Bio

My name is Halimat Ismaila, I'm from Nigeria, Africa. I live in small home with my mother, father, little brother, and three of my cousins. When I was 15 my family took in my three cousins because their parents couldn't afford to feed them. I was born in Nigeria, Africa, January 31st, 1984. My father is a taxi driver and is gone most of the day, my mother is a nanny and stays at home to do house work. She cooks our food, cleans the house, does the wash, and while she's doing all that she watch's three kids form our town. My brother and I have been home schooled becuase we didn't have enough money to send both of us. After a while my parent's saved up and let me go to Asero High School.

When I was younger kids from my neighbor hood and I, use to have races to see who could run the fastest from one end of the street to another. I always won but sometimes my best friend, Nkoyo, would win or we would tie. Her family had more money than us, so she went to school when she was young to. My favorite thing to do was to run, I could run and run forever until I ran out of breath. In high school I was on the track team and our school always placed good anywhere from 5th to 1st. At one of my track meets, I was told that a scout was there to watch me run. After my meet the scout wanted me to go train at his gym and he even offered me a scholarship. I declined his scholarship to stay behind and help out around the house but I did tell him I would love to train with him at his gym. After months of training he took me to the 2008 Olympics and I ran the 100, 200, and 400 meter race. He was so happy with me that I'm going to the 2012 Olympics in London, you have no idea how excited I am!

Feedback

Doing the video was easy, yet very difficult. It was difficult because you could only do a 2 minuet video and  had to get rid of a lot of my scenes to make it all fit. I understood it a lot easier doing something like this and because I read it on Sparknotes in modern english. I like taking test, like we did for Of Mice and Men, but it was also fun to do all these other activities for the book.

olympics

If I could be in any Olympic event it would be track because I love running and it is like my life. I feel like I could actually win a medal maybe not gold but possibly a bronze. Another event would be basketball, I played 3 years and I think it's really fun. It would be amazing to be in the Olympics and just to have the experience of being in it or even watching them in person would be cool. The Olympic's don't mean much to me other than a couple events; I watch a certain events here and there but the summer olympics are a little better than the winter even though they are both pretty entertaining. I believe the Olympics represent a lot! Some of those things are culture, it brings people together, and friendship. Culture because it brings different types of cultures together where everyone can experience it and see how different people experience the Olympics, act at them, or how they prepare themselfs for it. They bring people together because it brings together different countries and it stops any wars or fights between countries while they are at the olympics and they don't fight as a nation (other than for the gold medal). They represent friendship because by bringing the nation together they also support one another, makes everyone equal, and normally when the countries are there they make friends and one of the ring's/colors represent friendship which will be gained at the Olympics.

Movie

If I were Xiaochun, I would have kept playing. If I couldn't have convinced my "dad" to stay and let me take lessons with someone else; even if they were cheaper. If we couldn't afford living there or the lessons I would have still gone back with him and even kept playing. When he found out that his "father" wasn't his real dad and it happened to me, I would have gotten upset but I would still love him as my true father and lived with him. The decision he made by leaving the night before the recital was a bad idea. He could have at least stayed until after then even before he played begged for his dad to stay until it was over or taken a train after the recital was over.
Some of the pros for the decision was that he got his family, he found out the truth about his life and is happy, also that he let that one girl preform instead of him. Some cons would be that he would never find out if he could have actually made it to be famous and he wasted a lot of money on lessons when he didn't fall through with his plans.

Weekly Blog: Netwons Laws Vs. Daily Life

Newtons Laws can relate to daily life in many, many ways. Some of those ways are, if you were to take a sharp turn in a car your body is still moving the forward direction and when you suddenly turn you bang your head on the back of the seat again, if you jump on a trampoline and push down and the trampoline pushes back up with an equal force in the opposite direction, and a common one is one you roll a ball, its gonna keep rolling unless you stop it.
I'm not exactly sure how Newtons Laws relate to Social Studies but I know there are some ways it relates to Romeo and Juliet. Those things are when Romeo sits in his room or anyone sits down or lays in bed, it causes a one of the Newtons Laws and in the first Act scene 1, the sword fight between the two different castles also has something to do with Newtons Laws.