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Tesla Unveils the Model 3

April 6, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org 2 Comments

–by Jordan King, Blog Auto Industry Correspondent, future driver who will probably get a Toyota Corolla because the Tesla 3 doesn’t come out until the end of 2017, and he can’t WAIT THAT LONG!

March 31st marked the beginning of a revolution: the electric-car revolution.  Tesla unveiled the Model 3–the most mainstream electric car ever.  Why is this so exciting?  Well, first off, the Tesla 3 gets 215 miles of range for the cheapest model! All models (except the cheapest model) come with autopilot!  What’s even more exciting is the price; the Model 3 is $35,000 at its cheapest, but after government incentives the price drops to $25,000.  Also, just look at it!

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Well… There are a few complications though.  Firstly, if Tesla sells more than 200,000 units, there won’t be an incentive. Tesla already has over 270,000 pre-orders for a car that won’t ship for another eighteen months.  Also the base model probably won’t have any of the features that people want. Autonomous features won’t be available unless you have a model for potentially $50,000 or more.  Also the Model 3 isn’t expected to ship until the end of 2017. How can anyone wait that long? It’s madness!  I’m betting, however, the Model 3 will disrupt the auto industry. It’s the first affordable electric car that gets over a hundred miles of range. Already, everybody wants one.

 Right now, it may not seem realistic to drive an electric car every day, but soon it will. Tesla is doubling the amount of superchargers in the world. If you didn’t know already, the Tesla Supercharger fully charges a car in half an hour, and the charging time could be even less in the future. You’ll find Superchargers in malls, at grocery stores, at train stations, etc. So, hold onto your hats because this is going to be one heck of a ride.

 

Are you going to put a Tesla in your garage?

Filed Under: Technology, The World Tagged With: car, electric car, Model 3, Supercharger, Tesla, Tesla 3

A Christmas Day Without A Christmas Tree

March 30, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org 1 Comment

–by Zhenzhou Hu

Back when senior Hugh was applying to colleges, he wrote this essay about a community-service project served with his host family, the Wessmans. Hugh used this essay as part of his college application. It worked. Hugh will be attending the University of San Diego next fall. He shares now his essay with The Bird on Fire.

 

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“I guess I’m not going to see a beautiful Christmas tree tonight,” I whined on Christmas Eve as I wandered across the highway 20 miles north of the Mexican border. I had been looking forward to my first Christmas ever since I arrived in America. With child-like wonder, I envisioned a tinsel-topped tree, a traditional turkey dinner, and maybe even a visit from Santa Claus. It was not to be! My host family announced they were going to give away Christmas this year. They wanted to make Christmas about what they could do instead of what they could receive. To me, it didn’t sound like giving it away; it sounded like giving it up.

The plan was to build a house in a week for a needy Mexican family. And now, before we even arrived, we had car trouble. The tension pulley on the fan belt froze. Stranded! Hardly a car passed, and not a store was open. After all, everyone else was already at home enjoying their own beautiful Christmas tree.

Eventually, we made contact with another “Family Helping Families” group traveling toward us. We had never met before, but these people brought us hope and cheer. They backtracked several hours to find the needed parts. They brought water, shared granola bars, and helped find an open Pizza Hut. It wasn’t turkey, but pizza never tasted so good.

Next day, I awoke to a stocking stuffed with work gloves, measuring tape, and a hammer. These weren’t exactly the items on my wish list to Santa. After preparing image-9some food, we drove to the train tracks. As soon as we dropped the tailgate, hungry villagers appeared out of nowhere. We sliced turkey, dished potatoes, and handed out oranges. At first it was awkward; I had never done anything like this before. I couldn’t understand them; they couldn’t understand me. One by one the Mexican children smiled; I smiled back. Later, I surprised myself by playing football in the desert.

