Harschal’s Blog

What do you realize you have improved upon? Give examples.

I have drastically improved in my word choice and conventions. Earlier this year I would have used the sentence; the man was strong. Now, towards the end of the year I would write; the massive man was brawny. I used to have many run ons, for example; People in 200 years would think that we were old fashioned because we played “xbox 360” Just how we think our parent are old fashioned because they wrote instead of using a computer.

What do you think you still need to work on?

If there is one think that I could improve on from this point on, it would be organization. At times, the things I write aren’t in the write spot, or there could be a better place to put them. Other than that I think I am pretty good overall.

Journeys Can Be Made By Force or Choice

Some journeys are forced upon you and some may be your choice. Such as, in the Rabbit Proof Fence, the half caste girls were taken by force to this place where all half-caste kids went. It was their choice though to choose to run away from the place to return home. Moving to China was mostly by choice but also somewhat by force. My parents wanted to move but I didn’t, that is how I found force, but it was our family as a whole that had the choice.

Journeys can take place in a variety of forms

Journeys can take place in a variety of forms, like my iWeb, one of my journeys was moving to China, and adapting to being able to live happily here. In my historical iWeb, I talked about Steve Job’s journey to becoming successful, and the CEO of Apple Inc. Steve went through many unexpected changes to become the CEO of Apple Inc. in order to start up his company and make his own operating system, Mac OS X. He dropped out of college after his first semester.

Well, Galaxies orbit bigger galaxies, starts orbit black holes, planets orbit stars, asteroids and comets orbit stars…etc..Every object in space exerts a gravitational pull on every other, gravity holds together entire galaxies and keeps planets in orbit. The galaxies/stars are at such distances that they wont disturb other planets in such ways. Such as, Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, is further away from the sun than Proxima, I think that this has to do with gravity and the brightness of the stars and how it will affect the sun. Currently, no one really knows why the universe is how it is. I think that all of the galaxies are in such positions though, that they will not hard any other galaxies/stars. I also think that this all has to do with gravity.

What were the best parts of China Alive?

I think that the best parts of China Alive were our activities, all of them were really fun. I also enjoyed our free time on West Street. My favorite activity was rock climbing, it was an exciting challenge.

What would you like to have seen done differently?

To tell you the truth, I think China Alive was simply amazing, although at times we were really muddy and dirty before our next activity which wasn’t really a nice feeling. This could be changed by allowing students to find a spot to change into clean clothes or even make a trip back to the hotel for 15 minutes if there’s time.

What did you learn on this trip about yourself or your world?

I learned that everyone should become eco-friendly for the sake of the earth’s future, and I also learned that I do not like to be muddy! China Climb did a great job with motivating all of the students to pick up trash and become more eco-friendly.

What will you do as a result of something you learned on this trip?

I think that one thing I will do for sure is slightly change my lifestyle to become more eco-friendly. For example, I’ll try to use less plastic, and even pick up others trash that I find on the ground in places where the trash shouldn’t be.

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