Choir HomeWork- Power Of The Void

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides (silence) an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I feel that adding the silence after provides creates the best tension because I put a silence before they give the information about the school. So if I put it there, people will wonder, "ISKL provides what?". It makes people wonder what the person is going to say, and what ISKL provides.

One way composers can create tension in their music, is by putting sudden stop to their music, which sudden stop is void. By putting void in the music, it makes the listeners think if the music's over, and later, the music starts again. If the composer starts playing the piece loud, then suddenly a void, it creates tension.

During the Christmas Holiday...

During the Christmas holiday, after we came back from vacation about a week later, I went to a sleepover at Shion's house. I was there if Bo Young and Shion. It was awesome. We did many random stuff. We danced to music, sang, get on the computer, play tricks on people that are on skype, swim, and eat dinner. Well, that's not the real order.

We first went swimming, because we didn't want the weather to go bad later. We dove into the pool, and just hang out in the pool.

We ate dinner at Shion's house. The food was delicious. We ate Japanese Curry. I love Japanese Curry! That's my favorite Japanese food.

After dinner, we got on the computer, and opened Skype. Diksha kept on calling us, but we didn't answer it because Shion didn't have the microphone connected. So we started playing tricks on her. I thought that the trick won't work because she's been through a lot of tricks during her life time.

Later we danced and sang to many music! It was so fun and really random. We took videos of it as well. When it was10:30, Shion's mom came in the room, and told to quiet down, so we just stopped. (sadly)

At last, we finally went to bed...

SnapShot: Private Beach

During the Christmas break, I went to Penang. It was a really long drive to Penang. I brought my comfy pillow with me, so I fell asleep fast. About an hour or so later, I woke up, and I got really, really, bored, so I took out my DS, and started playing it. After a while passed, my family and I were searching for a restaurant to eat for lunch. Since we wouldn't find the restaurant we wanted, which was a seafood restaurant, my dad turned on the navigation, and set up the navigation to the destination. Finally we got there, and when we got there, I was starving! I looked in the menu, and choose something that had a picture, and the one that looked nice. After we ate, we got back into the car, and my dad drove us to the hotel.

My dad set up the navigation to the hotel, but it keeps on loosing its signal, so sometimes we would go the wrong way. That happened twice. We got to the hotel, eventually, and my mom thought shes been to this hotel before, but shes never heard of the name, "Copthorne" before. So she thought she was wrong. When we got into our room, my mom was even more familiar with the hotel. Since it was late that night, I told my mom, "Lets ask tomorrow if this place used to be "Novotel" or not." I emphasized on the word "Novotel", because that was the hotel my mom went to, about 14 years ago. I went to sleep pretty late because I've slept for around 2 hours in the car. Later on, I got really sleepy, and I sleep fast again.

We got up around 7:30- 8:00 to have breakfast. After we ate beakfast, I reminded my mom to ask them if this hotel used to be Novotel, or not. After my mom asked them, my mom was in a shock! It was Novotel, but they just changed the name to Copthorne! Later in the evening, I was getting kind of bored, so I started to play my DS, again. But sadly, my DS was at low battery! I begged my parents to go to the private beach, and they said YES! I was very happy.

After I got changed and all, my mom, my dad, and I went down to the beach! When we got there, the first thing I did was to take my sandals off. Then my towel, and the next thing I did was...running! I was running toward the ocean, then, "Ouch!" I said! I stepped on a sea shell that was wide open.It hurt a lot when I stepped on it, but later, it got better. I was relaxing in the ocean, and enjoying my time there. We got up in our room, and went for diner.

We got back, and relaxed until it was time for my bed time!

A Reflection On The Life Of 03/08/98

A skill I have learnt is to keep my locker organized. About a month ago, I looked inside my locker, and saw that it was VERY messy. I started out with taking loose papers that I no longer need, and put them in the rubbish. Then, I stacked the books up nice and neat. Later, I organized the papers that were hanging out of the binders.

I had lots of challenges these past five months, and some I still work on them. Challenges are good, and so I'll always have a challenge! This one challenge I had, which I still will probably have to use it again sometimes, is to remember the song lyrics for choir. I've succeeded before, and I hope I'll keep that up! I have another one as well. This challenge is hard, but I try my best. I try to get good grades, which for me, good grades are B and up. I'm trying my best not to get anything below that, but sometimes, it just doesn't happen. Sigh. But I'm not giving my hopes up! This challenge has always been a challenge for me, and I'm not going to leave it out. Not to forget, I had a challenge in the beginning of the year, to remember my schedule. One day I blanked out my schedule, during the beginning of the year, so I'd have to dig into my locker and find my schedule. I thought i didn't bring it at first, but lucky me, it was inside my folder!


A skill that I want to learn is to write better stories, use the right spelling, and to use proper grammar. I would like to learn this skill because I sometimes don't use the correct spelling. I want to right better stories because I don't use proper grammar. I want to learn proper grammar to write better stories.