The next morning we arrived at a foundation waiting for walls. I made electrical boxes and screeded sand. Trowel in hand, I laid block with mortar. Interior walls appeared with the help of hammers and saws. Roof rafters were hoisted, lined up and set in place. An inexperienced army nailed plywood sheeting. Luckily, the roof held the army’s weight. Finally, we presented the home to a tearfully grateful family.
The building was simple in looks but not simple in meaning. The walls rose up not only block by block, but also with the sweat of our caring character. The building showed I learned several new skills in just five days and also represented an achievement of which I am proud. Recalling the image of the crude building, I see the scenes of my transitional experience in Mexico: the scratchy feeling of sand blowing into my eyes; the callouses earned while troweling a block wall; my host brother and his newfound Mexican friends communicating with their invented sign language; me, enjoying my first delicious street taco; and finally exchanging the overwhelming heat, dust, and poverty for the quiet and contemplative comfort of my own room that was still missing a Christmas tree. The person who left that room on Christmas Eve, however, was a boy. The person who returned was an adult.

 

 

 

Filed Under: Culture, Humor, The World, Travel Tagged With: Christmas, hu, Mexico, work gloves

The Difference between an American and a Chinese Education

March 30, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org 1 Comment

Unknown –Zhenzhou Hu, former and forever “The Bird on Fire” blogger, ponders the differences between an American and Chinese education. He’s been educated under both systems. Here’s what he had to say.

When I first arrived at boarding school in China far away from home as a six-year-old, I did not cry like many other pupils. Instead of being fearful, I was curious about the new environment and eager to find something enticing. School would be an interesting place, and teachers would be angels who would impart knowledge and encourage exploration. However, I was mistaken. We were required to sit upright with hands still on the desk. “Why can’t we sit leisurely?” When I doubted why1507.m00.i104.n047.p.c25.classroom-education-thin-line-concept-f 1+1 = 2, my math teacher confirmed, with an indisputable tone, “That’s truth. Just remember it.” I was once scolded by my teacher because my score held back the overall GPA of my class. As we entered upper grades, the academic workload became increasingly heavier and most of our spare time was occupied by being tutored. School was no longer the paradise I had expected, and teachers were not the angels I had hoped. Gradually, I felt like I was becoming a puppet–doing what the teachers expected me to do and believing all that the teachers said without questioning or experimenting. I even put away my interest in drawing to save time for the heavy academic burden. 1+1 must = 2! No room for argument.

In 2014, I came to the USA. The first classroom I walked into at Palm Valley School was so refreshing I will always remember it: small class, beautifully decorated classroom, seemingly random but actually well-organized seats, a group of vibrant students, a nice teacher, and a comfortable environment. My classmates were encouraged to express their various ideas, and the teacher gave us tremendous inspiration. The most impressive teacher to me was Ms. Mckee, my math teacher. When I asked puerile questions (like what was the difference between relative maximum and absolute maximum), she always answered, “Excellent question!” and then proceeded to explain it. If I had asked a question like that in China, the teacher would have given me a disparaging glance instead of encouragement. Ms. Mckee gave me the courage to ask questions instead of hiding behind them.
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Compared with my previous school in China, things are quite different at Palm Valley. I am no longer the timid boy who just arrived. I am once again the boy who was passionate, curious and energetic. As a result of my educational experiences in the United States, I want to return to China and teach math to middle school students. I am determined to find young boys and girls who want to know why 1+1=2. And, I will answer like Ms. Mckee, “Excellent question!”

Filed Under: Culture, The World Tagged With: american, Chinese, education, Excellent question!, hu

Oh, the Places We Do Go!

March 16, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org Leave a Comment

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Mr. Griffin explains the construction and design of Disney Concert Hall’s architecture.

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Zach Jenkins (l-r), Bryan Johnson, Henry Huang, Mac Spears, Mr. Griffin, and Asher Mai polished off their French Dipped Sandwiches, replete with hot mustard and pickled eggs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On our half day, Friday, March 4, Mr. Griffin led a team of PVS cultural enthusiasts to Los Angeles. After a brief side excursion to a Chinese bakery (led by a hungry Bryan Johnson), we started with an early dinner at L.A.’s iconic Philippe’s, where the French Dipped Sandwich originated back in 1918. Then, Mr. Griffin scheduled us into The Broad, L.A.’s New Contemporary Art Museum–the big white building downtown sporting the innovative honeycomb “veil-and-vault” architecture. The night finished breathtakingly at Disney Concert Hall with Gustavo Dudamel conducting Mahler’s Third Symphony. Time could have stopped for us right there, right then. Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed said Dudamel “excelled in revealing the power of Mahler,” leading the L.A. Phil to play “with gut-wrenching strength.” Word is, Mr. Griffin and Ms. Zachik are creating a Culture Club next year adding more expeditions for the culturally adventurous.

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PVS students scrambled over the Disney Concert Hall winding architecture, taking in the L.A. skyline.

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David Kocen beside the oversized Table and Chairs installment at The Broad.

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Jeff Koons Balloon Dog at The Broad

 

Filed Under: Art-Field Field Trips, Culture, Food, School Events, The World, Travel, Visual Arts Tagged With: Bryan, Disney Concert Hall, Dudamel, French Dipped Sandwiches, Mahler, Mr. Griffin, Philippe's, The Broad, Third Symphony

Are the Robots Taking Our Jobs?!

March 3, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org 8 Comments

 –by Jordan King, a new voice in the blogosphere–here’s his take on “the real world”

 

In the near future, we will surely see more technology and even more automation.  Functional self-driving cars are already here; they’ve been around since 2008.  There are robots that perform factory work; there are robots that replicate white-collar work; and there are even robots that write music!  What’s going to happen to jobs? Will robots take them all?

For now, we don’t really need to worry; current robots can only do basic factory work and repetitive computer work. Currently, there is a robot called Baxter; he’s a multipurpose robot that can pour drinks, fold clothes, cook food and perform many other simple tasks.  Baxter learns by humans physically moving his arms and showing him what to do. He can be programmed to perform multiple and varied tasks.

Here is a video of Baxter Brewing coffee.

 

As you may have noticed, Baxter is extremely slow; a human is about 10 times faster.  Baxter can work all day without human supervision as long as he’s doing repetitive tasks.  For now, Baxter is probably not a threat to people’s jobs.  Although in the next few decades Baxters and other multipurpose robots will definitely be much faster and able to do more complicated tasks.          

In the near future, the first people to lose jobs likely will lose them to self-driving cars.  We’ve already had functioning self-driving cars for eight years.  Uber is already planning on having self-driving cars enter the workforce in a decade from now.  In 20 years from now, most if not all of Uber’s workers will no longer be working for them. There’s also self-driving trucks, which some believe will enter the workforce in less than 10 years!  According to alltrucking.com, there are currently 3.5 million truck drivers employed in the US. Transportation is one of the most likely sectors of jobs to be replaced by automation.
The United States Department of Transportation says 16 percent of all US jobs are in the Transportation sector.

Here is a list of 12 jobs most likely to be replaced by robots according to Oxford University data.

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 Another study states that 47% of jobs are at a high risk of being replaced by robots.  So how can we deal with this?  What will potentially half the population do if they don’t have a job?  According to Forbes, robots will be the biggest job creators in history.  Is this true, though?  I say, it probably is.  Just look at historical unemployment rates.

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Unemployment rates have relatively stayed the same despite recession, economic growth, and economic turmoil, so robots won’t make a difference.  Even though there have been jobs outsourced0806-Took-Jerbs to China, India, Latin America and most factory work is replaced by machines, the unemployment rate, historically, stays relatively the same.

With the onslaught of robots, unemployment rates will rise initially as they have during other periods of economic turmoil. But, after all the steam blows over, unemployment rates will return back to normal like they have throughout US history.  

So… robots probably won’t take our jobs.

 

 

 

Filed Under: Science, The World Tagged With: Baxter, jobs, robots

NOIZE ‘n LETTAS from Gaven: Yes, I’m Chinese, But…

February 12, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org 5 Comments

Big G just dropped his first single, “Yes, I’m Chinese, But . . .” First released here on the thebirdonfire.org!

 

–by Gaven Li

 

Yes, I’m Chinese
But that doesn’t mean anything
I don’t eat dogs or kitties
Orange chicken is not always my favorite

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Yes, I’m Chinese
But we no longer live in rural places
There are 14 million people in my city
Everyone will fall in love with her beauty

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Yes, I’m Chinese
But not every Chinese is Bruce Lee
I don’t know Kung Fu
and never fight in the street

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But we ain’t in the 1960s
Everyday after school
I don’t help my dad farming

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Yes, I’m Chinese
But y’all should remember this:
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
They are all parts of our country

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Yes, I’m Chinese
But I can still rap like Jay-Z
I’m a poetic “gangster”
Comin straight outta PRC

 

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Filed Under: Culture, Humor, The World Tagged With: Bruce Lee, China, Hip Hop

My Style of Flying: Have Headache Will Travel

January 26, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org 5 Comments

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Over the Christmas holiday, I had to go to Czech, my home country, to take exams that I have there. (I am completing two secondary degrees simultaneously–one IMG_0572here, one in the Czech Republic.) It was already very unfortunate for me having to study for two high schools, but it was necessary to have it done. My journey was planned to begin on the 15th of December. I was all packed and went to a nice brunch with Trey. We were sitting in the restaurant with plates full of pancakes, talking and enjoying our last moments before I left when I remembered to check my flight, making sure everything was still planned and on time. To my surprise, it said that my flight was delayed by about five hours! There was no way this could work because I was flying from Palm Springs to Denver where I was supposed to have only a 45-minute layover. So, Trey and I went to the airport early to ask “What’s going on?!” When we arrived, a man working for United confirmed that I will indeed be missing my flight to Denver by exactly five hours. I started freaking out, so he said he would try to find another flight to get me to Czech on time. It was about 12:45 p.m., and the man finally found another flight and said I can fly to San Francisco, but I would have to go now, because the flight takes off in a little less than ten minutes. Not knowing that I would have to run to my gate, I had left my luggage and purse in Trey’s car so he had to run for it. They didn’t even let me put luggage on the belt and told me to run. So I took my purse, said bye To Trey, and ran to my gate. I had to pass all the TSA checkpoints and everyone was yelling at me that I am late. Finally, I arrived to my plane without knowing if my luggage would fly all the way with me. As I finally got to my seat, some woman was sitting there. So, I went to her and asked her nicely if she can move because it is MY seat, but she refused. I didn’t want to make a big deal of it, so I just put myself down in the middle spot.

When I arrived in San Francisco, I only had a little bit of time to get to my gate, so I was running again. Sweaty, tired, and looking terrible, I somehow managed to get to the gate on time and get ready for my other flight to Frankfurt, Germany. It was luck that I fell asleep on the plane. After half an hour of my beauty sleep, they woke me up with an announcement over the intercom that something happened and they needed a doctor. We were already in the air, so I got pretty spooked–although I IMG_0573never found out what happened. Everything eventually calmed down, and after a tiresome journey, I landed in Frankfurt. Glad I was finally in Europe, my relief was quickly erased when I found out that my remaining flight itineraries were left back in the Palm Springs airport. With no idea where to go, I finally found my gate. But with my luck, my terrible journey didn’t end there. The woman working at Lufthansa said that she didn’t see me on the list for my last flight to Czech, and she explained to me that I couldn’t fly anywhere. After an hour of her calling and me being utterly exhausted, she finally got clearance to let me go to the plane and I successfully flew to Prague.

After about a month home and after I finally finished my exams, I was preparing to go back to the States. I left at the crack of dawn. It was cold and snowy outside, and my mom took me to the airport. Me being me, I got my boarding passes and went to a wrong gate, of course. Luckily, I realized my mistake and walked to the IMG_0574correct one, catching my flight back to Frankfurt. Surprisingly, nothing too bad happened on this flight, and from there I landed in Houston where the worst part of my trip was still waiting for me. Everyone was leaving the plane, and I was slowly following the herd of people off. There was a huge line for immigration control. Luckily, I had a four-hour layover, but nothing would prepare me for what was about to come. I finally got in front and went before the immigration officer. He was going through my papers, passport, joking around, . . . and then he stopped, looked at me, and said that they don’t accept copies of an I-20 (document for international students). When I tried to show him an original one with just my name and a signature on it, he said that there is no date, so they couldn’t accept it. I started being very nervous. He told me to wait and sent someone for me. A police officer came for me and took me to a small room. My international student agency told me to call them if something like this happened, but no phones were allowed in the room. I stayed there three hours being questioned about everything, but I had no way to see the time; I was scared I had missed my flight. The officers there were very nervous because the room was filling up with people every minute. People had to start sitting outside, that’s how packed it was. Some of them couldn’t even speak English, which made the officers even more angry. There were also little kids crying, and I felt really bad after ten hours of them flying. I thought, “They will send me back to my home country,” or “I will definitely miss my flight to Palm Springs.” I would be stuck in Texas without anyone. The officer was trying to joke with me about basketball, but I really wasn’t in the mood for it. They finally let me go, and I didn’t miss my flight (surprisingly), but this experience will always stay in my heart. It was the spookiest thing that has ever happened to me.

Happy flying!

 

–Edited by Trey Lucatero

Filed Under: Humor, The World, Travel Tagged With: deportation, flying, I-20, TSA

Chinese-American Fast-Food

January 15, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org 1 Comment

Senior Blog Writer Amber Zheng talks today about the menus of some of the fast-food brands in China that look deceptively familiar.

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–by Amber Zheng
American fast-food corporations entered China several decades ago. Fast-food brands like KFC, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Junior, etc., are very popular in China. However, most of these American fast-food restaurants offer a much wider variety of foods in China than they do in America.

KFC was the first American fast-food chain that opened in China. It has a “localized” policy worldwide, which means it has specialized menus in different places in IMG_1916order to maximize the profit. Chinese KFC’s offer not only fried-chicken wings and sandwiches but also seafood porridge, chicken wraps, puddings, corn, fried rice, and even egg tarts! China is the only country in the world where KFC makes more money than McDonald’s does, and a huge part of the reason is because of the diversity and localization.

Pizza Hut was the first American fast-food pizza store that walked into China. In China, instead of a fast-food place, Pizza Hut is more like a chain restaurant that has a very big menu. A Chinese Pizza Hut menu is bigger than a Cheesecake Factory menu. Pizzas and salads are only a very small part of the options on the menu. Chinese Pizza Huts have soups such as chicken mushroom soup and seafood chowder; French appetizers such as garlic snails; different kinds of steaks such as French-style sirloin; all kinds of wines and coffee–such as vanilla latte and rum; various styles of noodles such as asparagus salmon spaghetti with Alfredo sauce; a IMG_1919long list of desserts including ice-cream chocolate cake, caramel brûlée, etc. Moreover, all of the Pizza Huts in China are designed as sit-down restaurants. They also have servers at the door to lead people to different tables and booths and waiters for each table. Moreover, the Pizza Huts in China offer a special packet for little kids. In this packet, kids get to go to Pizza Hut with their friends on their birthday and learn how to make pizzas. The Pizza Hut staff also arrange games for kids at their birthday parties.

–Edited by Henry Huang

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Filed Under: Culture, Food, The World Tagged With: american, China, Fast Food, KFC, Pizza Hut

Schizophrenia from the perspective of John Nash

January 13, 2016 by ehesson@pvs.org Leave a Comment

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Edited by Treyvn Lucatero

Anna Kleckerova takes a look at the mental health disease Schizophrenia that often manifests in young adults. Medication is available, but some, like Professor John Nash of MIT, opt to go it alone.

Schizophrenia is a mental disease often characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to recognize what is real. The most common symptoms are image1-2hallucinations, paranoia, delusions and collapse in emotions. It usually starts in young adulthood, and symptoms are identified through a patient’s actions and perceived experiences.

A person who has this disease often thinks that someone or something follows him. He has a compulsive feeling that he has to talk to them and respect their rules and not tell anyone. With time, it gets worse and suddenly the person can’t distinguish between reality and imagination. At this point, social isolation comes with the inability to remember and do certain things. Aggression can also appear over time.

I would like to refer to a movie which helped me to understand this disorder of the mind. The movie is called A Beautiful Mind and is directed by Ron Howard and stars Russell Crowe. This story is based on the true story of John Nash. It starts with a very smart man who is a genius in math and goes to Princeton University. His image2symptoms are already apparent in his young age when he has an illusion of a roommate who helps him with everything. Even though our main hero is extremely antisocial and going to classes sounds stupid to him, he makes it through university with producing an excellent paper on governing dynamics and gets a great job at MIT. Unfortunately, he considers his new job uninteresting and boring. Some years later, people from the Pentagon come for him to break some important code, and he cracks it. After this event, another illusion appears. This time it is a man who works for the United States Department of Defense who wants him to break more codes to uncover Russia’s secret plan on attacking the USA. By that time, John falls in love with his lovely student Alicia Larde who soon becomes pregnant. With time, John Nash has difficulty distinguishing what is real and what is not. He attacks poor Alicia in order to protect her from his nonexistent boss from the Department of Defense. As a matter of fact, none of the characters or tasks from the Department of Defense are real. This attack makes her call a psychiatrist. Then, Nash begins treatment with medication for schizophrenia. However, Nash stops taking the medication after time because he grows too aggressive with it. He can’t take care of his own baby. And, he can’t think clearly. However, when he discontinues the medication, his hallucinations come back. By the end of movie, Nash is able to ignore his hallucinations, and he wins a Nobel Prize for his article regarding governing dynamics.

