Relating to the Past

Let's Look Into The Past!
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           Understanding the past helps us to understand our world better. Why do I say that you might ask. Well, if you know the past and present better, you know what is the difference between the world hundreds or thousand years ago and the present. You will know who ruled Africa, Egypt and many more. You will know how do different languages came from. 

Understanding the past helps me to know better about my religion and how do my ancestors live back in the olden days of their lives. No, not just my religion but other religion and races. I've learnt about how do the Kings and Queens live and rule the country back then like Henry VIII, the most married king. When I learnt that Henry VIII married six wife and has the title of having the most wife among the British Kings. His first wife is Katherine of Aragon from 1509-1533 but he divorced her. His second wife is Anne Boleyn 1533- 1536 but he had her beheaded. His third wife is Jane Seymour 1536-1537 Henry VIII didn't do any thing to her but when Seymour gave birth to a son, she died. Then his next wife is Anne of Cleves 1539- 1540 and he divorced. His fifth wife is Catherine Howard 1540- 1542, beheaded. His last and final wife is Catherine Parr who stayed with him until he died in 1547. And most of all I can remember it very clearly because of this "poem". "Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived."


Knowing the past makes me know my ancestors' kind of life. What about you? Do you want to know about what your family past is? Then read about the past or ask your parents about it! So understanding the past makes me know what kind of world I am living in.

The world is in our hands!
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Geographers is the BEST!!!!

Hi guys! This is my blog post #2 of my blog! Hope you like it! :)

Geographer!

When I grow up, I "want" to be a  Geographer. Because, I like to go on an adventure alone and find mysterious things living in the world back in the olden days when the first two humans lived and also that I think that being a geographer is a easy and relaxing job. Why do the olden people live for so long and yet the modern people don't? Why are there whale bones on a high mountain when the sea is over a 100 meters or even a kilometer a part? How can a prince survive when a arrow poked through the prince's face right under the eye?

Well, all these questions are actually answered by geographers. Because geographers are scientist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's physical environment and human habitat. Geographers study not only the physical details of the environment but also its effects on human and wildlife ecology, weather and climate patterns, economics, and culture. You might think that geographers only study maps, but map making is actually the field of study of cartography. The questions I have mentioned just now in the first paragraphs are passed down or forgotten by many people. They are currently answered by geographers now in these days. Though the geographers used the modern devises, it takes a lot of time for them to answer them. Like the prince survived because the arrow didn't poke any veins or important veins of the body. And that made him survive but the question that was still going on is how on earth did the doctors in that time got the arrow , the arrow broke and the left overs were in the prince body, out of that face? The geographers worked very hard to answer them. even though I say that it is a relaxing easy job, but it will get harder when you want to find a accurate answer to that question in your mind or the question someone else asked you. But it's a fun job because you get to travel around same as archaeologist too!

Only a little bit of the people are geographer in the world. But I think that people should be a geographer if they like to go on a adventure, or study what people do back in the olden days, or maybe they want a relaxing job. So, I "want" to be a geographer when I grow up in the future and go on a adventure!

   

Introduction! :)

About me


Hi there! My name is Valerie and I come from Singapore. I lived in Singapore for 9 years. So you can say that that's my hometown. I love to eat pudding, ice-cream, potato chips and many more. I like to study math more than any other subjects in the world. This is the 2nd year in  ISKL. So I now hope that you will like my blog page! :)

What are the last three books you have read?


I've read A Wrinkle In Time. It's a interesting book which is written by Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time is the first in a series of four book that follow the adventures of Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe. I've also read Postcard by Tony Abbott. When the grandmother he has never met dies, Jason joins his father in Florida for the funeral and to pack up her house. Jason finds a series of clues on postcards that lead him to a mystery story that may be about his grandmother and her strange and mysterious past. And I am reading a book called 'The Book of Story Beginnings'. And it is by Kristin Kladstrup. A boy named Oscar living in rural Iowa finds a book called "The Book of Story Beginnings." The book has one story beginning written by someone a long time ago, and Oscar writes the beginnings of three stories in it. Then he disappears, and his family never see him again. Almost a hundred years later, Oscar's great-niece, Lucy Martin, moves into the house in Iowa with her family. Lucy finds the Book of Story Beginnings, and after reading Oscar's story beginnings, she writes one of her own. That's when the trouble starts. Lucy's father turns into a bird and flies away, and just at that moment, Oscar reappears. Oscar tells her his story, a story that was what he wrote in the Book. Then he and Lucy set out to find and rescue her father and set things right

What is the last movie you have seen?


The last movie I've seen is 'A Wrinkle In Time' as I have already said in the second paragraph.

What is one academic goal you have for this year?


My academic goal I have for this year is to do more math assessments. So that my knowledge of math will be bigger than now, in the beginning of the year.

What is one social goal you have for this year?


My social goal for this year is to read and read and read more books. So that I can improve my Humanities.

What is your favorite vacation memory?

My favourite vacation memory is when I go to Genting Highlands with my classmates.

 List 5 adjectives to describe yourself.


1. Neutral

2. Likes to draw

3. A bookworm freak

4. Quiet

5. Friendly