I contributed positively towards 6th grade community by kindness. Just a while after school started, a new girl came. She tried opening her locker many times. I saw her trying and trying, but she couldn't open it. I asked her if I could help her, and with a few turns on the lock, and I opened it.

The 2 goals I've set up for the New Year is to be organized and get B's or higher for my grades. To be organized, I have to clean my locker regularly, and throw away any paper that is not need into the recycling bin.For me to get B's or higher in my grade, I'll have to pay more attention in class, review them at home, study harder before on test, and to make sure all my work is complete.

Diving Down Deep

In America, I went to my pool with five of my friends. We were swimming for an hour, and then one of my friends suggested diving off the high diving board. I thought, since all my friends can dive off the high diving board into the 15 feet water, then I could too. I was so scared but since all of my friends convinced me, I said ok. My heart was thumping really, really, fast. I said to myself, I can do this! When my friends and I got in line, one of my friends was up. I told my friends I couldn’t go. My friends asked my why. I said that I didn’t have enough courage to dive off the diving board. I felt very sad. I thought about it many times, so finally, I told them that I would dive off the diving board. All my friends said at the same time, “Are you sure you can do it? You don’t have to dive off the high board if you don’t want to!” I said I was very sure. I can’t believe I said that! I told myself. I got in line. The line was very, very long. I was like the 56th person so something close to that number. One by one, as I got closer, I felt very nervous. So instead of staying in the line, I got out of it. My friends were already in the pool and I joined them. They asked me if I did it and I said sadly, “I can’t do it! I’m too scared to dive off the diving board, into the 15 feet deep water.” So my friends challenged me to dive off the lower diving board. I told them that it was easy! I got in line and waited. My turn was up. All of my friends were looking at me. It’s not easy at all! I thought it would be very easy. But since I told my friends it was easy as pie, then I guess I’ll try then. I got on the board, bounced up and down twice at the edge, and then SPLASH, I hit the water. I did it. I knew I could do it because they could do it. Now it was time to challenge myself to go off the high diving board. I told them I was going off the high board and my friends stopped me. They said that they’ve never dove down from there before. Then I thought again. They have been lying to me the whole day! They told me that they ALWAYS dive from the higher one! But I made my choice. I have to go. I thought. My friends said they were coming too. Now my friends were fighting about who was diving first. Everyone wanted to go off now. One of my friends said, “Marisa, you can go off first! But, I bet you’re scared because you didn’t really want to dive off at the lower one. You're such a chicken!” I got mad! I had to dive off first. So I finally said, “Fine, I’ll dive off first!” , and so I did. I hopped at the edge twice as usual, and I took off diving. I felt myself getting closer, and closer to the water. Then BAM! I slashed into the water. My friends were very impressed! Then that friend that called me a chicken said, “I am so sorry that I called you a chicken. Next time, I should think before I speak!” Then my friends and I kept on diving on and off. Afterwards, we swam in the pool and enjoyed our day. That day was a blast, and I will never, ever, forget that day!

Courage!

Back then, when I was smaller, I was afraid of roller coasters. The first time I've seen a roller coaster was when I was in Disney Wold at Orlando, Florida. At that time, I was 7 years old. I wanted to go on the roller coasters, but I was too afraid.

I wanted to go, so I had no choice.
I was in line for the roller coaster. My turn came up. The roller coaster was over and I LOVED IT! I rode on Space Mountain in Magic Kingdom, Disney World.
Now, I can ride the GRIFFON at Bush Gardens in America. That roller coaster goes 90 degrees, down. You hand at the edge for 6 seconds and you go sright down. That is my FAVORITE roller coaster EVER!

Also, now I won't have to be afraid of roller coasters anymore. I'm not afraid of it anymore because I had COURAGE to do so.

Picture Sites-

Red Roller Coaster- http://www.churchatthemovies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/roller-coaster.jpg

Griffon- http://z.about.com/d/themeparks/1/0/9/c/GriffonPre2.jpg

The Social Scientist I want to Be

The social scientists out of the five I want to be is a Geographer.

I want to be a Geographer because I want to know more about the world. I want to make a difference to the world by recycling and reusing papers I don't need. It would be bad if all of the tree got cut down because of not recycling and reusing the papers. Also, it would make more trash and the islands would get smaller.

Because we live on Earth, I want to learn more about it and study about the Earth's surface. Also, I find where places are in the world.

So that is why I want to be a Geographer!!!


Click to Go!
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/56/earth.html

Changing Schools

This is like my first time changing schools. I came from America, and I love Malaysia, too. I accually like ISKL better than my old school in America. I made more friends than I did in America. For me, changing schools is very difficult.



This is who I met during the first week of school:

• Clarissa
• Jinatta
• Bo Young
• Zerina
• Zelma
• April
• Charlie
• Sam
• Melissa
• Peggy
• Diksha
• Alishba
• Aya
• Noah
• Oliver