Vietnam and Cambodia

Over the October break, a couple months ago, I went to Vietnam and Cambodia. It was really fun! I liked it a lot. I also carried a 35 pound backpack, which is pretty heavy. First, we went to a city named Ho Chi Minh city. It was really crowded there, so I did not like it very much. The only place that I like in Ho Chi Minh was the underground caves, and Vietnam was stuff. We went to see where the Vietnam war took place. There were many booby traps, and it was raining, so I got wet. It became more interesting when we went underground in a small space that was used by the solders in the war. We went eleven feet underground. Me and my brother were really scared that it would collapse on us, but we still made it, even with our fear. A few days later, we took a boat across the Mekong Delta to cross over to Cambodia. The boat ride was fun, but we got stuck in rain, so we got soaked like crazy! When the boat ride stopped, we reached the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. It was big, and had a lot of sites to see, but the only problem is, that it was really hot. So, we got all sweaty! One of the sites we saw there was the Notre Dame.

We then took a bus to a city called Siem Reap. This was the best city I had seen through out the trip. It was great because of the temple complexes, called Angkor Wat. The city was so small, yet green. The area was huge! When I sat on top of a temple, all I could see for miles was green! The temples were 250-400 feet tall! It was so beautiful, especially when you saw the temples in the sunrise. Soon, we took an airplane from Siem Reap to Ha Noi, Vietnam. We then took a tour for two days. My brother hurt the backside of his foot while biking on the tour. My dad put my brother on the backside of the bike, and while my dad was biking, my brother put his foot into the bicycle, and crack! His foot got twisted, and the back of his foot was really hurt. For the rest of the trip, we carried him. When we got to our hotel, we fell asleep right away.

We took another tour to Halong Bay. Halong bay is a chain of islands. We explored the bay on a boat. We spent the day on the boat, then slept at a two and a half star hotel. The island was very green. The fallowing night, we slept on the boat. After that, we came back to a mini harbor. All in all, this is my experience in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Cooking!

When I went to cooking camp over the summer, and I learned a lot of recipes. This week, I will be showing you how to make Pot stickers. Yummy!

Pot Stickers
Prep Time: 2 hours
How many we should make: 3-4 dozen

Ingredients
1/2 head of Napa cabbage

1 lb. ground pork....... or tofu

1/2 green onion......... minced
2 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. fresh cilantro..minced
1 knob fresh ginger... 1-inch piece minced
1 Tbsp. fresh chives... minced
1 Tbsp. rice wine... or dry sherry
1 Tbsp. sesame oil
1 tsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper, black
1 clove garlic... minced
12 oz. package of wonton skins(round)
1/4 C. vegetable oil
1 C. chicken stock

DIPPING SAUCE
1/4 C. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. rice vinegar
1 tsp. ginger, fresh... minced
1/4 tsp. chili oil
1 clove garlic... minced

STEPS FOR POT STICKERS
1) Prep all ingredients. Combine pork/tofu, cabbage, green onions, soy sauce, cilantro, ginger, chives, rice wine, sesame oil, brown sugar, salt, pepper and garlic. Work with your hands until completely mixed. Heat a frying pan and fry a Tablespoon of mix to check seasoning. Adjust as necessary.
2) Cover the wonton skins with a damp bowl. Place one wonton skin on work surface. Place about 1 Tablespoon of filling into the center of each wonton skin and fold into a half -moon shaped pouch. Make 3 or 4 pleats at the edge to gather the dough around the filling, and line dumplings on parchment covered sheet pan. Use all of the wonton skins.
3) Heat a large frying pan with a tight-fitting lid over the medium-high heat and add the oil. When the oil is hot, add the dumplings to the pan and fry them on one side( usually the edge that is pleated up) until browned, about 2 minutes. Shake the pan to keep them from sticking as they cook.Add the chicken stock to the pan and cover tightly so that the pot stickers steam and cook through. Cook about 5 minutes, or until all the liquid has evaporated from the pan.

STEPS FOR DIPPING SAUCE
1) Combine ingredients in a small bowl and let sit at least 5 minutes until the flavors blend.

