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soul log is the writing playground of thirteen year old Brandon Wang, a student and self-crowned web designer, living in the Houston, Texas area. He has been writing soul log for over four years. This is his journey.Other blogs:
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
The Olympic Swimmer and his Pride
The formal entrance to the swimming pool is made of an imposing metal. It is never used during normal swimming practice, and we instead walk around to a smaller side entrance, shaded by an extended roof, and from there, step back into the sunlight. On this particular day, however, the wrought iron entrance was wide [...]
Secure Testing Environments [part two]
We started upon our tests: endless lines of bubbles. I looked at the test document, took a look at it, and wrote the answer to the problem down. The lines and lines soon mixed together in my head, and I found out that I was blanking out more than just once. In elementary school, our [...]
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Secure Testing Environments [part one]
The TAKS tests were coming upon us all, like a large dark cloud waiting for its chance to destroy picnics. According to our teachers, the picnic was decent teaching, and the cloud was the testing. (Of course, that’s not to say school is a picnic.) “How can we teach knowing that TAKS testing is about [...]
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The First Three Shelves
One day, I was looking for some old shoes that could get dirty in our shoe closet. I looked from shelf to shelf, but I just couldn’t find where those old beaten up shoes were. The first shelf? The second shelf? I had no idea. Our shoe closet wasn’t exactly a mansion; it basically was [...]
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One Step at a Time [TIB]
The mountain was high, the path steep. I would climb the highest peak in Texas: Guadalupe Mountain. Two thousand feet of vertical distance and an eight mile trip would be hard. I didn’t know what to expect. Never had I climbed a mountain this high before. Two hours later after beginning our trek, four of [...]
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A Fall from Biking: Life Lessons
LIFE LESSONS: [n] exceptionally important things you learn through mistakes. It was after school, and I was on my way home on my bike. I had decided not to wear my helmet that day because my hair, for once, did not need to be smoothed by my helmet. Life lesson number one: do not bike [...]
Misgivings, Burritos, and Guacamole Sauce
One Sunday morning, my dad and I made a unanimous decision to try out a new restaurant: specifically, a pizzeria. We had heard from friends and relatives how pizzerias made better food than normal pizza buffets, so we decided to see what all the hullaballoo was about. I went on the Internet to look for [...]
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The Warmth (Not)