What I know to be true is that no one can control your life but you. I used to think that you cant make your own choices without asking your mom, your dad or even your teacher. Think about it, well at least for me. I felt that my whole life was just a repeat of something I did before. In the morning I wake up, go to school, go home from school, do homework, go on the computer, do chores. none of those were my decisions. my mom would wake me up and send me to school, my teacher would make me do my work and go home, then the rest is my mom again! I hated it so I decided to talk control. I joined a military programme called Junior Canadian Rangers, it’s a fun group that lets you decide what you want to do and it gives you options. Now I learned how to make my own decisions and I discovered that life does give you choices. For example you can live your life to the fullest or you can mope around feeling sorry for yourself. Personally, about a year ago I chose to live my life to the fullest and I travelled to BC with the JCR’s ( the group I told you about earlier) and I went zip-lining, kayaking, mountain climbing, climbed 50 foot trees, canoed, did a high ropes course, and more. but my favorite part would have to be meeting all of the amazing people along the way. but don’t get me wrong, everyone has through rough patches. I used to hurt my body on purpose to try and take control of my life. until a great friend made me realize that all I was doing was hurting myself and not doing anything good. so I stopped. I may not be the smartest person on earth or the greatest inventor of all time, but if there’s one thing I do know, it’s that no one can run your life but you.
May 13, 2008
Hi,
My name is Kathryn. but everyone calls me Kate…except my mom, she calls me Joey, long story.. but I have the time. Before my great grandfather died he used to call me topogejo (if its spelled like that) so after he died, in his memory my parents shortened it down to Josephine, then to Joe, then up to joey. My parents named my sister Alex after him. All three of the kids in my family are named after one of our relatives. My name is Kathryn Marie, named after my grandmother Agnes Marie, my sister Ellyn RaeAnne was named after my auntie. and my sister Alexandra Jayne was named after my great grandfather Alexander (he didn’t have a middle name). I am the middle child and I have no brothers. My dad Terry was born and raised here in snow lake, but eventually he left home to go to a university in Brandon, where he met my mom Colleen. My Mom lived in Vancouver in BC when she was young and then also came to Brandon to go to school. They lived in Brandon for a while and got married.after Ellyn and I were born we moved here to snow lake, I’ve lived here ever since. All I remember about living in Brandon was going to the Velvet dip for ice cream or a frozen banana dipped in chocolate and rolled in nuts. When I was about ten I was in kung-fu, I was one of the 4 students he had. he eventually moved away. after three years I joined track for the first time. now I like to play basket ball, badminton, and floor hockey, I also like to throw a football back and fourth with my friends or my dad. Last year was selected to go on a trip to Strathcona Park with the Junior Canadian Rangers. We Zip-lined, kayaked, went Rock climbing and repelled, we even did stuff like climbing 50 foot trees to the top. I was selected to go again for another week. well I think you all should know enough about me so now I will tell you about the challenge, the 30 day challenge. I am going to leave as many comments as I can on as many different blogs. I hoped you enjoyed your stay at my blog about anything. Please leave a comment.
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May 2, 2008
Mr. Fisher put us in the spot light and asked us what we wanted to learn. This question was difficult for me because I am not really sure what I would like to learn. For some people this question was easy. One person in my class wanted to learn how to fly, and another wanted to know if people that speak a different language think in that language too. But for me it took me a while. In the future I know I want to become a lab technician in a hospital (taking needles, looking at blood under a microscope). So a question I came up with is “how long would I have to go to school to become a lab technician?” I wanted to know because then I could estimate how old I would be when I actually had a job. I also thought about driving. If I knew the basics on how to drive, then I would probably do better in my driving test. I had one more question that I wanted to ask. It’s a difficult question to answer if you really think about it and it has many different answers…What is love? And how do you know if you have it? I think this is difficult, because I don’t think I have experienced it yet. Also I would like to know that because then I wouldn’t be puzzled when someone asked me. Love is very mysterious and complicated and may have different symptoms for everyone. What does love mean to you? Tell me your opinion.
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April 16, 2008
Hi,
I think that the biggest thing a parent could give their teenager is trust. I would say trust because If you think that you’re not trusted you’re probably going to thing that you never will earn the trust of your parents. I know that in most teenagers lives they often won’t tell their parents things because they would be too scared that they would disappoint their parents. I find that it’s true. Also Teenagers need their parents to be understanding. For instance if you like a guy or girl that your parents haven’t met. They might not let you date them because they don’t know them or they think their “bad” but I think parents should trust their kid’s decision. If your teenager really likes that person that you probably have nothing against. That could be just what I think though. Teenagers also like being able to go out and have fun. So parents could give their child privileges, which also goes into the trust category by letting them do something and trusting them enough to be home on time or to stay safe. Those are the biggest things that in my opinion that a parent\guardian could give their teenager.
1) Trust.
2) Be Understanding.
3) Privileges.
Bye =)
April 16, 2008
Hi.
My TED talks project is on child poverty as you may know. Poverty is a major world problem that many people are trying to solve. In the whole world 270 million children have no access to health care. Also because of poverty 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized. 15 million children are also orphaned due to HIV and AIDS (similar to the child population of Germany or the united kingdom.) less then one percent of the money that was spent on weapons could have put every child in school by the year 2000…but it didn’t happen. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read or write. I think it is sad that all these children have to suffer and starve because of the place they live in. There is plenty of food n the world for everyone… The problem is that all the hungry people are trapped in poverty. At the beginning of this project I thought Child poverty wasn’t that huge of an issue, but then I looked in to it and researched about it. I found that child poverty is a major issue. I know that now, And now I realize how lucky I am to have a house or to have food. That’s what I have learned during this TED talks project.
