LAST DAY! [December 17,2010]

December 17,2010. It's a short period today, which meant it was only a 35 minute class. Still, I'm so psyched for the winter holidays. I'm totally gonna sleep in and get 'well rested' for the coming two weeks! Happy holidays people! 8D

SECOND LAST DAY BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS [December 16,2010]

December 16,2010. Today, we continued to work on our bouncing ball and window tracer program. Go us! :D
Just one more day before the holidays! I'm excited! 8D

Bouncin' Balls off the Wall! [December 15,2010]

December 15,2010. Today in ICS, we continued working on the bouncing ball thing, since no one got it. I made progress (figured out how it works essentially :D), so I'm satisfied.
Homework is to work on daily blog and make progress on the bouncing ball thing. <33
Two more days until the break! I'm totally gonna sleep in! Christmas! ;D

-Cindy

Bouncin' off the walls! [December 14,2010]

December 14,2010. Today, we got our tests back. Wow, it still amazes me how fast Mr. Arkin marks these things. But first, we took up/wrote model answers for all the questions. Of course, I wrote in awesome, slow cursive, that is (not pointing it out or anything). After that, Mr. Arkin let us copy his model answer. And then he handed our tests back. And oh my god. I can't believe I got perfect. Anyways, I'm not gonna gloat or boast or rub it in yo' faces (nooo, nothing like that).
Mr. Arkin went on to show us these cool bouncing program fragments and now, we have to recreate the code. So that's our homework, along with thy daily blog posting.

-Cindy

Surprise, surprise! Test 2 comes rolling along! [December 13,2010]

December 13,2010. Today, we had our second test! When Mr. Arkin had said 'sometime next week,' I did not think it could be Monday. It was completely out of the question. But, walking into class today, I guess it wasn't that out of the question. I didn't study at all over the weekend to be honest (completely honest here), so I was pretty much screwed on the test.
But actually, it was quite easy. The questions were very straightforward and just asked things we learned ages ago. The only thing I had a bit of trouble on was the index part of the substring. Remember the whole did-not-study thing? Yeah. I had to guess what it meant, but am pretty sure I got it right (conceited right?) :D
After the test, we had 15 minutes left, in which Mr. Arkin showed us a new part of Turing. Graphics! We can now draw our own shapes and lines and all that fun stuff! Joy. :9
Anyways, homework is to post daily blog and to explore graphics.

-Cindy

LAST CHANCE TO BECOME A 4! [December 10,2010]

December 10,2010. Today was our last period to work in our peer tutoring groups and get everyone up to a '4' on the understanding of Turing in preparation for the test next week. Today, our group worked on functions and for loops, even using the computer to emphasize and test out some of the programs we wrote up. I think we're pretty close to our goal! Let's keep on working hard!
For homework, we were to study for the test sometime next week and our daily blog. Yay for weekend! 8D

-Cindy

Peer Tutoring Groups! [December 9,2010]

December 9,2010. Today, we continued to work towards our level '4', in our peer tutoring groups. We continued to go through our notes, even demonstrating on the computer what some of the different features of Turing to our group mate. Homework is to post daily blog.

-Cindy

One, two, three! [December 8,2010]

December 8,2010. Today in class, Mr. Arkin introduced to us how to create our own procedures! We learned the keywords procedure and how to give the procedure permission to overwrite/re-store a value into variables. We also learned to differentiate between functions and procedures, which is super important now that we can write our own. Again, we practiced as a class for a bit before Mr. Arkin had us all assess our programming knowledge. He then put us/let us choose our groups accordingly so that each group had a good balance of knowledge. Our task for the next few days were to bring everyone in our groups up to a level '4' in Turing programming. We started going through our notes.
For homework, we were to continue bringing ourselves up to level '4' and our daily blog. Check and check.

-Cindy

HAHA. The day has come! [December 7,2010]

December 7,2010. Today! Today is the day that Last Sacrifice is finally out! Do you know how long I've been waiting for this? Well, a very long time! HARHAR. :D I saw it in the store and I spoiled myself rotten by reading the ending. The ending was really bad [not to say the book itself was bad. Just who the main char. ends up with], so I ended up writing my english essay on heartbreaks and rejection. D:
Anyways. Today in ICS, Mr. Arkin introduced us to a new function, our very own user-defined function! We learned new keywords function and result. Basically, it performs a defined task that returns a value and is legal to use anywhere that value of the specified datatype can be used. YAY! 8D We wrote a few simple functions to practice, and then for homework (by the way, Mr. Arkin did a homework check), we were to write a function for nextConsonant, which is supposed to return the next consonant for Substring 9.5 (my own little name). Daily blog posting is also done now!

-Cindy

For. . . Justice? The world? No! For Loops! [December 6,2010]

December 6,2010. Welcome back, Mr. Arkin! After a week of being away, we had lots to do in class today. Since it was a short day (dismissed at 12), we only had 45 minutes to cram a lot of info into our brains. As soon as we entered, Mr. Arkin had something on the board/screen and we copied that down. It was about counted loops, which was loops that were executed a specific amount of times. We learned about the new keywords, for and decreasing.
Afterwards, we took up the substrings assignments, with Mr. Arkin showing us his simple model answers.
For homework tonight, we were to modify Assignment 9 so that instead of changing vowels, it would exchange each consonant with the one afterwards.

-Cindy

Guest Teacher Part 5 [December 3,2010]

December 3,2010. Today, we continued working on our substrings assignments. Mr. Arkin sent another email (dun dun dunnn~) that said we had to finish our substrings assignments and have them printed our and stored in our binder on Monday. That'll keep me busy for the weekend. Hehehe. 8)

-Cindy

Guest Teacher Part 4 [December 2,2010]

December 2,2010. Heelloo! Today, we continued to work on our substrings assignments. Also, Mr. Arkin sent us  another email, stating that he'll be away tomorrow, which means no quiz tomorrow! Hurray!
For homework, I plan on completing the substrings assignments and posting of thy daily blog. So yuup.

