Author: Reed Karman

Homeschool Journal 10/14/15

We went to a homeschool group today.

In Case for Creator there are scenario stories about faith.

In Japan flower arranging parties were a thing for the wealthy that samurai had to go to. If I were rich one thing I would not do is go to flower arranging parties.

Homeschool Journal 10/13/15

In Japan they threw someone out because he was a foreigner and knew too much about the country. There are 36,000,000 people in Tokyo. The Dutch ,that lived in Nagasaki a long time ago when foreigners were expelled except some Dutch and Chinese, had to have permission to go to the mainland, even to go for a stroll, and have company of thirty Japanese men ,which, they were expected to buy a fancy dinner for all of them. The Japanese wanted to not let foreigners in and to make their country bigger. But the foreigners they did let in made their country bigger by introducing industry. It was 500 years ago when Tokyo was called Edo.

We read a poem about safety pins.

150 YEAR OLD CANNONS FOUND

On September 27, 2015 the Historical Foundation of South Carolina found Confederate guns on the bottom of the river. Research proved that they had been thrown overboard to keep them from the Union army.

the foundation says they will donate them to the state Civil War museum who will most certainly be glad to have them.

Homeschool Journal 10/1/15

Samurai are just hired armies. During their time monasteries trained their monks to be warrior monks. Now-a-day Tokyo was called Edo, their goes my name for a Minecraft city. In ancient Japan the ruling family had no last name.

added up your hairs grow 1,000 inches every day!

Homeschool Journal 9/30/15

I do not know why they created a different name (shinto) for Japanese worship of many gods than other cultures doing it. Only 10% of japanese land can be farmed.

Bones will usually break before tendons tear.

Homeschool Journal 9/29/15

Hokkaido in Japanese means big dry river. It has 2.5 million people and less than 2,000 people in poverty. We started a book about a boy in Japan. He is the son of a puppet maker, on the cover is his puppet, it looks like a clown warrior. For some reason there is a lot of Brazilians in Japan.

Homeschool Journal 9/28/15

The city Philippi was named after Alexander the Great’s father King Philip the Second. It was a Roman city so there were not enough Jews to start a synagogue. That is why Paul does not quote the old testament in his letter to them.

You can sneeze just from dust.

IRAN PROBE PASSES UN NUC STANDARDS

The Anti-Nuclear Weapons Association of the United Nations has sent representatives to Iran to test their new probe for nuclear activity. As all of their experienced testers were on missions already on missions they sent rookies. The beginners did well and conducted a perfect examination. Iran’s probe passed and will be launched into space two months from now and we have little fear it will explode the world.