Friday, February 26, 2010

Zagros Mountains


One day Sabas, Aurteamus, and I went to Iran just to visit some family. When we called them and asked for their address they said that they were in in the Zagros Mountain range which is the largest mountain range in Iran and Iraq. They told us that they were on Mount Dena, one of the highest points in the Zagros Mountains range. When we got there we found out that the Zagros Mountains are as long as the western and southwestern Iranian plateau. They asked us if we seen our cousins on our way there. We asked where our cousins lived and they said that it was hard to miss because they formed the outlier of the range. The outlier is the Hazaran Massif in the Kerman Province. We went back home the next week and we found out that the Zagros Mountains range finally ends at the Strait of Hormuz.


Mount Arart

Today me Aruteamus and, Jamar went to go see Mount Ararat. Mount Ararat has two peeks. The name of one is Greater Ararat the other one is Lesser Ararat. Jamar and Aruteamsus found out that Mount Ararat possibly has Noah's Arch in it. Jamar wanted to climb Mount Ararat until he found out that it was the highest mount in Turkey. Snow covers 1/4 of a mile on Mount Ararat. I was talking to this person that had climb up Mount Ararat and the told me that the elevation of Mount Ararat is 16,854ft. Lesser Ararat has scadered tress and good land.

Sea of Marmara


Today is the day we visited the Sea of Marmara. When we were there me, Jamar and Aurteamus tried to see who could reach to bottom of the sea it never happened. Because the sea is 1,370m deep. The person that went way down was aurteamus because he had a divin suit but he still didnt make to the bottom.When we were there visiting there was a guy that was tellin some stuff about the Sea of Marmarait he told us that in 1999 on December 29th a bad storm hit and the Russian oil tanker Volgoneft broke in two in the Sea of Marmara, and more than 1500 tonnes of oil were spilled into the water.The sea gets its name from the island of marmara.On the small island of Imrali that is in the Sea of Marmara stands a maximum-security prison that holds only one inmate, Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of PKK, a Kurdish terrorist group. When we heard that we got scared but then we wanted to sea it. so we got on boat and went passed the prison. After that we messured to see how many miles wide it was it was about 50miles wide. From northeast to southwest it is 175 miles long.

NEGEV DESERT


Sabas Jamar and I went to the in a helicopter and it was fun Negev Desert to whan we landed we tock every thing we needed to find out how high the mountains were, how long it streched, and how hot it is down ther, we even diged for water. we found out it's average high timpiture was around 20-30 degrees farinhight its average low tempiture was round 7-17 degrees farinhight. We also found haveing the helicopter fly the distence, and it was 13,000 km squared(4,700 squared miles) lang. We also had the helicopter glide up to the distence of were the mountains edges started we were amased the mountains were 370-520 feet tall.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Syrian Desert

One day Sabas, Aurteamus, and I went to the Middle East to visit The Syrian desert. We heard that it was called the "Empty Quarter", so we decided to go check it out. It is called the empty quarter because there is nobody that lives there. while we were there we found out that it is part of the Al-Hamad. It is Also bordered by the Orentes Valley. On our way across we noticed that the Syrian Desert is made up of steppes and true desert. While going west we found out that the Syrian Desert is bordereed on the west by the Tigris and Euphrates river.

Dead Sea

Today I visited the Dead Sea with Jamar and Aurteamus. Jamar pushed Arteamus in the Dead Sea forgetting that he didn't know how to swim that is when we learned that you cant sink in the Dead Sea because there is so much salt in it. The Dead sea got its name because it being so salty there are no animal that live there. Jamar wanted to cook his food he brought with him but he forgot the salt so he grabbed salt from the Dead Sea to put on his food. He had put to much salt on it so when he took a bite he spit it out. The Dead sea sits 1,385ft below sea level. It is the lowest elevation on the earths surface on dry land.
When we were about to leave Aurteamus told us the the Dead Sea is 8.6 times more salty than the ocean.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Writing about Asia and Me

Hi my name is Aurteamus and my favorite things to do are skateboard ride bikes and play sports. In my middle school I am studying Asia and I think it will be fun. I am twelve years old I have a little brother and I live with both of my parents and I live in Des Moines Iowa. I like almost all animals, my favorite animal is a dog I think there very good learners and listeners and there fun to play with.

In asia I would like to go to china, and in china I would like to go every were but i would like to go to the great wall of china the most. I would like to go there because I think the great wall of china is vary large an theres a lot of history there. I would like to know how far it streches and i would like to know how high it is from the ground. I would like to take my friends and family when and if I go so I can have fun with every one I know and love.

About me

Hi, my name is Jamar Fallin and I was born in Twin Falls, Idaho. At 12 years old I live in Des Moines, Iowa and I go to Callanan Middle School in the 7th grade.

I live with my mom, younger brother, and older sister. My mother's name is Loraine, she is 32 years old. My younger brother's name is, Nariyo he is 6 years old. My older sister's name is Raven, she is 14.

I enjoy hanging out at my Dad's house and having fun with friends. I also enjoy spending time with my family.




If I could go anywhere in the Middle East it would be the Taj Mahal, because it has a lot of history that I would like to learn.



Monday, February 22, 2010

Sabas

The name is Sabas S. I am from Misson Texas. I live in Des Moines Iowa i go to Callanan Middle School I am in the 7th grade. I live with my mom, dad, brother, and sisters, my moms name is Angie. my Dads name is Jose. My brothers name is Jose J.R he is 17 years old. my sisters are Rose who is 16 years old and cindy who is 10 years old. For fun i like to go to parties with friends or just go to there housed and chill. I like to go to new places and do new things. I am not scared of many things. I live life how it comes and try to enjoy every minute of it.



If I would go to Asia I would go to Jerusalem Israel. The reason I would go there is because i have heard of this place for a long time. I would also go there to see the church's look like.Every time I went to church so that is why I would go there.