The Daily Show: Malala Yousafzai

Check out this interview on the Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart.

Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGL6YY6oMs

My Eid Holiday

My parents and I spent our Eid holiday at Miserah Island. While we drove to the ferry, we listened to two podcasts from Stuff You Missed in History Class. The first one was called the Booth Capacity, and it was about John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who shot Abraham Lincoln, which I have recently learned about at school. The other one was about the Crystal Palace, which I had also learned about at school. After 6 hours of driving, we finally got aboard the ferry. We climbed up the stairs on the second passenger floor of the ferry, and found that it was so noisy from the engine, that we decided stay in the car on the way back. The ferry ride was only 45 minutes long. When we finally arrived, we wanted to stay at the resort, but it was overbooked, even though there hardly seemed to be anybody there, so we ate there and stayed at the Danat hotel instead. When we took a tour, we saw the lost boat and the hidden wadi, but we never found any turtles at the turtle beach or the whale skeleton.

Current Event of the Day: North Korea's Kim Jong-un splurges on luxury goods in bid to strengthen rule

This current event is very interesting. Check it out!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10377154/North-Koreas-Kim-Jong-un-splurges-on-luxury-goods-in-bid-to-strengthen-rule.html

Cady's Political Character

Today, my teacher taught me about political cartoons and how to understand them. At first glance, they just looked to me like adult comics that my parents would read, such as Dilbert. Where the "political" part comes in, they are mostly about politics, such as Obama, Democrats and Republicans, etc. Next, my teacher assigned me to post a political cartoon online, so here it is. Just click on the link below. Enjoy!

Translation: The more obese children we get in America, the harder life gets for them, as well as the National Security. But the Iranian president is just making matters worse!

Best Trip Ever

This morning, we drove to ICEM. (International College of Engineering & Management) First, we learned about First Aid with our classmate, Rima's mom. She taught us that fire fighters will always need a First Aid kit in handy. Each of us got to try out one of the First Aid supplies. I even got to perform CPR!

Me (Blurry face!) performing CPR

Next, we got to ride around in one of the fire engines. It was the Best Ride Ever! We saw two streaks of water from the hoses right outside the window. Awesome! 

All aboard!

Me in the fire engine

Then, we got to play with the hose.

Me playing with the hose

We even got to try out the fire extinguishers, too. There are four different types of extinguishers:

1: Water

2: Foam

3: CO2

4: Powder

We only tried out the foam and water extinguishers, and used both of them up! That was fun!

My first try with the water extinguisher

The Jinn Podcast

I am currently studying about jinn, particularly from an Arab's and Omani's perspective. Speaking of jinns, check out this podcast below for a different perspective.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/05/episode-917-mysterious-universe/