One of my favorite times spent with my family was my trip to Maui, Hawaii. It was spectacular with all the zip lining, swimming, and mountain tops! My family gave me permission to use this photo on Haleakalā. We drove up the steep mountain to watch the sunrise one day, and this is the photo we took a couple hours later. I have been to Maui twice and would probably continue going just to do all the activities again.
Although I was young when I was around my great grandmother, she still left an impression on my life. She died when I was four at the age of 94. Most of the things I can remember about her is not the moments I spent with her, but the stories. From my grandmother, I have heard several recollections of what happened when she was a kid with her mother, my great grandmother. One of the most prominent of these stories would have to be her life in Thailand while at the market. On certain days, my great grandmother would travel to the market to sell produce; however, before she traveled anywhere, she would change into old and rugged clothes. She did this so that people would think that she didn’t have any money and wouldn’t try to mug her while she sold her goods. Once she was done, she would change into street clothing to again ensure that she wasn’t mugged on the way back home. I always wonder what it would be like to live along side her and selling things in my street clothes in Thailand. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of my great grandmother to share, but I know that without those stories, I probably could have never guessed about her lifestyle.
I choose to put Google Translate as a widget on my page. Because people from around the world can view my blog, I would like to share my thoughts and ideas. People don’t speak the same languages, so it’s important that my writing is legible and easy to read for everyone.
I interviewed my mom about my grandma for week 3 activity 3.
Give a brief history on your mom.
“She was single mom with two daughters. She came her in the early 1970s when she was twenty years old from Thailand. Then she got married a year and a half later to your grandpa. In the 1970s my sister and I were born. Then, my mom became a single mother in the 1980s due to a divorce.”
How was she like?
“She was a hard working women who trying to provide for her children. She was always working two jobs up until the present because now she owns her own restaurant. In the past she owned two other restaurant, but she still worked two jobs. She gave money to her relatives whenever they were in need.”
Did she give you anything?
“She handed down to me a family heirloom which it was a gold jeweled ring. The ring was passed down from your great great grandma. Your great great grandma got the ring while she was a servant in the palace in Thailand. She passed it on to your great grandma when she had children and to your grandma when she had children. Eventually, I got the ring a couple years back.”
What did she teach you?
“Things can work out, no matter how hard it is.”
The Los Angeles Olympics commenced when my grandmother was in the United States with my mom and her sister. The picture is credited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1984_Summer_Olympics_logo.svg
Every night on Halloween, I like to celebrate by trick or treating like many other kids. However, before Halloween starts, I love to go to Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights.When I go to Universal Studios, I go on all of the horrific mazes in the spirit of Halloween. Personally, I enjoy frightening events and things, so I love to go there. After, I go trick or treating with one or more friends. I wrap up my October with trading my candy with my siblings and my friends.
For my blog I choose an orange background, and I choose a grim reaper in a tunnel for my header. I choose the orange background because orange is the color that represents October and Halloween. It’s in pumpkins and the leaves on the trees during the fall. I choose the grim reaper in the tunnel for my header because it is creepy for the spirit of Halloween. The grim reaper is widely associated with death, and I thought that was creepy. The orange wallpaper was from pixel1 at https://pixabay.com/en/wallpaper-orange-black-halloween-971634/ The grim reaper in the tunnel was from wolter_tom at https://pixabay.com/en/tunnel-passage-underpass-light-965720/
It was a dark, gloomy house with faded paint and chipped walls. It was always for lease; however, people found that renovation of the house would not work. It should just be torn down, many had thought. There was a rusty and black fence that lined the front of the house. The house was ugly with all of its features of dust, mold, and infestation. However, it was not always that way. It was owned by a small family of three; the mother and the father having respectable family names and occupations. Under their ownership, the house breathed magnificence with its vibrant colors and several house parties over the years. It was truly wonderful in all its glory. All of that changed when the family suddenly disappeared. Because of this strange incident, it was a daring move for children to go into the house on Halloween night. One year it was the anniversary of the family’s disappearance, and Ryan was dared by his friends to go into the house. Over the fence and through the front yard Ryan crept. He was hesitant; there was a drop in temperature as he approached the house. Ryan’s friends laughed at him; he was just too scared. Unexpectedly Ryan went into the house. Ryan’s friends freaked; he would usually never attempt something like this. They called for his name, but there was no response. However, there was a white silhouette banging and crying silently on the window. It was surrounded by three other silhouettes that where looking solemnly at the spot where Ryan’s friends stood twenty years ago.
The picture is from HiQ-Visions at https://pixabay.com/en/home-old-haunted-house-797031/
With posting pictures, I learned that it brings aspects of visual learning and playfulness to a post. It can be interesting and attract more readers to a certain topic. However, although posting pictures is fun, it is also important to give credit to the person who took the image. It is also important to use them appropriately in a given topic and properly with credit.
Native Language Prompt:
I imagine that I am drop of water. By myself, I am weak and vulnerable. However, even though I am just a single drop of water, I make a big difference. I am a part a much greater system, and together with a group, I am strong. I raise the level of water in a cup, river, lake, ocean, or reservoir. I am small, but significant. I hold the rest of the water on my shoulders just as they do the same. I would let myself flow downstream as I get sucked towards the ocean. As a little droplet I would go through many different areas and change form. My journey is scary, but exciting. I am only a little drop after all, and I must go with the flow.
Picture from ronymichaud at https://pixabay.com/en/drops-of-water-water-nature-liquid-578897/
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For the sake of Halloween, here is a poll. What do you like do in the spirit of Halloween? Do you like to trick-or-treat? Or dress up? Tell me in the poll!