Thai protesters will not leave there camp... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8686272.stm

Since the "Red Shirts" have defied orders to leave there fortified camp the UN and the Thailand government are telling there citizens to leave the country so they do not get injured or killed. I believe that Thailand's government should not be weak and give in to what the group of protesters want, instead they should come into the camp and if they are fired upon then they should be allowed to fire back. In result of this the "Red Shirts" should be frightened and give up there protesting. This strategy is a win win situation for the government because if the protesters don't leave when the government comes into the camp, but instead try to injure the police they will be fired upon, and the government will finally end this.

My weekend was spent being sick, but recovering on Monday so I could go to school. The things I did over while I was sick may be helpful when you have a cold bad enough to not go to school, but also not too crippling, so you can still do things.

1. Sit on the couch and play some hardcore Modern Warfare 2 with all the British kids, because if you go on early in the morning, they'll be online.

2. Mooch off someone, and have them get you blankets, food, and all of your other needs.

3. Text your friends at school and tell them what a better time you are having at home, then at school.

4. Be a good little lad and finish all of your homework, so you don’t have to worry about it for the rest of the day.

5. Search the app store for an app that you would like to buy.

6. Play the Hardest Game in the World on addictinggames.com.

7. Write a blog!

8. Lay in the living room of your house and look for details you never noticed before, sometimes you come across some pretty weird stuff...

9. Write a bucket list if you find out the disease you have is pretty bad.

10. Play catch with your dog (if you have one).

11. Take medicine so you can recover more quickly.

12. Don't take medicine and stay sick so oyu can miss more days of school.

So this is my blog on things to do if you are sick, comment if you want to add anything else.

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SIMUN

SIMUN was a great experience because it taught me to speak better in front of people, and the setup made me feel like I was really in the UN. The only other UN debate I have ever done was in Mr. Fielders room, and I thought this one was a lot better because of the way we had to speak, and the chair and legal council worked very well together.
I thought I did pretty well through all of the scenarios, but my favorite one was the scenario that was about Iran building nuclear bombs. I liked this scenario because I had a lot more allies then Israel, and in the end I think Iran did better then Israel. In the scenario about Ukraine and Russia I helped write a recommendation, and that one was turned into a Resolution, and worked well to stop the crisis going on between the two countries. The scenario I least liked was the first one we did, which was about Argentina, the UK, and the Falkland islands. The reasons why I did not like this scenario, was because my country did not have a big part in the debate, and since it was my first scenario in SIMUN I was a little lost.
Preparing for SIMUN was hard because I missed a couple days that she talked about our work, and as a result most of the work I was assigned I had to email to Mrs. Bergeski over the weekend. Since I did that most of my work was not done correctly, and it lowered my grade a little.
My main goal for next year is to come more prepared because most of the preparation I did before SIMUN ended up being vital information for most of the scenarios. In addition to that, I need to come to school all of the days before SIMUN so I can know what I am doing.

Taliban invading Pakistan

As Iran I would stick with whatever Russia did, and get as many allies on my side because I could be invaded too. Hopefully Russia would want to stop the violence, and we could work together to stop the invasion. A good idea for the UN to do would be to station UN peace keepers, and have as many countries as possible give money to Pakistan to improve there military.

Since the U.S. wants Osama so badly, they could capture as many Taliban officials as possible during the raid of Pakistan. Then they could interrogate the prisoners to find as much information as possible about Osama's whereabouts. If we can get the Taliban out of Pakistan then we should keep some type of military force still in there so the Taliban can't invade again, and so the military forces can teach Pakistan's troops on how to defend themselves.

If the Taliban does take over Pakistan then we will have to use aggressive military force to get them out of there as fast as possible. After that we would put the goverment officials back in place and have a watchful eye on how the government is run just in case something happens . This is Iran's view on how the UN should act toward this situation.

In the Kite Runner it talks about how Afghanistan was a nice country until the Taliban came, and took power. Afghanistan was very rich because of their resources, and having the Hazaras be there servants. Being born into a rich family makes you inherit the family business along with your children, but if you are from a Hazara family then you stay as a servant for the rest of your life. Many of the rich Afghanistan children do not recognize that life is completely different if you are a Hazara.

Everyone in Afghanistan accepted the Taliban when they came in but they later expressed an extreme hate for them after they found out what the Taliban planned to do. When Amir comes to America he acts how most Afghans would act if they were new to America; Not having a good job, getting in trouble with the law because they are used to there countries customs, and only being friends with their fellow Afghans. Since most of the people living in Afghanistan were rich, it was a different for them when they move into a small house, and not be able to afford servants.

