Holiday Writing No.4

On Christmas, I was invited to my friend's house christmas party.
Number of members in total is...OMG 18 people!
But no problem. That friend's house is big that about 30people can fit. Cool, isn't it?
I and my best friend came earlier than other members so we decided to play prank on them using... crackers! Hahaha. Such bad girls aren't we?
Well, it really succeed. My friend's mom even fall down! so funny!
And after every member had come, we played many party games and party was over.

Holiday Writing No.3

Christmas Ive! And I went shopping to Ginza city with my mom.
Right away, I coaxed mom to buy me many pretty things.
But... failed.
When I asked her to buy funny dall, she said its too expensive.
Also, when I asked her to buy a card game, she said too expensive.
Again! When I asked her to buy a 800yen sharp pen, she said its to expensive!
Phew.....
Well she bought me a really cute schedule book for christmas present!
Yeah!

Holiday Writing No.2

On 21st December, my grand father and I went to the huge book shop to buy books.
The building has 8 floors and they are full with book shelves with full books in them.
My grand father told me that he will buy books as many as I want.
So, I didn't have any modesty, I chose... oh boy, 17 books!
Fortunately, my grand father didn't get mad at all.
He may be amazed a little bit inwardly, but he bought every books I wanted as he said.
Well, 17 books were so heavy to carry but at least I have a duty to carry these heavy staffs.
Therefore, I carried them all around for about an hour and my waist got harted.
Haha...

Holiday Writing No.1

Ahchoo! I let go with a big ahchoo when I arrived to my destination.
This is because the place was freezing cold.
Maybe you are now wondering why the place is that cold eventhough I'm living in hot summer Indonesia.
Answer for this question is pretty streight forward. It is because I'm not in Indonesia, I'm now in freezing cold winter, Japan!
Yes. On 20th, by force, I brought my mom who hates Japan winter's cold to Japan and eventually arrived there after a long 7hours trip.
Well, my mom was right. Because I'm actually freezing now.
As I got out of Japan airport, soon, a cool north wind stabbed my cheek.
Though, I didn't regret anything about that I came back to Japan.
Because! Japan is beautiful! Air was pretty fresh, little plants were pretty, and those trees were colored with beautiful autumn colors. Really, they are so good to look!
After a little journey with a bus and train, I finally arrived to my inn which is my grand parents house. I rushed into the front door and had a

Picture definitions

inflammatory

incredelous

abruptly

exhaustion

methodically

swoon

mimicking

muttered

fettered

prophet

5 words definition

Wrath

Brisk

unequal

adversity

placid

Geo Active Book

1.List the main reasons for water scarcity
Water pollution, population growth, land degradation, variations in climate


2.What is a 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 Ethiopia?
Drought means a long period when there is no rain and people do not have enough water.
I think the hardships would be like this...

• always starving for water
• no rain so the crops may stop growing
• no natures growth

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

4.(a) What is EL Nino?

Elnino is the wind that refers to a warming that develops every three to five years in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru. That probably is a main cause of drought

(b) Why does EL Nino often cause drought in Australia?

Because the EL nino is accompanied by a reversal of air pressure across the Pacific, resulting in high pressure systems building up most of Australia

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

(a) What effects does EI Nino have on the availability of fresh water?

Geo Active Book

1.What percentage of the world's supply of water is fresh water?
A: 2.5 per cent

2.Where is the world's supply of fresh water found?
A: 2% is found in ice, 0.49% is found in ground and soil, and 0.01% is found in the atmosphere, rivers and lakes


3.Even though the supply of fresh water is abudant it is still a problem. Why?
A: Because the fresh water on the earth is getting less because of run off


4.Observe the map of world average annual precipitation (opposite)
(a) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the southern to the northern
tip of Africa.
A: In northern tip, it will rain more than southern tip

(b) Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from western to the eastern tip of
Australia along the Tropic of Capricone.
A: It will rain often in eastern tip


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?
A: South America

(b) Which parts of the world appear to have a small amount of water per person?
A: Europe

6. Observe the diagram of water use
(a) What are the main uses of water?
A: Water is mainly used for Agricultural

(b) Which uses have increased the most over the last century?
A:

Bintaro Lama

On Thursday November 5th, we went to a little villedge called Vintaro Lama.
It took almost an hour to go there.
As I arrived, something smelled so badly, but I didn't say it in words because i thought its rude.
And I soon found out that fetid smell was coming from a grey river that was flowing next to me.


