Holiday entry 1

This is my first entry of my winter holidays. It's a good thing we're on break because I think some of us need a break after our hardworking; for sudents because we've done so many projects and summative and formative tests, for teachers because they they have a lot to handle and because they're the ones who grade the projects and tests. The reason why I'm doing this is because my goal for english is to post 10 posts on my blog about my holiday, and also I have a passion for writing of any sort like narratives, stories, poetries, you name it! Well so far I haven't been anywhere else out of Jakarta, but today was my graduation day for S.B.M, (sekolah bimbingan Malaysia)-(guiding school of Malaysia.) Basicaly what this is a tutor school held in the Malaysian Embassy, (where my dad works), where wife's of the husband's who work in the embassy, volunteer to teach kindergarten, grades 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7. The subjects are Bahasa Melayu, History/social studies of Malaysia and the religion of Muslims. My mom teaches history/social studies. My 3rd grade brother and me has been to it sice I was in 4th grade. This school holds every Saturday. I will stop going to the school, because today I graduated from it. Yay! It's hard for me because I've never been to a public school in my life, I've only been to international schools or french schools, so I haven't learn to speak the language properly or learn everything about Malaysia. This school has helped me for learning more and giving awareness to my country and relegion, and I thank them for that. I preformed choir songs which were our national anthem and our country's motto. There were lots more but I wasn't in it. They gave out prizes to everyone including the moms. I got a folder, keychain, cup and frame. When I was preforming I was scared because the embassy was watching us including the strict ambassador! Well I'm finish with the Saturday tutor school and I definitately learnt alot. That's it for now, see ya later!

Vocab 5

incredulous

prophet





mimicking

fettered




inflammatory

muttered
















abruptly

methodically

swoon

exhaustion

Vocab 4

1. devotion

2. subtle

3. adversity

4. brisk

5. placid

GeoActive 2

1. List the main reasons for water scarcity.

A: The main reason for water scarcity is that many places, such as hot deserts have very low rainfall.

2. What is a drought? What type of hardships do you think that a drought could cause if you were living in a village in a poor country such as Etophia?

A: A drought is a period of below average precipitation. This can be vary in length.

I think one type of hardship is El Nino, which is when warming develops every three to five years.

3. How does land degradation affect the supply of fresh water?

A: It effects the supply of fresh water because when it precipitates, it doesn't go into the ground and absorb it which goes into the sand filter.

4. a) What is El Nino?

A: El Nino is refers to a warming that develops every three to five years in the pacific ocean off the coast of Peru.

b) Why does El Nino often cause drought in Australia?

A: El Nino causes drought in Australia because the moist easternly trade winds blow to the Pacific Ocean, blowing it the oppisite direction which prevents Australia to have warm moist air.

5. Observe the map showing the global effects of El Nino in 1982-83.

a) What effects does El Nino have on availability of fresh water?

A: El Nino effects the availability of fresh water because there can be long periods of rain which causes flooding, very heavy storms and tidal waves. Then the water becomes heavily polluted during a flood and there are very little clean wtaer is available.

b) Name the countries and describe the problems that arose from decreased rainfall caused by El Nino?

A: Africa- reduced corn crop in Sub Saharan region.

China- Agriculture land under the threat from drought in the northern regions and flooding in Southern regions.

Indonesia- High air pollution levels, following forest fires.

Philippines- Lower rice harvest following drought.

United States- Rainfall above normal in North-western states (double the historical averages)

Colombia- Fishing operators affected by lower catch (down 20%.)

Papua New Guinea- Drought related failure of food crops, leading to femine conditions requiring food aid.

Australia- What exports threatened by drought conditions across grain-growing areas, particularly New South Wles.

Peru- Flooding (also in Chile)

- Fishing operators affected by lower catch asa anchovy and Pacific sardine move offshore to escape warm currents (5C above normal temperatures)

Bintaro Lama Video

GeoActive-water

1. What percentage of the world's supply of water is fresh water?
A: There are 2.5 percent supply of fresh water.

2. Where is the world's supply of fresh water found?
A: Here are some places that fresh water is found; ice on land, groundwater, soil, atmosphere, rivers and lakes.

