Saturday, March 30, 2013

"Making the Invisible, Visible: The first step..."




I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing
A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange sun rays
And dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage
Can seldom see through his bars of rage
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom.
The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.
But a caged  bird stands on the grave of dreams
His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings with
A fearful trill of things unknown
But longed for still and his
Tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom


Domestic workers are people who work as a servant within the employers' household. There are about 27million domestic workers who are having problems with their employers including many migrant workers from poor reign. Many were physically abused, not allowed to return to their country and  sexually harassed by their employers. If they tried to refuse, the employers will violate them and domestic workers had no freedom as they have no rights to get out from the job of domestic workers. Moreover, they were also treated inhumanly and the employers mostly discriminate domestic workers like no wages until the contract has been finished. 

The issue of the domestic workers not only impact their relatives and families and the domestic workers themselves but also to the people in the whole world. According to the various articles, few of the domestic workers victims died because of the abuse from the employers and even went missing. Their families and relatives might worry or even cry and even sorry for one of the family member who work for their poor families and relatives. I can really feel how painful it is for them to know that one of the family member died or went missing. I think this problem is really important to know for me and also the whole world because we might make a change to stop the slavery of the domestic workers. Even now, the governments and the police officers, are being apathetic of these serious problem about these victims and do not really investigate about domestic workers who are suffering in Malaysia. Moreover, if the whole world tries to take care of domestic workers and be upstanders instead of bystanders, the numbers of slavery who are domestic workers will start to decrease. 

While researching about domestic workers issue, it was quite shocking that the employers also sell domestic workers to other employers to perform the house work. However, there are many organizations like Tenaganita who provide domestic workers their shelters and tries their best to make them go back to their country. Other organization is 'Humans For Sale Awareness Program' and it indicates that many domestic workers were treated as if they are 'things' so the organization who tries to help domestic workers volunteered for helping them by making some products to sell things to people even at the shopping mall to make them care about this issue. If this continues, then in the future, the number of slavery will decrease and no more slavery will keep on go on in the worldwide as many people know about domestic workers from many different kind of websites. 

Learning about the issue of the domestic workers makes me feel that I want to volunteer on helping domestic workers in certain organization and it made me understand that there are still many people who are suffering because of their own job because I thought that nowadays, the technology and developed and most of the countries are living in a good condition. In addition, I feel really bad when domestic workers actually work as they are poor so that they could send them some money for their life. I personally just nagging to my mom even though I have done nothing for my family and even unsatisfied with my living. Moreover, I even thought that my life is really unlucky but actually I was really lucky of not doing anything  but to be educated not like domestic workers. I wish that there could be many people who realized after learning about domestic workers in Malaysia and try to help them. 

Sunday, December 2, 2012

The Most Potential Weapon: Nuclear Bomb


'We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.’ - Martin Luther King. 

Nuclear bomb is known as the most powerful weapon in the world. In 1945, they bombed Japan Hiroshima to make them surrender in World War II so that the world will be in peace. It impacted the whole city and about 200,000 people died at that time. However, North Korea created nuclear bombs in early 1980s and started to test some place including South Korea Seoul, Bikini Island and other places. Many people were in fear to know what the future will be with nuclear bomb. After North Korea told that they would test nuclear bomb again, many other countries had lots of disagreements and thought nuclear weapons should be abolished. Nuclear bombs are extremely harmful to people in the world by testing nuclear bomb in different country, causes international disagreements but many people tried to find solutions to make the world into peace.

By testing nuclear bomb in different places, nuclear bomb is extremely harmful to people in this world. North Korea didn’t even care about people in that place and kept on testing and many innocent people lost their lives. ‘I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.’-Albert Einstein. This quote from Albert Einstein regretted about 25 years of his life about finding atomic bomb and made the whole world into fear. Once people bomb the atomic bomb, it will kill more than half of the world’s population life. Many people predicted that if North Korea completes the whole nuclear bomb, it could wipe out the whole world. This could impact most of the people’s lives and many people are scared of the future about atomic nuclear bomb. "It's very important that we have an effective way to communicate with the public the seriousness of a nuclear accident," Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Scott Burnell told Discovery News. Many accidents about nuclear bomb happened about more than 10 times in America and Russia and once in North Korea. In North Korea, there was accident once happened while they were transporting nuclear bomb into some other place. Luckily, it didn’t impact the whole city and no injuries were there but still in the future the more dangerous accident could happen. People can’t predict what dangerous thing might happen in the future. While testing, North Korea sometimes could fail and have bad dangerous accidents happen in someday if they still don't abolish the nuclear bomb.

