Journal Entry 01/12/09

This is my first journal entry on blogspot, and today I am going to write about the king of monkeyland, here it is.

The king of nonkeyland was a very strong monkey, his name was Alfred, he was very muscular and strong, but one day, he fell into the sea and died. He used to fight all his enemies and brutally injure them, but he never killed humans. This is the story of how he died.

One day Alfred was roaming the jungle in his territory, he was walking slowly, picking grapes for his children, but suddenly he heard a noise of horses galloping, he looks everywhere but he cant see where the noise is coming from. He look down and a bunch of horses smash out of the ground and throw him up to the sky, and that is when he realized that he has to fight his biggest enemy. He had no one with him, and he had to fight 7 horses. He thought that he would die, and he was right. He came to the floor and healed himself with magic. But he can only has enough magic to heal himself twice in a day. The first horse comes toward him and Alfred kills him with a ball of fire. 4 other horses try and tackle him but he uses his best magic spell, electric shock. Only two were left, one come and tackles him, and he falls bleeding. He heals himself, that means he has no more healing magic. But he kills the second last horse but brain-washing him. The last horse was the most powerfun, and tackles Alfred, the jungle was right next to the edge of monkeyland. So the horse and Alfred both fall into the sea and die. And now at monkeyland they have a day called Alfred day, where they burn horse dolls. He was a great warrior.

My Water Exeriment

Water Questions 2

1. List the main reasons for water scarcity

The main reasons for water scarcity are variations in climate, land degradation, water pollution, and population growth.


1. What is drought? What type of hardships do you think that a drought could cause if you were living in a village in a poor country such as Etheopia?

Drought is a time when it doesn't rain, if you live in Etheopia in a small village where a drought occurred, so they might not have mush water with them , so people can die.

3.How does land degradation affect the supply of fresh water?

Land degradation decreases infiltration, so we cant store water down at the aquifer.

4. a.) What is El Nino?

When a warming in temperature occurs

b.) Why does Eil Nino often cause drought in Australia?

Because Austrailia is in the pacific ocean

5. Observe the map showing the global effects of El Nino in 1982-83

a.) What effects does El Nino have on the availability of fresh water?

It causes drought.

b.) Name the countries and describe the problems that arose from decreased rainfall caused by El Nino.

Drought

Dog Days by Jeff Kinney ****

Funny book, it is a book about Greg Heffley. In this book Rowley and him aren't friends anymore because Greg kept ordering food using Rowley's dad's credit card, so his dad said that they have to earn the money and pay him back. But Rowley kept having ideas that Greg didn't like, so they started staying away from each other. This book is basically about his summer and how he developes friendship. It was an OK book, it could have been better.

Water Treatment Plant

Last Thursday, we went to a water treatment plant, there we learnt how people clean water. There were 6 stages, after we went to the stages we watched a movie made by the water treatment plant people.

The first stage was called Garbage Removal, where they take all the some dirty water from the river and they put it in a little area, then they take this scoop thing and put it to the bottom of the water and scoop out all the plastic, leaves, papers, etc. And if the garbage is not all taken out then they continue to push the water to a different are, and do the same thing with another scoop.

Stage 2 was to add alum to the water, and mix it, so the flock coagulates, and it is done because they want all the flock to stick together.

Stage three was to let the flow into another pool, and to let the flock settle to the bottom, once it has settled, it can be called sediment.

Once stage 3 happens, they start stage 4, and that is to let the water filtrate through sand, but they don't use the same sand you get at the beach or the playground, they have to use this very special and small type o sand, to set the trap for the remaining bad things.

Stage 5 was about adding chlorine, which is a disinfectant so they can kill the bad bacteria. The chlorine is not seen underwater.

The final stage was to test again if the water is OK. They need to test to make sure the water is safe to drink!

The movie was about this kid named Jali, who has club fair at his school, and he joins a water cleaning club, the captain of the club is Bondol. He goes underwater with Bondol and learns how to clean water. The field trip was fun!

Water Questions

1.What percentage of the world's supply of water is fresh water?

2.5% of the Earth's water is fresh.

2.Where is the world's supply of fresh water found?
Ice bergs and groundwater and the atmosphere.

3.Even though the supply of fresh water is abundant it is sitll a problem. Why?
It is but 97.5 percent is salt water.

4.Observe the map of world average annual precipitation.

A: Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the southern to the northern tip of Africa? At the southern part of Africa, it really doesn't rain much, but as you move to the north, it shows that it rains more.

B: Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the western tip of Australia along the Tropic of Capricorn. At the west side, rain doesn't happen mush but as you move along to the east, it rains more.

5.Observe the map above of water availability per person.

A: Which parts of the world appear to have a large amount of water available per person?

Russia, Papua New Guinea, Costa Rica, some of Australia, and Canada.

B: Which parts of the world appear to have a small amount of water per person?

UAE, Oman, Iraq, most of the middle east.


6.Observe the diagram of water use.

A: What are the main uses of water?

With the reservoir.

B: Which uses have increased the most over the last century?

Reservoir losses from evaporation and seepage.

Bintaro Lama

Last Thursday Mr. Hughes and Mrs. Whitely's class went to the Bintaro Lama kampung to learn more about how people in the villages clean and drink their water. There were groups divided and each group had to go to 3 different stations.

My first station was about how the people get sick while eating their food or by drinking water. The reason the get sick is when people excrete and don't wash their hands, they touch food and water and people get sick. And another reason is also because the flies and bugs get into food and make the food dirty and people get sick by drinking water with the fly that came in.

The next station is about how to use alum to clean water and to get all the flock down. They put this solute called pur to get all the flock down. They mix the pur and wait for 5 minutes and then they put this cloth over the water so the dirt stays and the water, and then they put the water in this ceramic filter and then it takes time to stay there and get clean and then next morning it is ready to drink.

The final station was also about cleaning water. This is not exactly like the last station. They use this things called AirRahmat and Aquatabs. You need at least 20 liters for the aquatab to put in, and then they wait for like 35 minutes, and then the water is okay to drink. For the AirRahmat, you put the AirRahmat liquid in a measuring cup into the water and then you have to shake it for 30 seconds. After you shake, you wait half-an-hour and then the water is potable

We learned a lot at the Kampung and for the people who are going on Thursday, have fun, and there are a lot of flies so it is irritating.

The Black Circle by Patrick Carman *

The clue hunt continues, Dan and Amy have to go to Russia to find the next clue. They follow the steps of Rasputin, a king in Russia a long time ago. And someone is helping them find the clue. They don't know who, but they do know that the person's initials are N.R.R, the clue is hidden in the Amber Room. Which is in the palace where Rasputin's brother died. They go there and they meet N.R.R, she is the royal queen Nataliya, she sends them to the palace and they find the clue. The clue is half a gram of melted amber. My favorite part is when they go in the helicopter at 300 MPH.

Oh Well, The Poem

This is a video I made and I am reading a poem called Oh Well. It is about a guy who had lost a car race, and what he is thinking. Hope You Like It!