“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.”

When archaeologists dig up ancient artifacts, when they run their fingers across an old statue, a clue that there had been Gods and Goddesses long ago, when they wipe off their dusty hands and they haul the broken pottery from the endless pit of time, do they know the full story of the items they are handling? Geographers study the land and find clues from the past, but do they connect the window of the past to the window of the future? Do archaeologist or geographers get a perspective of life that started it all and enable us to accomplish more? Do they watch as the words on the historical sheaves of paper flow into the air and morph in to a tale no one alive has ever heard? Do their fingers move to command, translating old languages that are barely used by the people today, into modern languages, so that the young, eager readers of the future can open their minds to the history of civilization? These were the very fascinating facts that persuaded me to be a historian.

A historian is a multi-dimensional job. A historian has multiple faces:

• A historian is a teacher who answers questions about the past, yet he is a student who questions the past. I believe I could be a good teacher when others are in the amidst of confusion because I have always been able to help people when they were having trouble and I can be a student who creates answers by making mistakes because I learn from the past, like a historian, who learns from studying the past. I can instruct others, but I leave the realization for them to discover. I believe I have the patience and attention span to be a good student.

• A historian is a writer who records the past events and discoveries, yet he is a reader who opens his mind to possibilities and impossibilities. I believe I can be a writer who can preserve memories for the coming future, for I love to write and record my life in a diary and write stories. I unlock new gates that lead to creativity whenever I write. I believe I can be a reader who molds new worlds, but never strays afar from reality because I have a vast imagination and I can read anywhere and anytime.

• A historian is a detective who finishes the story that has forever been a mystery, yet he is an explorer who reaches the ends of the earth in his mind. I believe I can be a detective when there is problem to be solved and when everyone is afraid to step into the vague unsolved situation because in any difficulty I search and do not stop till I find the answer, no matter how distant and hard it is. I can think of different strategies and find the path to my solution. Like a historian I believe I can be explorer because of my adventurous attitude and my thirst for new places and knowledge.

I believe I can be a historian.

A historian at his work. dynamicearthwebquest.com/process.htm

A historian is a teacher, a student, a writer, a reader, a detective and an explorer.
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15 years later...

I gasped with a mixture of excitement and surprise. I had finally finished translating the early writings from Greece and now before me was the completed story. All the little facts, that I thought were not important, had been knitted into a quilt of tales. Sifting through the translated papers and then looking out the musty window to see the Parthenon in Athens, Greece I wore an expression of awe, so much had changed. I smiled. I knew that this was the job for me, ever since I was 11 years old.

My fellow co-worker. Ha, ha. Just kidding. It's actually Mark Ritts. www.insmogandthunder.com/historian.html

The Parthenon in Athens, Greece
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Hey, I'm Sunskruthi!

Hello, hello! I'm Sunskruthi. I am from Arizona, U.S.A, the Grand Canyon State. I am an animal lover and activist. I have a dog, a Lhasa Apso, who is so cute and obedient. He actually understands so many English words and it surprises me how he can fit so many vocabulary words in that little furry head of his. Well, this blog post is about me, so let's get back to me! I love to draw and write poems, novels, and short stories in my free time. Tennis is my favorite sport because I love to swing the racket with the wind in my face. Super supportive parents are for a super smiley girl (me)! I have one big brother in 11th grade, which means I get to embarrass him in front of his friends, since we are on the same campus, now! Just kidding.

My main hobby is reading. You can't catch me without a book on a Friday night. I adore fantasy books because I love how fictitious and impossible it gets, yet the author makes it seem so real. My imagination soars to new heights while reading every new book.

The last three books I have read are:

• The Skeleton Key of the Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz

• Ptolemy's Gate of the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

• The Alchemyst by Michael Scott (currently reading now)

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The Skeleton Key is about Alex Rider, a teenage spy in a world of danger and secrecy and it is a very exciting book. Ptolemy's Gate is about a wizard named Nathaniel, who finds himself in the need of the genie, Bartimaeus, once again. The Alchemyst is about Nicholas Flamel, an alchemyst (if you watch Harry Potter he's mentioned in Philosopher's stone), that has finally been found by his enemy, Dr. John Dee in the modern world in California.

The last movie I watched was 'How To Train Your Dragon'. The movie is about a boy named Hiccup (I know it is a funny name), who lives in a world full of dragon-killing vikings. When he finally does knock-out a dragon he does not have the heart to kill it. Thus, begins his research into the world of dragons and his loving friendship with a once known enemy. I know it is kind of an old movie, but I had not watched it, so I watched it on the Singapore Airlines flight to Europe over summer vacation.

Speaking of vacations, my most memorable vacation was in Europe and Turkey this summer. Sure, the trip was busy and hectic, visiting London, France, Italy, Germany, and Greece and seeing the London Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, the Roman Colosseum, the Berlin Wall, and the Athens Acropolis, but the best and concluding part was when we relaxed on a wonderful cruise across the Aegean Sea from Greece to Turkey. Ah, so peaceful watching the sunset and the beautiful Greek Islands.

My academic goal is to excel in all my classes and to not be tardy to classes. This year I'm going to focus on being organized. My social goal is to make friends with people I never even knew, or knew much about.

Here are four adjectives that describe me:

1. Simply Sweet

2. Shockingly Smart

3. Sensitively Serviceable

4. Super Silly

Definition of Sunskruthi: Girl who is almost always, SMILING! :)

Well, I think that's all there is to this blog post. It's a brand new year and, boy, I'm excited! New classes, lockers, teachers, and people! Well, one of those new classes is Humanities and this happens to be my blog for Humanities. I love Humanities because it includes two of my favorite subjects: Language Arts and Social Studies. The teachers are so nice and understanding, especially my class teacher. Enjoy my blog and keep up with my exciting new edition posts! :)

The Grand Canyon in my home state, Arizona!

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