North Korea made an international disagreement by telling the whole world that they will test the nuclear bomb soon. The conflict has risen up more and more about North Korea Nuclear Bomb test between countries. "North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the international community. North Korea's behavior increases tensions and undermines stability in north-east Asia." - Barack Obama. America president Barack Obama was furious with North Korea about testing nuclear bomb. Many countries except for Iran who traded nuclear bomb each other with North Korea disagreed with the testing of nuclear bomb. Many people thought that if testing of nuclear bomb still goes on then peace and harmony will break into piece by piece. People are trying to stop even now and the disagreement of international still didn’t end up. ‘North Korea has not signed the CTBT, and tested nuclear weapons in 2006 and 2009.’ CTBT stands for Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and many nations like Pakistan, Iran and India signed that they would stop testing nuclear bomb and will abolish. Unfortunately, North Korea ignored to sign and still tested their completion of nuclear bomb in 2012 May. Many nations got really furious but the threat of nuclear bomb from North Korea couldn’t stop them from banning. North Korea still threatens most of the nations with their nuclear bomb and people couldn’t stand up for.

Fortunately, many people are trying to solve solutions to abolish the nuclear bombs especially in North Korea. Since NWC ,a community made a campaign to abolish nuclear weapons many people started to join the campaign. “All states must intensify their efforts to outlaw nuclear weapons and achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.” A group called
ICAN group joined the force of international secret meeting and started to have campaign. Many people who feared about nuclear bomb started to join the campaign and tried their best to abolish the nuclear bomb to prevent from being wiped out the whole world. This have been shown a great news that about 30 nations abolished the nuclear bomb but still North Korea hasn’t yet decided to abolish the nuclear bomb. However, it might impact them from making them abolish nuclear weapon soon in someday. “It’s a heartbreaking fact that our nation has been divided for more than 70 years. I will make painstaking efforts toward reunification.” - Kim Jong Un. After North Korea president Kim Jong Il died the next president was his son Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un made a first public speech and this impressed everyone in the world. Even Barack Obama thought if North and South Korea made reunification then they could abolish the nuclear bomb and the world will be in peace. Moreover, the terrible conflict will be over and the most dangerous weapon will never be used. After listening to Kim Jong Un’s speech many North Koreans cheered and hope that soon they could reunify with South Korea and abolish the Nuclear Bomb. (Video)

North Korea still didn’t ban the nuclear bomb yet and this was a big problem for people in the world. Many people lost their lives because of testing and conflict of international disagreements are still continuing. However, recently, many people are trying to ban the nuclear bomb and even claimed in media to make people to support them from abolishing the nuclear bomb. If you want to abolish the nuclear bomb: Support and join the community about banning nuclear bomb and hope that this solution could be success.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Change of World Full of Brightness


According to BBC News, approximately 3.5 - 7.5 million people died due to the violence every year in the world. Most of the victims are about 15~29 years olds who got serious injuries or even killed because of the violence. Rio de janeiro, the huge city and is known as the most violent place in Brazil where many children who are abducted and taking risks by working for people and to do gang such as stealing. A person who started to change her favela is Mayra. (Brazil Violence) ‘Mayra’s fight goes on, as life in the favela’s remains extremely dangerous and the local facilities are poor.’ Her success of winning against violence saved more than 1000 children’s lives in Brazil. Mayra,  who is only a teenager lives in a violent environment in Brazil. When there was civil war between the drug cartel and the police, she regained control and tried to help other children in favela by stopping violence and demanded every child have rights.


