For the first day concerning Acadec Social

UPDATE: SOCIAL CANCELLED SORRY (12/20/10)

Secretaries, I need you to call me. 242 5988.

We need to work together to plan one, because I can't do it alone. ):

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Okay, so this is what's planned.

Who: Acadec Members
What: Social/Study Power!
When: TBA, maybe Tuesday?
Where: Betty's House?
Why: because I love you guys and I need to see you over winter break
How: IDK

Social/ Study session
Before the social/study session:
Prepare your presentation on your assigned pages. And then go on demidec.com and look at the focused quiz and make sure you can answer the important ones. You decide what's important, okay?
I don't want all 20 questions, so just go with maybe 7 or 8 important ones okay?

On the day of, you present, and after we finish, we play jeapardy for PRIZES! :) okay? so study!

And if we might not finish, but I plan for that to be just 2-3 hours, okay?

Social: at Betty's house. Maybe we can watch a movie! I want to play a few ice breakers, we never played before. Like the name game! we should have done it a long time ago :O....
but I gotta make sure with Bettys!

Embroidery!

If you want embroidery, I need to know ASAP. Latest Friday!

lunes, el trece de diciembre

so today, we did something that was different and i have to say i learn something or actually remember something i guess. well, what we did was that each person would have 3-4 paper from the resource(?) binder and we summarize those 3-4 pages on a separate sheet of paper. And finally after 30 minutes or so, we would present what we wrote on our paper so other people could take notes or remember/learn something.
my opinion of this: we should do this often cuz im learning SOMETHING :D and instead of reading that   
                            THICK binder and then taking notes i rather listen and take notes
whats your opinion of this? was it helpful? did you learn anything at all? COMMENT POR FAVOR
btw are any of you guys busy on the first sunday of winter break? if you arent then we can have a study group at someone house :D derek wants to go to my house but if you guys want to you guys can come but i ain't feedin ya except water and dog food! MWHUAAA! jk i think...
anyways comment
               -betty
p.s. blogging is fun :P

Dilemmmma but Final

Okay, so the other votes were for a generalized idea of what we wanted. But it's too bad, they didn't have gray. So this is the FINAL! Black or Green.
And you have until next week to pay! Capish?

I should have done this long time ago.

If you haven't done it yet, do it.

I need your sizes!

RANT. Not really. But kinda >:O

Today's Meeting

Okay, so today's meeting was sorta disappointing. We had a nice teacher (Ms. Keller) come to talk to about 6 of us. ANd I guess I know that there are only probably about 12 of here but that's like half...

But anyways, if you're reading this, I'm going to assume that you're a devoted Decathlete. And those of you who told me or Mr. Olivos that you weren't going to be there, you guys are excused. But for the rest of you... please come, or at least have a legit reason.

As of now, there is about 2 months left until we have to compete. And I'm feeling like we need some motivation... And as of now, it is mandatory for these people to come to meetings:

1. Tru To
2. Megan Wang
3. Irene Diep
4. Teddy Tea
5. Derek Sun
6. Jennifer Gip
7. John Hoac
8. Anthony Vo
9. Kevin Gip

And for the rest of you, just please come, okay?

Council Meeting

And I was thinking about adding another day to our schedule. Mandatory for all competitors. But before I add another day of chaos, I want to make sure we're organized. SO special meeting, tomorrow Tuesday, December 7th at Mr. Olivos' room. And if he's not there we'll be at the career center. Be there by 12:20 please. These issues will be addressed:

Problems concerning:

• Freshmen and Sophomore recruitment
• Motivation
• The next couple of weeks
• Cramming
• A basic outline of our everyday meetings
• An extra day of studying and increasing study hours.
• Social :( I really want one.

Food Faire

And then we're selling Slushies at Food Fair. Some Passion Fruit slushie thing. I gotta make sure. But $2.50 I think. Too much too less? Let me know. I'm not money savvy

I should be back.

Okay, so ACADEC's been kinda down lately and stuff. Or maybe for a long time now. I want a council meeting! So Teddy, Jennifer, Yuyen Betty Derek Diana. I'm going to say Monday, okay after meeting. Maybe I'll call meeting early tomorrow. And WE had to get forms filled out. Hopefully, you got one turned in...

