Volcanoes....

About 150 people had to leave their houses for the second year because of a volcano that is 10km from the town started erupting. The Chaiten volcano was said dormant for 9000 years until it woke last May. Thousands of people had left the town as ash covered the ground and went into rivers causing flooding. People had just returned but then they had to leave again because of the eruption on Thursday.

Bushfires

More people in Australia had to leave their homes because of bushfire that destroyed one house and injured three firefighters. Two weeks ago there was a fire in the state of Victoria that killed 210 people and left thousands of homeless people. Firefighters struggled to keep the fire off, but there are fears that the winds are driving the fires to other places.

Geographic Lens #4

The video is talking about the geography standards.
It focuses on the content of geography and the skills of geography.
18 content standards are divided into 6 elements: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, the uses of geography.
The geographic skills are: asking geographic questions, acquiring geographic information, organizing geographic data, analysis and synthesis, finding answers.

To My Friend's House

When I go to my friend's house:
I walk outside my home and I see this dog with its ripped T-shirt in front of its owner's garden. I turn left and go for 16m. While walking, I hear birds singing and on the right there is a small garden with pink and red flowers. I turn left again and walk up a small hill for 30m until I see a swimming pool in front of me. I go left again and go along the swimming pool with its palm trees around for 13m; dogs start barking at me. I turn right, around the swimming pool, and go up 75 stairs still hearing the birds singing. After going up, I turn left and go forward for more than 35m, on the sides I see parked cars, gardens, and many flowers of different colors. I stare at my right, and finally I see my friend's house. In the house in front of it, there is an old man cultivating tiny trees; he also has a parrot that his always singing. And then, I look back at my friend's habitation. Over my head, there is a basketball hoop. On the right, there is a ping pong table. On the left, there is a car. And straight ahead, I see light going through his door.
This is what I do, see and hear when I go to his house.

Puzzles and Drift

In class, we tried to make puzzles. We had pieces of blank paper and had to reproduce an double A4 piece of paper. And then, we had to reproduce a newspaper page.

Continental drift is the moving of continents. The parts of the Earth are arranged in many pieces that come together and move apart. This is the idea of continental drift.

The puzzles related to continental drift because the pieces of a puzzle are a lot like tectonic plates (which make the continental drift), when they are together, they make a whole thing, a piece of paper, or the Earth.

Geography

The first video talked about how geography affected climate, how the dry season and the monsoon are related to geography. And they tell us that geography in Greek means the description of the Earth.
The second talked about how geography affected people. In different places, they grow different kinds of food, wear different clothing, and live in the different kinds of houses.

What do I like and what do I dislike about this book?

I liked the way he survived for so many days on his skiff.
I disliked the fact that there was hardly any action, the book was mostly description. I also disliked the main theme of this book, I am not very interested in fishing.
Overall, I didn't like the book because there was really no action for a young person.

World Tour

We have to make Mr. Carpenter go around the world, and cross twice the equator.
So, I will send him:
- First, you will depart from Taipei (25º 04' 00''N and 121º 33' 06''E) at 10 AM to go to Los Angeles ( 33°55'44"N and 118°24'41"W). The flight will last about 11 hours. You will arrive at 5 AM!!!, because of the time zones. You will spend 5 hours in LA.
- Then, at 10 AM, you will take a 7:30 hours flight to Brazil (3°17'3"S and 60° 4'45"W) which will be the first time you cross the equator. You will arrive there at 21:30, for the same reason, time zones.
- You will spend a night in a five star hotel called Hotel Ariaú.
- At 9 AM, take a flight to Barcelona, Spain ( 41°16'48"N and 2° 4'55"E) with an arrival at 20 o'clock and will stay at the center of the town in Hotel Rivoli Ramblas.
- Then, the next day, you take a flight at 8:30 to Madagascar (13°43'40"S and 48°34'24"E) that will last 8 hours, and you will arrive there at 18:30 AM.
- After 4 hours, you will go to the Northern Territory of Australia ( 12°36'36"S and 130°54'23"E). You will get there at 3 AM and spend more than 1 day in the Travelodge Mirambeena Resort Darwin, another five star hotel.
- The next day at 10, you will go to Hong Kong ( 22°18'42"N and 113°55'48.79"E) in a 4:30 hour flight, and arrive there at 13.
- Then, 5 hours later, you will take the final 1 hour flight back to Taiwan (25º 04' 00''N and 121º 33' 06''E). You will get there by 19, and go home.

