In desert and wilderness.

I recently finished reading this book called In desert and wilderness.
This book is about two European descent children who live in Egypt while the Suez canal was being built because their fathers were engineers working on it. The children get captured and are taken through east Africa. They endure many hard ships. I will make a summary of the book right now:


These two children called Stas and Nell lived in Egypt with their fathers. But one day they got kidnapped by some Sudanese and Arabs. These people were faithful to this Mahdi or religious leader who wants to take over the world. But he was only in Sudan fighting the Egyptians. The Egyptians had colonized Sudan because the British had ordered it. The Egyptian government was a protectorate of the British. Stas and Nell rode camel back over desert and jungle to Sudan where they met the Mahdi. The Mahdi asked them to follow him. Stas replied no and The Mahdi ordered them on a journey to another city that was ruled by the Mahdi. The journey was harsh like the desert jouney. When they got there they were told to meet with another Sudanese man named Smain. They went into the jungle to searched for him. When they met a lion the Arabs and the Sudanese did not know how to shoot a new rifle that belonged to Stas. They had took it from him. Stas took the Rifle and shot the Lion then he shot the Arabs and Sudanese. Stas and Nell procided with a Mastiff and two slaves that had belonged too Nell and the Sudanese. They went along through the Eastern Congo. Eating antelopes and whatever game they could find. They also ate fruit. They found an Elephant trapped by rock and tamed him. Nell got a fever and Stas found a Swiss man that had Medicine for fever. The Swiss man then died. Stas blew up the rock and freed the elephant. Stas and Nell found a mountain and went into it it had plenty of provisions. They lived there and sent kites made of paper that the Swiss had given  them and made out of fish bladder membranes. Then they went on eastward towards the Indian Ocean. They passed through many Villages with black people and scared them into submission with guns and the elephant. Then they helped the people of one of their friends( the slaves left over from the Sudanese) Then they got hundreds of men from the village and set of for the coast. But they came to a place where no water was and they soon ran out of water. They almost died. But a kite had been found by a European led caravan. They saved the day. When they had been fed and they drunk water they went to sleep. They met their Fathers on a coastal city for a message had been sent that they were still alive.

THE END

San Diego

We Just got back from a trip to San Diego. It was fun and Educational. Here is what we did and where we went :



                                          First we packed...
                                         
                                   ...Then we went to the Airport..

                        ....Got on the plain and flew to San Diego ( 6 1/2 hours )                                              
             rented a car and got in a hotel. When we woke up we went To the Wild Animal Park.
   The Wild Animal Park was Awesome!!! Here is what we did at it : We walked around The place Eating
food that we had got from Trader Joes. We saw Lots of Animals My favorite was Harris's Hawk. We
saw lemurs,Gorrilas, lots of birds and others. we fed the Parakeets that was fun. But I would have liked it if I had a Leather glove on and Instead of Parakeets there would be Raptors.  Then we got on a Tram
 and went around the The African Safari. There we saw lots of Animals like Giraffes, Antelopes ,
 Wildebeest , Rhinos( One of them was almost extinct It had 7 more Rhinos of its kind ) and A cheetah. 
All around The Park were Cathartes auras or Vultures. They Also had Lions . We went and saw The bird show. Then we went back to our Hotel. We went to Balboa park . It was fun and I got a Swedish flag there. We learned about Balboa. I liked the International houses. We went to The beach and had fun by the Pacific. There was a nice Grassy place to play soccer on . We played there. We also went to the Temple and the Mormon Battalion. We Went to Eat at a healthy Mediterranean Restaurant. We visited some friends. We cooked quail eggs there and Then Packed up . We got food at trader joes.  Then went on the Plane back**. We thought this Flight was going to be canceled Because of the Snowstorm . Most of the Other flights to the East coast were Cancelled. But When we were to land It would be Rainy and windy , no snow. Since Jet-blue did not cancel the Flight to Boston , Many people that were going to New England went on that flight. So it was full. We read books Ate and Watched Sochi. When We landed we got our bags. Then Found out that The bus was not coming. So we Got in a Cab and Drove to a station where our car was Parked. Then got in our car and came home.














                                        *Route : Flew west Through New york , Canada and Michigan To Minnesota,
Flew southwest through South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado And Arizona to San Diego CA. 

 
 **Route: Flew Northeast. When Got to Boston Circled. Much Wind and turbulence. Landed.                                                        

Wind

Wind
Wind is moving air. Here is how it happens:
Wind is caused by the sun . The Sun heats the earth
and the warm air rises. Colder air fills the gap while
the warm air is cooling down . This makes a lot of
moving air which is wind! There are many types of
winds like Jet streams ( are fast moving streams of air
that move in circles around the earth ) , Constant winds
( Winds that are constant . The warm air moves toward
the poles and cools off ) and trade winds ( these winds
move toward the equator. ) 

Wind Energy
Pepole have been using wind as a power source for
ages. The first windmills were in Persia. they were
used for grinding wheat . These don't look like the
European windmills but they looked like eggbeaters.
The modern ones are not for grinding wheat but are
for making electricity. The wind turns the windmill
and a generator makes the movement into electricity.
In wind farm you can see lots of windmills.


Wind Storms
There are many storms made 
by wind like hurricanes and tornadoes 
  
Hurricanes
Are Storms made over hot water . The Hot water heats
the air . Then cold air fills the gap making a small storm
gather over the hot water. The storm grows in power as
it is moving over the hot water and winds fly over it .
When the winds are faster then 73 miles per hour it is a
Hurricane.

5 Over 157 mph
_|____________
4 130-156 mph
_|___________
3 111-129 mph
_|___________
2 96-110 mph
_|___________
1 74-95 mph


Hurricanes can do a lot of damage . When they hit land
they lat out their water as rain and have high winds.
Tornadoes  
Are fast winds in a whirling column .
They come out of thunderstorms . Th
ey can be very destructive . Tornadoes
are measured by something called the
Fujita scale

F0 | weak
F1 | medium
F2 | stronger
F3 | bad
F4 | destructive
F5 | Greatly destroying


Source: Brainpop