Introducing my self

Hello~!!!!!!!!!! I want to see you very much~! Today, I’m going to introduce my self.  Enjoy it and have a good time!

1. I like to read books, playing flute, and just being lazy at weekends.
2. I can do ice-skating, T-ball, swimming and ski but except ski, I can’t do it very well.
3. I like to listen to music or eating healthy foods.
4. I love to eat foods that my grandmother or mother make for me.
5. My favorite subject is English and math. ( I really hated math before, but I love it very much~!)
6. I live in Seoul, Korea and I go to Gilwon Elementary School.
7. My nickname is rabbity.
8. I will go to Young Hoon international middle school next year.( I can’t still believe it~!!!!)
9. My favorite color is brown and purple and yellow-green too.
10. I have iPad in my house.(I should bring it to KMLA because of games…..I miss it a lot!@@)
11. I like to sing, but I’m not very good at singing.
12. I have shoulder length long hair.
13. I’m now writing about my self in KMLA camp. Have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GLPS-New start of the blog posting~!

Hi everyone~ Long time no see~! From today, I decided to use my blog as a diary or journal or anything that reports my life in GLPS.  I’m now in KMLA(Korean Minjok Leadership Academy) and I participate in Global Leadership Program for Students. I’m enjoying it and it’s really fun~! One really important thing that will happen in GLPS is pop song contest in this Saturday. I’m in class 14, and our class decided to participate this contest all together! Our song was chose Dynamite by Taio Cruz and I was very familiar with this song because my older brother cousin, who is in Sydney, Australia, loves this song. So I heard this song almost every day when I was in Australia for one month to travel. I’ll put the video clip of  it bellow. Enjoy it~! Today, we did debate in first and second period , and topic was first one for ‘which is better, pizza or raymun’  and second one for ‘Fast food is beneficial’. I was pro side at second topic, and I said pizza is better.  I thought( I was picked to do proside by teacher) fast food is beneficial because we can save our time by eating fast food, and if all of company worker eat fast food,  it will help to develop economy of the company, which connects with Korea’s economy to grow. Also, I thought pizza is better because we can know what is inside the pizza, (like tomato sauce, cheese, and onions) but we cannot know what is made of ramyun soup (it’s all red powder which looks so spicy). And we did writing class,  so I can write to you.  I’m very hungry now, and I want to go to eat lunch fast~!!! Have a good day~!!!!!!!!

Space Science

 On June , Naro (KSLV-1) was launched into space for the second time. Sadly, however, Naro lost contact with base 137 seconds after the take–off. Even though we was failed to launch naro to do it’s own business, we should keep developing of a space science. If I can only chose one astromy subject, I will chose a space development. Because first, there will be a space race in the future. The space program has greatly contributed to the progress of science. water perifier, micro wave, sun glasses, navigation, and DNB. they are all looked  as if they are not connected with Space science but they are based on space science.

7.4:The Balkan Countries/8.1:Physical Geography

Summary 1- 7.4

By the 600s BC the ancient Greeks had founded colonies on the northern Black Sea coast. When the Roman Empire divided into west and east in the late AD 300s, the Balkan Peninsula became part of the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire. People created their own kingdoms. Trouble between the Balkan kingdoms and their neighbors led to World War 1. After World War 1, the Balkans changed dramatically. Most people of the Balkans, like most Europeans, are Christian. Islam is also common. In fact, Albania is the only country in Europe in which most people are Muslims. Most languages in the region belong to the Slavic family and are related to Russian. People also speaks language that developed from Latin. Some languages of the Balkans are not related to these groups. After Yugoslavia broke apart, members of the largest religious or ethnic group in each country tried to get rid of all other groups who lived there. This kind of effort to remove all members of a group from a country or region is called ethnic cleansing. The fighting between groups eventually ended, and in 2008, ten countries shared the Balkan Peninsula.

