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[School activities] Finalizing gathering of items for the flea market&raffles

 Spring carnival will be held by tomorrow! Members of the flea market team have collected all boxes(items) from Kindergarten to Grade 12. And we priced on every single item. Even today, many students/teachers and staffs hand us their items. It was a calories-burning exercise for us to collect all of the items but it was fun! Some items were brand-new or seemed very fancy. So we gathered them into another group and put them into the main office. By 21st April 2017, we will sell items in the flea market and provide items for the raffle so I want as many people to come and join the event.

[After school activities] Laboratory experiment: Checking water quality of water ecosystem in Hanoi

Due to the parents-teacher conference, teammates' personal business and my illness, the laboratory experiment had been delayed to 14th April 2017. We planned to have water quality checking kit. However, some issues have occurred so we couldn't experiment our water sample with the kit. Fortunately, we have Plan B, which include: checking turbidity, checking pH rate, and microscope checking. So we could conclude our experiment successfully. <<NOTICE>> Water sample 1-Giang Vo lake Water sample 2-Ngoc Khanh lake Water sample 3-To Lich river Lake FIRST STEP -CHECKING TURBIDITY Beaker 1 and 2 seem very clean. Just like purified water. But Beaker 3 was totally black and smelled like a rotten egg. SECOND STEP -CHECKING pH RATE Despite our expectations, these water samples were very alkalic. Among them, sample 3 was the highest alkaline sample among the samples. When we consider that alkalic has a characteristic of absorbing wate...

[After school activities] Checking water quality of water ecosystems in Hanoi

With the Environment Club CCP group, I went to several water ecosystems in Hanoi to check the water quality and how it's related with locals' life.  The first one is 'To Lich' river. This river usually called as 'Toilet river' by foreigners who live in Hanoi.  We could easily observe that the polluted water from sewages directly flowed to the river, which is serious point pollution.  To get better result, I took 1 litre of water from the river. The smell of the river was very stinky and I could observe the air (bubble) being popped in the river. I think To Lich river is highly toxic.  The second one is Ngoc Khanh lake. It is near to my school and the civil government had huge project to clean the ecosystem of Ngoc Khanh lake. They took off all of the water in the lake and cleaned the lakebed. After the cleaning, they put lake water back. In result, this lake became so much cleaner than the past times. Our CCP also took a liter of wat...

[LIFE HACKS] Helpful websites for 'Urban planning' (always being updated)

Archives of useful resources for urban planning http://futureurbanism.com/interview/tag/urban-planning/?category=54 TED talks on Urban planning https://www.ted.com/topics/urban+planning Korea Planning Association http://www.kpa1959.or.kr/eng/index.html?menuno=2562 Development Process and Urban Planning of Hanoi, Vietnam: Historic Process and Policy Implications http://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/NODE06681958 한국 부동산 수요 예측 A forecast of Korean real estate market http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/economy_general/804437.html Calgary's Innovative Traffic Solution http://www.autotrader.ca/newsfeatures/20170815/calgarys-innovative-traffic-solution/ 우리안의 그렌펠 타워, 그 곳이 불안하다:15층 아파트의 비밀 Dangerousness of apartments that have 15 levels in Seoul http://news.joins.com/Digitalspecial/205 Cellular Urbanism: Analyzing the Anatomy of Functional City Block Designs http://weburbanist.com/2017/08/29/cellular-urbanism-analyzing-the-anatomy-of-functional-city-block-desig...