Acts of Good #96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, and 104!

Note: I'll try to keep more up-to-date in the future, but I've been really busy recently with make-up work, Script Frenzy (if you haven't heard of it, look it up!), etc.

April 4: helped tidy up some things and sent birthday greetings to an old friend
April 5: my leg started feeling really sore abruptly today, so I couldn't fully participate in gym, but I tried to cheer on as many people as possible while playing kickball
April 6: composted stuff!
April 7: I helped around the house and finally finished my video diary of my time in Austria! (note to self: finish written diary...)
April 8:

• I posted my first Austria diary entry after procrastinating a bit... check out my Travel blog! (http://coravec.blogspot.com/)
• I gave a gift to Mollie that I got for her in Austria! :)
• Mollie and I accomplished a lot of Script Frenzy together! Four pages! *cheers*
• I composted a LOT and recycled the leftovers of our ice cream party dishes! I felt really good because it did take extra time to wash out everything, but it was worth it. :)

-Cora

Acts of Good #75, 76, 77, 78, and 79

Since I've been sick (and I still am), there are a lot of acts of good to catch up on!

1. I helped my mom make pancakes a few days ago and clean up when we were done: an act of good and a delicious meal!
2. I've been collecting compost, even though I was sick.
3. I continued making a gift that I had planned to give to my Oxford friends.
4. I stopped procrastinating printing out a few birthday cards for other friends.
5. I finished formatting my novel- the word document is officially finished!

-Cora

Acts of Good #71 and 72

1. I collected a lot of compost to give to Mollie yesterday and today. :)
2. I've been working hard on my novel! I just finished editing Chapter 11.

Acts of Good #64, 65, 66, and 67

I haven't posted acts of good in the past few days, so I wanted to catch up with the ones that I haven't recorded yet, so here we go:

1. I've been talking to a lot of old friends and making sure to let them know how much I miss each of them, even the ones whom I didn't speak to often.
2. After being asked for my parents what I want for my birthday (which is coming up soon), I asked them for something that is definitely an act of good, and they agreed. I'll announce it later on closer to my birthday, and it's extremely exciting!
3. I gave two amazing friends birthday cards (and I gave one a present), though the cards required a bit of patience and effort, but their joyfulness made it worthwhile.
4. I've been an advocator of recycling even before I went to my new school, as that was one of the jobs that the student government representatives at my old school would accomplish, but after meeting Mollie (one of my best friends), I've become so much more, and I'm happy to say that I've been trying my best to recycle (and compost now as well) as much as possible, and trying to be more eco-friendly. :)

-Cora

Acts of Good #48, 49, and 50

Happy belated Valentine's Day, everyone! Yesterday, a guy in our grade gave every girl a flower. Isn't that really nice? Anyway- by the end of the day, someone's had shriveled up, and they threw it away, so I took it over to the compost bin.

I also made an effort to help as many people who were younger than me as possible with their homework during study hall, which made me feel really good. I guess that's one of the benefits of doing acts of good!

Today, I made a sandwich for my mom and went shopping with her. I don't usually go shopping, since I really dislike the activity, though we were looking for toys for my younger cousins, so it was a technique to persuade me to do something I didn't want to do.

That was my 50th act of good! Yay! I think I'm going to do something nice for the 100th that I do.

Anyway, now I have to go do homework. Talk to you later!

-Cora

Acts of Good #43 and #44

Yesterday and today, I helped my teachers by unstacking chairs efficiently before class, and I took an extra effort to bring in leftover banana peels and apple cores for the composter.

Composting!! (Act of Good #42)

Today, I volunteered to bring empty lunch trays to the cafeteria after student government, and I saw a stack of about 15 trays, all disorderly and stacked incorrectly. After further inspection, I observed that the reason causing this was that almost all of the trays had scraps of food in them. Grumbling out of annoyance that other people didn't care about what happened to their leftovers, I cleaned off each tray. I knew that I shouldn't have to do that, but I did. I guess it's a fact of life that most people simply don't care. *sigh*

Acts of Good #40 and #41

Today, I tried to help out: I composted food, I turned off lights, I recycled a bunch of paper (and protested against other lazy people who didn't feel like doing it), and I also helped teachers stack chairs. I'm going to count those as two acts of good in total.

Acts of Good #34 and #35

Yesterday, at the opening night of the play, I gave people a lot of encouragement and compliments and composted a lot of leftover grapes!

Update and Acts of Good #32 and #33

Acts of good that I did recently:

1) I collected a bunch of leftover food from home and brought it to our school's compost bin: three cheers to Mollie for setting that up!

2) I turned off a lot of lights today, around the house, and at school. Yay!

Anyway, a short update:

• Our school play is going to have its opening night tomorrow, and I'm kind of scared because a lot of people aren't ready since we missed two days of school because of the snow.
• Umm, I kinda touched on that up there ^. We had no school for two days because of our weather- thick black ice, drifting snow, etc.- and power outages.
• The end of this trimester at school is coming to an end, so I have a feeling that I'm going to have to start bracing myself against the tests that will probably come rushing my way- which means that I might not be posting as often as I usually do, so just a heads up on that. Is that phrase even proper grammar?
• I'm reading Night, by Elie Wiesel, in school, and I'm extremely depressed about it. By the way, if you were wondering, the poem that I posted on here earlier, the Other side of the world, was inspired by that book. I'm also going to probably post something else that I wrote today as a response of Night.
• On a happier note, we're having an advisory- which, in case you don't know, is like a small group of students from different grades that basically hangs out twice a week together and has a teacher who is basically the head of it who you go to with any questions or concerns you have- ice cream party tomorrow!

So... I have to go for now, and this weekend is going to be extremely hectic... so, I'll write to you whenever possible!

-Cora