Emily’s Blog

In L.A. on Friday we started to read the story Jennets Winter. This story is about a girl who is moving west. One day during the gurney her father and brothers go hunting, but little did she know they wern’t coming back. She has to go through the harsh winter by herself. After reading this story we then had to fill out a sheet telling in complete sentences what happened in the story. 

In science on Friday we started the immune system. We watched a movie in how our bodys fight off desease. Dan Immune and Curnal capillary use many plays on words to explain how our bodys have a memory of the viris so it can train white blood cells to know how to fight it the next time it comes arownd. After the vidio we had a discution about what we saw. Next we went over our new notebook. We had a discution about the pages we read on the immune system.

The pages for the notebook can be found at :http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=117http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=117

HI, my name is Candy and, I will be you tour guide as we travel through North India.

Lets start at the Ganges River. Believe it or not, the Ganges river is a holy river in India’s believe system. Ghets are the steps that lead many of India’s people to the “great” waters. People do not only come to the Ganges to bathe. Many people come here to die and throw cremated or half cremated relatives or pets in the water. If you go to see the Ganges I would not suggest swimming in or drinking the water. Many people who live in India have built up an immune system to the polluted water. I remember the time when my social studies teacher told us of the time when or principal when to the Ganges, is shoe fell in and came out BLACK.

Next on our agenda is the Taj Mahal. It was built by the fith Shaa,Jahan, to hold his wife, Mumtae’s caffon on one of the lower floors. The project of the Taj Mahal was started in 1631the same year Mumtae died. Twenty two years later the great buiolding was complete. Today in 2007 the Taj Mahal is both the Jahan and his Mumtaes grave.    

                                                                                                                         Picture found at http://www.linternaute.com/voyager/unesco/asie/inde/taj-mahal/diaporama/images/1.jpg                                                                                            Information included in the Taj Mahal paragraph was found at http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/1997/august/shah.php

If you have somewhere to go dont worry just one more stop, Old Delhi and new Delhi. I know you may be wondering , whats the difference? Well, Old delhi is obiously older and less mopdern but it is also where the old capital use to be. That was untill the people there got sick of it and move it to the cooler, more modern and hip new Delhi. OK, well atleast more modern.

Since we have a little more time we can go see the elephants. Here we are.

Animal photo’s found at http://elephants.free.fr/images/bebe_ele.gif

and http://www.himadventures.net/index_images/jim-corbett.jpg

In social studies we read the article Crude Awakening. This article is mainly about where we are getting oil and how much longer we will be able to get it. This points out that oil is one of the main things we rely on. Oil makes many daily products, like plastics, tires, and of corse the oil we use for fuel. Scientest believe that small oil spots will run out as soon as 2015. So what will we do then? Well, like many countrys we will have to rely on OPEC. What is OPEC you may ask? It stands for Organization of Petroeum Exporting Countrys. OPEC controlls moast of the worlds oil, and includes Algeria, Indonisia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nygeria, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emitates, and Venezuela. So if the USA ran out of oil we would have to buy it from OPEC, which can be verry expensive. Since oil provides 40 persent of the worlds oil we can’t cut back on all of it but we can cut back on some of the oil products we use. I know they are more expensive but if you drive hybreds you save oil, and if you buy more efficiant heating and cooling systems you will also save oil. Oil is non-renewible since it is made of old anible bone pressured by the grownd for thousans of years, so if we want to keep driveing cars and doing all the modern day things then we should be careful of how much oil we are useing and start to find a solution for it.

 ^{The ottoman empire was once the turkish empire which was arownd from1299 to 1922. Throught the years the ottoman empire expanded, controling moast of southeastern Europe, the middle east and North Africa. This land streched from the strait of Gibralter to the Caspian sea.The ottoman empire was once one of the moast powerful countries in the world.They began to call them selves the Universal Empire. They were like this for six centuries. But durring world war one the ottoman empire took sides with germany, because of a secreat treaty. The Germans didn’t do so well. So, when they lost,so did the ottoman empiredid too. As a result the ottomans lost all of there land exsept for what we today call turkey.} 

^{Turkey is know a great place to live. It has its own traditions and great buildings without all that land.}

In Valencia, Spain a Beluga whale just gave birth to Europe’s first captive beluga birth. The calf weighed about 200 pounds and was about three feet long. The calfs  mother, Yulka is only eight years old and the youngest at the zoo to give birth. What makes this calf so special is there are only 20 baby belugas in aquariums all over the world.Most belugas only live for 35 to 50 years. There white skin helps them blend in to the icy waters of the Arctic ocean. Most people at the zoo have been waiting months to see this calf be born. 

The country Libya is made up of moastly desert. Since there are no rivers moast of the water comes from the aquifer or an oasis. An oasis is a pool of water that is fead by the undergrownd water by in the aquifer. Cities that are not settled by the aquafer have pipes that draw water from the aquifer and bring it to the city. Libya is ruled by a dictator named Muammar al-Qaddhafi. They are known for there terrorism acts such as the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over lockerbie. 

This is what my dog looks like.http://lassie.nxweb.com/images/brandy.jpg

I have a manicure collie dog. His name is Oliver. He is not a dog who jumps up on your lap and licks your face. Since he is to old for that we mostly have fun outside. He is not a very smart dog so you can’t really play ketch or Frisbee. Mostly, I run around and he chases me. But after a wile he gets bored. So I try to test how many tricks he can do. Just guess how many! A whopping big two. He knows the easiest ones in the book. Sit and stay. After he does his ”tricks” I tend to give him a treat. But giving him a treat after just a sit and stay you go through a lot of treats and so he got really fat! So now he is even less active and is getting older by the day. I still love him even though he has a few bumps and I wouldn’t trade him for anything.