Middle East

This week in geography we started learning about the middle east. it is a very interesting place because of all the events going on there. Technically we are learning about southwest Asia, but all the students consider it the middle east because the the majority of the countries in this region are also in the middle east. We drew 2 maps of Southwest Asia. One physical map showing rivers and mountains etc. The other map was a political map. It showed the countries and cities in the region. On Thursday we turned in our African Masks. This was a project we were assigned about 3 weeks ago. We had to make a tribe that represents a spirit of Africa. It was really fun. My mask was made of Air dry clay, which i had some difficulty using, but it turned out really nice at the end. We are currently presenting our masks in class.
This week was pretty steady compared to last week. This was pretty much a pretty busy week workwise. I had to do a lab in biology about bacteria plus research a disease, but it was easy. One thing i did that i like was i went to see a movie. I wanted to be nice to my little brother and went to see a movie for him. The movie we saw was Horton sees a who. It is a Dr. Seuss Book. he writes a bunch of books for little kids with deaper meanings for adults such as The cat in the hat. We went to a theater called Regal gateway. It is a huge theater with 15 screens (each showing movie) inside. The good thing i like about this theater is that it has a great refreshment section (plus the movies!). They have so many snacks you can choose from. They have rewards for buying a large size of something. For instance if you get a large dring or Popcorn, you can get free refills!. That's a pretty good deall if you ask me because the prices are not that expensive:) event though this week was busy it was a good week.



This is a video about the imperial history of the middle east.

Geometry Test

I did so well on this geometry test i took yesterday. i usually don't do so well on these types of tests, but this time id aced it. I haven't gotten the grade back yet, but i feel rela good baout this test. everyone said they had a hard time with it, so i thought that i might have done bad as well, but then i thought about how much i had studied which was why the test was pretty easy for me. i still have to take a 5 question portion of the test today, but the big portion of it is behind me. I am so proud of muself! :)

Costume Party and Geography

This week in geogrpahy we learned about Africa. We also took a test on Africa on Wednesday. this was our first test in a long time, so i had to get back to my study habits....even though i didn't want to. This was our first test with an essay and map questions on it. We usually have a separate map test and we never have essay tests. This was a lot to study for in one night, since I didn't study at all during spring break. I think i did pretty well on the test, but i am still nervous about what my grade will be. I'll be getting the test back on Monday!!! We also learned more about Darfur. We alreday had a socratic seminar over it, but we never watched a movie about it, so that's what we did this week. It was really good. It gives you a better perspective and picture of what is going on in Darfur.
This week had so many stuff happening in it. I went to a basketball game and a costume party. The costume party was part of a jewish holiday. Most jewish holidays involve praying, but this one doesn't. It is pretty much a bunch of parties. It's really fun. the holiday is called Purim. This is one of my favorite holidays. I could celebrate it because i was off from school. Good friday fell on the same day as Purim! I condsider this very lucky. I also went to a basketball game this week. it was between the San Antonio Spurs and the Boston Celtics. I was going for the Celtics even though the Spurs are a texas team. The Celtics won by one basket. I was so excited, but my brother was not. It bothgered me at first, but then i just told myself that he would get over it, which he did. This week might have been really busy, but it was really fun!!!!



This is the basketball game i went to, Spurs=white Celtics=green



This is another video on the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Spring Break!

This week we did not learn anything new in our world geography class because it was spring break. Our teacher though, still wanted to continue our discussion on Darfur, so she put up on the culture exchange website a darfur discussion and many people have responded. I think it was a really good idea.

This week i did many things since there was no school. I went to Galveston. Galveston is a city on the coast of Texas. There was once a hurricane there. It destroyed almost anything. it even ruined the chance of Galveston becoming a huge city, but Galveston is still a good place for tourists :). I also went fishing. I caught only one fish, but my little brother caught 14!!!!! Everyone, but me and my friend (2 out of 5) cuaght a carp. Carp are usually pretty big fish. My friends caught 4-8 pound carps. What carp did i catch.....NONE. Absolutely nothing. I was so dissapointed. We fished on the perdanales river, which is about 1 hour from austin if you drive. I also went to Bull Creek. Bull Creek is one of the few places in austin that is a off leash park. Off leash parks don't require dogs to be on leashes. It may be annoying to some people, but the dogs love it! I went there to relax and just enjoy my spring break. Finally a time where i was free and had no homework to do! My spring break was amazing!!!!



This is a drafur vide showing the crisis going on there.




This is a video showing all the attractions of galveston.

Darfur

This week in our geogoraphy class we did our socratic seminat about Rwanda and on Darfur. The one in Rwanda was about how the genocide there was really bad. It also discussed that if you were seeing it happen and you didn't do anything about it, you were you also involved with the genocide. It was an intense discussion. I thought i would do bad on it, biy at the end it was much easier than I thought. On friday, our class had another socratic seminar, but this one was on Darfur. It was almost the same as the Rwanda seminar. It was about how nobody is helping in Darur and what is going on there. It was an also intense discussion.
This weeek me and my friend went and downlaoded drives for our computers. My computer had gotten this really bad screen called the blue screen of seath. It occurs when some virus goes and deletes one of your computer's registry files. In my case it was the windows login file. I had to go and reinstall the computer completely and after that i had to go and install all the drives for my computer. I had a lot of help doing this since my dad workls at Dell. Dell has a national headquarter at Austin. A lot of people work there. Lately Dell hasn't been doing so well, but they are still a help because they are easier to contact from Austin since they are only about 15 minutes from where i live! It has alos caused the community in Austin (were i live at) to flourish.