Google Earth with the Second Graders!

            Working with the second graders was a blast! I really enjoyed helping the kids on how to use Google Earth; I learned a lot from this experience on how to interact with younger kids. At first I was a bit nervous because I wasn't really sure how to talk to the kids or how to act around them but I started to become comfortable when they smiled at me and  talked to me. They were really friendly and gave us smiles and high fives; they also sang for us in the beginning about the seven continents. For Google Earth, I was paired up with two little boys named Julio and Vivien; they were Brazilian and Belgian, they spoke Spanish, Portuguese, and French. They were really nice to me and I think we really clicked; they seemed very interested with using Google Earth and they worked very productively. After working, we had a break and ate together; they offered me food and they talked to me in a foreign language. Then it was time to say goodbye and they gave me high fives and smiles; I would really like to do it again sometime, this experience was such a good one!

China's Newest Population Reform

Since the One-Child policy was implemented in china around 40 years ago, the population of China has since been controlled. By controlling the population, it has the controlled many of the problems that come from such a large population such as the great famine that occurred. However, since the policy has worked so well, there are now problems that are occurring due to policy. This is why China has agreed to be more lenient on the policy, it is now being relaxed. Research shows that China will have a quarter of their 1.34 billion people above 65; there will be a large elder population which will depend on the younger population. There is also a gender imbalance because men are more favorable as a child and the Chinese are only allowed one; they have abortions if the child is female and this will cause around 24 million Chinese men to be unmarried because there are not enough women. That is why couples in the rural areas are allowed more than one child if the firstborn is a female.

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