Language Arts-How can we Reduce, Reuse, and Rycycle?

Reducing
-Walk, run
-Turn off lights/ other electrical devices
-No air conditioning
-Fast showers
-Less homework (wastes less electricity and saves trees)

Reusing
-Don't throw away new plastic bottles.
- Give anything you don't one to someone else instead of throwing it away.


Recycling
Batteries, Plastic, Paper, Glass, Aluminum, Steel, Motor Oil, Tires, Toxics, Refrigerators, Computer Printers, False Claims, Curbside Recycling Tips.

Opposition Leader Wants to Stop Zuma

With the national election being held next Wednesday, The opposing leader, Helen Zille started a campaign to stop Zuma. While it may be imposable for her to keep Jacob Zuma, the leader of the governing African National Congress (A.N.C), from being president, she hopes to stop the A.N.C from getting two-third of all the votes and make changes to the Constitution. The A.N.C. wants to defend itself “from corruption investigations, even if it means undermining the constitution,” she warned that South Africa can become a “failed state.” The governing party has held a two-thirds majority for the past five years without making these changes.



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/world/africa/16briefs-002.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=south%20africa&st=cse

Culture of Africa

In out humanities class we read two stories ("Fafi's Sheep" and "The Three Tests") and we are are suppose to write a blog post about what we learned about their culture after we read to story.

Since lots of people that live in Africa can not read or write words, they tell stories. The stories are usually being passed down from grandfather to father then to children.

In the first story ("The Three Tests"), a prince went traveling around the ocean to search for his brothers. On his way, he met lots of friends. There are lots of supernatural occurrences in the story too. The main character was able to see genies. The next story was about a boy who never listens to anybody. One day, his pet sheep escapes and he was able to lear his lesson to listen to advices.

Most of the people in Africa were poor. They lived in communities so the chance of getting attacked by other people or animals will be less. The jobs there are mostly selling products. Instead of horses, they race with goats and sheep. People there live in small round huts made of mud and grass. It was not a rare sight for a child to get beaten by a stick. The clothing they wore was very simple, it was rare to see a person wearing jewelry or precious stones.

There are lots of other stories. Some about daily life and some about adventures, but all the stories I have read so far have included a moral.

Humanity-Journal

In humanities class. We are learning about Africa. We read some of their websites bout their daily life and what they do. Our teacher told us to make a journal of our daily life on the blog and explain how ours is different from theirs.



Once you get home from school, nothing beats playing on the piano, though I want a real one. I never really like playing songs I am told to play be my teacher...



A drink, I only like cold drinks.. Then I will stuff my face with food.








RELAXX~~~~ Play wii or read manga on the computer.








Homework.... You can never be done with it. Time goes so slow when you do homework....







If I don't have anything else to do or don't need to go to any classes then I will start to do random things (Read manga, watch TV, run around, draw, piano, you get the point)

Difference I have with the children in Africa in my daily life.

-I have electricity, some of the places in Africa does not have electricity .
- I don't need to plant my own meals. Some schools in Africa has their own vegetable patch for them to provide food for the people at the school.
- I live in an urban area, most south Africans live in more rural areas.