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4 of June- Well today is monday and we start our exams in about 1 week and a half maybe... Basically what i'am going to be doing is studying for these exams, my dad already told me tat it would be best not to go anywhere if possible and stay home and revise fro these exams if i want to get good grades. I've decided pretty fast on the answer to his suggestions pretty fast and agreed. I came to a conclusion on a basic studying schedule which goes as follows: Get home and do the pending homework, then after finishing all the work due do a random number which i would have to choose and then using that number would determine the number of topics i would do for each subject each and every day in order to when the time comes i have already revised and looked over all and if not most of the chapters in the test.

28 of May- I want to start by saying that there is only about three more weeks of school left until summer, that means there is only about three more Journals to write for Mr. Bennet's class, now about my week-end, saturday morning i went to play some polo matches agains other teams and we didn't do so well. My opinion is that everyone in my team was not at their best performance and neither was i, i kept on missing too many shots and missed too many goals. The team that one had the most experienced players of our age group and they played really well actually, we knew from the start that they were going to win... but we didn't just serve it to them in a plate, my team and i made it difficult for them to score and made it hard for them to play the ball. Our reason for loosing was because we gave to many shots away and that later payed off. Then Sunday morning we left to go to Maiden Key, we spent most of the day there and came back in like 6 hours time. While at the beach i decided to take a nap out on the deck for like ten minutes maximum, it turns out that when i finally woke up i have been sleeping the bare sun for 2 hours. When it was too late to put on sun block on i decided to put some on me to prevent the sun burn to get worse. My back is currently bright red and my face was a little more red than it is today. The pain i had to go to finally go to sleep yesterday night was not even funny, i move in my bed a lot. I came to a conclusion of this when i see how i start sleeping and then wake up in a totally diffrent position.

19 of May- Friday morning we rose from our beds at 6:00 am to find out that we are going to go to Ochi to reck dive with Dave. At the beginning i didn't see the point of going just to dive... But at the end it was totally worth it, i was more than exhausted on the way back that i fell asleep in the car. Luckily i had brought y laptop with me so that killed some of the time. I mostly listened to music and tried to watch a movie on my laptop but the car and the outside was too much for my laptop to bare, in short i couldn't hear anything they were saying so i just closed and listened to music while looking outside the window. Anyways now about the dive, we wen to some ship which had been sank for diving experience, this time there was no boat so we had to swim to our destination there and back, unfortunately had very still fins which didn't allow me to move comfortably. I struggled to swim on the surface of the sea but then we went deep down it just got easier to master, but then again coming back was the same pain. After the dive we went to the Buccaneer's which is found not very far from the diving spot. They basically make Jerk Chicken and Pork, the also selled soup which i particularly didn't fancy for. We went with a group of people which were i the middle of finishing their advanced diving course.

13 of May- Today is been a relaxed kind of day, i stayed home and saw a couple of movies and used my laptop, early in the morning i decided that i was going to write the journals i'am missing but the problem is the topic to write about. I was messing arouund with my computer this morning and found out that you can change Facebook, Tumblr and youtube themes to whatever you want, im not going to explain how to do it but because it's a very long process indeed. I'am also happy because tomorrow i'am supposed to get my laptop back and give this loaner back, i really don't have a problem with the laptop itself... it's just that this laptop is so slow and doesn't have the abillity to play music because someone broke the ear plug connection, not saying any names Reuben. With my old laptop i used to listen to music very often but now i can't so it has been a huge change ever since my laptop was taken to the IT lab and got this loaner instead. I've gotten so upset with the machine sometimes because it just laggs every now and then and the fact of the missing sound, i've would've smashed this thing to pieces but i can't because before getting it you have to sign an agreement for any damage cause to the laptop and if you damage it they make you pay a fine for the laptop which is more than an original Macbook Pro would cost..

