The Weather! March 9, 2009

                                                                                                                        

      The weather where I live in Snow Lake is so cold, you can stand outside for 10 minutes and you are frozen. The weather sometimes gets to about -40 or higher with the wind chill. For our Christmas break the weather is supposed to be around the -20 to -25.

      Mr. Fisher said that it is going to a really cold for January and February, but my mom heard that it is supposed to be way warmer than in December. I really do hope that mom is right and not Mr. Fisher because there are so many things to do in the snow but you can’t do any thing when it is-40 or -30 because it is too cold.

     I just bought a new ski-doo and I can’t ride it because it has been too cold these past couple of weeks. I never got to ride it once and I got it along time ago. I sure do hope that it will warm up after Christmas so that I can at least go out on the ski-doo once. My dad said that we are going to drive up to where we are going to Christmas instead so that we can take our ski-doo because it is supposed to be warmer there. We were going to fly but I rather take my ski-doo and travel for 9 hours instead of 2 hours.

     I also want the weather to warm up so that I can go siding at honker hills because if  it wasn’t bad outside,  than we would go. I only got to once because I was staying at my cousin’s house because my mom was gone to Winnipeg and it was nice out that week end.

     Here in Snow Lake lots of kids go to Honkers hill. The only bad thing about that hill is that it is so big that no one likes to walk back up the hill. I wish we could get a ski lift so we don’t waist all of our energy climbing up over and over again.

The Wave- Chaperters 5-8 March 9, 2009

In the Chapters 5-8 was mostly and about what the class was learning and what they thought about that. It started off when the class came in quickly once instead of coming in late after the bell. On the board Ben Ross the teacher had Strength through Discipline. The whole class was wondering what that meant or was. Ben Ross was telling them what they must do for in his class. They had to sit in their chairs straight up and every time they were asking a question or answering a question they had to stand beside their desk and say “Mr. Ross…….”. The Class was over and everyone left.  They day after that, at school on Ben Ross’s board it said “community”. This meant to be equally the same in every way, so that people never fight. Ben Ross told them that they were going to start a new group called The Wave. They talk about that then the class was over and they went to gym class.  At gym class David thought that it would be good for the football team if they had a group like in their history class.  But Eric thought that is was a very bad idea and that it was dumb. Laurie went home for dinner and her parents were talking about her father’s golf life. Finally later Laurie got a turn to talk she told them about the last 2 days in history class. Her mother didn`t like what they were doing and thought that it was not history class. The day after that Laurie and David meet up with each other on the walk to school. Laurie told David that her mother didn’t like the idea of what they were doing in history class. David thought that she was 100% wrong about that.  They walked in the history class and on the board it said “Action”. As in never be afraid to ask on what you believe. Mr. Ross did his class and everyone left for lunch. In the lunch room all the Wave people sat at one table.  Laurie was starting to think that her mom was right it wasn’t a history class. Everyone that sat at the table was nice to each other and was all equally the same.

 

I think that Laurie’s mom is right how she thinks that it is not a real history class it is totally out in the blue because they are learning words like “Community”, “Discipline” and “Action”. They could be history words but it has been 3 days in that class since they were the wave and they have not learned anything about history. Like the first day they were learning how to sit in their desk right so they had a good posture, and how to answer and ask a question. After that they had to answer questions but they still wasted around 3/4 of a class. The Second days they talk about Community witch maybe a little bit of history because a long time ago people were together as a “community” and they started the group called The Wave. The third day they learned about “action” witch could be history as in when you are a community don’t try and be like everyone else be yourself.

I understand how the   3 words (community, discipline, action) can go into being a group. Community is a group when everyone is equally the same in every way. Discipline could mean the leader might make it hard and give you discipline, but in the book he said that discipline could mean a good posture in you seat. Action could mean to be in a group but act yourself even if you are way different than everyone else, but I think that action means like it is you turn you have it all take action. Maybe on the fourth day in class they will be learning more history and not learning how to be a group. Maybe Ben Ross is going to be taking them on a trip to see what happened with the Natiz and wants them to act good, like a group so that the class is not going to fight because there answer is wrong or be a computations on how is better than the other, Ben Ross is trying to teach them in a different way. 

New Delhi- week 2 March 7, 2009

In class we have to find a place that is outside of North America, for a person to go and work at. I picked New Delhi because I think it would be cool to go to India and New Delhi is the Capital so I thought that it would be the best place to be. In New Delhi there are around 14 million people there, the area of New Delhi is 42.7 km2. In New Delhi, the president lives there and her name is Pratibha Patil she was the first woman president. She had won over 300 000 votes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The weather there is very hot compared to Canada; the average temperature year round is about 30 degree Celsius. There is a difference in time from Canada and New Delhi it is 11 1/2 hours. The languages that are most used in New Delhi are Punjabi, Hindi, and English. To get around New Delhi you need to go on a bus, taxis or your own car. Lots of people also like to walk or take little tour buses. Also a popular vehicle is a motorised scooter.