After you have finished making Pot Stickers, answer this question, did you like them, or did you not like them.

Math Problem for the Week!

Here is a math problem. Try your best to solve it. It is OK if you get the wrong answer, just try it. After a lot of people have given answers, I will tell the answer. I will give a problem every week. This is a very interesting puzzle I saw form a book, so I decided to use it.

In a stationery store, pencils have one price and pens have another price. Two pencils and three pens cost 78 cents. But three pencils and two pens cost 72 cents. How much does one pencil cost?

My trip to New Jersey!

A week ago I went to New Jersey to visit my uncle! I liked it when me and my little bro got to go on a airplane by our self there! On the way there, we watched two great movies like Monsters vs Aliens, and 17 again! It was a blast. I went to a lot of places there. We went to Washington D.C, the beach, Long wood Gardens and lots of Museums. The beach was really fun. We went there and built a big river in the sand to let the water come in from the ocean and go into the river. We also got candy like Taffy's and gummy sharks! Yummy! Going to the museums were really fun too! We went to the National academy of sciences! It had geckos and butterfly's! The butterfly were cool because of all the great colors! The geckos were so cool to look at hanging upside down! Did you know that one gecko has enough grip to hold two full grown humans? Also, did you know that there are new gecko species been created? I saw three new types of geckos! They make the geckos by putting two geckos in a tub for a long time, and over time, they merge together! Isn't that amazing or what? Also in that museum there were dinosaur skeletons that were really neat! I also saw creatures that I have never seen before! I also liked the Philadelphia museum of art! It was cool seeing all the sculptures that thousands of people worked on. My favorite place in the art museum was the place where they showed all the swords and armor, and all the weapons they used during the middle ages. I mean, come on who doesn't like armor and weapons from the middle ages? There's was also a realistic Spanish courthouse there! There was a fountain in the middle, and it looked 100% realistic. All in all the art museum was great! Another museum that we saw was the Franklin Institute. It was so cool! There was a Star Trek exhibit that blew me away because of all the gears and machines. There was this place in the Star Trek exhibit that had a lot of gears an if you connected all the gears together and you added like a pulley and you turned the main gear, you would get the pulley to move to. There also was a remote control claw that you could control and pick up the blocks! That was astonishing! There was also a bike that you could ride on and it simulated a bike that could float in mid-air! I think long wood gardens was my favorite place of all when we went to New Jersey! It was a huge beautiful garden that had tons of plants! It had a tree house place that you could go on and see the lakes in the evening that was gorgeous. The garden also had lots of fountains in them. Also it had a meadow with a lake that had giant catfish in them! There was also a restaurant that served great food like pizza, cookies and pie ext! We also went to an indoor children's garden that had a dragon, and leaping worms(fake)! There was also a bamboo maze and a garden maze that was huge! In the night, I watched a fountain show that had many, many colors. It had yellow, white, blue, green, pink, purple, and all the other colors in the rainbow. Now for Washington D.C! After a three hour drive, we finally reached Washington D.C! We went into a train station which was right in front of the US capitol! We ate pizza, and set of to see D.C! First we went to the capitol! Then we went to the mall on our way to the air and space museum. In the mall, you could see the capitol on one side, and you could see the national monument on the other side. Once we entered the air and space museum, we saw a lot of airplanes and spacecraft hanging from the roof! They look like models, but they aren't, they are the real thing! We also saw real rocket ships that actually orbited the moon! We went inside a roller coaster simulator that felt like the real ride! After that, we went to the natural history museum! In the natural history museum we saw a lot of dinosaurs there. I also saw many other creatures too! I saw more butterfly's, and we also saw a big insect zoo with scorpions and Beatles, and cockroaches! It was digesting! We also saw lots of ocean animals. Last but not least, we had to see the white house! It was a amazing sight! There was a lot of flowers and plants in the front yard! After a long and relaxing day, we decided to go back to the car using the subway. After another three hour drive back, we finally reached New Jersey! Another 6 hour plane ride back home to San Jose was relaxing. For the first half of the plane ride, I slept, and for the second half, I watched T.V shows! All in all I had a wonderful time in New Jersey!