3. Even though the supply of fresh water is abundant it is still a problem. Why?
A: Because nowadays, people use modern technology and engineering. For examples, people build malls and other buildings that degrades infiltration. So the water might lead to somewhere else.

4. a) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the Southern to the Northern tip of Africa.
A: In the South part of Africa, the rainfall is about 250-1000mm, but if you travel to the middle, it's alot of rainfall, which is 1000-2000mm. In the North part, the rainfall is very little, under 250mm. That's why in the middle east it's mostly full of dry deserts.

b) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the western to the eastern tip of Australia along the Tropic of Capricorn.
A: The western part of Australia is dry, but a bit more rainfall than the Middle East. If you keep moving to the right, the reain gets heavier.

5. a) Which parts of the world appear to have a large amount of water available per person?
A: The top part of Asia, north america, south america, the middle of africa and the western and northern part of Australia.

b) Which parts of the world appear to have a small amount of water per person?
A) Mostly Europe, Asia and Africa appear to have a small amount of availability.

6. a) What are the main uses of water?
A: The main uses of water are drinking, because you can't live without it, and for showering because it's also a survival need.

b) Which uses have increased the most over the last centuary?
A: Probably industrial jobs, as in if the factories were making new juices or bottled water.

The Water Treatment Plantation

On November 12th, our class went on a trip to the water treatment plantation with Ms. Marrello. The place was called Atrea. It was for several minutes until we reached there. The place was obviously next to a river, beccause that's where the long, tiring process begins. We each had our tour guide to show us around.

In Stage 1, we went to the garbage removel through course and fine filters area. What happened there was they let the water flow from the brown river to the filters. There was this big end of the bulldozer that picked the garbages up and place it to the next station. It lands in their and lifts up, every hour. There were spikes or barriers to prevent the garbage from coming in. The purpose of it was to clean out the water from garbage, 6meters down.

In Stage 2, they add in chemicals and stir to create floc. You could see bubbly brown bubbles floating at the top of the water. The water was still dark brown. The purpose of this process is to add floc and coagulate all dirts particle to stick togeter.

In Stage 3, I could see that they allowed the sediments and floc to settle st the bottom of the water. They were in very deep tanks and the water turned into a better colour. The floc and alum were given time to settle to the bottom.

In Stage 4, the water was filtered through 1 meter of sand. But the sand has to be a specific type of sand; fine, same sized, small and not from the beach. Now the colour is getting real clearer.

In Stage 5, chemical disinfects are added. They also put in chlorine and other chemicals to kill the bacteria. After that happens, they're sent to the reservoirs.

In Stage 6, the final satge, testing is done to make sure water is clean and safe to use or drink. The lab was so amazing, because I've never really set eyes on a lab filled with science equipments. There were beakers filled with pink, green and blue chemical water. It smelt like chlorine. They showed us the before and after water product. Wow, was that a difference!

We ended the trip with watching an animated movie/video about why it's important to help preserving water, maybe by not throwing your garbage or anything harmful in not just the rivers, but also oceans, sinks, lakes and many more. It also reviewed the process we learnt about. There was then a 2-question-quiz, but unfortunately I didn't win the teardrop prize. Oh well my room is stuffed with toys. I enjoyed learning about the process and think that making clean water is a very long, tiring, expensive cycle/process.

Bintaro Lama field trip

On Thursday the 5th, half of 6th grade went to Bintaro Lama Kampung and the other half went to a Water Treatment place. Our class was the half that went to Bintaro Lama. Yuki and me were partners, so we were in a bus together in Ms. Whitley's group. We decided we were going to bring a voice recorder. Unfortunately, that wasn't such a good choice because when we were making the powerpoint, I had two voice recordings, but I had to borrow some pictures from Anna. We went to the Kampung which took us about an hour. Finally we arrived there and we each had our tour guides.

