Candidate Journals

Today was a mid day. When I woke up, I was motion sick for no reason. I tried to go back to sleep, but I could not. When I really woke up, I hung out until breakfast came. I had a bagel for breakfast, and chocolate milk for my drink. After that, I coded. I am trying to make a game in python, then do a challenge to see what games I can make in 1 minute, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes. I had to go to my swim lesson at 2. My swim lessons were fun, but I was still feeling sick from this morning. After that, me, my mom, and one of my mom's friends went over to Olive Garden with us for dinner. I had cheese ravioli. After that, I came home, hung out for a little while longer, then settled down for bed

Today was a fun, but annoying day. I woke up fine, but I had a stuffy nose, and I had a basketball game soon after I woke up. The score was 54 - 23 I am pretty sure. After that, me and my mom went to go pick up one of her friends from their house to go to an event that was happening. We stayed there a while. The whole time we were at the event, I felt sick to my stomach. After that, we went to a food place called pokebowl. I had some sushi and a drink called ramune. I had the grape flavor of the ramune. I got home, did an hour of poomsae and self-defense each, and coded some. I tried to make a game, but I didn't get to finish it. After all of that, I settled down for bed.

Today was a fun day. When I got to school, I saw all the candy that we were going to pass out for Valentine's Day. Also, we got to play blooket all day because we got a class prize. For math, we played a blooket, and did review for our test next week. For reading, we did a blooket about our book that we are reading, The Phantom Tollbooth. For lunch, I had a lunchable and me and my friend were trying to make a plant. For recess, I played soccer and I scored a goal. For intervention, we did a blooket about animals, and we made little bags for the valentine's candy we were getting. For encore, we went outside for like 5 minutes, and because some people wanted to get into a fight, we went inside. For science, we played another blooket, and we had free time on our...

Today was a fine day. In math we did subtracting mixed numbers with different denominators. Reading we read our book. Lunch was in AIG. Recess I played soccer. We had AIG again after recess was done. After that was all review about whether. When I got home, I had a headache, so I took a nap. I was not expecting the nap to be 5 hours long, so I missed half the day. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day for our school, so I will need to bring some candy bags for my classmates. For our class, it is fun Friday, and I already know that I know that I got fun Friday because I finished my homework, and all my classwork. I wonder what I will do during fun Friday tomorrow. Also tomorrow marks the 12 years that I had Leo, my dog. HE was between 1 and 3 when we got...

Today was a very cool day. I woke up good. Math started as usual. We did some adding mixed numbers with different denominators. Reading was ok. We just read some more of our book, The Phantom Tollbooth. Lunch was ok. I had mac and cheese for lunch today. Recess was cool because I got a good goal. I also switched teams in the middle of the match due to the other team's best player was not showing up the game. Intervention was ok. Science was ok because we did review about weather and all the other stuff about it. Encore was fun because we played games. There was not much stuff going on at school. When I got to taekwondo, I hung out with my friends and got all my requirements done. I lead the down warmups because they are my favorite thing to lead. After taekwondo, I had a basketball game....

Today was an ok day. I woke up fine, but we had to do extra work at school for the class getting mad at the person that reminded the teacher of passing out the homework, so that was annoying. Math went fine, and reading was ok. Reading was ok because I got to read with my friend and talk when we were done with our work. Lunch was fun, because it came quicker that I thought. Recess was fun as usual, because we played soccer. AIG was cool, because I found out that I came in third place for top Math Olympiad. Encore was fun, because I got to talk to my friend again. We had art for encore today. When I got home, I started to work on my game engine. I am done with a print() function, but now I need to work on a wait() function. I was...

This morning was a little rough getting started. My mom and I went to a friend's house to watch the Superbowl and got home later than expected. Because of this, I didn't get as much sleep as I normally do. On the way to school, I actually fell asleep which was nice, but I was still tired today. When we were in reading, I couldn't stay awake either. Thankfully lunch was good and then we ha recess. At recess, I was playing soccer but basically spent the whole time running up and down the field because the #1 person on my team wouldn't pass the ball. After recess I had AIG which is always fun. I was glad though that the day was over and my mom brought me Chow Mein when she picked me up. Since getting home, I've been able to relax a bit but tonight I'm missing taekwondo...

