An Event In Asia

This post is about an event that happened in Asia, maybe good or bad, it depends on what event I'm telling you about. You might already know the event, but this post is for those who don't always know about some events in Asia. The events that I am posting might not always be recent ones but I want you to know some history and modern events that happened in Asia. So here is an event that happened in Asia :

Around 2008, in Asia (Shanghai) there was an issue with the milk they were producing in one of the milk companies, it was contaminated milk. They had kept the safety of the contaminated milk a secret for almost a year until they finally announced that the milk company had been shut down for making contaminated milk. The milk made tens of thousands of little children sick and that was not a good sign. After the issue was released to the public they were then questioning there food supplies, wondering how safe their everyday foods were. How was Shanghai supposed to gain back some of the peoples' trust in the food that is produced there? Later, Food Safety Authorities investigated about the Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. Ltd. saying that they were one of 22 other companies/people that produced contaminated milk in Shanghai.


So that's the event for today, I hope you learned something from this post and keep coming to this blog to maybe find out more about Asia and the things/places/people in it!

(information from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34747359/ns/health-food_safety/)

School in Laos

This post is about school in Laos, my mom told me that she went to school in Laos but only for a little bit. She didn't go to school for a long time because when my mom went to school she said you don't have to be any certain age to go to school, like my dad, he didn't go to school until he was 9 years old! She also said that school was in a building and there were no separate desks, there was just one long table with a bench and everyone would sit at the same table. She also said that there was no talking allowed in class, the teachers were very strict. My mom said that even though Laotian parents were very strict, teachers were even more strict. She also said that the teachers and principals had more of a right to discipline the kids than the parents did. Usually discipline was if you had a little bad behaviour you would get hit on your hand with a wooden ruler. But if you were really, really bad behaved you would get hit on your body with a bamboo stick, particularly your behind. Besides the discipline, you did actually learn things in school, you would have a different subject for each different day of the week. Like you would have math on one day and then you would have language on another day. You would only have one class a day where you would learn one subject all day. School hours were about the same as ours, they were maybe 9:00 am to about 2:00 pm. They had some normal school supplies like pencils and they would sometimes write on clip boards. So that's pretty much what I learned from my mom about school in Laos.



School in Laos is obviously not like school that we go to. Discipline is definetly not as strict and neither are the teachers. We also learn different things in one day, and everyone has a desk of their own. And usually children would start school at the age of 4 or 5. The school hours are somewhere around 9:00 am to 3:20-3:30 pm. We can have a lot of different school supplies like scissors, markers and glue sticks.



As you can see, schools around the world are very different. Do you know any other countries that have different school routines?

Some Games/hobbies My Mom Did In Laos

This post is a list of games that my mom played when she lived in Laos when she was younger. She said her family didn't have a lot of money so she would find anything lying around and try to turn it into a toy. That happened a lot she said because a lot of families didn't have enough money to buy toys, only for food and clothes they needed. She said she would find a lot of things that were thrown out by other people. As some people say, someones trash is another persons treasure. So this is what she said she did as hobbies and games:

• she said she tied rubber bands together to make skipping ropes to play with


• she dug under the dirt to find clay and make things out of it (she said she would make a toy camera sometimes)


• a game that is well known here was also played in Laos too, the game is tag, my mom said she played tag a lot with other children


• she would also play checkers sometimes too, of coarse she had to make it herself out of bottle caps and paper


• she would also play some games with sticks and twigs she found

Now, these games are somewhat similar to the games we play but at the same time somewhat different. We can buy our toys and games but like I've said before, they don't have a lot of money so they were into making things. I'm sure that other games were played too but that's all I know from what my mom told me. Some of the games that were played were probably made up. That would require a lot of creativity, see if you can be creative too and make up your own games!