Bullies

In Shanghai I didn't have any friends and I was really shy. I didn't really know what to do or where to go, but then a girl came up to me and do you want to be my friend and I said why, she said that I looked lonely. So I went with her to every place and was actually very nice at the beginning but the worst coming.

One day I was waiting for her in the canteen for lunch and I was just sitting there waiting for. Then all of a sudden I see her coming in with her lunch and a bunch of few friends I was really happy because I though she was going to introduce me to more friends but instead she went off to sit on another table, so I followed her to the table which only had three seats that were all taken by her friends. I asked politely if I could sit here with her but she told my to get lost and I question back why and she said because I wasn't her friend any more. That really made me sad so I ran to the girls W.C and cried there with no one to comfort me or even care about me.

When school ended I went home to tell my mom that I did want to stay her any more because I don't have any true friends. My mom said we were actually moving away in a few weeks and that really brighten me up. That the next day I was so happy to leave I just couldn't wait. And everyday I count how many more days or weeks till we would move. Now finally that day came we were packing all our stuff all the furniture and my toys, my books and everything else that we had. I just felt so free when we were driving to the airport like a prisoner who has been taken out of jail. So free so happy.

When  we arrived in Malaysia I was wondering if in my new school would I have the same problem or what but I didn't I was happy, free and all my friends were nice to me their always there for me when I'm down and all the good stuff you could think of. But  when my parents got the computer fixed I went to check my email on if I got any from my friend and I did it said that she didn't want to be my friend any more, so I wrote back to her "it doesn't matter now because I'm not there any more so you can hang out with your own friends and see if they can be any better as a friend than I am".  Then the next day i got another email from her say "What ever loser I'm not gonna send any more emails to you." I just couldn't stand it any more so I just deleted the email and we never email each other any more.

My Courage

Ever since I was small I was afraid of spiders but not of other creepy crawlies. I would just pick up a grasshopper, a ladybug, an earthworm and other insect but when it comes to spiders I would just scream and run away even at the smallest one. that was one of my biggest fear of all.

When I was sitting in the car driving to the airport there was a small spider just crawling around on the seat next to me and I would just inch closer to the door until the spider gets closer then I start crying to my parents about the spider. But my father would always say that the spider can sense my fear so it would come closer and might even attack. So I would just sit back in my seat trying to calm myself down and over come my fear.

Finally we reached the airport we were travelling to Belgium for the Christmas holidays and it took 8-10 hours from China to Belgium. But I was happy to arrive in Brussels safely because of the hard snow but we still had to drive to Antwerp to stay with my grandparents and  their house is really old and it's filled with spider which I was afraid of. But once my father told me that these spiders are the common house spiders, the daddy long legs and they're harmless and if you get scared  just sing the itsy bitsy spider song.

We all went to the town to go shopping and I saw a small spider that was black and on its back it was green and purple. I sang the song and put my hand down on the ground and let the spider crawl on it put my mother told me to put it down because she was afraid that it might as well bite me, so I let it down slowly to the ground and it crawled away.

Now I've overcome my worse fear and learnt to enjoy my life with or with out spiders but I'm still a bit freaked out about big, huge, hairy spiders.

How did early humans use art to express their prehistoric culture?

In  humanities we were studying about our artifacts that we found in our scavenger hunt. And my group had to do study about a painting from the early hominids. I'm wondering what these cave paintings could actually mean.

This one of the cave paintings found in France.

Maybe the mythical and spiritual stories that they told or heard through their life were what inspired them to teach to their young by painting them on the walls. Then when the younger members grow older and have children of their own they could tell it to them. I think the reason why the hominids painted the story on the wall is because then they can remember it and the story can just be passed down to their yong ones.

Perhaps they could have told about what they saw happening to the world surrounding them. It could be that a deer was born and each day the hominids saw it growing and in time becoming the leader of it's group. It seems liklely that the paintings on the wall are about their daily observations.

Lastly, maybe the painting could be like a diary that everybody shared and they painted what they did on a certain day. Perhaps they went hunting and killed a ferocious bison or a huge elephant or a stampeding rhino or perhaps they found a new river or another tribe.

FIRE EXIT!!

There could be many reasons why they painted pictures on cave walls. We may never find out what made them do it.