Genaro at EBAFF, Bronx, NY

May 20

NATURE

                                       Nature is very important.

 Have you ever wonder where we get all we have today that we need to survive? We get it from the great out doors, in other words we get this from nature. If you like fruit or maybe some some vegetables you can get it all in the woods. Plastic comes from a tree that I do not know the name of right now. Syrup that mostly everybody enjoys to eat comes from a maple tree.  Now that we know that then why is it that we are destroying what gives us  food. I will tell you why we do this it is because we need to make room to plake fctories. Right now they are destroying the amozon rain forest that is the greatest forest in the world. Why are the president’s not doing anything abou it?

May 15

sentence starters

I found a video in Space, Issue #2 by Riley, Matt and Mike.

I liked “Dora,” because it was really funny.

One part that stands out for me is “I am beutiful no matter what they say.”I think this is funny because of how it sounds. Also because of how it ends.

Anotherpart that I enjoyed “was tip swiper.” This stood out for me because it is not what you would say.

I do exactly agree with Riley, Matt and Mike with that. One reason I say this is that dora is funnier this way. Another reason I agree with them is that this is an annoying cartoon. 

I look forward to seeing what Riley, Matt and Mike make next, because it was really funny. Also because they are only in sixth grade. The last reason i will go is because they are brave to put this in space or online.

May 13

Why do we need tocome to school?

I think that we need to go to school for many reasons. One reason to go to school is to get our education. Another reason to go to school is to learn something to use for the rest of our lives. The most important reason out of all of  them is to get an education. If we get an education we can go  to college to get a carrer. This is why we should go to school. 

Apr 28

Spring recess break

On monday in the last week of my spring break I did a lot of things. I missed my judo class because my mom was late to pick me up at my house because of a reason. I was practicing for my karate tournament wich was this sunday. Me and my school was divided into types of circuits.We were also divide in the types of ages that we were in like 11, 12, 13 was together. I was in the age and circuit with someone in my karate school. I had to fight this guy in order to get 1st place. At the end i got second place. This is what i did.

Apr 08

Where I'm from

I’m from ovens
from the sweet smell of spices and sugars. 

  I’m from across the street  and to find  the building that I go and eat. I’m from the Chinese  store by the park.

 I’m from Coming home and looking in the long, tall and wide trees.

 I’m from the branches of Genaro and Eufemia.

I’m from “Be the best” and “Don’t be afraid of anything”.

I’m from the face of Genaro’s side.

From rice and chickens that I enjoy.

 From how my brother lost skin and suffered when he fell in the tub filled of water.

I’m from the photo album in my dresser.

Mar 14

Why am i so small?

There are so many thoughts in my mind that support the reason that I am so small. One of my ideas that I am small is that my parents are also very small and that I am catching up to there height. Another though about why I am so small is that I think that all Mexicans are small and small in height. The solution for me being small and to get bigger is going to be hard and I also have some thoughts of how to make that happen.The solution for this is that I can do a lot of stretching  exercise  like jumping rope and also to do the monkey bars that stretches your arms and also makes you a little bit taller.

Some people think that it’s important to be tall, but I don’t agree. One of my most important reasons that i don’t agree that being tall is not that important is that I am very small. Another reason that i believe that it is not so important is some places that a tall person can’t fit in some small places. The last reason is that not all people are very tall.

Mar 06

“But in the past two years, the conflict has grown more complex and chaotic, and while some coordinated attacks by janjaweed militias and aerial bombardment have occurred, they were not of the same scale or intensity. But Darfur has remained a deadly place.” —

Scorched-Earth Strategy Returns to Darfur - New York Times

 When i am reading this I am thinking of the war in Iraq and how so many people are dying.

“Aid workers, diplomats and analysts say the return of such attacks is an ominous sign that the fighting in Darfur, which has grown more complex and confusing as it has stretched on for five years, is entering a new and deadly phase — one in which the government is planning a scorched-earth campaign against the rebel groups fighting here as efforts to find a negotiated peace founder.” —

Scorched-Earth Strategy Returns to Darfur - New York Times

When I first read this i thought of the time that my mother went to the hospital and nurses were taking care of her but in this people die. 

“Such brutal, three-pronged attacks of this scale — involving close coordination of air power, army troops and Arab militias in areas where rebel troops have been — have rarely been seen in the past few years, when the violence became more episodic and fractured. But they resemble the kinds of campaigns that first captured the world’s attention and prompted the Bush administration to call the violence in Darfur genocide.” —

Scorched-Earth Strategy Returns to Darfur - New York Times

When I read this paragraph I think of three people or three things attacking a kid. 

Mar 04

“The attacks by the janjaweed, the fearsome Arab militias that came three weeks ago, accompanied by government bombers and followed by the Sudanese Army, were a return to the tactics that terrorized Darfur in the early, bloodiest stages of the conflict.” —

Scorched-Earth Strategy Returns to Darfur - New York Times

In the quote bloddiest stages ot the conflict I am thinking of people bledding in the  ground. I am also thinking of army soldiers walking away while another is killing the people. This is what I am thinking of when i read this paragraph.