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Yesterday night I went to a Lionel Richie concert at the KeyArena. There were some things I didn't like about the concert. First, of all, they had this really bad singer, this special guest dude "CeeLo Green", singing for the first 40 minutes. It was super loud - I guess that was to disguise how he actually sings. Then they had a ridiculous intermission - it was nearly the same amount of time as the time that the first singer sang for! It was boring and there was nothing to do. Plus the food was bad. I barfed. When Lionel Richie was actually singing, it was pretty good. I enjoyed most of the songs, except for some where the people in front of us were standing up and had their butts in our faces. My favorite song was probably the "Thank You" one, where he sings about his father's promise to his mother about love. He was pretty funny, too, making a lot of jokes. In conclusion, I think yesterday's concert was so-so.

我今天终于用上了电脑的电子邮件功能！我给爷爷奶奶发了分信，它们都很高兴，说我很聪明，都能发电子邮件了！他们也给我发了一个电子邮件，我现在觉得电子邮件好方便呀！我可以就输入几个字，然后恩一个东西，就能发一个电子邮件。我觉得电子邮件很好玩，可以放各种各样的笑脸，还能方便和便宜得跟别的人聊天。电子邮件也是免费的，而且很快，所以我很喜欢用。不用花压岁钱，还能跟别的人打游戏和聊天，真的太好了！

我跟他说我不喜欢电脑。他不信。他说“你试一试就知道了！”所以我试了一整天。我在网上玩游戏，发电子邮件，什么都做。我做了学校的作业，打印了作业，把作业发给了老师，真有意思！后来我发现电脑上还能读书。我读了一本最流行的树，同学们都羡慕极了，问我是在那儿拿到的。我告诉他们的时候他们被累倒了。他们觉得电脑很酷，他们玩起来真够上瘾的。反正后来我喜欢电脑了，告诉爸爸我也想要一台。他给我买了一台最新的电脑，我高兴极了！

今天爸爸把电脑连到了“因特网”！这个东西好像是一个很大的网络，上面什么都能做。能发电子邮件，能学习，能玩游戏，能买菜，能读书。而且我还能做在家里跟别的人聊天，不用骑车过道他们那儿敲门。邮件也很方便。现在想跟爷爷奶奶说话就发个邮件就行了。电脑上做研究也很容易，就去Google一下就可以查出来。网络上也有许多数学网站，可以做数学题和玩数学游戏。妈妈老要我做这些东西，但我觉得很没意思。但因特网还是一个很精彩的地方！

Today was the official end of the HOMESTEAD simulation! First, everybody totaled up their money. This was done by adding the land values with the current balance. My current balance was $1818, and my land value was $6560. So my total was $8378. That was pretty high, and I think I got around 5th richest. I had so much money because I went on a buying spree for land at the end of the simulation. It was very crazy, and it was exciting seeing how everything turned out. Next, we had to take a quiz. (This is the boring part.) First, as a group, we talked about the answers to all the questions. We answered them after that. Then, we wrote a letter about if we would stay on the real homestead based on our experiences in the simulation. I said I definitely would because I was starting to get really rich when the simulation ended, and I definitely would have wanted to do it in real life if it had been the same way. In conclusion, I would love for the simulation to go on, but the school year

Today I went to the math olympiad. In the morning we did the long problem. The long problem was very hard. It was very hard. It was about estimating the amount of skin on a hand. We only got a top and side view of the hand (to scale). It was hard because you had to take into account gaps on the side of fingers, the fact that fingers are round, and that the hands were irregular shapes. In the second part of the morning we did the short problems. These were pretty easy. I did all of them, and there were five or six sections with five problems in each section. The problems were easier than the ones in the long problem. In conclusion, we did well, with a ribbon for the long problem and a medal for the short ones.