In Station 1, we learned about the sand filter. They had to dig 30 meters down to get the sand and water. They then pour in water into the sand filter nad slowly it becomes clean water. At least clean enough to take a shower. This filter contains sand, pebbles/rocks, gravel and water.

In Station 3, we moved on over to SODIS. SODIS is a station where they show how to clean the water by sun drying the bacteria. Some of the things they did was first clean the bottle and bottle cap with a scrubber and soap. Then they pour some water from the sand filter. After that they left the water bottle on top of the roof to sundry. One rule was that the bottle has to have one texture and no labels on it. If it does, the sun will bounce on the bottle, and that will cause it to not kill some bacterias. There should also be no bubbles in them.

In Station 5, we saw the water quality test. They showed us the DelAqua equipments and hot to use it properly. In the bag was some tubes and a measuring tubidity equipments. There were more things,vbut we weren't introduced to them. What you do with it is you connect the 3 tubes together, and make sure to hold the bottom part, where the x or o is so the water doesn’t spill. The point of the x or o is, after you fill up the tube, you shouldn’t see the markings, otherwise the water isn’t clean. How to use the measuring tubidity equipment is you dip in the thinner side and see the number. It's kind of like a thermometer.

Finally we ended the trip by some local kids singing a song for us. It was in Bahasa, and reminded us to wash our hands to be on the safe side. We then did indeed wash our hands with soap and water. This trip was helpful because we see that we get water way easier then the people who live in the Kampung. Also different creative ways to make fresh water.

The water cycle

Evaporation

In this picture, you can see that the sun is heating the water in the ocean, river or sea which causes the liquid to absorb the heat and go to the clouds. When that happens it turns steamy. The wind is also helping it, by blowing the water when it reaches the clouds. Later on it will turn into rain droplets and start all over again alonside the other parts of the water cycle.

Condensation
The picture on the left is when water vapour starts to evaporate and become clouds. Because it evaporates, it creates dew points.

Precipatation
This picture clearly shows precipitation is when any form of water; snow, freezing rain, hail, rain or more hits anywere on earth. If it hits water, after that it's evaporation. If it hits ground, it's infiltration.

Infiltration

This picture is when any form of water falls on the ground and seeps through. It then becomes ground water. When water precipitates, it can go two ways. It can infiltrate or run- off. Run-off is when any form of water reaches the ground and well.. runs off the ground and falls in the ocean or any body of water.

The Story Of Tracy Beaker

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By: Jacqueline Wilson

The story of Tracy Beaker is a comedy, heart- warming story. It's about a girl called Tracy Beaker who first lives in a Chidren's Home but might get adopted by Cam Lawson. Cam is a famous, adult author who visited the orphanage. She then spots Tracy and talks to her. Cam picked her because one of the carer's said that Tracy wanted to become an author and showed her work. Both of them start bonding and going out to MacDonalds. I say that I think Cam is going to adopt her because Tracy used to hate everyone and didn't want to get adopted. But with Cam it's different, because she keeps begging her to adopt her and is attaching to her. Tracy says that her real mom is a superstar and is really pretty. She thinks that she is going to come sooner or later. In my opinion I think she's lieing that her mom is famous. The Children's Home seem to agree with me too. Her enemies Louise and Justine don't beleive her because she's known for making up lies. Tracy is a very lazy, pestimestic, doesn't-care-about-anything-sort-of-person. If you're wondering in the interview video, why I'm so messy as Tracy Beaker, it's because she's not well-groomed and doesn't care about her looks.

Later on in the story, Cam is wondering of publishing one of Tracy's storie's. So she might become a famous author, like what I hope to be. I enjoy Jacqueline Wilson's books and so might you!

The interview with Tracy Beaker

This is an interview with the messy, laid-back Tracy Beaker who lives in a Children's Home, but then became a famous author.

