Junior Year

I am going to begin my 2nd year of high school in America. (I transferred for Sophomore year) and I don't know what to expect. A lot of people say junior year is the hardest year.

Anyway here are a list of things that I want to do during my junior year.

Get all As (whopee).
Get a job type of thing.
Get my driver's license.
Drive.
Do lots of good productive stuff for the community.
Do Water Polo.
Do varsity swimming.

wOW FUCK I NEED TO FINISH MY AP BIO HOMEWORK

nickolas

Nicholas 姚樂生 says:

write about ,e

Nicholas 姚樂生 says:

*me

ok.

I will write up the whole story of how we became friends and some of our beautiful memories together. The beginning is kind of off topic but I thought it would be fun to write about some of the stuff since it is good.

One day when I was 5 or 6 years old Star Wars Episode I came out. Back then my favorite color was red and I always got the red stuff because it was cool. But one day my friend called Philip told me that the red lightsaber was for the bad guy and I felt really sad but I still liked the color red. I watched the movie and I was like ugh so lame and I almost fell asleep. Basically all I remember is Qui gon Jinn and Obiwan Kenobi were fighting Darth Maul and there was this little Jar Jar Binks guy and like there was this Podracing scene where Anakin Skywalker wins the race. Anyway Darth Maul dies and his lightsaber is so much better than the others ones because a) it was red B) it was 2 lightsabers combined into 1 lightsaber.

Anyway I think Qui Gon Jin dies and then Obiwan is like no crap noo!!! and then later he finds himself hanging on the edge and he's all like nooo I am fucked! And all of a sudden he gets a burst of energy and like jumps up and grabs the green lightsaber and sticks it in Darth Maul's gut and then Darth Maul falls to his death.

Anyway that was really stupid but that's my memory of Star Wars. So anyway there's all this Star Wars hype and the my mom buys me some Star Wars Darth Maul boardies and it's basically like 1 leg is black and 1 leg is red and on one of them Darth Maul's face is it on looking all scary.

Then I take swimming classes with the infamous Yang and I took it and like a lot of people I took it with left because he was such a meanie. The little kids always swam on the 1 meter side and one day we had to swim across the pool across the evil 1.6 meters side (OMG) and go to the other side. I was so brave and I swam across and other people ran off like little chickens.

So after a while Yang stopped teaching lessons where I first learned them (Villa Athena) and he went to coach at Symphony Bay (sounds so much nicer). Initially I still lived in Villa Athena and I had to take a bus to go to Symphony Bay like every other day to go swim. One time on the minibus TV there were these Japanese people playing strip stone paper scissors/roshambo (true story) and I got so excited watching it but the guys side kept losing (damn it).

Anyway so I've been learning swimming with this Yang coach guy for a while and then one day this little tanned guy comes in and he's pretty fast. I was like oh who does this guy think he is he thinks he's soooooo cool. I kinda remember that image very clearly because he was swimming ont he other side of the pool.

Anyway one day I saw that little tanned boy at school (SJS) and he was like in the middle of the playground looking up at the building and he was smiling and I thought to myself 'oh it's the little tanned boy' and I ignored him.

So one thing led to another (actually I have no idea) and after a while we would talk to each other after swimming everyday. If you haven't figured out who the little tanned boy was it is NICHOLAS YIU. hi.

We used to be like friendly rivals and whenever we had to do time trials the coach would always make us race each other. Whenever it was the time trial we got to rest for like the whole lesson so me and nick will sit in our spot (closest big pool loungey chair along the long side of the pool) and we will meditate and focus our energy into our swim. It was kind of ridiculous but they were good times. I used to be better than Nick. I swam like 40 seconds for 50 freestyle and he was like 42 ahahaha what a loser.

One day nick bought a new swimsuit that was navy in the front which is very normal but the back was a bright shade of blue and it was stripey. One day when we were swimming Nick was about to overtake me and I was looking at nick and when nick turned to breath I saw his bright blue butt and I started laughing really hard because I found it very amusing that his lower body kept changing colors.

After a while we started to slack off a bit and Bernice started being a little b and started to swim faster. Now in this club there was like 1 other person that was me and nick's age and was good at swimming and his name is Wong Tak Sing (Dickson I think) and one day while we were swimming the coach yelled at us 3 and said oh if you let Bernice overtake any of you you guys have to stay and swim 5000 freestyle after class.

At this point all 3 of us were like HOLY SHIT. So in the beginning we just swam one after the other but after a while it seemed kind of sad so we decided that we should leave a brother behind and we did the smartest thing ever in the history of lap swimming which was to build a human wall (we didnt' even talk this over it just kinda happened and we were like hey holy shit it works). But for lap swimming building a human wall 3 people across was a really stupid thing to do because it just kinda obstructed the whole lane and people kept bumping into us when they were coming back but we were like fuck it we need to take one for the team.

Anyway so for that whole set 3 guys swam in a line together as Bernice kept jabbing our feet with her hands (to this day Bernice claims that I kept kicking her hands but this was not true... a) I remember Bernice kept jabbing her hands into our feet very clearly because she was being hostile and wanted us to suffer and swim 5000 freestyle and also b) i hardly kick my feet when i swim).

Oh and one day Nick was being very lazy and then the coach made him lead the young guys which turned out to benefit him because he was relied on to finish first while i trailed behind the fast guys where I would always get lapped. One day Nick just started getting a lot faster than me then after a while I quit because I was being a lazy fatso.

But perhaps the best parts of me knowing nick weren't during swimming but more after swimming. After a while we got to know the people that we swam with better and some of the people we got along with the most were John, Tim, and Paul Li. (Tim and Paul were twins and they were collectively known as Timpaul).

John was 2 years older than us and he would always tell us these cool stories and we always thought he was so cool and he would talk about how much of a pimp he was (later on I found out that he wasn't as cool as he claimed to be).

I think me and Nick started getting closer during P5 and we would talk about our daily struggles as year 10 kids. so cute. And a lot of other stupid stuff happened but I'll write about it in part 2.