Just a Note

In the end, our team won 1st place in robot design. I will be posting a link to a google album soon.

5-10-010 AMERICA!!!!!!

FINALLY IN AMERICA!!!!! I JUST FINISHED DOING MY MATH HOMEWORK!!! I CAN'T WAIT TILL I GO TO SCHOOL TOMORROW! I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5-10-010

To follow up from yesterday, we went to a famous night-market called Shi-lin. It's famous for fried chicken! I tried one, and it is very different from American fried chicken. The fried chicken here is more of a sweet and spicy flavor. I tried this corn on the cob that had some kind of mystery sauce. Now, the corn looks like red corn on the cob! So today, our team is going to ride a cable car to this huge mountain. Then, we have some open time so I will do my *homework*. We will eat dinner at the 101 mall and go to the airport. I can't believe I'm finally going back to America after a long week of competition and fun activities!

5-9-010

I didn't tell you what happened yesterday. It will be a surprise when I come back. Anyways, I'm back to the hotel that has the awesome shower doors in Taipei. So, the tournament is over. The whole team is going to a famous night market called Shi-lin. I will tell you what happened.

5-7-010

Exciting day today. We woke up at 5 today and went to breakfast. After breakfast, we took a shuttle to the Kaohsiung Arena and got ready. Then, we had our research project presentation. We did the best with the judges we had. They barely spoke in English. After that, we had our robot design presentation, which we did AWESOME on! Our coach was like "In robotic language, you guys hit a home run!" He said that same thing to the teamwork presentation. After, we had this thing called friendship night. Everybody gathers up together and eat dinner. We sat with the other USA teams. This girl from Massachusetts and Sarah made up challenges for me to do. One of my favorites was to eat pasta with your eyes closed. Tomorrow's the last day of the tournament, so I will give you the results tomorrow. I promise that Japan won't beat us!

5-6-010 2/2

I had a very fun day today! We took a shuttle to a elementary school, that meant "glory" elementary school. We took a school tour and we had recess with them. It was incredible! In fact, there were 2nd graders further than half of Mirman's field. Then, we played basket ball with 6th graders, who sprained Luke's thumb just by lightly slapping him... Then, we walked from the school to the Love River. I forgot to ask the elementary school teacher why they named the river Love River, but it's KIND of self explanatory. What impressed me was that 5th and 6th graders at this elementary school take kayak and sail boat classes every evening. So, they let us kayak and sail the boat. I first went on the kayak, and it was very fun. Although it was my first time, I didn't drown! For those 30 minutes, there was a kayak race, and I won 4th. Luke won 2nd, by ramming into a kid into the harbor-looking thing. Then, we switched from kayaking to sail boating, or vise versa. For those 30 minutes, there was a water splashing fight, which I really didn't enjoy. I mean, I was ambushed over 9000 times AND there was a boy who just jumped into this full-of-bacteria river, and climbed into our boat, and started splashing water at me. In the end, I took a nice, warm shower. After, our team went to the Kaohsiung Arena to set our booth up. We saw a lot of world-wide teams. We started practicing our robot runs, and they were not great, but not bad. Then, our coach had to go to a coach meeting, so we were free for 50 minutes. I went to all of the Japanese teams, *dario* but there were NO laser beams that can kill us. However, there was 1 team that might have a chance to beat us by maybe 10 points. When I started talking to them in Japanese, they were surprised how well I was able to speak. After all that fun, our team came back to our hotel, and ate dinner. Then, we practiced our robot design presentation, and our research project. I am now going to sleep. I will tell you the outcome of the competition.

5-6-010 1/2

Today's the first day of the tournament. We will eat breakfast and take a bus to a school visit. Then, we will take another bus to the Love River. I'm guessing it's for couples and you take a boat and go around it. Anyways, then we will take ANOTHER bus to the Kaousiung Arena. We will set up our booth and practice EVERYTHING. Our robot game, design presentation, and our research presentation. I will let you know how that will go through.