I know my flight wasn't too much of visiting. It was more of doing the whole world in a small amount of time and going to the very important places.

Where is the Art Room?

Absolute Location:
24º 47' 47'' North
120º 56' 34'' East

Relative Location from the entrance of the school:
30m N
20m E
6m N
20m W
And you are in the art room

Geography

Geography is the study of Earth and its lands, features and inhabitants.

The Old Man and the Sea

The scene I drew is when the old man caught a tuna when he was fishing for the huge marlin. After catching it, he ate it because he was starving.

Why Is Where Important?

Where is very important because depending on where you are, you have to change your habits. If you are in Alaska, you won't wear the same clothes as if you were Thailand. If you are in school, you don't do the same things as if you were in a holiday. But it also changes the job you might have. But it would change many more things.
So knowing or telling someone else where you are is very important for yourself and the other person.

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection

Summarize:
For SMASH day, we tried to make a periscope, the thing submarines use to see above water. We had to see what was inside a box that was on a table, keeping our heads under the table. We were given a cardboard box, 10 pieces of paper (that our group didn't use), 1 meter of tape, and 2 pairs of scissors.

Reflect:
We modified our design only once, first we did a simple way, and then we consolidated our periscope. We knew that we should modify it because usually, the first way isn't the best. We knew what to modify, because we were trying every time we changed a little thing. Everyone gave ideas of how to change it. For example, someone might say that we need to make a part stronger, the other might say where we should put the mirrors, etc...

Tips and Suggestions:
First, do something very simple where you can kind of see what is in the box.
Then, improve it.

What do you think the moral to The Old Man and the Sea is?

The moral to this story is: The fight between human and nature. How sometimes human win, sometimes nature wins.

Peter's Presentation

I didn't know about religions and wasn't interested in it, but Peter's presentation was fantastic, and interesting. I couldn't remember much because I didn't know anything before. The thing I could remember the best was the chart of how many percent of people were from each religion. I could remember some of this because I really love math, so I remember pretty well what deals with numbers. I discovered that about: 33% were Christians, 20% were Islamic, 20% nonreligious, 10% Hindu, 6% Buddhist, and only 1% were Jews. I thought much more people were Jews. I forgot some religions but those are the main ones. And that there were three main monotheistic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam. So this what I really remembered. And sorry Peter for not being able to remember more.

Nadal Number One

Nadal, the Spanish tennis player, is the first Spanish man to win the Australian Open. The number one, winner of the French Open, Wimbledon, and the Olympic Games 2008, and now winner of the Australian Open, beat Federer in a wonderful final. The score was 7-5 3-6 7-6 3-6 6-2. It was one of the most beautiful games in the history of tennis. Every point was on the lines, and the two ran like crazy. Now everyone, remember this name: Rafael Nadal.

Hit the Jackpot

If I won £10,000,000 in the lottery, I would give half of it to the Red Cross, because it is the only one I know, so I guess it is the best.

Write about your luckiest moment

The luckiest moment in my life was when I was born, but I can't talk about it.
The luckiest moment that I can talk about is when I found my best friends in Spain. I started playing with them when I was seven, and I still play with them.
But I am not a lucky person.

Effective Communicator

I think Patrick Chen, my friend from G7, is an effective communicator. For me, he is an effective communicator because he speaks loudly and clearly, he looks at people, he answers a lot of questions, and he doesn't stress when he has to talk.