Monday, April 26, 2010

Future


Some people when they hear the word the future they sometimes think in the next year or in the next millennium. In the movie Wall E, the world gets so filled up with garbage that the people have to move to outer space. I was wondering if it would be possible for the same thing to happen here on earth. But the possibility of that happening is very rare.

It is possible for the world to get filled up with garbage but that is in the distant future. If something like that ever does happen, I wonder what we would do to solve the problem. If we did happen to move into outer space, I think that some things might be like the movie Wall E.

Some of the positives to moving to outer space if the world does fill up with garbage is that there will be a clean place to live. If we did live in a world full of garbage, the toxic chemicals that would come off the rotting garbage could not be very healthy for us. Up in space there wouldn’t be any gravity so it would be very fun to float around in but I’m sure most places on the space ship will have gravity. On of the major differences is that people will be walking not in hover chairs. Therefore people will be in better shape then they are in the movie Wall E.

Some of the negative to moving to space, we might one day run out of oxygen. One thing that we would have to figure out is how we will take that much oxygen to the outer space with us. Another thing is that people will take this as a major vacation, not as another place to live.

Although there are many negatives and positive to moving to outer space if the world gets full of garbage. That would be, hopefully, in the distance future.


I commented on Fiona's Blog.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Uniforms


Are uniforms really necessary? Are they really doing us a favor? Some find uniforms helpful and others find them excruciating. There are many pros and cons to uniforms but if you actually have to wear them it may be easier to find the negatives.



Uniforms tend to cause less hassle in the morning. This is because you don’t have to spend hours finding the perfect outfit to wear to school. Along with that you won’t have to worry about keeping up with the latest fashion trends. Uniforms can also help families save money by not having to buy expensive trendy new clothes every few months. Uniforms are usually made out of stronger more durable materials, and because of this they don’t need to be replaced quite as often.



Some of the negatives related to wearing uniforms are that they make us all look the same and can trend to strip us of our individuality. While there is efficiency in this uniformity in terms of getting dressed quickly and eliminating class differences between different family economic positions, it still inhibits our capacity to express our individual character and creativity. There is a cost to this suppression of individual expression and I think many of our more artistically minded students suffer from this forced uniformity. To help with this, I believe that we should all be able to accessorize our uniforms with our own unique and modest accessories. There could be limits to the kind of accessories allowed (kind and size), but this could open the door to greater personal expression of our own unique identities.



Although uniforms can be very helpful, they strip us of our individuality.



I commented on Mike's Blog - Robo Erto Horumba.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

HAWAII!!!!


Warm and sunny, swimming, tanning, and most importantly NO SCHOOL. Summer is my favourite time of the year. Over the summers I remember, I have been on many great vacations, but if I had to pick one of them as my favorite, it would have to be our vacation to Hawaii for my 12th birthday.

When my family went to Hawaii for my 12th birthday we did so much stuff. One of the things that I will always remember it going scuba diving. My sister, my dad and I all got our scuba diving license that year. To get our license we first did our classroom and pool work in Ontario. We had to pass a very long written test at the end of the course. If we passed the test, which we all did, we then had to pass a two day practical dive test where we had to dive to a 60 foot depth. We decided to do our dive test in Hawaii, where we could dive in the ocean. When we arrived in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, we had to go scuba diving for two days to pass the practical exam. On the second day of the dive test we went to the house of turtles, which was a large shelf on the ocean floor where sea turtles come and are cleaned by fish. When we dived on this site we got to see many different kinds of fish and some very large sea turtles. At the end of the day we all had our licenses.

My birthday was also another thing I will remember. I turned 12 while we were away on our vacation and this made our time in Hawaii even more special for me. On the day of my birthday we had moved from the island of Kauai, to the island of Molokai. The morning of my birthday was not very nice because it was raining, but once the rain stopped we went to the beach. Instead of making a cake we went out and bought a cake that had been flown in from the big island of Hawaii. We watched the sunset while sitting on the beach eating cake.

I also just loved swimming in the ocean and playing in the waves as they broke on the beach by our house. Altogether it was a very fun vacation!

I commented on Ralphie Dawg's BLOG - Evensong.

Bucket List!!!


1. The first thing on my bucket list is that I want to go on the largest bungee jump in the world. Ever since I went bungee jumping in New Zealand for the first time I have always wanted to go another time, but from a higher height. For some people the have hour, or even days to decide if they would ever want to go. For me it was a different situation. I only had a couple of minutes to decide if I was going to embark on this new adventure.

2. Instead of another this involve something adventurous, I would create a fashion line for people who are very petite. Have you ever had troubles try to find something to wear that is small enough for? Well I certainly have. In the typical teenager store the smallest size you can find is 00 or XS and sometime that is so big. With my fashion line you can find all the same things in other store but in a smaller size.

3. Last but certainly not least I would start my own charity. My charity would help young kids in Africa. Here in Canada there will be a home where they can live, food that they can eat and schools that they can go to. There will be no charge to them because the entire funds will be coming from donations. This will help them have an education for a job.

This is my bucket list and hopefully one day I will achieve all my goals.