3,2,1...3 School, 2 Family, 1 World - 6th June
Remote Learning, Hero Rat, Hey Soul Sister and Killer Snails
A weekly newsletter from an 11 year old trying to balance school, parents, activities & the world…and of course, homework. An honest description of how I see the world.
~3 on School~ Remote Learning
Remote learning started two weeks ago in Singapore. It has literally been the most boring two week of my life😳!! But funny things still happen! Once, I had a Chinese lesson at 1: 30, and the Chinese teacher sent the link for the class. On my gmail, I barely ever delete stuff, so I have HEAPS of emails from over the years. So at 1:28 when I going to my gmail to find the link to the call, I couldn’t find it! There was too many emails!!🤯!! So then I thought I had found the link and then I clicked join, and since I was early, I thought it was normal that nobody was there!! (skip to 15 min later) I thought it’s so weird that nobody had joined by now! Then I go to chat, and see my partner in Chinese had been texting me A LOT. So then she sent me the link and I joined class 20 min late🙂
Another thing that happened during remote learning is…EXPO! I explained what expo is in my last blog. Basically it a really, really important even that is way more fun in person and takes 45 minutes. But in remote learning, we just had to make a super short video of 5 minutes. It was SUCH a bummer! So in the morning meetings we have every day at 9 o’clock, our teacher literally made a whole slide that has a variety of funny faces that people are making, and after 15 minutes of trying them out, she told us to pick one that makes us look the funniest, so we all did but then…she took a photo!🤣🤣
In remote learning, my friends and I were in a call, and we were just doing UoS, (Unit of Study) together. When all of a sudden, once of my friends’s voice cracks and becomes all glitchy and it seriously sounds like she was growling. She kept talking because she didn’t know that her voice sounded like that, then it kept growing louder and louder! It was so weird!🤯😂 We kept shouting her name, trying to tell her, …..then I realised she couldn’t hear us.🤣
~2 on Family~
Yesterday I was playing this game called Penguin Trap with my Brother, and it was practically a life or death situation. Why? Because we had placed a bet, whoever won would get to choose the movie we were going to watch after the game. So we kept knocking down the spaces next to the penguin, while being careful not to knock down the penguin at the same time! Then when we both realised that if either one of us goes, we would lose, we called it even and watched a movie we both liked👍
My brother and I also started this really good movie-series, Descendants, which is about these kids of super-famous villains, and they go to this school for kids who are good, and its about there journey there. There are three movies and the songs in the movies are really catchy!! It’s good for anyone really!
~1 on World~ The Hero Rat!🐀
Magawa the "hero rat," whose awesome work sniffing out landmines in Cambodia won him a medal for life-saving bravery, is retiring after a distinguished five-year career. The African giant pouched rat has found 71 landmines and 38 items of unexploded ordnance during his service in Cambodia, according to APOPO, which is the mine-clearing non-governmental organization that trained him. His work made him win a gold medal from the British veterinary charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) last year. But APOPO said the revered rodent, who turns seven later this year, has worked hard and deserves to relax now. His work has helped the organization clear more than 225,000 square meters of land in Cambodia, where decades of conflict have left the landscape with dangerous unexploded devices.
~SONG OF THE WEEK~
Hey Soul Sister By Train. It has literally been stuck in my head from 2 weeks! It’s really good!!
~FACT OF THE WEEK~
Did you know that snails have 14,000 teeth and some can even kill you? I mean… those little small creatures who move like 1 inch in an hour?! Snails can even kill us??!! That’s just like…wow.