Journal 82: My Last Journal Entry

Yeah! I can't believe it's my last journal, and I can see the class has made 82 post, but I don't think I didn't do all of them, I failed on the poem parts, because I am bad at making poem. A message to the next year 8th graders: "You guys should beginning writing your journal in class, when the teacher gives you time, because once you get home, you won't have enough time to think and type journal at the same time.", you all should write it in class so that when you get home, you can just copy what you write at school and put it on the blog. That is how I do sometimes when teacher gives us enough time and I always finish more than 200 words, once I get home, I just copy what I write, and it's very fast. I think this journal is kind of helpful because it improves your writing and your imagination. You also can know your friend better by commenting on their blog. You can make up writing journal's habit and in the future, you can write a story really fast. What I don't like about this journal stuff is that you need to use internet blogger, you can't write on piece of paper, because sometimes you got problem accessing your computer, you can't type journal anymore. I think we should improve on this part.

Journal 81: In Defense of My Treasure

I think I would protect my treasure. It depends on who is the one who is trying to steel or destroy my treasure. It depends on the treasures value. If it is my parents who is trying to touch my treasure. I 'can't say "No" to them. Well, they won't do it most of the time. I think I did that because I don't like people touch my treasure except that person it's my best friend, but some treasure, even my family can't touch it, I don't think I would be able to give up protecting my treasure. How I will protect my treasure, I will first yell at people who touch it. If they continue doing it, I will push them away. If they are way to over, I will fight with them. My treasure is untouchable. I will never give up protecting my treasure, I will fight for it and I believe people will say this thing too. In the story I think Lemon Brown protect his treasure because he think that is very awesome because himself and his son both think this thing is very awesome. Lemon Brown will never give up on his treasure even the three gangsters is beating him up to death. I like his attitude.

Journal 80: My Treasure

For me, my treasure I think it would be my bed, because it's kind of like treasure to everyone. You protect it well, you always rely on it. I really protect my bed, because that is the place I spend most of my life time. I want my bed to be clean and comfortable, so I don't allow anyone to lie on it, unless that person is clean too. The things I am also treasure was my computer, it gave me most of my fun time, it solve my question on anything, like homework, game, etc. There was one time, my mother is trying to destroy my computer by ripping all the wire off from it, and I am really sad. My mother say I spend a lot of time on my "treasure" instead of with family. Talk about family, it is something to treasure too. You family gave you most of the support and no matter what they did to you, they always love you, except some other parents. I don't know, in the fairy tales, the step mother is very mean and ugly. I think my parent is the best. Also I think something to be treasure is my friendship, because when you are lonely, your friend always stay with you, but unless you find the true friend. If you find the wrong friend, that person will stab you in the back or blame anything on you if they have trouble. Friendship is good, but depends on what you chose.

Journal 79: My Background

My background will be that I was born in Taiwan and when I was little, my parents were busy the all time, so it's always my grandmother took care of me. Also I live in the country side, so if you need or want anything, you need to get it yourself and very far. This thought always keep in my mind, and sometimes getting what you want is hard because you live in the country side, no supermarket, no Seven-Eleven. When I move to the city and I found it's so convenient because you can get what you want by walking, cause Seven-Eleven and super market are close. Right now, I am moving back from city to country side again, but it's turning to be city, because people start taking away farmland, build big buildings. The scene I saw when i was young was all farmland and now it's all gone. Also when I was young, I have a lot of time to play and exercise. I turn a lot when I was young, but since I move to city, I stay home a lot because it's very dangerous to run beside traffic. I really miss the time when I was young because I don't have any pressure and all my family is healthy, I don't have any problem with anything until now. 

