There are still pirates

Eleven Somali pirates captured by a French warship are being taken to Kenya for trial. The pirates will be tried under an agreement between the EU and Kenya. The Somalian prime minister said that pirates could only be defeated on land. They would always find ways to escape patrols.

Big Explosion

Two months ago, there was a big explosion in Kenya because of a truck carrying petrol exploded. More than a hundred and twenty-one people were killed and more got hurt. Near the town of Molo, the tanker crashed spilling petrol over the ground. The people hurried to gather it. The petrol caught alight and the tanker exploded.

MY PHOTO JOURNAL

Going to School
7:40, time to go to school for a long day of work. I go there with my mom who drives me everyday there through the streets of Hsinchu.
I am lucky because I go there in a car so I don't need to get up too early, and I go there with my mom who’s got enough time to drive me.




Humanities
Every Tuesday and Friday, we got our humanities class. Like in every other class, we, strangely, use laptops. It is interesting, but the problem is that at the end you have so much homework. But it is only the first class in the day, still 3 to go.
The African kids don’t air conditioned class, and they definitely don’t use laptops, they don’t have enough money, they would rather use the money for food.



Sweet Home
I am finally back at home. Time to talk to my grandparents by the computer and also get a snack. I sometimes mess around with a tennis ball, also.
The people in Africa don’t have computers, they don’t eat snacks, and they do the chores instead of playing.




Homework, Cruel Homework
Most days, I have homework. Mostly humanities but also math and science. It is definitely the time I hate the most in the day.
I am even lucky for homework time, because I can use actual material, and after I am done with the homework I don’t have to do anything else, no watering the fields, etc...





Playing Time!
After finishing all my homework, I usually go play basketball with my best friend, or soccer with other people. This is my favorite moment of the day; I love sport!
I have a choice of doing what I want. I don’t have any obligations. When I am done with the work I do anything I want, like playing. I can play on a real field with an actual ball.







Dinner
After all this, I have dinner around 7:00. We sometimes go to the restaurant, sometimes not. I still like my mom’s food the best.
The day I took this picture, I was at the restaurant. I don’t think Africans spend money on restaurants.






Asleep…
After getting washed, reading, and playing, it is time for me to go to bed. Unfortunately, I hate sleeping and my parent make me sleep at 9 o’clock.
The little Africans don’t get washed everyday, they have no books to read, and I think they go to bed much later than 9 because of their chores.

The Culture in the Stories

Story #1
They have to leave the palace early to discover the world.
They believe that animals can always help you.

Story #2
It is not good to hit children even if it is usual there.
Their stories talk about daily lives.
They usually have morals.
You should always follow adults advice.

Story #3
There was magic in this story, the wizards, the magic honey, etc...
There was also two moral.
Laziness is bad.
making friends is important.

Human Rights Activists Hiding

The human rights activists in Kenya are hiding because of receiving death threats in wake of a scathing United Nations report on extrajudicial police executions.

Policeman Arrests War Crime Suspect, Kenya

In Kenya, a policeman arrested a man in the coastal city of Mombasa that was suspected to be involved in war crimes in Yugoslavia. The police is now interrogating him.

A Pyramid Has Been Unearthed

In Egypt, archeologists say that they have unearthed a pyramid older than 4000 years. The discovery was in Saqqara, south of Cairo. The site's known as one of the most famous burial place for rulers of ancient Egypt. It is the 118th pyramid found, it had belonged to queen Sesheshet. All that is left of it is a 5 meter high square base, but the most famous archeologist said the remains had been more than 3 times this height.

New Tomb Found in Egypt

Archeologist are celebrating their founding, they discovered more than 20 mummies. They might be over 2600 years old, and the items inside the tombs are even older. One sarcophagus is over 4000 years old. For the moment, archeologist only opened one sarcophagus, but they are hoping to find more mummies inside the others. Four of the mummies had a dog buried with them. It is very rare to find a burial site in as good conditions.

