Month: April 2019

The Visitor of Parasites’ Planet

      Once Upon a time, Jonny Winters, an explorer from earth, went to space with his all-new XX-Spaceship destroyer. He saw one mysterious planet with so many planets inside. Jonny was curious. Jonny came in to the Planet. He saw a sign, but it says no visitors are allowed. Visitors will go to Jail!!! Because visitors like to take pictures of them. He finally knew that the planet called “Planets of Parasites”. Mr. Guinea worm is the Head Security of Parasites’ Planet. His task is to protect the planet from visitors. If Mr. Guinea Worm saw a visitor, Mr. Guinea Worm will make a hole in visitor’s leg.

     Jonny sneaked into the President Flea’s White House. President Flea noticed something. “Vice Tapeworm, you should find a visitor, because I saw one”. President Flea said. “Okay, Your Majesty”. Vice Tapeworm Answered. President Flea told Vice Tapeworm to call Mr. Guinea Worm and Dr. Mosquito to the white house for the first official meeting. After a while, Mr. Guinea Worm & Dr. Mosquito arrived at the White House.

      Jonny felt terrified because he knew he was wrong and he didn’t want to go to the Prison Island for visitors. So, he ran to the PCM (Parasites’ Cool Mall). Unfortunately, there were Soldier Mite & Hookworm outside the mall. Jonny was scared to death seeing them. He tried to go in but he couldn’t. Jonny was stuck over there. He couldn’t go anywhere. Soldier Mite & Hookworm carried a bazooka to fight against visitor. When Jonny walked in, they saw Jonny. Soldier Mite & Hookworm decided to shoot Jonny with the bazooka. Fortunately, Jonny is a fast runner. He ran as fastest as he could until he disappeared from their sight. Finally, he arrived at his spaceship and decided to go back to earth.

      On the other hand, Soldier Mite & Hookworm reported to Mr. Guinea Worm that they had seen a visitor outside the mall. They tried to catch him but he escaped from the mall. After got the information, Mr. Guinea Worm tell President Flea that there is no visitor anymore in Planets of Parasites.       

Jonny and Soldier Mite & Hookworm in front of the Mall

Soccer

            Soccer is a sport game that using ball and feet. In soccer game, you have to kick the ball. You can’t use your hand in playing soccer, except for the goalkeeper. If the ball touches your hand, it will be a foul. If the ball touches your hand in the penalty box, it will be a penalty kick. Originally, soccer comes from China around 2000 B.C. Now, soccer is everywhere. People loves soccer because it is fun and it is one of the easiest sport to play. They just have to run, dribble, pass the ball or catch the ball if you are a goalkeeper.          

            Nowadays, the famous soccer players are Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar Jr, Suarez, and many more. They are famous because they are very good in soccer. Every time they play, they always make a goal. They can do it because they always practice hard and never give up. The best goalkeeper in history is Lev Yashin. Lev Yashin originally from Russia. He was born in 1929. Unfortunately, he died in 1990 due to stomach cancer. He was considered as the best goalkeeper because he saved so many shoots.   

Fun Facts about Sharks !

Hi,

Let me tell you about my fav living thing: Shark!

Sharks are the king of the ocean. There are many species of sharks. Frilled sharks are long. A snorfin mako shark can jump higher than a giraffe !. The largest shark in the world is the whale shark, but the largest shark of all time is the megalodon.

Do you know why sharks like to eat a surfer? because they think the surfer is a seal ! Dwarf lantern shark is the smallest shark in the world. Sharks can smell blood for a few miles away. Therefore, you have to be careful if you were bleeding but you wanna swim on the ocean.

Do you know that megalodon was larger than a T-Rex???

Safari Trip to Masai Mara, Kenya

In December 2018, I went to Masai Mara, Kenya. I’m so happy there, because there are lots of rare wild animals. My family went to Kenya because of me, I got inspired to go to Kenya because I watched Zig & Sharko TV show. We spent 2 nights in Masai Mara. After that we moved to lake Nakuru and the last destination was Amboseli. Finally, We saw all the Big five Animals (Leopard, Lion, Elephant, Rhino and Buffalo). I wish someday I could go there again.