Today was yet another good day and since I didn't get to write yesterday, I'll fill you in on what happened then too. I had an early morning basketball game where we were up 33-0 at halftime and in the 3rd or 4th quarter I scored 2 points. We ended up winning 54-7 which was nice, but I feel the other team essentially gave up playing. After that, my mom took me to scouts because I got to cross over into Troop 83 with two of the other guys from my den. We had a quick ceremony, got our patches and "scout bibles" then headed up to get lunch before I got dropped off at Junior Leadership camp. Junior Leadership camp was nice, as also, and I had a lot of fun learning taekwondo aerobics, nun chucks, the food (especially the breakfast sundae) and of course sleep. My mom came early...

Today was a very, very cool day. School started like normal with me working a tutorial document that tells my friends how to code. In reading we had to answer questions about a new character in our book, The Phantom Tollbooth. At lunch, I had brought food to heat up but they wouldn't allow me to use the microwave, so that was no fun. We had recess outside afterwards. I played soccer with my friends but didn't score any goals. For encore, we did an air mass lesson, and an activity about it. Somehow, we had free time on our computers, so I did coding. I was trying to code a simple calculator, but the code did this: num1 = 2, num2 = 5, num1 + num2 = 25. I didn't know how to fix it, so I had to wait until I got home. Speaking about coding, I am also...

Today was an ok day for me. Today was the first day back from school from the snowstorm that hit again over the weekend. I got there and started talking to my friends about anything we could think of. We started out the day with math, then AIG, lunch, reading, recess, then finally encore. There wasn't much to do at school so this will be short. After school, I went to taekwondo. I got all of my requirements done except run. After taekwondo, I went to swim. I was able to move up to the next level of learning, so now I am in the last level. After that, I went home, took a shower, and settled down for bed.  

Today was a cool day for me. I woke up, then went back to sleep. When I woke up again at like 11:20, I got to work on my game. It was not finished today. There is only 2 more things to be added to serve its purpose as a tycoon game, but the 2 things are big things. I skipped breakfast because it was too late to have breakfast, so I had tacos for lunch. I just hung out in my room until it was time to go to church. When I got to church, I got my food and snacked on my food till I got home. When church started like always, we go to game time. We played a game where we pulled the other teams flag off their body, then we went to bible study. After that, I went home, did my work for remote learning, and...

Today was a fun day. I worked a lot on my game that I am making in Roblox. Hopefully I can get it done tomorrow. It is a type of game where you get money and buy upgrades or more droppers, which is the part that drops the form of money (i.e. blocks). I already have a game tester to see if there are any bugs with the game and the reviewer. The most likely error to occur is people controlling other people's tycoons, so I will make sure to add the code to stop that from happening. After all, it will be complicated game to make. After that, I went to taekwondo. At taekwondo, I helped with the juniors, did my requirements, and took class. I was supposed to go to my basketball game, but it was cancelled, so I went home. My great uncle got my pullup bar repositioned...

Today was another good day. I'm glad that the roads seemed to be a bit better so that we could make it to taekwondo. From the time I got up until we left for 4pm class, I got to work on my coding which was nice, especially since I wasn't able to use my computer AT ALL since Thursday. I got a lot accomplished on this prototype tycoon that I'm working on, but I still have a way to go before I can publish it on Roblox. We didn't do much overall today, didn't even go outside until class started. Tomorrow, we have another remote learning day which is nice. And I'm supposedly going to have my makeup basketball game from LAST Saturday... even though we also missed our game 2 days ago too. We'll see how that goes. Aside from all of that, I got to do a mentor lesson...

Today was nice because we were able to sleep in again. I was really looking forward to being able to go outside and maybe make a snowman today. My mom and I went outside, and I got to sweeping the snow around to make a mini soccer field. We realized that the snow wasn't making snowballs easily, so we decided to not do the snowman. We instead decided to try and clear our driveway off which was a lot of work and took longer than expected. Thankfully though I was able to use up a lot of my 12 hours of no electronics in the process. I also worked on finishing up this Lego gum ball machine toy that we got a week or so again. Busy work is nice when you can't leave the house. I also went ahead and did my remote learning homework for tomorrow to get that...