-Cindy

Guest Teacher Part 3 [December 1,2010]

December 1,2010. Oh My God! YAY! It's December! Just two more weeks until the winter holidays and 25 days before Christmas. But better than Christmas, there's only 6 days left until the release of Last Sacrifice. Okay, anyways, that little rant ^ is probably longer than my actual post, which is currently non-existent. That's okay though, because today in class, we just continued to work on our substrings assignments. They got harder, but I feel that I can finish.
For homework, it's the daily blog and continue to work on assignments. Oh and, we just found out there was going to be a substrings quiz on Friday, when Mr. Arkin gets back. Totally unfair, but hey, that's life right? D:

-Cindy

Guest Teacher Part 2. [November 30,2010]

November 30,2010. Tomorrow's December (Christmas time!)! I'm so excited! And high! And happy! I just read the first chapter of Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead. I've waited so long for that. Okay, well anyways, today, Mr. Arkin wasn't here again, so we continued working on our substrings assignments. I finished up to Assignment 6, which is awesome. Tomorrow, he is going to be away again, so I will continue working on my assignments. 8D
For homework, it's the daily blog posting and progress on the assignments. Same old, same old. Seven more days until the release of Last Sacrifice! I gonna count down ;D

-Cindy

Guest Teacher! [November 29,2010]

November 29,2010. Well then. I had a longer post, but my internet crashed and it's really late, so I'm not gonna retype it. In a nutshell, we had a supply teacher and we worked on substrings. I finished the first three assignments (prettied up and all!) and am currently moving onto the fourth.
For homework, we were to finish our daily blog and continue to work on our substrings assignments. Tomorrow's a late start day! YAY 8D

-Cindy

Complete! [November 26,2010]

November 26,2010. Today, I've finished all my assignments! Yuup! I feel a huge weight off my shoulders. :D
At the beginning, we had a turing show off thing, where Prashanth showed us his awesome piano-like program. Hey, I could argue that I have enough pianos in my life without an electronic version. Anyways, we continued working on our assignments, which I've completed!
Our homework is to post in our daily blog and to prepare for our test! Tonight, it's the girls about girls sleepover at vic park, I'm excited. :D
Good bye computer! (for a good 24 hours)

-Cindy

Working Working Working! [November 25,2010]

November 25,2010. Nothing important happen in class today. Just another work period. Homework is daily blog and continue working on all assignments. There'll be another test next week in turing. :D

-Cindy

Mid terms! [November 24,2010]

November 24,2010. Today, ICS was right after lunch! I was particularily excited about today, as we got as close to a report card as it gets for us peeps in high school. Yuup, that's right, mid-terms (though technically, it's the middle of the semester and not mid-term). First, Mr. Arkin taught us about using arrays, with new keywords array and of. This was cool! It was equivalent to list type things on microsoft word or HTML. Basically, it creates many different spaces in memory under the same gerneral name, but with subscripts to differienciate. So in class, we modified our Repetition 12 to include arrays.
Mr. Arkin also told us that the next two days would be work periods, to get caught up on all the work so far. For homework, we were to finish daily blog and repetition 12 modified.

-Cindy

It's working again! [November 23,2010]

November 23,2010. Today, in ICS, we continued working on our repetition assignments. Mr. Arkin also 'took-up' the printer comparison assignment, complete with our marks posted in front of Lab 218's door. So yuup, nothing new, same old same old.

-Cindy

Same old, same old. [November 22,2010]

November 22,2010. YES! I feel so relieved and free! I've just finished my english quiz and science unit test and I felt I did okay. But that's to worry about another time. Right now, I will blab about today's ICS class. We handed in our assignment 8 modified and continued working on our repetition assignments. Today's homework was to finish the assignments up to 11, which I've done. Just the blog posting to go! :D

-Cindy

Loaded with Ammo? No! Homework! [November 18,2010]

November 18,2010. Finally! It's my first ever PD day (yes, it used to be PA) in high school! No one will understand how much I've been waiting for tomorrow. It was supposed to be awesome, a late night tonight, wake up at 12:00pm, and then go shopping. Well, that was what I'd thought before ICS class today. In class, Mr. Arkin assigned us a webpage project, which brings us back to using HTML and CSS to create the perfect webpage to compare and recommend printers to a high school student (like me!). We also had to use a table, which could be found at touque.ca. So, there goes my weekend.
For the rest of class, we worked on our Repetition assignments. I modified assignment 8 so that it accepted integers and reported if it was an even number or not. For homework, we had to finish the printer comparison assignment and catch-up on repetition assignments.

-Cindy

Two-in-One Deal? No way! [November 17,2010]

November 17,2010. Just two more days until Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows comes out! Of course, it'll only be part one, but we're still making progress here. So today in class, Mr. Arkin told us to pair off and analyze & desk check our partner's Repetition assignment 6. We wrote down all the errors and the stuff our partner's did well so that when we did go to the computers, fixing the programs would be easy. Afterwards, we continued working on our Repetition assignments. I finally got assignment 9 to work! Also, tonight, I learned how to play background music in my program (and such is the power of google)!
For homework today, we were to finish Repetition assignments 7 & 8 with a modification to 7 so that it allows the user to specify the character repeated and the number of rows. Cool right? Oh and also, daily blog posting. ;D

-Cindy

Working, Working, Work period! [November 16,2010]

November 16,2010. Today, we had our first surprise homework check. Mr. Arkin had us take out and submit what we felt was our very best repetition assignment. As I thought my Repetition 2 modified was pretty okay, I submitted that one. Then, while he gave advice to each student individually on their assignments, we worked on our repetition assignments. I got as far as repetition 8, which means I've completed today's homework. And now, part two of my homework, the daily blog posting, is done too! :D

-Cindy

Adding the music! [November 15,2010]

November 15, 2010. Today, Mr. Arkin showed us many different things, among them, how to alternate row colors, to add pretty headers and to play music! We learned new keywords, such as the play and the getch keyword. The getch keyword is like get, but it only takes one character, which is stores under the variable name with a data type of string (1).
Afterwards, Mr. Arkin let us work on our repetition assignments for the rest of the period, after telling us that he expects all our programs from now on to be pretty and "sophisticated." For homework, we were to complete repetition assignments 3-5 and our daily blog.

-Cindy

What? Repeat! [November 12,2010]

November 12,2010. Today, we learned a new program control, repeat! Which means we have just started another chapter in our long novel of programming. Like I said with selection, this only gets more and more interesting. Mr. Arkin showed us three keywords and one key phrase, loop, exit, when, end loop. He taught us that the 'test' (exit when), must always be after the change in value, for the program to function correctly. Then, he showed us a few different fragments, each with the test placed differently. It goes to show, it actually does matter! :D
For homework, we were to work on repetition assignments 1 & 2, with a modification to allow the user to specify starting and ending values and the daily blog of course.