31 of May- Thursdays are the worst day of the week according to the schedule, we have a lot of double periods which are not necessarily fun classes, sometimes they are fun and sometimes they are so boring you can almost fall asleep... but the worst part of all is that we only have one period of English class and the rest are all doubles. i really don't understand why the school does this, i've asked a lot of people from different grades in the school and they all agreed in which thursday is the worst day. The school year classes are sorted out in a specific way. For example Mondays are medium according to work, Tuesdays are hard, Wednesdays are relaxed, Thursdays are the hardest and the Fridays are the second best, it is also right ext to the week end which makes it even better.

24 of April- The Basketball team here at AISK was invited to join a Tournament which took place in the Cayman Islands this week-end. 11 students got to go to the tournament. We left Thursday in the Morning and arrived Sunday night. The flight took 1 hour each time. We weren't the only schools that were invited to this Tournament. About 5 more schools got invited to play for the cup. We played pretty good and ended up with Second place. I stayed at a Resort opposite 7 mile beach because our hosts managed the Resort so they thought it would be a good idea if we stayed at the hotel instead of staying at their house. The school the at Cayman was much bigger than ours in fact they had tons of sports facilities like football, swimming pool, beautiful basket ball courts with wooden floor and glass backboards. The food there was pretty decent and the best part is that we didn't have to pay for it. You have to go to the main office which is pretty far form the gym which is were the canting is located, well as i was saying when you get to the main office you give them money and they exchange it for tickets, (like they do in the bake sales here at AISK).

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2 of April- A horrible thing just happened to me a couple of days ago and that is that my laptop’s hardrive crashed, that means that probably all the work that was saved on my computer is gone. That is including all my music, movies and any videos. The IT lad told me that it had nothing to do with my laptop siftware itself… what happened is that the cable that connects the hardrive to the modem was damaged and decided to stop working. What this doesn’t allow you to do is just simply load the sign in screen. This is something bad to happen to your laptop, I recommend to back up all your information into a hardrive in school or even better at home. This way waterver happens to your computer you will always have something to refer to, to get your work back safely.

26 of March- Well i was thinking that instead of writing a journal i am going to write something different. I really had nothing to write about until i searched "things to write about" in google. This gave the idea to write about things i would imagine in the future, like 5-10 years from now. So i made a lot of thinking and came to a conclusion that the thing i would probably want to see in 5 to 10 years from now would be flying cars. Flying cars have always been in my head and everytime i think of the future i pretty much see flying cars and people wearing this robotic costumes as clothes. I think they have already invented flying cars... But thats not what i mean when i say flying cars, what they have now are just cars which hover on top of the earths surface about 2 or 3 inches. When i say flying cars i mean a car which can go on the road and by the touch of a button wings would come out of the sides and a huge engine would rise, just like a small jet. This car would not hover on top of the earths surface, this one is going to be able to fly around freely in any wished direction.

19 of March- So im pretty proud of myself because as you all know i 've been a little behind in the Journals assignments but not now... This is currently the last journal im going to be writing till next week, not like before when i had to write journals every day to make up for the ones i didn't write. Well now that im up to speed with my work i will start writing the Journal for this week-end. I went White house next to Negril. I stayed in a sort of complex which was divided into different type of houses, some of them very fancy by the way. For example the one the adults stayed in was designed by an artist. We had a house too but it wasn't as fancy but it's still something. We did a lot of exercise believe or not, the houses we were staying at were not very far away from each other but they weren't very close from each other either. We did a lot of Kayaking too, which will later relate to the cut i have on my shin.

10 of March- I am proud to say that this is the last journal for me to get back to speed with the class and i can't wait till Tuesday to have the Jovial and interesting English class. Well to day im going to do it differently, instead of me writing about my day im going to talk about our school schedule... Well it turns out that that the school or whoever makes up the schedule has done it on purpose. On Mondays it's a calm and annoying day because of math and because it's monday.

