Hello fellow readers, hmschloe is back and ready for summer! First off, I will reflect on my seventh-grade year at Hongwanji Mission School. This year I made some friends and maybe even some frenemies! I learned mountains of information from my teachers and pushed myself to improve my level of school work. Even with all… Continue reading Reflections of 2018 – 2019
What are you planning to do this summer? Are you going on vacation, taking summer school classes, camps, camping or maybe just staying home alone, eating snacks and watching TV? Well, if you think you might resort to the last option… I have some fun alternative ideas, activities, and things to do for your summer… Continue reading Summer Fun!
Spring is here! In Hawai’i, May Day is Lei Day! This is a celebration of spring, flowers, and Hawaiian culture. School children often have musical performances with a May Day court and lots of flowers and greenery. In this post, I will explain how to make two different types of lei. You can make your… Continue reading DIY Lei Making
This weekend I had a craving for pancakes. We were out to brunch and I couldn’t decide between pancakes or waffles. This is always the case, do you go with a light and fluffy waffle, piled high with strawberries and whipped cream? Or do you go for a big, round stack of pancakes dripping with… Continue reading Pancakes vs. Waffles
Looking for a great book to read before your SSATs and SOLs! Read I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives! Suzy Hazelwood via Compfight I Will Always Write Back, is an intriguing and heartwarming biography about an American girl named Caitlin from Pennsylvania. Caitlin by chance, through a school project, becomes… Continue reading I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives – Book Review
Today, I would like to share a few poems that I have written this school year. From poems I have created for school assignments to community contest themed poems and just a simple poem I have come up with on my own.. If Only… If only I had an affectionate and loving friend, for I… Continue reading Spring Poems of 2019
Who’s ready for Spring break? I sure… was. If you didn’t already know, my spring break has come and gone, but I have been so busy I haven’t been able to write about it until now. Spring break kicked off on Friday, March 15th and I had one week off from school. This blog is going… Continue reading Who is Ready for Spring Break?
I left off the last post with the hope that we would find my exchange student Chikage’s, missing camera…but first, the next morning we woke up to bacon, orange juice and pancakes for breakfast. It was a very delicious and traditional American breakfast and Chikage loved it too. When she ate with fork and knife… Continue reading Japanese Exchange Student!! Part 2
March started off with a visit from our sister school penpals all the way from Japan. They came as homestays and to visit our school and historical sites on Oahu! My penpal Chikage, who I have been writing to all year, had the experience of living with me and my family for a couple of… Continue reading Japanese Exchange Student!! Part 1
Yard Sale Sign from Google One thing I hate the most about cleaning my room is having to sort through all my stuff and get rid of treasured items! It may be known in my family, that I possess a few “collections” of random objects. Last Sunday, my mom convinced me that selling my stuff could… Continue reading Yard Sale!!