Month: August 2018

The US is adding another levy to China imports. It is 25% on 279 product lines starting in two weeks. The US is doing it for the second time this month even though American businesses are protesting. China said they will do a levy of the same proportion to us, which would be $16 billion. The US might increase that total soon, because they are looking into adding more product lines.

We are getting an exchange student! I am incredibly excited!! We learned a month or so ago, and David comes to live with us Aug. 9th. (Tomorrow!) Here is what I thought at first.

I’m too excited to think!

David gets here tomorrow, his dad will also stay with us for a month, then return to China. David is 15, turning 16 in December. He likes science and math, and he will go to school at the Private Christian School our church meets at.

David was supposed to get here more than six hours ago, and we haven’t heard from them. We heard that a flight from China to LA was delayed eleven hours, (eleven hours, WOW!) but we don’t know if they were going on that plane then transfering.

They called, they were tired so they got a hotel room and slept. They will get here sometime tonight.

David has been here 11 days, and it’s awesome! He’s been doing school since last Thursday, but it has been uneventful. He was supposed to have a tennis tournament today, but he didn’t want to miss English.

Reed and David playing chess

On Sunday a 6.9 earthquake hit the island of Lombok, Indonesia, killing 91 people. Indonesia suffers many earthquakes, including a different one in the Lombok Area last week. Many houses crumbled, falling houses and buildings being the main cause of deaths. Both earthquakes struck at 6:46 Western Indonesian time. They are currently clearing rubble.

I am done with school! Hence the title, so I am pretty much done with journals until next year. I know you’ll be so sad to be free. It can’t be helped. (Just kidding, enjoy your vacations!) Mark your calander folks, July 30th is my first day of school. Whoo Hoo! 

7/30/18

I finished math in half an hour and got an A+. It was easy. History was interesting. I learned about Ancient Messopotamia.

Science was so fun I accidentally read ahead. The questions were a little harder than I thought. But it was ok.

The book I’m reading The Thief was amazing. The writing was so good I literally had a hard time putting it down. I learned about femanine, mascular, neuter, and indefinate nouns in English. It was easy but interesting.

7/31/18

I finished before lunch. Partly because I read ahead in Science and The Thief. In math I missed a few questions I knew. In science I learned about industrial robots. They are really useful for factories. But they put people out of jobs.

In English I started working on a fantasy story. So I’m going to write a historical fiction sci-fi. It’s going to be awsome. I started telling Dad about it at lunch and he got excited. All I did today was pre-writing but they made it fun with an educational graph. I was so inspired that I sat down that night and used their pre-writng tecnique to write my own six-page story that I’m going to be posting the the blog in chunks. One a week. So look for I Understand Part II. 

8/1/18

I like the look of todays date. It’s so even, it almost follows the golden rule of algebra. School was harder today. Adi and I started playing agame, and it was three before I remembered about school. I still finished, but it was bout diner-time. Today MOm, who has been in NV, got back! That was fun. We also got our first newspaper today.

In history I came up with a question. “Why aren’t stars star-shaped?” They don’t even look star-shaped! Comment if you know the answer.

8/2/18

Today I wrote some more of my Historical Fiction Sci-Fi, but I didn’t ahvve enough time to finish it! I’m gonna have a lot of homework.

Today I had my first science experiment. It was so awesome! I am doing a crash-course on Robotics. Today I made my own Vibrobot. A Vibrobot is mostly used as a toy, it is not technically a robot, because it doesn’t have the second ability in the definition of a robot. A Vibrobot is basically a moto, it just vibrates, moving around with no controls. If it hits a wall, it just bounces off. My Vibrobot had markers for legs, which means it drew pictures! I will try to include a photo below.

8/3/18

Today I didn’t have much school because it is a Friday. But I did work on our newspaper. It’s called the Weekly Tribune, and it comes out every Saturday. It has the articles I post on here plus extras! Like riddles, crosswords, weather, and super cool font!

I did math later than usual because Reed was using the computer. But I got an A+ and learned about Communitive Properties. Which is a fancy way of saying, I got to hear a lecture on something I learned in second grade. Well, that unlocks one of the secrets of Algebra. What’s next? Long division? (I’m not upset, just amused.) Algebra is actually really easy so far.

          

My Vibrobot’s Drawing.                                  My Vibrobot and its drawing.

A seven year-old in New Zealand has her own ideas of women’s lib. Zoe Carew was visiting her grandparents, who live close to Wellington, New Zealand. As her dad drove by a road-work sign, saying “LINEMEN,” Zoe was offended. Zoe wrote the country’s transportation agency a complaint letter, convincing them to change the signs. Signs now read “LINE CREW.”

Recently 2,500 kids crossing the border were separated from their parents to “lay down the line” on illegal border crossings. After much discussion, the policy was repealed. Workers at a Texas center, currently housing 32 of the children started working tirlessly to reunite them with their parents. The work of these and many others has placed 1,800 of the children back with their parents. More than 450 of the children’s parents had already been deported, causing setbacks. The search is still on to find the missing parents.