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For the past few weeks, I have enjoyed drama a lot, and now drama is one of my favorite classes. From my point of view, what I think was the easiest to do was choosing our characters with our groups and writing about their personalities, and this all just came within my creativity. I also thought thinking [...]

For our first unit this year for art (grade 8), we learnt about the elements/ principles of art, and how they are used in paintings. Then we started looking at examples of abstract paintings by both Y.I.S. students and famous artists. We all researched individually  about artisted who painted abstract art. The painter that I researched about was Willem de Kooning. I [...]

During the Cross Country Assessment the whole 8th grade set personal goals in order to improve within their selfs. After my first practice run in P.E. class with a time 12:05, I set a goal to myself to get a time under 12 minutes. But in order to achieve this goal, I set a process goal. My [...]

(1) What have I enjoyed in Science during the last unit? Give examples I enjoyed learning about forces including air resistance, gravity, opposing force, moving force, and gravity. We were able to do fun experiments and learnt about simple and easy forces and how they can be useful, which I enjoyed doing. (2) What have I [...]

Before She Died Karen Chase When I look at the sky now, I look at it for you. As if with enough attention, I could take it in for you. With all the leaves gone almost from the trees, I did not walk briskly through the field. Late today with my dog Wool, I lay [...]

Today was the last day. Today was the day where we say good bye to our fun and go back to work. Today was the day where we say good bye to North Star. It was a bright morning, with not a single cloud in the sky. We all packed our suite cases and emptied our room. [...]

It was an ordinary morning, people in their room chatting and getting ready. had a-lot more energy than the past days I have had, and I was ready for whatever we were going to do today. We had an ordinary breakfast and just hung out in the lounge trying to play the guitar. The girls [...]

A ray of sun hit my face through the gaps of our silky curtains. It was 6:45, I was tired and sleepy but kept my self up. I had more than an hour till breakfast so i went down stairs into the onsen, as Shuwan came along. The water was nice and worm, and i [...]