Okay I NEED YOU TO Comment whether you are getting a sweater or not! Final: It's going to be windbreaker No hoodie. Black and Grey. And it's going to have bringing the competion down.But if not, it'll be nice. Don't Worry.

$26 dollars, but then fundraising money can probably bring it down to $20. Okay?

I need to know how many to ORDER. Deadline to put your name on the list this friday!

Right now I have

1. Megan
2. Derek
3. Teddy
4. Irene
5. Mr. O
6. Betty
7. Yu-yen
8. Tru
9. Anthony

And these people are going to be competitng so they need one:

1. John Hoac
2. Jennifer Gip
3. Kevin Gip

You'll never guess my password.

Okay, thank you everyone who came to the scrimmage. Good work, guys.

Props to Tru To. Dominated 3 of 4 sections of scrimmage. But we still need to work our scores above 66%. ):

Jeapordy Monday so Study.

PUNISHMENT

Jeopardy is planned for Monday. Decathletes please come!
We're going to play a quick game so read the NOVEL RESOURCE (not power guide) pages 1- 70.
And one more thing, losing team has to do punishment! :( so read read read.
For those who aren't coming, I'm going to say for now, you are automatically signed up for PUNISHMENT! ): sorry.

Happy Fridays. Teddy.

Oops one more last minute entry!

Club Apparel

Well, Ivan, Teddy, and I went to go visit the clothes printer people and we ended up with 3 things. The first one is the one that I'm wearing which is a fleece hoodie. The second jacket is a windbreaker, which is worn by Ivan. The third one is a windbreaker with a hoodie. We would like your opinions on which would you like. A windbreaker or a fleece hoodie?

-Derek

So here are the standings. The Top 3 colors: Red/White. Green/White. Gray/White.
However, now I realize that we may or may not use these colors based on the designs. But we will try.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Scrimmage for this Saturday.
Intersquad meet. Every SG acadec member invited. You may need to bring money for pizza. Maybe $3? Or else you might want to buy a Pancake breakfast ticket from Band(:

Please read and annotate 5-35 in Novel Resource.

Take a Look at Jacket designs! I quickly digitalized part of Design 3 (the bull) just because. that's what I mean by digitalization.

Ruined My Childhood.

So yesterday, my uncle and I were talking about Health at the dinner table.

Me: Beef, Yum
Uncle: You know beef if good for you, it makes you grow bigger
Me: Oh, yup. All the Protein right?
Uncle: Nope. all those hormones they inject into the cows. They stay there when they get cooked, and you eat it. And you grow big.
Me: And Milk?
Peter: Yeah, that too. None of that calcium and strong bones crap. It's all in the hormones.
Me: o.o sigh.... wow...

You learn something new every day.

Who voted more than 3? (ANGER)

Due on Monday 11-8-10.
Art WKBK.
2.01
2.03
2.04
2.13
2.17
2.20
3.06
3.09
5.07
Finish them please. If Teddy doesn't have them finished, yell at him! Throw cookies at him! Also, read pages 79 to 98. You have 4 days (96 hours) Only 20 pages! Highlight and annotate it. Complain if you must, but by all means do it! We might have a Quiz monday. Hint Hint.

Okay, and confession. I don't plan on becoming a teacher when I grow up. I think I'm considering note taking what do you guys think? Or maybe Highlighting is enough. IDK! INPUT INPUT COMMENT COMMENT.

Oh and btw, I feel like someone cheated the voting. ): Fix it please?

Okay AND I got one more design for jacket backs. I will post it up on the 8th.

OMG designs!

Okay guys we have 4 designs so far. Submitted anonymously. Yes o.o If they were picked, they'd be upgraded, digitalized and stuff. Text would be better. Stuff like that
Oh and by the way, if we pick you, your jacket is half off! :D

Submit please! Because if we don't get more, we're just going to have to stick with these 4 strange designs! Deadline has been extended twice now. To November 8th. One week!

November Uno.

For those of you who didn't know. You need a partner for materials.
Right now, these are the partners so far.