Journal 78: Style

       I think Toni Cade Bambara's style in "Raymond's Run", she like to use dialect in this story because when we read, we know about the personality of the main character. Dialect is speaking of the narrator, and sometimes narrator talks about themselves in the story. Like in Raymond's Run, Squeaky keep talking how awesome is her, like saying she is like Raymond's big sister even Raymond is older than her, she say this because she think she take care of Raymond's and protect him most of the time, which is true in the story. Also, she keep saying she run very fast, and keep telling reader that her classmates call her "Mercury", which is a god and that god can run very fast. She think she run fast because she always win during her life, she talk about during elementary school's sport day and the "May Day Program" about she keep winning the big prize every year. Which is also true things in the story, because her family could run very fast too. I think the only style I could find from "Raymond's Run" is that the writer use a lot of dialect in the story. I suggest people should read this story.

Journal 77: Slang

Example and meaning of slang words, the first one I will talk about is the word "Slang", this word means abuse. The second word is "Cool", it's describe something that is very good. Like we always use, this thing is cool. Also the word "Chill, it means to tell someone to calm down, like we use to say "Chilled out, dude", means to tell this person to calm down, it can also mean relaxing etc. Like we say "We are chilling at Sean's house". The common slang word we use "Dude", it can be use to refer to any person whether they are known by the speaker or not. Examples are "Dude, what are you doing?", and "That dude is stealing my car. "Booze", it means alcohol, it is pronouns funny and it looks cool. They also say nose, say "schnozz" very funny. I found a really good website talks about some slang word that people use most of the time. Like "idiot", "moron","third degree","Slut"(sorry for this one). Idiot came from a Greek word Itiotes was used to refer person who was a private individual. Moron also came from Greek word, Moron meant foolish or stupid. Third degree means to be thoroughly questioned, we all know what slut means.

Journal 76: Analogy

My analogy will be "To make someone in our class to tell truth, its like telling her to jump off building". I mean to tell this person to tell some truth which is impossible. Someone in our class likes to make lie about people like telling this person how bad is another person. It can cause misunderstand, and makes people hate each other. The truth is the person who keep saying how bad is someone and didn't tell the truth about the person is the one should get hate by everyone. It's because that person is not honest, for example, A is the person who always tell lies and A is a female in PAS 8th grader. B is the friend of A and C is the person who is hate by A and was the victim. A is friend with B but A hate C, B doesn't hate C and both of them don't really talk to each other. A want to make B hate C too, so A keep telling B how bad is C, but non of them are truth! That makes B think C is the bad person and B start to hate C. In the end A and B both hate C, but B hate C because of A, I think C will be a boy in our class, and A and B will be two girls in our class. A hate C, so A tell B to hate C. That is very bad and very disgusting act to A. Well, in the end, C is the one who got all friends and everyone hate A because A is tricking everyone to hate C, but B is falling for it. I hope B can understand the truth and get rid of A quickly. C person is best !!

Journal 75: Fighting Words

If someone insult my family, I will see how bad they insult my parent and do the next move. Like one insult my parent very badly, I would fight with him, if it's just comment, I just comment back to his/her parent too. It's better not to insult other people's family. No one can ever judge, comment or insult my family, only I can do them. If I heard someone does them they are so going to get insult very badly that they will feel very depress after all. There was one time my classmate insult my parent and I guess I am too harsh to that student, I insult him very badly which cause him to change another school. Another time is fighting, it happen in 5th grade at PAS, at that time I don't really speak any English and when I hit someone because that person insult my parent, I got all the consequences and that the person who insult me doesn't get any punishment. I get all the punishment because I don't speak English and I don't even know what that person is saying, and he is putting all the blame on me. I got mad and of course I got revenge back to him, it was after I start to know everyone in the class and all my classmates like me after all. That students end up change to another school when I was in 6th grade. I think people should defend themselves, and not just stand their. I don't really hit people at school, if  someone want to hit me, I just block their punch and laugh, pretend we are playing, even though the other person is serious. I thought fighting in PAS will get kick off so I never fight, but only use word to attack people unless they hurt me first!! 

