Sculpins Synchro 2014 Jr team (13-15 age group) at the Jr Zones in Buffalo, NY. February 2014
Istambul – Emily, A’shawna, Alaina, Isa, Sarah, Susie, Lilly
Sculpins Synchro 2014 Jr team (13-15 age group) at the Jr Zones in Buffalo, NY. February 2014
Istambul – Emily, A’shawna, Alaina, Isa, Sarah, Susie, Lilly
She looked in the diamond incrested mirror of jewels. Her soft caramel hair in waves streaming down her cheeks and forehead, her silky eyes filled with love and joy, for she had just won the crown away from her three sisters and one brother. She had everything she wanted and more. Thousands were screaming her name,“Alania! Alania! Alania!”
“Alania!! Wake up, Ally!”
“Huh?” She sat up quick as a bullet to the sound of her oldest sister, Emmeline’s voice,
“Ally, you’re gonna make us late!”
Rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she woke up. Emma had a blond braid that reached down to her hips. Emma had never known a person who didn’t like her. She was an A+ student, a cheerleader… She looked at the clock and saw that Emma was right, it was already 7:45, and school started at 8:00! Quickly, she ran down the stairs, narrowly missing Missy, who was lazing about like the puppy always did.
As usual, Ally missed the bus by an hour, and had to be driven to school by her angry sister, the second oldest named Munya. Munya wasn’t very good at understanding.
One thing I heard repeatedly was ECONOMY and TAXES and MIDDLE CLASS. I think those are the 3 main points that interest me the most. We are middle class! In my opinion ROMNEY SUCKS ! because I think he will do bad things to the environment and I just like Obama better.
Today I got to go on a field trip with my mom to the UAlbany College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering (CNSE). My mom arranged for us to go with a group that was visiting her office. My mom said that people are “ASEE Continuing Professional Development Division Boards” from “continuing education organizations, many of whom are engaged in large scale distance learning activities.” I don’t really know what that means, But they were from Iowa state University, Auburn University, University of Tulsa, Purdue University, Mississippi State University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Florida, and Rolls Royce.
Here are my notes:
We got here and had to sign in and got badges, for permission to be here. They told my mom that she can only take pictures here in the “rotunda.” So far, it’s been boring. I am sitting with 3 adults at a tiny table, screaming in my head, “Can we do something?!” My surroundings are normal enough; cafeteria on my right, a rotunda (big circular room) to my back, and more tables to my left. There is a staircase leading to the 2nd level of the circle room. I think that people work up there. There is also a SEFCU in the circle room.
Now I finally moved into the circle room. It’s no different, except more people arrived – 10 people are here and more are still arriving. Now all the adults are taking a picture in the circle room.
We are finally moving into a hall that leads to an elevator, which I am now in. Now, I am getting out into a weird kind of small room where we check-in. We have moved into the board room where we all sit. Our tour guide is a big tall guy with a deep voice. He is talking about his background. He does something with photovoltaics. There is a smart board (white board) at the front of the room that says SEMATECH. What the heck does that mean? Our guide is talking, but I have no idea what he is saying because I zoned out to write. The view is AMAZING! I bet if I tried, I could see my house from here.
My mom just asked, “what is a semiconductor?” And, our guide responded, “do you have a cell phone?
Mom: “No.”… Eventually he says, “The semiconductor is the brain of cellphones and computers.”
It is a chip made of silicon. At SEMATECH they do research and development to make chips smaller and able to be manufactured. He just mentioned Moore’s Law. My mom and dad and I watched a NOVA (making stuff smaller) recently that explained this. I am not really listening any more to our guide, because I am just writing, whose name I just found out is Andrew C. Rudack.
He seems nice, but I have no idea what he is saying, because I don’t understand. This tour is for adults. He just said “film”. What is film?!
The table shape intrigues me. It looks like this from above:
it is now 11:00. He is talking about “thumbs” to “pinkies”. . . I think my brian is going to explode!
Image by Cool Text: Free Logos and Buttons – Create An Image Just Like This What is with the “thumbs” and “pinkies”?
Anyway, I am learning a lot, but I am just am not sure what! It is now 11:20. I even think the guy next to me is . I had to pinch myself twice for me to stay awake. We are now leaving the board room and on the second floor of the circle room. Now we are in a hall looking at walls made of glass looking down on roads, cars, all that. We are now in a strange different circle room with a hanging sculpture. We are now in a different hall that leads to a “clean room” with people in it. It’s pretty cool. You have to wear a special suit when you go in. They even have a machine that cleans shoes! This room has a weird shape, like a triangle, and the clean room uses yellow light.
That concludes my NanoNote!
by Isabella
Ode To Writing
My pencil flies across the paper
I am writing a strange caper
About bandits who wear bandanas
Read comics, eat bananas
As my pencil flies
I think about a girl who cries
About a lost doll, ripped dress or nothing
But when the doll is found its stuffing
Is strewn across the floor
And then the girl cries even more!
Wiping her tears away
(She hopes the thoughts will stay)
She goes to her desk to put her writing skills to the test
Once she has written down her findings
She goes to dinner where she finds great dinings
Then she goes up to bed and reads what she has already read
A story about bandits who eat bananas and wear bandanas
And then I realize
The girl is me, what a surprise!
Then I wake up to find
My face in cereal oh my, oh my!
I wash my face, take a quick shower
Look out at my garden, oh flower power!
Then I hop on the bus, take the quick ride
I think of writing with every stride
When I get off the bus
I will try not to make a big fuss
If I don’t get a good grade
In my favorite subject LA
Now I go home,
Home alone
I take out some pens
And repeat the process over again.
These are my reflections are on The Tiger Rising.
The Tiger Rising is a story about a boy named Rob, who is the main character who is very melancholy about his mother, Caroline dying of cancer until he finds the tiger, his dad Robert, another important person who in the end turns out to be not so bad when he apologizes for shooting the tiger, a girl named Sistine who becomes Rob’s best friend and convinces him to let the tiger go from the cage in the first place, their landlord Beauchamp who has the tiger locked up and gives Rob the keys to the cage so Rob could feed the tiger because he was to scared, the house keeper, Willie May who tells Robert that they were going to let out the tiger, Sistine’s mother who , approve of Sistine’s and Rob’s friendship, Billy and Norton Threemonger who bully Rob harshly, Mrs. Dupree who is Rob’s homeroom teacher and tells Rob to go to the principals office because of the rash on his legs, a little bird who Willie May had as a child, a bus driver who first drives them to Sistine’s house, the principal, who gives Rob a note saying he should take a few days off until his legs cleared up when Rob knows his legs won’t ever clear up so he thinks he won’t ever have to go to school again, Cricket, a little bird who Willie May had as a child, and a tiger who lifts spirits and lots of other emotions.
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