Museums!

Museums are really great! I have been to a lot of museums. One of my favorite museums is the Tech Museum. I like the Tech Museum because of all the activities there. I like the Roller Coaster simulator because you get to design your own Roller Coaster! I also like the i-max theater because it is big and you actually get the felling that you are in in the movie that is shown there. Did you know that the i-max theater can hold, contain, 2,700,000,000 m&ms! Also did you know that it can hold up to six houses inside? One of the most interesting facts is that it's film roll for the Harry Potter movies is five miles long! One of the biggest hits in the museum is the Virtual World exhibit! The Virtual World exhibit is a online computer game that you can play with other players. It was created by kids! In the game you can dress your self, you can go into a house, you can create other items, you can fly, and you can go on jet skis in the game! It is really fun. All in all tell us about your favorite museum.

The Start of School!

I can't believe that the summer is almost over! In less than a week school will start! I can't wait till I meet the new forth graders in my class. I am getting nervous about my school supplies, because we did not get most of them! I only have one day to get all my school supplies all together! I am sort of nervous of going to school again after a long relaxing seven week break! I am nervous because I forgot a lot of the math and science! All in all, I can't wait to go back to school again!

This week at camp!

This week, I went to camp at the Tech Museum! I went to Lego robotics advanced, and video game designing advanced. It was SO cool! Video game designing was great! The first day was horrible because I got homework, but the rest of the days went pretty smooth. The program that we made video games is multimedia fusion. You might think designing video games is pretty easy, but it was super hard! You had to do very complex commands just far a guy to stand on a brick! On Wednesday, we made a mixture a of sounds to create music for our video game. On Thursday we finally got the details of our game. Then, on Friday, we combined me and my partners levels together to make a really awesome game! My game was called time traveler 1. Our first level was in a village. The village had a store, a house trees, palaces, cottages, flowers, and more! The second level was defeating the bosses servants, to get there, you have to go to the very left of the village and you will get there! That level was alarming good, but it was very hard! The boss level was good to. Lego Robotics was excellent! We programmed the robot so it was going to get a ball wherever I throw it in the room. It worked when we practiced, but not when the parents came! All in all, this week at the Tech was great.

MT.WHITNEY!

This weekend I climbed Mt. Whitney! I could not make it to the top last time because my dad got me lost in the snow, and also we left at 12:00 am, so it was very, very dark. Never go in Spring, Fall or Winter because you will get lost in the snow! This time we made it because there was no snow, and also we made it because we left at 9:00 am. After 9:00, we went on the route. We passed a very beautiful meadow that had streams, fish, and plants. After a long time, we got to trail camp. we slept there for the night. The next morning we had to go through over a hundred and five switchbacks that were really long. You might think that it is very easy, but it seems that the path goes on forever! At 14,000 feet I kept throwing up! When I was going down from the mountain, my tummy really hurt, but I kept on going. Once I reached the tree line, I felt much better that oxygen was coming back into my lungs, but I could not swallow that well. After 12,000 feet going down, I went really fast to the bottom in 3-6 hours. The entire MT. Whitney path is 22 miles in total, round trip. The car ride back to San Jose was at least 7-8 hours, but I went to sleep. Please comment on this post if you have any questions, and I will answer them. Thanks!

Camps!

During the summer vacation you can go to camps if your parents are still at work. Last week, my mom signed me up for Lego robotics, and tech explorers at the Tech Museum. It was awesome! They gave you hot lunch if you did not want to take lunch from home! The bad part was that you had to pay 5$ a day for hot lunch! The good part was that the consulars lets us play around! Also, in Lego robotics camp we made robots, and they even let us program it by myself, with my partner! Also, this week, I am going to the camp called camp explorer! We get to go to the Beachboard walk in that camp! I can not wait! All in all, please tell us if you would want to go to camps and why?

