Iqbal Masih

Iqbal Masih

Iqbal Masih is a very important and inspirational book based on a true story. The book follows Fatima a child who is forced to work at a carpet-making sweatshop in Pakistan to work off her parent's debt. One day a new boy arrives and that boy's name is Iqbal. The night that he arrives all the kids gather around his pallet and start asking him questions. This is where he tells them all that they will never be able to work off the debt and most of the kids don't believe him but Fatima does. They end up becoming friends and he tells her that he is going to escape. When he inevitably does, he tries to go to the police. When he and the police get to the house the master pays the police to stay quiet about the workers. That doesn't stop him because he says a man talking about how it is illegal for children to work off debt.  Next, when he escapes again he goes to the man and that man brings some trusted police. They are able to stop the master and the kids get to go home but Iqbal stays to help bring the bosses of the factories to jail. During his work to stop the bosses, other countries take notice and invite him to speak. He was also given a scholarship to a college. During the month of April, he went to see his family but on Easter day he was assassinated. Iqbal was a true story and he is a symbol of hope and inspiration all around the world

Tynker

over the past few weeks in tecklab we have been doing a Tynker course and at the end of the unit we were making a project using everything that we were working on in my course. We focused on having health variables so I made a game where you have to click the boss to deal damage and when he dies you go onto the next level. here is the link to my tynker: https://www.tynker.com/ide/v3?type=diy&p=65d4fbd6ec6b7e78e7165079

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein had both ADHD and Asperger's syndrome, which is a disability on the autism spectrum.  These disabilities might not be noticed. There are a lot of disabilities that may not show but they are still there. Ironically, Albert had a lot of trouble with his math, yet he invented the equation (E=mc2). Just because you can't do one thing does not mean that you can't do another.  Everybody is capable of something, even if you don't think you are.

Piano

Piano right now is really fun because Aiden was cleaning out his room and he gave me an Imagine Dragons official piano book and I have been learning songs out of that. I am learning "On Top Of The World" and I am loving it. In piano I am also learning the Mission Impossible theme and a duet called Bright as a Button. I am going to be doing the duet with Caileigh and its awesome.

Update on Health Goal

 I have been working on my health goal and I have seen some improvements as I run I can now run for five minutes at a speed of 5.5 miles an hour. I am not getting tired anymore. I am thinking of boosting the speed up to 6 miles an hour. I want to eventually be able to run ten kilometers an hour which is 6.3 miles an hour this will allow me to hit my five kilometer in thirty minutes.

Nutrition

We were curious on how healthy I was eating. My mom printed out a sheet of paper that had two days on it. The first day I wrote down what I ate that day and the next. I analyzed what I was eating and what I needed to work on.  Then I tried to eat the stuff that I didn't eat as much of the previous day.  This included dairy, fruits and vegetables.  We checked my stats from both days and figured out if I am eating healthy or not.  I would say that I eat pretty healthy but need to work on eating less simple carbs and more complex carbs.  This has taught me a lot about the variety that you should have on a daily basis. here is a picture of my health log

My Health Goal

 For tech lab I had to set a smart goal that I wanted to be done in a certain time. My goal is to run 5 kilometers in thirty minutes by my school track meet in May. What I am doing is running for five minutes on my treadmill each day which will hopefully help improve my endurance for the race.  I will add time to the run each week. I hope that even after I finish my goal I keep running.