美國留學生日記American Student Diary（02/17/2017）

021717    Friday     Fun at Ping Pong but hurt my hand tonight

數學課上， 我們用了圖形計算器， 可以給方程式畫圖。

       物理課上， 我們考了個試， 並不算難， 但我沒有提前複習好， 所以有幾道題讓我困惑。

        中午， 我們在室內打了乒乓球，因為外面下雨。 我也許得發信息告訴別人， 不然也不會只有我跟老師兩個人了。 我教了他正手抽球的技巧， 他學的好快！ 不一會兒已經可以抽了。 美國人都學東西很快， 讓我很震撼

         電影課上， 我錄了我那個泥人的視頻。 電腦配了個攝像頭， 用來拍視頻的。 我動泥人一下就拍一張， 然後把他們拼在一起，就成了一個短片！總共10秒

       手語課也考了試， 對我不算難，但我犯了幾個小錯誤。 一樣的問題，沒有提前複習好。 考試后， 我們愛幹啥幹啥， 我就用平板看了個電影 《你的名字》， 用網站 「Animeget.io」 看的。 有各種各樣的日漫， 英文字幕的。 用來學習也不錯。

        晚上在家時， 我拿拖把拖地， 可它卻斷了。 重要的是， 我左手被劃到了！ 我趕緊洗手， 擠血， 不然可能會被感染， 因為那玩意生鏽了。 爸爸說那東西之前已經不對勁， 就應該早點扔掉。 表面上不像是我的錯， 但我心裡知道我還是該小心的。

轉自微信公眾號：美國留學生日記 American Student Diary（02/17/2017）                            

    In Algebra class, we learned how to use those graphing calculators again and I was starting to get the hang of it. Those ones were not cheap, jso I couldn't afford to have one at home, I really should learn how to use it properly, because using it only once a week is not enough.

    In AP Physics, we had  quiz, and it wasn』t hard for me, but I was still uncertain of a fe problems. I should』ve studied more before taking it, or I』d find myself in a hole, and not being able to dig myself out of it.

    At noon, it was raining cats and dogs, so I doubted if we』d play the tennis game against Bonita High School this afternoon. I texted Coach Al, and he replied that the game』s cancelled. I brought the tennis racket here for nothing! Well, it wasn』t too much of trouble to carry it, so it』s alright. I brought it here just in case we』d play. Maybe I didn』t get to play tennis, but I got to play Ping Pong, in Mr. Distaso』s classroom. This is the benefit of Ping Pong: You may play it both inside and outside of the room! By the way, I taught Mr. Distaso how to swing the paddle properly, and you know what? He learned very fast! He could hit the ball back and forth with me by swinging like that, and it』s really fast! I am impressed that a lot of Americans are very fast learners.

In Animation, we did the filming of the clay figure with the app: iStopMotion. I just 「shot」 at the figure with the camera and combined those frames together, so when I played all of them, I would be watching a short movie. It needed to be at least 10 seconds long, which was 120 frames. I didn』t really like my stop-motion movie because my hands must get in the camera in order to keep the figure steady. Well, I checked, everybody was doing the very same thing. There』s nothing to worry about.

    In ASL, we had a test of signing 15 sentences, and it』d be recorded by a camera on the computer. It wasn』t too hard for me, but I made some slight mistakes. I started to find hardness in this new language, which was expected by me: There』s no way that a new language can be easily learned and mastered in a short amount of time. After the test, we were off to do anything else, so I watched the movie, 「Your Name」 on the website 「Animeget.io」, which provided thousands of animes with English subtitles. I only watched for ten minutes, then we must wrap things up and get ready to leave.

    After school, I went to Mr. Distaso』s classroom and played more Ping Pong. We really had a lot of fun practicing together. We stopped at 3:20, and arranged to play again next week. After that, I called mom to pick me up due to the heavy rain outside. Despite of the rain, I had an alto saxophone with me, there』s no way I』d choose to walk home with that.

      While I was waiting, I visited other science classroom, and I saw Drago and Ahmed making some mechanical stuffs together. They were in the STEM Club, or Robotic Club, which was responsible for teaching mechanical information. I examined some of them, and was impressed by the detailed designs. Those people didn』t look that easy on the outside at all!

      I found out that one of those stuffs was a fan, which could spin in the presence of the wind. I tried it near a spinning fan, and this thing spinned as well! Then I found that there』s a mechanical box, which contained a lot of tools