3 of March- My Go-kart broke down again and i was getting pretty sick and tired of not being able to fix it or even drive it... i begged my dad to take it to the mechanics for it to get checked and if possibly fixed. My dad likes to do the stuff by him-self and barely wastes money on stuff he thinks his capable of doing. But sometimes he has to learn that people are there for a reason and that they work doing a precise job for a reason, and that is because they are good at it, well good enough to get paid for it. For example every time my dad wants me to have a haircut i strictly prohibit him from cutting my hair... Sometimes he does a good job on it but sometimes he cuts it too short and makes me look stupid or dumb. I got my dad to let me go to the barber's to get the job done and i have proudly succeeded with his answer. I understand that he doesn't like to pay for things like that. Well as i was saying, my dad tried fixing the Go-Kart once and did a pretty good job, it lasted till 3 months ago, that's how long i 've been with the Go-kart just sitting there next to the garage nicely parked rusting away. It looks like one of the tyres from the back wheels is loose and needs a particular screw to make it fit snug with the wheel so it doesn't wobble anymore when driving it... That's not the only problem the Go-kart has, previously the engine was smoking a lot more than it should and my dad once again fixed it. With all the time we have spent trying to fix the Go-kart we should at least get the brakes to work but they don't.

25 of February- I have never been in a football match before but today i got the opportunity to go to one with my mother so i went. It was better than TV because we got to sit on the the royal box to enjoy the match. I really wasn't supporting any team but if i had to choose i would obviously choose the country im currently living in now, Jamaica that is. Cuba made some nice plays during the game and Jamaica had more goal opportunities that Cuba, most of the shots made by Jamaica where far long from the goal, whoever when Cuba shot it went to goal but the goal kipper usually punch them out. I started to get hungry at one point so i told my mom that if we could go to juicy patties at half time and she agreed. So half time finally arrived so we went downstairs to order out food and waited in line for like 5 to 10 minutes. I asked for three cheese which i only ate two and my mom asked for three beef which she only ate two as well. We enjoyed the rest of the match until there were 5 minuted remaining on the clock because if we leave the place at the time that the match ends there would be a lot of traffic trying to gett out of the stadium, so we did. The score was 0-0 to both teams and we though that 5 minutes wouldn't make a difference in the score and we realized that as we were heading to the car were my dad was waiting patiently we heard cheering, it was in Patois so i guessed Jamaica scored and i was right. Jamaica 1 Cuba 0 final score. I don't know if any of you guys watch Spots Max but my mother and i appeared on the TV at different times and periods.

18 of February- It was a late Saturday night when Holes the movie came up on the TV, i decided to stay to watch it till my parents arrived home and pretend to go asleep. I was convinced that his was going to work so put my plan into action. I sat down turned the lights off and started watching, i wanted to see the movie because in my previous school in Spain we read the book as a class and i wanted to compare it to the movie but i ever had the chance to. This is not my first time trying to watch a movie and not getting the chance because of something my parents tell to do instead like go to bed or go read a book... But this time im was certain that my parents were going to be out of the house for longer and that i would finally get the chance to watch the movie without obstacles in between or any distractions which would prevent me from finishing the movie from start to finish. Well so it began, when i looked at the clock it was eight thirty, i told myself that the movie was going to last more than one hour and a half and that sooner or later my parents were going to walk through the front door and i would have to sprint to my bed and be thinking wether to wake up and watch it while my parents were asleep or to be a good boy and stay in bed... As i assumed i went to bed without finishing the movie... One of these days im going to watch it online. If i ever remember..

11 of February- Today i went Paint-balling for no specific reason on a fine Saturday morning. My father my brother and i went, my mom and sister weren't too thrilled with the idea so they stayed at home and made plans for themselves. The trip to Sun Coast is about and hour and a half from where i live so i went to sleep to recover from last night which i actually didn't get much sleep after getting home from school, i was exhausted from P.E. so what i did is used my laptop for like 30 minutes watched a movie which im not going to talk about (because this journal is not about that) so as i was saying... When the movie finished i had a little something to eat and then headed straight to my room to fiddle around with my laptop again for a couple of hours which i thought wasn't that long but it turns out i didn't get enough sleep after i finished with my laptop and finally got some rest after school. When i got woken up by my dad i wasn't done sleeping or dreaming by the way, i got dragged out of bed had breakfast and hit the road. In this moments i wished i listened to my mom when she told me to got to bed because tomorrow was going to be a long day and that i was going to feel tired and painful after Paint-balling. Well guess what she was right, i wasn't that tired because when i got hit for my first time i woke up 100% percent and started to play for real. It turns out i got my brother some good shots in the thy and lower... THe bad thing about Paint-balling is the price to play... it's not cheap to play one game, well you don't have to pay to refill the pressure tank again, that's a pros, in the other hand the cons in this case would be that 100 paintball ammunition is 500 JMD. So it's not something to do every day, it's something to do for a special occasion or every once in a while.