With my family and our tour guide. Let the journey begins..
Line up at Masai Mara gate
The tower of giraffes
Lazy Lion and Lioness

Book Review

The Bad Guys: Episode 1 & 2

Hello again, this is Fatih. Now I want to review a book called the Bad Guys: Episode 1 & 2. I like the book because it’s so funny. The member of the Bad Guys (they wanted to be called the Good Guys) club: Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha and Legs (a tarantula). The funniest part is when Mr. Snake swallowed all the Chickens until Mr. Wolf surprised and he told Mr. Snake to throw up all the Chickens.

The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey

I got this book from scholastic books. Bye Guys, hope you enjoy!!!

Online Exploration

Challenge I

Tonarigumi (Chonai Kai)

Hi, my name is Fatih, I live in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I joined exploration online, they give me a challenge to interview Pak RT about RT/RW in Indonesia. Because I live in Ethiopia, no such thing as neighborhood association (RT/RW) here. The smallest district is Kebele (the same as municipality in Indonesia). So, I went to Mariko’s house (a Japanese woman, a friend of my Mom) on Wednesday,27 March 2o19. I interviewed her. She said that there is no longer tonarigumi in Japan.    

From left to right: Fatih, Mariko, Rashaad

Tonarigumi is a neighborhood association created by Japanese government. Formerly, 250 years ago, in Edo period, there was a group called ”gunmi gomi”. Gunmi gomi means five groups of people. Gunmi gomi will become tonarigumi. The function of tonarigumi is to share information from the local government to community and sometimes they were trained the military service.

In 1943, the Japanese were attacking the Pearl Harbor, in U.S, where the military are resting. 2 years later… the Americans got their revenge. The Americans were planning to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the big cities in Japan, with the nuclear atomic bomb that created by: Professor Albert Einstein

After the Japanese lost, the Americans controlled Japan. At that time, America prohibited tonarigumi in Japan. In 1951, after the agreement, there is tonarigumi again, but the name become “chonaikai” (cho=town, nai=inside, kai=committee). This chonaikai is not controlled by the local government. Usually, chonaikai cover 5 to 10 households.

The functions of Chonaikai are: 1. To share information from the Japanese government to community 2. Take care the people especially elderly 3. Security patrol 4. Waste management (recycling trashes 5. Hold festival like winter festival & summer festival. 6. Funeral arrangement 7. Fire drill training 8. Helping others if there is a disaster. The chonaikai leader is called hancho. Mariko is never become a hancho but, her parents did. The last hancho around Mariko’s place is Mr. Mukasan. If you want to join a member of chonaikai, you have to pay fee every month.

Chonai kai meeting

The administrative system in Japan is different from Indonesia.

The system in Japan:

Country –> District/Perfecture –> City/Village –> Town –> Chonaikai.

If you want to know about the administrative system in Indonesia, you can see the picture below.

Administrative System in Indonesia

        Today,3 April 2019, after school, I wanted to stay home and relax, but my mom force me to go to Kebele office. So, I went to Kebele Kirkos 06. It was 15 minutes away from the school. My driver went inside first because he wanted to ask permission.

My driver and I in front of Kebele office

Before, I thought the office was clean but it was not. I went to the 6th floor. In the 6th floor, I met Mr. Tadelle, the chief of public service. I ask questions to him. After I interviewed Mr. Tadelle, I know some information about Kebele. The function of Kebele is to serve people (if people wants to create an ID card) and give people jobs. There are 107 Kebeles in Addis Ababa City. There are 7,000 populations in Kebele Kirkos. The leader of Kebele is called chief executive.

Me and Rashaad with Mr. Tadelle, the Chief of Public Service Kebele Kirkos 06

The administrative system in Ethiopia:

Country –> Region –> Sub city –> Woreda/Kebele.

So, Kebele is the smallest unit of administrative system in Ethiopia.

Fun facts:

Ethiopia has different clock, date & year. They have their own local time, for example: today is 3 April 2019 but in Ethiopian calendar, today is 25 Makawit/March 2011, so if you live in Ethiopia, you’re 7-8 years younger.

If it’s 9AM, it means 3AM (Local or Habesha time)

Direction/Map

This picture shows you the direction between my house and Mariko’s house (let’s pretend her a Hancho). The red one is my house & the yellow one is her house. The distance is 3 km .

List of my questions