FOOD: LOTS OF IT

This week in world geography we had to turn in our food projects. Many people didn't do them till the last day. i was not included. I had not though finished getting all my agricultural data from the website along with many other kids. To my delight, the site crashed that night and me and a bunch of students couldn't get our data. I ended up finding another site to get the data from which i told the rest of my classmates. My teacher though, even though she was angry, decided to give us one more day to work on it but if we used that day we would get 5 points taken off our project. I turned it in on time, but many of my classmates didn't because once she said those words all my classmates gave up on finding data. We also took a test on south asia and then we started to learn about east asia. On firday, we had a food day where kids could bring for extra credit food that they researched and shre it with the class and of course eat it. This week was really fun.
I plan to got this summer to Israel. My whole family lives there other than my immediate family and 2 aunts in new jeresy. I have like 22 cousins there. I haven't seen them in areally long time, almost 2 years. I will be there most of summer, but i don't mind. I have fun there and time flies really. Some people ask if i want to be in austin at all this summer. Not really becuase it gets pretty boring. All myfirends go on vacation to, so i don't see them at all. I am stuck at home watching T.V. all day which can get pretty boring. I am really looking forward to this summer.

A video with information on Israel:

Seminar on Religion

This week in world geography we had a seminar on religion. This took place on Tuesday morning for 3 hours. we had a budhist, muslim, christian, rabbi, and a hindu person speak. It was really enjoyable. I learned a lot from them. for instance, everytime i would pretend to meditate, i would say ommmm for fun beecause i thought it was a joke. Turns out it is very much true. The hindu person told us that evrytime he meditates (for real) he says it. I was shocked. I had no idea that for the past 14 years of my life, my whole life, i had made fun of that religion. I do not think though that i will chanfge religions though. No matter how good a seminar is, i like my religion and i want to keep it. We also watched a video about some blood sports, fighting, that is in some cultures. I was shocked that some people beat each other up for their culture and for fun. We also watched a video on Mount. Everst and did a review over the region South Asia.
One place i want ot visit, thatr i learned about this year, is Europe. I have been there before, but i did not understand anything because i was very young. Now i want to go there because i already have some knowledge on the place plus i want top tour the places in Europe such as France, Spain, and Italy some more.

This is a video with infromation on climbing Mt. Everest

Back On!!!

This week in World Geography, we didn't learn much. This was our TAKS week. TAKS is a test given by the Texas to asses the students. In soime grades, if you don't pass the TAKS, you don't graduate. Luckilly for 9th graders like myself, we don't have to pass the class plus the TAKS is really easy. If you don't pass the TAKS though you have to take a class that helps you study for TAKS. There are five TAKS tests. A writing, science, social studies, math, and reading tests. 9th graders only took the math test this week, but we had to wait for all the other grades to finish their tests which took the wohole week almost. My teacher didn't want to overload us with a lot of information this weeks so she let us relax in her class. We did learn though about Myanmar. We are going to be talking to religious leaders next week and she wants us to know some background information on Buddhists and their monks. Other than that that's all we did this week.
I have decided to tell you a little more about myself in these next couple of blogs. Up ubntil now I have told you what I did the following week. When i grow up, i want to be a doctor. There are some people who just don't like science and ask me how i can be that? I am much different. Science interests me. Not all sciences. I can live without learning about Physics or chemistry, but biology and anatomy i couldn't live without. I planned out my future already and i know exactly what courses i am going to take next year and in college before i go to medical school. Even though the course may be long and has a lot of work, I know I can accomplish it if I try hard.

A video on the Myanmar Buddhist conflict: