Friday, March 8, 2024

1:00AM - Shanghai, China

When: March 8th @ 1:00AM (3:00PM in China)

Where: Shanghai, China (NYU Shanghai)

Who: Suvi Biesinger



Its 1am here, but in china its 3 pm.

Moved to China during Covid 19

She was nervous when she moved there. 

She had to quarantine. 

She was trying new foods.  

They don’t eat /drink on the go. 

She's a university student at NYU Shanghai.

There are some American classes and Chinese as well.

They were not used to seeing foreigners. 

They took pictures her because they were not used to seeing people like her.

The masseuses are very rough. They will go hard. They will also do acupuncture and hot cupping. 

She is very opened minded. 

She likes dumplings and noodles. 

All classes are in English, unless Chinese.

She is learning Chinese. 

She likes to learn languages because she likes to communicate and compare the cultures. 

The people are very nice and welcoming. 

It's nice weather compared to Texas. 

Warm, not cold, and hot in the summer 

Has a raining season 

There are a lot of parks. 

People like to dance, play music and perform in parks. 

She likes the traditional clothing. 

You should be polite to the shrines. 

They are not really body positive, well, they dont think its rude. 

They have an ideal of the skinnier you are, the healthier you are. 

The federal law is the same everywhere. 

There is a lot of paperwork for staying in China if your an foreigner. 

There are a bunch of stories of the sun. 

There are a lot of holidays. 

Waterfall that they like to visit

She can speak two languages: French and English. 


Thursday, March 7, 2024

10:00PM - Kaneohe, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

When: March 7th @ 10:00PM (6:00PM in Hawaii)

Where: Kaneohe, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Who: Kimberly Jones



Time 6:05 pm

Weather 75𐩑F

6th grade teacher 

Loves teaching her students

Words:Akena means Moon, Mooloa means Story

Gardening because of the nice weather

Native plants: ferns, trees, canoe

Cost of living is expensive

Chicken, mongoose roaming

Community getting together to hang and give back to the island.

Favorite food: Shredded chicken, boba tea, Arabe, Pickle mango,s haved ice, Poke “YUM”

Tourism:Overcrowding, Leaving trash

Black sand beaches????

Remains of a volcanoes: Ko'olau

Birds: Honeycreepers

Sports: Surfs, Paddle boarding

Legends: Mooloa means story!!!!

Music: Ukulele


9:00PM - Monterrey, Mexico

When: March 7th @ 9:00PM

Where: Monterrey, Mexico

Who: Andrea & Carolina Martinez



Soccer World Cup

 Fast life style 

They work hard to spend time with family.  

They like it there. 

There so many thing to do there. 

The mountains are so beautiful. 

They are surrounded by many beautiful mountains.

Hot air balloons

Population is very big, it take 25 minutes to get to her school. 

Walks outside to get to class rooms 

Their public schools are not as good as US schools.

It's normal to go to private schools.

Mexico has very beautiful beaches.

Historical towns and landmarks

Delicious food: enchiladas, carne asada, flautas, corn, flan, arroz con leche

Everybody loves and plays soccer. 

Music festivals

Country music

Many are Catholic

Posadas? Dj, music, friends, dates

Museums, see how steel was made

Not many monuments, aguatecas

Bears

Pico de gallo with quesadillas

Have Shake Shack

People come from other places in Mexico to go to school in Monterrey.

Really hot in summer



8:00PM - Transylvania, Romania (Forensic Osteologist) via North Carolina, USA

When: March 7th @ 8:00PM (9:00PM in North Carolina)

Where: Transylvania, Romania

Who: Katie Zejdlik-Passalacqua - Forensic Osteologist



North  Carolina, Romania experience 

Anthology  looks at what makes us humans.


People that don’t know each other have to work together to look at a deceased person's remains and identify what each part is.


Bones aren't fused until you're 21 years old.


Every 10 years, your bones reform.


They can see where you have been from your teeth from the first and last years of your life.


Infections can cause the bones to grow back differently.


Tv show open bodies aren't accurate compared to a real human body or animal body.


Works at a body farm


If you put a decomposing body in humid weather, then it could decompose in weeks, but if you put it in a super cool area, then it will take longer to decompose.


It would not be possible to find someone from the Titanic.


She worked in Transylvania, Romania, which is known for vampires. They found some interesting things done to prevent people that were believed to be vampires from coming back to life. 


 Some diseases on the bone 


Time is 9:00


7:00PM - Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (Meteorologist & Emmy Award Winning Journalist @ THV11)

When: March 7th @ 7:00PM

Where: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Who: Skot Covert - Meteorologist & 3x Emmy Award Winning Journalist @ THV11



The only way to get data from a hurricane is by plane. They then take the data and tell people where it might go. The difference between watch and warning: watch is might happen, warning will happen


Weather and climate aren't the same. Weather is short term, climate is long term. Bad weather comes in different ways: tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves, etc. 


Along the gulf coast, there are constant hurricanes and an unofficial spectrum, called the Waffle House spectrum. The bad hurricanes mean the Waffle House is closed, and decent hurricanes means that they have a limited menu. 


The meteorologist wakes up at 2 am and starts the weather at 4:30 am! “March 31st I was working… as a very violent tornado went through downtown Little Rock. I will never forget that day” was his reply to what was the scariest storm he encountered. What he did that day saved many lives. He should be proud of himself.


He wanted to do this job because he was just in love with weather and storms since he was a kid. Starting at just a local news station.


The thing he loves about his job is that it always changes. The weather, obviously, changes a lot but so does his job. “It is always a fun challenge that changes so often.” 


“The more and more I watched the more I learned. The more I learned the more I was curious.” That's what he said as a reply to what inspired you to do your job.


The coolest thing he has done on the job was fly into a hurricane to collect data. 


4:30PM - Israel, Sudan, & Cyprus (Archaeology) via Nashville, Tennessee, USA

When: March 7th @ 4:30PM

Where: Israel, Sudan, & Cyprus (Archaeology)

Who: Scott Huff - Archaeologist



Israel, Sudan, Cyprus

     Archaeological

Time in Cyprus, Sudan, and Israel: 12:30am on Friday, March 8th


Archaeology comes from Greek, it means: A story of the past. Material culture. 

Digging gets to an ancient place. Looking for items that they ate with or what they used to sit on, finding the remains of what they ate, carvings of feet, and pottery (found in many pieces)


Sudan:

Nuri a place where a king live long time ago 


Expedition Unknown on Discovery Channel


A tel is a formation of the the bottom to years ago to now


Israel:

Tel burna a Tel is a place where people live in over 1,000 years ago



Drones help with archaeological digs, load into computer models

Archaeology is about telling the past, create timelines and maps

Drawings of ancient eastern temples in ancient Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, only possible through archaeology

Biblical drawings, made possible through archaeology

Oldest artifact he’s found: late Bronze age (13th century B.C., 1200s), pottery found from 1250 B.C. in Israel

Sample pottery (milk bowl): dipped in white paint, painted with brown in an intricate pattern, made in Cyprus, Canaanites loved the pottery (like fine China, good dinnerware)

Favorite piece: rhinestone, carved hole in the middle, it was dropped on the ground, it was being used for grinding a red powder used for dye, powder was saved in the piece and analyzed, 11th century B.C.

Hottest: 124º F

If you want quality replica artifacts, go to Etsy

Archaeologists are typically forgotten, but their pieces/finds are remembered

Place with most artifacts: Tel Beth-Shemesh, found lots of amulets, amulet: portrayal of one of the rulers->a queen representing herself with royal art to represent her royal status


3:30PM - Sydney, Australia

When: March 7th @ 3:30PM ( March 8th @8:30AM in Australia)

Where: Sydney, Australia

Who: Sydney Zoo



 The Sydney Zoo- 8:30am, Friday

White rhino, giraffes, lions, red pandas, alligator, snapping turtles, possums, lizards, snakes, frogs, kangaroos, tasmanian devils

5 million in sydney

Spiny leaf insect-spike

Collared brown snake and red bellied black snake

Capybara, koalas- very popular

Most variety of reptiles and fish

Shingle back lizard

Blue tongued lizard- drop tail in case of predators-predators eat tail

Sandy eats other reptiles

130 species, 4000 individual animals, including bugs and fish

Carpet python- cuddles

Know the snakes in your area and how to identify them

Conservative science degree

Certificate in zookeeping- basic requirements for zoo keeping at the zoo

Chef, nutritionist, zookeepers

Emu- Australia's biggest flightless bird

Oldest animal- crocodile, 50

Youngest- monkeys, 1 month old

Meerkat- most popular encounter

Most mammals are marsupials

Opened 5 years ago

Been open since december 2019

First animals- hyenas

Tasmanian devils have 1 of 3 contagious cancers that transfer when they bite each other

Didgeridoo - native instrument

They have seahorses!!!!!


2:00 PM - South Pole, Antarctica

When: March 7th @ 2:00PM (March 8th @ 9:00AM in Antarctica)

Where: South Pole, Antarctica

Who: IceCube Neutrino Research Center



IceCube Neutrino Observatory

A neutrino interacts with ice

Digital optical modules

Looks at stars in many ways

Madison-Denver-Houston-New Zealand-South Pole.

McMurdo largest research station in Antarctica 

Whole lot of nothing

-15F to -121F temp’s

Small (very!!!) dorms 

LIBRARY??

GREEN HOUSE??!

Sledding hill 

The best spider ever named, “Specimen #0001” I couldn’t have named him better myself.

