Journal Entry & Characters chart

Characters chart:

Bernard:

·        Bully

·        Does not like when people disobey his orders or go against him

·        Does not show sympathy toward Ender

 Rose the Nose:
· Enders commander in the rat army
·He tries to control Ender before letting finally realizing Ender should not be controlled.

Alai:

·        Bridge Between Ender and Bernard

·        Bernards “Best friend”

·        Practices with Bernard and the launchies in the battle room

Bozno:

·        Leader of the salamander Army

·        Hates Ender because he is no use for his army and wants to get rid of him

Petra Arkanian:

·        A girl in the Salamander army

·        The best shooter in the salamander army

·        Helps ender learn to shoot by privately training him  

Dink:

·        Enders platoon leader in the rat army.

·        Helps train ender

Mazer Rackam:

·        The one who defeated the buggers

·        Known to be the best  commander of all time

·        Was the one who helped defeat the Buggers last war
·     Respects Ender a lot and despite not showing any compassion towards him, Mazer is fully interested in Ender and does love him.

Ender:

·        6 Year old boy who is the third child and has two sibling( Peter his older brother and valentine his older sister)

·        He is currently enrolled in battle school

·        Was in the salamander army but was later on traded for Rat Army.

          Meeting a person from a foreign country could be a very exciting experience. By meeting a Person from a foreign country I would be able to share my experiences. In grade 8 I had met a kid who had come from China. By meeting the kid I was able to interact to him and talk about what is was like to come to Canada. Being from China, the boy had a very unique yet difficult to understand accent which made it somewhat hard to communicate. By interacting with the kid I was able to learn about how it is to live in China. He told me off all the great places in china, and since he lived near China’s capital; Hong Kong, he told me about how hard it was to get from one place to another due to the tremendous traffic. He also described how in Hong Kong, there would always be smog in the air which would make it hard to see.  I asked him why he moved to Canada and he told me that in China there was a lack of jobs in his dad’s profession so his dad wanted to find a country where he could easily get a decent paying job and have a better living standard. He told me also that his dad was fed up with the fact that it took near 45 minutes for him to travel to the local market and his school because of the large traffic density and grid lock. His family decided to immigrate to Canada once his dad had got a job at Hydro one, meaning they would sell everything back in china and come to Canada to start a new life. When he asked what was unique about Canada I had told him about all the cool stuff that you could do in Brampton let alone Ontario. Our school offered a trip during the winter where we would travel to horseshoe valley and go skiing, skating and even tubing which would be very exciting for him considering he would have never seen snow before and it would be his first time participating in such activities.  Since he came from a religious family he told us how his city would offer this tremendous parade celebrating the new years (Chinese new years of course) and how there would festivals and great religious festivities he would celebrate. At the time I had heard about Chinese new year’s but have never really understood why they separate new year’s being celebrated on January 1st with their own separate date and he told me because Chinese New Year marks the first day of the New Year in the Chinese New year’s which differs from the Gregorian calendar and every year is represented by a different animal zodiac sign. It was very interesting learning about how they would celebrate North American holidays such as Halloween and Christmas. I had always wondered what it was like to live in China considering I see a lot of "Made in China" items I wondered if there would be a lot of factories rather than recreational centers and parks and what not, but to my surprise I was wrong. Apparently many factories were located in remote parts of China and away from densely populated areas so that there would not be a lot of pollution and he told me it was quite similar to Canada but rarely were there any houses just many apartment buildings. Him being new to our school he was able to share his fascinating stories  among us and making sure he felt that he fit in with everyone and not be an outlier, being in a school environment, there were many  other kids from a foreign country to, so it was easier for the kids to transition into being included and not feel as if they did not belong.  It is a very unique experience being able to communicate with a person from another country and be able to communicate with them learning about what their life and country was like.