Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!

Did you know that Father's Day was created to complement Mother's Day? Ladies first! It was established in the early 20th Century to honor fatherhood.

I love you.

It's Finally Over.

Yesterday was awards day at school. I received a Presidential Award for having a high grade point average. Apparently it was signed by Barack Obama.



As you can see, there was a pin that came with it, but for some reason, the pin was very small. It's usually bigger.


Today was our last day of school. We just watched a movie (A Bug's Life) while the "mouth racers" in my class whispered and talked. A girl in my class took my seat when I got up to use the bathroom, and didn't want to move, so I ended up just standing during dismissal time. The teacher hardly said a word to us as we left, but other teachers did say goodbye.

Yep. Fun.

At least I came home early... the last day is always a half-day.

Wow... 11 weeks at home with him...

...

Anyway, 6th grade is over for me. I'm going to middle school now, 7th grade.

I'm not looking forward to it.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Mom's birthday was actually June 2nd but I couldn't post until now...

I love you.

Unhealthy School Lunches

If you read my last post, I was reading a Junior Scholastic. Another one of the interesting topics covered was the different school lunches served worldwide. Rice and lentils served in India, sardines and miso soup in Japan, even guinea pig in Peru! (I don't think I'd eat a guinea pig, sorry.)

Anyway, despite the variations, I noticed that these lunches all have one thing in common.

They're healthier than American lunches.

Let me tell you about my school. My school used to serve 3 lunch choices everyday, the 3rd choice being salad always. This year, they took everyday salad off the menu, and now we only have it once every few weeks.

Not only that, but may I describe to you some of the lunch choices?

Chicken Patty/Nuggets

Texture is weird. Meat is soggy, and squeaky when bitten into. Taste is very similar to McDonald's chicken sandwich, (which are also nasty).

Milk

The milk is always spoiled. These lunch ladies should be given a stern talking to.

Burgers

Gross. Just gross. They have an odd flavor and the meat doesn't even taste like beef. The same with the nacho meat. Also, cheese tastes funny, and is discolored to a darkish-neon orange. I wonder if you were to turn off the lights while eating it, if it would glow?

Pizza

You may think that just because its pizza its automatically heaven. No. The cafeteria found a way to ruin it! The cafeteria's pizza tastes like the lunch ladies took three cheese sticks and half- melted them onto some cheap tomato sauce and some cardboard. Cheese is not fully cooked and piled on too thick.

"Thanksgiving Dinner" Lunch

I will never eat another one of these again. I swear. Basically, it's a scoop of mash potatoes (which are actually not bad), and some really nasty chicken covered in gravy, covering a biscuit. But it wasn't the chicken, or even the gravy that made me run right back up to the lunch ladies.

It was the giant piece of hair hiding under my biscuit. Talk about nasty. apparently, other kids had been finding hair in their food too. I got another serving, and I still found hair in it, but I didn't bother. if those ladies wanted to be unsanitary, let them. A few months later there was a fire. Uh huh.

Anyway, these dishes are all examples of crap food the cafeteria is serving. Portions are small, and fruit is scarce. Meals are not balanced at all.

Do you want to know some food truths?

Here.

 FUN FOOD FACTS!

1. Schools have the option of serving mixed meat or organic meat. Mine chooses to serve pink slime to growing children.

2. Non-organic milk contains pus and blood. Want to continue drinking non-organic milk now? I don't.

Healthy Lunch

My idea of a good school lunch is:

Main Course: A salad with chicken/turkey, cheese, tomatoes, and cucumbers.

Drink: Orange, apple, or grape juice.

Snack: Piece of fruit

Optional: Dessert


I hope you have enjoyed my post on lunches.

Camel Stew

Today I was bored in school when our teacher gave us a Junior Scholastic to read. I came across an interesting article.

The President of France, Francois Hollande, was given a baby camel. The camel was later eaten by a Mali family. What?

Well, it started when Mali gifted the baby camel to Hollande for sending liberating troops into Mali. He was initially going to put it in a Parisian zoo, but then realized he couldn't take it with him at the moment. So he left it with a family in Timbuktu. The family was supposed to care for the baby until the President could have it sent to him.

The family, however, either did not understand their instructions, or just didn't care. They killed and ate the poor camel in tagine stew. Wow.

Embarrassed and ashamed, the Mali government planned to give Hollande a bigger, and better camel. Not only that, but now a man claims that the eaten camel was stolen from him after the French air raid destroyed his house. Interesting...

R.I.P. Baby Camel



So cute...

picture credit to blogs.ft.com 

Party Party ZZZZZZ

Today was so busy... yet fun.