Mayra’s favela was like living in a civil war between the drug cartels and the police, but Mayra didn’t want to be scared of going outside and helped put a stop to the violence. In fact, Rio is the city that is the most violent place in Brazil. Many people couldn’t live peacefully and was afraid of the gunfire happening. ‘Peace should be for everyone and we all should work for it.’ and violence affected lots of people who were innocent. ‘The violence rose to such extreme levels that, when Mayra was eleven years old, the neighbourhood was cut off and became virtually inaccessible to medical and teaching staff.’ (Children Peace Prize) Many lawless and heavily armed crime lords came to her neighborhood and had lots of violence going on between drug cartel and police. However, Mayra decided to help people who are risking their lives to be against the drug cartel and people who are injured because of the fighting. Because the war occurred so often, that people were afraid to go outside. Mayra stopped the conflict to make her favela become peaceful. Before, Mayra tried to stop the violence, it rose higher and higher that even people who are not related into this violence got hurt and even killed. Mayra made community by herself and she tries everything to have her rights. She fight for everything and declared to everyone. Fortunately, the police gave up and everyone now have their own rights. ‘She mobilized children to participate in a community march against violence.’ (Kids Rights)Mayra added a quote and tried to risk her life to stop the violence for people.  ‘Do something instead of nothing.’ (Video) At the age of 15, Mayra organized the community and made every single people to participate in the community to stop the violence. Furthermore, police was patrolling around the school so Mayra tried everything to make police to stop patrolling. Her confident had succeeded to make violence shortened. Mayra tries her best to stop the violence. She even organized the whole community to stop the violence. She is really selfless and think about other peoples’ feelings and injury. To sum up, because of Mayra a teenager’s courageousness, the violence had been shortened and her town started to become peaceful.


Mayra also declared that every children has rights to education and health care, so she organised a community that allowed children to go to school. For instance, Mayra sympathizes for someone who takes risks who aren’t able to be educated or taken care of some guardians.  “Everybody has a part to play in improving human rights, in particular the rights of children as the future generation. We can and must stand up for these children, whose rights are being violated and whose lives are at risk.” In fact, Mayra’s favela had violence so much that every health centers, schools closed down. As a result, children didn’t have rights to be educated or to be healthy. On the other hand, Mayra demanded to government about her own rights even other children’s. Mayra is courageous upstander who demands basic human rights likes education and security for poor children. Her pride is extremely strong and she even thinks rights are not given to certain people but given to everyone in this world. ‘I believe peace is not privilege.’ I have a dream.’ Mayra has a dream to stand for. She feels bad when she see someone who takes risks like children who are injured. She thinks peace is for everyone and children who are unable to educated, she demanded that all children should be educated.  Mayra tries her effort to make every children to be educated and gave hopes to others who are in risk.


Whenever, violence happened every time in favela, Mayra stops the violence to make her town to be peaceful. Furthermore, she helps children who were forced to do something and made them have their own rights. By confidently stopping violence and risking her life, she had succeeded to stop police patrolling around the school and opened the school again which was closed due to the violence. Children now could be educated and go to school like normal kids do. Because she never gave up and tries everything she can, she won against the violence. She made her town to become peaceful and the violence in her town, so she recieved Children Peace Prize in 2008. Mayra’s determination and courageous helped children. Furthermore,  Mayra is an upstander who stopped the violence and demanded children’s rights bravely.





Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Where I am From




Where I am From

I am from a park,
Where bicycles going fast, slow and even fall down.
I am from a building,
with tall students walking inside,
studying hard without any smiles on their faces.

I am from my apartment,
on the corner
with darkness growing and growing.
I am from TV show
full of cartoons and animation
dancing around and singing
almost screaming like hyper.

I am from enemies
hitting, frowning and gossiping
competing who is the best
Also being jealous each other.
I am from teachers
hitting me with thick bamboo stick
Always making my hand red like blood.

I am from developed things
Full of new computers, phones
Listening to MP3 in touch.
I am from street market
Opening every Thursday
Lots of discounts, crowded,
And the smell of Kimbab, Steamboat floating around everywhere.