Summary2- 8.1

Russia’s landforms vary from west to east. The fertile plain forms Russia’s heartland, where most Russians live. Moscow, Russia’s capital, is located there. To the east, the plain rises to form the Ural Mountains. The vast area between the Urals and the Pacific Ocean is Siberia. Some of the longest rivers in the world flow through the region of Russia and the Caucasus. One of the most important is the Volga River in western Russia. In addition to its rivers, Russia has some 200000 lakes. Lake Baikal, in south-central Siberia, is the world’s deepest lake. South of the tundra is avast forest of evergreen trees called taiga. This huge forest covers about half of Russia.

7.2- Poland and the Baltic Republics

 

Summary

Each of the groups(Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians) had its own language and culture. By the Middle Ages, the people of the Baltic had formed many independent kingdoms. However, both world War 1 and World War 2 were devastating for the Baltic people. In World War 1, millions of Poles-both soldiers and civilians-died. Also, in world war 2, f people were killed, and property all over Poland was destroyed. The Soviet Union totally dominated Eastern Europe after World War 2. The Baltic Republics broke away from the Soviet Union in 1991 and became independent. The culture between Poland and Baltic countries are seem different but it’s similar inside. Poland and Baltic republics are still feeling the effects of decades of Soviet rule. To further their economic growth, the countries of this region are also seeking new sources of income, tourism.

My thoughts

It was very interesting to learn more about Eastern Europe-Poland and the Baltic Republics. It is very unknown about Poland and the Baltic Republics so almost all of the facts that I can learn from it was new. However, the sad history that Poland was a land of battle field and it looked very similar to Korea when it was controlled by Japan. Because Japan used Korea for battle field and it controlled it by many military, I can have more feelings while I read this story.

Debate- First Speaker Speech

Hi everyone~! I’m first speaker from the pro side. Our team’s resolution is strict controls should be placed on You Tube and other Internet sites. YouTube is large and popular site that many people uses. According to the YouTube website, “People are watching 2 billion videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.” With these numbers, there is no way that YouTube can stop all the offensive or illegal videos. There are 4 resons that why we need strict controls .

First, there are many inappropriate things for children. There are crimes, violence, and various types of  hazardous videos that children should not see. For example, students in one elementary school saw video of  “How to burn things like their hair or ect” and they were trying to do this. Also, the video of teens in fights wer great shock and it was shown to thousands of adults, teens, and even young children. Other videos like ‘How to rob a house in 11 steps were shown 8017 ‘ times. Additionally, in 2009, a video was posted showing hundreds of teens in France ‘protesting’ their government by bombing buildings, setting fire to cars, and breaking store windows. It is okay to get  news that there was a protesting in France, but we should not learn that destroying public property is okay.

Thank you.

Literature-THE HITCHHIKER

Summary

Adams is main character and he drives alone from New York to Los Angelous. While he drove to LA he kept seeing the  gray man agian and again as he goes to the wrong way. He cannot understand it so he hitchhiked a girl and she said she cannot see the gray man. So he kept going with mysterious feeling and he called her mom. Mrs.Whitney, his mother’s friend, says she is sick because his son dead last week. Adams was so surprise and he realizes that he is dead last week.

Summary2-from wikipedia

The story concerns Ronald Adams, a man travelling cross-country from New York City to Los Angeles. On his way out of New York, Adams narrowly avoids hitting a hitch-hiker with his car; at several points along his journey, Adams repeatedly sees the same hitch-hiker, despite the fact that, logically, there is no possible way the mysterious man could always somehow get ahead of him.

Adams begins to feel terrified by the unexplained appearances of the man, and the terror eventually drives Adams mad; his narration explains that he has grown determined to intentionally run the mysterious man down the next time he sees him. This ruins the potential friendship Adams strikes up with another hitch-hiker, a female with whom Adams briefly flirts, before she gets spooked by Adams’s increasing obsession with the mysterious man. Oddly, the woman, just before getting out of the car, insists that she was unable to see the man Adams is afraid of.

Finally, Adams decides to try to get help, and he phones his home, from a gas station in the middle of the New Mexico desert. The phone conversation at first confuses Adams, as a friend of his mother’s answers, and claims that Mrs. Adams is in the hospital due nervous breakdown by her son’s death Ronald Adams’s death. Adams learns that he has died in a car accident, back when he first spotted the hitch-hiker, when he had swerved to avoid hitting him, when he actually fell off the bridge trying to swerve. The mysterious hitch-hiker, Adams realizes, was not a malevolent figure, but rather a friendly angel of death sent to guide Adams to the other side.