My first time on the sled

On a wintery day in Switzerland, I, a five year old, decided to go sledding for my first time. We arrived at a ski inn resort wearing mittens, ski jackets and snow goggles. My older sister, Farzana brought along her skis, because she already experienced the excitement before, and has reached the level of skiing. Instead of adult snow equipment, I brought along a red small sled that can only fit me and an adult. My family and I found a snowy hill that wasn’t overwhelming. We decided to use that one for me, for starters. My mom and I climbed up the hill passing people going down on their ski equipment. This was so exciting for me that I rushed my way up with the sled dragging along with me. When I finally reached at the top my mom set the red sled down. My mom sat at the front, while I clutched her back tightly, fearing I might fall. She pushed one foot and we were off! I felt a tingle and adrenaline rush as we went speeding down the hill. My heart was racing so fast like the speed I was going on my sled. I could feel the wind, briskly on my face going the opposite direction. My mom had to use the steering brake to dodge other people. I could see my family waiting at the bottom of the hill getting bigger and bigger until I reached the bottom of the hill.

You might know that kids are filled with enthusiasm and excitement. Since I was only a kid I was jumping up and down begging my mom to go again. We climbed up the same hill again a few times more, but my mom was exhausted. She didn’t want to tolerate me, so she let me go up a small hill, but alone. Here is where the trouble starts. I climbed up the hill with a wide grin on my face, once more and sat on my sled. I pushed off with all my might and went zooming down. At some part of the hill, I stopped at an abrupt halt, and was no longer on the sled anymore. It was so long ago, I can’t remember what went wrong, but what I do remember is I went flying off the sled, tumbling, rolling on and on. I saw the world going round and I felt dizzy. I could see tiny dots, which were my family, vividly. I appreciate that it was ice, or it would have hurt because it’s like doing 15 flips, my head getting squished. When I finally stopped all that chaos and reached the bottom of the hill, I landed at a very weird position, and I’m telling you it’s the worst -the splits. To add more of the embarrassment, my family was laughing at me, with a few other Swiss-goggled strangers. Now this is a very unforgettable first time.

My first break holiday

Wow am I tired! It's been 1 day after my family and I went to Bandung and Bogor. Speaking of Bogor, there was just an hurricane there. I am so thankful that I left after that happen or else, I don't know what. I'm actually scared living here. There are earthquakes, heavy rain that could cause flooding, fires and things. Now to focus on the good side, if you could see on the right, it's a picture of me in Bandung, Puncak. It was like 15 degrees or less! I was shivering so much, but I got a good view of the volcano crater. It was so amazing, I've never been that close to a volcano. Oh no it started to rain! Now it's even more colder! We rushed back in our car after we got pictures with the volcano. It took about 3 hours to get there or more.

After that we went strawberry picking. We collected 1 kilogram of strawberries. The experience there was different, because it was in pots, but when I was living in Switzerland we picked it in bushes or shrubs, like a big field. We also collected some blackberries.

We stayed at a hotel which was called G.H Universal. It was such a beautiful place. I loved the style of the place. I missed staying in hotels. Ever since the holiday started, I haven't been at my house. On Monday, I stayed at Shangri-La for three days. And I met Natasha, ( my friend who also goes to JIS) and we swam together with my brother. I just swam today with my brother again at my backyard pool. I feel so tired and dizzy since I've been staying up late every night. I won't be doing that anymore since school's coming. Ahh.. I'll miss the holidays, but school comes second. First is my family and religion.

The next day, we went to Bogor which took about 3hours because we took the volcano way. I felt so pukey and dizzy going around on the twisted road. We were going to Taman Safari, and I was so excited.There were so many stalls selling carrots and bananas to feed the animals but once you get there at the safari, you can't get out of your car or else the animals will attack you! It's set out in a forest, and there are different sections where the animals have their own habitat. You just drive on the safari track, passing animals. We bought 2 bundles of carrots and we fed some to the zebras, llamas, deers, giraffes and many more. The llamas were really annoying because they kept on begging near cars that passed for food. Do the zookeepers even feed them?

