Game Kingdom

When I look back through the whole year and see how our class has grown I am just amazed at how much everyone has changed since the beginning of the year.

I think that the one place we all changed is Hornby camp because we were all in the same place for two whole nights and almost three days we all changed because we got to learn more about each other and we had to stay in the same place for most of the week. We changed physically we changed mentally and some of us just stayed the same. We all grew physically because we experienced tough times with the activities and some of us even got sick and puked (naming no names just follow this link) he wasn’t feeling well before but the salad must have just come right back up so we were all up really late and the next day we didn’t want to get out of bed. We all faced some challenges like Hayden flipping over in his kayak, my tent getting ripped, and many other things that I don’t have the attention span to list. So we all faced challenges especially at the climbing tower where no one wanted to go first but once it was there turn they just dominated it and felt great.  We all really liked the food because it tasted so good and after that I think we all wanted to go back to the good food of Hornby.

Everybody has grown this year in more ways than you can count but after everything that we have done in Div.16 I think that everyone had a very memorible year.

Hornby Shoreline By: ecstaticist

I appreciate everything life has given us from the big pine trees all the way down to the smallest blade of grass. I appreciate all of the little clovers scattered all around us. I enjoy all the dead leaves in in Autumn. I notice all of the flowers in Spring. I enjoy the little snowflakes floating from the sky in Winter, and I appreciate all of the new life in Summer. I hear all of the humming birds coming back from there migration. I notice how all of the garbage disappears as volunteers step up to clean the enviroment. As the prickle bushes start to grow it becomes harder to pass by them. I notice as the blackberries start to grow plump and delicous.

Sunset Grass Field by: IainBuchanan

“I bet my robot can pick up the tennis ball faster than yours can pick up the juice box” taunted Brenden, “No way my robot can own yours in a race to pick up a juice box” Alex retorted,” I seriously doubt that!” Brenden yelled back, “Then we’ll have a race, five o-clock, right here today,” Alex said back.” Deal, but we can make any modifications we want on the robots.” Brenden said back, and so the battle began…

So the two friends went their ways and immediately started working on their robots. But neither of them thought of any modifications to put on the robots. So they thought, and they thought, and they thought some more and well you get the idea. So at five o-clock they came to the track and began the race to see whose robot is better at picking things up. The track was a bunch of windy curves and the contestants (Alex and Brenden) have to pick up the juice box (or the tennis ball) and take it to the end of the track and whoever completes the race first is the winner.

“On your mark, get set, GO!” The referee shouted. Then BAM both the robots came dashing out to collect their objects. Both the Vexplorer (Alex’s robot) and the Vexbot (Brenden’s robot) quickly “ran” out to get their objects. The Vexbot quickly found its tennis ball and tried to pick it up but it kept rolling away. Meanwhile the Vexplorer had already picked up the juice box but had experimented some technical difficulties because it got stuck in one of the windy curves so both competitors were stuck. Finally the Vexbot picked up the tennis ball with its crane type conveyor belt and was speeding through the course. But wait the Vexplorer has just gotten out of the windy curve it was stuck in and is now catching up to the Vexbot. “It’s gonna be a photo finish” the referee yelled, and just at that moment both the robots finished. “And the winner is… It’s a tie?” The referee sounded confused “What!” Both Brenden and Alex said at the same time. “I guess I was wrong to think that my robot is better” Brenden apologized, “No it’s my fault” Alex said back, “O well at least we’re still friends” Brenden said.

P.S this never actually happened.

Hey everybody, today’s post is inspired by the one on Bringing us Together about wishing.

So if I had one wish that I couldn’t use on myself but I could use it on anybody in the world I would have to wish that my sister gets into her university because she is really stressing out. Also because she has spent so much time trying to improve her skills and if you ask me it looks really stressful because your always studying and it is just really hard on her.

Well, thats my wish, that my sister gets into university. Well, see you all next time.

Hi everybody, I know it isn’t New Year’s anymore but I am still going to write about my 2009 New Year’s resolution. 

In class today we were talking about what goals we had for the New Year so I was thinking of what a prefect world would be like and I thought that it would be a place where there was no global warming or war. My New Year’s resolution would to be more active and not to waste as much water and electricity. A way for me to do that would be walking to school and taking shorter showers. I will be affected the most by this change because I will know that I have done some of my part to help the community. I will try to get other people to be more careful about how much water and electricity they use and hopefully that will help. Also one of my classmates has the same idea. Believe it or not it’s Daniel C so hurray for him =D . I am hoping that some other people will also try some strategies to try and help save the planet.

Well, that’s all I wanted to say so, see you all next time.

Photo: Falling from Heaven by Digital Explorer

5,4,3,2,1 and blast off!!!!!!!!! Oh! Your here I was just getting ready to embark on a intergalactic journey (not really) but we just talked to a real astronaut (not in real life we talked to him from a video conference) , his name is Clay Anderson(that is a picture he took of himself when he was in space). He is an astronaut that has been aboard the ISS space station.

Here are some facts I learned about space from him.

Working on the ISS (International Space Station) can be really hard because there are lots of jobs to do. One of the jobs that people do in space is conducting experiments which is probably really hard in 0g (0 gravity). Another thing they do is regular day stuff like fixing things and a bunch of stuff like that. There are a lot of things to do on the ISS so the astronauts have a tight schedule to keep.

Also some astronauts take space walks to repair the outside of the ship, like when the ship is damaged or something like that. You might think that the astronauts only need to train before the missions but the still need to train on the ship. To train on the ship they use CD-Roms and simulators to maintain applicable skills so they don’t lose their touch. Their fitness training is also extremely important so they keep fit and so their bones don’t deteriorate.

To live in space you need to exercise daily for at least 2.5 hours a day. Another thing they need to do to survive is to make sure they do their jobs because if they don’t do something and it was a critical job something bad could happen to the station. Some of the astronauts would also need to make sure they have enough supplies to survive.

Keeping clean in space is just as important as being clean on Earth. Taking a shower on the ISS is very different from taking a shower on Earth. For firsts you need to step into a weird shower where the water comes out and becomes like this water skin thing. Then you get some soap from this toothpaste like thing , then once you have put the soap on your body this vacuum thing sucks all of it off of you( pretty neat).

I am probably guessing that they have some sort of high-tech stuff on the space station to help with the experiments. It probably really helps to have a positive attitude so you can get all of your work done because if you didn’t have a positive attitude your day would be horrible. But still just imagine all of the things you would get to learn. Because you would get to conduct experiments and learn a bunch of fancy new words.

Well, thats all I wanted to tell you, see you all next time.

Credits:

Photo of Clay Anderson: From Wisebread.com

I got lots of my information from the Yes I Can! Canadians In Space website

Hi girls and guys, today I am going to tell you about a project we have been working on in class.

Our project was about being water wise. Because in the Comox Valley we are apparently some of the world’s worst water wasters, so we made some videos about being water wise. Here is a link to my video if you want to watch it My Water Wise P.S.A. 

If you watched that video I hope it inspired you to be more water wise. Now if you want to you could leave a comment with some tips for my city to be more water wise.

Well, that’s all I wanted to say, I’ll see you all next time.