Band power of the void

1. I would call this story, 'The lottery and the black dot' because the main idea of the story is about picking up a black dotted paper by doing a lottery.

2. I thought Tessie Hutchinson needed to leave the village because when she picked the black dotted paper, she suddenly felt angry, disturbing and became wild. The other people said, the corns will become heavy after the lottery in June and it felt like the village has less people to eat the corn by making the winner leaving the village.

3. I felt confusing and curious about what is going to happen to Tessie Hutchinson and also to her family.

4. I felt like this was some kind of trick when I got the mysterious paper. I thought something funny and interesting (like jokes) will be in the paper. To be honest, I didn't follow the instructions because I just thought it was silly waiting till five o’ clock to open the paper.

5. I thought the black box and dot was somehow mysterious and religious because the black box was kept like a treasure inside the houses and they didn’t want to buy a new one even though it was so old. The black dot meant something bad. The blank papers made me think some kind of safety, ordinary and normal.

6. It was shocking and it made me speechless. The conclusion ended in an unexpected way and the black dot meant to kill the person. I didn’t like it because I don’t believe that the crops in the village will grow better by killing a person.

7. My predictions were half correct as they both meant bad thing but the answer was too strong. I didn’t know that the story is going to end so violently.

8. I could have read the story once over again and find out some facts which are going to help me predict.

9. The author wanted the readers to kind of feel unfinished and ask some questions about what things are going to happen to the people. The author wanted the readers to think more about the book.

10.

A= made the story unique and strange
B= made me curious ask questions
C=made me predict about the ending
D=made me feel disturbed and curious about what’s inside the paper
E=make me distracted but think more about the story
F=the setting of the story and the thought that this story might have been true in past times

ISKL MISSION STATEMENT--Power of the Void--Band

ISKL MISSION STATEMENT

PART1
The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an (silence) exceptional education that challenges each student to develope the attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly sucessful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I am sure that my VOID after "an" in the mission statement will create a great tension because it makes the listeners to be confused and ask questions about what the mission statement is going to be about. The void will make them anxious, nevous and impatient and can't wait to hear it because they don't know what they will hear afterwards and the details of the mission statement.

PART2

The composer can put a great crescendo throughout the whole piece, put a long rest after it and play some soft piano notes to create tension and release in the music.

Name

Sung Jun Jun

Hey, my name is Sung Jun Jun a 7^th grader in ISKL. I am proud of my name because it is simple and repeatable. Sung Jun Jun Jun Jun Jun… I don’t like names that are normal or too ridiculous. My name is a bit funny and easy to remember. I sometimes write my name as Sung Jun times two. My name is from Chinese language meaning ‘do something great’. I don’t believe my name’s meaning, as I didn’t do anything great. When I was young, I wanted to change my name to Gundam (a name of robot model). I liked making robot models and I even wanted to be a robot and fight against the enemies. I am always being teased about my first and last name, as it is the same. My friends call me Jun Jun Jun… but I am okay with being teased that way because it is not that important. My grandmother studied about the Chinese language to make up my name. Most Koreans think that the names are important so they always try to pick the best three words in Chinese language that form into a good meaning. Anyway, I love my name!

Summary of Odysseus

I read Odysseus, a myth. Odysseus was a hero who had a beard trimmed to a point, bronze hair, tanned skin and blue eyes. His was the head of his army and he was a brave warrior who fought in a war in troy for over ten years. He won the ever lasting war and set off to his home Ithaca. When he was sailing in the seas, his twelve ships meet an enormous storm. Luckily, every twelve ships were together, not a single ship was left out. However, they had lost their way back to Ithaca and they realize that they were sailing in strange waters. They were running out of food, so they land on an unknown island. Unfortunately, the lotus-eaters were living in the island so they quickly set of headed to another island. Unluckily, giant Cyclops were living in the next island. The crowd including Odysseus was captured in a dark cave and the Cyclops ate two of his men freshly each day. With the great knowledge of Odysseus, they poke Cyclops’ eye and escape the cave by hiding under the sheep when they are going out to be fed. After the escaping, they head to another island. They land on the island of Aeolia and the king Lamus welcomed them. They ate and rested a lot and with lots of food in the ship, they headed to the other island as always. They land on Circe’s island the next time. Circe was a witch who could turn people into animals. They stop Circe from keep making people into animals and Circe suggested them to go to underworld to ask the way to Ithaca to the spirits. They reach to underworld by following the sea-lane to the underworld. The brave Odysseus asks to the spirits to tell them the way back to Ithaca. This is all l have read so far.

Spring Break Reflaction

During the summer and winter breaks that I had before, I have never been to any place that was exiting. I just stayed at home, studying and playing computer games (boring!!!). The reason why I didn't go on the holiday is because my father works at night and he feels tired after coming back from work. This is why I couldn't go on the holidays. But this time, he wanted to go on the holiday even though he was exhausted. He researched on the internet for the places like Genting Highland. After an hour of researching, he finally chose a place called A'famosa to go. Next day, we woke up early in the morning and started getting clothes for the trip. My father looked really exhausted but he wanted to go on a holiday. We could get there faster because of my father's fast driving ability (he was driving his car as fast as 170km). We first rested for while, watching TV in the resort.

