White

Today was class color day and I beginning the freshman that I am had to wear white.  It was fun today, a lot of fun actually. I shadowed last year on class color day but last year they allowed tagging.  Kids still did it this year but not to the extreme that they did last year.  I remember one kid got duct tape to a wall.  I didn’t know at the time but that kid is actually one of my best friends now, oh the irony.  Well Mr. Schick wasn’t in class today, so we had to go to room 321 and our sub was late.  So I called the office.  Then we had to actually write on paper.  I can’t remember the last time we were asked to write something on real paper, with pen or pencil.  The funny thing is no one has paper but I had my folder so I just wound up giving like everyone a piece of loose leaf because no one brings it with them.  I got everything done with no problem and when I finished I got all my pens back that let people borrow and then I went to gym.      

Questions

1. How did Vikings get the the Americas and were did they come from? Boats and they came from Green Land
2. Where did Columbus think he was when he landed in America? Indian
3. On the map of the different ways to say Soda, what were the to other things that it is called besides soda? Pop and Coke
4. What are two cultural characteristics? religion and language 
5. What is the Buddhists holy book? Trick question Buddhists don't have a holy book, they have got the four noble truths

Stink Bugs

Did you know that that stink bugs get there name from the odor that they release when they feel that they are in danger.  Stink bugs can be green, gray, or brown.  When you find a green stink bug it will most likely be a female, the females are more commonly green.  One more thing about stink bugs is they can bite.  Some people can have reactions to the bite and they can break out in rashes that itch.  If you are wondering why I just listed a few stink bug facts it is because we talked about stink bugs today in Human Geo.  I have no idea how it came up but we spent about fifteen minutes of class talking about stink bugs and telling stories about them.  I didn’t get to share my story but it was really was that I watched a spider eat a stink bug the other day it was gross and I tried to save the stink bug but it was already dead.  The rest of the class we had a long talk about religions.   

Blogging on a Blog

I would like to talk about what we did in Human Geo today.  At first we started class with our prayer, but then we started talking notes on Mr. Schick’s Power Point.  I don’t like the power points they are boring and human geo is my favorite class.  Any way we were just taking notes most class and then I was looking at my blog.  Then we went to Lexis’s blog and were reading her latest blog post.  She has fish on her blog, they are really cool.  So then I went on my blog and got fish. For the rest of the class we pretty much just took notes and read different classmates blog post. I feel like I’m only talking about blogging.  It is kind of like I’m blogging on a blog.  Even though that sounds weird that is what I’m going to call it and you can judge all you want but I like it.

World Religions

    Christianity was started about 2000 years ago; it was founded by Jesus and his disciples.  Christianity is a monotheistic religion.  Christians have a bible, it is where the keep all of the stories and gospels.  There are over 2 billion Christians in the world.  Jesus Christ the son of God is the main figure in Christianity.   There are over 200 countries in the world that have Christians living there. 

Islam was started by Muhammad in the early 600s.  It is a monotheistic religion they believe in one true God.  The Islam’s call their bible Qumran. 1.8 billion People in the world are Islamic.  Muhammad is the main person in the Islamic religion.  There are more Islamic people in the UK than anywhere else in the world.    

Buddhism was started in Northern India by Siddhartha, around 563 BC.  Buddhism is neither a monotheistic nor polytheistic.  They don't believe that you should follow something just because it is written down on paper.  Buddhism has about 376 million followers and it is the fourth largest religion.  Buddha is the main God of Buddhism.  

Hinduism was founded by two different cultures, Aryans and Indus, in 1500 BC.  Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. Their holy book is the Vedas.    Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world.  Hinduism is most popular in India.     

                Judaism was started in 1st century BC, it was started by Moses.  Judaism is a monotheistic religion.  There holy book is called the Torah.  Judaism is followed by around 14.5 million people.  Judaism is most commonly found in what they call the holy land, Jerusalem.     

Double Mod

Oh Thursdays in human geo we always have a double mod. It is a very long class and usual class nothing exciting really happened.  We did look at a chart that showed what different counties call soda.  Where I live we call it, others call it pop, and some people call it coke.  Then we had to take real notes on a power point that Mr. Schick made.  It was about languages and religions.  We were talking about people that speak different languages and how some people are annoyed by their accents and when signs are written in a different language.  The problem with that is what if you didn’t like translations and then you went to a different country or somewhere people spoke a different language than you.  Then the tables would be turned because you wouldn’t be able to understand anything either. Then, we stretched and talked for a few minutes.  When we started talking again we got really off topic though and started talking about prank phone calls.