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April 15, 2008
Hi me again.
I think that culture is what makes you who you are. For example the language you speak your religion, your traditions, and your beliefs, even the food you eat and the people you live with have to do with your culture. You’re language affects your culture because it shows where you originated from; it shows that you came from where you did. You’re religion (if you have one) also effects your culture because you may or may not attend church or you might do another religious ceremony. Your traditions in your family show culture through what you have been doing throughout generations. Your beliefs are also a big part of your culture because it symbolizes what you were taught and what your generations before you were taught. The food part of your culture may be a family recipe or even just the place it comes from, you may have Mexican food or Chinese food or anything else. It would represent where you come from or where your ancestors came from.
Mr. Fisher asked us “if you could put 3 aspects of your culture into a box what would they be?” If I were to put three things in a box to keep about my religion it would have to be some old family cook books of my grandmothers because it would represent the food of my culture. I would put in the celebration plate. The celebration plate is a tradition that we have, whenever we do something that we are proud of for instance get exempted or we win a big game we get to eat of that special plate. I would put it in to represent traditions. And last but not least I would put in my moms hope chest. I would put it in because it has items from generations before me to help me imagen their life too. That is what I would put in my box of culture
April 11, 2008
Hi, me again.
I would like to talk about success. Success to me is when you enjoy what you’re doing. If you’re doing what you want to do and your happy with it you’re successful. That’s what I think anyway. Some people think money and a job and a big house mean you’re successful but I disagree. I would choose to live my life to the fullest over money, a good job and a big house any day. Sure having all of those things would be nice to have but there are more important things in life. I think everyone is successful even if they don’t think so their self. I think that because it’s your life, if you’re not afraid to live it you’re doing a good job. Grasp life and make it your own, make your own decisions and success will follow. What do you think success is? I may me wrong…well I am only a 13 year old girl but these are my thoughts on success. Everyone has a right to an opinion and this is mine. I find that most people think success is for people that are rich or famous, but then again they had to work for what they got. Some of those people never did get to experience some of the smaller things in life because they have been too busy or working. But if they are happy…they are successful. Someone I would see as successful might have a family, a job they like, and some close friends. Basically a normal person. Another successful person may have a high paying job, a big house, and some friends. Or they could even me a homeless person living on the street. If the person is living their life it’s successful in my mind. Tell me your thoughts on success and what it means to you.
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April 8, 2008
Hi, me again.
I would like to talk about my TED talks project. My project is on child poverty around the world. It took a lot of research to make my power point make any sense at all. I learned a lot of notes about researching during this period of time. One thing I learned is not to round. If you go to two different web sites and they give you different dates you can either go to another web site and see what it says or you can use both dates and say that those are the most likely dates. I also learned that you should always read more then one source of information, encase it is wrong. Another lesson I learned is that never believe every thing you read. One web site actually said that only homosexual people could get AIDS, which is completely untrue. Some other facts I learned about researching is that you should search with other search engines like google, yahoo, ask.com, dogpile, msdewey (one of my personal favourites)_ etc. last but not least you can use different resources. You can use books, the Internet, blogs, you can make a survey and ask people around your town\city, and you can even ask your teacher or fellow classmates. I learned a lot of researching tips during the process of making my presentation. I hope they help.
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April 7, 2008
Hey, it’s Kate
The winter whoot is coming up and I will be working at it. I will be working with Darren. The winter whoot is an annual festival that lasts three days, there will be face painting, socials, bouncy houses, tug of wars, games like giant basket ball and golf, even fish pond. There’s even horse back rides around town, also there is a scavenger hunt for the ice worm (the ice worm is a duffel bag that is hidden somewhere and its filled with all sorts of treats) and the thing I’m most looking for is the winter whoot mascot…the owl. The winter whoot owl is a volunteer that goes around giving hugs to all of the children. The winter whoot owl is a brown owl with screen eyes so that the people could see through. All the owl has to do is walk around and spread the joy, sometimes there is a clown handing out balloons too. I think the winter Whoot will be a blast this year, there’s always so much to do that it seems like the fun will never stop, it’s impossible to get bored at the Snow Lake winter whoot. 
March 7, 2008
Hey,
In social studies lately we have been working on Ancient Egypt. I have learned a lot during this subject. I have learned things about their religion and art, their clothing and traditions, even what kind of food they ate. Also I learned about things like wars they had and how their empire stayed protected for so long. I liked that subject because I found it interesting how long they kept their empire and also I found it interesting how in
Egypt there was barely any change. But we have been working on other things too.
We have also been working on a science fair project. For my science fair project I chose to be partners with Paige. Me and Paige did an experimentation project, we grinded up some different kinds of food then we blond folded a couple different people and plugged their noses then we recorded what they thought the food was, only a couple people guessed it right on the first try. We did this experiment in 3 days with 3 different foods each day. In the end we agreed that “Grind It Up!” was a suitable title for our project. Mr. Fisher has been keeping us busy in our little classroom…but I wouldn’t have it any other way, I found that I learned so much from this experience.
February 28, 2008
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