In my drawer,
Pictures messed up
Taken when in a trip for Scout
Enjoying, joking and laughing
At each other.


Saturday, November 19, 2011

My Profile I

My profile is I. It has negatives and positives. First for the negatives I can't follow the instruction very well. Whenever I listen to teacher's instructions I can't follow it by step by step. Last time, my Science teacher was giving us an instruction and I listened to it very carefully. But, I didn't know what to do I asked my friends. It was uncomfortable because every teachers give us an instruction and I can't follow it. That's impossible. So teachers need to show me some examples or some whole pictures to make me understand. It will be really easy for me to work something like projects or assignment. Other negative is that I will have difficulty of writing and communicating. Because my left eye is better than other eye so I need to see right to left. But when we write English we write left to right so it is hard for me to write it.



My positives are that when I am rlly relaxed, I can do best at something and cmmunicae well. But because when I always do test I will be totally shocked so it is not able to do test really good. Sometimes my mom said to me to relax and calm down before I got to do test. But this information is really true because last time, when I tink that math test will be easy, I got 100% in it. So bfore I am going to do the test I think I need to calm down myself first and then do my test. My other positive is I can learn something best at seeing the whole pictures. Because when I see the examples, I will understand easily and realy good at seeing pictures. It tells me when I see some pictures that someone made and pictures that I should describe.


Sometimes, my profile helps me a lot but sometimes it doesn't. But actually when I was 6th grade my profile was MM but now it changed into I. So I knew that profile could change in sometimes.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

LIBRARIES ARE IMPORTANT!


Libraries has bunch of books as you know. But what if there will be know library? You can't borrow it for free and you need to buy it with your own money. It will be totally disaster. The poor people who usually borrowed books in library, they will stop to read books if there aren't no libraries. Because they are poor so they don't have enough money to buy books. Overall, libraries are really important tous to help our knowledge. We all should think we are the luckiest people in this world.
I disagree that libraries shut down. Even I don't really go to libraries, but still I love libraries. There are interesting books to read and it's free! Even though if I lost it I need to pay it. But if there's no libraries then we need to buy books and it will be really expensive because only one book is RM30.
Librabries are really important to our lives and it benefiits us a lot. So we need to be really thankful for not closing the libraries.


Monday, September 12, 2011

My Name

My name is Yerin which means wise. My mom said that she suffered to name my name specially. So I can put up my shoulders. It is short in English name only 5 letters. When I came to ISKL for first time most of them usually pronounce my name correctly. So I am jumping for joy. I can be happy with my name and have a big confidence. But sometimes I don’t really like my name as I like my turtle.

When I come to Malaysia most of the Chinese and Malaysians who is bad at English mispronounce it.It makes me dead of tired. Still my bus moniter thinks my name is so hard so she calls me Rin. It’s only 5 letters but why can’t they call my name properly? Also there’s another big problem. Koreans need to have traditional Chinese because they borrowed Chinese languages. But as I told you it is so hard and special that my parents doesn’t even know my Chinese characters.

When I ask them what is my name in Chinese characters they suddenly become confused. Their heart become stone. Because of that they named my brother easier. His name is Jeong Woo which is common. So my parents could remember his Chinese characters instead of mine. It kind of making me mad as a peak of a mountain!!!

But still I think my name is special. When I type my name in internet not much people has my name. I love my name so much and proud of myself.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.


This is Helen Keller's quotes. The reason I like this quote is even though she is blind and deaf she overcome her suffering and became a famous person. When I read this I think I need to overcome because now I realized that there are about thousands of people who suffers more than that. So I need to proud of myself and feel happy of my life.

Monday, April 11, 2011




The day before Spring Break, I was totally unhappy and too lazy to go home. I am staying at home without going anywhere and my friends were gone for holiday. Also the schedule was totally same. My brother went to his friend's house to play with them and I need to go to acedemy that are Math, Englsh and Piano.

But it was really a great news. On Friday we will go to Penang for two sleeps. I was so excited that I jumped around and around. But my mom frowned because she didn't know how to do it. Luckily my father just did it into a new hotel that called 'Hard Rock Hotel'. My mom was surprised and said. " We don't need to stay in really expensive hotel!!! My father said, " Don't worry. It should be good hotel.

