swine influenza

Today I want to tell you about the swine influenza that is the most interesting topic in the world.

First, do you know what the influenza is?
It is the influenza of pigs, but it influences to the human and the other animals.
The reason why the pigs get the influenza is the indigestion and fever of pigs.
In a bad case, the other pigs that didn't get the influ were infected by air and food.
The influenza is called as H1N1 now, and WHO that is the organization of health problems is worried about this influ now.

Next, I'm gonna talk about the damage of influ to human,us.
In 1976, the influ was affected to human first in the United States, and as soon as the first victim died, about 500 people got the influ.
But they didn't die because of vaccine that is great for the influ.
Do you know why does the influ affect the human in these days?
I think it is the bad environment of the countries/water.
In this time, the first victim found in Mexico , April 2009.
And soon about 100 people died in Mexico area, and the damage of it became bigger and bigger.
So more than 8000 people were affected by it in the world, and the influ affected the people in Japan.
Today, a man who was 55 year old man died in Queen which is located in NY.
He was the 6th human that died by the influ in the United States this year.
I was afraid about it, when I heard that news.
I will back to Japan during the summer vacation, but we won't be careless in NY and also Japan.

I think the volume of victim has limit to use, so may be the victim will disappear in the near future.
The government of the world should find the other way to stop the influ.
And we should take care ourselves for example, washing our hands when the lunch time.
If the countries in the world will not find the new way, maybe the population in the world will decrease so quickly, so we should decide the new plan for our healthy feature!!

Day trip

The 9th grade students went to Natural History Museum for day trip last Thursday.

The museum is located next to the central park in New York city and on that day many other school's students came to the museum may be for the same reason.

That was the 2nd time to visit the museum.
Last time I went to there with my parents 2 years ago.

In the morning, I walked around with about 6 students and a teacher.

The museum was so big and it was a long walking for us, so we got tired soon.

But the teacher told about some information about the traditional things and the animals.

My favorite part of the museum was the cornerthat introduce about the mammal in Africa and the traditional things of native Indians.

Some of the mammal were a little small but most of them were too big to see and I was surprised about the size of them and the characteristics of their lives.

And also there were some interesting things about Ainu that is the kind of traditional Japanese group such as the instruments of them and the weapon.

In the afternoon, we broke up into groups for the geography project.

We should research the animals or things that represent the five themes of geography that are movement, region, location, interaction and place.

I thought the project was easy to find before started researching.

But the researching with group members was a little hard, because we couldn't correct the things from the same area and we had a hard time to find the place that shows these things.

As a result we got much of information about the project!!!

We found the bone of mammoth and some strange birds that live in New York.

I haven't get the result of the project yet, so I don't know about it, but I was satisfied with the final draft of the project.

Walking the large museum made us tired, but that was a great time to study the mechanism of our lives and to spend a time with my friends and teachers.

I'm not sure about the next year's day trip where will we go, but may be I will be able to enjoy ourselves next year.

Preparation!!!!

Today I want to talk about the preparation for the athletic day.
We have an athletic day on this Wednesday, that is why I write this blog today.
We have the 2athletic days on September and May, and this is the 2nd time to participate in the event.

There are some differences between the 2athletic days.
First, the day on September is called field day and we play volleyball, soccer and basketball.
But the athletic day on this week is like a real athletic day such as the sports event in Japan.
We compete with the other team"s members by running, mock cavalry battles and relay.

The main thing of the day is the cheering up ourselves.
The theme of this athletic day is Musical!!!!!
So the leaders of each group think choreography for a month.
We practice the dance after school and during the study hour for the competition.
Most of the groups dance with some interesting songs that are related to the musicals.
My group members dance with a Japanese song called "Kibun↑↑" and two English song called "you can't stop the beat" and "We're all in this together".
I knew all of the songs, so it is so fun to dance with them.
We had a practice in this morning from 7:30, so I had to wake up earlier than usual.
It is a little hard thing to get up early, but I practiced about for 20minutes with 25 group members.
Maybe I have a practice during today's study hour, and I will do my best for the day.
I can't learn the choreography quickly, but my seniors helped me to learn.
So I could understand how to dance, and I want to say thank you for helping for me!

I am so exiting to greet/reach the performance day of the athletic day on this Wednesday!!