Competition of spelling

There was a competition of spelling at 6:00 pm today. Although I have printed the vocabularies two weeks ago, I still had no time to memorize them. I started memorzing them just two days ago. During the memorizing, I found that there were some words making me confused. For example, we usually use "pharmasist" which means a person skilled in the making of medicine. But I also saw another word "apothecary" which has the same meaning. They are all means "藥劑師" in Chinese, but what is the difference between them? After looking up them in the dictonary, I eventually knew the difference: "pharmasist" is the modern word. On the contrary, "apothecary" is the old use. I was so excited that I knew another old-fashioned word again. I had great interest in the words which are old-used. In my opinion, they are more elegant than modern words.
The other doubt in memorizing is that there are "cancer" and "carcinoma" which are both mean "癌症" in Chinese. What is the difference between them? Again, after looking up them in the dictionary, I found that "carcinoma" is the medical use.
Although I didn't do well in the competition, I still reap no little benefit in this experience because I not only learn a lot of new word but knew many medical phrases and old-used words.
I determined to join the competition again next year!

The competition of the dorm's neatness

This is my desk^^

Tonight from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm there were a competition of the dorm's neatness. Having will to win the first place, I and my roomates, 恬綺 and 孟品, maked a lot of effort to clean our room. We started to clean out on this Sunday. We mopped the floor, washed the sink, folded our quilted cover, clean the bathroom and toilet, and moreover, we also clean the screen window! After several hours later, we had a room which looked brand-new! Tonight before the judge came to our room, we even mopped the floor again and using tape to stick the hair on the floor.

Several minitutes went by, the judge came. Surprisingly, the judge only worked straight into our room, took a look of the bathroom, then finished. The overall process costs less than twenty seconds! I was so disappointed and a little angry about the way of scoring. Although we had the perfect score, but I felt that the judge didn't have the "sincerity" to check our room. They didn't check the sink, our desks and balcony. They even didn't take a look at the stainlessly clean floor

and the screen window! In my mind, they had to give some praise at least....

The full view of the dorm

The stainlessly clean screen window which was cleaned by me

Having mid-terms and reports all the year----I am so tired

Last night, I make the chemical mid-report until 4:30am. I haven't went to bed so late ever before. I don't want to stay up night anymore!

Since I entered Chang Gung, my life were fiiled with plenty of exams and reports. There seems to be no rest in every week. When a series of exams were over, there must be a great number of reports waitng for you to do. For instance, we had a chemical mid-term last week, then this week we have eight reports to do. More astonishing,as soon as we finishing the eight reports, we again starts handle the second wave of mid-terms. In other college or departments, there are only "mid-term" week. But for Life Science in Chang Gung, there must be a "mid-term year." Sometimes I really feel exhausted. Luckily, I have great interests in life science. Otherwise, I really don't know how to keep me study hard and have willpower to face the giant pressure in dealing with schoolwork.
Next week, there will be a physical mid-term first. Also there are regularly biology test, chemical reports, and biology experiment reports. Hope that I can do well in these schoolworks in the following days and don't stay up night anymore.

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A Tour to National Museum of Natural Science

Yesterday, we have a biology experiment class at National Museum of Natural Science. In fact, the museum is quite near my home. So I went home on Friday, then went to meet my classmate and teachers at the museum's entrance on Saturday morning.

Because the museum is so close to my home, seeing classmates come to the science museum is like inviting classmates to my home. Since I was in kidergarton, I have gone to the science museum hundred times. So I became a tour guide yesterday.

I was so delighted that my classmates have a chace to go to the National Musuem of Natural Science. And I also felt excited that I have a chace to join the happiness in touring the museum with them!