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Off-Topic / What is your favorite Ice Cream? Introduce me to some new flavors please. :)

« on: April 27, 2012, 08:05:23 pm »Message ID: 527728

 

I would have to say that my favorite icecream is

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. I've always liked things that have a mint taste to it.


What flavors are there out there?

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Off-Topic / Swim Tournament

« on: April 27, 2012, 08:03:02 pm »Message ID: 527726

I come from a school that has a pretty bad reputation.

But this past decade the school has been changing in a good way. 

However, in my school district, my school is the one that's most looked down upon
because we don't have as much money as the other schools do nor do we have
the new equipments or programs they have.

Today my school district had our Swim tournament.

Like i said before. My school splits into Ducklings and Sharks not JV and Varsity.

Ducklings don't compete so all Sharks compete.

Well, it was pretty intimidating watching all the other schools swim 50yds in their 20-30seconds
while I was swimming 50 seconds.

It's just terrible. -____-

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Off-Topic / Swimming as a Duckling

« on: April 26, 2012, 07:19:45 am »Message ID: 526766

At my school there is no JV or Varsity swim team. The team is just one big group.
The more experienced swimmers go in as Sharks, while the not so experienced or
still learning how to swim swimmers go in as Ducklings.

For me, i went in as a duckling. It was good and fun, but eventually they put me in the shark lanes
because they felt I was ready. Thing is,

I have a huge problem with breathing. I don't know how to breathe and coordinate my strokes
and breaths. On tops of that, I'm super duper slow. -____-

I've participated 3 times during the entire season, It's pretty difficult.

One thing for sure, On the Brightside,

I can dive.  

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Off-Topic / More Hmong Stuff

« on: April 25, 2012, 10:44:51 pm »Message ID: 526675

Hmong. Both an ethnicity as well as a language. Hmong is an asian ethnicity.
Hmong people lived in Thailand, Laos, China, pretty much the Southeast asian countries before
the Vietnam War. When the war broke out, many Hmong people ran from their villages because they were being killed.

Many hmong people became refugees.

After that, Hmong people went all over the world. Many came to the United States.

Others went to European countries. One i know of is France.

My family came to the US.

My dad served in the army as one of the many  Hmong soldiers who helped American soldiers through the
forests of Thailand and Laos.

Just a little info.

Oh, my name is Stephanie. But because my parents couldn't pronounce it at the time,
they called me, Pav nim. This is not an actual hmong name, but it's hmong apparently. THere's no
meaning. It just sounds like Phanie from my name.

To pronounce Pav nim in hmong, it'd sound like Bonnie.

It'd be pronounced more like, with a SOFT B mixed with a P sound. "PBa-nnie"

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Debate & Discuss / Do you know what Hmong is?

« on: April 25, 2012, 10:26:28 pm »Message ID: 526663

Do you know what Hmong is? Have you ever seen Grand Torino with Clint Eastwood?

Well, the characters are Hmong. Like Clint in the movie, most people who've never heard of it
would pronounce this alien word "Hmong" as "Ha-mong." Well, it's just, "hmong"

That's of no help i realize. LOL But the trick is to pronounce "mong" but have a soft "h" sound in between.

It's almost like, "m-oh-ng" Its like when you react with a huuuuuh. But replace the u with an o.

Hmong is a tonal language and is not easy to read.

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Off-Topic / Last Minute Study Session

« on: April 25, 2012, 07:21:02 am »Message ID: 526216

IB Math. One of the most confusing math mixtures you can probably take as a highschool student.

If i can pass my IB exams next year, I'll be able to enter college with 1 year already gone.

That's what I want.


Now watch me do it.

Unfortunately, my parents say we can't afford any schools i want to go, neither do they want me
to go away for college.

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Off-Topic / Have you ever read a Kafka story?

« on: April 24, 2012, 10:09:32 pm »Message ID: 526085

I seriously think that the reason he wanted his friend to burn his works,
is because his works aren't actually works, but his personal journal of everyday
events that took place in his life that had left him a scar.

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Off-Topic / Prom Memories

« on: April 24, 2012, 10:00:56 pm »Message ID: 526084

 

So this month there's been a whole lot of prom happening. And i think of mine just a few weeks ago and i wonder how different is mine to someone else's prom.

How was your prom? Did you go with a date or with a group of friends?

What i do know is i have to start saving up.  LOL