12th Grade Roller Coaster Expositions

Today during Computer Class, we went to watch the 12th grade exposition about their Physics Project. They had to do a roller coaster that transported a marble from one side of the board to the other side. I found all the projects really cool but the one I most liked was the one with the one from Erika Zinser and the one with the Candy Mountain theme. I really liked Erika's because it was really cool how the marble, going through a plain route, went up the spiral TWO times! In my opinion that looked pretty amazing. The other roller coaster that I liked, the Candy Mountain one, was also pretty cool because it had REAL candy and, in my opinion, they were the team that worked the hardest because their track were the marble had to go through was the most delicate one, being made out of two plastic, flexible sticks. Most teams used real tubes were the marble would have no option of falling down, which I think that is cheating. The Candy Mountain's track wasn't completely closed so I think that was way more laborious.

Pancho's Presentation

Last Friday in English class an old graduated man from the American School of Puerto Vallarta, Francisco Sean, visited our class. At first he started with his presentation he made about life phylosophy and how we should never give up with anything we need and want. After that he gave a speech about how and why the Iraqi War started. I actually don´t agree much with him because he said that the Iraqi war was something that would made both Iraq and the Untied States a better place. We, as citizens of the wolrd, know that that is not true. Wars don´t bring any good to the world, they jsut bring violence and innocent deaths. Something that shocked me the most in his presentaton was that he had to shoot CHILDREN. Once, he told us, a boy grabbed a stick and played with it as if it were a shotgun. the boy aimed at a United States soldier and, Francisco, shot the boy without even realizing that it wasn´t a real weapon but just a wood stick. That was kind of a sad story which he, Francisco, also thought was something he would never forget about. I found cound of lame that the war was to make Iraq a better place, which os obviously not the real reason why the war started. The reason why Fransisco came to talk to our class was to show us how to give a speech. In my opinion I didn´t like how he gave the speech because he was always putting his hands in his pockets and he was kind of fidgeting a lot. Maybe we could have a more proffesional person come to our class and show us how a good speech should be given so we, as students, learn how to speak in public.