Terry Fox, A Real Hero.

To me a true hero is someone who sacrifices something big to help or save other people. Or maybe just helping other people, lots of people though. You can’t save or help someone one time and call yourself a hero. You have to do it continuously. Terry Fox didn’t like rescue a damsel in distress or anything. He tried to raise awareness of Cancer, any form of Cancer. Which could have, or did save people. People may have gotten treatment for it when he raised awareness, maybe he’s the only reason they got it. That could be saving people when he didn’t even know it.

Terry Fox had two different types of cancer. Not at the same time, but two in his life. First he had a rare form of bone cancer, it was in one of his legs. He had to get it amputated before it spread to the rest of his body, he did get it amputated. It was good life so to speak for him. Then as he was walking across Canada he got lung cancer. I mean what is that? This man, who has cancer is trying to walk across Canada and he gets that, that’s kind of dumb to think about.

Issues that need solving.

If you had one wish, what would it be? Would it be a new iPod because your is broken, would it be a new suit? Well, if I had one wish I would use that one wish so it could Benefit 1 Billion people. The issue that I am focusing on is world hunger.I would love it if world hunger issues would come to a stop. So many people would still be living today if there wasn’t such issues as being malnourished.
As of October 14, 2009, 1.02 billion people are undernourished which is a big increase from 2006. In 2006 there were 854 million people being undernourished. Which is still a huge number, but its less people. Which was a good thing. 1.02 billion people is now 15% of the whole worlds population. 642 million starving people live in Asia and the Pacific. Which is the biggest amount of people. Even if you aren’t someone who is starving in Asia or a third world country you can still be undernourished. If a child is sick for 160 more days a year that means that they are undernourished. Undernourishment plays a role in at leas 10.9 million deaths in children each year. In a related case, when you get undernourished you can get cases of diarrhea, malaria, pneumonia, and measles. All of these can kill a human being, it sounds kind of funny that someone can die from diarrhea, but if you look up diarrhea it doesn’t let you properly digest food. World hunger is caused by world poverty, if all of the countries had enough money then there probably wouldn’t be world hunger. If someone could find  way to solve world hunger, then world poverty would most likely be solved. So if you solve one then its like you solve two world issues at the same time.
Solving world hunger is important because it is a big reason why people re dieing.  Plus, you could solve world poverty at the same time as solving world hunger. I think the world  should focus on one big world issues and eliminate it. Starting with world hunger.
I think this is the best wish because you can solve two issues at one time.  I hope that everyone supports this cause not because its my wish, but because you can solve two issues at once.

The Outsiders 9-12. Final Chapters.

I thought that the final chapters were okay. I mean I didnt like some parts that happened in it. I was kind of disappointed  when Johnny died though, I really didnt want that to happen. I also felt sorry for Dally, losing Johnny then pretty much killing himself. I liked what Ponyboy did for his English assignment. If I was him I don’t think I could have wrote about that. No matter how long it has been since Johnny had died. When I was reading the final two pages I was completely surprised, if Ponyboy would have read that book sooner, he might have possibly been able to save Dally. I bet that’s what Ponyboy was thinking too, wishing that he could go back so he could have one less friend dead.

I really enjoyed reading this book, at the start I was like man..I hope this book isn’t bad. I had a feeling that it wouldnt be bad though, because everyone that is now in grade nine said that this was an awesome book. Even my mom said that it was a good book, haha. Mr.Fisher said that we might be able to watch the movie in class later on too. I hope its not to close to Christmas break though. Hopefully it will be on Monday. I could look forward to spen the whole afternoon watching the Outsiders.

This is where Dally comes to visit Ponyboy and Johnny at the abandoned church.

Outsiders 5-8

I wonder if  Johnny is actually going to die or is he going to tough it out and be in a wheel chair? I also wonder why Dally wanted  Two-Bit’s switch blade, it said that Dally put Two-Bit’s switch blade under his pillow. I don’t know why the greasers and the socs are having a big rumble, that would just cause more fighting and maybe more death and hatred between the two groups. I also wonder why Johnny’s mom is paying attention to him now because he is in the hospital and why she’s said all the trouble that me and his father went through to raise him when they actually didn’t care about him at all.

I think Bob is dead because he was drunk and he was looking for a fight or some fun and they found Johnny and Pony Boy. Johnny only killed him because it was self-defense and he was panicking because his friend was being drown.  If  Johnny doesn’t die he shouldn’t have any charges put on him because he only acted in self-defense and they saved a bunch of kids from the burning church. I think they are good kids but the socs just had to come by and cause some trouble for them. I also think the socs are good people too but their parents don’t set rules for them so they just keep trying to get them to say no. So they do stupid things like fighting people and drinking a lot to get their parents to say no.

I wonder what Pony Boy and Darry and Soda Pop’s  lives where like when their parents where alive, if their life was any different from at the start of the book, if it was better or worse.

The Outsiders 1-4.

