Mandala

Another peaceful day in Enrichville, great master Darryn is teaching again. One quarter of the citizens of Enrichville have come to listen to his new maths-based topic, 'Mandala'. Mandala is a Budhist way of worshipping their gods. They make a Mandala out of sand and when they finish it (which is like a week after they start), they do their worshipping and when it is over, they sweep it up and put the sand in a river as an offering and to spread it around the world.

Above is a traditional budhist mandala made out of sand.

To make a mandala you put a dot in the middle of the page as the "seed". You use shapes and letters to create a masterpiece. But don't think. Only add what comes into your brain first. There is no mistake, and nothing that will make it look better.

Here is the creations I made today:

REMINDER: I USED PENCIL, NOT SAND.

Global Citizenship

Once in Enrichville, great master Darryn was talking to all the boys and girls about global citizenship and about how you can stay safe using online technologies and what happens to all that personal information when you put it into an account, like Animal Jam or Facebook or Yahoo! mail. 

This is what great master Darryn had to say:

Your personal information starts when you are 5 months into birth, lets use Andy as an example name to show you what I mean. Andy gets a photo in his mums belly 5 months into birth. Andy's parents put the image on Facebook, many people screenshot it and put it on more websites, and so on and so on. When Andy is born he gets more and photos taken and a lot of them go onto his parents Facebook page. More photos get screenshotted and put onto more websites. The same happens when and first stands, crawls, walks and talks. When Andy grows up he signs up for Moshi Monsters. He put a lot of personal information he does not need as the required information is put with an asterix beside the question for the information. When Andy grows up he signs up for Amazon where he buys books for studying. He uses his credit card details to buy the books and his address to get his books delivered. He gets married and more and more pictures get copied and emailed. When Andy has a new baby, the same thing goes on again.

Very scary thought, huh?