To get a flight there it is around $1,466.80 to get to New Delhi with two breaks for gas. For a hotel room it cost around $283 per night. Than to rent a house it will cost around $4000 per day. In New Delhi everything is lots of money compared to North America.

Most of my information is from pages on Google or on Wikipedia. For getting in contact I used flickr or YouTube the most. I never got any information back but I still have a couple more days. Next week I want to get my project done with research and done with the wiki page.

The Wave Chapters 1-4 February 27, 2009

In the chapters 1-4 it was mostly about what they do and who they are. At the starting it was saying what people in high school were, and who the main characters are. They were starting a history class with Ben Ross, there were learning about war wold 2. They had to watch a movie that was about the Nazis and Germans. They watched the video and than the teacher talked to them and answered questions that the students had. There was 1 question that Ben Ross could not answer. After the class they all left for lunch, Laurie a girl that was in the class was bummed about what happened with the Nazis Germans. She was sad and could not eat her lunch. Her boyfriend thought that she was weird for thinking that it was such a big deal now that it had already happened. So her and her friend go outside for a smoke and they got locked out of the school. Than the teacher was at home with his wife reading a book and he looked kind of sad so his wife asked him what was wrong, he was bummed out because he couldn’t answer a question that a student asked.

My favourite part is when they watched the movie in there history class and than they ask questions and they left. After there class they got to go and eat, and then Laurie a class mate was bummed about the movie, so she never ate and her food. So her boyfriend a foot ball player was with her and he asked if he can eat her food, he wanted to eat it because they thought it would make him be big and gain weight because he has football game coming up and the people that he is going to play against, they are big and heavy so they can squash the players easily. I think that the author did a very good job of trying to describe the characters and how they school went. On most characters he said about there hair and what they look like or what they do in school. When he was describing the school and how the school is he said like the kids rush out of the classrooms fast but they take there time to go in, he also made Ben Ross the teacher compare to how school ran from when he was a kid to how school goes now days .and how there school looked like.

Rainforest February 22, 2009

The rainforestis getting killed by people killing each other in a war and fight or global warming is making it rote because it is to hot and it dries all the water up from the ground and trees. There are many reasons why the rainforest is getting killed.

There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000 Indians living there.

At least 3000 fruits are found in the rainforests; of these only 200 are now in use in the Western World. The Indians of the rainforest use over 2,000 of the fruits.

They are trying to keep the rainforest living for a long time so we can get things from the rainforest and so animals can have a longer life. They want to keep the rainforest as big as they can keep it.

One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries. We are losing Earth’s greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once before covered 14% of the earth’s land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 year.

This is where the rainforest are in the dark green.

 

The Billboard February 20, 2009

Don’t you ever notice that you are driving down a city and there are billboards that are flashing with lights? Saying Come here we have a sale!  Well all of those billboards that are electronic are using lots of power all day, which now days we shouldn’t be using lots of power. Now there is a billboard that is electronic but they use solar panels so that there is less power that is getting used and it will help stop global warming. These solar panel billboards are getting tested for now to see if they work good and than in every city they can have them and the world will be saved a little bit.

I think that this is very important and it should be a good hit for every city because some cities that are on the shore line of the ocean they could be destroyed if we don’t worried about using less power with global warming happening. I thought this would be good for people that care and want to help global warming. I think that this could be a life changer just by using these billboards because there are lots and lots of billboards in a city and there are lots of cities.

The Paper Bottle January 22, 2009

It is crazy that people that have access to clean water and they go to the store to buy a bottle of water and they don’t recycle the plastic bottle that the water was in. It is making the planet look like a bad place to be because of all the garbage that we go and through away, instead of recycling. There are people out in the world that have no clean water at all not on a tap or in a store and really need some to help them live. Now that people had made the 360 paper bottle. It is a water bottle that is made out of paper and not our of plastic witch sounds a little better you are still using the trees to make the bottles but now most people that have computers or other electronic devices that don’t need paper, so the paper issues is going more down.

 

These bottles will not just hold water they will also hold juice, milk, and pop or any other liquid unlike the other bottles that you buy they get all stinky and yucky from using other liquids . They will save the plant and are still good to use. This bottle could save our world and still be a good place to be. They also come in many diffrent colours so they are not all boring with 1 colour.

