my Winter Vacation

12/20/2012

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               For 2012's winter vacation, it is something I can't wait for because I am going to Laos. This is my very first time going on an air plane, and I am pretty scared. It is going to take three flights: Fresno, CA to Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles to Bangkok, Thailand; and from Bangkok to Vientiane, Laos. I am very anxious to see all my relatives that I have never seen . Plus I can't wait to taste their delicious food. 
               The way I found out was one of the most random ways you can tell anyone that you are going on a amazing trip. When it was time to do my homework, my dad had slipped all of my plane tickets in my laptop. So when I opened my laptop, I was very shocked to see six plane tickets with my name on it. I was very happy that day, especially when I saw the places I was going to be traveling to. 
               Well the first things I am going to do at Laos is eat all I can, take so many pictures, and see all my relatives. I want every little minute to be the best because many people don't have the chance to go on trips like this so I am very thankful for it. 
                 As you can see you know a tad bit about what I am going to be doing this winter vacation. I am very anxious to start exploring Laos for three weeks. I can't wait to take so many pictures, eat the delicious, amazing food, and meet lots of relatives that i didn't know I even had. 
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Griots

12/19/2012

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            In West Africa, they have people storytellers. Those storytellers are called griots and they serve as the living memory for an indivisual, village, or clan. There stories were about history, music, poetry, dance, and drama to capture these memories and then entertain their audiences. Mansa Musa even brought griots on an hajj so they can be oral historians. 
             To be a griot, it takes lots of time and it's actually very hard to study. If I was a griot, I think I'd like being one because I love history and poetry. And 
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China 1212..

12/6/2012

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            Its mid-Fall in China and it's already freezing cold. I look at my hands to see if they can still move. My hands are so cold, I can barely twitch them. I look around me and all I see is the dead, yellow on the field, full of people pulling strong weeds. I wonder when all the fighting between Japan and China is going to end. All of this happened because of Empress Wu. 
             In the late 1190s, a lady named Empress Wu, put China in terror. If you didn't something wrong you were dead. One afternoon, she sliced someone's 
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