Joy

Something I just was go on a great vacation with my best friends. First, we went to Miami for just one day. While we were there we went to Bayside, which is a really cool outdoor plaza. Next, we went on a cruise. It was so much fun! We went to St. Marteen, San Juan, and Labadee. We met so many people and truly enjoyed ourselves. After that, we went to Orlando. It brought back so many memories of my childhood, and of how much I enjoyed being a child. I had the time of my life and I'm so glad it was all with the people I love the most, my friends and family.

There's so many things I would like to do for myself but the principal one is to get along with my mom. I'm usually fighting with her, which causes us to separate and to lose the trust we have on each other. I try to behave the way she wants me to, but sometimes she just provokes me. Also, I get a lot of my rights taken away if I fight with her. Since I disrespect her, she won't let me do the things I want to like go out and stuff. If we would get along, our house would probably be more peaceful. There would be less fighting and screaming. I feel that getting along with my mom is something I should just do for me.

Well, all me is very special, but something that makes me extra special is my wanting to make everyone happy. I love to see people smile and laugh. Usually, I do very crazy and funny things to make sure they're happy. When people are sad for a certain reason, I like talking to them and try to cheer them up. Letting people know you are here for them and that you'll support them is a way to cheer them up little by little. Another thing I like to do is just try to get along with people. If you do that, I know they'll be happy because they've got a friend. Making people happy is something that makes me special.

Oil Spill

On the late night of April 20th, a fire occured in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig, about 50 miles from the shore of Lousiana. There were 126 men on board, and after an enormous explosion only 11 didn't make it. The rig collapsed and ended up sinking in the Gulf of Mexico. The safeguards tried to put a cap on the oil well, but it didn't turn out so good. Now, about 200,000 gallons of oil is spilling to the Gulf of Mexico, everyday. This could probably be happening for months, because people haven't really found a solution to solve the oil leak. This is the worst oil spill in history.

This oil spill can cause lots of harm in the world. The tourism of the southern states would obviously lower because the ocean would all be polluted, and thats what people go for during their vacation. Not only that, but also all the coral reefs, and the fish will get polluted. Right now, people can't go fishing for food, because everything in toxic. The company is trying to stop the spill with a gadget called "top hat." It will be positioned a mile below the surface. No gas problem will occur with the new cap. I think this will probably work, or atleast i have hope for it to work. This will defineatly help a lot because it's really an expensive solution, and scientists have really tried it.

Sites: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/oil_spill_approaches_louisiana.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/louisiana-oil-spill-2010_n_558287.html

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Oil-Spill-Near-Louisiana-In-Gulf-Of-Mexico---Obama-Proposes-Law-Change-To-Increase-Maximum-Payout/Article/201005215629444?f=rss

Testing

Finally, for the last time this year, we did MAP Testing. It is the the most BORING thing ever, but it's also good in way, because we get to sort of skip classes. I honestly try to do my best, but sometimes I just get tired and start guessing. I know that these tests help teachers know at what level of math and english to put us in, but it also makes me sort of mad to be reading all that stuff that reall doesnt intreast me on the computer. Math isn't so bad, but reading and language...WOW! Well, that's what I think of the testing, but I hate them.

Presentations

Today, I saw three presentations about animal extinction, that my classmates did. They were all very well done and completed. I honestly think that they did an outstanding job. They were very professional, and complete. Mine, was also really good. It had all the things it needed, and some extra few details which made it even better. I honestly liked doing my presentation, it made me learn about endangered species. There were somethings about my presentation that I had to change. Certain images were not very professional, so I have to change them.

Presentations

During my time in school, I have seen some HORRIBLE presentations. There is this one student that every time she makes a powerpoint, it's like torturing me. The schemes she chooses honestly drive me CRAZY. They are way to colorful, I mean some color really isn't bad, but what she uses is excessive (The font she uses sometimes, gets lost with the color of the background). Everyone simply gets a headache just by trying to read it, and she automatically looses the interest of the audience. Using font colors that are too bright, makes it hard for the people to read and understand. While they are trying to do that, the presenter will keep presenting and no one will even know. This is just an example of someone who makes really bad presentations.

25 things i love about Facebook, and 25 things I hate.

Love:
1. Finding new friends
2. Tetris Friends
3. Watching photos
4. Posting cool web pages on people's wall
5. Knowing people's birthday, that way you never forget
6. Receiving gifts you actually requested
7. Communicating quickly with friends
8. Knowing about people's relationships
9. Farmville
10. When people comment on your stuff (positive comments)
11. Having private inboxes ;)
13. Catching up with the news
14. MindJolt games
15. Getting event invitations

16. Graffiti

17. Famous quotes

18. Comparing people

19. Poking

20. Funny videos

21. Quizzes

22. Writing on your friends walls

23. Playing entertaining games

24. Knowing all the new gossip

25.

Hate:

1. Gifts

2. invitations to stupid groups

3. when chat gets all stupid and annoying

4. Stalkerish

5. Can become an addiction

6. Getting notifications on people that comment on things you like

7. being added by people you dont know

8. Celebrity posers

9. Annoying people who think you are best friends

10. people complaining about the pictures i put

11. wannabe sexy pictures

12. girls thinking they are all that because they have a million friends (they probably dont even know a quarter of them)

13. when people say you can be kidnapped by having an account

14. they change it soo often

15. too much photo editing

16. kids that are younger than 12 having facebook

17. Fake information

18. blurry pictures

19. too many requests

20. getting fake notifications

21. Confusing applications

22. people who write like this, "Oo0olAa ch0m0 tHaZ? BiieEn ii TU??

23.

Earth Day Project

This project was lots of fun for us to do. Hope and I are both people who care a lot about the nature and would love to have it for much longer. Telling everybody that we should protect the earth by doing a video and singing a song was incredible. Hope loves singing, and I love making videos so it was a perfect mix for us. We only had one difficulty, which was the pictures. We wanted pictures that showed the Earth both as beautiful and ugly. They were both extreme parts of nature, so we both found it hard to find really good pictures. We didn't leave this project for the last minute, so we had lots of time to find the pictures. Not all the pictures were taken while doing the project, some were taken a long time ago, but still match with the presentation. In conclusion, this presentation was lots of fun and I hope we get to do something like this soon.