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"Hello, Shin Be wants to ask you for some popular music to play at the Valentines talent show, could you help her pick something out that's her level?"
That's what my dad said when my private teacher, Angie walked out of the room carrying her book. We just walked in McCourt's Music Store from the cold outdoors. It was about 8:00 and time of my private lesson on my cello. So I walked into the room carrying my cello, 3 music books, bow and wipe for afterwards.
"What song do you want to play for your talent show?" Angie asked after I sat down and said hello.
"I was thinking about playing "All About that Bass" I replied.
"OK, I'll look for some songs that are a big enough challenge for you to play, while you're tuning" She answered.
"OK, thank you."

To be continued

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I'm actually glad for the day off from school because I have 2 tests this week and I really need to study. I just got back from Washington D.C and I need to catch up on math which I'm going to have a test of Friday. I also have a test for Science on Wednesday. I also am about to fall asleep because I didn't sleep that well on the bus back from D.C.

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This is my AHW for Friday.

I woke up and for a second I was wondering where I was, then I remembered. I was at Washington D.C for a presentation on Saturday. I felt like today was different but I couldn't remember until I got out of my shower. Oh yeah, today's Halloween! So I got into a pair of legging and I skirt with a shirt covered in hearts. By the time I got my backpack packed up and brushed my teeth and washed my face and did my hair. Everyone else was ready to go down to breakfast. Expect of Ania. We reminded each other to bring things like our costumes. "Oh, I need to pack that." I exclaimed. I packed some snacks, my IPad and phone, my wallet, water, my costume, and a metallic ruler. (I only brought the ruler because it was already in my backpack.) After we got ready we went down to eat breakfast. I got bacon, eggs, a ton of fruit, and sausage. I got a muffin too. (I was starving!)

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This is my AHW for Thursday

"Hi, my name is Shin Be, and my name is Ania" That was the beginning of Ania and I's speech. We were in Washington D.C on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On Saturday we gave our speech. Our speech was in the middle of everyone else's. Ania and I were talking about Letter writing and how it got integrated from LA into Science Literacy. During our speech for the whole class about the steps it took to get to where we are now there was only about 30 to 40 people. I did way better on my speech than I thought I would.

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Packing-

Packing my suitcase for Washington D.C isn't easy, I worried I didn't pack enough or that I over packed. I'm really excited to present in front of all those people but I kind of scared too, what if I don't speak loud enough what if no one understands me? I worried and excited both to present. Overall I'm excited and I'll have a hard time falling asleep tonight.

Crazy duckling

Small Moment

Word Count Goal 300 words

It was the afternoon on Sunday, July 1st. It was a couple weeks after my 9th birthday. It was a beautiful day to go swimming, sunny and hot. After lunch I begged my dad "Please dad please, can we go to the pool?"

 Now we live in a condo so we have a pool 1 minute away if we walked. 

"Ok Shin Be, go get ready"

 "Yes!!! Thanks dad! By the way could we invite Christina? We live right across from her?" 

Christina was a friend of mine just a year older than me. My birthday was on her half birthday and her birthday was on my half birthday. 

"Sure, I'll go invite her than I'll come back up to get you." 

"Great thanks" 

I was thinking, this is going to be awesome! So we walked to the pool with Christina and we found out that a couple people were already there. I remembering another time I was at the pool, I was 5 and my dad was teaching me how to swim and float on my back. There was just as many people there as there was now. 

"Come on, last one in is a rotten egg!"

 "You're on" 

So I ran and jumped right into the light blue, faint green pool making a huge splash of water land on Christina! The cool water felt refreshing after standing it the blistering hot sun. 

"Hey, I'll get you back!" So she jumped into the water splashing me back. "Ha, Ha!"

 So we were laughing and playing but we noticed that my dad disapeared for a while and when he came back he brought a cooler full of snacks.

 "Thanks Papa! I was getting really hungry!"

 "Thank you Mr. Felsner, I was also hungry!" 

Then it happened, right when we sat down to eat it the very far corner with a big cream colored umbrella. The big wicker chairs were also cream colored. The chairs were very big with tall handles and a back that be moved backwards and forwards. Christina and I could fit in one chair together and still have room. 

A big duck honked from a little outside of the pool gate. We weren't scared, becuase a duck never came inside of the gate anyways. The brown and green Mallard duck with its little ducklings waddling behind her.

 "1,2,3,4,5. 5 baby ducklings!" My dad said in amazement. 

"Wow, that a lot of ducklings, you don't think the momma will attack us do you? Christina asked.

 "If we don't tease the duck it won't attack us." 

In my head I thinking, oh no what if the duck does attack us. I think I'll just throw some bread at it. When at that moment the duck and its ducklings jumped the fence and started honking really loudly. The 5 baby ducklings were learning to swim the first time in this pool. That remembered again when I was learning how to swim and my dad was helping me just like the momma duck was helping the ducklings. Then the mom stopped helping them and started to honk at us getting right up in our face. The he duck was honking at every single person in the pool. Then for one reason or another, the duck started to come after us. At that moment, dad took a huge hunk of bread and cheese and held it right in front of the duck. 

"You want the bread?" my dad said. "Then go get it!" He threw the bread so far with a graceful arc, it went over the gate and far, far away. I had a thousand thoughts whirling inside my head. What would happen if my dad didn't throw it far enough or the duck didn't even want it. What if the duck still decided to attack us instead of going after the bread? I was still thinking about those things when I heard a honk. I looked up and saw the ducks waddling away from the pool probably thing about how mean my dad is.  I'm so glad that that idea worked because if my dad hadn't thrown that bread than those ducks would've pecked us. So right after the duck left we went back to having our snack. Of ham and a little more bread and cheese that he saved a little of so we could have a sandwich. After that it was getting late so we dropped off Christina at her house then we walked home and the whole time I was thinking about today and how I can't wait until tomorrow. 

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Cello Lessons are really fun, and I look forwards to it every week. I have the lessons on Tuesdays.  I just got back from one and I'm learning about 16th notes and how you count them like this: 1 e & a. If you go fast you say it like this 1e&a. My teacher is named Angie and she is really nice a great cello player. I can't wait until next week to learn more about my cello and its music.