Draw Borders

I used what I learned about geography, economics, and sociology to draw the borders for Kenbrena Webquest because if a country is only mountains, how does it grow food, it would die. If a country is super long, how can you defend it. If it doesn't have rivers, it is almost impossible for it to survive. If there are not any resources, where do you get the money from? If people don't get along, there would be continuous fights which exetremely bad for a it. Any country wouldn't survive if the people that determined the borders didn't care about geography, economics or sociology.

How to Have a Strong Country

To have a strong country, you don't only need rich people. You need more poor people than reach people actually. If you don't have any poor people, who will go to war, rich people don't want to die for their country. Who will grow food, rich people don't want to do hard manual work. Who will build houses, they don't want to carry too heavy things that might hurt them badly. Without poor, there won't be any hard jobs done. That is why a country needs both, the poor and the rich.

Kenbrena Social Classes

Some groups get along together and some groups do not because some groups could be jealous of the others or some groups could feel superior. Maybe in the early history, the groups had a fight and they hated each other over generations.
My family makes me think the most about the Franklos because we don't look like any other, but I don't think we are like the Franklos either.

YouTube Blocks Music

If you are a big fan of watching videos on YouTube... too bad, because they blocked them all. At 18:00 on Monday, thousands of videos started becoming unavailable. YouTube which is owned by Google say that it would cost too much to keep them online. And not only the ones that are uploaded by companies are being blocked but also the ones uploaded by official fans of the site.
Stange...

Policeman Killed

A police man got killed after responding to an emergency call in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Shots were fired at two officers in the patrol car after being called in Craigavon on Monday. Politicians spoke out about the shooting and paid a tribute to the dead policeman. No one has admitted who carried out the attack which happened 2 days after 2 other soldiers got killed in Antrim

My Learning of the 5 Themes of Geography

Geography is the study of the natural features and inhabitants of the Earth.

Right now, I am at home, in Kao Fong Road Lane 194 Alley 8 House 7. I am 15 minutes away from my school, HIS. I am in the living room. My parents are in the room where one of the computers are, they are in front of me. From here, I can see three other houses.

The term physical when we describe a place is the land features around it, the natural things. The term human, is what the humans made, the buildings, the cars, etc... And the cultural is how the humans interact with the geography.

Humans adapt to the environment because we can't just blow off mountains or drown lakes. And we settled near rivers a long time ago for water and food. We change the environment when we cut off trees, when we build houses or factories, and when we make dams. Almost everything we build changes the environment.
Humans depend on the environment for water which is in the rivers, for food, the animals that we hunt, and for many more things. Without the environment we wouldn't be able to live.

Movement always affect because you rarely do not move. During the day, you are always in movement, when you go to school, when you move from class to class, even you go eat dinner.
I interact with the fruits I eat everyday. Some of them are moved from one country to my house, while some of them are just moved from a field, but in anyway it is movement. I interact with the car that brings to school, it is always in movement. And I interact with many more things.

A formal region is a region that has been determined by the government, it is official. A functional region is like the city where people work and the suburbs where people live. A perceptual region is what the region is in your head, how you imagine it.

Resources

Capital resources: the money you use to produce more wealth. ex: hiring people, building factories.
Human resources: the quantity of people, the skills they have. ex: carpenters, teachers.
Natural resources: the resources that the nature gives you. ex: water, mountains.

My Holidays

For my holidays, I went many times (almost every summer) into a region of Spain called Cataluña.
It is both, formal and perceptional.
The formal part is because it is a real region of Spain. There, the people have their own language, Catalan, but they also speak Spanish; they have to learn both at school. This region also wants to be independent from Spain. So, it is really formal.
The perceptional part is that when I go there, I only think of the coast, where I really go, Salou. The labels in the stores are not written in Spanish, they are written in Catalan. It is a very touristic town. There is the sea, huge hotels. You can meet people from all sorts of countries, the menu in the restaurants is in many different languages. But this happens only in that part of Cataluña. It is also perceptional, then.

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.

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