Chansen's Blog

I will be writing about my trimester 3 portfolio. The last portfolio of the school year. Some of the work I am proud about is mostly from Social Studies. The first is I got an A on my vocabulary test and another is getting an A of my Japan research project. On that project, I talked about Kendo. I am also proud of my Haiku poem which I thought I wouldn’t get an A on. Next, I will be talking about Language Arts. One thing I’m proud about is that on all of my Book talks I got an A on it.

I am also proud that I held an A in Japanese though out the whole trimester. Also, I have an A in every resource class there is. These are all of the things I am proud about from trimester 3 and I look forward to writing more edu blog post next school year.

 This my Social Studies project

 

Today I will be talking about my blogs audit. I was able to do 6 posts over the 10 week period. The post I enjoyed writing the most was My first Kendo tournament because it was fun to tell people how it was. I used Google the most for my primary tools because I could look up pictures and information. I also used my own pictures for a certain post.

The plan for my blog is to keep blogging. I will still mainly talk about kendo and write a free post. I received no comments from any students nor teachers. I also participated in 6 weeks worth of blogs. This is my blogs audit and I hoped you enjoyed!

 

Today for my free post I will be talking about my ethnicities. I have exactly 4 ethnicities. I will be talking about what culture it is and if I get it from my mom or dad. My first ethnicity is Okinawan. I get Okinawan from my mom’s side of the family. Her mom my grandma, is from Okinawa. She first moved to O’ahu in 1971 when she was thirteen and later met my grandpa. Okinawan is similar to Japanese and is often just referred to as Japanese. Many foods here in Hawaii is of Okinawan origin. The next ethnicity is Japanese. I also get this from my mom’s side. Her dad my grandpa is Japanese. My Great great grandpa, my grandpa’s grandpa was born Yamaguchi Prefecture Japan. He was adopted by his cousins the Nakamuras adopted him. That’s why my last name is Nakamura. His original last name was Ueda.

The next two ethnicities I get from my dad. The first is Portuguese. My dad’s dad is Portuguese. The other is Hawaiin. I am around 85% Asian, 16% Portuguese and 4% Hawaiin. Most of my cousins on my mom’s side live in Okinawa or in Japan. From my dad’s side, my cousins live on O’ahu. That is all four of my ethnicities and where I get it from. I hope you enjoyed my post!

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I will be talking about the country I live in, America. America is one of the most well-known countries. The population in America is about 328,348,166. Some famous landmarks in America are the statue of liberty, Yellow stone national park, and Mount Rushmore. The capital of the United States of America is Washington D.C. America’s current president is Donald Trump. Every 4 years a new president is elected but, if the president runs again he might win. After 8 years of being president, you are not able to run again.

The flag of the United States of America is called “Old Glory” or more commonly known as “The star spangled banner”. On the top-left of the flag, there are 50 stars each representing a state. Surrounded by it there are 13 stripes. The most common language in America is English followed by Spanish.

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Links

https://www.loveexploring.com/gallerylist/70858/34-of-americas-most-important-landmarks

https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States

Today I will be talking about my first Kendo tournament. The tournament was hosted by Kenshikan Kendo club and the same dojo my friend Vincent trains at. I arrived at 8:30 Am and waited for my sensei to arrive. Then when he arrived with the rest of the people from my dojo that entered in the tournament we found a spot to put all of our equipment down and we did some stretches. Around 9:00 we all went to the front of the gym and we had a Shinto blessing before the start of the tournament.

When the tournament started the novice division started first and demonstrated techniques than we had the young kids division. That division had a name but I forgot what it was. The division I was in was called the Shonenbu which has kids from 12 to 14 years old. I was the first person in my division to fight a shiai. My opponent was Zachary from Seibu kan dojo. I ended up losing the match because my opponent was really good. The last match I fought in was the team match. I was the second fighter on my team which is called a Jiho. But what made it difficult was my opponent was an adult. I almost got a good strike on him but he evaded and hit me. My Sensei was able to draw the last match but our dojo still lost. I really liked the experience and will surely enter the next tournament.

  That’s me on the left and Zachary on the left

http://hawaiikendofederation.org/

http://kenwakai.org/regulations.htm

The instrument I will be talking about is the Accordion. The Accordion is a block-shaped musical instrument belonging to the keyboard family and was invented in the early 1900s somewhere in Europe.  On one side of the Accordion, there are buttons or keys depending on the type, and on the other side, there are buttons that control the way air goes through the reeds. In the middle of the Accordion, there are the bellows. Bellows are made from either cloth or paper depending on the craftsmanship.

The other thing I will be talking about is a famous music artist. I decided to pick the famous song composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was born January 27, Salzburg, Austria and died December 5, Vienna, Austria. Mozart is often considered as one of the best composers of western music along with Hayden and Beethoven. In Mozarts lifetime he wrote 7 operas and many famous songs.

 

 

Links

https://www.biography.com/people/wolfgang-mozart-9417115

https://www.millersmusic.co.uk/crucianelli-48-bass-italian-made-accordion

Resource

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart

I had Thursday Kendo again at Myohoji Kendo. We as always start out with warming up and than Suburi (practice swings). After that, we paired up and did our standard Kendo Kihon Waza. After that, we put our Men (helmet) on and did Uchikomi Geiko. Uchikomi is were when somebody opens up and you have to strike the instant they open up. Around 7:40, we started Jigeiko which is free fighting. At 8:00 we were told to line up and we concluded class.

  My Men (helmet) and Kote (wrist guard)