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Yesterday night we had a party with Konnor and Catherine's families. At the start, we had a laser tag and water gun fight. It was very fun, and we got very wet. They were also better at laser tag than I thought. Kyle almost always won and they were good at shooting from a long distance, just as I was. The match was a lot more even, and we ended up all having a great time. After dinner, we went upstairs to play video games. I showed them Robocraft, which they all seemed interested in, so I let them try out my robots, with premium membership that I got (which is ultra-powerful), so I didn't really experience it. I wish I had. It makes the rewards humongous and makes the robots awesome. In conclusion, I had a lot of fun with water guns and laser guns yesterday! Except I wish I could have actually played more than one round with my premium membership.

明明今天去公园玩。首先，他去荡秋千了。他找着了他的朋友亮亮，杰克，和大卫，它们都在秋千上玩。他们比谁能荡的最高，最后他们都掉下来了。他们都觉得没意思，决定去爬山。这个山可是大名鼎鼎的派派山，谁都没爬上去过。首先有个很陡的山坡，很多人都爬不上，因为常常会有小小，滑滑的石头从上面掉下来。明明他们穿这特殊的鞋子和帽子，保护你的头和防止你摔跤，苦苦的爬上去了。他们爬完这个地方就要过一个悬崖，要把一根绳子扔到另外一个边，在那特殊的机器滑过去。杰克好不辛，在悬崖中间，他的绳子断了。他后来去了医院。在往上有一片很危险的地如果你踩错地方，你会掉进悬崖里。明明不知道这些，看到平平的地就往上跳。不小心，他掉进悬崖里也去医院了。亮亮和大卫拼命地往前赶，现在只有最后一个风险就能到顶了！它们要爬上山羊峰，上面有很多不喜欢别的动物的山羊。大卫爬完一大半就被一个山羊顶下去了。他也去医院了。亮亮顺利地爬到山顶上，他赢了，他是第一个爬到派派山的顶上的人！但他下来的时候被一个山羊顶到悬崖里了。他最后也去医院了。

Today was the last day of art camp. We worked around a rotation schedule today. One of the things we did was draw bamboo 国画 again. This time, I think I did better because I figured out how to make the leaves thin-thick-thin instead of a big blob. I also learned that you shouldn't put your leaves too close together, and I also learned to make my bamboo and branches thinner. This is because the paint seeps outwards, as there is a lot of water in it. So you need to account for the seeping out by making your strokes thinner. The other thing we did was make collages. The teacher gave us each six pictures of us in art camp and we had to make a collage. I cut out some construction paper with these special scissors that cut out lines like squiggles and zigzags. Then I pasted my pictures onto those pieces and it looked really neat. I also wrote a few block letters to make it look cool. In addition, I had a lot of fun doing art - especially my collage - today!

Today was the fourth day of art camp. In the morning, we used a roller to ink our carved wooden boards from yesterday. Pieces of paper were then pressed onto the boards to create the same drawing, backwards, on the paper. I used dark red and white as my colors, and I think they looked really cool. I liked the sharp contrast between the white and the black. In the second half of class, nearing lunch, we drew Chinese 国画. These are special paintings with Chinese ink, and they look like watercolors (kind of). To make different tints and shades you add water or dry it up a bit. We drew bamboo, which is a LOT LOT                 ________               /               /                      /               / ...

子曰：“巧言令色，鲜仁矣。” 奸险：“奸诈阴险。” In this article, the emperor was basically living his life in luxury and having fun as much as he could. So when his prime minister told him to stop and do something to help the country, he declined. Meanwhile, a devious but smart man was trying to control the country. He rose up through the ranks, and bribed the wives of the emperor for information about the emperor. When he met the emperor, the emperor loved the way he talked, because he made the emperor sound awesome and super good. So the emperor asked his current prime minister if it was a good idea to replace him with the devious man. The prime minister said no, but then the devious man badmouthed him and pushed him out. He then proceeded to wipe out all of the other officials and pretty much take over the country because he was so trusted by the emperor. This relates to the sentence above because it says that people who say things to your liking usually have no good intentions, and this is obvious in ...

Today I went to art camp, and we carved wood. So in the first half of class we drew on the wood. First, we chose a drawing that we liked. Then, we drew it on our wood block. I though this part of class was kind of boring, because all you did was copy lines and other things from the book to your paper. I don’t like this because you don’t get to think or come up with your own ideas at all. In the second half of class, we carved the wood. This was fun because you actually got to design the patterns. You had to think about it and actually come up with your own designs instead of copying them off a book. I liked to come up with patterns. In conclusion, I think art camp would be better if we got to be creative more of the time.

子曰：“学而时习之，不亦悦乎？有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？人不知而不愠，不亦君子乎？” 译文：“学习过的知识常常温习，不是很愉快吗？有志同道合的朋友从远方来，不是很快乐的吗？别人不了解我，我也不抱怨，不也是一个有的德的君子吗？” 志同道合：志向相同，意见相合 温习：复习 抱怨：a grudge At a small age, 陈正之 had very slow reflexes and was bullied by other kids a lot. They called him a dummy, and to a certain extent, that was true, because in class he couldn't learn a lot at the same time, he couldn't remember articles, and he failed at writing. Eventually, even his teachers started telling him to get out. So he started learning, writing, and doing other things. He read books so fast that it was like he was eating them. But he wasn't happy with his results, because he couldn't remember anything. So a famous scholar told him to only read one book a day and read it a few times. This way, he was a lot more successful, and eventually became a famous scholar too. This is an example of the sentence up there because he found that he liked to review things he already knew, and learn new things. Even though others d...