First, I went to the station called Sand filter.
Women over there told us that a pomp look for water in ground and they filter them through the sand filter to make water cleaner. Those waters are not potable but everyone are using those water for their shower.

Secondly, I went to the station called SODIS.
Woman over there tought us that SODIS is for killing bacteria.
And they also tought us how to fill those petbottles.
First, they wash the bottle with soap and brush. then next, they fill the bottle with clean water making sure there is no air in it. Because if there are air in the bottle then, jerms are going to gather on the bottle.

Third station was called, Water Quality Test. They use few equipments to do this test. They are 3 short tubes and red mater. They connect those 3 tubes together and hold the bottom part, check if they can see a little mark at the bottom. If they can see, that means it is a potable water.

After the field trip, I was bit happy. Because I think I've learned a little more than I did at first place.

Water Treatment Plant

On Thursday 12th Nov, I went to water treatment plant for studying water.
We looked around stage 1 to stage 6.

In Stage 1, many garbage were removed from the dirty grey river water through coarse and fine filters.

In Stage 2, they add Alumn in water and coagulate the dirts in water.
Dirts got coagulated and made disgusting brown flocs.

In Stage 3, they were making floc away from water to get rid of them.
The water was getting cleaner than the first.

In Stage 4, water was filtered through 1m of sand to make water much cleaner.
The sand was really deep like 6m.

In Stage 5, they were adding chemical to kill bacteria in the water.
If they don't add this special chemical, then people will always get stomachache because of the bacteria. So we have to thank this chemical.
In Stage 6, I saw a big control panel that shows all of information around the water treatment plant. I was overwhelmed by the number of buttons and switches on the panel.

At the end, we saw a little movie that review everything we've saw that day.
After the movie, we got 2 quizes about the movie. I rose my hand to answer the quiz but it was too slow. Sadly, I couldnt get a prize. But it was still fun because I got to know more staffs about water.

Water Phenomenons

Evaporation- Process of liquid water becoming water vapor(if occuring from leaf surfaces, it is called transpiration)







Condensation-the process of water vapor in the air turning into liquid water, the opposite of evaporation; the water that is condensed









Precipitation-rain, snow, dew, frost, hail and sleet















Infiltration-flow of water from the land surface into the subsurface

Wimpy Cousins
I have 2 little cousins. One is 5years old first son, Eisei and other one is 3 years old little sister, Miyu.
I am really fond of them like my real little sister and little brother.
And they came to Indonesia with their mother who is my auntie and my grandfather last spring from Japan.
On the first day of Indonesia, auntie said that she wants to buy souvenirs so we all went to souvenir shop.
While mom and auntie were looking around the shop, I had to take care of those little wimpy cousins.
And a happening had occurred.
Miyu was playing tag with Eisei in the shop, holding the bucket that is full of roundy little balls inside.
I tried to stop them many times but in a flush, the thing that I imagined had happened.
Bash! Miyu lunged and fell forward, and the ball sprang out everywhere out of the bucket.
We all looked for those but we were 2 balls short.
In the end, my mom compensated for those.
After that, they jumped on me every morning waking me up, dragged me around to pool, hide and seek, tag, piggyback and I played with them until they get to 0 energy.
But one day, a tragedy had happen.
I have cute glass puppy collection and they brought one of them with broken ear and foot!
And what was more, they were putting the blame on each other like “Miyu did it” “No Eisei did it.” I sobbed as looking at mercilessly broken ear and feet.
This was my first time cried because of these little kids.
And then, I identified that the criminal was Miyu. I got a witness of Miyu took one of the dog playing with it on the floor and broke it. I had to forgive her against my will because she is only 3.
Next day morning, another astonishment had happen.
When Miyu was eating my cornflake as usual, she started to vomit like Singapore Merlion so suddenly. I soon made her rest.
At the moment I felt sorry for her, Miyu got out of the bed and offered me to play hide and seek! What a busy girl she is! I wanted to say, are you sick or healthy?!
Truly, Miyu is cute but always bringing me troubles.
She is a cute little reaper!
Next day morning, they went back to Japan.
I had many happenings but after they are gone, I got little sad.
I know that is because they are wimpy and playful but I am still very fond of them. I hope they will come again.

