back&getting ready for school

OK, it's been a long time since I've posted anything, so I'll summarize whats happened in the past week or so.

Last week I was in Seattle, you can see the pictures through the link in my last post. I returned to Toronto on the 25th and I moved into where I'm living now on the 26th, here are the photos

living room

stairs

my room

Then, on the 27th I went to the local school board to take a test on my English and Math, after a few hour they decided that I should be in 11th grade according to my age,almost 16, and the results of my tests,11or12th grade in reading comprehension and passing 10th grade math, so I'll be going into 11th grade at Jarvis Collegiate Institute here,skipping 10th grade......

Anyway, it'll be a tough semester here,I'm taking 8 courses here: The Individual and the Economy, English, Healthy Active Living Education (co-ed), Functions(Math), Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer and Information Science, all 11th grade courses and,of course, all in English. And at the same time I'll be studying the 10th grade material of my school back in Taiwan, Jianguo High School , which makes it a double work-load. The only good thing is that school here only starts at 8:50 and even later, 9:55, on Wednesday and ends a 15:10, school hours are much shorter than those in Taiwan.
I'll be starting school on 9/2, I'll post more later, after school starts.

You can always check my pictures on Facebook(my Facebook is Jesse Lee), here's the link:Photos

seattle

photos:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=158133&l=370f3&id=1382332956

lock-in

I went to the church of a family friend, Christian Evangelical Church of Vancouver,CECV, and I like their youth group a lot,the music, the feeling, you get it. So somehow I got into this lock-in thing(which is an event in which kids in the youth fellowship stay over night at church), and I loved it. We sang songs, prayed,chatted all night,etc. It would have been perfect if I hadn't skinned my knee, I skinned it while we were playing CTF(Capture The Flag), I was chasing someone and tripped and then someone else bumped into me,which didn't help at all, so my knee hasn't been in great shape in a few days.Otherwise it was a fabulous night.
Photos:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=158094&l=de4f8&id=1382332956
Photos of knee
Be WARNED
Gross picture below
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Portland

I arrived at Portland,Washington at midnight on 8/7, I'm staying at the home of a family friend, they live in a enormous house, there are four children in the house, Ariel, Peter,Paul,and Angela(from eldest to youngest), the eldest is in the first year of college and the youngest is 9. I went to their fellowship's bible study last night, it was quite good, I enjoyed it immensely. My mom will be going to a conference here, and I'll be going to Seattle next Friday or Saturday.

Book!!

I've been to the public library near where I'm living and I found literally tons of books to read, so I checked out these.

Robots

On the fourth week of DEEP we made Battlebots(robots that fight), these are some of the photos