MY FAVORITE SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!

Basketball

One of my favorite sports is basketball. I like it because it involves using your hands, you have to run a lot, and I'm very good at it. I also like to watch it too. My favorite NBA (National Basketball Association) team is the Boston Celtics. I first started playing basketball when I was 6 years old in the States. My first several years I played mostly on local "house" teams. In one playoff game I scored 26 points which I think is still a record. After house league, I graduated to the McLean Travel Team (our city's all-star team) when I was 10. The season lasted from October to March and we played 15 games against other towns in the Northern Virginia area. When we moved to Malaysia, I was afraid there wouldn't be any basketball, but I was surprised. We found that there were school-based teams in middle school, which wasn't the case in the U.S. Only High Schools have school teams. I'm getting really excited about the upcoming basketball season at ISKL. In a preseason tournament at Garden International School, we came in 1st place out of 5 teams.

If you don't know what the sport of basketball is, I'll tell you a few of the basic rules and regulations. There are 5 players on the court for each team (5 v 5). The teams objective is to move the ball up the court and put the ball into the basket. There are three things you can do with the ball: pass, shoot, or dribble. The other team that doesn't have the ball tries to block the ball. There are five positions: Point Guard, Shooting Guard, Small Forward, Power Forward, and Center. I play the shooting guard and small forward positions. This site will tell you some of the more advanced rules.

Inventions

One of the most important inventions over the past hundred year with the greatest impact on our lives is the automobile. For the first time in history it gave ordinary people the ability to travel long distances easily and cheaply. The first Gasoline engine car was built by Karl Benz in Germany in 1885. It wasn't until 1914 that a large scale production of automobiles began with Henry Ford's famous assembly line. For can to be really useful, roads and highways are needed. In the 1950's and the 1960's, the U.S built thousands of miles of highways, and ownership of cars jumped. These day there are almost 2 cars per. American family. Car ownership in countries like China and India and other developing countries like Malaysia have increased. These days cars are not only powered by Gasoline, but also by: Diesel, Biofuels, and Electricity. These alternatives fuels are to help the environment by reducing pollution. This is why I picked the car for my invention.

SPCA

The SPCA stand for Socity for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal. It's a animal shelter that takes care for abandon animal. The SPCA is getting more than 7000 animals a year and is runnign out of space for the animals, so they want people to come to the shelter and adopt the animals instead of buying pets. So please come to the shelter and adopt a animal. Help the animals of Malaysia.