Here is a survey that I filled out for a friend... now you to can know the 'real' me-

Name:: I really like the name Bobby Joe Y.Jung.
Age:: 10 years younger than God

B-Day:: May 25, 1149 BC
Place of Birth:: Fort Campbell TN.
Current Location:: Canberra, Australia 
Faves:
Color:: Dark blue, black, Dark green.
Fast Food:: Taco Bell
Restaurant:: Red Robin
Animal:: Wolverine
Instrument:: Soprano Sax
Book:: An Australian series called Ranger's Apprentice.
T.V. Show: The Lone Ranger (I have a thing for rangers)  

Movie:: Movie?? No one has only one favorite movie (except those freaks in those fan clubs). LOTR 3, Pirates 2, and X-Men 3

Actor/Actress:: Again no one has only one favorite actor/actress. Viggo Mortensen (LOTR), Johnny Depp (Pirates), Hugh Jackman (X-Men)

Singer:: Larry the Cucumber.

Group:: Of what??? Be more specific (say in a British accent)J
Holiday:: Groundhog day, I mean what is better than waiting for that cute little ground hog...while holding a shotgun.
Season:: The Dead of winter (could be a good movie).

Month:: May
Day:: Friday (the complete opposite of Monday [I hate Mondays]).
Time of Day:: 12:01 am
Form of Potato: semi-oblongish
Cereal:: Fruity Pebbles
Cats or Dogs:: Actually the movie is called Cats and Dogs

Movies or Music?: Movies
Pool or Ocean?: Ocean or pool? Ocean, even if you sometimes don’t get out of the water.
Mall or Target?: Mall

Day or Night?: Night
Long Relationship or One-Night Stand?: Long relationship
Mountains or Beach?: I love them both, BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like the mountains better.
Silver or Gold?: Silver? Gold? Silver? Gold? Silver? How about $CASH$?
Camp or Fancy Hotel?: Lets see, sleeping in a bag with 50 rocks under you, freeze dried food & a porta potty, or, sleeping in a Goose down bed with a TV, room service & a bathroom, which one, which one, (long pause)…………  I choose camping!!
Laugh or Cry?: LJL
Take Pix or Having Pix Taken?: Take ‘em but never give them back.
Rain or Shine?: Rain (if all the rain drops were lemon drops and gum drops oh what a rain that would be) .

COOL QUESTIONS
If you were invisible, where would you go?: Where would any smart person go if they were invisible?..... A bank vault. Duh!
Who or What is the greatest threat to mankind?: Magneto, Lex Luthor, Joker, the Green Goblin, box jellyfish pick one.
How long does it take you to get ready?: For what?

If you could invite 3 people, living or dead, to
dinner who would they be?: George Washington, Batman, and the inventor of dirt (aka Bobby Joe Y.Jung).
What color doesn't look good on you?: Skin

Two fave pizza toppings are... Pepperoni and chocolate syrup
How many states have you been to?: 46 out of 50. And 9 other countries besides the US.
On a scale of 1-10, how pretty/handsome are you?

Are you kidding me? Definitely 10, no questions asked dude

Fave thing about being sick?: I enjoy the whole headache, stomachache, fever, etc…experience .
How many bones have you broken?: The question is really, How good do I look in a cast!
Whose mind would you like to control?: A Mimes'

What's the worst movie you've ever seen??: X-Men 3, Pirates 2, LOTR 3...psych!!! 

That’s all folks!

This is a highly educational video on King Tut. It is short and you may learn a thing or two- go ahead... watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eva3IhNjvw 

Hey everybody, the Youth Sail Squad at the YMCA is hosting a youth sail day. It's free, so just come along and hang out. It's from 11:00 to 4:30 but just come on down whenever you can make it. There will be a sausage sizzle, and you can sail. I'll take you out for a ride!~Devon

This is not school related at all... but we are a Star Wars family here and we think this video and song about Anakin are just GREAT. We haven't watched any of the other videos on this site- there might be some that are not nice.

Be sure to ask your parents if you can click to see this video. We hope you think it's funny too!

If you like Star Wars- you’ll like this video ~ Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ttidEl0gXU 

http://www.colinbuchanan.com.au/a/40.html

You can go here and down load a song written to say good bye to Steve Irwin. You can read the words on the site as well.

I really liked to watch the crocodile hunter do his thing. He was fun to watch and I learned a lot from his shows. I am sad that our family did not make it to his zoo before now, we were really looking forward to our chance to see him in person.

I am sad for his wife and his children and for the rest of his family and all his friends. I hope he knew Jesus as his Lord and that he is resting up in Heaven now.