-Cindy

Review time! [November 11,2010]

November 11,2010. Today is Remembrance day. Lest we forget. TTuTT
Okay, now that that's done and I've paid my respects, onto today's ICS class! First, we went over the model-answer to the test questions with a partner and wrote the best answer down for our notes. Afterwards, we went over them as a class, with Mr. Arkin showing us his model answers. Then, the moment we've been waiting for, he gave us back our tests (so fast!)! I was disappointed with my results, but this meant that I will have to work harder, which is a good thing, because Mr. Arkin's decided to start testing us more! D:
For homework today, we were to finish the arithmetic mean program that uses the counters and accumulators we learned in class the day before yesterday. I'm done that, so I just have to post my daily blog, which I did too, as of now.

-Cindy

Test-ing! Test-ing! Programming one-two-three! [November 10,2010]

November 10,2010. Today was our first ever programming unit test! It was very professional, with the instructions written out for us on the board. We spread around the room to prevent things like cheating and then we started! The test was actually pretty easy in itself. It was the cursive writing part that bugged me. A lot. I rewrote my answers up to three times because I was afraid Mr. Arkin couldn't read it (and I'm totally not sure if he can). Afterwards, we took a head start on silent reading, leaving us half an hour of silently reading our awesome material.
  For homework, we were to write our daily blog, and complete the arithmetic-mean program fragment for tomorrow. And I'm done! Yay! :D I will now go study science. >.>

-Cindy

Questions! [November 9,2010]

November 9,2010. Today's the last day until our first ever programming test! I'm so nervous! :D
Okay, that's not entirely true. After what we did in class, I'm pretty confident that I won't do horribly bad on the test. During class today, Mr. Arkin addressed any concerns or questions we had about the things we learned about Turing so far. We discussed things like the literal and declared constant values, the difference between keywords and identifiers, and syntactical and logical errors, and procedures and functions. Afterwards, when all of our curiosity had been sated, Mr. Arkin moved on to two more definitions for our programming glossary, counter and accumulator. A counter is a variable of the integer type that counts/keeps track of the number of times something occurs. Accumulators accumulate the measurements. With this, we created a small, short and simple program that had the user input a mark and find the mean of the mark, except this was done multiple times and each time, the accumulator and counter would be different. Anyways, tomorrow is the big test! So I'm studying frantically right now. Wish me luck!

-Cindy

Present-ations! [November 8,2010]

November 8,2010. I am fully energized and ready to go! After I got my hour back from Daylight Savings Time, I felt I could do anything! Anyways, in computers, my team and I presented the code analysis that we worked so painstakingly on. It went pretty smoothly and we watched the rest of the groups present theirs, all the while taking notes on things -little details- we missed. After wards, Mr. Arkin had everyone go outside and take notes on Class B's posters, which were posted on the wall. Wow! They really wrote a lot! After that, we analyzed each other's selection 7. My partner found errors on mine but that was resolved as Mr. Arkin allowed us time to fix our programs and print out the edited versions.
For homework, we were to post our daily blog and study for our first ever programming test. I hope I do well! :D

-Cindy

Binders, check! [November 5, 2010]

November 5,2010. Today, we started our assignment, which was to analyze the code given to us by Mr. Arkin and create a poster like information sheet on a large piece of paper. We worked in the same group as yesterday. The three of us divided the work up so that we didn't have to repeat or waste our efforts. This proved extremely effective, but we wanted the poster to look good, so I took it home for the weekend. But then, I just had to leave it in my last period class. D:
I will now email Mr. Arkin and ask if I could buy some chart paper and do it on that. Bad for the environment, but good for our marks, no?

Noire means Black! [November 4,2010]

November 4,2010. Today, it's the school dance! But I have a science thing due tomorrow! Oh well.
So anyways, in class today, Mr. Arkin told us to get into groups of three and desk check the model answer of Selection 6. My groupmates, Lisa and Prashanth, and I worked really well together and desk-checked the program. We did it three times, once for each of the if statements in order to execute all parts of the code and realized that constants got a spot in the RAM too. Anyways, our class was a bit slow on the desk-checking today, so we never got to move onto the real assignment. Because of this, Mr. Arkin will now be doing a binder check tomorrow. Now I have to print out all the stuff I'm missing from my binder.
For homework, we were to do the blog posting, and to desk check three selection assignments. Easy right?

-Cindy

Take your kids to work! [November 3,2010]

November 3,2010. Take your kids to work day! YAY ! It was actually sort of boring. We listened to different agencies of the government talk about their responsibilities and what not. They also showed us a real detector dog! Which was probably the high-light of my day.
So I had a longer post, but my internet shut down on me and I lost it. So this'll be it for now. Sorry.

-Cindy

Case closed! [November 2, 2010]

November 2, 2010. Tomorrow is Take you kids to work day! So no classes at all tomorrow! YAY 8D
But the bad thing is that I have to wake up earlier than I would on a regular day. But at least it's different. Okay, so enough of me rambling. Today in class, Mr. Arkin explained the case statement to us in detail. He taught us the difference between using the case statement and the if statement and the pros & cons of each. In the end, we learned that the case statement is very useful for programs with lots of options. Yuup. Today was an important day for taking another step in the basics of Turing!

-Cindy

It's a new month after all-- ♪ [November 1,2010]

November 1,2010. It's the start of a new month! And, in case you didn't know, you need to sing the title to this song. Cool right? Anyways, moving right along, today, I read about a new type of selection, to be used when there are too many options to use if. Yep, that's right; the case & label. It's actually pretty cool, but the language used on the page was a bit complex, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow's class where Mr. Arkin will (hopefully) explain it to us in plain English.
Today, in class, Mr. Arkin handed back our quizzes to us. I did fairly well on it, but I know I could do better, that there'll always be room for improvements. For the rest of the period, we worked in groups (or rather partners) and tried to figure out a 'hybrid' solution to all of the selection assignments. I actually learned a lot from it. Near the end of class, we conveyed as a class and discussed the most awesome-est solution to the problems. Again, I ate up new knowledge hungrily. Om  nom  nom. 8D
For homework, we were to post our daily blogs and preview the selection two. I've done both already, so check and check. I will now go to sleep (sorta).

-Cindy

Work period! [October 29,2010]

October 29,2010. Two more days until halloween!So, today, Mr. Arkin wasn't here. We got the period to work on our assignments and do our HTML cleanup. Nothing too interesting. Kay, night.

