A Message From Mother Nature

• 1. The Earth is being effected by greenhouse gases which is  making the planet to warm up. This cases the extreme weather and climate change such as heavier rainstorms in summer, bigger snowstorms in winter, etc.
• 2. Perception - understanding or apprehending
• Conteding - struggling or competing
• Intense - strong or high degree
• Preception - an order or command you have to follow
• 3. We experience climate change only for a short time but weather can go on for a very long time.
• 4. Worst flood in Pakistan
• Us, Flodding battered new England, then recode-breaking head wave baked the entire eastern part of the country
• Recode-breaking heat wave along with recode-breaking drought destroyed millions of acres.
• 5. Ho Chi Minh City has been raining a lot lately, it causes floods which causes heavy traffic.
• 6. Perception - understanding or apprehending
• 7. You need to appreciate what you have and treat your planet well to have a good world you want to live in. At least respect your community even if the world still causes a heavy rainstorm without you doing it. 

Doughnutvillian presents Sportsmania

     There are four islands in my world. The island in Northwest is called Soccerville. Next to Soccerville which is the Northeast part is called Basketania. In the Southwest has an island called Swimmer's Farm and on the right side of it, there's an island called Track Castle. There is a pond in the middle of the island with flows to four directions: north, south, east and west.

     Like I said in the location paragraph, there's a small pond in the middle of the island. There are rivers between every islands and the water comes from the pond. There are two mountains in Basketania called Mount Basket; no other islands have mountains. Next to every island, there is on volcano which is extremely hot because it is active in the MAL (My After Life) time when the islands were still apart. The parts of the islands that are facing the volcanoes are much hotter than the parts facing the rivers so most of the humans in "Doughnutvillian presents Sportsmania" wears clothes that shows a lot of skin since the weather is burning hot. The traditional food is doughnut because people play a lot of sports so you eat doughnuts during the break and you'll have the energy to play the game that you're playing. In Soccerville, you would usually hear people saying "kick", "pass" and "goal." People usually say "zone", "press", "man on man/woman on woman" and "shoot" in Basketania. The language in Swimmer's farm and Track Castle are kind of similar because you usually hear one word which is "sprint."

     Soccerville has houses that looks like goals. Some places have no population because people don't want to move to an empty place. There are some diamonds in the outside part of Soccerville because it's near the volcano. There are a lot of free space in Basketania because people only live on the mountains. Their houses are tilted but it never falls so it's really safe. In Swimmer's Farm, there are treasures but it is hidden very deep so people can't really find it. Some coins have fallen out of the treasure box when a ship dropped it so people who live in their submarine found it and became rich. Track Castle is also a rich island; there's a gigantic castle with a running track surrounded by it. Many competitions happen in that area so people can come up to the high castle and watch.

     As I described throughout the paragraph, it's easy to tell that the islands were apart. One day four volcanoes  erupted at once and it happened quite a lot so the islands started to change their shape and moved in closer to each other. A few years after, the volcano near Basketania stopped erupting, but the other volcanoes were still active so the islands got closer. Soccerville moved southeast, Basketania moved southwest, Swimmer's Farm moved northeast and Track Castle moved northwest. The river's dam on the Swimmer's Farm side broke so most of the water floated into that island's pool. The pond started to empty, also the rivers. Many years later all the volcanoes stopped erupting and the islands became one and looked like a doughnut.

     The humans in "Doughnutvillian presents Sportsmania" sweats a lot, mostly when they're in the outside part of the country. Their temperature changes very quickly once they move towards the little pond in the middle. The weather still hasn't adapted to the fact that the volcanoes stopped erupting so it's still getting used to it. It happens to many people so they easily get sick but after a few weeks of getting used to the environment, they lived happily and peacefully every after!

Study Guide

• people
• places
• environments
• 5 themes of Geography: 
• Location, Place, Regions, Movement, Human-Environment
• 6 Essential Elements:
• The world in spatial terms, Places and regions, Physical systems, Human systems, Environment and society, The uses of geography
• Active Reading: 
• asking questions, writing summaries
• Types of Maps: 
• Political Map, Physical Map, Thematic Map
• Cultures - what people wear and do

Learning from others

     During the presentation, when each person presented, I started to realize that whether we have the same ages or not, each of us have our own unique personalities and we all can't be the same. Personalities can change when you take a big step onto something new. Adventures can change people's feelings like how they act and do things. For example, Jenny took a big step moving to the American International School from a Vietnamese public school. She was really shy before but now she's learning how to adapt to the new environment and be more open to the community. 

     Each and every person have been to places and experienced new things about nature. They took their time and learned to have more knowledge. You can't really compare people because they are all different in many special ways. Judging is also not a good thing because you haven't learned about who they are and where they come from. Once you get to know that person, it'll be easier for you to be friends.