1. Yuyen Betty Irene
2. Ivan Derek
3. Aaron Teddy
4. Megan Michelle
5. Anthony Tru
6. Jennifer Kevin
7. John Susan

Sorry, it might be an inconvenience but it is necassary as we only have 12 sets of materials. These are 5 groups so far. We have 5 material groups left and 2 are reserved for varsity.

Bring your art materials back tomorrow (11-2-10) and drop it off at Olivos' Please. Latest is wednesday during lunch.

Voting is set up. Only pick up to three, please and no more. This is to generally see what colors we want. We will vote again to finalize the color.

As for the meeting today, it was kind of a hassle scrolling up and down. SO, bring back the materials and we will use those instead.

Come to Career Center during Collab! (super alliteration) We'll be doing art.

Happy Halloween! Scrimmage update.

Okay, so there was a scrimmage yesterday (10-30-10).
It was pretty bad. I will make assumptions for now the reasons:

1. Studying. Yeah, we need to work on that. (maybe it's just me?)
2. The system. I need to work out a material distribution. And I'm thinking CHANGE!
3. We were competing against good schools. Don't feel so bad (those who went).
   

So Beverly Hills just swept away the competition. Alhambra had a few wins!
We had pizza, it was alright. San Marino High School is a dangerous gun: LOADED. Or so it seems. We should go sometime. FIELD TRIP. But actually, I hope more people can go to the scrimmage next time! Social Ideas anyone? 19 days till trip I think.

As for Money, I'm thinking we should get some smaller binders for cram kits. Yes or No? Then we will splurge the rest on jackets. ^.^

Okay, besides that. Happy Halloween! I think I enjoyed Halloween so much, I might bring candy on Wednesday! So be here! SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR STUDY.

Anonymous Activate!

I'm very sorry, I apologize. I guess the post was not anonymous activated. But it is now!

Sorry!

Great Depression Jokes

1) When was the Great Depression?
    Last week when i got my report card.

2) Did you hear about the guy who needed money?
    Yea that was your story.

- Betty ;D

FISH!

Hehe... Fellow Acadec members!
Go play with the Fishies! Relieve stress :D
And then go study!

-Teddy

Food Fair!

So in case you guys didn't know, today was food fair and all four of our pizzas sold! We profited! This was just a reminder of our success and thanks to the people that helped. ^-^


-Derek

Osbourn Lesson, Mission success!

Well, Osbourne gave a lesson today, it was very nice.
Sorry if you missed out! D:

As for the picture to the left, that's the text (made by Lin Li) design. Except it will be on a jacket. Nice? or No?
As for the back of the jacket, think of something to put on it. PLEASE COMMENT any suggestions for the picture of the back. And Anthony will draw it or something. Or we'll think of something. But PLEASE COMMENT SUGGESTIONS!

Think about your speeches!

Duyen's Birthday ^^

Happy Birthday Duyen, fellow Acadec member (:

Okay, so nothing much, get to page 8 of the workbook please! Meeting tomorrow, sorry if this was too last notice. Bring binders.

demidec.org

-Teddy

Scrimmage Math, and some other stuff!

Okay, so we just worked on math today. And we will again on wednesday. Be there.

Now, who can make it to scrimmage on October 30th?
October 30th, 2010. 9 o'clock AM.
San Marino High School
Testing Lang and Lit, Econ, and SuperQuiz.

Sign up in the comments please!

Did we really have 15 votes for jackets? If you voted twice, you're a CHEATER!~ :O

-Teddy

Hello Acadecians.
So, today we had a Thursday meeting.

First, I would like to apologize, I guess it's pretty hard to write a speech in class in just one hour. So just think about your topic. we will return to it later. Feedback?

Meeting Next Monday, Math. Ms. Li
We are selling Costco Pizza at next food faire.
Vote for sweater, jacket or shirt!

That's all.
- Teddy.

Update for September 27th

Today we had Mr. Nguyen over as our guest speaker. He went over how to write our speech and how to choose a topic, and later we turned to practicing impromptu and getting tips for it.

The key thing for choosing a topic is find something you're familiar with or can relate to. In order to create a good speech, you should be able to manipulate the topic into an abstract form. For example, if you're going to talk about an apple, you can talk about it's appearance and stuff but then later turn it into biblical reference about Adam and Eve.

