Jez's Blog

Today in humanities class, we were doing the reaches for answering the questions that we've asked about ancient Greece.
As a person of high character, I did what I suppose to do during class. And I said this as a demonstration of a person of high character because we were doing the researches on the internet, which is very easy to distract people from their reaching. And also, as a person of high character, I asked permission from Mr. Carpenter for listening to musics during the researching. And of course I wore my earphones. Therefore, I wouldn't disturb the other students.

This is the comment that I'd left for a post called 'Where do we draw the line?' at Students 2.0.


I wonder if the line should be drawn at all..

Without a doubt, I think that teenagers and adults are able to have good conversations. As long as they respects each other. However, some of the teenagers might have found strangeness for communicating with adults. I think that’s actually quite normal. But it doesn’t necessarily means that there should be a line between because the line would be stepped across by these teenagers eventually.(hopefully)

The following list is a list that shows a several rules for blogging. These rules were voted by us, the 8th graders. There were many of them, but these are the only ones that we all agree with:


- No personal informations (no last name or contact information)

- Write in ENGLISH

- Don't write inappropriate stuff in your blog

- Don't insult others. Be constructive in your commenting

- Don't plagiarize other peoples' ideas

- Cite your sources for images and ideas

Today in class, we continued watching the movie about the ancient Greece. The purpose of watching this movie was to learn more about the ancient Greece, for us(the students) to find some interesting topics from it, ask questions, and be answering the questions eventually. As an active learner today, I took notes during watching the movie, and listen carefully to what the movie was talking about. And by the way, I was a critical thinker and problem solver when I took the notes because I know that I'm not a a fast-typer, so instead of typing down my notes on the computer, I wrote my notes with pencil on a piece of paper. And so I could be able to catch up the movie easier. I've written down quite a lot of topics, notes, and questions. Therefore I have more option of topics to choose and work on the answers later on. Then, the class ended before we finish the movie, so we are probably going to keep it continued in the next class.

About Me
Jez

Hello! My name is Jenny, but I prefer people call me Jez. Therefore, everyone in this school calls me Jez. I’m the only child in my family. I live with my parents, 2 dogs and 2 cats. I like doing sports and other active activities. I also like musics, I can play guitar and piano. I like to eat fruits, Italian foods, and yogurts. I have a lot of good friends, and I love to hangout with them.

The reason why I prefer people calling me Jez is because that I think Jenny is quite a common name. There’re a lot of people called Jenny. My nick name, Jez, was named by my English teacher from the other school, Hsinchu American School, which is known as HAS. He gave everyone in the 7th grade a nick name, and used the nick names on a sheet of paper which shows everyone's grade. Since I'd mentioned about another school, just so you know, I’ve also been studying at Ivy Collegiate Academy, known as ICA, in Taichung. Anyways, my real name is Jenny, but I prefer people to call me Jez. And by the way, it’s spelled as ‘Jez’ not ‘Jess’ nor ‘Jezz’.

I live with my mum Sandra, and my dad Maple. I'm the only child in my family which means that I don’t have any brothers or sisters. My mum used to ask me if I want a younger brother or sister when I was in elementary school, and I said I don't because I assumed that having younger brother and sisters will be quite annoying because I'll have to babysit them, especially if we have a big age difference. Only if I really could chose, I'd like to have a older brother, but unfortunately, I didn't have the choice. However, I might be the only child in my family, but I got a lot of cousins from my mother’s family. Most of my cousins are older than me. Some of them even already had children. Therefore, I become someone’s aunt for some situations. And it makes me feels wired every time because some of my nephews are older than me. I also have pets to accompany me so I won’t be lonely. I have 2 cats and 2 dogs. I love my pets, even moreover, they are just like my brother and sisters.

Both of my parents has a lot of expectations for me. I think it’s because that I’m their only child. Although all those expectations may be quite annoying and stressing sometimes, I’ll still try my best to reach them. They always tell me that 'there are always people that are better, and skies that are higher.' Which they may meant that there's many 'competitors' outside that I have yet to meet. These 'competitors' might be my schoolmates, co-workers, or even my friends or other strangers. So I must be prepared to 'compete' with them in the future.

My interests are doing sports or other active activities. But I also like to do things that are relaxing, like listening to musics, playing with instruments and drawing...etc, without being forced to. For playing instruments, I can play piano and guitar, though my skills are not very good.Basically, I like to do anything without being forced to. I don’t like to be forced to do things because if I’m forced to do something, I could feel the pressures from it. For example, if I’m forced to dance, I won’t have and fun from doing it. But if I’m in a dancing party, where I would be dancing without being forced to, I could have lots of fun from it!

One very important part of my life, is my friends! I have many friends and I love my friends! I love hanging out with them! With my friends, sometimes we chat online, chat in the phone, or even go out to watch movies, shopping, or have lunch together. They've affected me as who I became. They let me realized that socializing is not just about oneself, you have to think more about 'we' and not just 'I'. For example, I have these really close friends since I was only in kindergarten. At the time, I was a spoiled brat. I cried a lot, and I loved to complain. However, being with these friends has changed me a lot because whenever I started to act spoiled, they reminded me to watch out my attitude. And if I didn't, they may just ignore me, as a 'punishment'. Until now, although we didn't get to hang out as often as before, I still remember their reminding. And still thanking them for changing me so much. That even when we got to meet each other lately, they ere shocked by my 'none-spoiled' attitude.

Other than friends, another important thing in my life is my educations of course. In fact, my mum always tells me that as long as I'm doing good in the school, and by 'school', she means 'grades', she won't care about any other things that I want to do. However, even if my mum doesn't care about my grades, I will. Because I wish that I could get into a good college in the future, and become a useful person! :]

My life is going well so far. My family has been supporting me a lot, my mum drives me to school all the way from Joungli to Hsinchu every morning, and picks me up after school every evening. Both of my mum and dad have been focusing on the works of his business, making money so that I could afford my tuition fee. School is quite busy, but still, I've been enjoying the all the flashy breaks for me to take a rest from the school works. However, the best part of my life is that I got most of my friends by my side, especially in school. Which has made my 8th grade school life better than other school years I'd been through before.

Today in humanities class, first, we've been sharing some interesting current events(news) in class. Then, we briefly read through the textbook just for reviewing the things that we'd read as a homework assignment. I was a person of high character in this case, because I'd finished my homework assignments before class. We've also had a discussion about the 2 questions from the text book. And as a community contributor, I shared my answers to the class, and by the way, when I was explaining my answers, I was demonstrating the ability of an effective communicator because instead just read the answer that I'd typed down in my google document, I've been answering with 'every-day language', and I think this way, it might be easer for people to understand me. Because as you all know that sometimes, writing and speaking are not quite the same. Which means that sometimes, something that you've typed or written down, could possibly be unable for you to just read them out loud, because people might not be able to understand you if you did. Then, after the discussion, we were working on our bloggers. I was an active leaner because mostly, we were working on our individual blogs, and for me, I looked through all the functions and trying around the them and see what happened. However, I was being quite careful when I was trying on these functions, because I knew if I accidentally deleted something, and never going to undo it, then it wouldn't be something good that has happened.