Hey everyone! (:

If you’ve read my second last post, you’d know that I went to the Vancouver Aquarium on Monday. We went with 3 other classes so that all the grade 6 and 7′s could go. It was just as fun as last year! I think my favourite part though was the ferry ride there and back because it was really fun hanging out on the ferry with all my friends.

When we got to Vancouver, we took a long bus ride to downtown Vancouver. We then walked to Stanley Park and rested for a while. It’s right beside the Aquarium so after that we walked there. We took tours throughout the Aquarium and even behind the scenes. We had a late night buffet with lots of food to eat, then we went to the wet lab and got to touch some sea creatures.

Then we went to the Beluga Whale tanks, and got ready for bed. Some of us didn’t sleep for awhile though others went to bed right away. I went to bed right away because I was super tired but last year I didn’t go to bed for a long time. In the morning, we woke up, packed up our sleeping stuff, then eventually made our way to a breakfast buffet. After that, we could go around the Aquarium and look at what we wanted and then, we went to the gift shop. The gift shop there is huge and filled with really cool things. I bought an octopus hat and a little metal whale.

It’s pretty cool there, so if you ever come by Vancouver, you should take a visit! (:

Original CC Flickr Image Water Liliesby aussiegall

Hello everyone (:

A lot of you have probably already heard about or even witnessed the huge riot that went on in Vancouver last night after the Stanley Cup Finals between the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks. Though there may be some important facts that you didn’t know about or you just haven’t heard…

Well after The Bruins won, the streets of downtown Vancouver were filled with thousands of people. Riots had eventually broken out and people had gone crazy. People were stabbed, cars were flipped over, building windows smashed, and flames bursting out. Even a guy wearing a Bruins jersey walked out of the arena and got a flash grenade below his stomach.

A lot of this happened because there was a lot of alcohol involved. That of course, didn’t help at all. London Drugs (a drug store) was damaged quite badly and the costs of repairing it will be around 1 million dollars, and that is just for one store. Also stores like The Bay, Future Shop, Bank of Montreal, and a few others were recked.

The unfortunate thing is that now what do people think of Vancouver? Many may think that we are horrible citizens who hate to be defeated but really, most of the people who were ruining the city, weren’t actually Canuck fans. Just people who took advantage of the fact, and thought they could do whatever they wanted because of it.

Actually, a lot of the Canuck fans in the arena were great about the Bruins winning. I myself, am a Canucks fan but the Bruins definitely deserved to win. In the arena Bostons goalie, Tim Thomas, got a standing ovation even from the Canuck fans. When they held up the cup, Canucks fans were cheering too. They were definitely supportive which I think is great. Honestly, my opinions on the people of Vancouver are no different then before. 

Also, a lot of rumours have been floating around about people dying. They are not true. The mayor of Vancouver announced that no one was killed and the worst injury was that one man got a serious head injury but other than that, over 100 people were hospitalized but with less damage.

So I hope you all take a second thought on our Vancouver people. Did you witness this riot? What are your thoughts on it?

Original CC Flickr Image Stanley Cup Finals – June 15, 2011 – Vancouver Riots by Jason Hargrove

Hey everyone! (: Today, all the grade 6/7 classes in our school are going to the Vancouver Aquarium again! I’m so excited, because I also went last year and it was extremely fun, and my friends and I had such a great time there. It’s going to be even better if the Vancouver Canucks win because the last game they won there was 100 000 people in the streets of Vancouver.

They even had huge screens around the city showing the game. They are my favourite NHL team as well so, It’s going to be awesome. We’re sleeping with the beluga whales again this time. It was really cool because they talk to each other in the tank. I’ll make a post when I get back from the Aquarium to tell you all what we did! If you want to read about last year, go to the post here.

Original CC Flickr image Mtwara coral head and fish by kibyeu

At our school, we get the gymnastics equipment for 2 weeks. One side of our gym is all the equipment like beams and vaults and on the other side, the big tumbling mats. During these 2 weeks our whole class got a chance to try the equipment as well as all the other classes. In the last week we had it, we all had to make up our own gymnastics routine on the mats. Some people did theirs with a partner while others went alone. I chose to have a partner and I’m with Emily.

I’ve never been in gymnastics before but a few people in my class are or have been. I’m not the greatest but I can do things like cartwheels, round offs, bridges, and more. Today we are presenting our routines and I’m a little nervous because I’m sick and I don’t know If I will be able to. I’ll try though! We are getting evaluated by our teacher and we have criteria that we have to match. It includes tumbling, leaps, passes etc.

I hope Emily and I do good, and good luck to all my classmates! Are any of you in gymnastics?

This post was for the 2011 Student Blogging Challenge (Challenge 10, Activity 3)

Original CC Flickr image Jump for Joyby dydcheung

My school is over in about a month from now and then we’ll all be on our summer break! I’m super excited because I love summer as you may already know. I thought I’d let you all know that I will continue blogging throughout the summer just like I did last summer. I’m not sure how many posts I’ll put up I’ll put at least 3 if I can! I enjoy blogging over the summer because sometimes I’m not sure of what to do and when I blog about all the fun things I did, that gives everybody else an idea too. If you have read any of my summer posts, they do list a few things on what I did and how much fun I was having.

