So... what are you?

There are many types of questions that are asked when you meet new people. From the most basic, "What is your name?" to "What are your interest?". Those questions are asked to know the person you are meeting better, but in my case there are some really irritating questions that pops out from nowhere. Those questions are " Are you Japanese?", "Are you Korean?" and "Are you Chinese?". Well, sorry all of the nationalities in your questions are all wrong, I'm Taiwanese. Sometimes, I really want to put a tag on myself saying " I'm a Taiwanese!" to prevent all those questions. I really dislike answering questions, and don't ask me why because I don't know either. In case you don't know where is Taiwan. Taiwan is a really small country located on the Pacific Ocean, and you can call Taiwan a place combined by Japanese and Chinese culture. I know it is because of my face that people would mistaken me as so much different nationalities. My eyes are not really big, my skin color is really close to Japanese people's skin color, and my hair is really black. Basically, I have the typical Asian look. I really understand the reason I get mistaken as so many nationalities, but I just can't accept it deep inside my heart. Maybe you can call this the Asian pride.

May I go to the toilet?

May I go to the toilet? This question always pops up in class, and creates a really awkward but funny atmosphere. "May I go to the toilet?", such a simple phrase, but people who are currently in the flood areas aren't able to go to the toilet. Their toilet's are either flooded, or the toilet was unable to flush. So, a certain company in Thailand designed a floating toilet. The really special part of this toilet is that, there are micro organisms who would treat those waste. I find this invention really convenient and helpful, since it provides the victims of the flood a proper place to treat their waste. Well, this is a really creative way to help the flood, because have micro organisms to treat your waste was a really clever and hygienic. Since there are many concerns for the flood victims to have to live with their waste and the dirty water. This innovation fully solves this problem, and helps improve the flood's victims' environment.  Maybe this floating toilet is not the most creative one, but I am sure that it is one of the most helpful innovations.

The Water Prison; Flood

The flood that is currently happening in Thailand affected a lot of families. I live in a condominium downtown, so I am really lucky that I am not affected as much as the others. Also, the area that I live in is one of the areas the government chose to protect. Despite of the direct affects such as flooding, my family is also affected. Rice, vegetable, and other groceries have increased price. The price of the groceries right now seriously made my eyes pop out, but we still brought a lot of groceries. The price of groceries are getting higher but my mom's wallet is getting thinner.
      During this flood, observing what is happening on the news is a really important thing. In my opinion, the news are making the citizens panic. One certain day, my mom was in the supermarket (She was like a warrior choosing her weapons to defeat the flood ) and there were camera's shooting the situation of the groceries being sold . The camera only chose the selves that were empty. Humans are really easy to be influenced by their media, so when people start to see that most of the groceries are gone, they'll start to panic. I know that being a news reporter you need to have exciting news and news that catch people's attention, but creating more panic between the citizens isn't a really nice idea.
       Due to the flood our school has closed for a REALLY LONG TIME, and day by day I feel like my brain is turning into an empty shell. We do have homework assigned online, but learning with your face towards the screen?!!! Are you joking with me?? Our laptops are seducing us to open different type’s entertainment tabs!!! Do, due to all of these reasons I really wish the school can reopen really soon. I prefer to be taught face to face instead of face to screen. Please save my brain before it really turns into an empty shell. The sun, please increase your temperature for the flood water to evaporate as fast as possible.

Rubric:Cooperation::Blogpost:Identity

            In our language arts class we've been working on translating a rubric. The rubric was originally written in a more complex form of English, and our job was to simplify it into a more simple form of English, just like math. During this process of simplifying the rubric we have to cooperate with our teammates a lot. We had to decide who would do the different categories, and how are we going to show the difference between the different levels. I have no absolutely no offense to my other teammates, but can't they pay more attention on their assignment instead of chatting? One of them.... actually two of them stopped and began to chat after typing one line. That really disappointed me, since I am a impatient person.
          How does this rubric relate to me identity? Well, during the process when we were typing down the rubric, I wrote a jumbo combination of examples and details into the rubric. After, we got into a big group to decide how the final rubric should be, I received a whole big bucket of complaints about my category being too long. I absorbed the bucket of complaints, took a good look at it, and decided to take those advice into a lesson. My rubric was too long and I know that, but I can't find the reason why I made it so long. In the past, most of my writings were longer than my other classmates. Writing a ton lot and writing with many extra details is a weakness but also a strength for my writing. I often don't miss out the details and provide a better image to my readers when I write with extra details on the other hand, my writing might make my readers bored easier.
           The rubric assignment reflects on my personality, because it shows the way I write and shows how I cooperate with my teammates. Most of the time, I would be the one to take a step back and start compromising with the other people. Sometimes, when I think there is a really good and awesome idea, I would go for it and no one can stop me. This shows my impatient and wordy part of my identity, and I really like this part of my identity. These two parts of my identity helps me in my speed of working and the accuracy in working.

Identity Video



This is my project on my identity and it is presented as the form of a video. In this video I provided picture and music that makes other people understand my identity. During the process of making this video the hardest thing in my opinion was doing the citations which is caused by my bad habbit on not giving credits to the information i got from my sources. Overall, please enjoy my video.

Metacognition

Metacognition is when you are thinking about your thinking. Metacognition helps us givee more detail into our thoguhts and there are two types of metacognition. The first type of metacognition is metacognition conversation, this type of conversation helps you find out small details of your thoguhts. The other type of metacognition is thinking out loud. When you think outloud it helps you have more creativity. Metacognition helps us a lot and from metacognition we can find details from different things.