July 21, 2011 Spanish, Tennis, 15 Minute Walks, and Cats

First of all, if you are reading this, I want you to write a comment, no matter how short! I feel like I'm typing/blogging to no one (okay, that may be true but....) and that is not a good feeling. Anyways, please comment on my posts and continue reading this one.
Today, I woke up early compared to yesterday. Yesterday, I woke up at 1:30pm and today I woke up at eight something! There's such a big difference between the two times. Anyways, after a ate a breakfast of cereal and some juice, my mom made my brother and I continue using our Spanish learning program. In this program, you memorize words and their definitions and then you are quizzed on the content of that section. The number of questions you got correct are added to the other questions you got right. To finish one disk, you have to get 1800 points. Everyone has different accounts so you can see their progress separately. Unfortunately, my brother (768 questions right) has a higher number than me (751 questions right)!!! At least he isn't on a different disk (we're both on disk one still) which would be a horrible thing.

After a few hours of reading and doing other stuff, my mom, my brother, and I went to this tennis court where we played tennis with these two boys (Randall and Kevin) that my brother met (and kind of made friends with them) last year when we were in Boulder. We played for about an hour and a half and then my mom, my brother, and I had to pick up my dad from where his work dropped him off.
Flash forward for a bit (actually, a lot more than a bit) and my family are just walking around the neighborhood and the shops on the outskirts of it. Eventually, we turned around and then began walking back to the neighborhood where we observed this community garden sort of thing and we tried searching for our mailbox with no luck. Soon, we were being eaten alive by mosquitoes so we walked back to our house for some ice-cream and such. The whole walk lasted for about fifteen minutes. I know, that's such a long walk.
Around the neighborhood, there has been many cat spottings. On the first day we came here, there was a cat waiting outside our door just looking at us. (it was cute!) Also, when we were going to the uncomfortable car, there was a cute black white cat just staring at the flowers that are in the front of the house. We saw some cats on our short walk, too. Four to be exact. There was the cute black and white cat, a white and silver one, and two others who's color I can't describe. Since my brother's pictures of the cats turned out blurry, I'll just put a picture of a cat I found off the internet. Bye-bye. (~_~)Meow.

July 13, 2011 Nothing, Banks, and Walking

My brother and I started our day by eating chocolate muffins/cupcakes and studying the SAT. Since I finished the book I was working on the other day, I got to start on another lovely (sarcasm) book.

This book was exactly like the other one, boring, monotonous, and outdated. Again, this is not worth your money and all copies should be burned!
After I folded some clothes, my mom, my brother, and I took the free shuttle to a park and then walked the rest of the way to a bank. At the bank, my brother and I sat in some comfortable chairs. While we were waiting, the bank people began asking us questions like:
-What country did you come from?
-Why are you here?
-How long are you staying?
Though these way sound like ordinary questions, I think that they are going to get plastic surgery to look like us an then steal our identity!! It could happen...
After that, we kind of got lost but eventually found our way. We then visited a butchery and bought some fresh sausages and aged filet mignon. We also went to the fruit and vegetable market where we bought some potatoes and bananas. Then, we travelled back to our hotel/apartment/motel, exhausted. Later on, we ate our second home-cooked which was delicious. We ate delicious steak, mash potatoes (courtesy of me), and steamed broccoli and spinach. Personally, I think the steaks tasted a lot better than yesterdays $32 ones. The vegetables were awesome to but needed quite a bit of salt.
The other day, I visited a retail store and I was looking at the shoes and clothes. While I was studying the shoes, I noticed that many of the shoes were sizes 6 or 7 so I'm guessing that most women have small shoe sizes. This may be very far from the truth but it's just a guess.
While we were walking, we walked through this huge (and relatively famous) park that had this interesting tree.

Well, I've typed long enough! Bye!

July 11, 2011 Nothing, Bread, and "Thai" Food

In the beginning of the day, my brother and I began studying the SAT (Yay?) and I read this:

This book was okay at first but then went downhill in a flash. The connections became more distance and eventually just ended. This book is not worth your money.
Once 4:00pm rolled around, my mom, my brother, and I walked around and reached this small market where we bought this amazing olive bread and some other stuff. I can't show you a picture since we already ate most of it! We have bought from here before so they gave us a free already wilted spinach. Delicious...
For dinner, we bought from this lunch truck where I bought an octopus ball with butter rice (Don't knock it until you've tried it!) and then my parents bought this pork fried noodles and chicken with garlic and pepper sauce. These dishes were questionable Thai and very bland. The food I got from the lunch truck was delicious but a bit dry, it needed a bit more sauce. The locations (for the Thai place) is:
Kanniga's Thai Food
18a Carlton Courts
Corner Bearley Avenue & Papanui Road

The lunch truck was right next to the other place but don't count on it being there since it's......a lunch truck thing. Bye!