I really like this book already, I know Ive only read the first 4 chapters of it but im hooked already! I absolutely love how the author describes both groups of kids. The greasers are the better group in my opinion. If there were these two groups in my town, I think I would be a Socs. Not because I would choose to be, but because of how im living already. I wouldnt be on of those Socs, that likes to beat people up for fun. I would be myself but still hang around all of the Soc people. I would also hang around the greasers, who really cares about your rep? If there your real friends they wont care who you are hanging out with, as long as your happy. I think the Greasers are really cool. I mean except for the fact that lots of them don`t have parents, and they can get jump easily that there life is pretty fun. Hanging out with your friends all the time, knowing so many people who do different things too keep on going in life. I think that would be really fun to do.

 

Reusing plastic? How is that?

I was reading my Around The Globe tab in my iGoogle, and lots of people are using old plastic material to make creative things. They are using such materials as, plastic bottles, milk jugs, soda bottles. The people who live in Kenya, are using plastic containers to put on calf’s nose’s so they don’t sulk their mother too much because of the drought.  Another guy re-used plastic bottles to make a vertical Shamba. He used a coke bottle and a water container it looks like. A guy is running a bird feeder shop. He is using the plastic bottles. He cuts holes into them so the birds can get at it, and then fills in with bird feed. He is selling them for approximately $2.50 US dollars. If you would like to read more about this, just visit this website.

The First Eight Days.

The first eight days have been wierd. Some days really good, some are bad. Some fast, others slow.  This week the days have went fast in the afternoon. In the morning im always hungry for some reason, then I go home for lunch and im not hungry. The afternoons are fast because we have the Artist in the School is here. He is teaching us hip hop dance, we’ve been practicing and learning dance moves everyday. The three day week we had, for me was awful actually. I was in a class and we had to run laps. I was running beside my friends when one of them kicks a pylon, so the teacher like stops me from running and yells at me. I was like ” Dude, I didnt kick any pylons.” I was telling the truth so all of my friends had to say that it was actually someone else. (Which it was,) for her to belive me. Today is going good so far, (its Friday.) It’s going good because we just had our last session with are break dancing instructor, and we got our routine all good. So now, all we have to do is present them to the rest of the school, and they present theirs aswell. We presented ours last, not including the advanced class. I liked performing it. It was fun, and fun watching the other classes do theirs.

Check out my teachers blog, Mr.Fisher. He lost his Digital footprint, he lost it by changing his blog address.

This is all that im going to write in this post, so keep checking back for updates. I will probably do updates each day, maybe week.

About Me.

I am a guy who enjoys lots of things. I like to hang out with friends, sleep, eat, and play Xbox 360. I don’t play very many games on it, I only play Call of Duty 4, Left 4 Dead. I have a xbox live account, im not going to tell you what it is. Haha. I love to eat,  my favourite food is probably steak. My favourite colour is red. I don’t have alot of red clothes though, usually they are blue or white. I also like cookies.

Back to Blogging.

So I haven’t been writing blog posts for 2 months or something. I have been doing other things, and we don’t have to do any weekly blog posts right now either. Since I have gotten my slide show presentation done, I have to write a blog post.

I have bought  a skateboard. It is an Element board,Bam venom. It is an 8 inch across. Most of my friends have .5’s though. I want to get a 7.5 to see how it rides, and how it feels. To see if I can land more tricks than on an 8. I also need to get a new pair of shoes. Mine are getting really worn, and dirty. I really like DC shoes. My in-school shoes are DC’s and so are my normal shoes. My old other pair were Dc as well, I used to have a pair of Etnies, but they didn’t fit any more haha. I kinda want to get Circa shoes, I have never got a pair before.

This just reminded me of last night. I was hanging out with some friends and one of them was taking pictures of me when i was skateboarding. I was also wearing a huge major suit hahaha. It is red, and it is so big on me. I could fit like 3 other people in it with me at the same time. The legs in it are really big. The bottoms of the legs usually go over my shoes   .  When I was skateboarding to my friends house everyone looked at me because I was so different looking. I was laughing the whole time, when I got to my friends house he said you actually wore it? and I was like yeah, I told you I would. It was so funny because when we got to my other friends house, I was just so awesome looking.

Smart Set 2

For our Smart set we are making a Wiki page. A Wiki page is kind of hard to make and organize. They are really fun to make though. At first I really didn’t know how to make a Wiki page, or how to put in pictures, videos and all that other kind of multi media things. Now that I know how to put in pictures and stuff I kind of like it. It is so fun, it doesn’t even feel like school work.

I still  have some research to do on the things that I couldn’t find, but so far I am doing pretty good.  There are 13 things that we are supposed to get, I have about 10 and only 7 or so on my Wiki space. I have lots of my stuff on a google doc right now, but I am copying it over th my Wiki space, and putting it into sentances. If other teachers from anywhere are reading this I would really reccommend you to do this with your class.

Song Qiang has published a new book. The book is called China is Unhappy, he also wrote the book China Can Say No. He was not the only one who wrote Chins is Unhappy. Some other well known writers helped too. The other well known writers are..

-Song Xiao Jun

-Wang Xiaodong

-Huang Jisu

-Liu Yang

Song Qiuang  also has the expirence of a journalist,editor, and a T.V script writer. All of the other writers that helped all have expirence in lots of different things. The team is composed of famous people from the media in China,  cultural workers, and scholars. The book was published on the 60th anniversary of the founding of People Republic of China.

The website I got this from is here.