Pollution

Pollution is very bad. Pollution can cause Global Warming, which can make lots of floods. Pollution can also cause the death of some animals, and maybe that species might get extinct. Pollution can kill animals when the animal eats a wrapper, or some type of garbage, it can clog up the tummy. Also, the garbage can also chock the animal. Some ways to stop pollution are............
1.If you see some garbage, pick it up and throw it away.
2.Start a protest to stop pollution.
3.if you see a other person throwing some garbage on the ground, tell them they should not do that.
4.Use electric cars, because the gas from the back of the car is pollution.
All in all, please tell us some reasons how to stop pollution.

Saving Money

The economy is very bad right now. A lot of people are losing jobs, losing there homes, and losing everything they have. We have to save money. Some ways we can save money is.............
1.Stop using the phones a lot, in less OF AN EMERGENCY like if your house is burning down, or something like that. If you use the phone to much, you will have to pay a lot of money on the phone bill.
2.Do not switch on the water for unessisary causes, like warming your toes, or something like that.
All in all, please tell us some more ways we can save our money.

Magic Tricks, Puzzles, and Riddles.

Magic Tricks are very awesome. They are tricks that are not really magic, but it appears to be magic when the magician does the trick. There are many types of magic tricks. There are card tricks, escape magic, street magic, stage magic, and more! My favorite magic trick is when the magician makes things appear out of nowhere! Puzzles help people think and solve mystery's. Some types of puzzles are crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word search puzzles, sudoku puzzles, math puzzles, and more! Riddles are a question or a statement requiring thought to answer or understand. This is my favorite riddle:why didn't the skeleton cross the road? He had no guts! Please tell us what is your favorite magic trick, puzzle, or riddle.

54 IDEAS FOR THE SUMMER!

1.Go to the Japanese Gardens!
2.Go to the Winchester Mystery House
3.Go to the Children's Discovery Museum
4.Go to the Happy Hollow Zoo
5.Go to the San Francisco Zoo
6.Go to the Oakland Zoo
7.Go to Sea World
8.Go to Alcatraz
9.Go on a Vacation
10.Make a game out of paper
11.Make a map out of paper
12.Go swimming
13.Go camping
14.Go to the beach
15.Go shopping
16.Go to summer camps
17.Go to a farm
18.Go to a Rodeo
19.Make Smore's
20.Make ice-cream floats
21.Make cookies
22.Make a clubhouse
23.Make ice-cream
24.Make Pizza
25.Make Brownies
26.Set a record
27.Make a garden
28.Do chores
29.Clean the house
30.Bike
31.Dance
32.Sing
33.Buy a pet
34.Rock Climbing
35.Charity Work
36.Take pictures
37.Play Tennis
38.Play soccer
39.Play football
40.Play Hockey
41.Play tag
42.Play Lego's
43.Play Hide in Seek
44.Play With Blocks
45.Play mini Golf
46.Play Golf
47.Play pillow fight
48.Read a book
49.Study for school
50.Go bowling
51.Hang out with your friends
52.Make a lemonade stand
53.Have a Yard sale
54.Make Pancakes
55. BE AWESOME!!!

AWESOME PETS

Pets are animals that are taken care of by humans. There are many types of pets that I want. For example, I want to have a dog, and I want to have a lizard. My only concern is that I will have to clean there droppings, nasty! I had pets like a lizard, a very motionless fish, and a very speedy fish. Our motionless fish died when my brother spilled water out of the tank, and there was no air in the tank. Our speedy fish died when we gave it too much food! Our lizard didn't pass away though, we just gave him away since it was too much work for my family. All in all, please tell us what pet you have, and if you do not have a pet, tell us what pet you would want to have.

Reminder

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If You Could Make a Holiday!

If you could make a holiday, what would it be? I would make three types of holidays. First, I would make Lego day. Lego day is where you can play with Lego's the entire day! You eat Lego Candy's, Lego muffins, and more. I would also make candy day, where there would be candy milkshakes, candy posters, candy movies, and the pool would be filled with candy instead of water! Also, everybody would be talking about candy! It would be so awesome! Lastly, I would make a holiday called sports. It would be called sports, because everybody would be playing sports all day long. Also, everybody would be talking about the sports players, and the games like soccer, football, baseball, hockey, ice hockey, cricket, and more! Please tell me what holiday you would make if you had the chance, Bye!

Inventions!

