Month: August 2018

Starting August 20th North and South Koreans start reuniting with family members. In a several day event held at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea they will be allowed to speak with and embrace long absent family members. Most of the Southern particiapants are older, meeting with relatives they haven’t seen since the war. Lee Soo-nam, 76, will meet with his brother this week. Lee Soo-nam last saw his brother, now 86 with a wife and 50 year old son, when Lee was eight and his brother was 18, running from North Korean soldiers at the begining of the war. Lee thought him dead, and he is so happy his brother is alive. Many particapants believe this might be the last time they see relatives before they die.

This week I went to speech and debate camp Monday through Wednesday so I won’t have much to say.

8/13/18

We worked on speech today, I got really nervous which was weird because I spoke in front of about 50 people a couple weeks ago, but 15 made me nervous? I guess because they were there to learn about speech and debate and were older.

8/14/18

Today we started debate. The debate practice games were a ton of fun. I think I did ok, and it was less nerve racking than speech because everyone else was bad too.

8/15/18

Today we did an actual debate round and it was amazing! We did great and last night I did some research on the topic, so I really knew it, and they let me use it in the round, while everyone else used the provided material, so they didn’t have a defence. It was awesome!!!!!

8/16/18

Today I got back to regular school. It was a lot more relaxed because I wasn’t leaving before 8 and I didn’t need to worry about lunch. My work wasn’t incredibly hard because I kept up with math, doing it ahead last week, and doing half a lesson after speech and debate. I also got ahead in Bible and other stuff and mom cut out some other things.

8/17/18

Today I finished up most of my school. I made a fancy lunch for Adi and me, and played with magnets. Mom and I did a lot of reading on our stuff, and I read a ton of Going Solo By Ronald Dahl. I haven’t had it all week so I couldn’t read it until today. It is better than most of his other books, but I wouldn’t really suggest it. I’m not a big fan of his books, if you read the actual books of James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory they’re pretty wacky and not very good. Also Mary Poppins the book is actually horrible and nothing like the movie, Julie Andrews portrays a good character, while in the book Mary Poppins is harsh and incredibly vain.

On Tuesday Erdogan said Turkey will bycott IPhones. His given reasons were that the US commanded Turkey to release an American Pastor. Wednesday Turkey said they will add tariffs on rice, vehicle, alcohol, coal and cosmetic imports. Trump made them pay double to import steel and aluminum earlier this month. Erdogan suggested Turks buy phones from different brands such as Samsung. He and several other officials have been seen using IPhones.

Orion was a skilled hunter. One day Orion was bragging to his friend, “I’m the best hunter in the world! I bet I could kill all the animals on earth! What do you think of that!” Gaia, the earth god, heard him and got angry. Gaia sent a giant scorpion to kill Orion. Orion was hunting in the forest with his dog, Sirus, when he ran into the scorpion. He started fighting the scorpion, but it was too strong. Orion ran away. Eventually he came to a river, he got in the river and stared swimming. The scorpion followed him on land, because scorpions can’t swim. The river emptied into the ocean, where Orion stayed, waiting for the scorpion to stop waiting for him at the shore. Sirus, seeing his master could not swim much longer, went to shore and fought the scorpion, but the scorpion killed him.

Apollo, the sun god, didn’t like Orion, because he had gotten mad at the sun for setting while he was hunting. Apollo was sitting with his sister, Artemis, who was friends with Orion, on a rock above the ocean when he saw Orion swim out.

“Look! There is a thief and a murderer in the ocean!” Apollo cried. “See that black spot?  Shoot it with your bow before it is too late!” Artemis shot the spot, but then went to find who it was. Seeing Orion she begged the gods to restore him to life. They would not. So Artemis put him and Sirus in the sky so they would never be forgotten.