五月 14 2009
忙碌的一月
01/08/09-Goodland Game-1
This is the second game of the year. I was surprised that the public school in Goodland was willing to invite us to the game. The reason why I was surprised is that public schools usually don’t act friendly to Christian schools. At least not here in Syracuse. The player will be fired from the public school basketball team if they came to play with our team. The Christian school will also kick the player out if it discover that the player play for the public school. It doesn’t seem like they are having good relationships, does it?
| Ping Pong |
Well, we do have a couple players intending in a public school. However, they complain the high school team. They think that being in the SCA’s team is whole lot of fun and exciting. Anyway, I am about to loss the point here. Okay, back to the main topic! We went there for the first game and we will have another game over there on Jan. 19, Monday. Everybody did a really good job out there on the court. I stayed on the court for at least a quarter, I think. That was really an advantage for me. I’ve been trying to catch up other players on my skills. And it seems I’ve been better and better. I suppose I’ll be at least be able to play with others properly by the end of this program. We won the game and we went to Wendy’s for celebrating the victory. I am looking for the game with home schoolers next week. We are going to be the host, then. I bet that will be a whole different experience. 01/11/09-The Performance of Vocal Music Class in the Wesleyan Church
The Vocal Music Class performed at the Wesleyan Church this morning. Mrs. Frazer- the director for both Vocal Music and Band said that we are going to present the Thanksgiving Program. The reason we present the Thanksgiving program even after the Christmas is that the Wesleyan Church had already agree to let us present the program back before Thanksgiving. However, the church never got a chance for us to present the program until today. Anyway, the program was successful.
01/16/09-Visit Taiwanese!
I heard that there is a Taiwanese in Syracuse last time when I went to the have the Taiwan’s speech. The Taiwanese lady went to me when I went to the Quantum of Solace. I didn’t connect her because I don’t have her number. Ryan was the one who got the number from her husband. And he lost it. Anyway, I got the number and I told Ryan about that. He was excited about Taiwanese food. I finally got Ryan’s answer yesterday and call the lady. And because of that, Ryan finally went to the library for volunteer work. I was hoping that we would be able to get back to work in the afternoon. But we just keep chatting. So I called the library and tell them that we aren’t going back. We’ve done most of the work anyway. She really got something amazing. She has 粽子, 冬粉 and lots of things. We had 粽子 for lunch. Her husband came back from the local hospital and had lunch with us. We had a really good time. Both Ryan and I are looking forward to get some help from them for the cultural exchange programs. We had to leave early because we were having a home basketball game. But it was a pretty good visit.
01/16/09-Home Game-1
This is the first home basketball game of the year. We invited the home schooler team. We don’t have a gym big enough to hold a formal game, so we rent the new gym from local high school. The score was 64-14. We were the winner. I actually got to shot once, but it didn’t go in the basketball. It might be my only score of the year if it went in. Anyway, it was a good game.
01/17/09-The Auction
I went to Garden City today because Larry wants to go there and check a car. This is the first time I went to an auction, so it’s a special experience for me. The funny thing is that I can hardly understand what the guy was talking about. I was amazed how he could talk that fast. Larry thought the price of the car would be about 500-1000. However, it was more like 9000. Anyway, he bought himself a TV. We have to go back to Garden again because the TV couldn’t fit in the car. It was an interesting trip.
01/19/09-Goodland Game-
We went to Goodland again against Goodland High School. We won the game by 83-37. This might be the most significant game of the season. The players played pretty good together. That was a significant victory, it really was. We went to Wendy’s after the game for celebrating the winning.
01/20/09-Inaugration Day
Today was the day that the first black American president inaugurated. Kansas is pretty much Republicans’ State. But what amazed me was that the school took the morning off and gathered students to watch the Inauguration. Mr. Gould said it was a valuable, remarkable historical event for the U.S. and it’s to take the morning off to let students observe the peaceful transfer of the power even though he didn’t vote Obama. I admire the spirit and I observed the world’s oldest democratic government’s 44th power transfer. “余有榮焉”.
01/20/09-Home Game-2
There was another home game today. We were trying to have the game in the new gym. But the manager of the public school suddenly called Mr. Gould and told him that it would be better if we have the game in the old gym. We would be happy to have the game in the new gym, but Mr. Gould thought it would alright anyway, since we were borrowing someone else’ facility. We went against Vilas from CO today. The score was 65-25. And we were the winner. Like Mr. Gould said, why should be worrying about anything if we win.
01/22-24/09-Ark Valley Tourney in Deerfield
The Syracuse Christian Kings participated in the Ark Valley Tourney at Deerfield High School. We lost the two games against Rolla and Heartland Christian with the score 68-31 and 54-58. Fortunately, we won the last game, so we didn’t come home without a thing. The SCA Kings was the fifth place in this tournament. Also, Phil Gould won the Free Throw Contest against other schools, making 20 out of 25 free throws. The players didn’t participate well in the two previous games. That caused the lost of them. Anyway, the situation started to get better after the second game. I think the players should be more aggressive to win the game. We are working on it.
01/23/09-The Mid-Winter Conference
bell. I think that makes it fairer.
01/25/09-School Field Trip
Mr. Gould decided to have a field trip because the school’s bathrooms were rebuilding. They wouldn’t be any bathroom available down at the school for students to use. We went to the Telegram Newspaper Company first. We learned how the company works and saw the process of printing newspaper. We went to an energy plant after that. The factory turns wheat, corns and grams into automobile-used fuel. I think it is a pretty good place to go because American students should know that it is very important to develop renewable or cleaner energy. I enjoyed the visit to the plant. We went to McDonald’s for lunch. The first visit in the afternoon was the Historical Museum. It was interesting and I asked for information about the displays that museum has. I was wondering where they made those things. The guy gave me the website of the company and it seem to be a good deal for me. We went to an old hotel which was built in 1860s. It was a fantasy hotel, but has been disabled since 1960s. The hotel trip was interesting and fun. I went to buy Ryan’s coat for skiing with Yorks after the trip. He didn’t buy one at the end because he couldn’t find one he wants.
01/27/09-Pritchett Game
This is the last game of this month. We won by the score 52-56. There are more games in February and we are going to work hard that. We hope there will be good results. It’s been a while since we practiced last time. It has been busy for the team because we have games all the time. Sometimes we even have 5 games a week. The schedule is really tight. The season will be over probably by March. It has been busy and tired, but I love to play with these guys. For some reason, there is something with them that make me feel excited being in the game.
01/28/09-Send a letter to China
The school used Bible class to send letters and Bibles to countries that have persecution of Christians, mainly