Monday April 16

today is jay’s 1st day of school and not mine! let me explain. we will be going to different schools so jay’s school will be the one I go to starting in August because they  don’t have a spot for me so i’m going to a different school for the rest of the semester. Anyway today dad home schooled me today and we went to the Asian cultural museum with a huge Hindu and Buddhism exhibit on the 2nd floor and the special exhibit was about a lost city in the jungles of Cambodia which was also on the 2nd floor. after that we went up to the 3rd floor and checked out some other exhibits and then went down to the 1st floor and they had an amazing  shipwreck exhibit with like 999,999,999,999,999,999 clay bowls.        all in all the museum was really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really  amazing.

P.S I wrote a research paragraph on the Wajang puppets that were there along with a paragraph on the tang  shipwreck

Wajang

Wajang is a form of puppet theater art found in parts of Southeast Asia. They make puppets controlled by sticks that can move different parts of the puppet. They are usually made of cloth or paper with the joints being metal. Also you have to shine a light behind the puppets to get the shadow. They are probably the coolest type of puppets in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S I know that my class was making them in art! (not sure if they still are?)

Tang Shipwreck

The Tang shipwreck was a shipwreck in the Singapore strait traveling to china and had the biggest single collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location. We saw most of those artifacts on display in the Asian curtail museum and there were a ton! They were arranged like a wave on different sized glass poles. Also they had a ton of other things in the exhibit but the bowl waves were the coolest!  They don’t know what caused the wreck but there’re trying to figure that out along with the year and day of the wreck – but they know the century : the 9th century.

Just outside museum, got a great view of the downtown!