Now, we are in a Christmas ornament exchange. It should be fun. We are making ornaments based on our favorite children’s books. I think we are making one dozen. They are fun to work on, but it will be more fun to get the ones from other people in the mail.  

Speaking of the mail. My dad brought me home a huge stack of postcards last night. It has been so fun to see where they are all coming from and to read the little bits of information about each place or family. I show them all to Teddy and Kit and they like the pretty pictures.

I love to get mail! We just mailed a box to one of our friends back home. We try to mail a box to a different family each month but I think we have only done 6 or 7 since we have been here. We like to send a “taste of Australia” to everyone. We put in a book from here that we love, cookies, candy, a dishtowel, money, a deck of playing cards and a score sheet (we play lots of cards) ,vegemite (so gross) and sometimes a few other things too.

It was really cool checking out how the Crayfish was assembled. It's amazing how complex the organs and everything are. How can some people even THINK that they are here just by chance and evolved from ooze. It only takes a glance to know that something (duh- GOD) had to give order and purpose to everything!

Canberra Youth Music Wind Symphony wins double Gold twice in New Zealand

By Katina Curtis                                      

The Canberra Youth Music Wind Symphony and its 50 players aged 11 to 21 have just returned from a very successful tour of New Zealand where the band won gold in every section it entered in both the Dunedin and Auckland music festivals.

One of the pieces the Wind Symphony performed in the festivals was ‘Magnetic – Fanfare for Band’ by Iain Grandage. This was written especially for the group on a commission from the Australia Council for the Arts, and the festival in Dunedin was its premiere.

This was the first international tour for the Wind Symphony, CYM’s senior wind group. The band was accompanied by eight parents and conductor Jim McMullen.

The tour started with the band leaving Canberra at an uncomfortably early hour that most of them thought should not exist on Friday 4 August. They flew into Dunedin where they performed with a band from Kavanagh College.

The following day Wind Symphony performed in the entertainment and festival sections of the South Island section of New Zealand’s National Concert Band Festival. They were awarded Gold for both performances.

The band travelled north to reach Auckland the following weekend for the second half of the band festival. A highlight for many band members was a performance at the Rotorua Intermediate School where they got an excited response from the crowd.  The two groups bonded both before and after the concert with basketball, games of musical statues and even an impromptu Haka.

Another highlight was a workshop with Owen Clarke conductor of the New Zealand Air Force Band in Wellington. “It was interesting seeing the different perspective of another conductor, particularly with his influence on the jazz pieces,” commented lead alto saxophone Ben Curtis.

In Auckland the Wind Symphony was again awarded Gold for both its performances; one of only three bands in their 17-strong section to be awarded gold.

Conductor Jim McMullen was exceptionally pleased with the band’s performance at both Dunedin and Auckland. He said, “The band has grown in stature throughout the tour and the Gold awards are a recognition for their hard work over the past few months. Results of this calibre have given the band an International profile and they have already been invited to attend the prestigious Pacific Basin Festival. A fantastic result all round” 

Canberrans have an opportunity to hear the award winning group at ‘Bands in Concert’, CYM’s annual dinner concert, on 16 September where they will perform some works from the New Zealand tour including the special commission.  

I am in a traveling Stanley group. We make a traveler (mine is a bear) and send it on to spend a month with another family, after that month they forward him on to the next family. That goes on for about 7 months and then my Stanley will end up back at my house. It should be cool. Each family will add information & pictures of their time visiting with Stanley.  Our first traveler just arrived and we already took him to the Embassy and had his picture out front, to the Parliament house and to a flower garden (it's nearly spring). We are going to have so much fun collecting pictures of our visitors each month! I can't wait to read about the adventures that my Stanley has.

I am doing a post card exchange with 48 other families. It's cool. You buy postcards from your area and put a little information about where you live and then mail them to everyone. The fun part is when we get all 47 postcards from other places. It's fun to look at the map and see where they came from and to learn a few facts about each place.

Here is the information that I am putting on our postcards:

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. It is located 2 hours inland and 3 hours south of Sydney. Canberra is a planned city that was designed by an American. The city has many biking and hiking trails, tons of parks and lots of outdoor activities for families to take part in. There are about 300,000 people that live in the ACT (AU capital territory) We are blessed to be able to see kangaroos off our back deck EVERY single day and a plethora of amazing & colorful birds as well!   Canberra is a wonderful city to live in and we are enjoying our time here thoroughly!

Addison Lupton

Four-Card Golf

A standard 52-card pack is used, and the number of players could in theory be from two to around eight or more, though the game is said to be best for about four. With a large number of players, say eight or more, two packs may be shuffled together. The deal and play are clockwise.