-Cindy

Is thirty minutes enough? [October 28,2010]

October 28,2010. I went on a science field trip to Rouge Valley Conservation center today! Though it was a bit cold, we still hiked and learned about wetlands, we still observed the health of the streams and were educated on species at risk. It was quite an exciting day! The science classes got back at around two o clock, where we were given a small 'assignment' to do. We did that in the cafeteria. It was 2:30pm when I headed up to ICS, the last class of the day. Mr. Arkin had given the class a work period (which meant that I didn't have a lot to catch up on!) and a quiz. Which I took about 5 minutes into the class. It was actually quite easy, though I think I made a few stupid mistakes. Afterwards, I asked Lisa to give me a brief summary of today's going-ons. So thank you!
  For homework, Mr. Arkin assigned us the rest of the selection assignments, which we had to finish by Monday, as he won't be in class tomorrow. For tomorrow, we also have to do a "HTML clean-up." I'll figure out what it means tomorrow. :D
  Now, I will be going shopping, as stated in yesterday's blog!

P.S. Dang! Only now does the text box thing extend. Makes me wanna write more so that it'll actually be long for once. But I guess this'll be it.

-Cindy

The true path is a hard one! [October 27,2010]

October 27,2010. Today in ICS, Mr. Arkin showed us what boolean operators yielded, along with giving us half an hour to work on our selection assignments. I've gotten up to selection 9 now! For homework, we had to do up to selection 7. So, no homework! Tomorrow I have a science trip so I won't be there for ICS. I think I'll finish the selection assignments so that I don't fall behind. That's all for now I think. May elaborate tomorrow. Going shopping tomorrow! :D

-Cindy

Selectioon! [October 26,2010]

October 26,2010. A new chapter! A new skill! The programming gets more interesting! YAY!
Okay. Now that I got my rant-like thing out of the way, I'll write about what we really did in ICS today.
We wrapped up the input section by learning about arithmetic and relational operators. We made charts to show what each of them do. Now, we can use our programs to calculate math problems! ;D
Afterwards, Mr. Arkin introduced the boolean values to us. Boolean values had only two possible values, true or false. This was useful in the next section, selection, which we started today. Mr. Arkin showed us the if statement and what it does. Basically, selection only executes part of the program based on what the user inputted.
For homework tonight, we were to do selections 1 & 2, but I'm already on selection 6. A problem I encountered in selection 6 was that sometimes, when I ran the program, the first if statement would run and then freeze, an error message coming up that says "Syntax error, real number cannot be inputted" or the like. In the end, I don't know how I fixed it, but it works now~ YAY. 8D
 Anyways, programming is getting better and better. Oh and I heard that Class C got a pop quiz today. Lucky us! We didn't get one! Tomorrow I have to wake up early again! D:

-Cindy

It's a start of a- new week! [October 25,2010]

October 25, 2010. Today, in ICS (first period), Mr. Arkin showed us how to trace the execution of programs. We copied down it's explanation and then used three separate sheets of paper, labeled "Run Window", "Code", and "RAM", to 'desk check' our programs. Basically, we would write down the code in the code page and then "run" the program by hand, copying each statement out into the run window, exactly how it would appear if run. Mr. Arkin also told us to mark the location of the cursor using an _. This helped me greatly because it allowed me to keep up with the growing complexion of the programs I write.
  For homework tonight, we were to finish any outstanding assignments, practice desk checking our fragments and to preview the selection page. I've already started the assignments, so I will vigorously practice desk checking. ;D

-Cindy

Oh shoot! Memory loss? [October 23,2010]

October 23,2010. Yes, it's Saturday. I know. I totally forgot to post yesterday again. Whoops my bad. But well, here it is. Yesterday, in class (which was last period), Mr. Arkin showed us how to add color to the text and background of the run window. I also learned that there are 256 predefined colors and that each one is represented by a number. The one that pops out right now is black, which has the value of 7. If I were to type put black, the output would be 7. Cool right? :D
After that, Mr. Arkin held a tutorial sessions to bring people who were not quite comfortable with Turing up to date while the rest of us worked at the computers. Since I finished the Input assignments, I moved onto the selection assignments and I got to say, the stuff just gets better and better! :D
Selection, which is when the computer only processes select amounts of data, is very useful, as shown by the many assignments under selection. D:
I finished only finished the first assignment before we had to pack up though. That's fine, because I have a whole two days to finish this! (Not to mention a sonnet and a lab report)
For homework, we were to post in our blogs and make progress on the assignments.

-Cindy

Smaller numbers= Better learning? [October 21,2010]

October 21, 2010. Today, in ICS, Class A had a student body of 12 people! It came as a surprise to all of us, but Mr. Arkin said that the less people in a class, the more attention each of them got! That was sure true, cause when went to work on our input assignments, Mr. Arkin was always there to help whenever we needed help! I finished the rest of my Input Assignments, up to question 10, so the only homework I have tonight is this daily blog posting. Actually, if I wanted to be a good student, I would print everything out and have it all set for tomorrow, but my printer broke yet again, so I will just have to settle with the electronic copy at my disposal.
I read a little bit about selections and what they do, the whole if idea, too, so that totally gives me some brownie points right? ;D
But anyways, practically no homework today, going to write a ballad on my boring life and I hope to survive until tomorrow! G'night! :D

-Cindy

Marks! Oh wow! [October 20,2010]

October 20,2010. Today we got our marks for the super-powers autobiography we did in the middle of September. I was fairly pleased with my mark, though I feel that I should have paid more attention to details and grammar. Dang. Ah well, it was still a good start for the semester! I hope to redeem myself in the coming two months.
Today in class, Mr. Arkin went over what each of the comments meant and how to fix it. It was actually quite easy to follow! We also voted for our Grade nine rep. Again, I feel professional! For homework, we are to keep working on the Input Assignment and our daily blog posting of course! So that is what I'm working on right now. Duh.