We can see that the medication helps Nash to not have visions and hallucinations, but he is not able to do any of the things he holds dear. So, schizophrenia is a very serious disease which can be treated by medication, but it can cause less concentration and decrease the ability to work normally.

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Filed Under: The World Tagged With: A Beautiful Mind, brain disease, illusions, John Nash, schizophrenia, voices

Travels with Friends: In Search of the Aquarium of the Pacific

December 17, 2015 by ehesson@pvs.org Leave a Comment

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–by Zhenzhou Hu and Jim Wang

 

During this year’s Thanksgiving break, Palm Valley international students Hugh Hu, Allen Zhao, Ben Ju, and Jim Wang visited Long Beach’s Aquarium of Pacific. All of them strongly suggest their peers put this aquarium on their field trip lists. The following depicts the adventure from the perspective of Hugh.

–Edited by Amber Zheng

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Ben amazingly looked at this scary Moray Eel and said, “This fish is beautiful!” The rest of us failed to see the beauty.

Ben really loves fish. He wants to major in Sea Creatures (or Ocean Biology) in college. So, on our time off, we took an Uber from Arcadia to the Aquarium of the Pacific, and we had a great time. Ben was excited over every tank. He must have said “Wow” more than 25 times when looking at the various jelly fish and sea horses and star fish. We visited the aquarium on Thursday, which is Thanksgiving Day, and it was not as crowded as we expected. The ticket price was also not as high as we expected—only $29.

There were awesome educational exhibitions and facilities. At the beginning, we went to see a short movie about the Pacific Ocean. The movie showed us how human beings affect the biosphere of ocean and told us how to protect the biosphere by reusing and recycling. The aquarium also had a little 3D theatre that sells tickets for $4 each, but we didn’t walk in because we were not interested in 3D theatre.

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The Aquarium Officer gently teaches Jim and Ben NOT to touch the shellfish with five fingers and definitely NOT to flip them over.

The aquarium was kind of small, but there were plenty of things to see for everyone, and there were several touch tanks and good viewing angles for people to really appreciate the aquatic wildlife. The aquarium officer allowed us to touch the aquatic wildlife with two fingers, but Jim was so amazed and excited that he flipped the the shell. The officer told him not to do so because it’s okay to do it several times, but if everyone out of the couple thousand visitors does the same thing the shells will be affected. The officer forgave Jim, but the rest of us blamed him.

My favourite part of the aquarium was the penguin exhibit! I thought that there was no way I could see penguins in a place like California. We didn’t expect to see cold-loving penguins in a climate as warm as California’s. The penguins were sliding and waddling and posing for photos (with us).

The most shocking thing to me was seeing the exhibits cleaned. Divers use a vacuum to suck up leaves and dirt. We saw a diver step on a starfish while cleaning the tank. We worried about the starfish, and other people around us did as well: “What is this man doing? Does he realize what he is doing?” said the aquarium visitors.

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–Photo credit: Jim Wang

Overall, the Aquarium of the Pacific is a fun place to be if you don’t have any idea about what plans to make and you’re in the area! We easily spent two hours there! I highly recommend students in biology class going to the Aquarium Of the Pacific for an annual trip.

 

 

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We don’t know what fish this is, but IT IS a BIG fish.

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“The crabs must taste delicious.”–Amber Zheng

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If you look closely at the bottom right of the picture, you can see the diver in the tank nearly kneeling on a starfish!!!! –Photo in Action by Zhenzhou Hu

 

Filed Under: Art-Field Field Trips, The World, Travel Tagged With: "Don't touch that!", Allen, aquarium, Ben, Biology, fish, Hugh, Jim, sea creatures, starfish

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