Blog Episode VIII: In Which We Head East!

Heading east? Wait...I'm still looking forward to heading west to Snowboard in Colorado in a few short days! Fourteen to be exact, but who's counting?

Simple quest this time. I'm going to point you off in the direction of 10 Awesome Things to see and do in Southeast Asia.  In case you didn't figure out the blog title, Southeast Asia is east of South Asia, eh? Anyway, the link shows you thumbnail photos and gives a small blurb about two handfuls (get it?) of great places to visit in this largely tropical region. Small blurbs. Like blurbs that you and I each were able to read with ease. So don't just turn around and throw those back at me...I've already read them! So after choosing one of the places, do a little research and fire away! Which place would you most like to visit and why? What myriad reasons can you give to make your case?

Grading: Because we are stronger writers now, Spelling-Error-Free POSTS must be 100+ words (4 points), contain a hyperlink or a video, or have a picture/video brought in to your post (1 point) and end with a question (1 point).  For the last four points, this is where you can work to be a better writer on an area that you recognize is a personal weakness or a personal goal. Point out your chosen area by using and underlining an "I struggle" or "I would like to expand my writing to include" statement, such as I often struggle with word choice or I would like to try adding alliteration. Doing so will get you your seventh point, And your eighth, ninth and tenth points will be for using and underlining three correct examples of your chosen area of weakness or writing goal...kinda like I did in the previous two paragraphs.

(In case you are struggling, I often see errors in comma use, apostrophe use, word choice and word usage.)

COMMENTS: You must be the first or second comment made to a post and it must now be 75+ words, spelling-error free of course (5 points), and once again it should clearly show that you have looked up information from the post and added it as part of your response (2 points). And once again, this time you must suggest to this author that they read another author's post. Connect your suggestion with a solid reason. For example you might say, "Hey Julio, I really liked reading your post about Sri Lanka and the amazing food they have there. It dawned on me that you might really like to read Darby's post. I know, I know...she wrote about Bengal, not Sri Lanka. But you will notice that each culture seems to share a love of spicy food, don't you agree?" See how I connected the two different posts by a common thread? That is your mission, and success there will earn you your final 3 points.

Well, what are you waiting for? The 3rd ranked (Are you kidding me?) villain of all time awaits your posts.

The temple full of rats

               There is a temple in India called Karni Mata which have full of rats. It have over 20,000 black rats and you can find a white rat if you are lucky. These rats called Kabbas and they get food that are sweet holy food. The temple was complete in early 20th century. It have beautiful art of a picture of gods and the style of the temple is by a man called Maharaja Ganga Singh. Which one is lucky finding a four leaf clover or a white rat.  



    

Snakes..

When we took the field trip in class, I learned about the speckled Cobra and it's a very poisonous snake and I mean very! The Speckled Cobra is also known as the Indian cobra. is a species of the genus Naja found in the Indian subcontinent and a member of the "big four". The big four mean the four species which inflicts on how many snake bites on humans in India. Another cool thing that happened “at” the field trip was when the workers who caught snakes used snake venom including the speckled coba to make a antadone for the poison inside of a humans body once they are bitten from a snake or a speckled cobra. I dont think I would like to visit India because they have lots of snakes there. Would you like to visit India?

Snakes: What Makes Them Unique?

           Snakes can sometimes be interesting. Snakes can be interesting in many ways, such as size or venom. The largest species of snakes are pythons and anacondas. Some of the most venomous snakes are rattle snakes, death adders, vipers and black mambas.

The larger snakes can even swallow a human whole, or something bigger! A small majority of snakes can bite something and have it dead pretty quickly. However, not in all cases is snake venom bad. All around the world snakes venom gets drained for vaccine that has saved many lives. So in my opinion, snakes are very interesting. Dear Mr.Hopper please don't count this as late, it would have been on time, but I had lot of technical difficulties with turning this in.

The Elephants!!

In my opinion, the best thing about our ‘field trip’ was the elephants. Did you know that the elephant’s scientific name is the elephantidae!! The average elephant lives about 44.4 human years. That’s about ⅓ less than the average human  lives.  The average elephant weighs 5,500 kgs or 12125.4 lbs!! The usual elephant is about 9 feet tall.  Elephants eat roots,grasses,fruit, bark. An adult elephant can consume up to 300 lbs. of food in a single day. This is why I think elephants were the best thing in our field trip.

The train ride

When we watched the so called field trip I learned that in Asia  most people take trains just because its cheaper. People in the first class seating would have nice seats, they could also sleep. When they got rid of fourth class people would sit on top of the train until they arrived at the place they wanted/needed to be that's pretty scary I would say.