Summer Camp

For the first month of summer, July, I went to a camp called Asian Students Center (ASC). At ASC, kids learn math and English (and history for some classes) for the first three hours. Then, the half-days (the kids who only attend for half a day) can leave and the full-days (the kids who stay the whole day) stay for the afternoon activities. In the previous years that I went to ASC, I was a full-day student. This year, I was a half-day. ASC starts at 9 o’clock. The first subject is math. Math class is easy compared to the English class. We always start out with an opener. It is a short problem that should only take a couple of minutes. It is supposed to get the class ready to do math. Every Friday, there is a short quiz on the subjects learned that week. The quizzes were usually only had a couple of questions. There was also supposed to be five pop quizzes, except the teacher kept hinting that there would be a quiz the following day, so the quizzes were not very unexpected. The teacher also gave challenge problems, where the first person that solved the problem could either get a free-homework pass or a 100% quiz added to the person’s quiz grade. In math class, we learned things like linear equations, graphing equations, slope, finding the equation of a line, the point-slope formula, and many other things. English class was the second half. In English class, there were quizzes every Friday. The English quizzes were considerably longer than the math quizzes. The only good part about the English quizzes was that the class was allowed to redo the questions that were incorrect and hand them back in for three-fourth of a point for each corrected answer. There were also no pop quizzes in English. However, everyone had to write an essay each week. We had to write about a good place to relax and unwind, a personal narrative, and a persuasive essay. That was probably the worst part of ASC, weekly essay-writing. After English ended, I would leave (because I was only a half-day) ands walk over to my dad’s workplace, which is only about a mile away. I would eat lunch there and do all my homework assigned from ASC. I only went to ASC for the first month because in the second month, August, I would be going on vacation.