Journal 74: Below the Surface

Hum...., I think people cannot judge people base on their look. You can't do this because you will always be wrong, unless you have some super powers. One thing I thought wrong was on Sean Von. When Sean Von came to this school, I thought he is a very serious guy, because he look very serious. I thought we weren't going to be friend, because I like people with humorous. Later on when I know in more, I found out he is a super funny guy and which we become friend. Also there was one time, I met a girl, she look very nice when you first saw her, but after few days, I found out she is a girl that likes to swear at people, betray friends and lie to people just to get friend. Anyways, that girl end up with no friend. I think people should not ever judge people base on look, because they might look nice, but actually they do things very mean, like stab you in the back. You never know if that person it's your friend, until you truly understand them. When I went to a new environment I will not act very active or very open. I will slowly get into environment and make new friends slowly. So people won't judge me very much!

Journal 73: OOPS!

The things happen that make me feel surprise, is when I take a test. It's like whenever I am taking a test and I thought I am going to do bad on it, because the test is very hard and I don't understand anything. The result came out good. In science class, I studied for a test and I thought I am going to get good grade on it. It doesn't end up well, because I guess I didn't study the main point of the test. The other things that I expected it turns well but it doesn't work. I have follow all the instruction it says and did everything it says. I am thinking it should have work and when I click the game and it's says error. I almost go rage. It also happen to me when I am taking a test. It's like I thought this answer is going to be this, but I keep thinking about if it is wrong, so I change it. The result came out and the right answer is the original one I wrote. That sucks. There is a lot of thing going on my life when I think it is this, but it always turns out differently sometimes it can harm me as well. Like sometimes I think this will turn well and it fail and almost make me sad. 

Journal 72: My tell-tale ending

It grew louder, and louder! The man couldn't take the pressure, so he went outside pretend to get something for the police, but he is doing something else. He found his old gun and a hatchet. First he want a police to follow him to the bathroom, the man open the water just to make noise. He walks behind the police and put his hand on the police mouth to cover his mouth. He take the hatchet and slice the police's head into two parts. He put the police's body in the tub and walk out alone. The other police look at the man and say :" where is my partner". The crazy man pick out the gun and shoot the police. The police's blood float wider and wider.The man is completely insane. He went to the old man's room and found there is someone standing in the dark. He walk close to the dark man. "Ah.....h!" the old man is standing there. The man is scared and try to go back outside, but the two dead police is standing behind him. One of the police has his head separate two parts, the other police has a bullet hole on his eye. The three ghost man stand around him and they rip off the crazy man's skin and wear it as a hat. The three dead man disappear, and left the dead man's body forever. The next morning everything is gone, the dead man, old man and two polices has gone forever.

Journal 71: Hints and Foreshadowing

First of all, I think dramatic irony means that when you watch a play or movie. You know something that the main character doesn't know. Like in ghost movie, you know there will be ghost in that place, but the main character always try to go there and look. Sometimes dramatic irony can be bad or good, sometimes it becomes a surprise in the story. In the story " The Tell-Tale Heart", the reasons we know why the man is insane because he say he is not insane. It's true, because insane people always say they are not insane. It's like you see these drunk people and they keep saying :" I'm not drunk~~~, let's go to another bar". Also the clue, because he keep making things up, but the old man didn't even do anything. He keep describe how bad is the man's eye, but the old man never say anything. The man says about he is thinking to kill the old man, but he didn't make decision yet. We will know that later in the story he will do something stupid. In the beginning of the story, I already know the narrator is mad, because he talk in a very weird way, and saying he is not insane. That is how I tell.

Journal 70: Narrator

Thinking about narrator, some stories' narrators are fake. You never know if the narrator is right or wrong. The reason people use this style to write stories. It's just to make the reader feel interesting, like when you think the result is this, but it turns out differently. Sometimes when people read stories, the narrator keep saying this saying that, it makes you think you believe in the character. The writer use this kind of advantage to make story more interesting. Sometimes reader will read a story and think they know the ending and they will stop reading. Writer will make narrator's words very unique, which makes you think should you believe him or not. That is a technique to trick readers. That makes the story more interesting and the reader will welling to finish the story. I didn't read much story because I watch movie, I think harry potter is the movie that can trick me best. I always think the teacher is the bad guy, but actually the teacher is protecting the main character. Because of that, I am willing to finish that movie, before I was thinking stop watching, that is why stories and movie makes narrator lie. It's to make story interesting and fun.

