Joshua

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Simile: He strikes out in the box and walks back with his head down and the bat dragging on the ground like an upset mother dragging her naughty son to bed.

Metaphor: Personification : It looks like the ball grew eyes so it just landed before the outfield gets there. Happy Old Year: Quite a lot of things happened last year. I graduated from middle school and it is a brand new experience for me in high school. I met a lot of new friends and a few of my old friends left. The worst thing that happened last year for me is probably that I didn’t get on varsity baseball. I was better than a lot of the varsity players but in this school, they want to give older kids more chances, so I was only on JV. Comparing last year to my entire life, last year is just one of them, it is not too bad neither too good. I think this year will be better.

The best thing that happened last year to me was during the summer break, I went to a baseball camp and out of 80 other people that is either older or the same age as me, I had the most wins in the tournament that was held there. Also at the end, our team won the tournament! Last but not least, I learned quite a lot of thing last year, the biggest lesson is that once you let yourself down and take a little rest, your academic grades will suddenly drop, so I will push my self to the end of the middle of June after the semester exams are over, then I will let myself down and take a long rest for 2 months.

New Year Resolution:

1. I am going to push myself to get on varsity and hopefully be a starter. 2. I will focus more on my school stuff than athletic stuff. 3. I will eat more healthy food and less junk food

Predictions:

1.12/21/12 will be the last day of the world. 2. I will get on varsity and be a starter. 3. I will pump up my grade by at least 5% each. Bilingual Book Reflection: My life has changed quite a lot after I have learned English. I can now communicate with most of the people all over the world now because English is a global language. My home language just keeps developing while I learned English, but since that I am learning 2 languages at the same time, my English is improving more than my Chinese are. When I was first given this assignment of writing a book, I was thinking of a lot of different ideas but then, I chose my topic that was my first day at SAS. A lot of things happened that day and it is a day that I will never forget. Translating wasn’t that easy because having to change a language to another is quite hard. After I read other people’s book, I thought my book was still really good. Although I have some mistakes in my translation but overall, my book is good. The drawings that my mom helped me drew was outstanding and I formatted the whole book pretty well. I am going to publish another edition of my book. This time, it will be mistake free and it will be my masterpiece. I realized a lot of things during my English learning journey. Such as learning another language wasn’t easy. I hope a lot of people can check out my book from the library and read it and think of when they were learning their second language.