Summer Vacation Day 20: Tests and a Punny Evening Meal

Hello, Tim!

This is the third day. It would probably take over a week to get used to the current schedule.

7/18, Wednesday

Today is the day we walk into the seemingly endless tunnel of tests, mock tests, and midterms. Today’s civics and geography were just the beginning.

With the little memory from the past and the morsels of effort made in the first fifteen days, I was able to answer most of the questions, so I think we are off to a good start!

Tomorrow comes our unconventional history test. We were all given a sheet chart, marking the important years in the past where big events happened, like the year when the February 28^th Incident happened (1947), or the year when the Byzantium Empire fell (1453), the year when Napoleon claimed himself an emperor (1405) or when the First Shino-Japanese War took place (1894). To perform as a tool to break down questions when faced with tests, said our teacher when explaining the use and goal of this test. While what she said was known as a truth, but no one can actually finish memorizing over a hundred important events and the exact year within three days! We were desperate, but we tried nonetheless. Finding a shortcut or other techniques to get as many remembered as possible was our plan.

After the test that took over an hour (an hour of brain torturing), I packed my stuff and left alongside with Melody and William. We decided to have lunch first before William goes to his cram school, Melody to the clinic (She had pains in her back like I used to), and me home.

We went to Subway and just ate and chat in the quiet and easy atmosphere the place offered.

Dad came back today at around eleven, and he entered the door saying that he was quite hungry. Unfortunately, we only had fruit in our fridge today, so after a fruitless/fruitful search in the refrigerator (a play on words :D), I got up from the sofa and went to the kitchen cupboard. I fished out (wait for it) a can of tuna, noodles, chili, some remaining vegetables from the fridge, and started to cook an evening meal for Dad. This is a dish I learned from my mom. I don’t know about other people or whether this is a commonly known dish, but it never needs much skill, for all you need to do is boil some water, add the tuna can and the noodles, add some salt and while waiting for the noodle to be thoroughly cooked, keep taste-testing the broth to make sure it tastes nice.

Dad eating.

My dad is also knack at cooking, so when he praised even a simple dish like a tuna can noodle, I felt a rush of accomplishment.

This is all for today.