-Cindy

Teamwork! [October 19,2010]

October 19, 2010. Today in computer studies, Mr. Arkin took up yesterday's homework and then we worked in groups to figure out the best way to solve Input Assignment 4. It was hard and confusing, but in the end, my groupmates and I came up with a solution that we can all agree on. Afterwards, Mr. Arkin showed us how to create sub-strings. It was actually quite cool!
For homework today, we were to finalize/revise/perfect Assignments 4 & 5. I'm fairly confident in mine, so I will just leave it be. Volleyball tryouts on Thursday! :D

-Cindy

A Hectic Day so to speak? [October 18,2010]

October 18,2010. Computer science last period! Today, I entered class stuffed full of junk food. All through-out the day, the many students campaigning for grade nine rep offered candy to win over students. I, being as indecisive as I am, had tried all of the exquisite foods. Yuup, it was delicious.  But anyways, Mr. Arkin had us take down a note. He reviewed yesterday's homework and told us to work on setting the decimal place as a variable. Once on the computer, it was pretty easy to figure out. Also, Mr. Arkin played the songs I had compiled today and the class was enjoyable.
For homework, we were to finish Input Assignments four and five. Four was really confusing, but with a bit of help from my parents, I got the program to work properly! And five was easy after the hardships and complexity of four! :D  Like I've stated before, programming just gets better and better! Now, our program fragments aren't so boring, what with variables, inputting and all! :]
Anyways, I wish good luck to all the grade 9 rep candidates!

-Cindy

Ack! I forgot to post yesterday! [October 16,2010]

October 16, 2010. Whoops. I went to watch a movie yesterday (Friday) night and when I came back, I totally forgot to post here. Well, better late than never right? Anyways, yesterday, in class, Mr. Arkin showed us the secret to creating a border. We were supposed to use the concatenation sign (+) as follows:
put "*" + repeat("_", 13) + "*"
I would never have thought of that! After that, Mr. Arkin showed us the what may be most interesting thing of programming so far! The input and variables. By setting different variables using names, the program can be run so that the user can input information. Quite cool actually...
This weekend's homework is to read the programming concept guidelines and the documentation template. I'm also going to play with the input features! :D
Sorry again for the late post!

-Cindy

Wish upon a star...[October 14,2010]

October 14,2010. Today we learned more about the turing language! Mr. Arkin showed us the delay function and taught us the importance of little details. We were given a simple task of creating a program fragment that will put an asterisk in each corner of the window. The only trouble was that sometimes, the top row kept disappearing! Eventually, I figured it out. I had to put . . at the end of the last row, so that the "put" action wouldn't move the cursor to the beginning of the next line. This way, there would actually be 10 rows of text and not 9 rows of text and 1 row of blank space.
For homework, we are to make notes on the variables and input pages of the programming sub-site on the education commons. We also had to create a program fragment to put a border of asterisks around a 10 x 15 window. I finished that in class though, but Mr. Arkin told me to simplify it. I will now ponder on this task for two hours. Besides that, we needed to post our daily blogs, which I'm currently in the process of doing.
Tomorrow's Studio 218! And I volunteered to be the DJ! Suicide right? I hope my class will like the songs... o-o
Anyways, it's finally Friday tomorrow! I can't wait to sleep in! <33

-Cindy

Outputing so many things! [October 13, 2010]

October 13,2010. We had class first thing today as it was a day 1. I went into class tired but refreshed, ready to trudge through the day. When we first entered, Mr. Arkin had us take down some more definitions, most of which helped us build our programming fundamentals. Next, he taught us how to use the field width and it's use. Today I learned that programming had so many rules! Afterwards, Mr. Arkin assigned to us our homework. which was to read the subprograms information page on the programming subsite and to complete Character Graphics Assignments 1-3 (task 1).
I'm going to start on that very soon. It's really interesting to type up a program fragment, run the program and see that it actually works! It actually makes me feel very professional. <33
  Anyways, sorry again for the short posts before. I'm sure you people are just heart-broken that you didn't get to read my wonderful posts. :]  so yuup.

-Cindy

Sick day. [October 12, 2010]

October 12,2010. Learned the mechanics of turing and how to use them to great effect. Homework is to complete the output assignment. I think it's a lot of work. Sort of sick right now, as I feel like I'm going to throw up. I might elaborate more tomorrow. Sorry about the shortness. =.=

-Cindy

PART-TAY TIME [October 8, 2010]

October 8,2010. WOW. First ever party of the year! It was amazing! We played games, talked, played more games, ate the fattening food everyone brought, and ended it the party by playing games! For a warm-up party, it sure was fun! I look forward to the new programming unit and the party that it'll (hopefully) ensue. So yes, blog more on Tuesday. I'm going hiking for the weekend! Happy Thanksgiving!

-Cindy

Another New Page? [October 7, 2010]

October 7, 2010. Working on science project. Very short post.
Today in class, we learned about the new unit, programming! Mr. Arkin introduced to us a program and a language called Turing, which was named after a famous mathematician. I look forward to this unit!

-Cindy

Zeros and Ones! Or is it twos? [October 6, 2010]

October 6, 2010. In class today, (Day one, by the way), Mr. Arkin taught us how to convert the decimal value of each character on the keyboard into a 8-bit binary code. He showed us the binary and decimal value of the capital and lowercase "A" and then taught us how to use that to find out the rest. It was actually very easy!
Mr. Arkin then handed out a worksheet that shows the basic codes for the more commonly used characters. But there was a catch, we had to fill in the blanks by ourselves! That took a good 20 minutes and when I finally thought I finished, Mr. Arkin told us that he wanted us to decipher his blog posting from yesterday. I took one look at it, and decided that I really wanted to go on strike. But, being the awesome and dedicated student that I am, I trudged on and finished deciphering it. :)
  So for homework tonight, we were supposed to finish deciphering it, and that's done. So today, it's just the daily blog posting! I feel so happy! :]

-Cindy

Finally done! [October 5,2010]

October 5, 2010. We're done! We've finally trudged through the muddy swamp of definitions and seen the green field past it! Today, we finished our Basic Computer Glossary up with the remaining four words. Afterwards, Mr. Arkin explained the Paradox of Booting to us and the solution to it. It was actually quite interesting. He also showed us how to convert from Decimal (base 10) to Binary Code (base 2) which the computers know how to read. We learned that the biggest number that could fit into the 7-bit code would be 127. It would have the binary code of 111 1111. I just hope I don't confuse this with math class. @.@
  For homework tonight, we have to write our daily blogs and finish up our personal basic computer glossary. I'm actually looking forward to this because I actually feel very satisfied and proud that I've completed yet another assignment. We also have to look for images! Easy right? I hope so. Anyways, I'm going to do my homework now.

