THIS BLOG IS MADE IN CHINA

So in today's lesson we focused more on products and industry and how the place where goods are manufactured affects it's price. For example a car made in mexico or china would be cheaper than a car made right here in the USA because there is higher demand for work here. Also I learned that Jimmy's dad owns a pretty cool expensive business called window candles that sell beautiful mechanic candles. Wow lets hope Jimmy doesn't disappoint and continue the family business. Pretty cool lesson I say especially cause it was last mod and we talked alot around the class.

RIP MICHAEL DOGLOUS

CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

In today's human geo class we talked about special or maybe not so special facts about countries in the world on the CIA world factbook. It was pretty interesting because I got to learn a lot about different countries in the world for example Fiji is made of over 300 different islands. Crazy things like being forced into the army in Greece and there being only about 2200 people living on Christmas Island. I looked up Antarctica and came to the point that if a world war broke out it would be the safest place to hide if you had proper stations and equipment to survive. This was a pretty interesting class.

REGIONS AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

In to day's Human Geo lesson we learned about how a region on earth is defined by it's culture, language and even religion. Mr. Schick put us into groups and we had to do an exercise on the map of the U.S and how it's divided into regions depending  on how they voted over the last three terms. It wasn't all straightforward with that voting map because in order to place the states in regions the had to be close together unlike Maine and California which are on different sides of the country but both voted for the Democrat in the elections. Also we didn't get to finish our map exercises cause you know time and all that jack so I guess it's off to the next Human Geo lesson.

PERSONAL OPINIONS

In today's class everything started out pretty normal. You know boring old Monday Human Geo class, what could go wrong am I right? Well when Mr. Schick teaches your class I supposed you prepare for the worst. We were just discussing regular matters about the world map and it's regions and all over sudden the point of the discussion took a turning point. For me this made the listen interesting. We started talking about North Korea and it's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and how he was threatening to bomb the U.S. Mr. Schick asked us what we would do in defense and I immediately came up with the brilliant and intricate plan to just thrash North Korea with bombs. I mean who could blame me right? Apparently that wasn't such a good idea since one little misfire could practically start WWIII and all so I guess that's out of the picture. In the end we found out that the smartest way to go about things would be through diplomacy and discussions. Sure take the boring route if that's how you like it. Whatever, this was a pretty good class.

REGIONS

In the last class we discussed regions and why each place on earth is unique in its on way. We didn't do that much because we finished class much earlier so we had time to do what we wanted. Me being the idiot I am didn't take the time to do the blog but you know what..it's okay right? Other than that we went over the maps that Mr.Schick had told us to draw and for the most part I think my map looked...you know...somewhat like the world map to put it in simple terms. After that we wrote some notes on maps and regions which were fairly little and yeah rest of the time was off.

ACTION PLAN

This year I want to accomplish a couple of goals for myself as a freshman. First I want to play for the Junior Varsity soccer team and maybe even start at a point and make a difference in the team. I also want  to try keep my grades up above a D average every quarter. Something I've always wanted to accomplish is to learn how to play football despite my relatively small body size :(. I mean who knows maybe one day I'll be on varsity football (in my dreams). Finally I want to make many friends and have a prosperous year at John Carroll as a freshman.

MENTAL MAPPING

Today we learned about daily routines and routes we take in our day to day lives. Mr. Schick told us how a mental map works and how it is supposed to be made and used. A mental map is someones view of a specific place. This helps us to get the general position of a place we need to go to. Mr. Schick also told us that we should not have a stereotypical view of a place because of what we have heard or seen on TV. He gave the example of the French people who Americans think are very rude but in fact most usually try to be kind and helpful to tourists. At the end Mr. Schick told us to make a mental map of the world and our daily route to and from school. It was a difficult class for sure.