Sumatra trip No.3

On that day, we went to cycling from morning.
As we went on the road around the hotel, we saw many local children, farm cows, hens and those kind of things.
And we once stopped at the local children school to take photo of it.
Then everyone in the school came out from each classrooms with big smile.
It was a rare chance to meet with local children so we took a photo there.
It was like this.
After we left there, when I looked back abruptly, what a surprise, 2 little children were chasing us with there own little bicycles!
They sometimes passed us with a rapid speed. It seemed like they want us to follow them.
But we all got tired after 1 hour so we stopped suddenly and tried to get back to the hotel only by ourselves. Though, when we stopped and went back to our way back, they followed us again
It was kind of funny. Because they are little boys and looked so cute!
They at last, followed us until we get to our hotel. They said that they are 8years old and 9 years old. Their smiling were cute so that I gave them a pack of oreo to share it together.
It was so exciting.

And from the evening like about 5 o' clock, we went to the biggest event,
Elephant National Park!
First, we went to the big grassy plain with many many elephants to play with them.
There were babies, kids, and adults.
When I went to see a baby elephant, it came forward to me like saying "play with me play with me!" Although it is a baby, it was bigger and heavier than me.

Elephant's those kind eyes and long trunk are too cute!!
If there is a Alagin's magic lamp, I would tell Genie to get a baby elephant for me.
I played with them for about half an hour and kept taking photos away.
I was in real high-tension because I could get along with those cuty elephants! There are photoes of me and my good friends, elephants.
After that, we finally got on big adult elephants!
It was a most awesome thing in this trip! We got on to those elephants for 1 hour in the extra broad grassy plain! I was in a feeling like I am in Africa and taking a walk on a elephant.
Seriously, I really loved it. My elephant's name was Dine.
It was the tallest elephant in the national park! So it was lucky.
The picture is this.
In the last part, wecould see a beautiful setting sun.
But that best mood was interupted by many little bags that flew on to me during that beautiful last part. I was completely disgusted because of those bad little bags.
I was beside myself with anger. I waved my hat around and around to drive away those little bags. They pestered me for a long long time so eventually, I got really mad and started to have a scuffle with millions of annoying bags. And at last, I won so I could enjoy the rest of the walk.
At the real last part, the elephant went through a little pond. At one moment, the elephant bumped up and it was so cool! It was like a picturein right.
It was really exciting! Thankyou Dine!

Sumatra trip diary No.2

On second Sumatra trip day, we got on to the moter boat and explored around the forest, going on the river to ocean for whole day.

That was a long journey. We were on the boat for 9 hours!

At first, I and Miki were enjoying the view of forest on the top of the boat but still, 9 hours were too long, we got bored for few hours and went to sleep.

During the journey, we saw some beautiful colorful birds, monkeys eating bananas, and etc.

Also about 4 hours later, we arrived at the little island that many elderly people live.

Their houses were made by feeble woods and of course there were no TV, air conditioner, refrigerator and all sorts of electricity things they usually need for our usual life.

What I thought about the island was how luxury my life is comparing to theirs and one more was how much the tsunami and earthquakes are horrible for them.

There are no TV. So it must be impossible for them to get information about those disaster or when it will going to happen. If I am one of this island's residence, I think I can't sleep well

of those scare. This sound like a social study class but seriously I think we have to stop the global waring as soon as possible to keep the earth safe.

As I heard, the island's residents eat shells and crabs by doing a fishery.

This is a picture for that fishery and those shells and crabs.

We walked around some more and startled. Because there was a ........ Komodo dragon.

Yes. It was a Komodo dragon. Miki looked a little scared but for me it looked so cute!

Of course I didn't go near it because it must be so fierce.

It looked like the right picture. Isn't it so cute? I said to others. Well, no one agreed though.

After we left the island, we saw many jellyfishes in the river.

The boat driver caught two of them and put it in the bucket with water.

Those jellyfish's swimming looked so cute like this in right.

After we finished observing those. The driver released it back to river.

I was pretty satisfied because I could see many things. If there was no happening until we get to the start point, it was perfect for me.

But the bad thing happened. Actually only to me.

When everyone were about to get off from the boat, I and Miki were still on the boat.

And at the moment the guide tried to make Miki get off from the boat, his waist hit me and because of his weight came to our side of the boat, I lost my balance and AAHHH......! PLOP!

I fall in to the river. It was like a cartoon's one scene.

When I got back on the boat. Everyone were laughing at me. Also the guide who is the ringleader of this happening was laughing. Seriously, it is not funny for me !

Sumatra Trip! No.1 (first day)

From last Sunday 18th October to yesterday, 21th October Wednesday,

I went to Sumatra with my mom, my JIS 8th grade Japanese friend Miki and

her mother.

And I am going to tell you how fun the trip was.

18th October... On the way to our hotel from the airport,

I found a Sumatra's traditional house.

