Peter+L

**Hong Kong Lumberjacks**
During the China Alive Hong Kong, I was able to accomplish a lot of achievements. I was kind of scared when they told me that we are going to sleep in the tents for 3 days but I got ok with it after the first night. The whole trip was hard but after each activities I felt very fulfilled that I finished the hard works. I think the highlight of this China Alive is sea kayaking because most of the people didn't get many chances to try sea kayaking. The worst part of the China Alive was hiking and adventure race. They were too hard and the APA staff didn't really give us time to rest. Also, I don't think I got anything from the hiking or adventure. Overall, the trip was very fun and interesting because I got chance to try new things and learned a lot.

=The day I realized that the world isn't fair= media type="file" key="thisbelieve-peter01pd2016.m4a" width="300" height="50"

====I love fairness. If everyone could think and act fairly, the world would be much nicer than it is today. I used to believe that the world was fair and that problems only occurred when one person was unfair to another. But I changed this belief two years ago when I started growing up and noticing what was going on around me. ====

====It happened right after school. That day, I was very annoyed because I had a tutor coming to my house. That meant that I had to do my tutor's homework and couldn’t play with my friends on the bus. I sat down on my chair and took out my homework. When I was doing my homework, my sister came up to me and said something annoying. It was even more annoying than my tutor’s homework. Because I was already annoyed by the homework I was doing, I shouted back at my sister. She looked very irritated so she shouted back at me. During the bus ride, my sister and I fought loudly and distracted other people. ====

====Finally, we arrived home. I couldn ’t finish my homework and my sister was very angry with me. We came inside at the same time. My mom saw my sister ’s livid face and asked her what happened. So my sister told my mom that I had insulted her. When she was done talking, I tried to tell my mom that my sister was wrong. I wanted to tell my mom that my sister was the one who first insulted me and I shouted back at her. Because my mom believes my sister over me, she told me to shut up and scolded me for insulting my sister. That day, I was wondering whether I really did something wrong and I wondered why I was the one who was punished. After that happened, I thought that the world was not fair and people only believe that ones who gives them trust at the outside even though the people is wrong. ====

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=Magica=

It happened when I was in seventh grade. I was living a normal life until then. I got a e-mail from my dead grandfather saying "become a magician!" with a file attached. I freaked out when I saw this message because he was dead 5 years ago and I was one of the people who watched him die. It made hair on my arm stand. Because I like mysterious and scary things, I opened the mail and looked closely. There was no message but only a MagicaInstall.MAG file attached. It was only 1KB so I downloaded and opened the file. Suddenly, my computer shut down and came back again.

Instead of XP that I installed with my dad, a OS called Magica came out and started to download stuff from internet and started to install files and my computer shut down again. Suddenly, I heard a pop from my computer from my computer and my computer exploded. I freaked out. Then, I heard my mom saying, "What's wrong" with footstep from downstairs. I was more scared that my mom will kill me with she finds out that I popped computer so I looked at my computer but there was a small potato chip instead of my computer. I quickly picked it up and abruptly, everything went black and something bright passed my eye so I closed my eyes.

I opened my eyes and saw a man in suit was standing in front of me. He introduced me that he is the CEO of the MC Corporation. Then he showed me the list of the Company Products. But they were all something weird like 'Spell: Invisibility', 'Super Power: Control Water', et cetera. I bought one of the spells and quit Magica OS. As soon as I got out of this weird place, I heard my mom's footsteps again. I was scared again. Then, I suddenly, remembered that I bought I a spell called invisibility so I said invisibility aloud, just then, my mom burst open the door and came in the room. She looked around the room and went back to the kitchen. It was like she didn't see me. I went back to my room and stand in front of mirror. but I couldn't see me. I had to live invisible. Comparison

Humanities Giver and pleasantville

Poetry Math Science Materials:
 * 1) 1/2 cup of split peas (100ml)
 * 2) Bananan
 * 3) 1/8 teaspoon table salt (less than 1ml)
 * 4) 1 cup cold water (200ml)
 * 5) The blender
 * 6) 2 teaspoons of liquid detergent (about 30ml)
 * 7) Enzyme powder
 * 8) Rubbing alcohol

Procedure 1)Mix 1/2 cup of split peas, 1/8 teaspoon table salt and 1 cup of cold water
 * 1) Blend the mixture with a blender for roughly 10˜15 seconds
 * 2) After blending, add 2 teaspoons of liquid detergent (about 30ml) in the blended mixture
 * 3) Lightly swirl the mixture
 * 4) Leave their mixture somewhere in the room for about 10 mins
 * 5) Pour the mixture into the test tube 1/3 fulled
 * 6) Add a pinch of enzyme powder into which of the test tubes
 * 7) The stringy stuff you see at the top of the test tube is DNA

Wonderments
 * 1) I wonder how people found out this experiment
 * 2) I wonder why DNA is shaped like a thin string
 * 3) I wonder what would happen to the banana after all its DNAs are soaked out

Observation: I saw a white string at the top of the test tube. At first, the white stuff at the top of the test tube was just bubbles created when the mixtures were mixed. Later, I noticed that the stringy stuff was actually DNA soaked out from the chromosome. I found this really cool and it was very interesting