Engineer text message 22 seconds before fatal train crash!!! SCARY~

There was a train crash in the Los Angeles on October 1st, and there is a scary coincidence happened before the fatal disaster train crash happened, the engineer had sent a text message 22 seconds before the train crash. The crash killed 25 people, including the engineer, Robert Sanchez. This poor man Robert Sanchez died in this train crash, and he normally play with his dog, but now....not anymore. This train crash is really bad, so the senate on Wednesday night cleared a rail safety reform bill that would give Amtrak $13 billion dollars over five years. Hope the government can be more careful of safety of anything, so then there will be less injuries happen.

Year's fourth strong typhoon crash Taiwan

Typhoon Jangmi hit Taiwan with a lot of rains and powerful winds at Sunday, causing widespread of flooding, also shutting down offices and forcing the international flight to cancel. Jangmi is the fourth typhoon that hit Taiwan, and it made a landfall on a city in northeastern Taiwan- Ilan on Sunday. The typhoon brought powerful winds, and people's car or things blew or flip. In Ilan, there is a bus full of people and overturned on the highway, there are 3 or more people are injured. Some people think that this typhoon brought some benefits, because we got to have one day off, but they didn't realize that there are still a lot people out there that's facing a lot problem, like no house can live(or house got flood), or some people got injured when they are coming back or going to somewhere. Hope the typhoon can go pass quickly, and let all of us be safe, warm and dry.

A fight in Philippines killed 16 people

The fight of Philippines killed at least 16 Muslim rebels in renewed fighting in the marshlands of southern Mindanao this week. It had killed more than 20 government troops over two days, it was really sad. Fighting has happened often in the southern area since the collapse of the latest round of peace talks. International humanitarian groups have expressed concern about the renewed violence, and the high civilian toll. Because of the fight, so the scale of the human suffering is being ignored. I think sometimes it's not fair for some people there, because they don't expect this to happened, and I think war is not a good way to solve a problem.

Is air matter?

( source:http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/air-quality-clouds.jpg)

When I first think of matter, I think matter is the things that have weight and takes space. The reason that I think air is not a matter it's because air is invisible, it seems that air don't takes space and it doesn't have weight either. After reading some articles about air and matter, I finally understand it and I found out the 3 big categories of matter: gas liquid, solid. Air does take up space, even though we can't see it, and air has weight, even if we can't feel it. I am not lying, this had been observed and analyzed by some scientists.

11 tourists got kidnapped in Egypt dessert

There is a group of 11 European tourists and four Egyptians have been kidnapped in the southern Egyptian desert and apparently taken to neighboring Sudan. The tourists included five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian. The Egypt government believes that the kidnappers have no ties to any terror group. The tourists were traveling in four jeeps and taken across the border into Sudan. The government are not really sure about what terror group is that, and they don't know the people that kidnapped those tourists wants. Anyways, we just hope that all the tourists will be alright, because they are innocent.

Culture of HIS

HIS Culture
- 5 Student Outcomes- active learner, community contributor, effective communicator, personal of high character.
- All school gathering: we have all school gathering 2 times a week.
- Community Service: we do community service almost every semester.
- Advisory: teachers and students use this time to know more about each other, teachers and find good and bad things from students, and students can also ask question to teachers.
- Exhibition: 8, 10, 12 graders do presentations to show what they have done this whole year.
- SRC: student representative council, they help students to speak out.
- Musical Play: students do musical play to experience cooperation, and this kind of activity let students to build their confidence.
- Camp Taiwan: we went to Camp Taiwan every year, and students use these times to get to know each other, and to also experience cooperation.

Culture of Taiwan

Taiwan Culture

- Betel nut beauty
- Dragon boat festival
- Moon cake
- Stinky tofu
- Night market
- Crazy driving
- Bubble tea
- Baseball
- KTV
- 7 Eleven
- Language: 台語, 客家話
- Indigenous Peoples: people that have a lot of tribes and they have their own style of clothing, food, and singing
- Taiwanese opera
- Bamboo
- Glove Puppetry
- Food: rice dumplings, beef noodle, sea food mixture with some flour
- Hakka Culture

(source: http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/)