Yani Ye's Blog

 Being the strange teenager in our society today, I encounter strange daily thoughts based on my surroundings and just what is happening around me. For one week, I decided to record some of the strange questions I came up with and do a little research to answer my questions.  Monday Why does it rain? This question might sound very dumb, but being a super cold and wet day and not being taught weather patterns in science, this is something that came to my mind randomly throughout the day. Water droplets, more commonly called raindrops fall from the sky when clouds become filled with the water, and the cloud becomes to heavy. The cloud becomes too heavy to hold all the liquid, which results in it dropping in small sections, rain! Tuesday How large is the Milky Way? In my history class, everyday, we do warmups, where we watch the daily video of CNN 10, and write about one story told. Today, one of the stories explained NASA discovering a star-shaped galaxy, and how most galaxies a...

 For my language arts class, we recently read a few scenes from the script of the play "The Diary of Anne Frank," and were told to write a "letter" to one of the characters regarding choices they made during the play. I chose to write to Mr Dussel, not because he is my favorite character, but because he was one of my least favorites and angered me.  Dear Mr. Dussel, You have acted on a few questionable choices hiding in the annex. I believe there is good in your personality, yet you never showed much of it. I am most confused on how you are a Jew, was raised by Jewish, yet do not know any traditions of Hanukkah! When you asked if it was similar to “our St. Nicholas’s Day?” (Goodrich and Hackett 140). Were you thinking?! You should know the basic idea, yet you don’t, shame on you. As I said earlier, you never show your good side, deciding to always be a cold, unhappy person. I doubt this is the true you, where is all your good? When you first met Anne, you claimed, “...

When historical events happen, it is nearly of human nature for us to learn from mistakes and apply corrections to prevent any similar sort from repeating. With that being said, some events have a larger impact on us than others. Those are sometimes then transformed into pieces of literature and art, as a reminder in the far future the outcome of certain acts are not kind. With these pieces of writing, most are focused on a singular person/family and their experiences throughout a period of time, yet all help us remember and understand the suffering and pain they went through to conquer their time period. Whether a magazine, comic book, biography, diary, all writings of literature based on events of history impact all societies, reminding us of what led up to large events, and all in all can help us prevent anything similar from happening again. For reference, a few pieces include, The Diary of Anne Frank , written based on the Holocaust and Nazi situation, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry...

 With 2023 recently passing, it is now time to welcome the new year of 2024! Personally, I am very excited for a fresh, new start, and am looking forward to hopefully a great year. Taking what I learned last year, I plan to leave all the bad possible in 2023, and work on myself and my well-being going into another year. I also have come up with 5 new years resolutions for myself, to set some goals to accomplish as the year passes. My first goal consists of multiple "mini-goals," and are all about my sport, figure skating. As I always have in mind, I would like to continue improving all my skills, and develop and learn new, more advanced ones. This year specifically, I would like to pass my Novice Moves in The Field test, no matter how many times I might fail. As I learned previously, I would like to "get back up" and work harder to pass. I would also like to have learned the Junior Moves patterns, and be somewhat familiar with them. Also for ice skating, I would lik...

  Imagine yourself waking up at 5:40 in the morning, when it is still dark outside and not even the birds are up. Well, that’s my current situation, except I'm in the car and heading to the ice rink - at 6 in the morning. I had to take my Intermediate Moves in The Field, the 5th out of 8 tests in the US figure skating track. I felt somewhat prepared, yet I was just so incredibly nervous. The car ride there passed a little too fast for my liking. One second I had just stepped out of the house, and the next, poof!, magically at the ice rink. The specific rink I was testing at was around 25 minutes away, and was the place I tested my previous test at. It’s called the Toyota Performance Sports Center. I know, such a high-ranked sounding name. Speaking of the rink, after driving in the meer darkness for almost half an hour, my mom and I finally turned the corner which led to the entrance of the rink. Still dark outside, I started heading in to start my 30 min practice ice session just...

As 2023 slowly comes to an end, I would like to reflect on how my school years have been. I was recently let out for break, so I am officially done with school for 2023! This year, I completed my 7th grade year, and am about half way done with my 8th grade year. I attend a middle school in LBUSD, and excitingly will be going to high school next year! The 2nd semester of my 7th grade school year flew by, taking up the first 5 months of the year. During those months, I earned all A grades, joined a junior scholarship federation, attended a school dance, met and made new friends, took my state tests, took my final I-Ready assessments, and many, many more activities.  For all of my middle school years, my goal has been to earn all A+ grades, having over a 97% in each class. My 2nd semester of 7th grade was challenging, yet I worked and tried my hardest on all assignments, which let me achieve my goal and have a 4.0 GPA. Because of my good grades and effort put into everything, my schoo...

Just recently, I attended one of my best friend's Christmas/Holiday party. Her name is Jordyn, and I have been to 2 of her other parties prior. This time, we did many holiday activities and games, such as a gingerbread decorating contest, white elephant game, drinking hot chocolate, and watching a Christmas movie. A few of my other friends from school also came, so it was a fun time celebrating the early holidays with them. Jordyn, her cousion, our friend Gabbi, and our friend Saana were the attendees this time, along with Jordyn's brother and some of his friends. The party started at 5, and we started off with her mom's homemade alfredo pasta. It was honestly one of the best I have tried, and I personally loved it. Then, we started our gingerbread house decorating contest, having the boys against the girls. For our house, we made it pink and blue, cute, neat, and overall pleasing to look at. The boys went crazy with theirs, throwing stuff, and just making a huge mess. Ever...