Some people believe that schools should stop selling soft drinks or high sugar drinks to students, meanwhile, others says it is the students' own choices to choose what they want to drink. Many people have different thoughts. But to me m, I think it is fine for schools to offer soft drinks but students should manage what they eat and drink to keep their body healthy.
    First of all, let'a think. It would be impossible for schools to stop offering soft drinks to students because school can make a lot of profit by it. The students' need and desire to drink soft drinks is also very significant that if school stops offering soft drinks, some students would be really mad in disagreement that they may do things even more harmful. Overall, I agree students should drink soft drinks less frequently for their health issues but schools can't just take away soft drinks because it is a necessary part for their daily lives to many people.

My 16th birthday

    A few days ago I just had my sixteenth birthday, it was pretty fun and I enjoy it because I got to spend time with my family. I went to Justin's house to celebrate my birthday and it was also Chinese New Year so it was a very important and exciting time to all of us. We had a big feast together because on Chinese New Year family members gather together and celebrate with many dishes of delicious food. The atmosphere was just as good as the food was. After the meal, we celebrated my birthday and we used four languages to sang the birthday song since Justin is taking French this year and Justin's dad is eloquent at Spanish. After celebrating my birthday, we started watching TV and the"Chun Wan" which is a special television show that is only broadcast once a year only on Chinese New Year. It was a turely grateful birthday for me and I know that I need to take care of more responsibilities as I grow up.

Christmas Break

    This Christmas, I went back to my hometown in China. Although the price of tickets was pretty expensive, I still wanted to go back because last Christmas I didn't and spending time in America for one year is way too long and boring. Plus, all the work that we have to make up in school was very painful, and I don't want this to happen again. So this Christmas I decided to go back and see my family and friends.

    The first thing I did after I arrived was eat hot pot with my parents and my grandparents. I hadn't seen them for a long time and I hugged them deeply with happiness. They were also very happy to see me, and they said I was a little bit taller than when they last saw me. They had a great meal and the hot pot was very delicious since I hadn't tasted it for a long time.

    Later, I met my friends in China. We used to play soccer everyday after school together, and it's always been a pleasure to hang out with them. Although now we cannot play soccer everyday like we used to do, they still meet during weekends, and I can join them when I go back on holidays.
    Unfortunately, the food in China was too good, and I ate too much of it which caused me stomach problems. I got sick because of it and even threw up on the first day of 2018. But since my body is strong enough, and I exercise a lot. After going to the hospital and taking some medicine, I recovered well, almost in one day, and was able to fly back to America.
     Now, I am back, and I need to focus on my studies. I hope I do better than the first semester and improve myself.

    After the accident of Egor, a lot of things happened too. People started to get sick, some students got the disease "Mono", they couldn't go to class and was separated with other people in case the disease spreads. It is very bad to miss classes because once you miss a class it is very hard to catch up  to others. I missed couple classes a few weeks before because my alarm didn't work and I was unable to wake up. Then I couldn't get what happened in classes and struggled very hard. I can feel the stress  of sophomore year already, many people said that they also couldn't finish their work and couldn't sleep till midnight. I can't imagine what junior and senior year will be like. My grades failed on this first quarter, I will have to work hard the second quarter because it is very important, I hope it will get better in the future.

    Now we are almost over with the first quarter of school. Many things happened in these two months, the thing and surprised me the most is that two of our ELL students got kicked out. It really shocked me that our friends just gone and will never come back again.

    I still remember the first day of school when I came to Bell Buckle two years ago, it was the orientation day. Everybody was very shy and we just followed a returning students leading us playing games. I saw a young, blond hair boy that I essentially thought is an American. He didn't talk that much and I heard his English was not very fluent. The next few days of school I found out that he is a new international student who comes from Russia. His name is Egor, at first he was very naive and small for the first semester. Then the next two years he became more popular, bigger and stronger. Lots of people liked him, but just on the first day of this week, I didn't see him in Algebra class and I thought he might slept over or had other stuff to do. But then I didn't see him for the next few classes, I felt weird and I heard about him in a conversation during lunch that he was found doing drugs and alcohols. I was shocked and I didn't believe it is true. But later then I went to his room and found him crying so hard. He got kicked out of the school because of this and it's too late for him to regret. I felt bad for him because we were good friends the first year although he had later some special racism to asians later. I will miss him so much if he leaves. He is very funny and without him our classes would not be that fun anymore.

    So all I want to say is that I wish him will get better in the future and we all need to work hard to become a better person.

    Hello everyone, I didn't get a topic from my teacher this week so I am just going to write something happened recently. School is still continuing, I felt much more stressful than last year. The amount and difficulty of homework have also increased a lot. I also slept over last week for two days because I was too tired and the alarm didn't work. I felt tired because I exercised too much. I am runnning cross country this year. I run three miles and play soccer for an hour everyday which makes me very tired. Then I had to do homework which is also very hard.
    My goals for this year are to get good grades and get taller and stronger. But the biggest goal is still to follow my old spirit, be happy and enjoy life. So I might not be able to finish my homework because I need to stay organized of my daily schedule. I know it is going to a big challenge for me this year, so I will try my best on everything, both in academic and athletic. Keep working!

The First Week of School

    Hello, my name is Jake. I have just begun my third year of school in America. To me, school in America is much different than school in China. You might be interested what school is like in America, so let me tell you how my first week of school was like.

    Two years ago, I could hardly read, write, listen or speak English. Now it is much better but I still have a lot to do. Speaking is my weakest part because I didn't talk too much last year. The first week of school was just as usual as before,  some new students came, also many returning students backed to school. All things were just as same as before. One big change for me is that I decided to become a boarder this year. There were many factors for this decision and I have considered it for a long time. First is I think to ride back and forth from Murfreesboro to Bell Buckle is too busy and tired. Last year I became so tired of school because of this. Second is I have to prepare for college. If I can live on campus it will be much easier to finish homework and attend more social activities. I know it is very expensive to live on campus so next year my family will probably go back to China and it will also reduce their stress as well. 

    On the first day of school we just took a short view of the syllabus and rules of each class. Then the rest of the week we started learning the easy parts of each class. I have some old friends in school and I also made some new friends. But I don't really have a best friend that I can talk to everyday. I guess I will just see how everything goes on and continue working.