Learning Lyrics...

Well, this brings back memories. I haven't been on here in a while. How's it going, blogger? How have you been? I'm sure you didn't miss me, I mean, I almost forgot that you existed. Hmmm.... What have you been doing while I've been gone? I've literally spent the entirety of the last two weeks reading, studying, going to taekwondo, going to church, and playing Minecraft... It's been relaxing...

I got these pieces of tape on my belt at taekwondo that represent something... I think it's that I did well on a certain aspect of things needed to get to the next belt. For example, I got a red stripe for properly displaying the kicking combination of my belt, which was front, front, axe. It was simple to do and I think I got it down by the third class, but other things are a little more complicated, such as learning combinations.. at least for my belt, I'm sure it's much harder to get stripes and things a time goes on. Oh, and I've met Jee, Jun, and this other Korean college girl who just came to America for the summer and helps out with teaching. I believe she's supposed to be really good at the sport. It's been really fun to learn new techniques, but recently it's just been review of the technique, which makes sense because building a good foundation is key, I guess. Hopefully, we learn new things again soon...

My SAT math has been consistent, with practice tests I've been getting at least high 700's if not perfects, so I'm glad. I was worried all this calculus and linear algebra had thrown off my geometry and algebra skills. My Critical reading scores... still stink, haha. I mean, I've been getting 600's, but I need to work on understanding things from the passage more. Writing... I've been consistently getting over 600, sometimes 700's so I'm not too worried. I'm hoping the essay isn't too challenging so I can pull off an 8 like I usually do or maybe even higher. Vocab studying has not let up, it's been frightening, actually. My parents have been drilling me on words, so I've had more incentive to study. Usually, if I get words wrong then it's a small punishment, perhaps a speech about how this is the final summer I have before I go to college and the final chance to get a good SAT score... the usual. It's reasonable, I guess, nothing violent, thankfully. Hopefully this will work out for me.


I had to read 3 books for AP English this summer, Beowulf and Macbeth were mandatory, and the final book that I chose was A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I have, so far, finished reading and writing logs for Macbeth and the yankee book, but have yet to write an entry for Beowulf. I had a bet with my sister that I would finish all my summer work before August... I lost. Well, there goes $5... darn it. I have enjoyed reading the books, actually. I thought I would hate it because I don't usually enjoy reading and writing, but these weren't bad. Macbeth was a little... creepy? I'm not really sure how to phrase it. It was just a weird/scary book to read. I just read the plot summary at the beginning and thought about how sad it was... all those deaths... The other book, about the yankee, was fun to read as I learned about Hank Morgan, a man from Connecticut, who was somehow transported to the time of King Arthur and went through many adventures while also creating technology to help the kingdom. I heard Beowulf was really violent and awesome, but really boring to read, so I'm sort of excited for that.


I'm listening to this song right now, it's called Miracle Generation by 천권웅. I have to sing that next week for the offering song. In fact, the other youth group people wanted me to rap in the middle of it... I'M NOT A RAPPING PERSON! D: What to do... I hope it was a joke, it seemed like a joke... I'm going to prepare something just in case, but I'm hoping it was a joke. I'm really hoping it was a joke. Anyway, before I can rap, I need to learn the lyrics to the actual song, so I figure that I'll just learn it in an auditory fashion. I figure if I listen to it enough, the words will stick in my head. Hopefully this works.


Minecraft got a bit of an update this past week, going into the newest version known as version 1.3. It took about 4 months for this update to come out, during that time, many little snapshots, or mini-updates to show off what's going to be added, were released and I people got to experience small aspects of the new update in that way. I was unable to do this because I have yet to purchase a Minecraft account, I may actually do that, considering that I've accumulated enough allowance to do that. Anyway, I've been playing around with the new update and it's been really exciting. I really should stop writing about this game... I'm getting more and more addicted... This is bad. My productivity level, after learning of the existence of this game from a friend at Governor's School (Gage), has decreased quite a bit. I hope this doesn't affect my life too much... but knowing me, it'll be like Maplestory, Starcraft 2, and Pokemon. I'll spend multiple years addicted to the game... Sigh.


Well, I think I've written enough. I think I'll attempt to put essays that I wrote on practice tests for the SAT here... Maybe not. They all suck... Whatever.


-Sam Rho