Tonight I came home with a
big plan in my head: to finish the writing assignment for English
class. I was instructed to write a conclusion/reflection about the
English festival. I though it would be easy work, since I only had
too much to say about my last performance on the stage of
Huafu.
At first, I opened
Microsoft Office and (unfortunately) two social networks. For the
next twenty minutes I had been busy reading the updates of my
friends, posting on someone's wall to say "happy birthday",
replying some of the comments I got on my weibo, and doing
everything that was unrelated to writing the article.
After twenty minutes
slipped away, I suddently realized it was time for me to start
writing. So I did. And ten minutes later, I found out that I had
only squeezed ten sentences out of my brain. The words didn't make
sense. The structure was a mess. And I had no idea how to
proceed.
So I spent another ten
minutes browsing my facebook page, trying to regain the feeling of
writing in English. And after ten minutes had passed, I realized
that it was a stupid excuse for me to procrastinate. So I went back
to writing.
This time it went smoother.
But again, I had no idea what I was writing about. For the first
paragraph, I wrote about my feelings when the English evening was
over. In the second paragraph, I complained about how the teachers
stopped me from becoming the host last year. And in the next
paragraph, I explained why I had been so active in parcipating in
this year's English festival.
Blah blah blah.
I stopped writing, and went
on to weibo to update my status and complain about how worse my
English writing had become. It was already eleven thirty at night,
and no one even cared about what I had just updated. After having
refresehd the page for like a hundred times, I decided that I was
not going to get a comment anyway, so I closed the webpages and
started writing this article.
I concluded what I should
and should not do for the next two weeks before the mid-terms:
1. I should start preparing for my SAT 2 and AP exams.
2. I should start having regular meals in the school cafeteria
with my friends instead of my laptop.
3. I should only use my laptop from 12:05 to 13:30 and 22:10 to
23:00.
4. I should not use weibo, renren, or facebook until the end of
this week.
5. I should finish reading The Shallows and other books
that have been placed on my bookshelf (untouched) for decades.
6. I should start talking to my mom, which can
be hard, because she will only be even more
you-should-do-this-but-not-that-and-how's-your-day-and-how's-your-study
after a week of disconnection from me
7. I should not use TV shows to fill the loneliness in my heart
(created by the long distance between me and my best friend, who is
in Romania and who constantly urges me to paint my nails regardless
of the school rules)
8. I should start to cultivate my interest in biology
9. I should start to cultivate my interest in math
10. I should start to cultivate my interest in Chinese
11. I should not stop loving English
12. I should not procrastinate every single day
13. I should not be so narcissistic or taking photos of myself
everyday
14. I should start to make the second episode of my video
series
15. I should not sleep after 12:00 pm.
Which is why I have to stop writing this non-sense.
Hopefully, this will mark another stage in my miserably
monotonous life.
Goodnight (Good morning).
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