I have been so tired recently. Actually, I thought I could sleep though 12 hours. Skipping classes had become the common thing for us. We have permission to leave every day. When I took a look at the new absentee slip, I still couldn't believe the number next to my name, 21.

You might think I was crazy for skipping these classes, but it was really worth it. The moment we got the platinum medal, the honor washed away all the complaints and weariness. Some of the Japanese even burst in to tears. They said," These are the tears of joy." The wall between Japanese students and us seemed to disappear at the night party. Although we made every script and PowerPoint presentation together, we still didn't talk naturally.

Now, I think we all misunderstood each other at first sight. We were so impatient that we finished all the things and even rehearsed them so many times. We simply thought that when they arrived, we just had to improve our connection. When our partners came, their teacher said we have to change every thing we did that ate up all our school time. We had to start everything again. She even scolded us and told my friends and I to let her students made the decision alone, and that will save time. At first, we thought they were impolite. Even though she said sorry to us later, it still made us feel a little bit indignant. I think both of us were just too eager to get the first prize and so we couldn't agree.

Today my friend asked me on the art class," What is your motivation to study? " I don't mean it is a very difficult question, but I just could not get it at that time. I asked her, "Then what is your motivation," and she didn't know either. All members in our team couldn't answer it.

I think I should really find a goal that is higher than my goal now. Then I will try to reach it and. Now, my goal is tomorrow's test, but that doesn't make me feel energetic and want to suck me in.

We went to see the movie Harry Potter last weekend. The surround sounds are still bumping around in my head. We went there very late because Mom hadn't finished her work. It was almost 11:00, but the normal one was at 11:40. My eyes started to feel sore, so I didn't think I could wait till then. The worker asked us to try I-Max, the latest kind of technology. In the beginning, we felt that was a little expensive to pay about 400 each. But obviously it turnsed out that we didn't waste any money on it. The voices were just around you, and the characters were just in front of your eyes. After the movie started, I just felt all the tiredness disappear.

After entering these new surroundings in the school, this is the first time we went to the new laboratory. They had been fixing it until this week. It's a really modern building, especially compared to the others that Japanese built when they were here. When you step in, you can see a large hall surrounded by three minor buildings. It is little bit like the indoor plaza that we can discuss with each other. We go there to have chemistry class. We decomposed Oxygen and put Magnesium in to it. What a shinny white light that came out all of a sudden. We also filtered the Carbon from red sugar. The experimental clothes made me feel a lot more professional, and my friends felt the same way.

I burst this time. The numbers are so ugly that I wouldn't want to see them. The math test has all the difficult questions, and the Chinese one is also a big challenge. I need to finish an article and a three page test quickly. Both of my teachers didn't give back our test grades today because they want us to have fun on the holiday and relax for a short while.

I don't really like school English because they want us to study in detail, and so that seems like memorizing all the articles. Not all but almost. You have to read it carefully, so you won't miss any points that will been shown on the test.

Will North and South Korea start a war? This has been forgotten by people, and now it has became a popular topic again. I don't know, but there is one thing for sure. Our class didn't really feel sad about it because of the Taekwondo player. She obviously won the game, but just in the last minute, the other player said that she broke the rule because she wore the illegal palm size sensors attached to her heels. The video has shown that isn't true, but she still could not find her way back.

Sometimes we all feel helpless. Although we are pretty good at something and rise to the world stage, we can not honorably use our own nation's name and sing our national anthem.

It isn't just sad but also confusing.

The good thing is it gives us a different situation to think over, and every event makes us more united and gives us the energy for trying harder to let us win the recognition.