The dealer deals four cards to each player, one at a time. Each player's cards are to be arranged face down in a square. The remaining undealt cards are placed face-down in the centre of the table to form a drawing stock. The top card of the stock is turned face up and placed beside the stock to start the discard pile. Before play begins, each player may look once at the two nearest cards of his or her square layout, without showing them to anyone else. After this, the layout cards may not be looked at again until they are discarded during play or scored at the end of the play.

The Play

The player to the dealer's left begins, and the turn to play passes clockwise. At your turn you must either draw the top card of the face-down stock, or draw the top discard, or knock to cause the play to end.

• If you draw a card, you may use it to replace one of the four cards of your layout, but you are not allowed to look at any of your layout cards before deciding which to replace. You place the drawn card face-down in your layout, being careful to remember what it is, and discard the card that previously occupied that position, putting it face-up on top of the discard pile. It is then the next player's turn.
• If you draw a card from the stock and decide that you do not want to use it in your layout, you may simply discard the drawn card face up on the discard pile, and it is then the next player's turn. However, if you choose to take the discard, you must use it to replace one of your layout cards - you cannot simply put it back on the discard pile, leaving the situation as it was.
• If you knock, you do nothing else in your turn. Each of the other players in order has one more normal turn (in which they draw a card from the stock or discard pile but cannot knock) and then the play ends.

Scoring

At the end of the play, each player's square of four cards is turned face-up and scored as follows.

• Each numeral card scores face value (Ace=1, Two=2, etc.)
• Each Jack or Queen scores 10 points.
• Each King scores zero points.

The player who has the lowest cumulative score after nine deals wins.

These are some really cool trees that we saw this week! We wish you could have been with us- but this is the next best thing... right?!

We have been studying about Noah and the Flood in our history study.

The date for the rise of civilizations in modern history books is around 3,000 B.C. which is about the time Noah got off the Ark. Noah was 600 years old when the Flood came. Methuselah was 969 years old when he died. Noah’s sons were, Japheth, Shem, and Ham.

Ham’s son Canaan was cursed by Noah (Gen 9:25) Ham’s descendants: Canaanites, Philistines, Amorites, Egyptians, Libyans and Ethiopians. Nimrod, Ham’s grandson who was a mighty hunter and leader, built the cities of: Babel, Calah or Nimrud, Ninevah. Ham’s descendents settled lower Middle East and Africa

Shem blessed by Noah (Gen 9:26) Shem’s descendants: Persians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syrians and Jews. They settled in the Middle East and Asia.

Japheth blessed by Noah (Gen 9:26) Japheth’s descendants: Gauls (France), Scythians, Medes, Greeks and Iberes (Iberian Peninsula –Spain & Portugal) Settled in Europe.

A lot of People think that Noah’s ark is on Mt. Ararat in Turkey. We listened to a C.D. by Diana Waring when she interviewed Bob Cornuke who is a Christian Researcher/ explorer/Indiana Jones dude. He used to be a police investigator. He uses his investigating skills to search for clues. He thinks that Noah’s ark isn’t on Mt. Ararat in Turkey but on Mount Sabalan in modern day Iran.

Firstly, because if you look in the NKJV it says “Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.”

Secondly, it couldn’t be Mt. Ararat in Turkey because the NKJV says “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.” The land of Shinar is the region of ancient Babylon in Mesopotamia, part of modern Iraq. Mt. Ararat in Turkey is North and West of Shinar, not to the East like the Bible says. Mount Sabalan is in the East. But that doesn’t make it the mountain the Noah landed on.

Thirdly, there is an eyewitness account from a Soldier of WWII who says he saw Noah’s ark. He was staying with an Iranian family and they said on night “Noah’s ark is in our country, and we know where it is.” they took him to a Mountain where he saw a huge boat broken in half, with some of it sticking up out of the ice. If you go to this website http://www.noahsarksearch.com/iran.htm  you can see the drawing he made (and find lots of other information as well) . This doesn’t exactly make it the Mountain Noah landed on. But we are getting close.

Fourthly, Mt. Ararat in Turkey is not surrounded by any mountains at all it is a loner. The NKJV says “And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.” Mount Sabalan in Iran is surrounded by other mountains, it is the tallest mountain in the surrounding area, but it is second highest to Mt. Ararat in Turkey.

Fifthly, Mr. Bob Cornuke was exploring in Iran around Mount Sabalan. He was talking with some Iranian scholars in a university and asked them did this area used to be called Uratu (which is Ararat in Syrian) and they said yes. He asked them if they knew what the name for the mountain was before, and they said “Bar-jon-card” ( I can’t find the spelling on that but that’s what it sounds like. I am still researching for more information and will update when I find it). Which directly translated means “This is the Mountain that Noah landed on”. This makes Mt. Sabalan a very likely spot for Noah’s ark.