It was like the picture in right.
As you look at this picture, the house was propped up by some rocks!

If all the houses are like this, it convinces me that many many houses got destroyed because of the earthquake on few days ago that I told you on my last blog post.

And we went a little forward, we found a durian store.

It looked like left picture.
On the Japanese magazine, it said that the Sumatra durians are not same as the one in Jakarta and they are really delicious. But when I smelled it, it just smelled the same as the Jakarta durians. I wondered what was the difference. Well, we just bought one anyway.

Our hotel was called Eco Lodge. The reason why this hotel have this strange name was because the hotel (actually doesn't really look like hotel) is doing ecology as the name says. Of course there were many other hotels around Sumatra but we went ahead to try the little ecology life anyway.

When we checked in, we soon discussed about what we will do today.

At last, we decided to walk through the night dark jungle to look at those night birds.
As we walk thorough, there were deep dark precipices and rugged crags.

So a normal night walk had changed to a little exploration.

And we found a big, tall, watch house for a field. It was for watching wild elephants not to run into the field. It looked like the right picture.

I and Miki got to go in to it. Inside, it was covered with old cloths and it was pretty uncomfortable.

I wondered how they are going to escape if the wild elephant try to attack them.

After all, we walked for 1 hour and half but we couldn't find any animal except for frog, grass hopper, and cricket. It was little disappointing but it was still fun.

After that, in my plan, I eat a delicious dinner, take a hot shower and go to sleep.But it didn't happen. Dinner was okay, but the shower was a big problem.

However long I wait, it didn't get warm! Because of that, we all had to go back and forth, back and forth to look for the room we can get a warm shower.

About 30min after, we finally found a room to take a warm shower.But still, it was not working well, it kept on changing the temperature!

At last we had to wash our hear with cold water. It was horrible.

After the shower happening, in Miki and her mother's room, the ants and a little cockroach came and we had a problem again!

When I get to sleep, it was already 11:30p.m. I was really tired.

EARTHQUAKE AGAIN!!!

Today, 16th of October, about 4:30 p.m., my mom was gone to shopping at the moment and I was only one at house.
And when I was practicing my piano, I heard weird sound from the top of my head.
Bang bang!
I looked around and I found the light shaking!
Conk! It said. It sound as if the ceiling is going to fall on me any moment.
I was inwardly panicked but I tried to make myself calm down.
But in that moment, I heard someone screaching "EARTH QUAKE!!! Augh!".
As I heard that, I couldn't stop myself panicking and horrified.
Soon, I ran out from the house. Actually, I wanted to get my phone and other important staff and lock the door but I couldn't return home to take it. Because I was too scared to go back as running up all the emergency stairs alone.
And what was more, I was wearing the sandal for inside of my house!

After all, about 15min later, I got to go back to house. It was horrifying!

New Vocabs
1. I got interrupted by those rowdy guys

2.That super doctor resurrected my nearly dead puppy

3. I made a pledge with her about money

4.I burned my chicken in that brazier

5.That putrified dead rat body has a fetid smell

6.He is always spontaneous in inportant part

7.A thief discreetly stole into the room

8.He bravely matyred

9.Your motive for this crime is preposterous

10.I was scouring all around the hall when I lost my ring

Poem

I Wonder Why, I Want To Know

I wonder why the sky is blue

I want to know where the sea goes

I wonder why flowers are so beautiful

I want to know why the stars shine

Written by Yuki Sugiyama

10 new words in Q2

1. What is this fetid smell!

2. That corrugated design looks cute!

3. I hate that neferious girlstanding over there

4. It is intolerable to go in to center module without teacher's permission

5. It is frothing on surface of beer

6. This vial is useful for keeping perfume

7. My raft arrived on desolate island

8. I was gagging because my little sister jumped on my face while I'm sleeping

9. Stop doing those frivolous things, boys!

10. She is conceiting in front of mirror for 2 hours!

I and Me

1. I am Yuki

2. Please take me to a pet shop

3. I'm going to get me a puppy

4. My dad bought me a computer

5. I wrote this story

6. You are making me mad

The BFG

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BFG is not an ordinarily giant. He is kind, friendly giant.
One day BFG went to a village that many people live and he was seen by a little orphan girl, Sophie. Yes. BFG can't be seen by people. So he instantly brought Sophie to the giants world!
Sophie thought she will be eaten by that big giant but she didn't.
Because the giant was not a fierce, glutton, scary like the giant in little children books.
It was BFG the Big Friendly Giant.
So Sophie started to live in Giants world that has many fierce giants with BFG.
Many happenings occur and Sophie and BFG big great adventure will raise the certain and start when you open the book.

