"America wasn't paradise and it wasn't as easy as they told you in the camps"

Peter is a refugee from Sudan, who currently lives in Kansas. He experienced difficulty while assimilating to the American culture. In the Dinka culture, it’s normal for guys to hold hands and hug, however in the American culture people believed that they were homosexual. In the refugee camp, Peter and his friends ate with their hands. When lunch came out on the plane to America, they weren’t sure how to eat the food, and they had no idea what they were eating. Education was also something Peter struggled with. The refugee camp in Africa couldn’t provide him the best education. When he worked in the factory, he had problems learning how the machines worked. Peter also had difficulties making new friends and showing his affection, because of his different culture. He thought it was okay to catch a random bird and give it to his girlfriend as a gift. His ethnicity caused conflict too. Peter’s boss in Wal-mart told him to work outside, since he is black and used to the heat.

To adjust to this new culture, Peter tried to act like how a normal American does, such as watching TV, using slang words and eating junk food. He also dressed like an American, with baggy jeans, hoodies/jackets and shiny necklaces. Peter hung out with his friends from different cultures by playing basketball with them. By doing what other Americans do, Peter also started to forget his Dinka culture.

KKB countdown: 1 month :D

One important fact about my personality:

- I'm really competitive about sports

2 reasons why I chose KKB:
- My friends said that it was a really good site
- I wanted to do all the fun activities like abseiling down the waterfall

What I hope to gain from Malaysia Week this year

- I want to learn more about teamwork, and how to keep our tent neat

(picture) www.google.com

I chose this picture because I love track and field. I love running 800m

Julius Caesar Performance Assessment

Act 4, Scene 3, Lines: 1-38

Cassius: That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:

You have condemn'd an notes Lucius Pella

For taking bribes here of the Sardians;

Wherein my letters, praying on his side,

Because I knew the man was slighted off.

Brutus: You have wrong'd yourself to write in such a case.

Cassius: In such a time as this it is not meet

That every nice offence should bear his comment.

Brutus: Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself

Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm,
To sell and mart your officers for gold
To undeservers.

Cassius: I an itching palm!
You know that you are Brutus that speaks this,
Or, by the gods, this speech will be your last.

Brutus: The name of Cassius honours this corruption,
And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.

Cassius: Chastisement!

Brutus: Remember March, the ides of March remember.
Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
What villian touch'd his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What, shall one of us,
That struck the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers, shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honours
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman

Cassius: Brutus, bait not me;
I'll not endure it. You forget yourself,
To hedge me in. I am a soldier, I,
Older in practice, abler than yourself
To make conditions.

Brutus: Go to! you are not, Cassius.

Cassius: I am

Brutus: I say you are not.

Cassius: Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;
Have mind upon your health; tempt me no farther.

Brutus: Away, slight man!

Cassius: Is't possible?

Brutus and Cassius are in Brutus' tent, discussing during the war against Antony and his followers. Cassius sold his soldiers to get money, and Brutus believed that this was a dishonorable act. The two get into an argument, Brutus trying to stay calm, and Cassius yelling at him with anger. This passage shows how they struggled in the war, and how a conflict was starting to form between them.

The Lottery Story - Band

1) The black dot, because it makes the reader ask questions like "what is the black dot? is it something good or bad?"

2)I thought Ms Hutchinsen was going to get kicked out of the village, because she said "it isn't fair", and also in the beginning of the story, it said that there are only 300 people in the village

3)I was really curious what was going to happen, and why was Ms. Hutchinsen shocked

4)I really wanted to know what was inside the paper and I knew that it was the end of the story, because the teachers told us. I was tempted to open it before it was 5:00pm, but I didn't because it was part of the assignment

5) Black and white are 2 contrasting colours, so I thought it was something important in the story

6)I was shocked, because I didn't think that they will stone her to death. I was sort of confused, because why would a village want to kill someone?

7)My prediction was sort of correct. I knew that the black dot was something bad, because when they saw the black dot, the mood suddenly became creepy and silent

8)It would have helped if we the author gave us more details in the story, like more background information of the village

9) The author left these voids in the story, because maybe she or he wanted to create more mood and tension, and catch the reader's attention

10)a. There was no title, so I had no idea what the story was going to be about.

b. It made me curious about what was going to happen at the end

c. It made me try to guess all the possible endings

d. I wanted to open it, because I wanted to know how the author ended the story

e. It made me more curious about the ending

f.

Band - Void

PART 1

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

I think that the silence creates a void, because the reader doesn't know what the speaker is about to say (The reader is thinking: what is this person going to say next?) and then we say what it is (the release)

PART 2

1. Describe one way composers can create tension (question) and release (answer) in their music.

They can make the music go quiet, and suddenly become loud again.

If I were in the painting

If I was in the painting, "School of Athens", I would choose to be the woman student at the right. In the Renaissance, women didn't have equal rights as men, but they started to have more rights towards the end of the era. The woman in the painting is listening to the teacher's tutorials with men. I think that she is brave, because not many woman would dare to do something like that. Like the woman in the painting, I am curious, I love trying something no one normally does and I love adventures. If I was just the way I am right now, and I went back in the Renaissance, I will probably be the curious and adventurous woman student.

How can art be a mirror of society?

In the Renaissance, painting was like a mirror of Society. "The School of Athens" by Raphael was one of them, it showed some of the important contributors, and how education was like in the Renaissance. Raphael painted people like Zeno, Epicurus and Ptolemy. In the center he painted Plato and Aristotle, two famous philosophers. By looking at this painting people can know about famous Renaissance figures, and also about education. In this painting, people are reading, talking and conducting experiments. They also have famous people teaching their students that are both men and women. This shows that education in the Renaissance was advanced, and also women were starting to get equal rights as men. "The School of Athens" is like a mirror of society, it shows famous Renaissance figures, how education was like, and rights for men and women.