What types of inventions would you make when you are grown up? I would make a robot that could build anything that you wanted. Can't you imagine sitting in a tub full of candy. I would also make a cars that could fly you to wherever you wanted. If I was late for school, I could just tell my car to fly to my school, wouldn't that be sweet! I also want to make a hotel, and every thing is high tech or electronic! The robots could do what ever you wanted them to do in the hotel. Let us know what types of invention would you want to make when you grow up?

Summer Vacation!

I can't wait till summer vacation! I am going to the YMCA camps. I want to go to Lego camp, cooking camp, and more! I am also going to the east coast to see my uncle, aunt, and little cousin. I cant wait to go there! On the weekends, I want to go to theme parks, and relax. Some theme parks want t0 go to are: Six Flags, Lego land, and Universal studios! I want to go to Six Flags because it is a zoo, and a theme park in one! I want to go to Lego land because it has really cool rides and lots of models of Lego buildings, and dinosaurs extra. Finally, I want to go to Universal Studios because its a place where they make movies, and have a theme park in one! All in all these are my plans for the summer! Please tell us about your summer vacation!

Ultra Marathons

Ultra marathons are marathons except that they are 4-7 times longer! Some ultra marathons are the Gobi desert, Sahara desert and many more. People train for theses ultra marathons for years and years until they get really good at running! Many people don't make it to the finish since they are to tired. If you want an helicopter to get you, you light a flame and it will burst into the sky, sending people to find you. My dad runs ultra marathons, after school gets over for me, he will go to Mongolia to run the Gobi desert that is 160 miles long! Isn't that amazing! the Sahara desert is 9,000,000 square kilometers, while the Gobi desert is 1,00 miles long and about 500,000 square miles! All in all, please tell us what you know about Ultra Marathon.

Mammoth

I went to Mammoth over the four day weekend. Here are some pictures and captions of what I did there.

Built a dam out of sticks!

Climbed Mammoth Mountain

Hiked Mammoth Rock!

Built a Lincoln Log city!






Saw the Mammoth lakes!

Saw a 100 year old mill!

Ate yummy breakfasts!

Awesome Jobs!

With out jobs, you could not earn money, right? When I grow up I will be a secret agent in disguise as a Lego worker. But, really, I want to be a Lego worker instead of a secret agent. I wish I was a secret agent like Perry the platypus, in Phineas and Ferb. I want to work with all the cool gadgets like a Lego in disguise as a bomb. I also want to be rich, because in a spy movie, I saw a billion air get rich for being a secret agent! I also want to get to have a really sweet car! It had a TV screen in disguised as a disguise place, it even had rocket boosters! can you tell me what you want to be when you grow up and why? Please!

food chains and food webs

A ocean is a great place to study on. We learned about oceans in science! It was so amazing! In oceans, there are many different types of food chains, and food webs. A food chain is different than a food web. A food chain is a animal eating another animal. Here is a example of a food chain= phytoplankton->zooplankton->small fish->bigfish->seals->shark. Did you see how one animal is eating another animal? Well that does not happen in a food web. A food web is a series of animals eating other animals. Here is a example= Shark Whale
big fish seals
krill small fish
phytoplankton zoo- plankton
I can not draw the arrows because you can not draw arrows on a keyboard. Please respond on what you have learned. Bye!

Soccer players

Soccer is the best, most played, #1 favorite sport of all time! The people who play the sport is because they really love it! Some of these players are Pele and Maradona. They are one of the best players ever! Pele is so amazing! He has scored twelve goals in goals in his carrier in the world cup! Maradona is great at dribbling and having control of the ball! They even made shots with there outer side foot! I also like Lionel Messi. He is a great center forward, and makes amazing plays. Please tell us what is your favorite soccer player is.

Jokes are good for stress!

This week is star testing in school, so to take away the stress that you might make a mistake, you should tell some jokes! Jokes take away stress by taking your mind of the test. Jokes also make people laugh too. I am very stressed out at school, so could you tell me some jokes to cure me? Bye...... for now!

