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汉堡薯条好,

华夫饼煎饼很好,

生姜水不好。

This is an example of one of my haiku's. It is in mandarin. During mandarin class on Thursday, April 28 we were told to make a haiku in mandarin or as we called it in mandarin a  五七五 meaning 5 7 5, and if you didn’t know a haiku has to have 5 syllables  in the first line 7 in the second and 5 in the last. For my haiku I decided to make it about things that I liked so mine is about food. If I were to translate what mine says it would be.

Burgers fries good,

waffle pancakes very good,

ginger water not good.

 

Structure fits Function

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Ever wonder why a red blood cell is shaped like a life saver well this is why. The unique shape of a blood cell is very important. A red blood cell has what is known as a biconcave shape. Both sides of the cells surface curve inward like the interior of a sphere.

 

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The red blood cell is shaped like a life saver so it can fit through tiny blood vessels too deliver oxygen to the organs. Also it is so full of hemoglobin to carry oxygen that doesn’t have a nucleus. Sometimes they are misshaped and cause Sickle Cell Anemia. When you have Sickle cell anemia your blood stream gets clogged.

Book review

 

Right now I am in the middle of reading a book called The Legends Club. It is about the North Carolina college basketball powerhouses with the coaches Dean smith, Jim Valvano, and Mike Krzyzewski. This book tell you the history of there relationships and games and seasons together. I would definitely advise that you read this book if your into college basketball or just if your into sports.  At some points of the book though you need to know a little history of North Carolina basketball to know what they are talking about but other then that it’s a great book.

Crash Landing

Beep, Beep, Beep. I could hear the alarm going off. I knew right at that point that the plane was going down. It didn’t exactly feel like it but I just knew it. I kinda had that sinking feeling in my stomach. FYI not where you wanna be. If you didn’t notice I hate that feeling so much. For crash landing, we were going really slow. It felt like we had been in the air for so long. Which is not a bad thing. Even though it doesn’t seem like it, I am freaking out. Obviously I had never been in a plane crash before. I mean the only outcome of this is me dying. We were almost at the ground aka me dying and I didn’t exactly know that but I just had a feeling. It wasn’t a good feeling but it was a feeling. SMASH! We hit the ground. I felt like my stomach had just done twenty push-ups. I felt like I was dead, but to my astonishment I was not. I couldn’t even believe it. I mean besides the fact of me probably dieing in the middle of wherever I was. So first I had to see if I was hurt anywhere. There was no major injuries luckily, but I did have some bumps and bruises. When I was getting up I realized something very bad. There was no one else alive.

I couldn’t believe it I was the only one there alive. Everyone else was killed in the crash but I only had so minor bruises. I mean I couldn’t believe it. So I started to freak out. What was I going to do if there was nobody else alive. Then I thought, the worst thing to do was to freak out. So I tried to calm myself. After a little while I started to think how I am going to get out of this I mean I am lost. So since I have nothing I thought maybe I should just start walking and take as many supplies as there was left, so I did. I grabbed everything that was left, put it in a backpack and then started to walk in the direction of where we came from because I knew we were flying from the city.

I walked and walked and walked. I was getting so scared that I wasn’t actually going to make it and I was going to die out here in the forest. Then I started to think if I make it out alive I won’t have my family because no one but me survived! First though I had to make it out of the forest. I walked and walked and walked… and walked until finally I made it to a body of water. I thought maybe there is a city near here because where there is water there could be a city. So I started to walk along the coastline of the body of water. I was walking for a while when… I could see a city, I mean I didn’t know what city it was but it was definitely a city, and I knew that I could get some help.

 

 

This is one of my creative writing pieces. I think I could of done better with this piece because i’m just going on with the story and not describing things. I think if I explain certain topics in this story then it will make the story stronger. One thing I like about this piece is that it is completely fiction, but this could still happen in real life. Now I guess I know what to do if I am stranded in the middle of the forest with nobody after a plane crash landing.

 

 

 

Mandarin

Mandarin has been really fun this quarter. I have learned so much. My favorite thing we have done this quarter is our Tai Chi presentation. It was really fun practicing it and trying to get it perfect. I also learned so much about the Chinese culture from it.

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Illuminated letter

In art class we were told to make an illuminated letter. What is an illuminated letter you ask? Well i’ll tell you. An illuminated letter is a form of medieval art in which you draw a letter with a design behind it. For mine I did an E. Screenshot 2016-04-06 at 9.28.35 AM