Casita Linda presentation.

Some post-graduate students from the most prestigious design school in the U.S.A are in SMA and have thought up a new design for a group called Casita Lindas'(beautiful little house)houses.
The original design of Casita Linda's houses use forms and rebar to make a shell then pour the concrete into the form, however these students have found a new way to make sustainable and cheap houses.
This process that the students think should replace the current one is adobe which is a form of making a house with bricks of dirt and water.
To put those bricks together they use...MUD!
This new process creates a load of benefits for all of us here is a list of them:
1.It doesn't polute like regular bricks, which are fired by burning anything.
2.To have a brick that can be made at their homes and is held together by a mud and lime mix.
3.They can be made really easily.
4.it doesn't need rebar(metal reinforcement).
5.Lastly it doesn't need transportation, removing more air polution.
I'll tell you more when I know more.
Bye!

The Codex Mendoza.

The Codex Mendoza is a 500 year old book created by Aztec scribes, it was created for the king of Spain from the viceroy of New Spain(Mexico)so the king could learn about this newly conquered territory of his.

When the scribes finished the book it was put on a boat to be sent to Spain, when the ship was launched it was attacked by French boats and the book was taken to the king of France's translater, some years later an english official bought the artifact.

When he died the book was given to his son.
Years after he received the book it was given to one of the University of Oxford's many libraries, where it is today.

The Codex Mendoza is a picture book considering that the Aztecs had no written language they communicated by the means of pictures.
So they were sending this book written in pictures to the king of Spain.
You're probably wondering how is the king supposed to read it?

Well before I go into detail about that I should tell you the three ways of reading pictures.

There are pictographs, ideographs and rebuses.
A pictograph is a picture that means exactly what is shown, an ideograph is the idea that the picture conveys and a and a rebus is like word play.

The Aztec books were usually fold out books but the Codex Mendoza was created like our books today and was also made on european paper.
The Codex was divided into three parts, the first part lists the chiefs and conquered towns, the second part was a tribute list of everything the conquered towns had to pay and the third part was a section detailling Aztec daily life such as punishments and the choices that had to be made by the children.

Going into detail about the punishments for all those mean parents out there.

The first is to spike them with spikes of plants, the second is to beat them with sticks and the third is to hold them over burning chilis'.
I don't want to give you too many ideas of how to torture your children so I'll stop there...
Bye!!

Fear(a poem).

Fear is a curfew from which you can't escape.
You live with fear as your enemy until you confront it, question it, talk to it.
When fear is a lion without claws or teeth, unable to attack, that is when you have mastered your fear.
By,
me.

Balloons...Giant balloons.

Today at six in the morning I got up and ready to go...help setup a hot air balloon and launch it with some good friends.

We met up with good friends called Robert and Evelyn and followed to they're proposed launching site.
The first step to setting up a hot air balloon is putting together the basket, you start by removing the basket from the trailer and attaching the bracings and burner(the burner is the engine).The second step is to roll out the balloon material and attach it with the ropes to the basket.
The third step is to have passengers and a trusted pilot.
When the crew where trying to work out who should go then the pilot(Robert) suggested Dad and me go up with him they agreed.
So Dad and me got to go up in a hot air balloon.
It was one of the most amazing things I have done in my life, it was weird seeing all these people from so much higher they looked smaller than toys at that height!
You are probably thinking I saw people like that when I flew on the plane to get here, no I have never seen people so small with so much clarity.
It is just so peaceful up there besides the barking dogs, I felt like I had escaped life and was floating over watching but unable to be seen, touched or heard.
Thats it for now bye!

D.F(mexico city)

Hi guys i am going to tell about a recent trip to Mexico City.

So the other day we went to Mexico City and stayed with Cecile and William in their huge apartment from thursday night to sunday afternoon,while there we went to the Zoo(a sad and amazing experience(I will go into detail later). We went to a very amazing antique market in the zona rosa and we went to a place called xochimilco which is old aztec canals created to supply the city with water and the canals are still there but people have made boat tours on these little raft things that have rooves. There are boats that are selling food and drinks that come beside to and tie their boat to yours(these boats are propeled by a guy with a pole). We had a 2 hour tour that cost 320 pesos(32 usd) around most of the canals. that pretty much concludes our trip to D.F.