-Cindy

More Definitions! [October 4,2010]

October 4, 2010. Helloo all. Yes, an actual intro for once. :]
I believe a good intro is needed for all the hard-work and effort this blog took! So yes, I'm very egotistical and am, in some twisted way, congratulating myself. Anyways, today, we wanted to conclude the Basic Class Glossary, but our heated discussions about mega, giga, and kilobytes took up too much time. So our new goal. Finish the Glossary tomorrow. We took down more notes of different computer-related terms. This time, Mr. Arkin used the projector instead of the board. He had a HTML page created and everything just for the different terms and it was very cool! :D
  For homework tonight, we're supposed to update, validate and upload our Glossaries, look for more images for the new words, search up what's after terabytes, and of course, the daily blog. But, surprisingly, I'm not too worried about the work load. Could it be because I'm finally used to the IB program's homework? Could it be that I'm not really Cindy? Could it be that I didn't get enough sleep and have a major headache? Yup. Probably that last one there.
  Tonight, after finishing typing out all the words, I finally got my definition terms to stop appearing as links! It was a matter of placing the end tag (</a>) right after the start tag and not after the actual term. Well, I guess you learn something new everyday huh. Anyways, gotta go work on my science homework now.

-Cindy

Elections? I feel professional! [October 1, 2010]

October 1, 2010. The first month of school is over! Wow. That felt so short. With all the new things I'm learning in computer class, I keep thinking that it's only the beginning of the year and that eventually, I'll get better. But boom! One month gone! Just nine more to go! :D
  Today in ICS, instead of Studio 218, we copied down some more definitions and terms for our Basic Computer Glossary. I had a few problems with my HTML validating so I asked Mr. Arkin. In the end, he helped me validate all my pages. After all that was done, we had our official class rep elections. It was a close race between Lisa and Naeem, both of whom would've been awesome reps. But in the end, Lisa won out. Congrats!
  For homework this weekend, we have to update our Basic Computer Glossary with the new terms we learned today and upload them on the web. We also have to find small icons (100px x 100px) for each of the definitions and keep them safe in a directory. Mr. Arkin also reminded us to copy down the links of where we got the pictures, so we can give proper credit to them later on. I wonder if I will have enough time to draw them...
  Anyways, this weekend, I'm pretty busy. I'm attending my mom's graduation from her classes and also going to the CNE with Ror and Lizzy on Sunday. I guess I'm really looking forward to this!

-Cindy

Problems Problems Problems! [September 30, 2010]

I CAN'T GET MY HTML VALIDATED. EVEN THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN VALIDATED BEFORE ARE INVALID NOW. I FEEL SO FRUSTRATED.
  I'll write more tomorrow. :D
Alright! My actual blog posting now. September 30.2010. The last day of the first month of school! When I look back at all the new experiences, I can tell that the IB program is only going to get tougher and tougher. Today, we took down some definitions. This would be the start of our new Basic Computer Glossary. Mr. Arkin made it such that even I could understand exactly what each word meant!
  For homework, we were supposed to write our daily blog, and make a validated page for our new terms. That was when I ran into some trouble. I finished making my page and tried to validate it, but it wouldn't. I then tried to validate my other pages, and for some strange reason, they didn't work either! I emailed Mr. Arkin about this, so I hope we can fix it tomorrow!

-Cindy

Extremely Short Post Ahead! [September 29, 2010]

September 29, 2010. Picture day tomorrow! For homework, we are to finish the glossary, uploaded and everything, but the filezilla password won't work. Still, I think it's safer to be done than not done, so I'm going to finish it tonight. In class, Mr. Arkin showed us the HTML: basic steps page, which is really handy for people who don't know how to code properly, namely, me. We got to work on our glossaries for the rest of the class. Again, I apologize for the short post.

-Cindy

Glossary? Or Index? [September 28, 2010]

September 28,2010. Late start day! Man, I feel refreshed! I finally caught up on all the sleep I missed. Well, sort of. Anyways, today in class, we got the whole period to continue working on our Glossary lists. I finished half of my list of 27, so I think I'm making good progress. I'm thinking of re-doing my index page, but I think I'll save that for the weekend (just wanted to write that). Besides that, classes are running great, and I realize my posts are getting shorter. Oh well. D:
  Tonight, I plan to finish the glossary list, finish my english homework and modify my science lab. This is probably the lightest load I've gotten in a long time, so I'm totally enjoying my time!

-Cindy

Monday! A New Start? [September 27, 2010]

September 27, 2010. With the Super-Power Assignment out of the way, it's time to flip open a new chapter! Today in class, Mr. Arkin showed us the different types of lists; ordered, unordered and definition. He also showed us how to write proper references. I found out that we were going to need all that he taught us as he explained the next assignment, we were supposed to make a Glossary of all the words we studied so far. Mr. Arkin told us to pair off and start working on informal definitions of all our terms. When we finished, we would look for the proper (or at least the most understandable) definition on the internet.
  It sounds easy? Well, there's a catch. We have to use at least 5 different sources and take a even number of definitions from each site. In class, I only got enough time to start on the web searching part.
  For homework, we have to write our daily blog, make a validated glossary skeleton, and download and sign up for dropbox. Which is like an electronic USB key!

-Cindy

We've come so far! [September 24, 2010]

September 24, 2010. Today, at 10:00p.m, our super-power autobiographies are due. Ah, now that I look back on the pain-staking three weeks, I can really say, with tears in my eyes, that I've come a long way. Back then, I saw the source code only as a bunch of random letters that pro people used to make websites. Now, I see those bunch of letters from a completely different point of view. I realized that even newbies like me can make a web page. Right now, at 8:07p.m, I'm putting on the final tweaks for my web page and harassing several of my classmates for a peer review. Anyways, tonight's blog entry isn't going to be a long one and I'm sorry for the really short on yesterday. I promise to write more on Monday! This weekend, I've just got a lab to design and a few worksheets to finish. Oh, not to mention a news paper article to write. Not too much right? ;D

-Cindy

Last day! [September 23, 2010]

September 23,2010. Finally. The day has arrived. It's the last day to work on the super-powers assignment. Today in class, we got the whole period to work on our pages and I got pretty far. I added internal links and margins to my paragraphs. I also tried to validate my HTML, but I couldn't as I had typed my autobiography in Microsoft word and it had invisible character entities. So now, I have to retype it (which is what I'm currently doing). Tonight, I hope to finish all major HTML and CSS codings and tomorrow I will validate it and BOOM I'm done! :D