Journal 69: Scary Stories

The things I afraid the most is spider, because they have egg legs, and when they move together it's very disgusting. The spiders that I am afraid is the one that has thick, fury legs. If there is one place that spider climb over, I will never go there any more. During graduation trip, me and my classmates, we watched a lot of scary movies together. The first movie was "one missed call", I'm glad we watch the English version, because people say Japanese made the scariest movie. One missed call is very scary because the sound effect and ghost animation is very scary. Plus the story is very interesting and scary. The "one missed call" scariest part is the music. After we watched the movie and everyday in music class, and I will play that song. Hank will always scream at me and hitting me, telling to stop playing. I like the days in graduation trip and when we watch scary movies, because someone is so scary that almost jump on me. I kept hurt by Hank because when I jump back when the scary scene come out. Hank was sitting behind me with his knee up, when I jump back, "Boom". It's like something poked in to my back!!

Journal 68: My Style

If I want to talk about my style, the first thing I would want to talk about my music style, the music I like to listen. I like to listen to music. I like to listen to piano music, I like to listen to the piano music play by Maksim. He is my favorite piano player, and I always look up on him. He is a very good piano player, and he is very famous. I went to his piano concert once, and he scare me with his piano skill. In 2012, there is one friend call Sean Von, and he came to our school. He introduce me electronic music, and I love it like speed of lightning. Especially, there is one type call "Dubstep" it means "A genre of electronic music descended from garage music, characterised by its dark mood, sparse, half-step and two-step rhythms, an average bpm of 140 and an emphasis on sub bass." One of my favorite song is call "kill everybody", I like it because the maker use the bass very very heavy and I like it really much, I listen to it every single day. For my clothing, most of time I want to wear comfortable, so I chose to wear T-shirt plus sport short. Except when I go to some special places, I would dressed in jeans and T-shirt, which look more cool!.

Journal 67: Betrayal

In the poem the Japanese girl and her est American friend end up badly. Her American best friend think her best friend betray her. I don't think this is not reasonable. The girl didn't do anything and she was insult by her best friend. It's all because the war, and the war cause a lot of destruction. They can destroy friendship, family ship. The case of me betray by someone is that one time. Me and my classmate argue about some idea and my classmate doesn't even help me, they decide to attack me with language, but they still lose, that classmate try to bring back our friend ship, but I don't want to be friend with him anymore, this thing also bring to me betray my classmate that help that guy argue with me. I actually team up with the friend that I argue with, we argue with, we group together and insult that friend very bad. I think he deserve it. There is also one time my friend betray me, and it's all about groups between me and the other classmate. My best friend didn't help me by standing in my side. That made me very angry, because I treated him so well, but he thought our friend ship as crap. I think he translate to other school, because everyone insult him because he was no a good friend.

Journal 66: Real American

             I think the girl doesn't have much to prove she is a American, I think if you want to prove you are a country's citizen. You cannot just say you have that country's passport. For me I think if  one of your parent's is American, than you are a true American, because you have American blood flow through your body, I am thinking this way. Some of our classmates think they are American just because they have a American passport. I don't like that because their parents weren't even American. From the poem, even the girl try hard to prove she is American by saying she like hot dog. She doesn't know how to use chopstick. That does sound like American, but her look was not close to American. When she say that "When the first tomato ripened, She'd missed me". I think that means that she is going to somewhere which will stay here for a long time. The person is sad because no matter how hard she tried to act like American, she just won't pass. If I have to prove myself I am a Taiwanese. The first thing I will say is that I look like Taiwanese, and I can speak Taiwanese. Also I have Taiwanese passport, and my parents are Taiwanese, and also I love Taiwan, if anyone insult Taiwan, I would be very piss. That is what I think I am a true Taiwanese. 

