Johnny Nesbits Blog

Hello World! It has been a while since I have blogged. I should be blogging at least once a week now.
If you don’t know already I am in the 7th grade now. So I should be kept kind of busy. Good-Bye.

Today’s topic are fish tanks/aquariums.

The Romans were the first to have aquariums. They were made of marble but in the year 50, glass panes were used instead. The first fish kept indoors were known as sea barbels. In 1369, the Chineese Emporer had a tub built to have goldfish. Eventually the shape resembled todays goldfish bowl. In 1841, Dr. Ward created a tank to hold plants and toy fish. Later he put real fish in his tank and it worked. In 1853, the first public aquarium opened in the London Zoo. Aquariums became a fad in the 1850s in the U.K. The fad spread to Germany and evutally the U.S.

A Sea Barbel

Today’s topic is coffee.

It is believedthat the first people to drink coffee were ancient Ethiopians. In the 16Th Century coffee had spread to Egypt, Turkey andnorthern Africa. Soon afterwards coffee was drunkin Italy and eventually the rest of Europe. The Dutch people were the first to massively sell coffee beans and plants. Coffee was also sold in colonies around the globe from the Americas to Indonesia.

FUN FACTS:

A coffee bean is technically a berry.

Coffee used to be a name for wine.

Muslim Monks used coffee as a spiritual drink.

An espresso has a third of the caffeine then a  regular cup of coffee.

Today’s topic is one of the most over-looked objects in the world, pens.

The first pens were used by the Indians in 500 B.C. They were made of bamboo sticks and feathers from birds. The idea quickly spread across Asia. The Romans then obtained this technology. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europeans used quills dipped  in ink. This type of pen was used to sign and write The Constitution of the United States of America.

One of the most widely used pens, the ball-point pen, was first patented on October 30tyh, 1888 by John J. Loud. The roller ball pen was invented in the early 1980s. it was improved upon in the early 1990s giving it a smoother line a better overall performance.

Tomorrow I am going to have a flag sale. During the day tomorrow we are going to have a booth in a festival and sell flags to people. Today we are preparing for it by making signs and packing some flags. Since it will be the Forth of July the next day we hope to sell many U.S.A. Flags.

 We have been staying home. My mom is on a trip to California with my little sister for a week.  Until they get back it is pizzas, twinkies, and 12:00 bedtimes.

My mom is visiting my grandma, uncle, aunt, and cousins. They left at 6:50 a.m. on Tuesday and will come home on Wendsday night.

Over the last few days I have had ear pain. It happened on vacation when I was in the pool so much water got deep in my ear. Then it got infected so it hurt. I took some ear drops and it feels better.

Simply apply pencil here.

We are counting down the days til we go home. Saturday is the last day and we are driving back on Sunday. We swam for two and a half hours in the pool. afterwards we played on our WII. It is dinner time so good-bye.

I have been on summer vacation for nearly the past two weeks. we stayed at a nice house. The house we stayed in had a huge pool in the backyard. I normally spend two hours in the pool a day.WE have gone out to eat almost every day since we went on this trip. There is a bbq grill so we can cook hamburgers and hot dogs. We have to go back to Georgia on Sunday so there is only two days left.

Last Sunday we went to Florida. It took 10 hours to get to our vacation house. Over the last few days we have swam in our pool, saw Karate Kid, and went bowling. I have had so much fun over the past few days.