Shoppin

Went to H&M today and got 9 things for 70 bucks. That's a good deal. I got some shorts and tee shirts. I don't like shopping that much anymore. After 30 minutes I get tired of it and stop. I used to love shopping and went all the time. I would spend the entire day at the mall and never get bored. Now, I can't bare being in  mall for more than an hour.

Bistec!

Hola mi nombre es Sterling, (Letter)

Tiene: Bistec

Viene Con: Arroz, tequenos y jugo

Es bueno para protenias

Prediccion: Muy bien y sabroso

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Reflection

 

My first impression of Sazon and it’s staff was “WOW” I felt like I was really in Venezuela for a minute. The food was excellent too. It was exciting to try new types of food that weren’t from the US. The first food I tried was the Bistec. My first impression was that it was very tasty, kind of sweet and I wanted more.

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Favorite Stats Benchmark

During Stats I had a hard time really understand what was going on, it took a long time for me to really understand the subject that was being taught. During the 3rd Quarter we had a benchmark on probability. At first I thought it would be hard and I didn't want to do it but after reading over the project description again I knew I could do it. After doing the project my understanding of how probability and statistics go hand and hand grew. 

Inquiry: What is the probability that a person can win three games of  “Skip-Bo” row.

Collaboration: This was a solo project, I needed three or four players, that actually know how to play the game well.

Presentation: I  presented this project on a iweb that will teach people how to play the game. 

Reflection: After doing the project I understood that it is hard to really tell the chances of a person winning three times in a row. 

Capstones have just begun

I got the website looking cool
the boxes are all in order
Every student has a page
And their information is surrounded by a border
But unfortunately for me
I am never truly done
I am sorry to say
But all my work has just begun
I could do more to make it better
I could add more colors and shades
A nice design changing page would be nice
All of this can be done at my pace
So while everyone else is finished
Everyone is cheering horray
I will have to continue to work
Until my site becomes completely perfect
So of course that's not today :(

We Need to Move On...

Dear high school,
I've found someone better. Its been a incredible 4 year relationship but, I've grown & moved on. Hopefully you can let me go while I make this next stage in life although I may fall and stumble on my way I know you've helped me get here. I think its best if we stop seeing each other for, like, ever. Ok, see ya in 5 years at the reunion.
Love,
Rae

Self Inflicted Stress.

It's truley unbelievable that I put myself in these situations almost as if it where subconsioulsly on purpose. I am such a procrastinatior. Truth is I work best under pressure. I KNOW I have all this stuff to do and have time to do it and LITERALLY don't until I feel the anxiety of time creeping up on me. I mean I get it done, but why do i inflict this on myself. I mean, I know I have a problem I guess it's my first step to recovery..
(*head down, slowly walking away) haha I am so Dramatic. 

Yeahhh!

I swore I told you that story before, Freda! Fawn had found him on her street near her dad's house one day and called me and was like "Hey Rachel, do you want a baby bird?"

My mom and I rushed down there to get him. We had him for only about a week and he wasn't scared of us at all.  He was a fledgling, so he could almost fly but wasn't quite ready yet.

I'm trying to find the pictures I have of him. 

Oh, and I named him Gingersnap! :D

I'll post the pictures here if I can find them.

Like being in the audience

While doing some homework when I heard a couple cheers
Then it got louder and louder 
Then a choir of excited violin music came in
And the room was filled with trumpets and joyful cheers
And then I heard the first lyrics to justin beiber's never say never *shudder*
Then I looked around and realized that I did not have my tv on
Looked out my room door
Down the stairs
My dad was sitting them watching the last part of karate kid with the volume around 25
I wanted to take a deep breath and say "turn it down, i'm doing homework"
but I feel like it would somehow hurt his feelings
I just walked back into my room and
I thought about how I felt like I was in the audience
If only justin beiber hadn't popped up
Then maybe it would have been a good daydream :)

Musical Instrument Blog #1


 
My group & i decided to spell xylophone "Zillaphone", i'm telling you this because i dont want you to get confused when you see it spelled like that. =)

-How is it played? What does the person have to do to produce sound?
You hit the notes with the mallets. The Zillahphone strike the metal bars of the Zillahphone (xylophone) with a stick produces a vibration. This vibration's sound is determined by the length of the bar. The longer ones produce a much deeper sound than the shorter ones. These sounds are enhanced by the resonator tubes below the bars. Air is pushed into these tubes, creating more vibration, but at the same pitch as the bar struck. A cord runs through the center of the xylophone, lifting the bars slightly away from the frame of the instrument, letting them vibrate freely.


-How do you change a note? (you might have to watch very carefully to see this)
On an Zillahphone, there are different sized bars, the smaller the bars the higher the pitch is. The notes change depending on which bar you hit.



-How is it shaped?
Its Piano Shaped.


-What does this make you think about how you can create and change sound?
It makes me think that this would be easy to play/handle.


-What connections (if any) do you think you can draw between what you are observing and you might already know about waves?
Well i personally think that how hard you hit might effect the length of the wave, and every time you hit the bar, its another pulse.


Musical Instrument #2

​The flute produces sound by the musician blowing air into the mouthpiece. By blowing on a sharp angle and covering and uncovering holes on the flute different tunes and pitches will be produced. "The pitch can be lowered slightly by aiming the air in a downward direction into the embouchure hole, and raised slightly by aiming the airstream higher so that it crosses over the embouchure hole." I will be experimenting with different lengths of pipes to see if a shorter flute will produce a different sound than longer flute. I plan to drill holes into one side of the pipe. The holes will model holes on a real flute. I'm planing to use just pipe and drill to make the flute, if i don't make the flute of out of wood. Wood may be a tough challenge because I have no experience in cutting and sanding and it would be terrible for me or any who tries to play my "replica" of a flute and get a splinter.



No Questions :)