's still fun. Baking cookies and cakes is really fun, and for me, two batches never come out the same way. Maybe that's not such a great thing, but it's still fun for me. Everytime I bake, I give my cookies and things to my friends at school, and they always give me positive remarks. I've been trying out Ina Garter's Ginger Cookies, which were fabulous. They were nice and chewie, and had a small hint of ginger. I'm not really a big fan of ginger, but I could handle these cookies. Baking is really a fun and messy thing, and my mom is never too happy with cleaning up after me, but the results are great. I am not as crazy about actually cooking, since I never get enough chances to do them, but I'm learning. Lately, besides pasta, I've been cooking myself cheddar cheese quesadillas and scrambled eggs (with spam sometimes and rice). They're really great, but I usually create quite a mess. An accomplishmen I've had with cooking is that I can crack my eggs without leaving eggshells. Well, back to my goal in cooking and baking: Make more food and get better at it!
Goals are very important. They are a bit annoying to me, since every year we have to think up of new goals to make and break. As a swimmer, I always get the lecture from my coach about how important it is to make goals, and the higher your goals are, the better you will get at swimming. So, now, making goals in swimming is quite easy for me. My first goal would be to get better in swimming. I am supposedly quite fast, but I don't feel that way. I want to be faster! In swimming, your times are rated in standards, starting with the B time, to the A time, then JO (junior olympics), Far Westerns, and Pacific Record Time. My times are currently all B times, but I am getting ever closer to A times. It's a small step, considering that I have only started competitively swimming last year. I am so excited to swim, and I hope that by the end of the year, ALL my times will be A times.
Enough with swimming now, it can't be my WHOLE entire life! Another goal I have for myself, since this is the first week of school, is to do well with school. I have to say that I've gotten a bad start. Just a few days ago, I messed up on my first English essay, not writing a rough draft or correcting my typed draft and leaving a final. I felt horrible when I found out, which was just a period before that class! From there, I knew that I have to get my head together and get ready for school now. I had a successful year last year, and I'm sure I can have another one this year! Hopefully, I can achieve this second goal, to do well in school.
A passion I have, besides swimming, is cooking and baking. Kinda weird for a fifteen year old guy, but it's still fun. Baking cookies and cakes is really fun, and for me, two batches never come out the same way. Maybe that's not such a great thing, but it's still fun for me. Everytime I bake, I give my cookies and things to my friends at school, and they always give me positive remarks. I've been trying out Ina Garter's Ginger Cookies, which were fabulous. They were nice and chewie, and had a small hint of ginger. I'm not really a big fan of ginger, but I could handle these cookies. Baking is really a fun and messy thing, and my mom is never too happy with cleaning up after me, but the results are great. I am not as crazy about actually cooking, since I never get enough chances to do them, but I'm learning. Lately, besides pasta, I've been cooking myself cheddar cheese quesadillas and scrambled eggs (with spam sometimes and rice). They're really great, but I usually create quite a mess. An accomplishmen I've had with cooking is that I can crack my eggs without leaving eggshells. Well, back to my goal in cooking and baking: Make more food and get better at it!
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