Calpurnia Tate

So we have recently been reading this book called Calpurnia Tate.

It is about this girl with a lot of brothers.

She is very interested in animals and science, she has a grandfather that teaches her a lot.

He showed her how to make a barometer which I made afterward.

It tells you if the weather is going to be good or not.

It is a fun book they tried raising blue jays and an armadillo!

The barometer helps a lot.

You make it by putting a balloon on a jar and the keeping it there with an elastic band.

Then you tape a needle to a straw and glue it to the balloon on the jar.

If it is bad weather the needle will point up and if it goes up it will be good weather.

New Zealand

So when the slaves from Australia were done they went to New Zealand and starting building houses and making colonies.

They called themselves Maori which meant ordinary people.

They called the British Pakeha which meant white strangers.

Well they were nice people there and they traded stuff for guns from the british and they used them to catch game and to fight one another.

There were a lot of different tribes and they fought a lot.

But New Zealand had no laws and they quarreled with one another about land and other stuff like that.

They wanted Great Britain to pass laws to new Zealand so they could live in peace.

But the British said they couldn't do this because they didn't own New Zealand, but if they signed a treaty so that they could own it then they could pass laws for New Zealand.

Some of the Maori leaders came and signed the treaty, it said that the English would control new Zealand and would protect them from people and the Maori would do as the English say.

But after a little bit the Maori wanted to sell some of their land but the British said that they would have to sell it to us first and then they would sell it to other people.

The Maori said this wasn't part of the treaty but then the British showed them there part of the treaty it was different it said they would do what ever the British needed.

The Maori didn't like this and they started cutting the British flag off.

The Governor who lived there was afraid that they would fight them, so he went to Australia.

Then the Maori saw that the city was deserted so they set it on fire.

Then the British came from the south and started fighting.

But the Maori built trenches so they could shoot with out getting shot.

114 British died in that battle.

The British got more men and they kept fighting one another.

Eventually the Maori gave up but they would never stop arguing until this day.

They had been annexed by the British without knowing it.

William Bentley

So way back when there was this farmer named William Bentley.

He lived in Vermont and always loved it when there was snow.

His mom got him a microscope and he loved to look small things like blades of grass, raindrops, but he always loved seeing the snowflakes the best.

When he got older his parents got him a camera and he took pictures with it.

He would go outside in the snowstorm while everyone else was by the fire and take pictures of the snowflakes.

He also sometimes when there wasn't snow falling got a grasshopper and tied it to a leaf.

Then in the morning when there was dew on him he took pictures of it.

When he got older he started giving away his work or selling it for a few cents.

He used all of the money he got to get more pictures.

When he was 67 he went around 5 miles from home in a blizzard to get pictures but he got pneumonia and died less than two weeks later.

They made a statue for him, he always loved detail and never missed a blizzard.

Valentines day

So today is valentines day.

Valentines day is really fun because every valentines we go and do a heart attack to our grandpa and grandma.

we do it while they are going out and getting groceries.

Then we cut out tons of hearts and then tape them to the walls.

Then we write things on the hearts to show them that we love them.

But the cool thing is that we write it in Bulgarian because my grandparents are from Bulgaria.

Then we leave quickly before they come and then they are very surprised.

I love valentines because it is a day to show that we love each other and that we can try to not use foul language and try to be nicer to people.

The thing I hate is that every holiday there is candy.

The big stores make up these stories that every holiday has to have something sweet in it.

I think this is pure stupidity.

Why try to kill everyone on valentines with sweets when you are supposed to love them?

I hope you have a good valentines and try to be kinder.

Snow

Snow, we love it but then again it is horrible.

I am going to talk about all of the benefits of snow now.

So recently it has been snowing a lot at are house.

We have had a blizzard and we have like 2 feet of snow outside.

It is really fun to play in, we play snow soccer, we sled, we have snow ball fights, we make snow men, we do a lot in the snow.

I really like how much fun it is to play in the snow but on the other hand it is very cold outside.

There is no grass to and the really hard thing is driving.

My dad came home the day of the blizzard and he barely made it going very slow inside of a 4x4 Land Rover.

Luckily he made it safely home.

But some other people are not so lucky 24 percent of crashes are in snowy slushy surfaces and 15 percent is snowy icy surfaces (probably because they are going slower on the ice).

It is also really gross when the snow becomes slush and it get grey.

But it also looks magical when it is coming down from the sky, each snowflake with a different pattern.

Oh and I also have a little story that I wanted to share.

So me my brother and are friend went into are backyard when it was snowing, and we started climbing this tree that was right by are garage.

It was fun climbing it and once we got to the top we decided we wanted to go onto the roof.

So I went first and it was really tricky cause you had to hold onto the branch while swinging over this PU white tube and then you had to stretch out and get a foot on the garage.

Then you had to put your hands there and start climbing making sure that you didn't slip.

Well there were a couple of slips but once we made it to the top it was nice up there.

I thought we should sled down the face and land in the snow but we could also fall onto the path and that would not feel good.

So after a while we got down and found out that there was so much snow that you could get onto the garage from behind it and just walk on the snow.

there was like 7 feet of snow.

I like and dislike the snow but sometimes it's good to have a snow day.

3 x 3 x 4 cuboid

So I have been doing a lot of Rubik's cube solving lately I am pretty good at it and my fastest speed is 1 minute and 5 seconds.

It is probably faster now because I haven't timed myself in a long time.

Well this Sunday I went to church and one of my friends dad who is a Rubik's cube expert came to church with a 3 x 3 x 4 cuboid.

A cuboid is different than than a regular Rubik's cube because it has more layers or sides.

So it looked really weird at first and the sides could only move 180 degrees but the middles moved regularly. It was all messed up but the two white and yellow were solved.

the thing is that the white and yellow can not go into the middle and the middle pieces cannot go into the top.

It has 12 stickers on the middle sides but the top and bottom at like a regular 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik's cube.

Me and my cube expert friends tried solving it but with all cubes it is really hard to solve without instructions.

We could only solve the bottom layer and we gave it back to him but the let me " Bring it home and play around with it"

So I brought it home and I went onto the computer and tried to solve it.

It took about 2 hours to solve it because everything was so different from the 3 x 3 x 3 Rubik's cube.

but I solved it and I was so happy, I wrote down all of the algorithms and now am trying to solve it without looking at instructions.

I can't wait to see my friends expressions when they see that I have solved it.

Nike Magista opus 2 vs Adidas ace 16+ purecontrol

So today I am going to do a comparison on the Nike Magista opus 2 vs the Adidas ace 16+ purecontrol.

So the Nike Magista opus 2 has a pretty stiff upper made out of kangalite and has some bumps that have a nike skin upper on those bumps.

It is pretty cool and I really like the upper but it does need some break in time but has a great touch and is great for midfielders and defenders.

The insole is also cool because it sticks to the bottom of the shoe so it doesn't move.

The outsole is cool to because it has the 360" rotational turn.

It also has the ACC All Conditions Control, It is a wet control element.

Now for the Adidas Ace 16+ Purecontrol.

So the thing that stands out when you first see it is that it does not have any laces.

The upper is also stiff and features the NSG Non Stop Grip which is adidas's wet control element.

I also like that it comes with other insoles and with a shoe horn.

The string bag is also cool because it has two compartments for each shoe.

It also has great touch and has a clean strike with the no lace design.

I like both shoes for midfielders and defenders.