We saw so many animals like hippos, monkeys, peacocks, elephants, otters, oxens and-you get the point. If I named them all they would fill up the whole page. And also if I showed you all the pictures too. On the right is a picture of me feeding the zebra some carrots. I was scared at first, but then I got the hang of it. When we reached the lions, tigers and leopards, they told us to close our window, because you might get bitten. They were so amazing and pretty. But 1 tiger scratched the back tire of our car. Actually it wasn't our car, we rented it. Because my dad didn't want his Mercedes to be damaged or dirty, so we used the Toyota. The car got scratched several times. My the tiger, antlers of a ox and when we were going home, a silly taxi bumped into the back of the car. We have to pay a lot for the damages!

Well I had a fantastic break but it's off to school!

Vocabulary 2

1. rowdies- out of control/ people who behave badly
2. resurrected- to bring something back to life or usefulness
3. pledge- more of a promise/ unbrakable vow
4. brazier- a metal, iron grill pot
5. putrefy- a solid thing (ex. meat) that is rotting and has a fetid smell
6. spontaneous- to act without planning or much thoughts
7. discreetly- without much attention drawn to it
8. martyred- someone who sacrifices their life for their strong beliefs
9. preposterous- out of the zone of normal/ unexpected
10. scouring- to check, find something intently and detailed

Series of unfortunate events #12 The Penultimate Peril

By: Lemony Snicket
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This second to last book is when the Baudelaires meet Kit Snicket, Jacques Snicket's sister. They feel like their lives might feel happy again. Kit gives them a job at the hotel Donuement. They have to disguise as concierge and flanuers. The hotel is the last safe place for V.F.D and they have to meet on Thursday. But on their trip as concierges, they found out that the notorious villian, Count Olaf is in the hotel, planning a cocktail party. They have to be seperate to do the jobs. The people they help are villians that Count Olaf invited to his cocktail party, and people they've met throughout their miserable lives. But there are volunteers from V.F.D in the Hotel. They met Dewey Donuement, the good volunteer spy who followed the Baudelaires, but could never get hold and save them. But later sadly, he got killed. And now the Baudelaires are sailing away with Count Olaf, after setting the hotel on fire.

Vocabulary sentences

1. In the book, series of unfortunate events Count Olaf is the nefarious villian who tries to steal the fortune.
2. For mother's day, I'm going to need some corrugated cardboard to make a nice border frame.
3.When I passed the dumpsters, I whiffed off a strong fetid smell that almost knocked me off my feet.
4. Most moms have frivolous things that are not necassary like handbags and shoes.
5. In science class, we used vials to create experiments and measure substances.
6. People that are not so easy to get along with are the one who are conceited and have a big ego.
7. I felt like gagging after lunchtime, because I ate too much food.
8. It is intolerable in my house to not help out with chores and not finishing your homework.
9. There was this really desolated island, I found on Google Earth.
10. I stared at the bubbles as it was frothing in my coffee latte.

Me and I sentences

1. Last weekend, my family and I went shopping in Senayan City.

2.My brother always likes to disturb me when I am doing my homework.

3. Over the semester break, my siblings and I bought ice-cream at the beach.

4. For Hari Raya, my mom and I baked delicious, chocolate-chip brownies.

5. My freind and I are going to the cinemas to watch G-force.

6. Since I was sick for the production, a backup took my place.

Series of unfortunate events #11 The Grim Grotto

By: Lemony Snicket

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This fascinating book is continued when the Baudelaires are being founded by 2 people in the stricken stream. The people are Captain Widdershins who is a good friend of the Baudelaires' parents and the other person is Fiona, the captian's stepdaughter who is now their friend. They go into caverns to find the sugar bowl, a very special, secret item to save themselves, but at the end they didn't find it. Fiona betrayed the Baudelaires by joining Count Olaf and his evil troupe. At the very end of the book, they met Kit Snicket, another one of the Baudelaires parnet's friend. And for the first time they felt that their lives are finally going to change out of the unfortunate events.

Definately check this book out because when you start reading this, you'll never want to put it down! Or might as well read the whole series!

Elvis lives! and other anagrams

By: Jon Agee

This funny book is about anagrams like Southern California-hot sun or life in a car. An anagram is when you take a sentence or word and jumble it to create new sentences and words like punishment?-nine thumps. It has the same amount of letter and the same letters.

