I hope you’ve all been enjoying my blogs about the Disney parks! This week we’re going to look at the second of Disney World’s two water parks, Typhoon Lagoon!

Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon is a water theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida near Orlando. It is the second water park to open at the resort, preceded by Disney’s River Country which closed in November 2001.

The park, which opened on June 1, 1989, is home to one of the world’s largest outdoor wave pools where you can even bodysurf. The park is themed around the idea that a typhoon wreaked havoc upon a formerly pristine tropical paradise. Ships, fishing gear, and surfboards are strewn about where the storm flung them. Its centerpiece is “Miss Tilly”, a shrimp boat impaled upon a mountain named “Mount Mayday” that erupts a 50-foot geyser of water every half hour, right before the bells of the watch sound on it. Its mascot is “Lagoona Gator”.

In 2016, the park admitted approximately 2,277,000 visitors, currently making it the second most visited water park in the world.

Mount Mayday, located behind the surf pool, features “Miss Tilly” as well as many of the waterfalls and slides. It is a man-made mountain which not only provides launching areas for the water slides but also conceals the pipework.

The main engineering works performed in 1988 and 1989 featured studies, design, and tests on water wave generation and propagation. As the Typhoon Lagoon was one of the first wave-makers applied to a theme park, one of its prime objectives was to produce surfable waves. Waves are generated by a 12-cell prestressed concrete tank in the background of the lagoon covered with the shipwreck scene. Computer modeling techniques were used at the time to study fluid-structure interaction, stress concentrations, and fatigue to ensure integrity and safety. Prior to its opening, the Typhoon Lagoon was tested to determine wave shape, surf-board ride duration, and the extent to which the waves give a natural feeling as they propagate and break on the artificial beach downstream.

This is part three of the right hand versus left hand challenge.

How is my Hello!s teddy character doing? He’s looking pretty shakey….

Here, I began to colour the left one with my favourite Laurentien coloured pencils. I wonder how it will turn out?

Yikes! What happened?? Something I didn’t account for when I was doing this Challenge is broken leads. Never drop your pencil crayons! If you do, there’s a good chance that it will shatter the lead inside the pencil. Then, every time you sharpen it, the broken leads will keep coming out.

Even with the broken leads, I still did my best to power through this exercise. Not only was I using my non dominant hand, but I also had the challenge of broken leads!

How will this turn out? Due to the unforeseen challenges, stay tuned for Part 4!

Hello everyone!

As you all know, I have been teaching at Hello!s for almost half a year now.

But I have never been to the 43rd floor of the Gifu City Tower. 

So last night, I have decided to go up there to see what it looks like.

This is how it looks like. It’s not as high as the other towers I’ve been to in the Philippines but it surely is amazing to look at!

I hope you like it. What do you think about the city view?

秋になるとあちこちでコスモスを見ますね。いろいろな色のコスモスがありますが

素朴な美しさが秋の空によく映えて私の好きな花の一つです。

コスモスを見ると優しい気持ちになれる気がしています。

野の花ではなく、お花屋さんにおいてあげてほしい、花瓶にいれて飾って格上げしてほしい花です。

秋桜と書くこの花は、キク科・コスモス族で原産国はメキシコ。

花言葉は、優美、美麗・乙女の愛情・野生の美しさ・恋の終わり・調和などで、色によって意味が

あるのは他の花言葉とも同じです。

コスモスの由来は、スペイン人がメキシコから持ち帰ったことが始まりで美しいというギリシャ語

「kosmos」に由来。このことから星がきれいに美しくそろう宇宙をcosmosと呼び、整然と並ぶこの

花もこう呼ぶようになったそうです。

コスモスの葉は線のように細く繊細ですが、台風に倒されてもまた立ち上がって花をつけるなど強い植物

です。

美しいのに強い・・・すばらしい。

９月２７日　今日の花。