Journal 65: General Conditions

Making generalizations about the Camp Harmony during World War Two. I guess it would be " all Japanese are unhappy because they are force to leave their home". I think this is right, because during World War Two, Americans think Japanese as a dangerous kinds. They want to put them all together in one place, so they could take a look on them. Which is the camp that they made " Camp Harmony", all Japaneses are force to move there. There is no choice of not going, if you don't go, they might move you violently. That is why people were sad because they have to leave there home. After they leave their home, the teacher says that there will be theft going to these houses. That is pretty evil to those Japanese who live in USA for a long time. If I should make an generalization about our school, I think it would be. Everyone in PAS think that less homework for student which gives better education to student. I think it's true, because sometimes a student has too much homework, which doesn't make them study, because they are tired to do those homework. This generalization could lead to a new world that student will fight for and argue about.!!

Journal 64: Camp Harmony?

I think the camp harmony is a camp that keeps all the trouble maker. I think Harmony is something that will harm on something. Monica Sone seems camp Harmony was hopefully, which I think that she is OK with the camp name. I thought the camp name would be something racist to those people. I think this camp name is OK for me too, because I don't really know what it means, but if the camp name is some how insult my country, I would not be happy about it. Camp Harmony sound like a camp that they keep all the people that would" harm" the country, during Word War two. Americans were fighting Japanese, so Americans are keeping all the Japanese in USA in camp harmony.
Base on the real meaning of harmony, I guess wrong. My classmates say it's like peace and calm. Base on Dictionary it's something about quiet music, science. If I got a chance to name the camp, the first thing I will not do is prison Asian. I think I will prison people the people that look Asian, but keep saying they are American  (no offence), my camp name will be something not offensive. It will be "Camp Bragging Dude", it's made for prison those people who look Asian, but keep saying they are American just because they have that past port.I don't like that kind of person, especially they keep saying how bad is Taiwan.

Journal 63: Camp Pictures.

            I choose the picture on page four hundred seventy six, the picture shows that there is a lot of people and they are going to a place. I am surprise because it's not just any people but only Asian. I think they are Japaneses, because the painter is Japanese too. I think the American put all Japanese in the same area. Base on the teachers' information because it's during World War two and Americans were poisoning Japanese because they afraid they will tell secret to their own people. In the picture the children might not understand what is happening, but the adults, some of them are crying or they have sad face. I see about forty to fifty people lining up and waiting to go into a house. If I was there, I think I can feel the feeling of leaving my home and going to a camp that people will look on us. I think I can hear crying from some adults, children laughing and they don't even know what was happening. I think it's different from what I live now, because I can live with my family and there is no soldier, or foreigner looking at me. I am pretty much free in my place, I 'm happy.

Journal 62: Spring Break

During this spring break, the two places I went is Yi Lan and Bali. I like the trip in Bali because I get to travel to some country without my parents controlling me but with classmates. In Bali the tour guide wanted us to beware of the people, because they could steel your stuff. There is one classmate lost his sun glass and he say that the air port security stole it. In the Bali, it was very beautiful there. The worker their were call G.O. They are nice and they are like our friend. At night some of the 8th grade, we gather in one room, we also take out a computer, and we watched some scary movies. We planned to watch them during the trip. There was one thing I don't really want to do was that the teacher wanted us to join a group that bring you around the club med. I don't like it because some of the members aren't that nice. We ditched them and we party in the room. There is one time that we ruin a room because we have pillow fight. We flip over the bed and we have a fun time, we throw stuffs around. We also make giant spit ball and threw it on the window. It was awesome, Sean got a cup of milk and he spilled it on the ground. I guess the cleaning lady will go crazy after seeing this. I have a lot of fun time their especially at night. The second place I went is Yi lan, and I was under control by my family, so I can't really do things crazy. The hotel is Yi Lan royal hotel and they had good room service, good hot spring and good sport set. My father teach me how to play pool. It took skills and luckiness.  I hope that I can stay longer because there were still things that I didn't play. There is my trips during the spring break.