South Pole Zoo population: one spider found on plane

Extreme isolation

Communication limited 

One doctor on duty 

And don’t die or severely injure yourself because no one will save you in the next few weeks

They have to do their own check ups (There is no Doc McStuffins…)

No deliveries in the winter 

~15 hours of WIFI (slow)

McMurdo: 1200 miles away 

International Space Station: 200 miles above your head

Telescopes 

Microwave detector 

Event horizon telescope

Climate observation 

26 mile marathon 

Warmest day -13F 

Have soup as an option every day

Ice cream on ice 

This one guy was dressed up as Hand Sanitizer. I want to be a hand sanitizer person in the South Pole when I grow up!!! 

Everyone out there has similar likes and dislikes, so it's pretty easy to make friends. I kinda wish middle school was that easy. 

Station was built in 2008!!

10 years worth of shrines are hidden in tunnels underground. There’s a large fish frozen in ice.

There’s a shrine with a famous guy’s snotty tissues… 

They get tourists?!?! ONE OF THEM WILL SMITH AND HIS FAMILY?!?!? I think I need to visit the South Pole more often…

Almost everyone misses nature and warm weather

Run around the world

Sauna 200F in a -50F weather

Soooooo much preparing before you get there (personally, that’s too much work for me)

Only 100 pounds of stuff to bring with you


1:15 PM - MYSTERY CALL - Monrovia, Liberia

 When: March 7th @ 1:15 PM (7:15 PM in Liberia)

Where: Monrovia, Liberia

Who: Anora David


Basketball is growing
Kickball for girls, Soccer for boys
Different churches
9th grade is junior high
Most animals killed or left in civil war
Mini hippo
African Elephant
Monrovia, Liberia! 

Not northern part of continent 
Around africa
Size of Ohio or Tennessee 
Monroevia is the Capital
Above equator 
Hot weather dry season middle of november to april
Rain season 
English official language, 15 different dialects  
Some mountains
Rice 
Kasaba 
7:22 in liberia. 1:22 here
Thanksgiving on the first thursday on every November
They go to church on thanksgiving 
They go clean the grave of family members
Monrovia named after James Monroe
People listen to American and African music
Fried rice with meat and sausage 
Cassava leaves
Rice every day
Three branches of government
Schools that run from Kindy to 12th
Founded by freed slaves of america
Pledge allegiance very similar 
Very similar to US government
Civil War Dec 1989- 2005 
First african female president in Africa
Good Beaches
Soccer is big

Snakes
Clothing similar to america
Lappa is the traditional clothing
Importing goods is a lot of money
Bird of paradise
Coconut and palm trees
Bordered by the atlantic ocean
Used to have the largest Rubber plantation
People go to surf
Milk is not liquid


12:00 PM - Cuenca, Ecuador

When: March 7th @ 12:00 PM (1:00 PM in Italy)

Where: Cuenca, Ecuador

Who: Brittany Pade-Brown


The time in Ecuador is 1:00 PM.
She has lived there 9 years.
Her job is working for World Bible School 
The weather is 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Her hobbies are her kids.
Animals that are found there are llamas and alpacas.
She lives in the mountains, which are higher than most cities.
All of there museums are free to visit.
One of the most visited museums is a place of shrunken heads.
The most common food is called a suakle, kinda like a soup and ceviche.
Most people don’t read where she lives.
Most of the books are from Spain.
They had their money, but they changed to the US dollar about 10 years ago.
The 3 different school options are private, free, and a mix of both.
The public schools are free but there are a lot of children. There is also a fee, and they have to pay for their own things for school.
They have swim, horseback riding, and logos engineering.
Horseback riding is not as popular because it is more expensive.
People in Ecuador do not like swimming.
Public transport is very common, but it has just become more expensive. If you take a bus it's longer, while a taxi is more expensive, and the train only goes certain places.
Some churches are Spanish .
They celebrate the death and birth of Jesus, but they do not celebrate Easter.
While in the US the tooth fairy gives children money, when they lose their teeth, a rat is the “tooth fairy”, which will give you a quarter instead of a dollar.
They don't  celebrate Halloween or Thanksgiving.
Basically, every other week is a holiday.
They start school September 1th and end June 30th 
They get Christmas break. Sometimes is it only 2 days, and the carnival is 1-2 weeks.
They don't have Amazon. It's taxed at 80%.
They charge a lot of tax on things from out of the country.
There are 56 churches where she lives.
Their streets are really small. They have basic (small) cars like toyota and trucks.
Vans are not common because potholes are very common.
They kiss each other has a greeting. If you don't do it, it's a insult to them.
Health care is like the schools, private and public.
Their population is 17.8 million.
They don't get to star gaze, so they go the US to see the stars.
If someone has run away from US jail and come to Ecuador, Ecuador will not give them back.
They rarely sell land.
Taxes for a home is 18%. 
It cost $300-600 a month for rent.