4 of February- Today my family and i decided to go on a dive to cayman trader because my mom hasn't been there yet so we took her there. The first time my brother and i went is was full of jelly-fish and it wasn't very pleasant to swim in, i had to be constantly looking around to see where the nearest jelly-fish was and move away from it. On that dive we also were helping a diver with his course. We had to pretend that we got a cramp or we were drowning and other many problems which could happen under water. I personally wanted to jump out of the boat and pretend to drown... but that one was already been taken. This dive we did the same thing, I got to jump out of the boat and drown, unfortunately the diver trying to get certified wasn't ready and isn't capable of taking control in a situation like this. Then under water i pretended to get a cramp but she didn't see me so i just stopped and kept on swimming. After 5 minutes i faked the cramp again and this time i had to tap in on her shoulder because of not she would know what was happening. Another thing we did was search and recovery for the diver. She had no clue whatsoever of what she was doing, but after a period of time we found him. Dave said she doesn't have capacity or the resources needed to become master diver so she done with diving for now.

28 of January- Today we didn't actually do much. Well now that i think about i did go to the pool and swam a couple laps in the morning after breakfast. Then i went to the gym. There my mom paid a coach for me and spent a good 2 hours working out. When i got home i did some pending homework. After finishing all my homework for once i decided to watch a movie with my computer. I chose Clash of the Titans which i wouldn't recommend for you're children Mr. Bennet. It's about fantasy and myths. Im not about to tell what it's about because it will take forever, but again i don't recommend this for you're children. Now i have to think on something else to take the space the journal are supposed to take. I know let's talk about how that weekend my father and i fixed the go-kart which had been broken for a long period of time now. It goes really fast and it is not a racing kart, it was built for all terrain so as you imagine it doesn't get near the speed of Tristan's go kart unfortunately.

21 of January- Tonight i watched the Kings Speech which was bassed on a real story, the story is about a King which had a problem with reading, so he hired a doctor to help him with his problem and if possible cure him. He tries many different methods to help and it turned out that the King had to swear and cuss people in order to pronounce the words clearly. The speech consisted in persuading his people to join the army and fight the upcoming war. He had trouble saying his speech in public so he wanted more time to prepare it so he changed the date of the big speech. His doctor found out that if he was listening to music while reading the speech he wouldn't have to listen to himself talk so it would be better for him and his nerves would calm down. He didn't believe this theory but he still tries it out, the King though he was spending his time doing this and that it was not worth the money, he soon realized that he was wrong and that he was close to the cure, closer than he though. The big day arrived so...

14 of January- Today we got the manager of the St. Mary's banana plantation sons over for a barbecue in the afternoon, like always we decide not to play football but when one person starts playing someone else joins and so on until the whole group is in the game and ready to start a match. Then we get addicted to the game and want to play more and rematch and so on. Well the match is still going on until it is lunch time. Everyone is usually hungry after the match and we just eat non stop. Everyone get's swore and sick of so much food and they just lay down and watch a movie they usually bring. This time they brought X-men First class. Although is already saw that movie i had nothing better to do so i just watched it to kill sometime. This day i forgot to write the journal so this is kinda the backup to it. I did do some homework surprisingly enough and studied for an upcoming test. When they left i said good bye and went upstairs to use my laptop and lay in my bed and go to sleep.