Journal 61: Film v Book

Today in Mr. Mccool's class, we watched a movie, but I forgot the name. The book name is call Hatchet. A boy was trapped in a wilderness. The differences between those two is the events in the book and in the movie is two different things. The first one is that in the book Brian planned to stop the plane on the lake, but in the movie he crash into the lake instead. There is also differences on that, the plane sank into the water, but in the book the plane did not sink at all. In the book Brain should get supplies from the plane, but he didn't. In the book, there is no parts that there are bears attack Brian. I think the best part of the movie is that when Brain is searching for food. He eat everything he can find, the scene was so cool when he eat them. I think the reason of Film and Book is so different because both of them has it's own way to be famous. Like in the film, Brian's plane sink in the water, so the people who watch movies will think that is a very awesome scene, but for readers they will think Brian plan land on water it's cool. Today we didn't finish the movie, so I don't know what else is different.

Journal 60: Hip-Hop Language

Walking around the street corner!
Yao!! What zup you guys!
To day, I was walking on the street corner!
Leta on there is two gangsta walking tours meh
They ask me if I have cigar
So I give them two cigar
They say:" Yo, bro thanks! Whats yo name!"
I say:" I don't wanna tell you, I am nobody!"
They think I am crazy and they walk away with ma cigar
I continue walking on the street corner!
There are one dudes walking tour me
He ask me:"Yo!Man! wanna join ma group!
I looked at him and say: " Nah! I 'm good!
He walk away!
I go to school and see my friends
The first person I see is Steven.
I ask him:" Yo! Steven, Sup!
He say :" Man, I 'm going to play wow and my character will be level 85 sooner, you mad bro?!
The next person I see is Vincent
I ask him:" Hey! Whatcha doing!
He say:" I am play Counter Strike Online Man!!, It's the best game EVER!!!
I also see Sean
I ask him: " Man what are you doing!"
He say:" I am studying history, it's ma favorite subject!!
I am Sad!! Everyone has things to do!!

Journal 59: Epic Language

Changing Led For Mechanical Pencil
I open my pencil case
I look at my new Mechanical Pencil, which I just bought it
It looks so beautiful and gorgeous
It's shiny at me
I'm going to use it for my homework
I was doing my homework as usual
Suddenly my homework stop working
I can't believe it
It's my mechanical pencil stop working
I observed my pencil closely
I keep pressing the button
It won't work at all
How am I suppose to do my homework without them?!
It's gotta work somehow
so I keep pressing
My finger was tired and full of sweat
I am still pressing
I went to my mother, she say she is busy cooking
I ask my father, he say he is busy working
I ask my sister, she say she is busy writing
I ask my brother, he call me stupid
How you gonna fix it, my brother?!
He take away my pencil, and take a small thing out of his pencil case
He open my pencil's lid, and put a long, thing, black thing inside the lid
I am surprised!
The pencil actually work!
I ask my brother how you do it, he say-
It's call Changing Led For Mechanical Pencil, you stupid!

Journal 58: Luck?

I think Brian survival base on his luck, because he is so lucky that he didn't die on the plane. Also he is not a pilot, but he can land his plane on water so perfectly.  He is also lucky, because he found that little lake and he don't have to worried about the water sources during the survival. When he wants to make fire, and he has no idea how to make them. He still got it, because he throw his hatchet to the porcupine. For me, I sometimes have some problem or etc. I always depends on my hope, like the night before tennis team, me and my friend always hoping it will rain. Whenever it rains, we will think we are lucky and we are happy. Also, when I didn't do my homework, I'm always afraid that the teacher will found out, but at the end teacher didn't check my homework, so I think that is call lucky. I think luckiness is very important, because when you don't have luckiness, you are nothing. Most things you do, you need luck, some people don't have luck, they went to temple and get bracelets or neck less, because they think that will give them lucky. I have wear one, but not for luckiness, it's protect me from bad things in this world. I think it work!!

Journal 57: What Makes Fire?