-Cindy

Happy Moon Festival! [September 22, 2010]

September 22, 2010. Today's such a beautiful day! No doubt one of the last we'll get. Yesterday, we had our grade 9 day in the afternoon. All the grade nine's got free lunch and an afternoon of fun and games! It was both fun and tiring and I was glad there wasn't any homework yesterday. Today in class, we reviewed the hiearchical file structure and Mr. Arkin when over how to link to images and pages within (and outside) of directories. Mr. Arkin also extended the deadline for the super-powers assignment to Friday at 10:00pm. Phew! That practically made my day. :)
  In class, we continued to work on our HTML and CSS for our web pages. I finally started on the HTML for the actual super-powers page. I decided to use a different stylesheet than my index page because the stylesheet of my homepage is themed and won't fit with my super-power. Today, I have to finish my art portfolio (which also got an extension) so I may not have too much time to work on my computer science homework. Ah well, I'll work extra hard tomorrow! :D
  Overall, I think I'm doing pretty good. I'm very close to finishing and I can almost taste the victory (cheesy eh?)!

-Cindy

Knee high in homework! [September 20, 2010]

September 20, 2010. Today, Mr. Arkin set the due date for our Super-powers Assignment. And it is much much closer than I thought. Three days from today, Thursday! Okay. It is now that time when I have to assess the situation with a clear mind. Let's see... Index page. Check! Super-powers Content. Nope. Super-powers HTML and CSS? Not even close.  ...  Remember that time when I said I wasn't going to panic? Well, now's a good time to do that.
  In class today, we learned about client and servers as well as the HTTP and the FTP and how they all relate to each other. We also changed our Mirror directory name to the Development directory. For the rest of the period, we worked on our websites. I added a banner to my webpage and used it instead of header 1. I also finished typing and editing it. Tonight, I'm going to start on the HTML and tomorrow, the CSS and working to get it validated. Then all I have to do is input it and boom. All done.
  If only it were that simple... It would be... if I didn't have this huge art project due on Wednesday and the fact that I'm only half-way done that. I do hope I survive at least the first month of IB.

-Cindy

Really? It's Music? [September 18, 2010]

September 18, 2010. Finally! It's Friday again! I feel so tired of school already! So much homework, the same classes, and of course, the overwhelming confusion of making my own website. I think I need some pancakes. =/
In class, which was last period on a Friday, felt a whole lot longer than the 70min that I had expected. Mr. Arkin showed us the character entities and how to enable them in HTML. Since the tags and codes use character entities, there must be a special way to tell the difference. A character entity begins with an ampersand (&) and ends with a semi-color (;). With this, I can now use quotation marks, less than or greater than signs and proper hyphens! Ain't that great? :D
  After the little mini-lesson, Mr. Arkin told us that every Friday, lab 218 was known as Studio 218 and we play music during that time. Every week, there's a different DJ and today, it was Mr. Arkin! His music taste was unique, to be honest. (I'm not gonna lie to you, Mr. Arkin! ;D ) But it was a very enjoyable period. I made a header picture for my homepage and I think it's okay. Of course, there's always room for improvement, but I've got to be satisfied for now.  I really need to start on my super powers page.
  As it is a Friday, tomorrow is Saturday! I plan to finish up my super-power assignment and a few other projects, like my art portfolio! Now I know that's going to take me forever. D:
  So, I'll start now. See you on Monday!

-Cindy

  

Eighth Day an' Counting! [September 16, 2010]

September 16, 2010. First of all, I want to let all of you out there that I'm still keepin' track of my dates! :D  We're well into the second week of school... okay, well, the end of the second week of school, and I'm totally swamped with homework! I have english questions to answer, science lab reports to write and of course, computer sciences homework to do. Of course, I guess it's what I should've expected, going into pre-IB. 
  In class today, Mr. Arkin showed us most of the common shortcuts using a keyboard, and stressed that the mouse wasn't efficient. I think the message got through to me. I'm going to try to stop using the mouse. Anyways, we learned about the modifier keys, which was new to me. I had never bothered to learn their official names. They were just 'shift' and 'control' and common names like that. We also learned about the application menu and how to use the shortcuts in there. Afterwards, Mr. Arkin let us work on our webpages some more.
  I wanted to work on my autobiography instead, so that's what I did. By the end of today's class, I had finished the origins section of my super-powers information page. For homework, we were supposed to read the typography page, which I did. It was actually pretty useful too, giving tips and advice on what to and not to do on your webpage. We also had to write our daily blog.
  Today, I plan to start on my super-power page's html. I had thought a lot about the design of the page and had decided that it's CSS was to be different than my homepage's, simply because it's contents are so different.
  Overall, I think today was a very informative day, teaching more about using the computers in general than the actual construction of webpages, but hey! I'm not complaining. :D

-Cindy

Va-li-da-ted! My HTML and CSS are valid! [September 15, 2010]

September 15, 2010. Eight days after we started working on webpages, I've finally got a valid index page! This little "event" could almost make me forget about the whole new webpage for my autobiography. But really, that's something for me to worry about on the weekend.
  Anyways, Mr. Arkin really helped us in class today. When we entered, he had a note on the board that we copied down. It was a troubleshooting checklist, for those who had errors coming up when they validated their webpages. He also answered any questions we had accumulated over the past 2 days. After that, he had those who hadn't validated their webpages yet stay at the desks and used the partner method to help them. Luckily, I was done, if only by a day, so I spent the better half of the period editing my index page.
  I found out how the padding in CSS worked today and used that to my advantage. Now, instead of using <br>, which we weren't supposed to use, I could add extra spaces in my paragraphs. Tonight, I hope to finish my autobiography and start on the HTML tomorrow.
  For homework today, we had to do our daily blog and make "progress" on our super-power assignment. Now, my only question is why the image alignment appears different on the school computer and my computer. Well, I'm going to attempt to figure things out and finish the rest of my homework.