Finally on friday we went to Penang. I was so happy and saw the lots of kinds of trees. But after 1 hour I was so sleepy and going to vomit so I slept for 1 hour and 30 minutes. After I woke up still my father was driving. At last we finally was Penang but there was a big problem. We didn't know where was the hotel. My mother saw the map and she said, " I don't where should we go!!" So my father just picked the place. Luckily we found a hotel. HOORAY!!

The room was big and nice. In the swimming pool there was 3 slides and they were all fun. But it was too boring to stay at hotel so we decided to go to the beach. The beach was really clean. First I wanted to ride banana boat but my dad said" Ride a para sailing.' " It looks fun!! When I see it closely I was so scared that I said "I don't want to ride it!!" But unfortunately I just rode it!! When I ride it was really fun and cool. I could see the island closely and lots of apartment. The next day, we left Penang at 12 and barely return to home.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

My New Settlement


Environment 1
Plains
I will settle on the
plains that is really flat. It is very easy to survive to settle on the flat ground. There are many ways that helps to provide foods and helps them to survive. For example for food like potato, lettuce, corns etc. Next one is that it is easy to survive. For example They could grow lots of crops because if it is flat the crops will grow more well than hilly place.

Peninsula
I wil
l locate it on the peninsula. There are several reasons why I want to settle there. First reason is it is surrounded by a water. So it is easy to get water to drink fresh water and it is almost like a plain that is flat. It helps us to grow well and easy to survive. Another reason is it helps to grow crops. This helps us to provide foods like potato, lettuce, and meat from animals that is cow, fish and pigs.


Environment 2(water

River

I will settle where there is a river. River helps to provide water, provide foods and save our life. First river helps to provide water. We could drink a fresh water so we could not be thirsty any more. Also we could use when we usually cook. For example making a soup, rice or everything. Next it could provide foods. We didn't need to be hungry any more. We could fish, could catch deers or cows to survive from a hunger. Lastly it could save our life. For example drought, it could helps us to protect from a drought because it provides water.



Seas
I will locate it near the sea. The sea helps to provide foods and salt. For example for foods there are fishes, dried seaweed, oyster, octopus. These helps human to provide energy. Sometimes we could eat whale meat but not turtle. Next it also provide salt. Some people said salt is bad for our health but it's actually helps to cook nicely. We could put a salt on the fish then it will be so delicious.

Environment 3(Vegetation)

Trees

I will settle where there are trees. This helps us to provide foods and provide woods. First it helps provide foods. For example it provides fruits from the certain season. So people could gather a fruit from a trees. Like papaya, watermelon, melon. Also it helps people to have a better food supply. Next one is it provides woods. It helps us to provide a shelter. For example it protects from a harsh weather and wild animals. Also it helps to makes fire so we could be warm and could sleep warmly. Lastly it could produce tools. For example it could also produce transportation like boats.





Forest
I will settle it on the forest. There are lots of reason that is it provide wood and oxygen. For example forest provides oxygen that is good for our human health. It makes to live more longer and give us a fresh oxygen. Next it provides woods that produces shelter to protect from the harsh weather and wild animals. There are so many trees so wild animals could be hard to find me.


Tuesday, January 18, 2011

My cutie little Samsung phone

My family went to Tesco to buy some things. On our way we saw someone selling a phone. My eyes looked at it longingly. I  beg my mom to buy for me a phone. I said, “Please can you buy a phone for me?” My mother said ok. When my mom finished her word I became so happy that I ran to the phone shop to choose a phone. First I wanted to do very expensive one but my mom said if I lose it will be begrudged.If you want to see my picture of URL click hereTesco .




 But I was still happy to buy a cheap phone because this was my first time to buy a phone. In Korea I used my father’s because he left to Malaysia. But this time I can use it for a long time. So my mom said to me to buy Nokia but the seller said that Samsung is better than it. Also my mother saw the Samsung phone and she agreed. So my mom bought the Samsung phone that is very cheap one, 85 RM. I was so happy that I jumped around and my mom

laughed at me.