                                                  sitting here                                                             

fingers working like this....

playing this song.

It is a little hard because the time signature is 4/4 and there are 4 notes per beat And it's Allegro. So, it's a pretty fast song. It's getting there though. My mom likes it a lot. (Of course she does, she's my mom right?!)

     In school we are doing a study called ENGLISH FROM THE ROOTS UP. It’s Greek and Latin words that are root words which make up many modern day English words.

     There are flash cards with the root word (Greek or Latin) on the front and on the back there are the words derived from the root. Here are a couple…

Tele (Greek) far away, distant-

television (visum (Latin) see) -seeing distant things.

Graph (Greek) to write or draw-

photograph (photos (Greek) light)-picture drawn by light.

Phone (Greek) sound-

telephone (Tele (Greek) far away)-sound from far away.

Sonus (Latin) sound-

sonar- device that hears sound under water.

Photos (Greek) light-

photophilia (philia (Greek)-love)-love of light.

Pyro (Greek) fire-

Pyrotechnician (Techne-(Greek) work, skill) - one that is skilled with fireworks.

There are a lot more words, 100 in all, and derivations. It’s a great study and it is helping us with our vocabulary. 

“Derivation comes from the Latin words de- down from, away from + rivus- brook, stream. So, literally, a derivation would be a drawing off of water from a main stream. When we speak of words as “derivations” we are drawing off some of that ancient mainstream ( or ROOT) meaning and putting it to use in our modern English language.”

Today we did Maps/Mapping and Art Appreciation in our World History study.

We made maps to show where the Fertile Crescent is located. Archeologists believe that's where the "cradle of civilization" or earliest man came from, and maybe the Garden of Eden was there. The Fertile Crescent is between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers which run through current day Iraq, Syria and Turkey.  

We looked at Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel to see what his idea of Creation was. It took him 4 years to paint the ceiling. That's a long time to be on your back! He used candles on his forehead to paint by.

We aso listened to "The Creation" Oratorio by Franz Joseph Hayden.  An Oratorio is a musical play based on a Bible story or scripture. Hayden composed "The Creation" while in Austria in 1795.

We also a read the first 9 chapters of Adam and His Kin. This is a great book! It is a made-up story that adds to the first several chapters of Genesis. The author uses a lot of historic references, scientific and archeological facts to round out the stories from the Bible making this like a book.

I have Kit sitting at the table like a good student. She always sits straight and does all of her homework. I am in one of my Laura Ingalls dresses and my new bonnet.

We just started a world history study.

Today we have - "Stone-age man" vs. Creation

Alright, first we have 35,000 years of "Stone-Age Man". Man supposedly didn't know about metal for thousands of years until about 4,000 B.C. They had to have stone tools and weapons. And when their brains finally got big enough, they found out about metal. Right? That's how they teach it in evolution.

Then, we have the Biblical point of view. Tubal-Cain was the 8th generation from Adam. (We're talking about Adams 7th grandson). He was an INSTRUCTOR of all Craftsmen who worked with bronze and iron. This means that he wasn't the first guy to do it. Do you know what bronze is? Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. Do you know what this means? They had to find a copper vein, take the copper from it's ore, smelt & refine it, and then mix it with tin. And they used iron, which is one of the most difficult metals to reduce from it's ore! No stone tools here.

Now back to "Stone-age man"... "Stone-age men" were supposed to be hunter-gatherers. This means that they moved around and they hunted for their food, they didn't live in a city. For 35,000 years no one lived near each other in groups larger than family size?!

Cain who was Adam's son, built the first city. Of course it couldn't be as big as New York City, obviously, because there weren't that many people in the world yet. But can you imagine what is needed to build a city? First, you have to plan the streets, water, and houses. You would have to build the houses with walls and roofs to keep out the rain and cold.

"Cave-men" definitely had no time to for musical instruments. Music is a very complex art form; not something that can be grasped by a simple-minded "cave-man" who can't speak and who draws pictures on a cave wall. (very badly I might add)

Now Jubal, who was Tubal-Cain's brother, was the first musician. This means he made the first musical instruments, he also had to think up notes and scales to some degree. Can you imagine the technological advancement needed in making a musical instrument? I mean I've played the piano since I was 6, and I wouldn't even know where to start to make a piano much less thinking up notes and scales.

When God created man he created him ready to go; He created man perfect so he could use all of his brain and all of his abilities. And now when we think of creation we don't need all those thousands and thousands of years. You can fit all of human history into a much shorter time frame. History revolves around God's plan and we are going to see how God's chosen people (the Jews) and then Christ's church are the center for everything that happens.