Characterization of World Genius Girl, Matilda!

Matilda is a book written by Roald Dahl that has the cute genius girl, Matilda for main character.

Matilda is a 5 years old girl and she has a long black hair.
She is a lovely cute girl but sometimes little mischievous to her mean parents. And she is a little genius!

She could already speak using difficult words that adults usually use when she was 1year old and when she was 4years old, she started to read newspapers! She really likes to read and hates her mean parents, and this can be her like and dislike.

Her hobbies are to play prank on her evil parents, reading and knowing things, and to stay with Ms.Honey.

Ms.Honey is the person, Matilda cares the most about. She is Matilda's school class teacher who is nice, kind, and an only one person who knows that Matilda is a genius.

Inportant people for Matilda is only her friends at school and Ms.Honey.
And her antagonist are mean parents and Ms.Tranchbull who is the evil principal of the school which Matilda is cummuting, and this can be her inportant people and antagonists.

Because of Roald Dahl's great characterization, I could really enjoy the book and the main character, Matilda.

The Magic Detective

Written by Joe Nickell

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Educational studies indicate a critical lack of scientific awareness in children and young adults. Is it because science is no longer perceived as challenging, interesting, or just plain fun? Looking for

In The Magic Detectives, Mr.Nickell presents thirty "paranormal" investigations in the form of brief mystery stories. Clues are embedded in each story; at the end of each account, the child can turn the book upside down to reveal the conclusion that professional "magic detectives" have already reached. scientific facts can be as enjoyable as "playing detective".

There are 30scientific mysteries such as The Ghost Girl, The Tragic UFO chase and etc.

Let's enjoy Mysteries!

Oh my god Roald Dahl! Another Moving Story from Roald Dahl!


Danny The Champion Of The World
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Danny is a seven years old boy who is not going to school. His best friend is his father and he was really good at telling story like BFG.
Danny loves his father and father loves him too.

But oneday, when Danny woke up at midnight, his father who was suppose to be in bed was not there! Danny got panic and in that night, he got to know his father's big secret that was hidden for long time by father. That was an astonishing thing. He was a thief who was stealing in to Mr.Hazelle's house! What is Danny going to do with this? Many happenings occer around Danny.


Danny and his father's big adventure starts when you open your book!

TERRIBLE EARTH QUAKE!!

September 2nd, an earthquake had occur in the capital city of Indonesia which is Jakarta.

At least 23people had passed away trapped under by there houses when the 7.0 magnitude quake happened at about 3o'clock on Wednesday afternoon.

More than 24,800 homes, offices, schools and mosques were damaged. At least 3,100 people were forced into temporary shelters, and the Red Cross said it had distributed 1,500 tents, as well as blankets, clean water and other provisions.

And also a tsunami advisory had been going around.

Fantastic Author ROALD DAHL!!!

A famous author Roald dahl had wrote many great adventures and fantasies for kids.

Some of them became movies and they were all got a great, big success!

Such as Charlie and the Chocolate factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and etc.

That fantastic author, Roald dahl started to write in 1942 when he was in Washington and
he used to write stories for adults. Of course, he was a great author of writing adult stories, but when he changed adult stories to kids stories, he became a he is concidered as a best, fantastic kids book author in the world!

If you wonder how Roald dahl's books are great, you should immediately buy them and enjoy reading! His site is http://www.roalddahl.com/.

Another great book from ROALD DAHL!!!

MATILDA

Matilda is a story about a 5 years old genius girl name Matilda who can read everything that must be really hard to read for her age, solve complicated math equation without a calculator or pen and paper, spell everything and still manages to not be loved by her parents.

So that Matilda is a genius with her idiot parents__and she is having fun driving them crazy with her clever revenge plan.

And that Matilda goes to school and many things happen to her.

There is a mean Ms.Trunchbull, who is a headmistress of the school and is hated by whole school kids. Kids are getting bully from Trunchbull and Matilda took action to

get rid of that evil headmistress.

Thumpy-thump, thrilling story is here! You should read this if you want to have an adventure with smartest girl ever.

Taiwan Morokat Typhoon

On Sunday, Aug, 9th 2009 a six-story hotel in Chihpen, Taitung county, Taiwan collapses and plunges into a river after flood waters eroded its base as typhoon Morokat passed through the area.

Really fortunately, all 300 people in the hotel were evacuated and in safe.