What I have learned in 5th hour.

What I have learned in 4th hour.
Austin Stevens 4th hour
The thing that I learned the most would be the Rwandan genocide, if we never have went over this I would have never learned about the Hutus and Tutsi’s. Before I have no idea that they even existed or that there was even a genocide. With talking about the genocide I learned how brutal the Interahamwe was to the Hutus and the Tutsi, I would have never guessed that they would literally chop them down in the streets with a machete. I also now relies the struggle that the people had to go through and that the UN and other parties were basically useless at times And how Paul had to organize a whole hotel just for Hutus and Tutsi’s just to give them a place to stay so they would not be killed. Also the sacrifice that the people had to make, Paul had to give thousands of dollars to save his family and neighbors in the beginning. Another thing that Paul did was that he had to bribe his Interahamwe friend to gather supplies and not to go in the hotel and take to people away.
Another really interesting thing I learned was the aborigines of Australia. To begin with I never really even know much about Australia, but I got to learn about the aborigines and their traditions. Alone with their of culture I know that the aborigine culture is fading away because less and less aborigines are leaving a urban area and going into cities and not practicing it.
One of the biggest things that I learned was about people’s culture and that many people practice and do things very differently. From South Africa to Australia their all different in different ways. The differences could be from food, religion, and even the way people greet each other can be different. Also it’s not that the way they do things is weird to them it’s just normal.
When we got the Weekly Articles that really helped me understand what was going on, but the margin notes we had to do really broke down the article to me and I’m sure I will definitely use margin notes later on when I’m stuck on an article. Writing the weekly blogs and essays I think really helped me extend my writing. Before I didn’t really know how to “address” an essay, but now when I write one I now think I’m getting better at them and I’m beginning to type it more clearly without clutter. When we had to search for our articles for the Rwandan genocide and other pieces, I can finally figure out the difference between a reliable source and a non reliable source.
When we started talking about the myths I knew some background knowledge from prior reading myths before, but when we had the chance of actually creating one was another story. I could never imagine doing that, it was really hard of thinking about the characters, the plot, and the lesson of the story.
The last thing that I thought I knew pretty well was capitalization and apostrophes. Well I was pretty much wrong. I know now that the apostrophes and capitalization needs to go in a lot of different spots that id imagine and I’m for sure that I will be using them in other pieces of writing.

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Today I was in the computer lab when I didn’t know what to write about, so I started talking to Michael Sudek, Brendan Webberly, and Jon West. We started to talk about Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. We agree that it is one of the best games every created but it has some downfalls. One is that it is WAY to repetitive. When you beat the campaign what do you do play online. Well when you play online all you do is just earn points, get to level 70 and prestige. When you get to 10^th there’s nothing else to do. One of the huge downsides of MW 2 is the nukes. You can get a nuke if u get a 25kill streak, I really hate this because everyone dies and it ends the game. That’s why Assassins Creed 2 is the best game ever created. The campaign can be endless and there are many achievements you are able to get. So when Assassins Creed gets game of the year I’ll be happy.

When I was talking to Michael Sudek he showed me his blog, when he showed me his picture on his recent blog It was disgusting. It was a photo of a guy ankle getting snapped by a Florida player. That brings me to my next topic, NCAA bowl games. One of the best bowl games I saw this year was Central Michigan vs. Troy in the GMAC bowl. My sister goes to CMU so we go to a lot of their games. It’s really a shame that quarterback Dan LeFeiver is a senior and has to leave. He was amazing his years as a quarterback, and maybe he could be drafted by a NFL team. I think he’s got the skill to be in the NFL. The next game I saw yesterday was Alabama vs. Texas. Texas has been on of my favorite teams for a while. Ever since Texas beat USC in the rose bowl with Vince Young, the Longhorns has been one of my teams to watch. I really disappointment was Colt McCoy getting hurt. How would that feel, You’re in the National Championship, you’re a captain, and a leader to the team, and also you’re the senior quarterback and you get hurt and have to sit and watch the rest of the game. I felt really bad for him. But I will say congrats to the Alabama Crimson Tide on winning the nation championship.