Category: Student Blogging Challenge Spring 2018

Hi Edubloggers

For this week’s activity, I decided to display my Bucket List. If you don’t know, A Bucket List is a list of activities that you want to accomplish before you die. Because I am very open-minded this list is pretty long.

1. Eat Kobe Japanese Beef

According to Wikipedia, Kobe beef originates from the Tajima strain of Japanese Black cattle, raised in Japan’s Hyōgo Prefecture according to rules set out by the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association.

According to consumers, the beef literally melts in your mouth.

2. Be a Healthcare volunteer in Delhi, India

Because India is a developing fitting into our ever-changing world, it has yet to make advancements. However, it’s people are suffering as they are suffering starvation and drinking contaminated water. People who visit Delhi join the healthcare team to help improve its standards

3. See a Auora Borialis in Norway

An Auora Borealis is a electrical spree of satisfying lights originating in the Thermosphere and form at the North and South poles. People who see it are rare, but are filled with awe by its jade-colored phenomenons.

4. Climb Mount Fuji

Like many aspiring mountain hikers, Mount Fuji or Fuji Yama is a place of nature with its snowy peaks and tranquil cherry blossoms. It normally takes six hours straight to climb, but like all high mountains, have stopping sites.

5. Look at Arashiyama’s Bamboo forests

is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. It also refers to the mountain across the Ōi River, which forms a backdrop to the district. Arashiyama is a nationally designated Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty

6. Go to Asano factory or   Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten

One of the last things in my Bucket list that is the most awaited is going to Asano Taiko factory in Japan or Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten. These factories have been here for 500 to 600 years and have been the most widely-known ancient Taiko shops in Japan and America. What makes there factories special besides its age is how they make it. They carve the body out of a single piece of Keyaki or Caucasian Zelkova which is highly sought for now because of how rare it is.

Hi Edubloggers,

This post is going to talk about which blogs I commented on for this week’s challenge.

The first Blog I commented on was Olivia’s Blog. I commented on her blog because she wrote a very interesting post about the Gods of Olympia. Here’s what I wrote.

Hi Olivia,

This post was very informative yet concise. I really enjoy reading myths about certain lore and this expanded my horizon of knowledge. Here’s my Blog.

Cheers,
Hmschad

I then commented on Marianna’s Blog because we shared similar hobbies such as reading and was intrigued by her Child Labor Prevention Post. Here’s what I wrote.

Finally, I commented on James’ Blog which he talked about where he lived which coincidentally helped me in a Geobee Competition.

Hi James,

This was a very interesting and informative post. I live in Hawaii where it has been pretty rainy lately but is synonymous with being tropical. Did you ever hear about the Geography Bee, it is similar to a Spelling Bee but is like a trivia overload. This post actually helped me answer a Tiebreaker question.

Here is my Blog that talks about Japanese rituals which are popular in Hawaii from plantation workers.

Cheers,

Hmschad

Bye,

Hmschad

Hi Edubloggers,

Bye,

Hmschad

Hi Edubloggers,

These two quotes were made from Canva.

Hi edubloggers,

This Free post will be about Shinobue.

Shinobue (篠辺絵) is a high-pitched bamboo flute native to Japan and used in many of Japan’s music including Ohayashi (Old Tokyo plays: Noh and Kabuki), Matsuri and Obon ( Festivals and Bon Dances.) The word, shinobue is consist of “shino” and “bue”. It is also used in Uta which means music in Japanese which is a semi-western influence fusing singing, Shamisen Playing, (Three stringed guitar,) and Shinobue soloing and playing in Nagauta music. The Shinobue, unlike a recorder is played on its side like a typical flute. There is a larger fue called a Shakuhachi which produces lower pitches.

Shino is named after the bamboo called shinodake, which is the material of the shinobue. Bue is just a suffix of fue, which means flute in Japanese. So, you can just call it shino or fue. Similar to Nohkan, which is the more associatable type of Fue used in Noh drama, which are smoked dry resulting in its high pitch.

Besides Nohkan, there are many more types of Fue like the different tuned pitched Fue ranging from one hon choshi to 12 hon choshi, (twelve being the highest.) When playing, you can close the holes to change the pitch. It’s called tsutsune sounds. For 8 hon choshi that is tuned in C, opening a fingering hole one by one, the pitch goes up from C to D, E, F, G, A, B …. (the order of do, re, mi, fa, so, ra, shi.) Another piece of information is that it can go up to three octaves the lower being Ryo-on, the middle being Kan-on, and the highest and hardest to play being Daikan-on.

I hope this was a very informative reference to the instrument

Long ago, a wise monk had a vision of a rice field with a lot of abundant stalks, yet a lot submerged under the goopy mud that the essential plant grew in. This message signified the people who were in desperate need of food. The people who had access to fresh food and clean water lived normally, which let them grow abundantly, however, the people who were suffering were submerged in the mud and were suffering.

He saw a old gaunt derelict lying painfully on the street of a boiling sun. Other peasants started to kick him which lead the monk to go to the vegetable patch to offer him some food which he sympathetically accepted. This made the monk want to assist those who are in need. The next day, he went to Ethipia where hunger is a problem.

The first thing he did he did was see a mom and her child starving and holding a cardboard sign reading, “Please offer money for education.” Not only did he offer them food, but he made a kind offering of money. He then saw a man selling the rest of his supplies for hot meals from its cold neighboring country , Djimata. His cart was very rusty and broke when a cow ran into it, so the monk offered to help him and give him water since he was really dehydrated.

The last thing he did before he left was he started planting food in greenhouse areas since it was too arid to grow things, made a water pump to give them fresh water, and made a treaty with Djimata to stop taxing the country. After that fateful event, the monk pictured a full rice field ready for harvest.

Hi Edubloggers,

Here is my Zoom picture.

Anyway, weite a story zooming out from the picture. Also, if you didn’t write the first comment, please reply to the first comment that was written. Then, you guys can all build off from what the last commenter wrote.

Bye

Hi Edubloggers

Here is a picture of a Lovebird. I recently wrote a story about it and I am going to write the beginning of it so some of you can finish the story.

Here it is

when I was still young, me, my older brother, and mother migrated from the flock and lived in the hole of an oak tree. Though our main purpose in life was to mate, our mother stressed the importance of building a good nest. So for a few months, we were carefree, not worrying about predators until one unfortunate day, our mother sacrificed her life just so we can fly away. Even to this day I still remember my mother’s ultimate sacrifice from this heinous crime.

Me and my brother scavenged for a tree to migrate and find mates but after a long hiatus, we saw a van pull by our tree and second before we could analyze anything, we were forced to go into a cramped cage with three other Lovebirds.

Put your story in the comments bellow and I will make a post of the finished story, but for now, it is ….. TO BE CONTINUED

Hi edubloggers,

In this challenge activity, I will give five pictures and you can try to decipher it!