Christmas Break- Part 4 January 20, 2009

I woke up the next morning than went to play wii fit; I did my body test and then played some games.  Then I went up stairs to go on the computer I went in msn and then I was talking to my cousin she was at her grandpas and she was coming home soon. Then I went for a shower and had lunch after that I went to the living room to watch TV for a bite than went upstairs and cleaned my room have hard wood floor so I have to sweep it every week so that I don’t get dust bunnies. My cousins came over and we talked about what we got for Christmas than we had supper. After supper I played with the wii than played a DS game that I got on the way back home. After that I watched a movie than I went to bed. The next day I got up and I did my body test on wii fit and played some games than went for a shower and then on the computer. Then I went downstairs to get something to eat, and my cousins came over, one of my cousins got a DS too so we played with the DS while my other cousin played bratz, we did that till they left. I went upstairs and went on the computer till the little baby came over that I had Christmas with, I had to babysit he because her mom and dad went to the New Year’s dance. She played for a while then looked around the house, than I had to put her to bed. So I went upstairs to put her to bed than I went downstairs when she was asleep. I watched TV till it was 3:00 and I was half asleep when Logyn came into my house looking for her house key but her sister already stopped by to get it. Than right after that the baby’s dad came over to my house to get the baby. When he left I had to go to bed because I was really tired. At 6:00 my dad woke me up and said bye see you in 20 days, he was going to the United States of America to do some sport shows which is advertising our lodge. Then I fell back asleep and woke up at 9:00and went downstairs the rest of the week my uncle and cousins came over. On Sunday my cousins had to come over to my house because there mom had to work so we looked after them. The day after that it was time to go back to school.

That was my Christmas break, the whole time I was pretty busy.

Christmas Break- Part 3 January 16, 2009

In the morning we woke up at 8:30. We all ran out to the living room and looked at out presents that we got form Santa. I got a new ski-doing helmet it is really nice it is blue so it matches my jacket. My cousin got a hamster it is so cute but I didn’t pick it up.  We opened all of our presents I got a purse and a hat and slippers from my mom’s friends and a chair with my name on it and a blanket with my name on it with a hockey skate because I like to play hockey, and a wii play for my wii from my auntie, uncle and cousins. I got the wave for pimples, a necklace and diamond earrings from my mom and dad. That is most of what I got but there wasn’t much because we had 2 other Christmases when we were home. Charismas were over and everyone was looking back at their presents. Than we had breakfast and played with my cousin’s hamster I thought that I was cute but gross at the same time so the whole time whenever it was like 50 cm close to me I would move away from it. At the starting it was biting everyone than after a while it got used of everyone around it. The hamster also came with a little ball so sometimes we would put it in that it looks kind of funny. But we couldn’t take it all around the house we had to keep the hamster in 1 room because the dogs might attack it. We played with the hamster till supper most of the time we were making a house for it to runs around in, we used some of my little cousins Barbie stuff to put in the house. We had supper than and let the hamster have a long sleep. So we went outside and went on the ski-doo and sleds, one of my cousin’s friends came over and she liked driving better than going on the sleds so drove and we rode. We were out there for an hour than all the boys came out there were 5 of them and we had 4 girls so the boys tried to take the ski-doo and sleds over but we won most of the time than we gave up because we were cold. But when we were playing that I had my new helmet on and the visor broke right off so my dad has to always snap it back on till he got the piece for it. All the girls went inside while the boys stayed outside on the ski-doo will we played Rock Band 2 on Xbox. We did that till 3:00 than everyone went home and to bed.

In the morning 1 family that was there had left and the baby was leaving tomorrow. So everyone said by to the family that was there. Than we had breakfast and went to see the hamster, he was sleeping than plus we still never had a name for it so that is what me and my cousin did for about 15 minutes is ask everyone for what my cousin should call the hamster, finally we thought of one and it was Sage like the spice. So we played with Sage and thought him his name. So than it was about 1:00 and everyone was going to Dorentosh on the ski-doo witch would be around an hour ride so I decided to stay home and go shopping because it was Boxing Day. Than we came home while the kids played vet t=with the hamster and the moms had a nap. Than it was supper, our supper was all the left over’s from charismas. Than after that we went outside to ski-doo we were on the ski-doo till 10:00 and came in and everyone was starting to watch momma so everyone was watching that than went to bed except me and my cousin. We stayed up and watched TV and we talked and we played around with the hamster till around 4:00 than we decided we better go to sleep. We went to sleep and never woke up till 12:00. Everyone was ate breakfast and was starting to eat lunch, than they were going out on the ski-doos. Everyone ate lunch while I and my cousin laid on the couch than after that the baby had to leave so everyone said good bye to them and then we got ready to go ski-doing. Everyone was going my auntie and uncle all my cousins me, my sister and my mom and dad. So we all went out of town around 15 min out and had a fire. We stayed and had a fire till the sun was going down and also because I and my cousin were really hungry because we never ate all day so we went home and got back at around 5:00, we had pizza for supper than we watched a movie. We watched Step Brothers it is funny but no for kids, we watched that than we all went to bed except for me and my cousin we stayed up without dads. The dads tried to fix my cousins ski-doo while me and my cousins watched Baby Momma, it is a movie and we watched it till 2:00 than went to bed. In the morning we had to wake up and 8:00 because we were leaving to go home. I had breakfast and then made sure I had everything with me after that we had to leave and everyone was very sad but we had to go. So we got on the road and got home at 7:00. When we got home I had to set up the wii for my sister and the wii fit, than I went for a shower. After my shower I went down stairs and played wii fit till 11:00 than went bed.

