Medieval Simulation post

I am cardinal, and I am known as the priest/prince of the cathedral. I work with bishops in Catholic Church, and I am helping in the College of Cardinals. My duties includes attending to the meetings of the College, and keeping myself available if the pope request our counsel. I am also in charge of leading the diocese or archdiocese, which are administrative territorial unit, I need to run the department of the Roman Curia too. My other main function is to elect the pope. By the middle of the 13th century, I wore broad brimmed hat with a shallow crown that was ringed with silken cords and a large circular cloak with a fur-lined hood, and the color of it is mostly scarlet. I get quite a lot privileges just like bishops, for example: I get to wear red, and I also get to vote at ecumenical councils.

Blog #5: Bull Fighting

Bull fight is basically Matador, which is the one who is playing tricks or swinging and run with the red muleta, and the bull will chase along the muleta angrily. After that, the matador will kill the bull by poking the bull with a espada. I think it is a inhumane sport, because it's pretty violent. It might be entertaining to the audience, but we're not the one who's be torture and then kill. Being a matador is also very dangerous, because sometimes if the bull is too angry, then it might just run onto the matador and that kind of crush will kill the matador. Bull fighting reminds me of gladiator fight, because they are both violent, and dangerous. Gladiator fight is where slaves/criminals fight for their freedom, and what they do is that they put animals that are carnivores, which are like lions, tigers into one area, and the slaves has to fight until they die, and the last one that's alive gets the freedom. These two sports are both inhumane, I don't really like it.

Blood Red Horse- 2 main characters+reflections

By reading the first chapter of Blood Red Horse, I think the two main characters are William, and Ellie. William is the younger son of Sir Thomas, and he has an older brother called Gave. They fight with each other a lot, but the fights are usually started with Gave. Gave likes to bully Will, like once while Will is riding a horse of Sir Percy, and Gave told everyone to come and tease him or watch him make mistakes. Will is the younger son of Sir Thomas De Granville, and it seems like he had less power than Gave. Will likes to own horses, and also ride on it. He likes to dream about a bunch of horses on a big wide field. Ellie is a maiden, and she lost her both parents when she was very young. She was sent to live with the De Granville family. Ellie and Will are special friends and they play and care for each other.

England in the 1100s, the age and gender really means a lot, and it changes everything. By looking at Gave and William, we can see that Gave has more power, because he is older than Will. Women are like used by man, they help the man to give birth, and then if they don't have any other benefits to the man, then they change another woman. There were a lot of Sir Thomas, and Will and Gave's father was the fifth Sir Thomas. Will and Gave's father's father was very considering on the fortification, and the buildings. He make the things work smoothly all the time. They believe that people who are good or like die in wars are sent to heaven directly.

Quote of Robert H. Smith

Today Mr. Laffin shared a quote of Robert H. Smith, the was like this- "The clock of life is wound but once, the hands will stop, at a late or early hour. Now is the only time you own, Live, Love, til with a will. For the clock may soon be still." I really like this quote, it's not just because I think it sounds beautiful and deep, I also think that it is like a quote all of us should always remember. I think this quote is talking about we should treasure our life, and you only have one life and so hold on to what you have. I think this quote is a bit connected with the quote that Steve Jobs said, he said, "Stay foolish, and stay hungry." I always thought it sounds weird, but now I realize what that actually mean, it means to take a risk in your on and only life, also don't let your good opportunity to go away. I think believe in ourselves is also very important. The metaphor use in this quote is clock, the author- Robert H. Smith use clock to describe a
person's life, and Robert also talk about life sometimes ends unexpectedly, so never give up, try your best everyday and every time.

We All Live in the Yellow Submarine~

We all live in the yellow submarine~ the yellow submarine...the yellow submarine. It was SMASH Day on Monday this week, and we did an activity about building a periscope that is capable to see the treasure up on the island and the box was representing the island. There are things in the box, and we have to find each stuff in the box and write it down. The materials we got are 10 piece of papers, 4 mirrors, few cardboards, and as many tape as we needed.