Holidays

Holidays are so fun when you hang out with your family, don't you think so to? I love holidays because, you don't have to go to school, and you get to travel more. My favorite holiday is Christmas because you get a lot of presents, and you get to hang up a lot of decorations! Every year when its Christmas break we go places, like this year we went to India, last year we went to Mexico, and the year before that we went to Venezuela. My second favorite holiday is Thanks giving, because there is a lot of food, and you get to carve the turkey. Every year, we go to my uncles house when its Thanksgiving break, because its our family tradition. Last year I helped carve the turkey, and my baby cousin, Sunaa, was born. I love holidays! Please tell me what is your favorite holiday, and why?

Birthdays!

Birthdays are great! I love them! Last year, I had a sleep over party! Three of my friends came. On the first day, I watched two movies, the Spider wick Chronicles ,and Tom and Jerry! It was awesome! the second day, we went to the theme park called Six Flags! There was a zoo, rides, games , and playgrounds all in one! Is that amazing, or what! In the games, I won a small dragon, and I named him Lego! On the way back from Six Flags, I watched Tom and Jerry. This year, I am looking forward to having a sleep over party too, or that's what I want to do. For my birthday, I want to go to rent a RV and , then get Nerf guns, and water guns to have a war with the adults! I can't wait till my next birthday! Please tell us about your birthday!

Mt. SHASTA!

Can you guess what I did on the weekend, Mt Shasta! Is that amazing, or what! We started of at 4:00 in the mornin-g. It took four hours to get there! To keep myself from being bored, I played a little bit on my dads I-phone! The rest of the time, I slept. When we went there, I looked out my window, and saw lake Shasta! It was amazing sight to see! When we got there we went to the bathroom, and immediately started climbing. At first, the 30 pound backpack felt like 500 pounds, but later it only felt like 15 pounds. We hiked for three hours until we were really high, but we did not make it to the summit because there were 70 mile winds at the top of the mountain! Our tent would go flying down the mountain. Instead of going to the top of the mountain, we put up our tent on the ridge. On the ridge, the winds were at least going thirty miles per hour! When we put up the tent, my dad fell asleep for 1 hour. In the meanwhile, I made a snow cave with the ice axe! I made it, so my body could fit inside! After a little while, I got bored staying in the tent for so long, so we decided to go back down instead of staying the night. Once we got back down to the car, my toes were really frozen from the ice! When we got down to the Shasta village, we went into a cafe, and had pizza and soda there! When we went back into the car, I played on my dads I-phone again, but after 20 minutes, I fell asleep. We reached our house at 11:50 pm. Please comment on this post!

Tech Stuff!

Do you like high tech things, like I-phones, rockets, and space shuttles? Well I sure do! My mom and dad have I-phones, so I get to play on it a lot! I learned that the I-phone is interactive with your hand! You can flip to turn the page, you can slide down for the screen to move down, and you can also touch to select! On the I-phone, you can also get a GPS, a place where you can find restaurants, and more! Rockets are very hard to make. The scientists have to make the rockets go really fast, like 500 mph! They also use something like a rocket during the wars, they are called missiles! The missiles are sort of like bombs, but they first get launched and then blow up, as for bombs, they just blow up when they touch the ground. Missiles are used on airplanes during wars. Space shuttles are used in space. I like space shuttles, because I like space. The shuttles are used to help scientist learn more about space! Isn't that cool! Tell us what is your favorite high tech thing, and why?

Questions

You can post on any of these questions, and tell us which question you picked.

A. What is your favorite animal?

B. What would you do if you had 100,000,000 dollars?

C. If you had a super power, what would it be?

D. What is your favorite movie?

E. What is your favorite book?

F. What do you do on your spare time?

G. What do you want to do over the summer break?

The Amazing Future!

What do you think will happen in the year of 5,000? I think that cars will be able to fly because they might have a propeller under it, plus it also might have rockets will be attached to the flying car. Is that cool, or what! Restourants might be different too. Maybe the place will have tons of yummy stuff and you can get whatever you want, and it will only cost three cents for your orders! Also, I think everybody will live in houses with robots, and machines will brush your teeth and do whatever you want! Also your houses will be on skyscrappers and watch over the big city! What do you think will happen in the year 5,000? Please post at this blog!