 

 

 

Christmas Break- Part 2 January 14, 2009

The next day I got up at 8:30 so that we could get onto the road to my grandpa’s because my mom changed plans and said that we will leave in Sunday instead of Monday. It was a long ride there, it took us 8 hours to get there because we had the ski-doo’s behind us so it too off allot of gas and made us slow down. We got to my grandpas and ate supper. After supper me and my sister brought our wii and played it so that we wouldn’t be so board while we were there. I and my sister played wii till 12:00 because we were tired of traveling. The next day I got up and watched some TV. Than I went for a shower and played wii till my mom was done showering because she was going to take us up to a store to rent a movie, we rented Fred Claus. The rest of the day me and my sister played wii sports and wii music. Than when it got around 10:00 me and my sister sat down and watched the movie. It wasn’t done till around 12:00. I didn’t really like that movie but maybe it was because I wasn’t really paying attention to the movie because I was on my computer at the same time. After the movie was done I kept on playing on my computer and then I went to bed at around 2:00. In the morning I had woke up at 8:30. We were leaving my grandpas at 12:00 and so went for a shower. We had to leave my grandpas house so early because tubby, my dog had to go and get a needle. Everyone got ready and then we went back on the road for another hour and a half.

We got to my aunties and cousins everyone got so excited because we got to see each other. In an hour my dog had to leave so that he can get his shots. When we got there, there was a little baby that had come to have Christmas with us so that is what I did most of the time is play with her. That day we opened up the wii and played at my cousins we also brought our sing it for PS2 so that is also what we did. We played games right till supper. After supper we sat and watched some TV for a while. Then it got to be around 9:00 and we all went out to the hot tub because my uncle has a hot tub outside. We were in there till about 12:00 and then came in and had a shower.  After my shower me and my cousin Kaelyn went to the living room and watched TV while ever one was in bed. We watched TV than at 2:00 we went fell asleep. The next day I watched TV while everyone was making breakfast there were eggs, bacon and toast, but I don’t like any of that stuff so I didn’t have breakfast. At 11:00 me and my cousins went outside and played on their trampoline it is fun in the winter because it is slippery and then you play to resoling and you fall every time you try and hit someone. We played that for an hour and then we came inside to warm up and have something to eat. We ate some lunch than went back outside to go out to a field just to ride around. We rode for an hour and half than came back to warm up for a bite. We never took off our snow wear because we were going out on trails for 2 hours or longer.  We went out to a place and then stop there for a break for a few minutes. We turned around and went back home. After that we had hot chocolate and played wii and PS2. We played till super, we ate supper than went back outside we went ski-doing around the yard because my uncle has huge back and front yard so we rode around the yard with 2 sleds tide behind them, it was really hard to stay on we were going so hard core. We did that till 12:00 and then went back inside. When we got inside everyone was going out to the hot tub. So all 4 of us went out to the hot tub. We were in the hot tub till 2:00 and then went back inside and went to bed. We all woke up at 9:00 and then had breakfast again I never had breakfast but that is normal for on no school days. After everyone was done there breakfast we all went to outside to the field on the ski-doo with the sleds behind it. We were out there for about 2:00 and then we came inside. We stayed inside and played with the baby that was there till 5:00 and then my grandpa came over because he was having Christmas with his girlfriend this year. He came over and we started supper, we had steak and lobster I don’t like lobster so I had steak, I am really picky. After supper we got to open out presents from my grandpa I got a DS (in part 1 I got a DS game) I was so happy that I got one. Than we got to open out charismas eve present every year we open 1 present on Christmas Eve and it is always PJ’s, and we have to wear them for the night. We played without DS and then we had to go to bed yearly.