7 of January- I went to a friends house today to pass the morning and we basically chilled the whole time, we also played some Call of Duty Black Ops in his Playstation 3. We watched a bunch of movies which weren't very good for my taste but it wasn't my choice so i sat down and watched them. When we were done with the movies we were so hungry and went to Wendy's to get some food and took it to the house and ate it there. My parents came to get me and we left. The rest of the day was so boring i actually was looking forward to school on monday. I really don't know what else to say but if i have to fill up the space with words so, here we go. My head is blanc right now and i have no thoughts coming to my head right now, but if i wait it wouldn't help because i still have like 3 more of these to write, i might not be able to finish them all to day but i will get them done, by the way these was made up.

31 of December- Right now im still in Dominican Republic and we are celebrating new years eve with some friends in the brother of my dad's friend, they have a big house and the funny thing is that they live right next to each other. In that dinner my parents allowed me to drink wine and champagne so i got i little... The food was delicious and special. I didn't get a second serving because i was too full from the first plate. Tomorrow we were going to celebrate New Years in the beach. Our hosts owned a house on the beach so we stayed there. It was an awesome time there because first there was very good looking girls at the beach, things went crazy down there can't even describe the amount of noise provoked by the blow horns and stuff. A lot of people drank more than they probably should've. In our hosts it included two boys aged 18 and 20, they were obviously older than us but we still chilled together. Well then we went to sleep cause we were so tired of partying so good night.

24 of December- Today we were leaving to go to the Dominican Republic when i for got my ipod wasn't charged, but i was safe because my lap top was fullt charged plus i had some entrainment. My lap top was packed with like 15 new movies wich i got from my friends before school ended. I must say i had a good time down there but like everything it had it's good things and bad things. The good thing was that we got see some old old friends, the bad one in the other hand was that the flight to Dominican Republic was very long and boring, well... now that i think about it it wasn't as bad as i imagined it to be because i had my laptop with me. So i ended up watching movies the whole way there. When we arrived it was late at night... like 1:00 am and we were tired of the 12 hours in total for the whole journey. When we were on the roed back to the house so much memories popped up and if i didn't mention it before we used to live here when we were younger, this friends we were about to see were like our own brothers, we basically grew together, anyways as i was saying when we arrived to our final destination we went to sleep.

17 of December- In 3 days time i was going to go to the Dominican Republic to visit some old friends which i haven't seen fro at least 5 years. i was pretty exited to see my memories come back. There was barely any homework for the winters holidays, the music project was the only thing i was worried about. It seemed like three days would go by quick ... but it didn't i went so slow i didn't even think i was going to see my friends and that life was just messing round with me. I decided that by the time life stops messing around me i would be finished with my part of the music project which i didn't do anything to it, i just fell asleep when i was telling myself i was going to work hard on this project. All i could do right now is pray for the day to be over. I really dont know what else to say. I think we went to dome friends party for something which i can't remember. Oh yeah i forgot that that week we had to study for an upcoming math test which i forgot to mention. We probbly also went to the beach and just chilled for the day.

10 of December- Today we had a huge barbecue at my house, there was about 18 people in total. My dad likes to do barbecues so we have them very often but today is was big, we had chicken, burovos if that's how you spell it, hamburgers and salads. Tristan, Isabella, Matthew and Beans were there too. My brother brought Amir from the 10th grade class. We had fun i guess. It was a very nice meal thanks tot he staff and my dad which when it comes to cooking he knows what he is doing. My dad likes to eat different types of food when he can. He prefers meat than anything else and he prefers his meat more rare than cooked, sometimes it is too rare but he seems to have enjoyed it. We played Xbox 360 for like 5 minutes which is not very usual for us, i mean we usually stay playing for like hours without stoping. I also decided to finish all my homewrok from now on on Saturdays because Sunday is next and i want it to be relaxed and not rushed and stressed out as it usually is. I hope this is more than 250 words because i really have nothing else to say...

