February 6, 2014

Today was a very important day in P-Ville history. On February 6th, 2014, Period 3 P-villians have declared WAR on Period 6 P-villians! The reason is most likely the stock. Period 6 has a much higher stock than any of the other periods and Period 3 is out to bring them down!
At 1:10, "citizens [were] deciding if war is good or bad." (Brittany Kernodle) We were asking questions like: "What happens if you win?" (Breanna Arnold) and "[What] ... caused the war between P.3 and P.6?" (Brandon Chung) so we could get as many facts as possible before deciding where we stand in the war.
Around 1:24 we went back to our regular lessons, discussing the fact that "Cali[fornia] will be out of water in 3 months." (Nida G.) Our situation is pretty bad, isn't it? We really need to start "reusing water" (Chris Hsiao) guys...
At 1:29, Mr. P. started his counting lesson. He showed us that Spanish and Portuguese are very similar, which makes a lot of sense, considering they are both "Romance" languages. Mr. P. demonstrated with other languages too, showing similarities and differences.
At 1:39, Mr. P. showed us the ways people introduce themselves depending on the languages. An example would be French (though we didn't learn this one, I'm fluent in French so I can supply this example): Je m'appelle ____" "I call myself ____" Japanese, as another example, is: "namae wa _____ desu." "Name is ______" Pretty interesting how introductions change depending on the language, huh?
Here's another interesting fact we learned: "[There is] no future tense verb in Sicilian dialect." (Hailei Gagnon) We learned this while watching a Ted Talk animated by RSAnimate at 1:41. "That's why nothing gets done." (Ivan Dextre)
Another thing we learned from that video about time is that the average 21 year old of our generation will have "[used] 10,000 hours... playing video games." (Chris Hsiao) Can you imagine all the things we could have been doing during that time instead of playing video games? "We are underestimating the power of technology." (Yousef B.)
At the end of the lesson, Mr. P. brought up an interesting point: We only know of three tenses- past, present, and future- but couldn't there be a  fourth tense? After all, Sicilians only know two, even though we know three. We could be ignoring a fourth one like Sicilians are ignoring a third one. Chew on that.

-I