The Arrival Of Two New Turtles In My House

My mother's friend met a person in Ancol who didn't want to keep their turtles anymore, and they wanted to release their turtles in a swamp in Ancol. Of course their turtles cannot survive in the swamp because they are used to being fed and it means that they cannot find their own food. Those two turtles are bigger than my three turtles. My mother's friend asked my mother if I wanted to adopt them and I said yes, because my mother's friend doesn't like the look of their head; they look like snakes. Of course they looked like snakes because they're reptiles, the same like the turtles. I named the biggest one Novie, because she came on November, and the smaller one Emma.

 

From those turtles, I can learn that they have different personalities.

Sam / Samantha: kind, cheerful, friendly, and doesn't like to attack other turtles.

Sol / Solann : likes to attack, has difficulties in making friends, and fierce.                                    

                                                                                                                                                      means sunshine but rarely used.    

At first I thought that those two turtles are male, so I named both of them male names (except Sol, because she's naughty, and I just gave her a not really good name that popped the first into my mind ).

Rainy: likes to play, and can spot things easily.

    

She arrived at my house when it was raining. I adopt it from school, because my school only gave her a small aquarium to live in and with a small space like that she cannot grow well.

Novie: always stays cool and calm, and has no difficulties in making friends.                                                    

Emma: always feels shy with new turtles. While the other turtles play (of course without Sol ), she'll stay alone in the corner. If she's with Novie,she's fine, but with Sam, Sol, and Rainy, she's still shy, although it's less now.

Even if they're the same species, my mom and I noticed that Sam, Emma, and Rainy have slanted eyes, while Novie and Sol have round eyes.

My Writing That Was Chosen By Meddybemps

I want to tell you that when I was 6 years old my story was chosen by Meddybemps. I got a T-shirt, a statement that my story was chosen, and my story back. I wrote the story when I was 5 years old. The story was about a rabbit named Edgar who went to outer space with his friend in a spaceship. My mom sent it to Meddybemps and a few months later I was told that my story was chosen. Here is the picture:

My school principal said that I should stick the t-shirt on the wall, and put my story and statement in one frame, and hang it on the wall. You can read my story here.

My First Rank Trophy

Finally, I am free of my homework, projects, and tests.So it means that I can go back to blog. Here is my newest trophy: 1st rank for my Gloriamus  music school exam grade 3 and then I should play in a special  concert for the ones who got ranks. I'm the youngest in the grade 3 performance. My score is 80 something, but my theory score is not that high about 70 something. Here is the picture of my first rank trophy.

  

My 10th Trophy

Today I joined a piano competition held by Petrof piano house, one of my music course, and I won first prize!  My competitors were all older than me, I am in E-Elementary. The competition for my category was very early in the morning, at 8:30 a.m. So it means that I have to start going from home at around 7:00 a.m. I was sleepy by then. I made some mistakes but it's okay. I played two songs, "Knight Errant" by Friedrich Burgmuller, and "Sonatine Op.36 no.5" by Muzio Clementi. This is the picture of my trophy:

This is the writing on the trophy.

This is me and my teacher Ms. Grace take a picture in front of the poster .

I and Ms. Grace took a picture in front of the grand piano

used in the piano competition. I was holding the trophy and certificate. 

This was me lining up with all of the contestants. The first
three on the left didn't win.

Me with my certificate and
trophy. I'm still sleepy.


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Early Myth of Ancient Egypt

In school, my friends and the principal who became my English teacher now didn't really understand about Egyptian myths. In one of my English book said that the scientists believe that the pharaoh will fly to the space and become a god. My principal thought that maybe it's true, there are gods, and it's a fact. Actually it's not. The Ancient Egyptians made it themselves. It's just made-believe, but they respected it. One of my friend also thought that the pharaoh would really fly to the sky. He had a question "what if the pharaoh didn't really fly to the sky?" when I tried to explain. So I made this poster to explain all about where does the dead pharaoh goes to when they died in the Egyptians believe. And these are the pictures + story about it :

Eating Chicken Intestines and Cow Skin Chips

Did you know that we can eat chicken intestines chips and cow skins chips? I tried them yesterday and today. You might think of those yucky, but it's really yummy, you know! Those are the first time I ate those food. I thought them yucky at first, but it tasted yummy! Here are the pictures of chicken intestine and cow skin chips. I tried the chicken intestines first at the Sup Ikan restaurant, while for the cow skin chips, I bought them in Hypermart Daan Mogot mall.

 

This is how chicken intestines chips look like. Think them yucky? Try some! Here in Indonesia we call it kripik usus ayam.

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And this is the picture of cow skin chips bought from Hypermart. Here in Indonesia it's called Rambak.

Learning in Coursera

From my previous writings about my Coursera certificates, you might wonder about the beginning of  my learning in Coursera. I first knew Coursera from my Mom, and my Mom knew it from one of her friend, who is a science teacher in a school called German School. Coursera is an online course where you can learn anything that your heart desires. When I and my Mom explored the courses in Coursera, we found a course called Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets. I was pretty interested in it, especially when I love history ( at that time I love history, but now I love astronomy too!). So I enrolled in the course, the course was very fun!  That caused me to like Coursera so I enrolled in more courses that I was interested in, mostly about writing, music, and archaeology.

Why do I like Coursera? It's because Coursera offers so many courses that I like. In Coursera, there are two options in some courses of how to take the course. First option is free course, the other one is to take the course with paying. If you pay, the course is still the same only they guarantee that your certificate ( if you pass ) is traceable in their data base . It is called verified certificate, but you must be  at least thirteen years old, for child safety. I was 9 yo last year when I first joined,  so I couldn't join the verified one. I have to wait for several years more.
Now back to me. After the archaeology course, I joined Dino 101, but I failed to get the certificate (I got 77.9 % from a minimum of 80%). It was my fault because that day I joined too many courses at once. So I rejoined it, because I'm interested in dinosaurs too! After I rejoined, I earned 96.7%.

Then, I see more courses and put more and more courses into my watchlist. The watchlist is for the courses that we would like to join next time. After that I joined writing course called Crafting an Effective Writer, Tools of the Traits ( Fundamental English Writing ). I earned 87.6% because my English grammar is not too good.

Because I love music, I joined this course called Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas. The course was still too hard for me, like comparing one Beethoven's sonata to another, what's the difference, that's still too hard for me. So I made maybe two or three mistakes in the quiz of five questions, so I thought I will not get a statement of accomplishment, but I got it! I earned 76.6%. Lucky me.

What is the difference between learning in a school and in Coursera? Absolutely is the freedom! You are free to choose the subject that you are interested and free to manage yourself in the learning process in Coursera. The school is the opposite, because they have fixed subjects and fixed schedule, that maybe don't fit you.

After for a while, I found a course called The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Nubia  It's about archaeology, I joined it, I nearly got 100%, because in almost all of the quizzes I got all correct answers except a quiz that I carelessly answer, so I earned 98.8% with distinction. It is the highest point among all of the four courses that I'd attended.
In my last writing, I showed all of the certificates that I got, but not the Nubia certificate yet.
So here's my certificate:

It looks a bit short because I cropped it.
I hope all of you will enjoy learning in Coursera too. The lessons vary from politics to mathematics. You can share your certificates that you earned with me. Learn well, work hard, then you will achieve something that make you proud either now or in the future.