After buying phone I quickly ran back to car I matched the time and date,save my parents number and show off my phone to my brother. I think my brother was too envious because he has old phone that could not call to anyone. I felt sorry for him but still I feel so happy that I could fly. I played a game, I put my alarms and matched the ringing songs that I like to have. Believe or not I don't know what's happening with me that I kept touching my phone. I could not pay attention or concentrate because of my phone.



If you want to see my phone click here.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Is my country a civilization?

I have learned 7 important civilization. Stable food supply, religion, social structure, art, government, technology and writing that is written language. I am going to investigate to see my country has these characteristics.
Stable Food Supply
In Korea, my cultural stable food supply is a soy jar. Ancient people put Kimchi in it because it taste more better to put in refrigerator. They dug a soil and put soy jar in it. Then it will taste like more cultural. Now days many people use Kimchi refrigerator that could taste also good but not really much. Today some grand parents or who lives in country uses still!!!

Religion
We Korean has two religion. One is Christian and another one is Buddhism.There are lots of people believing god but some are not. I am Christian. I went to the church with my family and cousins. Every Sunday we go to church. There are two floors. First floor is for children like prep senior to 6th grade. Second floor is for the adults only. These were seperate because children doesn't know what the adults are saying and it is boring for them so they will be loud when everyone is praying. This is my church that used to go on Sunday.




Art
Korean arts are about the nature. For example they drew mountains and trees. This was because our country is full of mountains and trees about 70% of it. Many artist drew about the nature. Now days everyone drew with a color but ours are drew with a Chinese ink. When they drew if they got any mistakes they throw away the paper and drew another paper. The paper was so thin that it could rip easily.


Government
Korea governments were now Lee Myeong Park. He is now the president. But many people doesn't like him because he doesn't seems like to help other people. So many children swear him. They think that another person will be the president. 





Writing
Korea writing has developed a lot. There once was a Se Jong De Wang. In past we needed to use Chinese characters s it was hard to use it. But he just found it so we could use our language easily. Because of him it is more comfortable. He kept try to invent in our own writing. He could not see his left eye but he kept try but unlucky he passed away.


Technology
Korea technology also improved technology. In the past they needed to walk or ride a horse to inform king, but this was hard because it gets lots of time.But now we could go by a car, airplane and train. Also it invented more faster car that is cost more money. They also could use cellphone that is small so it could go in the pocket. This helps to call someone to meet, work or something. This helps us to become life more comfortable. Maybe on future it could be developed a lot.

 Social Structure
We have 3 classes. that is common class, upper class and slaves. Upper class we had king, priest, government owners. Sometimes if the priest doesn't follow the rules then they will stay in jail. Common class we have fisherman, farmers, sellers. They sell lots of things. For example mirror or candle. Slaves doesn't have any money. If they ran their owners will be very angry. If they found them they will hit them as hard as they could. Most of the slaves died because the owners hit them so hard.




Sunday, November 7, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

6B Field Trip

It was the field trip before at night I was sleeping but I can't sleep very well because we are going to the field trip. I was so excited to go and my heart was beating so fast. Now it's the field trip day. We was on the bus I was chatting with Nayoung and Linh but the bus is no moving. Just then one person said," KWANG YI IS IN MR. ANDREW'S CLASS!" Then the teachers noticed that Kwang Yi was missing. Anne quickly rushed to get Kwang Yi. When they came back we can go now. It took 2 hours. We was happily chatting and the time went so fast that we didn't sleep.  
 
But when we came, it was so hot that I can't stay. I wanted to go to the hostel and rest. Luckily we stayed about 5 ~ 10 minutes. The hostel was kind of messy and smelled bad. There was no air conditioner and there was only a fan that turns slowly. We went outside and walk through the forest/jungle. When we was walking I got lots of mosquito bite and there was poo on the ground. We walked about 1hour 30 minutes. I was so tired that I cannot move. But we saw lots of insects on the water. It was so COOL!!!!!!!!!

