Motor Accidents

I didn't sign up to blog my break but I thought maybe today was something people would want to hear about. My family is spending the break in Cambodia and Bangkok, right now we're in Siem Reap, Cambodia with my grandparents who are spending the entire break with us. So this morning my parents left the hotel at 7am and told us until about 1pm. Until then my sister and I had the day with our grandparents.
Last night we had tried what was called a Dr.Fish Massage. This wasn't really a massage but it was done by fish. You stuck your feet in a pool filled with little fish and the fish ate the dead skin to make room for your new skin, if enough dead skin was removed your feet would feel as soft as cushions. Anyway today we thought we'd let our grandparents try, all the fish swam to my grandpa so no one else had very much dead skin removed. At the beginning my grandpa was laughing like crazy, because a school of fish eating your feet tickles, and you couldn't see his feet. After the Dr.Fish Massages my grandpa's feet were SOFTER than cushions.
Fish biting your feet was nice but an ice cream tower and a local stuntman in front of you was way better. The stuntman was even doing flips through a hoop, but any old hoop would be boring. This hoop had razor sharp knives that glinted in the sunlight facing inwards. It was really scary and he wasn't even professional. This guy had just been practicing for a while and was trying to earn some money!
This was all great but this is where the day turned down. Me, my sister and my grandparents were riding home in a sort of more advanced rickshaw. Instead of a bike or person pulling this rickshaw it was a driver on a motorbike. This wasn't something new because they're all over the place and they've been around for a while. So no one was expecting anything when we crashed head on into a motorbike. Surprisingly I'm the only one who was injured, everyone else was only shocked while I received a bang on the upper part of my jaw and a bruise around the minor gash on my arm that was numb for a few hours after. We were all kinda traumatized though since the cart wasn't on it's side, thought it was just barely, we decided to just hop out and walk away. We looked back at the small wreckage about 15 seconds later and it already had a police officer with a can of white spray paint tracing the outline of the vehicles.
When we went out later to lunch with the entire family, my parents had returned, I realized that there was at least 2 police officers on every street. So I thought these accidents must happen often. So why doesn't anybody do something about it? Whoever is in charge sent the police officers to the streets so they can make sure every one's OK, why doesn't this person try and find a way so that the police officers don't have to be there? Many things can be done to prevent this from happening again. Lower the speed limit, add more speed bumps, have the leader of this place make a PSA about this and add more complexity to the drivers license test. Heck, I bet half of the guys driving the rickshaws don't even have drivers licences.
This day certainly didn't turn out the way I expected it to be and my arm still hurts even as I'm typing this. Someone should do something about this, just not me. I''m driving to
Phnom Penh tomorrow... Definitely not in a rickshaw.

10 Word Definitions Represented by Pictures: Vocab 5

Muttered

Mimicking

Incredulous

Fettered

Swoon

Abruptly

Methodically

Prophet

Inflammatory

Exhaustion

5 Word Definitions Represented by Pictures Vocab:4

Subtle (Ninja)

Ambivalent (Business Man Shrug)

Placid (Pebble)

Wrath (Angry Face)

Immaculately ( Super Organized Room)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

This book was ok I guess, No wait actually I think it's terrible. This book is really easy and it's supposed to be funny. I've really forgotten why me and other kids read this. On the picture on the right it shows the the author and the book. This book isn't even about a problem or anything, it's just a kid who blabbers about how he hates his life and how his summer sucks.

I don't really have a favorite part of the book seeing that I now despise the whole thing. This book just seemed like a good way to kill a few hours of a plane ride. I was wrong seeing that I finished the 217 page book in 45 minutes. This preposterous lump of paper and scribbles that doesn't deserve to call itself a book receives 1.5 stars from me.

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

The sequel to the amazing book, The Mysterious Benedict Society, was spectacular!!(Notice: 2 exclamation marks) This book takes 1.5 years after The Mysterious Benedict Societies first mission.

The children were supposed to go on an adventure lead by clues set all over the world by

Mr. Benedict, Until Mr. Benedict was captured by Mr. Curtain while setting the clues. The children sneak out and follow the clues that Mr. Benedict was able to set and improvise when the clues come to an end.

My favorite part of the book was when the children were in a hotel because the clues lead them there. It was really suspenseful because a Ten Man showed up at the door. Ten Men work for Mr. Curtain and they're called Ten Men because they have 10 ways of hurting you that wouldn't suspect that are weapons. Ten Men are supposed to blend in with other people. They all dress like business men and carry briefcases.

Here are the weapons Ten Men carry:

1. Shock Watches (When the time changer is plugged into you, you receive a violent shock)
2. Neck Ties (Used as a whip)
3. Pocket Handkerchiefs (Soaked in Chloroform)
4. Pencils (Razor sharp)
5. Chewing Gum (Poisonous)
6. Laser Pointer (Real Laser)

And so on...

The point is these people are not good. This book was just awesome, even better than awesome! 5 stars, 34 stars if possible!

5 water questions pg.229

1. List the main reasons for water scarcity. Much of the water is lost by run-off and floods.

2.What is a drought?What type of hardships do you think that a drought could cause if you were living in a village in a poor country such as Ethiopia? A drought is a period of time when it doesn't rain and much life can die. In Ethiopia people can die of thirst, also probably people's animals would die because they need a lot of water.

3.How does land degradation affect the supply of fresh water? When land degradation happens it decreases the ability for the land to store water. When land degradation happens people can not take water from the ground anymore making droughts an even worse time!

4.

(a) What is El Nino? El Nino is when the temperature rises the temperature decreases the chance or rain, starting major droughts.

(b) Why does El Nino often cause drought in Australia? Australia is on the equator so it's really hot. When El Nino occurs the temperature can become unbearable.

5.Observe the map showing the global affects of El Nino in 1982-83.

(a) What effects does El Nino have on the availability of fresh water? El Nino causes serious drought because the temperature is so hot.

(b) Name the countries and describe the problems that arose from decreased rainfall caused by El Nino. Countries that were affected by El Nino are Indonesia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Colombia, USA, China, Africa and the Philippines. Problems that arose from El Nino in these places include Famine, Serious air pollution, Droughts and Rainfall above normal levels.

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Like the last review this is a little late. The Mysterious Benedict Society is about 4 remarkably gifted children, something that brings them together is the fact they each have no family. Sticky ran away from home under enormous amounts of pressure. Reynie is an orphan. Kate’s mother died and her father disappeared when she was 2. None of the 3 knew what was wrong with Constance but something told them she never knew a family either. The 4 children meet by taking a test that was advertised in the newspaper. They all pass the test hidden within the test and meet Mr. Benedict and name themselves the Mysterious benedict Society.

My favorite part of the book is when the Mysterious Benedict Society is sent to the Institute and they thought Mr. Benedict was the evil headmaster, Mr. Curtain. It turns out that Mr. Benedict and Mr. Curtain were twin brothers separated at birth because like the children Mr. Benedict did not have a family.

I didn’t think this book would be very good. Something just told me it would be boring and you had to have known a lot to understand it or something. I only read it because I can’t stand to see unread books on the shelf but when I started reading I went WOW!! I thought to myself, “Now I’m certain you can’t judge a book by its cover.” You can already tell I loved this book but just for the record, this book rates 5 stars with me.