Thursday, February 08, 2007

I better get an A

The project is 95% complete, phew, especially after 2 weeks of nagging and protests from the prime candidate. We have a social studies project due this week, a presentation on a country of choice. Easy lah, this one has to be SINGAPORE mah. ( do I hear laughter from Fred?)

All the research, cutting, pasting, searching, we are done!! Fortunately the engineer in the house had to help too. SOme interesting facts we have arrived at:

Singapore is only 270 square miles, with a population of 4 Million and GDP of $124 Million (2006). Comparable to Hancock county, 570 square miles, and about 70,000 population.

Even Disneyworld is bigger than Singapore!





A merlion, half mermaid, half lion, symbol of Singapore.


Singapore, Central Business District.


Singapore at dusk.


Here are other interesting facts the candidate arrived at: Singapore is almost similar to USA, the same sports are played, similar cuisines (I grew up with MacDonalds too), similar languages.

National flower is the orchid, we used a picture of the houseplant.




For extra points, we listed the most popular person from Singapore, who else, MOM!

Total cost of project: $20.00.
Time spent on project: lost count.
Free lessons to a 9 year old on Singapore: Priceless.

For everything else, there is the library or the web.
PS: I will update on my final grade.

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