At night we rode a boat to see a fireflies. I thought fireflies were big but when I saw real it was not. But when I come closer it was so beautiful that I was so impressed. The man catches the fireflies and gave to Na Young, Linh, CY and me. It was so tiny that I could not touch it very well. I had two but one was so active and it fell down to the boat. I felt sorry for it. But just then on fireflies flew away. Now it finished. I wanted to see more but I enjoyed a lot!

It was about 10 but I can't sleep because I am not sleepy and I was scared. Na young was scared to sleep at front of the door so she went middle. But I was scared too! It was creepy. We all didn't sleep. Ayaka and Anne said to sleep. I slept for 5 hours. I am the only one who slept a lot. It was about 4 o' clock so we played card game for 1 and a half hours. It was fun. At morning we ate breakfast. The teacher said that we are going to plant the mangroves trees on the sticky mud. Some people said it's so dangerous. I didn't want to do it. We put our boots on and started to go to the sticky mud. I was so scared that if I got stuck on the mud. First step was fine but if I go through it became more sticky. I was going but some one pushed me so I fell down. It was my good clothes. I was so angry. But again I got stuck in the mud. I tried to pull it out but it stuck deeply. One man helped me to pull it out I was happy. When I just want to plant the mangroves tree the teacher said it's time to go. I was very sad.

I was walking to the forest but I saw Justin walking by the street ad with a shower. I was so envious. Now I could barely take the shower. When I finished my shower it was so refreshed. I like taking a shower. I wanted to go home. We rode a bus and I slept for a whole time. I was too tired. At home I slept a lot. Phew!!!!!!!!  


Picture from: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_0QVZ2ANKAYQ/TLu13Bb2AyI/AAAAAAAA16A/EBRVhPg_6Ds/s640/IMG_0069.JPG

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Homo Erectus Key Capabilities for Survival

Homo Erectus had a few key capabilities that helped this species to survive 1.8 million to 200,000 B.C.E.
One important key capability was they were good walkers and runners. Their bones were very strong. So they could migrate out of the Africa. They can have lots of lands to live and if somewhere is danger they can quickly escape from the another country.  Another important key capability was they were tool makers. They has a large brain so they can invent more complex tools and they are intelligent. For example axes made of stones. They create shelters with tools. The next key capability was they used fire to survive. There was no caves to provide natural shelters. So they control the fire helped them to keep warm and protect themselves against the animals so they can survive longer than the early hominids.


Reference:
 Homo Erectus
  http://hominid.renecanales.com/Hominids/Homo%20Erectus.jpg

Monday, August 9, 2010

All About Me

My name is Yerin Lee. I am from South Korea in Bucheon. In Malasian  age is 11 years old. I was born in1999 March 12th. I was here for 6~7 months. Now I am going to ISKL Ampang Campus. My favorite color is purple. Also my favorite food is spaghetti. And my favorite picture is Doraemong. Because Doraemong is cute and has lots of strange things or magic things in his pocket. My favorite animal is turtle. Even though turtles are slow they have intelligent of thinking an think how can they protect their eggs. So I like turtle very much.

My family is 4 people. My parents, my younger brother and me. My mother has short curly hair. She can swim well. She is a house wife.  Her favorite color is light blue. She wants to sleep. I don't know exactly but my mother's favorite food is slices of raw fish same as my father. My father has little short hair and now he is an officer. His favorite color is green. He wants to just lay down on the floor doing nothing. Lastly my younger brother has long hair but not so long. He has little curly hair and he is going to ISKL Melawati. His favorite color is orange. He wants to buy anything he wants. My brother's favorite food is steak.

My hobbies are 3 things. Swimming, watching movie and going shopping. Swimming is exercise and we can live more healthy and strong. Also swimming is good to our body and it is fun to swim. Next watching movie is fun. We can see fun part of movie and eat popcorn. Lastly, going shopping is also fun. We can buy anything we like to watch what they sell and what things are the sale.

When I was in middle school, I was excited. Because teachers are nice and there are many tasty food more than Melawati and we can have lockers. But I was little worried.Because middle school is too big so I can be easily lost. But middle school is more better than other school.