When the Russians got out of their country they figured they would be called back to their jobs, but the Taliban stopped that. When Amir went back to Afghanistan to rescue Sohrab, he saw that that families were very poor and many of them died on the streets. The Taliban waited for an excuse to kill people while they drove around communities in their red Jeeps until someone attacked them, back talked, or threatened them in any way. Then this would give them what they wanted to kill as many Afghans as they could. Since there was not a lot of money to go around, the Taliban were the richest people and they owned many of the Mansions. They also were the only ones that could eat meat because meat was too expensive for most Afghans.

Wood shop stinks...

For my second semester classes I decided to try out wood shop, because if I learned how to make different crafts then I could put them in my future house as memories and furniture. When I first started wood shop I did very well on the quizzes and tests, which made me think I was going to excel in this class. My first project was a widget, and I thought I was going to do very well at that, turns out my "awesome" luck kicked in and I got stuck with the piece of wood with a fat knot in it, which made the wood harder to cut. I started cutting with a manual saw trying to avoid the knot. Then, when I was cutting I my vice got loosened, resulting in me cutting diagonally across my wood, and leaving a curved and extremely uneven cut. My next too cuts had the same thing happen to them except for different causes. I was starting to really not like my experience here and I felt retarded when the teacher had to help me, almost to the point that it was his project more than mine. The next part of the project was to cut two Dados, which is what the picture is. I am sorry to say but right now at 9:02 pm my mom is telling me to turn off the computer, so...um...ya... I am going to have to get this done soon, so I apologize for any really obvious grammar mistakes. Anyways back to my story, I am cutting the Dado and the teacher sees that I am having trouble and basically does the Dado for me, I thank him and wished that he would do the other one because there is going to be a big difference between mine and his. I started cutting and I was doing pretty well, next I had to take a chisel and take out the rest of the wood. I was also surprisingly doing pretty well at that, and then I got carried away and thought it was awesome that I was completely wrecking the wood. I realized that I had a huge gouge in the bottom and my cuts were too deep and then worst of all the entire Dado was way too freaking huge to securely hold my wood in place. When I saw this I just felt destroyed. Now I have to stay after school on Friday because I want a good grade, so I am doing the whole project over again. Hyperlink-www.whitworthbuilders.com/ MyBlog

Over the summer I went to visit my aunt and see her awesome house.

I was with my family and after a 2 hour trip we were finally coming down the street that my aunt lives on. When I saw the house it was slightly leaning to the right and looked like it was going to fall backwards. My aunt came out to greet us and help get out our one hundred bags full of the different pieces of furniture and the refrigerator. When I first walked in I ran up the stairs and looked over the one room that looks like it is floating over the house because it makes you feel like you are floating. Later that day I went out on one of the Kayaks to go on the lake that is literally behind the house.

The worst part about getting out on the lake is having to go through the creature infested, stinking, unforgiving stream that the Kayak lays on. I tried to convince my dad to get the boat out past the stream and I would meet him there by crossing the bridge, but he said nothing was going to happen, and I would be fine. I grudgingly agreed and got in the boat, the first section of the river was not so bad accept for the thought that the paddle was going to get stuck in the mud and it would pull me in. The middle section of the stream was the worst because of the rotting bodies of animals who had tried to cross the river, but failed because of the burning acid that instantly burns anything that touches it. Luckily for me the Kayak had a protective coating on it that protected it from burning, but if I touched it, then that would be a different story.

I put on my gas mask and as I went past it my paddle got stuck on something, I looked down, but could not see anything, I started to panic and tried to pull my paddle from whatever would be trying to take it. Then I saw it, it was a green grabber plant that was trying to break it down for nutrients, but I thought fast and took the sharp part of the paddle and pulled it back, which cut the plant in half. I started paddling fast and got past the stream and into the lake. After about fifteen minutes I was on the other side and I enjoyed the awesome feeling that I was on water and not sinking.

As I was heading back I heard a buzzing sound and looked behind me and saw the most ugliest fish I had ever seen jumping out of the water. The fish was twenty feet long and eight feet high and its mouth had a cluster of whiskers around it and big eyes that made it look very unusual and creepy looking. I did what I told myself not to do and panicked to get my paddle and get back to shore, as I was rowing I almost fell over because of not thinking of anything but the fish that I had just seen. To make this short I got back to shore and surprisingly did not fall into the acid, because that would just be my luck.