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This week in World Geography we are studying Africa. We drew maps of the Political and Physical features of Africa, and they were fun! Today we continued to a documentary on the genocide in Rwanda. It is really sad that all of that happened. It is also kind of confusing. We are going to have a class discussion about this topic on Monday, so this will help, and we got three articles about it too. I will tell you how it went on Monday. We also have a student teacher in World Geography! His name is Mr. Mason, and he is nice. I think that we are really lucky to have Ms. Hollrah as a World Geography teacher, because we get to do this project communicating with you people from Taiwan and we get to have a student teacher.

Well, Austin is a really awesome city. It is known as the Live Music Capital of the World. Here their is a music festival called the Austin City Limits (or ACL). I have never gone to it so I cannot tell you very much about it. I like music, but I am more of a dance person. Here in Austin there is a ballet company and academy called Ballet Austin. It is the fourth largest ballet academy of the USA. I have taken class there since I was three, and it really is a lot of fun. Just last June they moved into a new building that is in downtown Austin, and really big. The Ballet Austin Company has various performances every "season" (which is usually September through May, or around there). These performances vary each year, but they always perform the Nutcracker, and in this performance they have the students of the academy perform on stage as different parts according to their age and level of knowledge (from little angels and mice to the main character Clara). The Nutcracker is a classic story of Christmas. It is about a girl named Clara who gets a toy nutcracker on Christmas. She then falls asleep, and dreams about him. Together with the Nutcracker, Clara fights rats and mice then watches performances of the residents of the Land of Sweets. I have performed in the Nutcracker with Ballet Austin 6 years in a row. Austin also has lots of other cool things. If you want to find out more you can go to www.austintexas.org that is the official site for the city.  

Well now I will go do more of my homework!!!!

-Virginia-

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Its Virginia! Well in World Geography we are finishing up the unit on Russia and the Republics, and we have a test on Monday. I think that I am prepared for the test. I know my vocabulary pretty well, but I am still going to study very hard over the weekend. I got a 100 on the Map Test that we took on Russia and the Republics, so I know the countries. Well I am really looking forward to do this culture exchange project, it sounds like we are all going to have a lot of fun. 

Ok so someone asked me if which one i like better Brazil or Texas? and I respond to that question like this: I like them both. They are different and each of them has a place in my heart. I was born in Brazil so you can see why I like it there. Also my WHOLE family lives there. Everyone. My grandparents, uncle, aunts, cousins etc. I moved to Texas when I was 2 so I practically grew up here. All of friends are here and well I'm getting my education here. I go to Brazil every summer but sometimes I do wish that I lived there. I think that if I could i would split myself in 2 and live both places. I don't remember where I lived, and I never went to school in Brazil. 

This is a complicated subject, but, well what I am really trying to say is that I LOVE both places!!!

Well, now you obviously know that I am from Brazil, so heres some more about me. I am 14 and got to Anderson High School. I am in all Pre-AP class. Most people, when think USA they think TV and Hollywood and that type of thing. I am not like that. I rarely watch TV. But when I do I watch the Disney Channel. So I watch: Hannah Montana, the Suite Life Zack and Cody, Wizards of Waverly Place. Some of my favorite movies are Disney movies, like Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, Pocahontas, and High School Musical & High School Musical 2. Yes I like a lot of things that little kids like, but I'm just that type of person.

I also like things that normal USA teens like, such as texting on my cellphone, and listening to music.

Wow that was a long post.

Well see you all later!!!

virginia