10 reasons why Haiti is poor

1. One reason why Haiti is poor is because in 1934 the U.S. withdrawed Haiti leaving them with the Haitian Armed Forces, in charge throughout the country.

2. Another reason why Haiti is poor is because International Aid Agencies declared that the Haitian pigs were carrying African swine flu. The pigs were killed leaving the country with hunger.

3. There were protests against "Baby Doc". Baby doc arranged his family and him to be exiled to France.

4. Army leader General Henri Namphy heads a new National Governing Council.

5. President Avril leaves on a Trade Mission to Taiwan, he returns empty handed with no food or money.

6. A small reason why Haiti is poor is because of the horrible nature crisis's that happen to them.

7. Haitians were discriminated by the U.S. and all of the European powers.

8. Many people in Haiti were not able to apply for a job, since many of them didn't know how to read or write.

9. France, U.S, and Canada refused to notice the new government, and stopped the trade with them.

10. Haiti was a French colony, and the french don't do very well. When the Haitians stole property of the French they had no more help from the French.

10 Vocabulary Sentences

1. Many people that die in Rome are buried in a catacomb.

2. The arsonist burned down the building on purpose.

3. The magician tries to deceive you, but sometimes you can see what he's trying to do.

4. Many doctors have to be very careful when they do an operation, because they have to manipulate their hands.

5. When you work under a person you have to act submissive to them.

6. In the olden days they used cobblestones to pave the streets.

7. In the war many people try to assail their opponents.

8. When you do a puzzle you have to be meticulously with the glue.

9. In American Idol there were a couple of sisters that were inseparable.

10. The rescuers were obliged to save everyone in Haiti.

Personal History Project

In 6th grade you do a bunch of projects for English. The one that has really inspired me was the "Bintaro Lama Project". But I think somethings going to top that. Today we started the Personal History Project. And on Tuesday I called my grandma, to ask her a few questions. We spoke for about 30 minutes. While the talk I was very interested, and kept on coming up with more questions! I didn't know that she had 4 siblings, was a cook for 7 years, and was born in Karlsruhe,Germany. My grandma was 6 years old when World War II started, it was a terrible memory for her, and everyone else. Many people died, and many people were parched from not getting any water!

Could you imagine waking up every time you heard an airplane, and going to the cellar? The airplanes would come at 2am in the morning or 11pm at night. They had to stay in the cellar till they heard no more airplanes, and that was a while. The people who weren't in the army suffered terribly. There were no shops open to buy things, since the French forced them to shut down their business. The worst memory for my grandma was when my Great Grandpa was shot 500 meters from the house. She thought that things couldn't get any worse!

After World War II the French came, and invaded Germany. Mean while things got better, the people got enough food, and the shops finally started to open things. My Grandma went to Karlsruhe, to find a job which she did, as a cook. She had many great memory's during the job. The first place she worked for 3 years(cook), and the second place she worked for 4 years(cook).
My Grandparents have been married for 50 years now, also know as "Golden Marriage". The best things that she would consider was when her children were still young, and her marriage!\

Haiti Earthquake (Update)

About 1 week ago, there was a horrible earthquake that destroyed the entire capital city of Haiti. 5 days later the US army came with a couple of rescuers to save the trapped people. There are still about 300 residents trapped under buildings! 16 rescuers passed away during their mission. The US department sent Haiti survivors aids/food/water. They knew that many people didn't have enough money to buy supplies, so they gave them out for free. They also had a couple of doctors fly over to Haiti. They mostly cared about the patients that had head injuries!

There were many families separated from their kids, because the earthquake struck while the children were still in school! 2 days ago the rescuers pulled out a child from the school that collapsed. The rescuers took 8 hours till they finally found the 2 year old alive girl. The watchers clapped while the rescuers reunited the mother and child. They still didn't find all the residents! The rescuers search for survivors from 5 am to 9pm. It's a really long day for them!

Haiti Earthquake!!! Disaster!!!

2 days ago (12,January 2010) there was a terrible earthquake in Haiti, Caribbean! The earthquake destroyed several buildings, and crushed the National Palace! Haiti is one of the places that doesn't have much money. This earthquake made all the people of Haiti sleep on the streets! For 2 days now. America is sending the U.S army to help some people escape from the buildings that fell from them. About 1,000 people were able to get hospital help, but they only had basic things to help them. The people that were mostly helped were the ones with head damage!

Many of the local residence's helped the people that were stuck under buildings. The picture on top is the view from a helicopter. You can see that the earthquake destroyed the entire capital city! On the first day the phone connection was done! Many interviewers on BBC have interviewed people who's family lives in Haiti. The family still hasn't gotten in contact yet! There are many websites on the Internet (even YouTube) that give you an option to donate some money to the residence's, to help them. Please do think about it!

Family and Movie Time

Family time and Movie time!!!

I love family time. For me family time is hanging out with your family, and doing something together! It might be different for other people. What I did on the holiday was mostly hanging out with my family. Everyday for 5 days I hiked up mountains with my family. It might not seem like the talky family time, but we were doing something together! I really enjoyed it. You got to know ever more about the people that you love! We hiked everyday for 4-8 hours!!! It's exhausting, especially when you go steep upwards like everyday!!! The good thing is that I keep in shape, and improves my stamina, and you get to see a great view of the mountains. The sight is just marvelous!!! You wouldn't bare looking away!

Something else I did on the holiday was go to the movies. Out of all the movies that I watched "Avatar" was my favorite! The story was great, and the actors were outstanding! Avatar is the first movie to have animated characters, and real characters. Avatar made 1 million us dollars in 7 days! It cost 400 million us dollars to produce Avatar. But I guess the money's worth the success! Avatar was the number 1 movie on the us movie charts! Incredible! The reason I liked Avatar the best, was because the story is very cool! And it's not so violent. Avatar's technology in the film was based on the future. I find it amazing how they can make so many new gadgets when they haven't even been sold yet! Doesn't that ever wonder you, why there are so many cooler things in the movies than you have?

Christmas Holiday!

12, January 2010

For my new year holiday I went to Nepal. It was so much fun and at the same time exhausting! We went hiking, but the first couple of days we spent in Kathmandu. We strolled around in the street's and bought a lot of cool stuff. Mostly my parents bought things. But I bought a necklace,shoes, and a shirt.

The best day was probably staying all night to celebrate New Year. Unfortunately we didn't achieve our goal. We were already exhausted from our hike. What we did to stay awake was, that we bought a lot of junk food, like chips, oreo's, biscuits, and for drinks my parents bought wine, and we bought coke,mountain dew. I know it's totally unhealthy food, but you have to try to stay awake, and my parents made an exception. Actually it was their idea!
We stayed up till about 11pm, my brother went first to bed, and then I did. I'm not sure what my parents did since they have a different hotel room. My brother and I stayed awake till 11:45 reading. Then we both fell asleep forgetting to turn of the light. The next morning we took a bike tour, and road around the city. We went to the Devi Fall's, it's an under ground water fall. I have to admit it was pretty school.

We were in Nepal, so for New Years they had a strike. A strike was when there were no cars, or motorbikes allowed to drive. Bicycles were allowed which I think is good. It's a good idea to have a strike, because there's so much traffic in Nepal so you wouldn't get anywhere. The hard thing is that if you want to visit relatives and they live far away it might be hard to visit them. At night they had filled the city with lights. It was magically beautiful! Nearly all the restaurants were crowded with people, and some of them even had a special New Years dinner! We ate Pizza, it was truly delicious! I'm guessing it was an Italian. Because no one makes such good pizza in Jakarta! I wish you all a Happy New Year, and have a great new start with a new decade! 2010 here we come!