This morning my mom woke me up early when she went to feed my dog. As soon as she said it had been snowing, I JUMPED out of bed and went to go see. I spent a lot of my time off of my electronics today so I could focus on doing my (2) 12 hours without them for my essay, so today was a good day to do that. Instead, I was outside devising a way to clear the snow path. Unfortunately, it kept obviously getting covered back up but it still made for a lot of fun. My dog has a snow jacket that we put on him each time he went outside. Earlier this morning, the snow wasn't too bad, but by dinner time, he was nearly up to his belly in snow. I worked to clear a path for him to use when he goes to the...

Today was the first day back to school after three days. It was a good morning although I didn't get a lot of sleep last night because my stomach was upset with something I ate. This morning since there was a 2-hour delay, I went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. I ate pancakes and bacon for breakfast and took my leftovers for lunch since the portions are always too big. After that, I went to school. School was mid. We didn't go outside today, and we did a lot of review of the stuff we've been working on. We did get to have indoor recess though which was nice. After that, we had lunch and it was kind of rushed because we took too long getting food from the cafeteria. For lunch, everyone ate in their classrooms but even if we bring our lunch we all have to walk there and...

Today was the third day of no school. I have really done a lot of stuff today. When I woke up this morning, I started on trying to see how to make a display in Minecraft. It took me about 2 hours to find the right video and to learn it. You may be thinking "Why are you trying to make a display in Minecraft? ". We'll let just say I am doing a big project. I am trying to make a 5x5 pixel printer display, and maybe a computer later on. After that, I started building the display in various designs, like a striped display where if the first line is off, the next line turns on, and it alternates to make 5 lines. After that, I worked on some binary counters. If you don't know what binary is, it is a counting language only using 0 and 1, making...

Last night for some reason I could not fall asleep. And because of that, I woke up very tired. About 30 minutes after I woke up, I started on my game. The game is progressing good, but every time I got an error message and I changed the code, I got the same error or a new one. I worked on that for about an hour. After I stopped working on the game, I did my poomsae and self-defense. I totally forgot that I had an appointment, so we rushed over there. After that, we got Panda Express for lunch; I got orange chicken with chow mien. From there my mom dropped me off at taekwondo. I helped out with the juniors, did my requirements during the next 2 classes, then took the senior's class. I asked to lead the punches and kicks, which I was able to do. I like...

Today was a good day. I woke up and started on my packet for my remote learning day. It took me about an hour to finish the packet. At about 12:00, I hopped on my computer to play some games and coded for most of the time before I went to taekwondo. At when I was at taekwondo, I got mentored and I mentored a yellow belt. After that, I worked on my pull-ups, then I saw that some people were playing soccer in the red room and of course I wanted to join in. It was perfect timing because I noticed when I got down from the pull-up bar. I played soccer for about 15 minutes, then it was time to leave. After I left from taekwondo, me and my mom went over to the grocery store to buy some food. When we came home, I got back to coding,...

Today was a cool day. I woke up, then started to build some stuff in Minecraft. When I got done building, I ate breakfast. After breakfast, I also worked on a Lego set. It is a gumball machine but instead of gumballs, there are minifigures in little ball that you can build. I am halfway through the set. I also played in the snow a bit. Then, I worked on "GIMME FOOD". Again, don't ask me where I got the name from because I don't know either. The game has the basic mechanics done like saving local data, knowing when to move and show or not, and reminders. I played for a little on my computer doing that, then it was time for dinner. For dinner, I had broccoli casserole and fish sticks. It was very good. After that, I did some self-defense and poomsae. After all of that, I settled down...

Today was an early day for me. I woke up at 5:45 to start my day. I started on a Lego set after I ate breakfast. Somehow, I am blind because I started to prepare for the winter storm last night, come to find out that it said Sunday, not Saturday. My allergies were so bad last night and today, I can trigger epiphora (Excessive tearing or watery eyes) just by sneezing. When I fully woke up at about 11:30, I got on my computer to make some project in turbowarp (Advanced version of Scratch) called "GIMME FOOD". Don't ask me where the name or what the project is about because I don't know either, and an AI little thing that can help you with certain things. Both projects are not fully finished, so hopefully tomorrow I can get a lot of work done. After I worked on that, I went to go get a...

