New Roommate

New Roommate

       Last week, I changed my roommate. Hudson Tucker is not my roommate any more. My new roommate is Elson Zhang. He is one of my best friends in the school.

       Someone will ask why Hudson changed room and lived with Chandler. Maybe someone thinks we don’t like each other or our habits are different. But my answer is no, I don’t agree with that. Actually, Hudson and I have a perfect relationship, but Chandler Vargas, who was the roommate with Elson before thought when I played a mobile game called PUBG with Elson in his room was too loud. He told Mr. Barrett about that and he said we had a different game choice with him and Hudson, finally Elson moved to my room and Hudson left to his room.

       Elson is a really good roommate, he cleans the room every day. Sometimes he can help me on my Biology homework. We have almost the same habits, we often play PUBG in the room, and nobody will think we are loud any more.

       I think living with Elson is better than living with Hudson though I also like Hudson. I am looking forward to living with him for the entire school year. We decide to be suitemate next year. I hope we can have a good time as roommate, and as suitemate next year!

Something I learned

Something I learned

       This week, I have learned a lot of knowledge from my classes, such as: Science class, ELL class and History class. In the Science class, I learned how to build a trebuchet as a teamwork. In my ELL class, I learned how to find facts or opinions in a passage. In my history class, I learned the time period of Renaissance. But in this Blog, I will tell you what I learned in my Algebra class.

       During Monday’s class, Mr. Mitchell gave us a very interesting question: 1⁸⁸⁸, 2⁷⁷⁷, 3⁶⁶⁶, 4⁵⁵⁵, 6⁴⁴⁴. Which number is the greatest one? When I saw this question, I tried to use my calculator to calculate each of these numbers and then compare which one is the greatest, but these numbers are all very big numbers except 1⁸⁸⁸ equal to1.The calculator had trouble to calculate this type of numbers, so I couldn’t find any ways to solve this question.

       After we tried this question, some of my classmates guessed the greatest number is 2⁷⁷⁷, some of them guessed 6⁴⁴⁴. Next, Mr. Mitchell said that we need to find a way to solve it, but not guess it. So he wrote three rules of math that could help us to solve this question. First is the common-base principle of multiplication: b^m•bⁿ=b^m+n; Second one is the common-base principle of division: b^m/bⁿ=b^m-n; Third is to rewrite a number as b^mn= (b^m) ⁿ.

       After he wrote these three rules on the board, I knew how to do that question. I just used the third rule to rewrite each number to 1⁸⁸⁸= (1⁸)¹¹¹, 2⁷⁷⁷= (2⁷)¹¹¹, 3⁶⁶⁶= (3⁶)¹¹¹, 4⁵⁵⁵= (4⁵)¹¹¹, 6⁴⁴⁴= (6⁴)¹¹¹. If we did this, we just needed to compare 1⁸, 2⁷, 3⁶, 4⁵, 6⁴, and find which number is the greatest. Finally, I found 6⁴=1296 is the greatest, it means 6⁴⁴⁴ is the greatest.

       If my Algebra teacher Mr. Mitchell did not teach us three rules of this type of question, I would never know how to solve it, but luckily he did. That was what I learned this week.

(I feel like I am writing my math journal, but this is really my English Blog.) -haha-

Spring Break！

Spring Break

       This spring break I spent most of the days in the Universal Studio Orlando, FL and spent 2 days in Nashville, TN. I did a lot of interesting things during the break, I really enjoy this trip. There are several things I did this spring break.      

First, I watched the Blue man Group Show. This is a show about three aliens, their whole body was blue. They had a lot of skills to make you happy, such as: they can eat and put at least twenty cotton candies in their mouse, they can play music by beating the pipe, and they can perform with audience and make the audience very embarrassed. I think this show was really excited and made me really happy. Mrs.Berzinskas lost her voice by cheering for the Blueman Group, that was really funny！

       Second，I went to the Wizard World of Harry Potter, I went into the Hogwarts Castle, it was so magnificent. I took a tour of the castle, I saw a lot of things that in the movie and took a ride with 4D roller coaster. It was really fun, it just like I went into the movie and played with Harry Potter and had adventure with these wizards. I was very impressed by the Harry Potter ride in the Island of Adventure.

       Third, I drank the butter beer in the Universal Studio. Butter beer is not real beer, it is just soda with sweet butter, but it is the beverage in the Harry Potter book and the movie. I drank the same beverage with Harry Potter and his friends, that was so good and it tasted very sweet. I really liked it.

       Forth, I took the Mummy ride in the New York area in the Universal Studio. It was a very fast roller coaster. It was so scary and the insects in it were very disgusting. It made me almost cried!

       Fifth, I went to the King Kong-Skull Island tour in the Universal Studio. The tour was like you went into a cave in the Skull Island and wore 3D goggles, you would see a lot of unique things, such as: strange insects, huge bats, and extinct dinosaur. The most important was the King Kong would protect you and fought with these species and helped you to leave the island. This tour was made by the movie King Kong and the Universal Company. Also, the line for the tour of the King Kong-Skull Island in the Universal Studio was the longest, people always spent about 60 minutes for waiting it. It showed you how popular the tour was.

Sixth, I watched a movie named Get Out. It is a scary movie about the white people and the Black people. The movie was so good, it was not only a really scary movie, but the performance of all the actors and actresses made the movie felt scary and attracted me. I think if you have time, you need to watch this movie.

Seventh, I celebrated my best friends Nicole Xing and Nathan Xing’s Birthday. They are 13 years old this year. Theirs birthday was on April 2^rd, I sang birthday song and ate birthday cake. I wish they can be healthy, happy every day and everything they dreamed will become true!

Eighth, I went to the biggest mall in Nashville. The mall included a lot of famous shops, such as Under Armor, Adidas, Nike and so on. I bought a lot of nice clothes in the mall.

