Greatness Lies Ahead.......
I'm honestly glad I'm a very determined person. I've honestly have been ''trash talked'' by a few people this week(which apparently were jokes), but I ended up proving them wrong. By being prudent in what I do, I managed to get two 100s in two quizzes, which I'm very happy of. I think I'm also getting better at accepting who I am as a person, and participating more in certain areas where I think I can improve on. So, the virtues that I practiced this week were pretty much all tied to school as you can probably already tell. In Science Olympiad this week, I guess in a way I practiced honesty by telling a teacher that my parents couldn't come to a trip out of a state for competing(even though it's supposedly cancelled now). Prudence got me far because I've been being careful as to how I think or approach certain topics or people. Maybe I kind of had a rocky start to the year, but now everything is returning back to what it was, and hopefully it stays that way. Tomorrow I have a test, so I better be prudent so that I don't make silly mistakes. Acceptance this week was basically already stated. I accepted myself for who I am as a person, and have learned how to hopefully drown out hateful words. So, overall, pretty good week, and I hope things stay that way. I realize that things won't always go your way or be like they always used to be, but with enough determination and confidence, you'll slowly start to realize that things can actually return back to normal, and that you need to embrace the hate(sorry if that sounded extremely cheesy). I'm looking forward to the next week, and I will talk to you all in the next blog. Goodbye.

An Eventful Thanksgiving.....
This week has been great. I got to spend time with family, friends, and my virtues were at their peak. I guess you could say it was  a ''golden age''(sorry for the disastrous pun). Anyways, this Wednesday we had the fall luncheon, and we got to do a plentiful of activities. It was a lot of fun, and in every single activity I practiced prudence a lot in order to not make my team lose(although the first activity was absolutely terrible, as I found it impossible to move the ball backwards using my own feet). The activity in which I practiced prudence the most was the hula-hoop activity, because I had to think: Head first, then feet. It worked, and thank god it did. In the luncheon I practiced honesty by saying what I planned to do over the weekend and on my birthday, and I will stay true to my word. As for acceptance, I accepted that thanksgiving should not only be a holiday in which you are thankful for all the things that you have, but rather that you are blessed with a fruitful life, although it is very stressful as well because of school. But that's besides the point. Tomorrow is Black Friday, and honestly I think I should take the time to do all my schoolwork so that I would have the weekend in peace and celebrate my birthday. Then next week we will be back to the usual routine, which includes a bunch more work. I want to enjoy the rest of this break to the fullest extent to have enough energy for Monday, and speaking of energy, I think I may have overstuffed myself at dinner, haha. Anyways, I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving, and take the time to appreciate everything you have. I will admit that life absolutely sucks at certain points, but at least this isn't always the case. Have a good one all.

The Storm has Faded......
Glad that I reasonably predicted that things were going to return as they were, because they did. We are now around one week away from the Fall Luncheon, and I'm looking forward to that. Anyways, this week I practiced my virtues strongly. This week I went to my ''cousin's'' house(not really but I've known her since I was like three, so we basically just call each other that), and she asked me how school was going, and I remarked that it was going just fine, although there were some bumps on the road along the way. Although I did leave out that high school honestly does rack your brain, a lot. So, honesty was pretty good this week. Prudence wasn't something I actually practiced a lot this week, but I promised myself that from now on I will make it a JOB to make sure I am more careful around certain things. Sometimes I underestimate how important prudence is, to be completely honest with you. As I walked outside, I had my phone held out, and I tripped over the gravel and dropped my phone. It didn't break or anything, but it could've if I didn't have an ''Otter Box'' cover for it. So, moral of the story: no prudence=big trouble. Anyways, I practiced acceptance in a very interesting way today. I accepted that humility is something the world needs more of, because honestly, when many people get the things that they want, or are successful, it's super difficult to not be boastful or egotistical(to an extent), and I understand why you would boast. It's part of human nature. I've done it a few times as well, but for the most part, I think that we should remain humble. That will help us a lot in our future jobs, disregarding whatever colleges we go to to study a certain career. Anyways, I am excited to spend time with family on Thanksgiving break, and to celebrate my birthday two days later on Saturday. G-bye y'all.(P.S. The twelfth blog already?! Wow, time sure flies by fast...)

One Hell of a Storm......
This week made absolutely no sense. Honestly, it was all over the place with the amount of quizzes that we had, and one that I was not expecting to have all. So yeah, I mean honestly I've been kind of bummed out with all the stuff that's been going on, but I guess stuff will get better at some point... eventually. I guess blocking some people out of the picture would be best for now. Anyways, my honesty this week was abysmal. I mean, I told someone that I was not going to go to a club because I didn't have time, but I honestly wasn't in the mood to go to it. After all, I do have other things to be worried about. And prudence wasn't that good either. I honestly need to be more careful/weary of the fact that I shouldn't overanalyze, because I do that a lot. I'm very analytical when it comes to certain things, and then I end up overanalyzing the easiest things in which I then end up getting wrong. God I hate that so much, and then acceptance this week was pretty much lackluster. This week was overwhelming, stressful, and super disheartening to be completely honest with you. I hope that next week things will be presented to me in a whole other light. Eventually there will be a Fall Luncheon on the 22nd, so maybe I'll be able to practice more of my virtues, and relax for once. During the summer I sort of mapped out how high school was going to go, and it was a whole other beast on its own. What I mean to say is that it is a whole lot tougher than it looks. Everything is never as it seems to be in the world, and as much as  a lot of people and I hate that, I guess that's part of what we consider normal. Tomorrow I got to work on the homework due Monday, so I will see y'all later, g-bye.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Finally, a normal week. I haven't had those in a while. Anyways, this might be the last time I have a normal week at AUC, because I'm starting off next Monday with five quizzes(not one, but FIVE quizzes). Hopefully with enough studying they will all be easy and I can perform well on every single one of them. Additionally, I would like to point out that there is quite a lot of homework that I have to do over the course of this weekend, so... not so great. I honestly wished we had taken the Physics quiz today, because it probably could've gone well, and that meant that we would have one less quiz. Oh well, it is what is. Anyways, I have been very prudent this week, and it has yielded good results. The more careful I am when reviewing certain material, the better I perform on tests and quizzes, so that's pretty good. The other day someone tried to ''roast me''(not anyone in school by the way, some of my older friends), and I remarked that they were acting pathetic. Yeah, I may have been a bit to harsh in terms of honesty, but that's besides the point. At least I got to practice all of them to an extent. This week I also accepted that the education system does need a lot of improving. In the words of Sal Khan(founder of Khan Academy), ''Teach for mastery, not scores.'' I've learned quite a lot of things from him that I didn't know before(such as that d/dx(tan x)=sec^2(x)). So...yeah. Good week overall. I do have an overwhelming amount of stuff I should be doing, so I think I'll just call it a day and conclude the blog here. Until next time kiddos, goodbye.