December 16

Reflection SBC

This is the final challenge of this SBC so it’s all about review. This first half is just answering questions about my posts.

  • How many weeks of the challenge did you participate in?  The amount of weeks of challenges I participated in were 9 weeks.
  • How many posts did you write in the ten week period? The amount of posts I wrote over the ten week period is 10.
  • How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers, or other visitors? The amount of comments I received were zero. Usually this is something to me embarrassed of but honestly it’s my fault. I’m terrible at commenting on other people’s blogs so I don’t get any comments in return.
  • Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why? The post I enjoyed the most writing was my Six of Crows post. It was the free write challenge and it was on a topic that I loved and I had a lot of fun writing it.
  • Which web tools did you use to show creativity on your blog? The web tool is used to show creativity non my blog was Compfight and Unsplash to post images.
  • What are your plans for your blog now? Will you keep posting? My plans for my blog now is to post weekly on topics I enjoy. It’ll all be random topics but that’s the plan!

This is the second half which I ask someone on the outside to review my blog. Soooo the winner of reviewing my blog is (drums everyone)…MY DAD!

  1. What were your first impressions of this blog? My first impression on your blog is that it seems to have a lot of information and were full of long paragraphs. While I was scrolling through it a lot of the post seems to have a lot of things written down.
  2. What captured your attention? The images captured my attention.
  3. What distracted you on the blog? I would say the background did. It didn’t distract me while I actually read some of your posts but while scrolling sometimes it made it hard to pay attention to the categories on the side(widgets).
  4. What suggestions can you give me to improve my blog? I would say to write more catchy/fun titles. Your titles are a bit bland. They are accurate and blunt but they’re not something that a reader would be pulled towards.

Well, give a big round of applause for my dad. I mildly annoyed him by asking pretty late at night but he didn’t seem to hate my work so that’s good. (Also, sorry dad I didn’t take your advice on the title)

Thanks for reading!

-Mina

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December 10

Six of Crows

I finished the Six of Crows series and it was amazing. It’s not exactly for the faint of heart but if you can handle a bit of blood and you love thrilling fantasy books this book is for you. If you have interest I suggest you just stop reading this post and go read the book because it is fun to go in blind. But for those who maybe want to know a little about it first let me tell you about it.
Six of Crows is set in Ketterdam: a place with merchants and the main profit are from trades but that’s only a skim of it. Ketterdam is full of gangs, thieves, and thugs and that’s what this story is really about. This story is about 6 people getting offered an impossible job and they accept for the money. You see them go on this journey to break out this prisoner held in the Ice Court. It’s never been broken into and their security is impeccable. The most interesting thing about this story is the fact that they’re not heroes. They’re not doing it to save the world, they’re doing it because they go a lot of money offered and they could benefit from it so that’s why they take the job.
There are six main characters in the story and it’s important to get to know them. There are six main characters. Kaz, Inej, Nina, Wylan, Jesper, and Matthias. Their all crucial to the mission and all are deadly and have multiple layers. Their not all good people, but you can’t help but like them. Kaz is ruthless, deadly, and smart. He runs the gang (The Dregs) that is the most important in this story. Inej is the spy of the Dregs. She’s silent and deadly and collects and keeps Kaz’s secrets. Nina is the Grisha of the group. Grisha is people who have abilities that are fantasy like. Nina has control over the body and she is extremely powerful. Wesper is a rich merchant’s son who ran away. He’s a lot more useful he seems and proves to have layers that make him useful. Jesper is the sharpshooter of the group. He’s social and he’s great with emotions and is able to make terrible times lighter. Matthias is the only one who knows around the ice court and is important to actually pull even any part of it off. He’s not a criminal though like the others. He hates everything the others represent and doesn’t like working with them but he needs to help them. You see the six of them work together and see them grow. They each have complex stories behind them and all are strong characters.
This story gets straight into the action. But alongside it all, you get to know about each of the characters. The way everything goes down is interesting because every surprise is unexpected and you can never guess the way things may end up. This story is different and a bit extreme. The characters are great and the action is exciting and different. This story is fantasy and adventure and so if you like stories like that and find anything interesting from what I said here to check this book out!

