Category: Homeschool

Sunday “shortly before 5 p.m. local time” according to The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a train crash played out in Taiwan. The rampant train killed at least 18 people, hurting 170 more. The tragic wreck occurred on a widely traveled route from a suburb of Taipei to the city of Taitung. The Puyuma Express, one of Taiwan’s fastest trains, flew off the track while rounding a bend near one of their stations. The train, however, was not routed to stop at Hsin Ma station.

10/8/18

Did you notice if you add the first two numbers in the date, you’ll get the third? Interesting huh? I got the sequel to one of my school books, (A fiction one.) and started it. I did okay in math, I learned about () parenthesis… And [] brackets… And {} braces… (What’s up with the name?)

In English, I had to write a timed essay. I had 35 min to write one on a quote. I was not told I was supposed to do this ’till next year. Guess not. I had to write about “That which doesn’t slay me, strengthens me.”  It was an opinion essay. (What even is my opinion on that?)

10/9/18

Today was pretty bland. Nothing super interesting happened. I stayed home, edited yesterday’s timed essay, (Seriously?) math was math, you get the point.

Acronyms for Pen.

P.otentually E.verything N.eeded

P.izza E.nlightened N.ation

P.erfectly E.valuated N.ecesity

What? I was bored.

10/10/18

Math was bad. I got a lower grade than normal. The youth group bonfire for tonight was postponed and I’m not going to get to go. So, that was today. One fun thing I did was English!

In English, I did another timed essay practice. this time I had to say whether I agree or disagree that adults have it easier than kids. I, obviously, disagreed. So not true, and if you want to see my essay, look out for “Advantages Don’t Always Make it Easier.”

10/11/18

I did school today. I got an A on my math test. I would’ve gotten an A+ but for my worst enemy. Negatives. (Booing and groans emit from the audience.)

I had a science experiment today. But I had to use glue. I glued it at 10:30 this morning. It hasn’t dried. It’s now 5:09 PM.

10/12/18

I edited my timed essay practice. I’m gritting my teeth. Come on! It’s a TIMED essay. Who edits a timed essay!?! (Interrobang) It destroys the point! It is also one of the most boring things in the world.

The glue on my science experiment finally dried. I finished it today. And it turned out AWESOME! It is a touch sensor, so when something touches it, it turns on a lightbulb. It’s so sensitive that when I hold it the light flickers on!

10/15/18

Today was a bad day. From the moment I woke up the world was out to get me My alarm didn’t go off, I didn’t get much sleep last night, a friend of mine is having a really hard time, math was horrible and I didn’t finish it in my allotted time, computer problems, you get the point.

In English, I learned about positive, comparative and superlative adjectives and verbs. I filled out charts with them This week and next week I’m supposed to write a newspaper. One step ahead of them. (I do. EVERY WEEK!)

10/16/18

Today I got my braces off! Braces free! Although I did have to rush to finish school. I have my retainer now, and it feels weird. But I’ll get used to it. And I can take it out to eat!

In Science, I read about weather balloons. Weather balloons and satellites are very different, but both are used for weather reports. Satellites can’t measure wind, but a weather balloon can. Weather balloons are blown by the wind and have a GPS built in to determine which direction and how fast they are going.

10/17/18

I didn’t do math or Spanish today. I didn’t really do anything today. My teeth hurt, and my retainer gives me a lisp.

In history, I’m learning about Galileo. He’s pretty interesting. Everyone was amazed when he found more stars, It must have been so cool to look through it and see a new world no one else had seen! I thought his research int relativity was very interesting and understandable once it was explained. The name of the chapter was: Relatively Moving or Moving Relatively?

10/18/18

Today I went over to our rental house and painted the bathroom with mom in between school and stuff. I didn’t get much done today except for painting. I did the roller and mom followed with the details. (If I did them we’d be in trouble!)

I couldn’t do my science experiment because we need a Doodle Trackcar, and they were out of stock. History was kind of freaky; some of the things scientists did to study things were crazy. Math was, well-math. I did learn how to do mixture problems though! They looked really hard but they’re really not. Obviously, I only have easy ones right now, but the concept isn’t hard.

10/19/18

If you type today’s date you will find a fun thing. The number keys on my computer are laid out like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. So, when writing the date I press 1, (Follow along on the left.) 0, 1, 9, 1, 8, not counting the slashes. You see? I just kept my left finger on the 1 key and my right finger kept jumping one key to the left!

Today in math I did a lesson I remember seeing Reed do and thinking it looked super complicated and hard. It wasn’t. It was so easy I probably could’ve not listened to the lecture. So I guess when I’m doing what Reed’s doing right now it won’t be so complicated either. At least I hope so.

The US continues threatening Saudi about the disappearance of Saudi reporter Jamal Khashoggi. He was last seen on Oct. 2 going into the Saudi consulate. Killing by the Saudi government is rumored. Turkey and Saudi are jointly investigating, although Turk officials said it seems only a disillusion of cooperation. Turkey says they have proof Kashoggi died in the building, including recordings of what happened in the consulate. According to Saudi officials, even if the US fulfilled their threats, Saudi’s government would be able to continue. Turkey sent a group into the consulate on Oct. 15, thirteen days after his disappearance. He entered the consulate to pick up divorce papers so that he could marry his fiance, Hatice Cengiz, who was waiting outside the building for hours. Cengiz and Khashoggi planned to be married on the   3rd, the day after he disappeared. The team investigating the consulate stayed for hours and said evidence of newly painted walls was found and suspected as a cover-up for evidence. Cleaners were seen entering the building before the Turkey team went in, the first investigators to enter after his disappearance, thirteen days before. A unanimous Saudi official said that the Saudi government would blame it on rouge killers.  Surely enough on the 22nd headlines blazed “Saudi blames killing on ‘rogue operation'” in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Turkey spoke of plans to investigate nearby consulate buildings which were repainted as well.

Lauren Daigle was declared “Christian Music’s Adele” by Sean Clancy in an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article’s title. With the debut of her album Look Up Child a headline on rollingstone.com announced “A Christian Singer Is Bigger Than Drake and Ariana Grande This Week.” Interviews with Lauren Daigle tell more of her background. She grew up in Baton Rouge, starting “singing out” at her church choir after being diagnosed with cytomegalovirus at 15. She went on from choir to American Idol, and released her first album, How Can It Be in 2015.

Bloomberg Businessweek put an article out saying that Amazon, Apple, and other big companies were having information stolen. It said that their main computer parts, made in China, had tracking devices attached to them, causing the computers to give out info and do things they weren’t supposed to do such as connecting to other computers. Apple and Amazon both denied it, saying no breaches were found. They said they were happy with their computer parts supplied by Supermicro and hadn’t had any problems. The vice president of information security at Apple said he would meet with staff members of a lawmaker and make the facts known about their search into the topic which Bloomberg Businessweek had notified them of in October of 2017. The article also stated the FBI was investigating Supermicro, Supermicro said they weren’t aware of any such thing. Chinese government spokesman Lu Kang said nothing about the topic except to point reporters to statements by the companies involved. Bloomberg Businessweek said they had been investigating the case for over a year, although the US Department of Homeland Security said they “have no reason to doubt” what Apple and Amazon had reported on the topic.

On the evening of Saturday, October sixth a 5.9 earthquake shook Haiti. Later, a 5.2 aftershock the next day caused fear, killing several. Twelve were originally killed and at least two more were added to that number. Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the US commented; “This is the first significant aftershock.” So far it is the only one.