Facebook

Facebook is a Disneyland inspired campus with 10 restaurants.  They have a hamburger shack, a pizza spot 2 main cafeterias and many more restaurants.  There is an app that you download on your phone and each restaurant posts their menu on the app.  They even have a dessert bar.  Every restaurant is free.  I ate mac&cheese with truffle oil, chips, pizza, fries covered with cheese,  bread, ham and I drank Coke.  For dessert I had tiramisu and frozen yogurt.

They have a real arcade with Japanese video games that still say the price in Japanese Yen.  The main area is Hacker Square where there is a crane holding up a bench that was moved from the old to the new campus and on the floor of hacker square there are big letters that spell ''HACK''.  The floors and the ceilings of all the buildings are unfinished to show that Facebook will never be finished and they will always be improving.  They even have valet parking right outside the lobby in the parking lot.  At the entrance there is a big thumbs up sign and on the back of the sign it still says Sun Microsystems because Facebook used to be the Sun Microsystems campus and they just flipped around the sign.  They also had a barber, a dentist, a spa and the swag store.  Instagram's offices were inside Facebook and we got to see them as well.

My lunch at Facebook (before I got the pizza)

The back of the Facebook sign

The front of the Facebook sign

A wall inside of Facebook

                                      The crane holding up the bench at the middle of Hacker Square

  

                                                        A photo booth inside Instagram

Twitter

Twitter is a big building on Market street.  On the bottom floor they are building a market with restaurants. There is also a public gym on the second floor.  They also have a roof top deck where you can play games look at the street eat and hang out.

They have a cafeteria on 4 floors.  The main cafeteria is on the ninth floor.  They also have cafeterias on the fifth, sixth, ninth and tenth floor.  They have small plates and good drinks.  I ate cheeseburger pizza, amazing fish & chips, tater tots covered in chili, muscles, french onion soup, popcorn, and fries.

They also have snack bars, a smoothie bar, multiple game rooms and you can't even use the elevators without a badge.

I hope you liked my blog post about Twitter, even though it was really short but I really hope you liked it.

Pixar

Pixar is an enclosed campus with a swimming pool and 20 bars and a huge fireplace. They had 1 cafeteria and 1 cafe.  In the cafeteria you have to pay but they have amazing pizza, soup and, ravioli.  At Pixar they also have a art gallery from the creator of pixar.  To get there we drove across the Bay Bridge to Emeryville.

Google

                                                The google stage in the cafeteria

                                                      The yard by the visitor center

                                                Foosball in the game room

Google is a sprawling campus 45 minutes from San Francisco right off the highway.  It is a group of buildings. There are also random buildings that aren't even Google and there are even houses.  Google has multiple cafeterias and the main one is in the Googleplex.  There is also a gift shop that sells various things but mostly shirts.  While we were visiting we played fuse ball and we visited the offices.

OUR FREE THE CHILDREN RUN

On Monday may 12 2014 our school organized a run to raise money to build schools in poor countries.
They made a circuit to run around in at Little Rec in Golden Gate Park.  For about a month we had to find sponsors and they paid us a certain amount of money per lap.  We had 12 minutes to run as many laps possible around the circuit.  

In the center of the circuit there was ice cold water.  Whenever you wanted you could stop and drink while you ran.

I had 3 sponsors and they each gave me $1.00 per lap.  I did 10 laps so I got $30.00.

My 2 Week Spring Break

On spring break that lasted 2 weeks, I went to Murfreesboro Tennessee (a small town 1 hour from Nashville), Roselle Park (a small town in New Jersey), and Middletown (another small town in New Jersey).

 We got there on Wednesday April 16 in Middletown New Jersey at Tana's friend's house.  We stayed there until Monday the 21st.

On Friday we went to Manhattan to visit Suzy and eat mac & cheese.  After lunch we took the Subway to the Freedom Tower.

On Easter Sunday we went to Roselle Park (Tana's home town) to visit Tana's sister. We saw the house that Tana grew up in.

That morning I went fishing.  At the first lake we couldn't find anything so we went to a river.  5 minutes later we tried to go find a snake in the riverbank.  Then my fishing pole got stuck in a tree. When I was trying to get it out I fell into the 10 foot deep 40 degree water and I was there for 30 seconds.  I needed the person who brought me fishing to pull me out. I was fine.

On Monday we went to Murfreesboro Tennessee.  We stayed at Tana's other friend's house in the country side in a log cabin.  She was picking up a new foster dog that only had 3 legs.  She had 2 other dogs, a black one that was 60 pounds whose name was Lady and a white one that was 100 pounds that was 1 year old and his name was Bodie.

On the first night I went with their daughter to a pottery place where I made Tana a Mother's Day gift.  

The next day we went to downtown Nashville and ate really good southern food at a restaurant called Southern and we went to a Honkey Tonk. 

The next day we were going to go to a farm but when we got there it was abandoned.  Then we went to a horse farm but we didn't see any horses.  That afternoon we went to a plantation mansion.

That night I went rock-climbing at a local gym.  I did boulders and 5.9's.

The next day (a Thursday) we went back to San Francisco.  I had a good trip.  My favorite parts were when I went to Manhattan and downtown Nashville.

The Boat Trip in Sausalito

On Tuesday April 8th 2014 we went on a 3 hour boat trip in Sausalito.  We learned how to raise the sail, how to find where we were on a map, how to tie a lot of knots, and how to steer the boat.  We also visited the downstairs, there were secret compartments downstairs to hide food and there were couches that turn into beds.  There were 19 beds downstairs.  After the boat trip we ate lunch on stairs by the dock.  After lunch we went to the beach and we went in the water so we made tunnels but they collapsed so we used water and pitch that we found in tide pools to make a big hole.  After that we went back to school.