Note: You should have a written speech by Thursday which lasts up to 4-5 minutes long. If you don't have it, it's fine, but try to start working on it!

The thing about impromptu is that, practice makes perfect. Mr. Nguyen explained that impromptu is basically getting a topic and delivering it well and having the judges buy it; sort like a salesman. Practicing for impromptu helps you to become a better orator and is a useful skill in society that might even help you land a job one day. Who knows, all these things that you learn for speech in Acadec will help you in one way or another eventually within your academic life as well as social life.

Wednesdays meeting has been rescheduled to THURSDAY for this week only due to President and Vice- President as well as other members of the club not being able to attend due to LA county fair.

Well, we are deciding to get a club apparel such as a T-shirt, jacket, or sweater and YOUR opinion is really important as we are trying to satisfy everyone.There is a vote on the side as to whether you guys want a T-shirt, jacket, or sweater.

Friendly note: T-shirts will be the cheaper than jackets or sweaters, but they don't last as long. So choose wisely!

Please start thinking of designs for our clothes because we want it to look as nice as possible! Voting ends on October 2nd at 11:59 PM so vote!

As a refuge from the heat, Mr. Olivos is offering his room for use to practice on impromptu during lunch!

P.S: Sorry if my post isn't as ultra-pro as Teddy's ):

- Derek Sun

Update as of September 22nd

So today was a meeting for impromptu and speaking. We practiced the art of thinking fast, and communicating our thoughts. We have practiced impromptu with different random topics.

A thing to know about competition day: The impromptu section is part of the speech section of the grading. So if you have a bit of trouble in impromptu, your prepared speech can help you!
The topics will be a bit more serious also. But, you probably will still be able to enjoy yourself!

For impromptu, please try to practice at home. Practice in front of a mirror. Hopefully, you're reading this update when you have maybe 15 minutes of spare time. And actually, one impromptu only takes about 4 minutes. Get your thinking strategies down at home. Then, when you get to school, you would work out your nervousness and staying calm and presenting yourself. That sounds like a plan! (:

For Topics, I just found this out today.
1. Go to demidec.com. Log in.
2. Click "Download Files".
3. Filter it to 2009. Filter it to SPEECH.
4. Then look for Three Category Impromptus. And they give you many many topics. Joy!

Otherwise, you can do "the effects of ________" and just pick a random thing. And impromptu it. Then, do it in front of your brother! Your Sister! Your dog! Time yourself.

There's supposed to be a meeting tomorrow at lunch tomorrow. No afterschool meeting.
Yup!

-Teddy

After the First Week. Read Please!

Update as of September 15th

Meetings are in room A208, Mr Olivos' room. If you haven't been coming, they are on Mondays and Wednesday, afterschool.

Today, we went over a few things.
So it looks like we're going to try to be selling boba at the next food faire of October 21st. Come support and buy something! :D We are still trying to look for different things to sell to, so keep be on the lookout! Money will go into shirts (which we still need a design for) and Academic Decathlon Camp? Maybe

Grapes of Wrath. Get it. Library, or buy it! Then, read it. I'm almost done with mine, someone can borrow it when I'm done.

We are currently working on Econ, and pretty soon we're going to go into Speech. So have a speech topic. Everyone needs to write one and probably needs to read/ perform it pretty soon. I'M SERIOUS! We're looking for MLK status speeches! Well, almost. Here are some sample speeches (found by my sister, Jessica Tea), take a look. But if not, we're probably going to do it in class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTv9JDmgkNo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCxi0JUnYnM

Questions? Email me: teddytea94@yahoo.com
OR post something :O

Last year at banquet, I felt pretty destroyed. I, myself, didn't do so good and I had to eat the savoring chicken breast and the steamed potatoes and the creamy ice cream, in shame. :(
Haha, but it's okay! Because there's a lot of room for Improvement!
So this year, my ultimate goal is to rise to the level of Mark Keppel and Alhambra. And at the least, I kinda want to get Most Improved for the team. This year, I'm going to eat good ice cream, and I'm going to feel good! Hopefully, you guys will find your motivations also!

And remember, you guys are OVERFLOWING with awesomeness. It's like a waterfall except instead of water, it's awesome. Yeah, it's a good thing.

-Teddy