Jon Agee is an author and illustrator for children's books. He writes creative, funny books about words. One of his many books is Smart Fellar, Fart smeller when he introduces spoonerisms which is when you switch the first letters of each word in the sentence. One of the examples is well oiled bycicle-well boiled icycle.

Check out his books at the library and get your mind thinking about what you can do with words.

Characterization

From the book: The Grim Grotto

By: Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket really brings some characters alive like the evil Count Olaf. There are some new characters like Captain Widdershins and Fiona who have a very distinctive attitude.He presents the characters by their actions or by another character's interaction. And each chapter we get to see more of what the character is like.

On page 2 , Lemony Snicket shows that Violet was an inventor who could get away of hard situations through out her miserable life. "Violet who was 15 years old and nearly the best inventor who had ever found herself trapped in the grey waters of the stricken stream, found her way out by using some tools she had early on." That explains that a girl so young had a brilliant mind, and yet could escape. It matches to the chart underneath hobbies, cause she loved inventing.

On page 3, Lemony brings Count Olaf's greediness to the page. Part of the sentence wrote, "the amount of trouble and woe these skills would bring him once he and his siblings met up with Count Olaf, the notorious villian who had been after the children ever since their parents had perished in a terrible fire." The fire was even done by him, so he could get his filthy hands on the Baudelaire's rich fortune. The author gave a hint with the keyword notorious villian, to show that he never did any good. It also shows how eager and desperate he is to get the money. It matches with number 9 on the chart.

On page 7, he brings out violet's inventing skills again with the quote, "and she looked at her siblings, who were waiting for her inventing skills to save them." Usually Violet was the one who saved them, so her unventions have to be strong to hold them all. They always relied and depend on her, but she didn't mind because she loved her sibling very much. This means she cares about them to love them.

Because of the different characters and the way he introduces them, I keep on reading his fantastic books!

Disaster strikes Java

On September 02 2009 around three o' clock, a disaster hits java, Indonesia. The whole island was shaking from small to big. It was only a few minutes around Jakarta, but in Bandung and Tasikmalaya it was shaking for ten minutes because it was the closest cities to the ocean. This natural disaster caused 2,900 people to be seriously injured and 48 dead. There are also people who are not found yet becasue they're trap underneath houses that collapsed, mostly in the villages. It was 7.0 RS. Scientists said there's going to be an earthquake 30 times more then this, but they're not sure when. Can you imagine it? This earthquake was really dizzy and scary enough for me!



As we know earthquakes comes from underneath oceans, which causes the water to rise. Scientist and reporters gave out a tsunami warning, but already in some places there was flood. It's not surprising because we are on the ring of fire, unlike if it was in Europe or other places away from it, it would be shocking. As you heard people say that animals always come out before the earthquake or act abnormal, it's because they have senses. If they live underground they would probably hear it or feel the vibration, but if they're not underground they have instincts and don't act like themselves. here's a real life story: In school, when most people were gone home, the teachers were having a meeting when suddenly a big fat snake came out of nowhere. Out of all the days of it's life, the snake chose this day to finally come out to warn people about this earthquake. The teachers were all scared but they didn't realize that it was a warning because they weren't use to earthquakes. Your pet might run around in circles or make unusual noises.

So just be careful.....

The series of unfortunate events #10 The slippery slope

by

Lemony Snicket

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This wonderful book is about three orphans whose parents died in a fire done by the evil Count Olaf. He tries to get his hands on the Baudelaires rich fortune inherited from their parents. They keep getting sent to guardians their parents friends with, but Count Olaf murders them all one at a time, until he kidnapps the orphans. Count Olaf finds them annoying when they are the ones who are well-behaved and polite. So he thinks he should just take one Baudelaire which is the youngest, Sunny and leave the other two behind. Because in order to take the fortune, one Baudelaire has to be alive. Count Olaf and his evil troupe head to the Mortmain mountains on the highest peak and finds the V.F.D headquarters. The V.F.D headqaurters is a place where the Baudelaires parents and other friends, secretly meet. Later on they burn down the headquarters. Violet and Klaus some how found Sunny again and someone they would never expect to meet, Quigley Quiqmire. Their friend's triplet who was claimed dead. But that wasn't true. They find the burned down head quarters, and tries to find more clues to their parent's past.