First we went to my brother's friend's birthday party. It was mini-golf, which I'm really not good at.
Because I'm on a special diet, I didn't have anything but the watermelon they had sitting out.

Afterwards, we went home to eat and freshen up. Then we went out again...

Why?
Because I had my 6th grade party today! I'm graduating elementary school and moving on to middle school next fall. The party was held at the rec center in my town, and me and my friends had so much fun!

There were three pools in the pool room, unlike at most YMCAs. One pool was circular, very shallow, and off to the corner. Another had very cold water, and was long. The one my friends and I were in was heated and smaller, but still large enough to fit about 20 children.

After we swam, one of my friends went to go look at the rock climbing wall, and I followed her. By the second time I got on the wall, I made it to the top! Then we got hungry, so we went to the snack room, full of cookies, chips, lemonade, hot dogs, and nachos.

We spent the last 5 minutes playing dodgeball.


Now I smell like chlorine and I'm quite sleepy.

BUT I'M STILL AWAKE!

Abercrombie and Fitch

Have you heard what the owner of Abercrombie and Fitch, Mike Jeffries, has to say?

“He doesn't want larger people shopping in his store, he wants thin and beautiful people,” Lewis said. “He doesn't want his core customers to see people who aren't as hot as them wearing his clothing. People who wear his clothing should feel like they're one of the ‘cool kids.’”

“In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the site. “Candidly, we go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don't alienate anybody, but you don't excite anybody, either,” he told Salon.

credit to this site for quote:

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/abercrombie-fitch-ceo-explains-why-he-hates-fat-chicks/

So... basically, this 68-year-old man is telling young people that if they're larger than a size 10, they're fat.

Also, what Jeffries said about how "he doesn't want people who aren't as hot as the 'cool' kids wearing his clothing.", um...

That's called bullying in my book. I don't think kids should be excluded because of their weight. It's not always their fault. Sometimes, people can become overweight because of health issues, such as cancer.

Edit:

Several weeks later, Kirsty Alley and Ellen DeGeneres released ad campaigns, "Attractive and Fat."Abercrombie and Fitch have apologized for "discriminating against larger people."

That's really good, because what Jeffries said was inappropriate. 

Monty

Today, March 16th, my little Monty is turning 1! He is still grumpy:)




I'm going to make him a cake of seeds, apples, and corn.
Then I let him play on his own playground I bought for him.
Then he'll probably get tired, and fall asleep.


Typical bird.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! I hope you have a wonderful day!

We Eat Vomit

Today me and my brother played Bean Boozled, the Jelly Belly game that ruins your palate.

There are 10 good flavors and 10 bad flavors in each box. If your lucky, you'll get a tasty pear or a zesty coconut flavor. If you're not, you'll be rinsing the taste of moldy cheese out of your mouth while trying not to throw up* your dinner.

*By the way, there is actually a barf flavor, so keep that in mind.

Me and my brother sat on my bed while i dished out  the beans on my bed. I told him to write in the "Good" column in the bean was regular, and the "Rotten" column if the bean was nasty.

I have to say, the worst "bad" flavors are:

1. Moldy Cheese
2. Rotten Egg
3. Barf

Yep. They actually have a moldy cheese flavored-jelly bean. People are strange.



I took some to school. Kids are spastic. One threw one at me. When I told my friend to hand it to another boy, the kid slapped the bean upward out of Alex's hand.

0_0

Don't waste my jellybeans, kid.

How to Prime Factorize

Example 1

Take 45, for example. It's not prime, where it's only factors are itself and 1. It's composite.

To prime factorize 45, think about what multiplies 45.

9 and 5.

Now, simplify those.

5 is prime, but 9 is 3 x 3. You can make a factor tree.

45

^

5 x 9

      ^

       3 x 3

45 = 5 x 3 x 3



Example 2 

How about 26/56?

Ooh, fractions.

There are actually two ways to do this problem.

You can divide down, or prime factorize.

Let's prime factorize. Find and simplify factors of 26, and do the same to 56.

26 = 2 x 13          
56    7 x 2 x 2 x 2

Now, cross out numbers in common. There is a two on the top, and a two on the bottom, so cross it out.


26 = 2 x 13          
56    7 x 2 x 2 x 2

Now you are left with a 13 on the top, and a 7 and a 4 on the bottom.

You have:

13

28

Party 'cuz you're DONE!

How To Simplify a Radical - Steps

Solve √200

x = multiplication


1. Prime Factorize

√(2 x 5 x 2 x 2 x 5)

2. Find common numbers. Square them. 


. 


3. Solve

After squaring, multiply 2 and 5 together, as they are the 

square roots of 4 and 25. You cannot square 2, so:

√200 = 10√2

This problem is SOLVED!