-Cindy

I see a Pattern! [September 14, 2010]

September 14, 2010. Finally! The day has come. I've settled into my schedule and classes at last. I can find my way to my locker fairly quickly now and I rarely get lost to the front foyer. :]
  Yes, big accomplishments for me. Today was a Day 1, the start of a new cycle in Victoria Park's timetable. This meant that I had computer sciences first. It was a late start day today, so I managed to catch a few extra hours of sleep.  I walked into class completely awake and ready to learn. A guest teacher greeted us and that was expected... to a certain extent. I had some questions about my CSS formatting that I had wanted to ask Mr. Arkin in person and I was a bit disappointed to see that he wasn't there. Still, I knew that he had something important to attend to so I worked on the actual content of my webpage.
  For my super power, I've got the purpose, use, and the origins in a nutshell. I still have to elaborate, but I think I'm getting along fine. On top of that, I had helped a few of my classmates trying to get their HTML to work. It was sorta successful... but I've got to say, I learned a few things from that too. For the last two periods, we were working to get our index pages live on the web. I had done this, but I do feel my webpage to be a bit plain. I'll have to tweek it a bit more. =/
  Overall, I think I've had a productive work period today. I learned a few new things, fixed a few old things and best of all, my head doesn't feel like it's going to explode! :D

-Cindy

First Day of the Second Week! [September 13, 2010]

  September 13, 2010. After the weekend, I felt fresh and renewed with energy to start on the first ever full week here at Victoria Park. Some thoughts about my classes so far... Well, I can tell it's going to be a long time till Christmas. Maybe I'm just not used to having the same four classes every single day. Anyways, I can pretty much find my way to each of my classes for this semester, though I'm still having some trouble finding my locker.  =/
  Today, Mr. Arkin came back from celebrating his New Years and we jumped right back into HTML and CSS. He went through using FileZilla with us, showing us the different panels and what they do. He also taught us how to use the HTML and CSS validator, which is this cool website that picks out any problems with HTML or CSS.
  Our homework today is to upload our "index.html" onto the website host, bravehost. To upload, all we had to do was connect to the server, and drag our production file from the lower left panel to the lower right panel. Easy right?
  I'm also chugging along on my Super-Powers Assignment. I've got my power decided and am currently half-way through writing the story. I've also got the design of my webpages down and ready to go, so I think I'm doing pretty well.
  I guess that pretty much sums it up. I'll be back tomorrow, so until then, don't die on me! ;D

-Cindy

It's Friday-- [September 10, 2010]

  September 10, 2010. Yay! It's Friday! The first Friday of the new school year. I could almost sense the change in mood as everyone prepared to enjoy their weekend. It was a day 3 so I had computers before lunch. I think I know when I'm at my worst now... right before lunch. I swear I could hear my stomach protesting as I tried to understand CSS.
  Today, I was working on getting images to align properly with the text. It took me a while and I had to play around with both the HTML and the CSS codes, but finally, I got it to look somewhat presentable. I also found out, with great surprise, that the Super-Powers Assignment is due next Tuesday. Really, that's way too soon, but I will need confirmation from Mr. Arkin before I further my panic-attack.
  As for progress I made on the actual content of my webpage... well, it's at a nice juicy 0% right now. I have yet to think of an interesting super power, but I guess that's the least of my worries.
  I don't really get the Mirror and the uploading, but I'll ask Mr. Arkin on Monday. :]
  WOW. It feels really good to type out all worries, concerns and comments. Now I feel all light-headed. @.@
Well, Mr. Blog (yes, I decided that it was a boy), I guess I'll be writing on Monday. I hope you enjoy your weekend.

-Cindy

PS; That did not just happen. Was I talking to a web page? o.o

That's not good... I wonder if there are any asylums nearby... :P

Third day! [September 9, 2010]

September 9, 2010.
  Okay. The creative titles aren't coming to me. But putting that aside, I am now here to write about my third day at Vic. Park. Overall, I've got most of the classroom locations down, so I'm not worried about being late for class. Since it was a day 2 today, computer class was after lunch. I totally felt rejuvenated and ready to learn!
  Since Mr. Akrin was away today, we had a guest teacher, Ms. Ecker. She told us that today's class was dedicated to working, or rather, experimenting, with CSS and HTML codes. I played around with the codes, colors and alignments and now I have a vague on how my webpage will look.
  Not much else happened in class today, but I do need to work on the Super-Power Assignment soon.
 Gee. My posts are getting shorter and shorter. Ah, well. See you tomorrow, page.

-Cindy

Second Day? [September 8, 2010]

September 8, 2010.
Okay. First off, I want to say, I need to think of better headings. Eventually, I know I'm going to lose track of the day number. Alright. Now that I have that out of the way, time to talk about my day.
Well. Today was a day one, the same as yesterday, which means that the order of my classes are the same as yesterday's.
In computer sciences, Mr. Arkin flooded our brains with information. I took almost two pages of notes and I still have questions. We learned about HTML and CSS, the difference between the two, how they affect a webpage and we started a glossary. As for homework, we were told to play around with the coding of webpages and get it all 'out of our system.' But, I'm still trying to figure this out.
I got some homework from other classes, but all in all, it's the whole "make a webpage" thing that interests me the most.

So there. My blabbing has ended for another 24 hours.

-Cindy

First Day of High School? [September 7, 2010]

   September 7, 2010. The start of a completely new "page" of my life. High school. 
Even though school lasted for 2 hours, more or less, we still went through our entire Day 1 schedule; which pretty much sumed up the courses in the first semester. First, I went Computer Sciences. I was totally looking forward to this one, since it dealt with all things computerized and I liked all things computerized. :]  
  When I first went in, Mr. Arkin (our homeroom teacher) pointed me to a sheet with locker numbers on it. I glanced at it, and remembered my locker number, or at least what I thought was my locker number. When I got to my seat, I repeated my locker number... and then thought it didn't look right. But I swallowed my doubt for the remainder of the class.
  Mr. Arkin did a few intros and jumped right into the course material. He assigned us our homework:
Show parents/guardians the class website: touque.ca/EC/ICS2O/
Create Wikispaces account.
Preview Super Power Assignment.
Create Blogger account and blog.
  So yeah. That's why I'm here... writing. But anyways, after we asked a few questions, the bell rang and that was when my earlier doubt came to resurface. Right, so I asked Mr. Arkin for another look and he let me. Turns out my gut was right. I did get the numbers backwards. Whoops. Well, now that I knew where my locker was, I went to my next class.
  Victoria Park CI is a huge school. It took me a while to get to my next class, but, the teachers were nice about it on the first day, so no big deal. Let's just hope I can find it tomorrow. The rest of the 2 hours went by and before I knew it, I was back on the bus. :D


Gosh. I feel like I'm writing a diary journal...
Anyways. I guess that's about it. Uneventful first day huh? Well, maybe on the second day, it'll be better. So, see you till then.

-Cindy