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La Ciudad de Durham

LA CIUDAD DE DURHAM

Soy David y tengo 11 años. Yo vivo en Durham y me encanta jugar videojuegos. También, me gusta ir a la playa. Voy a hablar de las actividades de Durham. 

Primero, en Durham tú puedes visitar el Museo De La Vida y La Ciencia. Tú puedes hacer experimentos, comer en el restaurante, aprender sobre ciencias y ver animales. ¿Te gusta aprender sobre ciencias? ¿Te gusta hacer experimentos?

Segundo, en Durham tú puedes visitar Los Jardines de Sarah P. Duke. Tú puedes observar flores y ver peces. También, tú puedes tomar fotos y caminar. ¿Te gusta ver peces? ¿Te encanta tomar fotos?

Tercero, en Durham tú puedes visitar el Estadio de Béisbol de los Toros de Durham. Tú puedes observar un juego de béisbol: ¡Un juego de béisbol es muy divertido! Además, tú puedes comprar recuerdos, comer comida, y hablar. ¿Te gusta ver un juego de béisbol? ¿Te fascina comprar recuerdos?

Cuarto, tú puedes ir al Museo de Arte de Nasher. Tú puedes observar pinturas, tomar fotos, ver esculturas, y observar monumentos. ¿Te gusta observar pinturas? ¿Te gusta ver esculturas?

Finalmente, en Durham hay muchos edificios, museos, y teatros. Asimismo, Durham tiene universidades, jardines, y estadios de béisbol. Yo pienso que Durham es una ciudad muy bonita, interesante, colorida, y divertida. ¿Te encanta visitar Durham? 

 




My Field Trip

Last week, my class went on a field trip to The Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina. The buses we rode on were holiday travel buses. They had plushy seats and were very tall. The other cars looked like cookie crumbs! Once we got there, the first thing we saw was the skeleton of a blue whale. The jaw of it was the size of a car! After that, we went up an escalator and saw a pool of fishes. It happened to be the exact time that the museum staff were feeding the fish. We watched as the museum staff would put pieces of food on long metal sticks and slowly lower them into the water. The fish would swim up and snap the food off the stick in a very sudden motion. It was so fast, you could hardly see it! 

Next, we went to an exhibit on climate change. There were many interactive models that we could play with to help us understand how humans were damaging the environment and how we could help fix it. We then walked to an animal exhibit. There was a miniature model forest with animals hidden around it. They were hiding in between the leaves and camouflaged in the ground. The longer you looked, the more you saw! Then, we gaped at the colossal dinosaur exhibit. Their heads soared into the sky! It was amazing that such a large animal could ever have walked the Earth. 

Penultimately, we had lunch outside. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Finally, we went back inside to an eye-opening RACE exhibit. There were many beautiful and informative posters. They combined color and words to make a spectacular and captivating billboard. One thing that I learned from that exhibit was medical racism. I hadn’t been aware of medical racism before I went to that exhibit. Overall, the race exhibit enhanced my knowledge on the topic and gave me useful tips on how to stop racism in the future. 

After that, we left the museum. The experience was quite enjoyable and educational for me. I got to see live animals eating and living in their natural habitat. I saw models of ancient dinosaurs and skeletons of massive blue whales. I would recommend the Museum of Natural Sciences to anyone who loves nature and science. 

My Current Book

Credit for image: Sora

This January I started reading a book called The False Prince. I have loved it so far because its plot is captivating and suspenseful. An orphan called Sage and two other orphans are bought by a wealthy noble for a mysterious reason. The False Prince was written by Jennifer A. Nielsen. It is the first book in a quartet. I picked up this book because it was one of the five books my librarian recommended to my class. I had already read the first four and had thoroughly enjoyed them, so naturally I read this book as well.

In my language arts class, we were discussing window and mirror books. A window book is about a story that you do not relate to. A mirror book is about a story that you can relate to. This book is a window book for me because I am not an orphan and I am not living in a medieval time period. One interesting thing that I notice is that I typically read window books and not mirror books. This could be because I enjoy reading fantasy and adventure books and most of those books are window books to me. I am on track to finish this book soon. 

 

EAT MORE CHICKEN,

David