Here is a link to the official website

Here’s one to the fandom powered wikia

-Mina

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December 10

A-Z Science Words (SBC)

Hi, I’m Mina and this weeks SBC is all about science. I’m gonna go through the alphabet and name words related to science that start with the same letter I’m on.

A: Altitude (the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level)

B: Big Bang (the rapid expansion of matter from a state of extremely high density and temperature that according to current cosmological theories marked the origin of the universe.)

C: Chromosphere (a reddish gaseous layer immediately above the photosphere of the sun or another star. Together with the corona, it constitutes the star’s outer atmosphere)

D: Darwin (Scientist most known for his theory of evolution)

E: Electron (a stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids)

F: Frequency (the rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave, either in a material (as in sound waves), or in an electromagnetic field (as in radio waves and light), usually measured per second)

G: Galaxy (a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction)

H: Heliosphere (the region of space, encompassing the solar system, in which the solar wind has a significant influence)

I: Instrument (a tool or implement, especially one for delicate or scientific work)

J: Jupiter (Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System)

K: Kuiper Belt (a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice)

L: Light (the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible)

M: Mars (Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun)

N: Nebula ( cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter)

O: Orbit (the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution)

P: Photon (a particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass)

Q: Quantum (a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents)

R: Radiation (the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization)

S: Satellite (an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication)

T: Telescope (an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer)

U: Universe (all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos)

V: Vacuum (a space entirely devoid of matter)

W: Wavelength (the distance between successive crests of a wave, especially points in a sound wave or electromagnetic wave)

X: X-Ray (an electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light)

Y: Y-Axis (the secondary or vertical axis of a system of coordinates, points along which have a value of zero for all other coordinates)

Z: Zonal Wind (The component of a wind along a particular parallel of latitude)

Alright that’s a wrap. I hope you enjoyed and thanks for reading!

This is a link to the the website I used and for the definitions I used Google’s Dictionary.

-Mina

 

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December 2

Holiday Celebration (SBC)

This weeks SBC is all about Holidays so I’m here to name a few and how my family celebrates the holiday!

Thanksgiving (November 22)

This holiday is the most recent. I love thanksgiving my family and family friends usually get together and we have a big thanksgiving meal. We eat desserts and while the parents talk the kids go and play games.

Morning TailbacksCreative Commons License Mark Gunn via Compfight

Christmas (December 25)

Christmas is a very popular holiday. I live in Hawaii so we don’t have a typical white snowy Christmas but we still have the Christmas charm around here. My family gathers in the morning and we usually make pancakes or crepes for breakfast. We open presents and afterwards we call our relatives to say Merry Christmas. We usually stay home that day and  have some sort of special dinner that we make.

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New Years (January 1)

On New Years we eat at a restaurant and then around 11 we go to the beach to watch the fireworks. We then walk around the city a bit and afterwards we go home. We’re not that big on resolution but my parents do still urge us to think of them.

Honda Celebration of Light 2018 Jerry Meaden via Compfight 

Halloween (October 31)

Every Halloween I dress up one way or another. Our school does this Halloween parade thing where we walk around campus and the parents come and take pictures of us. During school we pretty much have this whole free day. We do have “classes” but they let us have free time. In the afternoon we have a class party and the kids just eat pizza and hang out with each other while the teacher plays a movie. After school I hang out with my friends and sometimes it’s a sleepover and sometimes it’s trick or treating. Overall it’s a fun holiday.

halloween_2018_01 Taema via Compfight

Those are some holidays I wanted to talk about. My family celebrates more but these are the ones that are more big in my house hold. Comment down below your favorite holiday!

Thanks for reading!

-Mina ♥

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