I reccomend this book to anyone who is in for an adventure, or likes complicated, miserable books. This book is a bit challenging and has many series linked with more mysteries after another. There are 13 books in all, and I'm on 11. Almost there!!

Facts about Lemony Snicket

This amaing author's real name is Daniel Handler. He uses Lemony Snicket as a pen name, becasue he's known for being mysterious. For example, if you see all his pictures, it's in black and white, but they're recent pictures. And also he wears a hat and his back to the camera. Rarely you will see his face in pictures. He beleived that some children didn't have a happy begginings and that was true. Daniel's father fled from germany as a young boy because of the Holocaust. "I learned about the Holocaust at a very young age than everyone else", said Daniel Handler. The information affected him in his writing and politics. His famous series: a series of unfortunate events is about three miserable orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny who's parents died because of a fire done by the evil villian Count Olaf. He tries to steal the Baudelaire's rich fortune, so every guardian who takes care of the orphans, he murders them all until he kidnapps them. It's about the miserable journey of orphans. That's why all he's book are not happy. He also plays the accordion because his mom and dad are opera singers.

The books that I read from him are the sereis of unfortunate events from book 1 to book 10. Here are the list of titles starting from 1. The bad beggining, The reptile room, The wide window, The miserable mill, The austere academy, The ersatz elavator, The vile village, The hostile hospital, The carnivorous carnival, and the book that I'm reading right now is The slippery slope.

Links

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff=/c/a/2003/10/13/DD138106.DTL

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/23/daniel_narrowweb__300x336,0.jpg

http://www.lemonysnicket.com/

Typhoon Morokat

This is a picure of a 6 storey hotel that collapsed in the taitung county in taiwan done by the disasterous Typhoon Morokat. I chose this picture because I wanted to show how strong the current of the waves was at the bottomof the picture. Also I wanted to show how powerful the typhoon was that it knocked down a heavy brick, tall building. It was starting to lean in the first picture and the next one is when it's pulling the weight down. After that it collapses into the river and crashes into peices. Now no one knows where it's vanished to. The officials said that 300 of them were evacuated and uninjured. But dozens are still missing and feared dead. It was the worst flooding in 50 years. It hit Taiwan and the east part of China. The typhoon broke the famous bridge in the Chaiyi river. What we're trying to learn from this natural disaster is the people of Taiwan and how they connect and interact with it. We also want to know how the typhoon can seep into the ground and soil, which bases it down to learning about the environment.

First day of middle school

On a sunny August 10th i started middle school and i was feeling excited but nervous at the same time. I made my way down the ramp near the high school science rooms and looked at the at the student's board to see what class i was in. I eventually found my name and next to it was the name, Micheal Hughes. I looked next to it which said Q2. That was my teacher and that was my classroom module. It wasn't so far away since i had to turn around and walk straight, but wait a second, RING!, that was the morning bell and i was late. I rushed into the candle-scented classroom where everyone was already sitting. My teacher passed me a chair. As always, we introduced ourselves and wrote the day schedules. I had beggining strings and drama today. And the next day I had french 1A and PE.

At break time I finally saw my friends and we shared our holiday stories. I also bought my school supplies at D'Toko and bought my lucnh ticket for a hotdog. I headed for begginingg strings in 1-13. I was going to play violin. Then it was lunchtime and i ate my hotdog with my new and old friends. After that i rushed to math/science in P5 with Ms. Marrello. We disscussed the classroom expectations and other things. I ended the day with drama. I was really nervous about this because i'm a bit shy and in drama you have to do things that are loud. After the last bell rang i went back to my homeroom to go over the last few things

Well middle school is exhausting but fun at the same time.