6 of December- Last weekend i went to Half Moon in Montego Bay. Tristan's MOM invited my brother and i to spend the weekend there. Each room came with two Golf Carts which we weren't really allowed to drive but... we did anyways. We got caught a couple of times but we invented some excuse to get out of it. Some guards knew you weren't old enough but they didn't say anything to you. If you brought the attention by driving like Tristan you will get a "ticket" but if you drive as amazingly as i did you wouldn't get a "ticket". The weekend was short and fun. we didnt do any homework (That's why Sunday is there). When we were coming back we were borded out of our minds and decided to play music in the car and play games on the Ipad. We stop at Juicy Patties to get something to eat because at that time were we starving and dying fro some food. Sunday afternoon we arrived home. I did all my homework and then just chilled with my laptop trying to do something which would kill the bordness.

27 of November- Today we arrived from Montego bay, it was a 3 hour long trip. We had a lot of fun in Montego because we spent the week next to the each were the was full access to everything. We got hosted by one of my Dad's friends, his called Tristan. He is very rich and wealthy and has a beautiful house in a very expensive golf club. The snorkeling down there isn; t very good or wasn't very good because the sand was very active and the sea was very blurry so we decided to go back home after 20 minutes in the water trying to find something interesting to see. I though of it as a waste of time. When we got back to the house i started on my homework, science was the worst of all because i had to to do jumping jacks to do an investigation. Also we have to do other homework. When we got home i started doing the homewrok that was left to do and that was pending. The trip in the car was very boring but luckily i had my laptop which contained movies that i had already watched but i didn't have anything better to do so that took most of the trip out of my head.

20 of November- Today i did a lot of things. First and most important is the today my dad is turning 50 years old and we celebrated it in a special, we went to Caymanas Golf Club were there was like a party in which consisted raising money for charity, i though of it as boring so i was hoping some of my friends which roe there would join me with the boredness. One of them showed up. We just chilled the whole entire time and we played volley-ball with a football, i met people form Hillel that were there and then we had lunch there, there was a buffet which was completely free. When we came back home some of my Dad's friends were invited for a barbecue, luckily my dad's friends had kids so we end up spending the rest of the sunday playing football til it was time fro them to go. Well that is pretty much it.

13 of November- Well... in my week end i didn't do much so im going to talk about something totally different, im going to talk about a book. Just kidding, i really don't know what to write about so i decided to talk about things in general. Well i spent most of my weekend writing the Essay for our class. Then after that i watched Hangover Part 2. Really comic movie with a very interesting story to it. The movie has plenty of funny scenes and sentences. I also celebrated one of my dad's friends birthdays on Sunday. He brought his kids with him so we didn't get bored and we ended up playing football fro the whole time they were there. One of his kids brought his bicycle with him but couldn't ride it back home because it was too dark, so now we have a new bicycle to ride whenever we want.

5 of November- Saturday in the morning we went diving to an old recked boat just near lime kay. The alarm wasn't working properly so my dad had to wake us up and we had to rush over things just to get in time. We were 12 in a narrow-small wooden boat counting the crew. I went diving for the fun of it but my brother and my dad were doing their course, my dad is now on Rescue Diver and my brother had to finished two other dives which he missed. Dr. B made us do a lot of things so that the Rescue Divers had to come and save us from the problem which was non-existing, it was a way to quiz them and see if they know what to do in each occasion. The visibility under water was not that great but we still enjoyed it. We saw 2 rays and the other group saw a shark, i wished i could've seen the shark too.

29 of October- Yesterday night i was extremely bored so i decided to watch a movie online called (Scary Movie 3). People might think that the movie is so old but i wasn't able to watch it before. The movie consists a woman called Lindy tris to find out how to stop people from getting murder by a girl which at the beginning of the story gets drowned in the well of the old farm house by the mother which adopted her. Before dying the girl makes a video of herself coming out of the well. Everybody who watched this get's a phone call immediately after this, a strange voice comes up and tells her she is going to die in seven days. The movie is supposed to be funny, it's like a mixture of different movies and they include stuff to make it funny. Lindsey has a nephew which i dont remember the name has visions of what people are and think. Aliens come to Earth because the whole race has been infected by the video.