Landmarks' Life

🕑🕒🕓🕔 🕕🕖🕗🕘 It is now March, which means there is only about 3 to 4 months left before this school year ends. I will become a grade 10 in September, but I honestly still feel like a grade 7. Time flew by so fast that it was almost like I didn’t get anything done during the first and second term. All I can think of is the countless mistakes I made this year including the times where I forgot a homework was due or a french skit has to be performed that day. Although I feel like I didn’t achieve anything, but if I truly think about, I might actually did get something done. Maybe I diddd accomplish something         Some of my accomplishments are academic, but the ones that I am truly proud of are achievements in extracurricular activities. The one that I am the most proud of was my medal testing in January for the bronze level of ballroom dancing. It was originally planned to be held in December, but it ended up being postponed to January ...

In the previous blog, I talked about the legend of how the Kiyomizu-Dera temple came about, but to most of us here, Japanese isn’t a language we are particularly familiar with. Therefore, we might not even know what “Kiyomizu” mean! To better understand this topic, I did some research and found out that Kiyomizu means “pure water” in English, so the Kiyomizu temple literally means the pure water temple. It may seem like a pretty random name, but it actually isn’t since the name was inspired from where it’s located in, the Otowa waterfall in the wooded hill east of Kyoto. This temple is an amazing place to look at the astonishing view of cherry blossoms and maple trees. The pink colour from the cherry blossoms and the red-orange colour from the maple leaves combine together to create a picture of spring and autumn. In fact, a wooden stage just outside the main hall made it easy to do so. Although nails were not used in the construction of the wooden stage, it still manages to st...

When I say the word temple, what comes to mind? Perhaps an image of a spiritual structure would float up in your mind and pictures of people kneeling down would be seen. However, that’s not the case for the temple in Kyoto, Japan. It is incredibly unusual how it is often crowded with people, noisy with children’s voices, and busy from selling amulets and fortunes. Despite this difference, it still became one of Japan’s most famous landmark. This oddly different temple is the Kiyomizu-Dera Temple.🌸 Temples usually have various stories behind it on how everything started, and one of the legend about Kiyomizu-Dera said it started in the late eighth century CE with the dream, Engine, a Japanese monk of the Hosso sect of Buddhism. The dream was about a golden river flowing down Mount Otowa right on top of Kyoto. Curious about his dream, Enchin visited the mountains and to his surprise, encountered an elder there. ⾦✨(gold) That old man was named Gyoei and he stated that h...

London Bridge   is falling down, falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady . 🎵~ 🎶   🎶 🎶   🎶 🎶   🎶   🎶  🎶 Many of us grown up being fairly familiar with the nursery rhyme “London Bridge is falling down”. I remember singing these type of children songs when I was a kindergartner in elementary. It's fun to sing and the melody is also easy to memorize too! Not only that, but it's about one of the world's most famous landmark. This landmark that we sang about numerous times as a kid is the London Bridge. I would usually only sing the first verse and stop there, but if you remember all the lyrics then you would know that many different building material are mentioned throughout the song. Why is that? The first London bridge was believed to be built by the Romans during the first century, but over the years, it has been rebuilt many times. These bridges later each got taken down either from disasters or havi...

In the United States of America, there is about 323.1 people as of 2016. There’s so many various faces, but there’s four specific faces that not only the citizens of the America, but also tourists from all around the world go to South Dakota go to see. These four faces belonged to the important people who were once a leader of the US. These large faces look over the country with their glowing, sculptured eyes. The carvers who have created this astonishing piece of monument was so skilled that the four presidents seemed as if they were alive. This sculptured hill is Mount Rushmore or more commonly known the President’s Mountain. You may think that the “Rushmore” in the name Mount Rushmore sounds a lot like a last name a person would have, but in fact, it actually was a person’s surname! The mountain was named after a New York lawyer, Charles E. Rushmore when he went on a trip to Black Hills in 1884 to inspect the mines in that area. He was curious of what the nearby mountain’s ...

👑 Near the center of India, stood a beautiful and romantic building. Like the Great Wall of China, it has made its way to become one of the new 👑 seven wonders of the world. It was built between 1632 and 1653 AD, and most of it was made up of white marble and red sandstone. Also, when you translate its name to English, it literally means “ Crown of the Palace ,” and this place is the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal, which was about 73 metres tall, was built during the Mughal Empire. It took approximately 21 years of construction until it was finally done. This building was not just built for fun or a place for the emperor to go in the summer, but instead, it actually has a romantic love story behind it! ➺➺➺ The way he looks at her haha 👀  It was created to by the Mughal emperor at that time which was Shah Jahan. It was made to memorialize his beloved third wife who died when she was 39 years old. As many of you have already known, many emperors in history had m...