Team work was totally important, and Jen, Vivian, and I were working well together. We kind of split our jobs, 2 people working on the design of the periscope and one testing on the angle of the mirror that we are going to put on the periscope. The angle was very important, because we are only allow to stay in the submarine, and if we stand over the table then we automatically died. We were modifying our design all the time, because we want our periscope to perfect, and there will be no mistakes during the treasure hunt. When modifying our periscope, we tried to put a thing in a box, and then we use our periscope to observe it, check whether we can see the object. We didn't actually communicated, but we did try to help each other, hold the periscope while one person is observing the object. We take turns to observe, and we give ideas when ever we face a problem, I think all of us are being critical thinkers and problem solvers during the SMASH DAY.

I might say that make your periscope long, and bend a little at the top, so the top of the periscope can actually reach into the box. Be careful with the angle of the mirror too, because the mirror has to be connected, and so you can see it underneath the water, or in the submarine. That's what I think people should be careful about when making the periscope. Good Luck if anyone's making it. :D

Blog # 3 Mirror Image

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you think others see you as you see yourself?

I guess I am quite outgoing, but most of the times I am just too over outgoing, and make people feel weird about me. Some people might think that I am showing off, and sometimes I am kind of like that. I am selfish sometimes, I think of myself without thinking of others. I think I am a bit too childish sometimes, and everybody see me as a kid, and they order me to do this and that, they yell at me even though they are the same age as me. I look at the mirror and said to myself "everyday is a happy day", "grow up Jean!", and also "why can't you be more quite and still have friends?". I guess people see me as what I just said, and I know that because people give me those kind of impression and feelings, so I guess they feel it too. I tried to change myself, but staying the way I am right now is the best thing for me right now I think....

A diedliest wildfire hit Australia

There is a terrible and appalling tragedy happening to Australia. There is the worst bushfire sweeping through the south Australia. So far there are at least 84 people died, and the whole town have been destroy by this crazy fire in Victoria, Australia. There are like a bunch of like thousands of firefighters battling against the major fires. Even the army is sent to help, by that you can see how big and how terrible is that. The people there must feel very uncomfortable about the high temperature and hot wind blowing. I hope that the fire will get better and the people can be send to a more comfortable place to stay while their home is destroyed, and while the government is thinking of ways to help them.

Boats clash in Antarctica

Japan whaling people have been killing up to 1,000 whales every year, and the anti-whaling people are deciding on rocking the Japanese ship, so they won't continuing killing so many whales. On February 7, a boat of anti-whaling protestors had collided with the Japanese whaling vessel in Antarctica ocean. The Japanese said that the anti-whaling people rammed their boat on purpose, and they call it a "unforgivable act of violence". But the campaigner said that the Japanese whaling vessel was blocking the way as they tried to stop the Japanese to kill the whale. It has been illegal to kill whales since 1986. And the anti-whaling activists have been following the Japanese since December of 2008, and they have been throwing things on each others' boat. The government of Australia and New Zealand(which are the two countries that are against the hunt of whales) are trying solve the problem. But the anti-whaling groups said that they are just going to whatever that can stop the hunt of whales of Japanese.

Reflection of the video(Ancient Greece and Rome)

The Ancient Greece and Rome video takes only 4 minutes something, but I work so hard on it, I almost spend the whole day editing it. I think I did used some of the 5 student outcomes.

During the time when we were showing the video, I think I am an effective communicator, because it's a time when you present your video, and also people are showing their videos, so I have to send message well, and also get message right. I was being an effective communicator, because I in my video, I put pictures, and I also have background sound of me describing the picture. When the time people are showing their videos, I was listening and watching really carefully so then I won't miss any part. I also kind of give and receive feedbacks, it really showed that everyone are being an effective communicator, because they understand what you're showing and they give feedbacks.

I think I was also a community contributor, because I was helping some of the people with their technology problem. I also encourage people to present theirs. I think to approach some of the learning outcomes is easy, and if you try your best, then you can finish it. Give passion to it... :D

After watching others' videos and receiving feedbacks from others. I learned that don't put music when there is already like a sound-over of you voice. I also learn recording your voice takes a lot of time, so better do it earlier.... :P

Who in your poinion is an effective communicator? Why?

Effective communicator is a person who express the message well and also get the message right. My friend Jen, she always explain stuff to me when I am confused. My English ability is not as well as her, whenever she explains it to me she use simple words, so then I understand. Today in math, we were doing some logic thinking activity. I think my logic is not really good, and some of the things I don't really get it. Jen tried to explain it in a simple way which I understand. Mr. Truchon is also being a effective communicator in this case, he make some examples to show me the meaning, and then I got it. Effective communicators are awesome, I hope I am one too. :D