As the radio play ends, Adams expresses both his determination to find the hitch-hiker again, and his concern that he has been unable to do so, ever since his call home.

My thoughts

At first, I cannot understand what this play is talking about and I just felt scary. However, as I read it carefully and as I find it in Wikipedia, I can understand it more easily. Anyway, I don’t like these sort of stories like make me scary and scoopy.

First Speaker Speech-Debate

Resolution: Strict controls should be placed on YouTube and other Internet sites.

   YouTube is large and popular site that many people uses. According to the YouTube website, “People are watching 2 billion videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.” With these numbers, there is no way that YouTube can stop all the offensive or illegal videos. As a result, YouTube needs strict control to protect people as well as government’s side from possible harm.

  First, there are many inappropriate things for children. YT’s system of removing videos is not yp to standards. There are too many crime videos and terrosrist videos. In 2009, a video was posted showing hundreds of teens in France ‘protesting’ their government by bombing buildings, setting fire to cars, and breaking store. Also, one can find real film of Iraqi gunmen killing American soldiers. Thousands of videos show adults, teens, and even young children in violent fights and beatings. Additionally, there are videos that could pose a threat to governments.

  Second, even though we have the rights to espress our opinions or feeling freely, we have to limit it by not harming other people.

  To conclusion, we should strict controls should be placed on YouTube and other Internet sites. Because there are many inappropriate things for children, and we have to limit it by not harming other people. Thank you for listening to my speech.

Space Science-3.3:The outer solar system has four giant planets.

Summary

The gas giants-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune-are made mainly of hydrogen, helium, and other gases. The huge gravitational force from a large mass is enough to pull the gas particles close together and make the atmosphere very dense. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is more than five times farther from the Sun than Earth is. Even though it is big, Jupiter takes less than 10 hours to turn once on its axis. The clouds look white because they are made of crystals that reflect sunlight. Storms can form between bands of winds that blow in opposite directions. The Great Red Spot is twice as wide as Earth and at least 100 years old. The sixth planet from the Sun is Saturn. Because there is less mass, the gravitational pull is weaker, so the gas particles can spread out more. Saturn was the first planet known to have rings. You can use Saturn’s rings to see the planet’s seansons.Uranus is about twice Saturn’s distance from the Sun. It takes about 84 Earth years to travel around the Sun. Uranus has a system of rings and moons around its equator. Neptune has about the same outside temperature as temperature as Uranus because it is hotter inside.

My thoughts

I didn’t know much about outer planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In this chapter, I can learn many hidden facts about outer planets. It was really interesting that Neptune and Uranus have same outside temperature and Jupiter’s clouds rise even higher than the white ammonia-ice clouds. Also, the fact that Jupiter’s clouds are made of crystals that reflect the sunlight was interesting to me.

Literature-In the fog

Summary

♦Characters: A doctor, a wounded man, Eben, Zeke, A gas station attendant

It was night and foggy. A driver(doctor) gets out of his car to see a sign. His flashlight goes out. A strange voice comes out of the fog and startles the doctor, making him turn around. He saw two men, Eben and Zeke, asking him for help. Doctor agreed with them and took his medical bag. He goes with Eben and Zeke and founds a wounded man having a fatal wound. He starts work on man. He wanted to carry him to hospital because he had too serious wound, but two of them said that they must not carry him to hospital. Even though doctor had mysterious feeling he went to nearby gas station. A gas station attendant said there was Gettysburg battle near by where a doctor went to cure him. A doctor was very surprised and shocked. Also, he can understand all of mysterious things that happened that night.

My thoughts

I cannot understand this story at first but I can understand a little bit now because I found about the battle of Gettysburg. According to Wikipedia, the Battle of Gettysburg  was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war’s turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade‘s Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by  Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee’s invasion of the North.