Hey guys! Today we're discussing Shark Tank. I ran into this because my godfather showed me this and I became hooked. We ended up watching like five hours worth of Shark Tank. The show is really good. It lets you kind of work the math into it. For example, you can figure out if the deals are good or if their profit margin is really big or really small. I think the show is AWESOME!
Here's the link to the Shark Tank website:
http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank
Happy weekend!
Maria.
Hey guys! Today we're discussing the back-to-school season. So yesterday was my first day of sixth grade. I woke up at about 6:05, brushed my teeth, put on my school uniform, and went off to school. I arrived at about 7:20 (we had to get there early), then made my way to the classroom and settled in a seat, and waited until everybody arrived to start orientation. The teacher introduced herself and explained our schedules just in case we didn't understand. We put away our books, and then she explained the demerit system, the reasons from which you could get a demerit (in order from minor offenses to major offenses), and the points deducted from your behavior grade depending if it's a minor or major offense. She then explained the student rulebook and basic rules of the classroom. We then had the English class. After that, we had lunch and recess. After recess, we went back to the classroom to take the Spanish class. After Spanish class, we continued the English class. In the last period, we took the Religion class (I am in a private Catholic school). I swear that the minute I got home, I raced to my bed to take a long nap :-)
Happy weekend!
Maria.
Hey guys! Today we're talking about TED. Before you guys say anything, I'm not talking about the bear in the movie. I'm talking about TED Talks. I stumbled upon them by accident, and I've been hooked ever since. TED Talks are lectures about anything you can imagine, and from anyone you can imagine. For example, these are good for when you want to study a specific subject. They range from one that I saw about an journalist from Esquire Magazine that does experiments with himself as the guinea pig (I'll post the link below), to the story of a woman and her defection from North Korea (I'll post the link also), to a neuroscientist talking about when she had a stroke & took the opportunity to study her own brain and thoughts. They're THAT varied. I will post the YouTube links of those talks below. I will also post the link to the YouTube channel as well. They have an app for Apple and Android systems also.
A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically
Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight
Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea
TEDTalks YouTube Channel
Happy weekend!
Maria.
Hey guys! Today was the end of my summer camp, and we had a huge water war with water balloons and water guns. Today, we had the water war in the morning, then we were told there was a surprise that included massive amounts of water after lunch, which turned out to be two HUGE water slides. After the announcement, it started raining, so we headed back inside. One of the camp counselors has a DJing system on his laptop so he cranked up the speakers, put on some music, and we all started dancing and singing, and some of us even did some karaoke! After that the sky cleared up, so we had lunch outside, we rested while the counselors and the water slide rental guys set up the slides, and then, the fun began. We were all afternoon from noon to 3:30 sliding around the slides... and it was AWESOME!!! After all that, we headed inside to the bathrooms to change, and then we had the afternoon snack, and after that we left. I have like only two weeks left of summer vacation, so I have to keep going to the pool and the beach as much as I can :-)
Happy weekend!
Maria.
Hey guys! Today I went to the Kids Museum in Carolina. We arrived and we entered and saw this huge fake volcano that had a mini rock climbing wall and a really cool slide. Then we moved on to a Mini City attraction where there was a pretend supermarket, a pretend police station, a pretend TV studio, etc. Then we went of to the Marine Life station and there was like a mini aquarium inside. After that, we went to the Transportation Vehicles station and we had like a little minigame contest. Then, we went up to the second floor and went to the Recycling and Alternate Energy station, where we generated our own electricity by pedaling, to give you guys an example. After that, we went to the Music and Arts station. There was like a thingmajig made of drums and there was a touchscreen where you chose what beats you wanted it to play it, and then it played back all the beats in order. There was also a stringless laser sensor harp, and a stop motion animation camera. Then we ate lunch, took a break, and then moved to the Aquatics station and there was a boat which modeled after a yacht, and there was like a little game where you tried to catch magnetic toy fish. We also went to a hurricane wind simulator. In there, you choose what wind speed would you want and then pressed a button and the wind comes to you. I chose 91 mph winds and they didn't even knock me off my feet! Then we moved on the the Solar System station, where we obviously learned about the Solar System and galaxies. After that, we went to the Energy and Physics station and we saw a huge mural of Albert Einstein, and after that we went to the Magnetism station, and we made sculptures with magnetic objects. Then we went to the Nail Bed. The Nail Bed is a plastic bed that has little holes from which the nails rise. You lay on the bed with your head on a pillow, then a worker presses a button and the nails slowly start rising. The nails don't poke you because when you put all your body weight on one nail, it pokes you. But when you rest all your body weight on lots of nails, they won't poke you because they distribute your weight evenly. After that we went to the Airplane. The Airplane is an American Airlines MD-80 and is 107 feet wide (from wing to wing), and 147 feet long. It has 73,655 hours of airtime. The last flight flown on the plane was from Tulsa Int'l Airport to San Juan Int'l Airport on January 6th, 2011, and American Airlines donated the plane over to the Museum. After giving us a talk about the plane and aircraft in general, we left the place.
It was AWESOME!!!! I had never gone before and it was really fun. I give it a 10 out of a 10 and 5 stars out of 5 stars.
Happy weekend!
Maria.
Hey guys! Today we're talking about Despicable Me 2.
I went to see it in the movie theater today. In fact, I actually got home about a half hour or so. Anyway, it was AWESOME! I actually think it's better than the first movie. I'm gonna tell you guys a couple things: there are LOTS and LOTS and LOTS more Minions. It's EXTREMELY FUNNY. And somebody falls in love.... I won't tell you, you'll have to find out for yourself by going to see the movie :) I absolutely positively recommend the movie... I give 5 out of 5 stars. IT'S AWESOME AND IT ROCKS!!! My favorite one out of the three girls is Agnes... She's so cute!
Happy weekend!
Maria.
Hey guys! Happy 4th! This is gonna be a short post because I'm spending the weekend in a beach house in Isabela... I also started a new summer camp on Monday and it's AWESOME!!!
Happy weekend!
Maria.