Ninth, I went to the Escape Game in Murfreesboro, TN. My friends and I had a really good time in the Escape room. The game we played was about we went into a famous detective’s office which was on the Baker Street in London. We needed to find a lot of details, solve a lot of puzzles and find the way how to escape from the office, but we only had 60 minutes. We spent about 59 minutes to find the keys and details. At the last 30 second, we escaped from the room. That was my second time to play Escape Game and that was the first time to escape from an escape room (First time I almost escaped, but not).

Last, I watched the National soccer Derby in China between the Beijing Guoan Football Club and the Shanghai Shenhua Football Club. My favorite team is the Shanghai Shenhua Football Club. It was a really exciting game, but because of the referee named Ma Ning, he made plenty of mistakes during the game, like: he didn’t give our team a penalty, he didn’t give a player in Beijing team a red card, and Beijing’s goal was a foul but he didn’t point it out. So my team lost 1:2. I was a little bit sad and very angry.

That was the things that happened of me for this spring break.

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day

       St. Patrick's Day is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, Saint Patrick's Day is also a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland.

       Today's St Patrick's Day celebrations have been greatly influenced by those that developed among the Irish diaspora, especially in North America. Until the late 20th century, St Patrick's Day was often a bigger celebration among the diaspora than it was in Ireland. So how the people in this area celebrate this big and famous festival?

       First, people wear of the green to celebrate because St Patrick is said to have used the shamrock (a three-leaved plant), people believe that the shamrock can make them lucky.

       Second, people are formal gatherings such as banquets and dances, although these were more common in the past. Especially they like to sing Irish traditional song and dance.

       I never know this festival, because people in China never celebrate this festival. When I research some information about this festival, I think the festival is quite interesting.

       At last, I want to say although people in China don’t celebrate the festival, the people in China knows a lot of the three-leaved plant. This is the first time I know the three-leaved plant is from this story. I learned a lot about this festival.

10 things you don't know about me

10 things

I am Nicky Dai. There are a lot of things you don’t know about me. So, here I have about 10 examples for the things you probably don't know about me.

      First, my favorite soccer team. Most of the students in our school think my favorite soccer team is FC Barcelona, because Lionel Messi, Luiz Suarez and Neymar Jr. are in the team. But actually, my favorite soccer team is Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, because this is my home team. Also, there are a lot of soccer stars, such as: Demba Ba, Freddy Guarin and Giovani Moreno and so on.

      The second things people do not know about me is my birthday and the year I born. Almost all the eighth graders were born in 2003, so they think the year I born was also 2003. But, they don’t know I am older than them. I born in 2002, and my birthday is July 17^th.

      Third, my favorite teacher in the Webb School is Mr. Jeff Mitchell and my favorite subject is Algebra. Maybe you think my favorite teacher is Mr. A.J Swafford and my favorite is Science. Although Mr. A.J Swafford is very nice to me, Mr. Jeff Mitchell helps me a lot on my Math Project and Math Test, so I did well on my Algebra and I got an A on it. That’s why I like him and the subject.

      Forth, I have two pet dogs. One is brown and other one is white. They are very cute and naughty. They were all born in 2011. So they are all five years old. The brown one’s birthday is September 23^rd, and the white one’s birthday is November 25^th.

      Fifth, my favorite movie is Lost in Thailand. This movie is a Chinese movie, it is directed by Xu Zheng. It is about a very funny trip for 3 people and the funny things they did during the trip in Thailand.

      Sixth, I have no brothers and sisters. But I have 5 cousins, because my parents have a lot of brother and sisters.

      Seventh, my favorite drinking water is FIJI. Although some of my friends in Cooper Farris (my dorm) think my favorite water is Voss, I think the FIJI water is very tasty and fresh. So it is expensive, but it is cheaper here than in China.

      Eighth, I have a lot of friends in the Webb School. My best Chinese friend is Nathan Xing, and my best American friend is Hadley Foulk.

      Ninth, I have a lot of nicknames. For example, “the most handsome guy in the Webb school”, “Chinese Justin Bieber”, “Mickey Mouse”, “Nicky Pig” and so on.

      Tenth, I think Hearth Stone is my favorite video game, because it is a very exciting and interesting card game.

A beneficial discovery

A beneficial discovery

       There are a lot of beneficial discovery in China, such as: Yuan Longping discovered hybrid rice, Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin and so on. I think the beneficial discovery in China was Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian discovered and made the atomic bomb, It was the most important thing in the last 100 years of China, It told the world that China became a strong and big country.

       In the 1960’s, because of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, China became not safe, because these two countries thought China was not a very strong and powerful country, so they want use China to attack each other, so at that time, the president of China, called Mao Zedong wanted all the scientists to discover a new type of guided missile, so the leader of the scientists called Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian found a lot of things and do a lot of experiments. In 1964, they discovered the first atomic bomb in China. Because of that, China became the third country who had the atomic bomb, the first and second were the United States and the Soviet Union. It showed the world: China became stronger, some super country couldn’t threat China.

       That’s why the atomic bomb was a beneficial discovery in China.

What are your favorite things about fall?

                                              What are your favorite things about fall?
    I have a lot of  favorite things about fall. I have several reasons.
    First is the weather. The weather in fall is very cool, and people feel very comfortable. People can play many sports outside: soccer, baseball, and so on. In fall, leaves on the trees turn red. They become very beautiful and begin to fall down. The streets are very beautiful,too.
    Second is the fall festival. In the fall, we have a lot of festivals, such as Halloween and Thanksgiving Day. During Thanksgiving Day, I will go to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I will see an NBA match between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Worriors, I will see my favorite player:Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, and so on. I an so happy about that.
    That’s why I like fall.