Today was a very fun day. I woke up finally actually feeling awake. When I got to school, again like always, me and my friend worked on the 4 boys, 1 car show. Then, I realized we were going to Fryes Roller Rink because it was part of our D.A.R.E. graduation. When we lined up to go to the bus we were each given red D.A.R.E. shirts to wear, and I was able to sit with my two friends, Matthew and Jackson. When we got to Fryes Roller Rink, I was so excited to skate around. I forgot how to skate, so I had to try and see if what I was doing was correct, and it was. So, once I got to skating, I taught my friends how to skate too. Me and my two friends found a way to get more candy from the little red machines you see...

Today I woke up tired. For some reason, my brain would not let me to sleep last night. Today when I got to school, me and my friend worked on the 4 boys, 1 car. It is almost though the first chapter. Nothing really happened for math today, nor reading. I made a secret language in my free time today after all my math work was done. It is pretty cool but also complicated at the same time.  At recess, we played soccer and I scored a goal. At intervention, after I finished my work, again, me and my friend started to work on the 4 boys. 1 car show. I also got a headache when I was in encore. Today for encore, we had dance. After dance, we learned science. What we learned in science was stationary and occluded fronts. My teacher says that science is the hardest subject to...

Today was the first day back to school from the long weekend. For breakfast I had a granola bar, but I don't think I got much energy from it.  I felt sleepy in class and almost fell asleep later in math class. I started to wake up at lunch, which is at 11:05. "Finally, finally" went through my head when I heard that we will be going outside for the first time in a week. I played soccer at recess. I didn't score, but I tried with multiple shots on goal, and a free kick. Hopefully, I can score tomorrow if we go outside. The score was 3-0, with my team losing. During intervention, me and my friend started to work on the next episode of 4 boys, 1 car. After school, I packed my dinner to eat at taekwondo, grabbed all of my stuff, then headed out the door. When I...

Today was a wonderful day. I woke up, and I got ready for brunch with my memaw. We ate at Louis Grill (I think that is what it is called). I brought my switch to play on Game Builder Garage. Game Builder Garage is a game where you make games like tag showdown, which is a tag game, and you can make your own games from scratch. I set a challenge for myself that for each month, there is a thing I have to make in Minecraft. This month's project is a tree house. I have to make it in the middle of nowhere, in 15 Minecraft days, and survive 5 days. After I got done brainstorming about my project, I had free time to work on my White Belt essay and look over my written test study guide. I completed what I could and brought it with me to class...

Today was an ok day. I woke up and got ready for church. Church lasted for about an hour. Then, when I got home, I hung out in my room. After about 3 hours, I went over to my great grandpas to go visit, then to my memaws house, then to my friend's house. Today was the last time I will see their house because they are moving out. I'll still be able to see him, but it won't be the same. We played games like soccer, basketball, and War. If you don't know what war is, it is a game where we are on X amount of teams, most likely 2 teams. There are two types of gameplay, Capture the Flag (Kinda bad not going to lie) and the OG style, I don't know what it is called though. Capture the Flag is where the amount of flags plus 1...

Today is Saturday, and we had an early basketball game. I made 2 points today and we won like 43-21, I believe. My team did really well with passing the ball and using the whole court. Early in the game the other team had the lead but started to not communicate well as we started making a comeback. Right after our game, I head to taekwondo to help assist with the junior class. Today was also my last day in my white belt challenge so it was nice being able to finish that part. I was able to work with Ryker on staff form 1 and get a mentor session out of the way. After we got home from taekwondo, I showered and took a much-needed nap. From there, I played on my laptop until we went to my friend Acyn's house. His mom is selling their home, so my mom...

This morning, I woke up and it was extremely cold outside. I would prefer it to be this cold if it were snowing but that's not going to happen. When I got to school, I worked on the ending of our show. Today was the first day that 4 boys, 1 car had it first views not by me or my friend, THE WHOLE CLASS SAW. If you want to see the episode too, go here: 4 boys, 1 car EP: 1 SE: 1 Today in math, we did subtracting decimals. In reading, we read chapter 8 of The Phantom Tollbooth. The book is interesting. Again, we didn't go outside because it was "too cold". It was only 34° out, stop overreacting. In science, we learned about warm and cold fronts. Traffic was bad when we were leaving school due to the Walk for Peace that came through our area. My mom...