            Brian can't start a fire, because he did the rubbing wood things wrong, that is why he can't start a fire. How you do it was that you first find a wood block, and make a small gap in the wood block; and you take a wood stick and start rubbing the gap you make, but remember as you doing it put some dead leaves when you do it, so it decrease the time to make fire. As you doing it, when there is smoke coming out, you need to add leaves first to the smoke and cover them, as the smoke grow bigger, you decrease the adding of the leaves. When it starts burning, you add leaves, but also add some small wood branches. The fire will eventually get bigger, so you have to be patient. Making fire out of rubbing wood took long time, so you have to be patient. The other ways of making fire is that you can use rock and iron, if you have them. You rub iron and rock together, and it will makes sparks. Which is faster, and little dangerous, because you might hurt your hand. There is also a way, but it only work when you have a magnifier, or glass pieces. The time took in the morning, you need sun to help you with it. You first make a pile of leaves and you use the glass pieces and let the sun shine through them and it will turns to a point. That point is what all the sun light gather, because magnifier can gather sun light when they shine through them. You direct the point to the leaves and after a while, the smoke will start forming. Then you put leaves and woods make sure it start burning, This way is great qualities, but you have to make it in the morning and you have to guard them until night. Also it only works when there is sunlight. 

Journal 56: : Lost in the Woods

If I am lost in the wilderness, I will first look at what I have, or what did I bring with me. After I know what I bring, I would go set up my base first, such as tent, or a shelter. Than I will try to use my stuff to find water and some food. If I can't find them, I will go to set up the fire first, and trying to think of how to get foods and water and how to get home. The best environment to survive is that it better have a lake or pond beside me, so I can get water, swim, shower and wash my clothes. Second, it better have a tall strong tree, so if I set my base beside them, my base won't get destroy. Third, it's better to have some kind of berry trees, and the tress that has food on them. This environment is best to survive, it is so good that you don't even want to go home. If it's in desert, it will be hard to survive, because the most important things you need in the desert is water. If you don't have them, you can just kill yourself instead of trying to find a way home. The food you only can eats is cactus, or if you dare, you can eat scorpion and snakes. Which is disgusting but it's food. if i have 




What would you do if you were suddenly lost in the wilderness? Do you know any survival tactics? How would the environment affect your ability to survive? For example, how would being lost in a forest be different from being lost in a desert? Or in the mountains? Describe the place you are “lost,” and then describe step-by-step what you would do to survive and find your way home. 

Journal 55: Personal Assets

            Brian's Liabilities is that he is not train to live in wilderness. He never went to any camp like that . He is  a city boy, city boy has people take care of them, so Brian don't really ave that kind of experience. During the accident, Brian was afraid because he knew that he doesn't have any experience. Brain's assets is that he can remember stuff that his uncle, and the TV said. When he is in trouble, he would think of what his uncle says. He can figure out how to survive. In the book when he face problems he will say "My uncle say", or "the TV said". He is also a magical lucky dude. When he does something random, he can always find something new, through that "random move". Like when he throw the hatchet to the porcupine. He found out how to make fire because of the friction between the hatchet and the tree. I guess he could survive well in wilderness. For me, if I have to stay in wilderness, I guess I might not survive, but I like to watch "animal planet and also some TV shows  talk about wilderness. I also read books about living in wilderness. Also there is a TV show, that they tell you how to survive in wilderness, but my liabilities is that I might not have ability to do what I know.

Journal 52: You and Nature

I think that nature is good, but sometimes I afraid of nature, one times I was in 4th grade and me and some of my classmates like to kill mosquitoes that fly around in the bathroom. One times something happen and I never go to that bathroom again and I use that bathroom anymore. When lunch start we go to that bathroom and kill bus, but on time I was killing them and my head is looking around very fast and suddenly I see a black thing like two inches away from my face. I stood back because my hand is on inch away from the "black thing". As I jump and I saw what it is. It's a very big spider that I feel disgust and I feel sick. After that accident I still can't believe I almost touch a big giant black spider with my bare hand. The thing I afraid about nature is spider, because they look very scary when they walk and they look scary when they stay in one place. I watch movie that human kill by spider and I afraid of spider will get me one day in the future, so when I see a spider, I will run away or I will tell someone to help me kill it.

