As soon as I got into the Dead Sea my body felt like I was in a lake filled with bubble solution. In swimming pools I cannot float so well but in the Dead Sea I floated right way because it was sooooooo salty. Everyone tasted some and it tasted like acid. The Dead Sea is really salty because it has no outlets. Any of the minerals that go into the sea stay in the sea. Other bodies of water usually have outlets like rivers and streams so the minerals flow out int...

Henna is made from ground-up henna bush leaves. The dye leaves a reddish brownish color stain on the skin. When the henna first went on my hand and arm it felt and looked like liquidly chocolate. Then after about 5 minutes the henna dried and it felt like a facemask had hardened on my hand. After it was on there for 30 min I put it under water. The hard henna turned to mush. After that I just scraped it off with my nail. Something else about India is that sin...

Today I woke up at 4:45 AM to go to the Taj Mahal and see it in sunrise. It was REALLY, REALLY early but it was worth it. The Taj Mahal was so beautiful. Before I tell you more about what the Taj Mahal looked like I am going to tell you why it was built. The Taj Mahal is a tomb for Mumtaz Mahal the emperor Shah Jahan's wife (one of them) that died when she was 39. She died giving birth to her 14th child, who died also. The king loved his queen so much that he w...

Today I am going to teach you how knot carpets are made. The first thing you do to make a knot carpets is think of a pattern then draw it out. The paper that they draw it out on has little squares where you mark what color is going to be on that part of the carpet and it becomes your plan. Once the maker is finished laying out the pattern in a plan and getting the silk dyed in the needed colors then he sits down and starts working on a big carpet loom. Carpets ...

Today I went to the science center in Singapore. I am going to tell you about 3 things that I learned in the science center. The first thing I learned about was Archimedes Screw. Archimedes Screw is an invention from 600 BC that is used to pick up water from one place like a lake and move it to another place like a bucket. This is how it works: there is a REALLY big hollow screw. The hollow part at the end of the screw picks up the water from the river. You k...