Today was LONG! When I woke up, I got ready for school and grabbed a granola bar for breakfast. When I got to school, I again worked on my show with my friends. It is halfway animated and almost ready to go. After that, in math we learned about subtracting decimals. And then in reading, we read another chapter of our book. Then it was time for lunch. Today I brought grilled chicken and toppings to make a pita sandwich, and I also had this massive apple that we got the other night. We didn't get to go outside today because it "felt like 16 degrees out" so I got to stay with my AIG teacher. She gave me and Jackson a game board that I brought home to make a board game that goes with our show. You can play as one of the 4 boys and answer trivia questions...

Today when I got to school, me and my friend, Jackson worked on the "4 boys, 1 car" show. It is in its final stages before getting released to my classmates. For math today, we did a worksheet for estimating and adding decimals. For reading, we read our book, The Phantom Tollbooth, and we did a story map about the chapter we were reading. For recess today, we stayed inside because it was DRIZZLING, not even raining, and they thought a whole entire tornado was going to hit outside our school. In science, we learned about air pressure. In encore, which we had arts in action, we learned about the industrial revolution. We also did an activity where we were in a factory, making happy birthday cards and we learned about how children worked in factories for 12 hours a day. After school, played games, and I practiced my bible verses...

I tried a new breakfast today, Oats Overnight. It was Cookies and Cream flavor and wasn't half bad. When I got to school, I started working on my show during free time. From there I just did our normal class schedule, and at lunch I had leftovers from last night to make "walking tacos". Basically, you use any individual sized bag of chip you like, add your beef (or chicken), and whatever toppings you like, mix and enjoy. At recess, we played soccer and I scored 4 goals. The score was 7-8 with us losing. Hopefully tomorrow my team will win. In AIG today, I worked on a logo for my business that I have with my friend Jackson (from my story, 4 boys 1 car). Our business is called "SanLin" which is a combination of my last name (Sanchez) and Jackson's which is Lin. Our product is basically like the...

Today when I got to school, I told my friend Jackson, how much progress I made on a show that we are making. The show is called "4 boys, 1 car". And of course, we made it in google slides. I'll see if after this first episode, I can make it available for you to watch. It is almost done so I will see if I can get it done by Friday. Since it is mine and my friend's time animating, it will look weird but, it will look better when we progress with the series. Today at recess, I scored a goal in soccer. At PE, we played soccer again. Our teams were good in PE but at recess, my team passed to me 1 time, not joking. And I scored that one time. After school, I did my requirements for the black belt cycle. I have not gone to...

Today is Sunday, my rest day. What I did was not really a rest day, but still relaxing. I went to church, church was fun. I got 2 candies in the morning because we had to build a temple and the team that won get 2 pieces of candy, and the losing team gets only 1 piece of candy. After that, I went to go shopping for my second cousin's 2nd birthday. When we finished shopping, I got home and played on my computer. Then, I went to her birthday party. After the party, we went shopping for food so I can write about my 30 days during my nutrition part of the cycle. I had been wanting to get into the hot tub at home, so after we got in and the groceries put away, I changed into my bathing suit and got in. Apparently, it was 39 degrees outside...

Today as soon as I woke up at 5:30a.m., I grabbed my water, my junior instructor's book, my jump rope, a pen, and my black belt book. I studied so hard last night and this morning to get ready for the pre-test. I even studied staff form 1 and double stick form (I didn't really need to do that, but I thought I needed to do it for some reason). I thought in my head the whole time "what if I forget all of the stuff-". I panicked then I got my confidence back. When I got done with poomsaes, I was so sore. The pre-test really was a challenge, but I got through it. I also like that now I have a better understanding of what I'm doing, where I'm currently at and have a baseline to help myself improve from. When I left from the North Charlotte King Tiger,...

Today when I got to school, I realized that tomorrow is the pretest for the black belt cycle. Well, I am excited but, I am also nervous. It is my first time doing all of the forms and self-defense at one time. Also, I have never taken a physical fitness test before. My allergies have also been messing with my sleep and my focus (because I need to blow my nose a lot). After school, I took some medicine and a nap before my black belt class. I also did sparring tonight. After I got home from taekwondo, I reviewed everything for the pretest. I hope I do well in the morning. In my free time at school, I worked on code for my phone project in code.org. This is the link to it so far if you want to check it out:  https://studio.code.org/projects/applab/t8oueKkPLWNOX3I7e6KQqStJwTfnaHcKdoyaLXxkWao  If you click the link, you will...

