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              At recess, my friends and I play lots of games. For example, we sometimes play Capture the Ball. Other times, we play Chaos Soccer.               Capture the Ball is a game where you try to take the opposing team's balls. You try not to get tagged while you run to the opponent's side and run back with a ball. If you get tagged, you go to jail. Then, another team member has to rescue you. I like this game because it is very difficult to make it across to the other side's balls. If they don't have good guards, then I enjoy walking/Irish jigging/dancing all the way down the field and then coming back with a ball. It's very funny to see their faces when they realize you captured a ball.               Chaos Soccer is a crazy soccer game, hence the name. Hand balls are allowed, and everyone tries to score on the goalies. Because there are around 10 goalies, it is a big chal...

              Chess is one of my favorite games, and I like playing a lot of it. I enjoy playing on both colors. As you might know, there are two colors in chess, and there is no difference except white moves first.               If I'm white, there's two different things I play. I play the Queen's Gambit, where you try to divert the queen's pawn away, or I try to Pawn Storm, where you push all your pawns as far as they go and hopefully promote them. Both of them are good strategies, because the queen's gambit gets you the center, while the point of Pawn Storm is to get most of the space on the board and "suffocate" the opponent. I also play the Petrov/Petroff (A.K.A the Russian), and Legal/Blackburne trap.               If I'm black, I play different things. I usually fianchetto my bishops because I don't know what else to do - and then I castle into a safe position. I don't kno...

           Today I went to Mount Rainier again. This time, I went to different trails than I had before.            The trail that we took first was the Frozen Lake Trail. At the end of the trail, we saw a humongous lake that I suppose is frozen in Winter. It looked cold, and there was a lot of snow on one of the banks. We explored and took a few pictures there, but we also got some pictures of a chipmunk. It scurried around, and looked really funny when it was eating. It looked like it was pecking the nut.            The trail that we took to get back to the Sunrise Lodge was the Wonderland Trail. This trail was a lot flatter and smoother than the Frozen Lake Trail, so even though it was longer, we finished it faster. There wasn't much on the trail except the snow, which I scooped into a water bottle. It melted when we got home, though.            Our visit to Moun...

             A new version of BTD5 that just came out was BTD5 Co-op. This is where you play with another person over the internet, just like BTD Battles. The only difference is that you cooperate in BTD5 Co-op, while you battle in BTD Battles.              This mode is interesting because you only get half the money you usually get, and you can only build on half of the screen. This makes it challenging, because with half the money, you can't buy things that you usually could. But you can also request money or give money to the other player if you want.              I like this mode because your partner will usually build enough towers to hold off bloons, so you can save up for very expensive things. This is better because you usually have to spend most of your money on towers, but it helps a lot to just save up and not use any money.             ...

             Today I created an art project based on Roy Lichtenstein's Still Life.              Roy Lichtenstein was an american pop artist, born on October 27, 1923, and died on September 29, 1997. He enjoyed comic books and science, and his most famous artwork was "Whaam". His Still Life looks different from normal still life because it isn't that realistic, and it is also different because the background is covered with a simple pattern, making the subjects stand out more. The subjects are usually the only things with color, which makes the subjects stand out even more.              My art was different because we used oil pastels, which leave out more uncolored space than markers. Also, I used different colors, and I chose different fruits. I drew a small tangerine-size pear with a really long stem (it's an actual fruit!), a pear, a lime, an orange, some grapes, and a banana. ...

              At school, we currently have two projects going on, a science and a math project.               The science project is a "Science Program" about an animal and plant from a certain ecosystem. We get to choose what ecosystem, animal, and plant we want to do. We work as a group to answer the five given questions, and also finish the pamphlet, poster, 3D model, and musical element.               The math project is a U-shaped house. We have to create a 2,000 sq. ft. house model according to a scale we come up with. We have to make the house fold-up, which is going to be interesting - the hard part is the roof, where it has to connect.               All in all, I think it is amazing that we have two projects already on the 3rd day of school!

          Today I learned a bit about price discrimination.           Price discrimination is basically where a company edits the price of its products depending on your personal information. Companies record where you live, what kinds of webpages you visit, what topics you like, your age, etc. Then according to this information, they make the price higher or lower, depending on your willingness to pay.           I think price discrimination is unfair and shouldn't happen. Because it's the same thing, why do we need to change the prices? Just because companies want to make more money, they force some people to pay way more than others. For example, airplane tickets of the same class, flight, destination, and airline can have up to thousands of dollars in difference.           All in all, I believe that price discrimination is very unfair and shouldn't happen, even if companies want to ...