1st Day
Then, we went to safari. There were lots of animals. I watched the bird show and the animal show. I was surprised that the animals can do some kind of circus. The coolest part of the safari was riding on an elephant. The wobbling elephant ride was a great fun. After that, we ate lunch near the safari, but the food (oily chickens) were awful. We almost threw every thing away.

After the awful lunch, we went to Water Park. It wasn't big. On the other hand, it was good because there were not many people swimming. There was a big pool with some waves going in there. The waves made me feel as I’m in a boat. After playing in the big pool, I got bored of it. For this reason, my father and I went to the big slide. The starting point of it was really high up and the slide looked like a twisting snake. I was a little bit scared but it wasn’t that scary when I was riding it. We enjoyed riding the slide. Soon after wards, we ate our dinner in Chinese restaurant. The food was much better than the lunch I had before.

With our full stomach, we went to a place called ‘The Streets’ to see the carnival. Before the carnival, we saw a fire performance. I could feel the hot air when the person was blowing the fires near me. I couldn’t believe my eyes when the man was putting the fire into his mouth. The carnival was like a parade which every animals and people came up. The parade was full of spectaculars. It was really comic when the elephants were dunging during the parade. The last part of the parade was firecracker flaming. The flames of the firecrackers were great and wonderful.

We came back to the resort for the night. We were all feeling a bit hungry, so we had some Ramans for the late snack. We watched TV again and soon fall into sleep.

2nd Day
The second day of my trip was not much of the activities. We had breakfast early and we all rode bicycles around that area. We went to Fishing Range after riding bicycles. The Fishing Range was full of fishes. I and my father almost got more than 20 fishes. But we had a problem, we didn’t know how to cook it. Therefore, we just gave all the fishes to the Malaysian people next to us.

My father also had to work that night, other than going home, we just went to airport. We ate lunch there and only mom, brother and I got the train to KL central (Father working there). We got a taxi at the central and came back home by the trip of two days.

Malaysia Week to Sangai Slim

The first day of the Malaysia Week was great.
The trees, mountains and the rivers were looking great and beautiful but they were full of all the disgusting bugs and leeches. I hate bugs so i always looked down and see if there were any bugs around me.

The second day, we went hiking to a mountain. First, we followed along a muddy track through the mountain. By the way, we stayed in a town of the Orang Aslis. We played some kind of soccer game with the Orang Aslis. We shouted, "go panthers!!" but we lost all the games. After the game, we went down the hill. I was really tired but the leaders said that we are going hiking again. I was really tired and sweating a lot but i needed to hike again. Along the hiking track, lots of leeches appeared on our legs. I was lucky because I wore long pants and only one leech sucked my blood. All of us were freaked out of the leeches that they.

The third day, we went kayaking. Kayaking was really fun accept that I’m tired when I’m paddling the paddle. I rode the kayak with Kevin. Kevin was working really hard and he wanted to go faster. But I didn’t want to go fast so I rest doing nothing and only Kevin paddled the kayak.

The 4th day, we went White Water Rafting. That day was my favorite day of the Malaysia Week. The boat was wobbling and bumping along the river. Sometimes the boat hit a rock and stuck with it. We need to move left, right, front and back to move the boat out of the rock that is stuck with. I fell from the boat once while the ride. When I fell down, a big rock hit me and I felt really painful. A guy saved me and I felt really thank to him. In the middle of the ride, there was a big fall. The big fall was really fun.

The last day of the Malaysia Week we were a bit sad because I would miss this place and the Orang Aslis that we met. That day, we did an activity called ‘Amazing race’. It was a game formed with five different activities. Some groups had done all of them but our group only completed one of the activities. We did the first one easily but the second on was too hard. ‘Catch five prawns in the river’. It was impossible to do it. We spent almost an hour on that activity and the time was over. We had the last ride of the bumpy cars and finally got on a bus saying bye to the people.

Writing
Hun-Min-Jung-Um is the traditional word in Korea. A king has made that many years ago. There was no proper word for the poor people so they couldn’t write. Only the rich people used proper word and write. King Se Jong thought that this is unfair for the poor people so he made a word Hun-Min-Jung-Um. But for the poor people, it was hard so they changed it to Han-Gle which is easier. Korean stared to use Han-Gle from that time and they still use it now.

Technology
Korea has lots of skills to produce the electronic things. For example, cars, hand phones, computers and others. Korea is good at making those and exports them around the world.

The Arts
Long ago, Korean drew Chinese drawings but they don’t draw much now. They just draw the pictures by using colors and brushes which is normal.

Religion
Koreans are divided into Christians, Buddhists and not believing people. Christians goes to churches everyday or only on Sunday. They pray in the churches and do the normal things what they need to do. Buddhists don’t pray everyday or on Sunday. They go to the temple whenever they want to go. They pray some wishes to Gods which they believe the Gods will get the wishes. And the not believing people don’t do such these things.

Government
Koreans didn’t have their power to choose their own presidents because they chose the president by the high people so there was not a good president. Koreans chooses the presidents by their votes now because the low has changed for them. Now there can be a good president in Korea.


Social Structure
Korean built normal buildings same as other countries.