I made a vending machine out of the boxes of cereal I ate in the morning. Nothing really happened today at school. For lunch, I had spaghetti. At recess, the score was 0-0 again. I took some shots, but I was unlucky. Thankfully, my legs felt 100% better today. When I got home, I got on code.org and coded for about 20 minutes. This is what I wrote: function loading() { var X = prompt("To start loading type Load"); setScreen("Loading"); if (X == "Load") { console.log("Load start"); } setTimeout(function() { setText("AssetLoad", "001"); setTimeout(function() { setText("AssetLoad", "002"); setTimeout(function() { setText("AssetLoad", "003"); setTimeout(function() { setText("AssetLoad", "004"); setTimeout(function() { setText("AssetLoad", "005"); }, randomNumber(1000, 3000)); }, randomNumber(1000, 3000)); }, randomNumber(1000, 3000)); }, randomNumber(1000, 3000)); }, randomNumber(1000, 3000));}loading(); What this does is it waits for 1000-3000 milliseconds, then sets a text label's text to a number. After that, I went to taekwondo. I wanted to lead...

Today was interesting. When I woke up, again I grabbed my breakfast, then left. Remember this post: Post. The pain in my legs felt worse today to the point that I was sort of limping. The school day went well for the most part, but recess took a bit of a turn for the worse. So, what happened was at recess, while playing soccer like usual, literally in the last five minutes, 2 people on the other team ran into my already hurting leg. One slid into me while the other jumped on me like you would in a dog pile.   So yeah, that hurt a lot, and I don't know what they were thinking but the other team members were just telling me to "Walk it off", like what? We had previously been banned from playing due to a number of "fights" among players so I guess they were thinking we might get...

Today, school was fun. When I got there, I did not get breakfast because I knew that I was not going to be waiting in the line for about half an hour just for cinnamon bread. I went straight to my classroom and like yesterday, made a thing out of another mini cereal box that I had in my backpack for whatever reason. Instead of me making a mailbox, I made a phone. First, I took the box apart, flipped the box inside out, then rebuilt the box with glue. I added pieces of paper to make the home screen and the contacts of my phone. I still need to add many more screens before I can call it finished. Then, at recess I played soccer well. I dribbled past 4 people in a row, I made a pass to assist a goal, and my team won 4-0. In art class,...

Today was the first day back to school after winter break. To start off with my morning, I woke up, got ready for school, got a mini froot loops box, then left. When I got to school, I didn't get breakfast there because I had the froot loops box. I ate the cereal then I got an idea to make the box into a mailbox. I did but, I cut my finger in the process...it was worth it though. Math class, easy. Reading, normal. Lunch, good. Recess, in the middle. I fell hard on my legs, increasing the pain I had from Saturday. AIG, happy. Encore (went to the library), easy. Science, easy. Dismissal, very happy.  I'm always happy when it is the end of the school day. When I got in the car, I showed my mom the mailbox I made and told her about taking it to class with me...

I was planning on going to church, but I think I had overslept. For breakfast, I had a bacon breakfast crunch wrap which I had not had in forever. After I got done eating my breakfast, I worked on the traffic light from yesterday in Roblox Studio. I finished it at 1 pm since there was some bugs in the code that I could not fix in the 10 tries I tried to fix it. One bug fixed, two more came until I finally figured it out. It was so frustrating but, I got through it. I also, posted a video of how to make the traffic light on my YouTube (ask me for me channel name). At about 2:45, it was time to go to iFly. I have been doing lessons about twice a month since my birthday in October. Today, I worked on side-sliding while I was there and...

Today, I woke up happy to start my first day of Black Belt cycle. I did my morning routine and got ready to go to taekwondo. When I got there, I started to work on my fitness requirements since I asked to go in an hour earlier than originally planned. My mom also brought me breakfast since I didn't eat prior to leaving this morning. While doing my kicks, I hurt myself on the bag because I kept hitting the same area on the top of my foot repeatedly. I don't usually kick on the hanging bags, but I feel that was the cause, so next time I will use the ones for class instead. I had my friend Ryker help make sure I was doing my rolls and falls correctly since I can't see myself when I'm doing it. He gave me good feedback and now I know I need...