Journal 47: Diamante Poem

               iPod
           Small, Cool
     Play, Listen, Look
Music, Party, Game, Homework
     Type, Smash, Touch
            Big, Fast
             Computer


                Mom
      Annoying, Talkative
     Yell, Scream, Attack
   Food, School, Money, House
     Work, Hit, Shout
         Quiet, Happy
                 Dad

                Water
        Healthy, Beautiful
    Move, Clean, Flow
Sport, Water gun, Seven Eleven, Trash
    Sell, Destroy, Ruin
        Unhealthy, Bubble
                Soda

Journal 45: List Poem

There was a food
It's made with Milk and Cheese
It's cold like Ice Cream
Not as big as a Steak
But shapes like a Cake
They are extremely hot when you take
It's even spicy than Curry
They are make in to bags, so easy to carry
There are more calories than Hamburger
Hot Dog is longer than the food
They aren't like French Fries, a fast food
There color are darker than Chocolate
Who is making my dinner late?
Ooops!!
It's my sister who doesn't know how to cook, got me late!

Journal 46: Acrostic

K-ing of the world
e-raser is his favorite thing in his pencil case
night market is his favorite market
Wii is one of his favorite video game
umbrella is at his right side of his backpack

Journal 42: Ode

           I am going to write an ode poem about homework. I might take ideas like any subject's homework and describe how hard and how much they are. Also talks about how much they have bother me from doing other things. The color of each subject's homework, the shape of a rectangle, smells like paper and i can taste blood when i do it. What happen if i don't do my homework? What happen if i throw them away? what do i get if i finish them? When the teacher will stop giving me homework? Anything about homework could write on my poem.

Journal 41: Poetry

          Poems is different from other from of writing, such as some of the poems are shorter, some of them are hard to understand, some of them use difficult vocabulary. Poems do have similarities, they are all written with words, they are all trying to explain things, or describe story. Poems could be like a song, but i am not sure story. When you sing a song, it's like telling a story, so i guess you can say it has similarities. What makes it same thing like songs and stories, is that songs rhymes just like poem and it's like a story because when people read poems it's like telling a story. Sometimes when you trying to communicate with poem, that is very hard. Just like ancient Chinese, they communicate by saying very knowledge-full poem. Sometimes it could make misunderstood, and now people trying to communicate with poem from now days, it's impossible. We don't have poem learning in class that often, so people start to forget those poem. When you are doing a presentation, you can't use poem talk because people will not understand you. People didn't learn much about poem these days. Now on people try to find poems that is made from the past, which makes poem even more important, because they can tell story that happen in the past.

Journal 44: My List

1. Milk
2. Cheese
3. Steak
4. Cake
5. Ice Cream
6. Curry
7. Hamburger
8. Hot Dog
9. French fries
10. Chocolate

Journal Entry 40: Winter Holiday

            My holiday is pretty boring, the first 10 days for the holiday, my sister and my mother is having a trip to Australia. I thought I am going to be super free, but I was wrong. All the house chores were assign to me and I had to take care of my brother, I have to get him prepare for school. My father doesn't cook, so I thought we are going to eat big meal in the restaurant, but my father take me to my grandmother's house every night, so I don't get to eat in other restaurant. I also went to math tutor class early in the morning and on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I will have tennis lesson. The most fun stuff is that at night, sometimes my father wasn't at home, I will go outside and hangout with my local school friends. Maybe in the morning, I would hangout with them too, because they don't usually go to school, they can chose to go to school or not. They are quite hoodlums, they treat me real nice, because I always treat them dream. They sometimes go around places and for some reason they will beat a kid and chase him down when they see him, I sometime ran with them but I get to tire and I stop. Sometimes the police officer will yell at us about not getting any trouble around. My friends usually not care, cause they don't really get into trouble, but they smoke and drink alcohol drinks at night. I know that they would want me to smoke with them, so I say I have to go home and I will pay for their cigarette and beers and stuffs, so they won't get angry at me for going home to early. It was fun to hang out with them, otherwise i would stay home and play computer all day.