9/21/12

      Today my group got to present our presentation on Brazil. Eleanor's name got changed to buttface on our power point and it was really funny. But we were kind of laughing throughout the whole presentation and someone wrote "We are just that cool" at the bottom of one of the slides and we're not sure who from our group wrote that so that was funny too. I'm not sure how we did on our presentation...hopefully we passed! Then Mr. Schick talked about the test we're having on Monday which is going to cover everything from the beginning of the year. I'm kind of nervous for it. Hopefully i get a good grade!

9/20/12

          Today in class people presented their projects and most were pretty interesting. Only about 3 people got to present and the last group got cut off by the bell. I guess tomorrow my group will probably go. In everyone's power point they all talked about how in each country the life expectancy for women is longer then men so that information was pretty much the same for everyone. One of the most interesting ones were probably about Nigeria and how its a developed country. I didn't know that. They had some interesting facts. We were supposed to have a test tomorrow but Mr. Schick postponed it until Monday so people can finish their presentations.

9/19/12

          Today we got put into groups to do our first class project. Parker, Olivia, and Eleanor are in my group. We have the best group ever. Our country we're doing is Brazil.

9/17/12

      Today was a class where we didn't need our computers. Only our notebooks. Mr.Schick had a power-point ready for us when we came in. I think this was the first "real" notes we've taken so far. We talked about net migration rate, immigration, crude birth rate and a few other things. The life expectancy of the US kind of surprised me. Honestly, I thought it would be more. If you were born in 2012 your life expectancy is to about 70 years. I thought this generation would be at least like a 90 year life expectancy with all the new technology that is improving throughout the years but I guess not. Mr. Schick said that we will probably be having a test either Thursday or Friday of this week.

9/14/12

Today in class we discussed our homework last night which was watching this "Did you know?" video and we had to pick two facts from it. It was like a whole class discussion today. I gave my fact about how India has more honors kids than America has kids and I said the reason is because America is stupid but that was obviously wrong. The right answer was that India just has more kids than us. We also talked about the future and what technology we will have. Mr. Schick said how different listening to music will be in the future and how one day they will probably have a microchip implanted in the brain in order to listen to music. It was pretty funny. Human geo is one of my favorite classes. Everyday our discussions are really fun and interesting.

9/14/12

Today in class my blog got deleted and so did most of the class. It was really frustrating. But anyway we continued discussing the 25 questions and we talked about gas prices and how in Norway gas is $9.69 a gallon. Then we talked about the death birth rate in Africa and we got into talking about birth control and Moh was cracking me up with her comments. Oh and Mr. Schick told us about how he worked on movies like home alone before he was a teacher. I thought that was pretty cool. We have to watch a video and write 2 interesting facts for homework from the video. One interesting fact is India has more honors kids than America has kids. That’s crazy and makes America look really stupid. The second fact is 1 out of 8 couples in the US last year met online. That is just creepy I think. 

Today in human geo we reviewed the twenty five questions we had to answer last night for homework from the CIA factbook website. It was really interesting to see how different some countries are compared to the US. In Zimbabwe only 95% of people have jobs. I think that's crazy but also so interesting to see that other places have it way worse than we do. Also Russia is the largest country by area but they don't have a lot of population because most places in Russia you cant live in. We said it was a "depressing class" because we talked a lot about nuclear bombs and how America is the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb which killed a lot of people. So today was a pretty interesting class period. I like to learn about how other countries are different than ours.