It wont be summer for everyone though because in the Southern Hemisphere, it will be there winter break and I hope all of them have fun too! I’m a little nervous to see how hot it will be for our summer though because we aren’t having the best weather. Today it is pouring rain but during the weekend it was extremely hot for spring which I enjoyed. I do hope for a hot and sunny summer though! Hope you all enjoy your last few weeks of school and your summer/winter break! (:

This post was for the 2011 Student Blogging Challenge (Challenge 9, Activity 1)

Original CC Flickr Image Intruding Sand by JadeXJustice

Hello Everyone! (: I’m pretty sure everyone has either a favourite food, drink, band(s), colour, hobby, and many more! I’d love to share with all you guys some of my favourites and you could even comment sharing yours because I’d love to hear yours too. My favourite food is steak. I love it because it tastes good, obviously, but the weird thing is, that my favourite animal is a cow.

I’m not sure why I like cows so much, It’s kind of an odd animal to like but I guess it all started when I got a cow stuffy and it was really cute. As you may already know, my favourite colour is green, I know I’ve mentioned this plenty of times but it’s true! My favourite hobbies are hockey and dance. Especially goalie (for hockey) and Hip hop (for dance). For bands, I like Nickelback, Down with Webster, The Cataracts and Hedley. For a singer though, I like Eminem, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Dev, Katy Perry, and Bruno Mars.

In school, my favourite subjects are gym, math, and art. I love gym mostly because of the sports, math because it’s fun and interesting… Most of the time, and art because I’m artistic and I love to be! My favourite season is summer, my favourite drink is a smoothie, my favourite holiday is Christmas, my favourite game is The Sims 3, and my favourite thing to do is listen to music and/or hangout with my friends. These are just a few of my favourite things but I hope this post showed you all just a little bit more about me! (: I’d still love to read some of your favourites, if you’d like to share, comment or even make your own post about it!

This post was for the 2011 Student Blogging Challenge (Challenge 8, Activity 3)

Original CC Flickr Image Sunshine Buddy by Danmachold Released under Attribution, Non Commercial, Share Alike

Here’s a cartoon I made on an environmental issue. I did mine on energy wasting. Yes, wasting energy is bad for our planet but the thing is, It’s actually really simple to fix. It’s as simple as turning off a light switch in a room when it’s not needed. The cartoon is also very simple and doesn’t give out a lot of information but that’s because It’s easy to follow and It tells that it doesn’t take much to make a difference.

Since I didn’t really give out any facts, I found one realy cool one that yet, makes all the difference. Did you know, that just by turning off your computer/laptop when you go to sleep, school/work, or when you go out for long periods of time, you’re using 85% less energy then you would if you left it on. Even putting it to sleep helps!

Also a little information about how I made this cartoon! It’s super easy to make and extremely fun. If you want to give it a try, go to Toondoo.com and sign up for free!

This post was for the  2011 Student Blogging Challenge (Challenge 7, Activity 6)

Hello everyone! Last year my teacher had introduced me to a site called, Wordle. It’s a really cool site that could be used in many ways. I’ve used mine to show things that matter to me and what I really like. All you do is go to the site, and click “Create” then you type in words that will show up on the picture. The cool thing is, the more you type a word, the bigger it will appear. So for instance, I typed in Shania the most, therefore it is the largest on the Wordle.

You could actually use Wordle as a form of graph. So if you took a survey and lets say it was about the people’s favourite food, you would gather your information and then put it into the Wordle. So if 20 people said there’s was chicken, then you’d type it in 20 times. Which ever food was liked the most would come out the biggest showing everyone that it was liked most. As for the least selected food(s) would show up the smallest.

I hope you all give it a try sometime because It’s a really cool site and you could use it for lots of things.

This post was made for the 2011 Student Blogging Challenge (Challenge 6, activity 6)

Image made with Wordle.

You guys may already know this from my About Me post, but my absolute favourite colour is green. I really love it because it’s so natural but when you don’t want it to be, it’s lime green. I love most greens, but lime green and light-ish greens are the best, well, to me. My iPod case is lime green, and I happen to really like it. (: I always make the background on my iPod really colourful to match my case, sounds weird, but it looks really bright. Also, most of my blankets are lime green and even parts of my pillows. Even my shoes are green.

My second favourite colour is purple, I love it becuase it’s just super pretty and it really stands out. My friend Celina’s walls in her room are a really deep but vibrant purple and it’s really amazing. Also some parts of her blankets match and they are also really pretty.

Now we have my third favourite colour which is blue. It just so happens that today I’m wearing a blue sweater and I’ve have noticed that I have more blue sweaters than any other colour. I just think that it’s a really good colour for sweaters. Also, some of my blankets/pillows are also blue. I’m also in love with beautiful blue water, on beaches or in lakes. In the summer, I love how the water glistens in the sun. In the summer I usually go to Port Mcneill, and I love to look out the window and just watch all the water and nature that surrounds me. It’s actually really beautiful here, and I’m happy to live where I do.

These three colours just so happen to go really good together. That is why I chose these pictures, they represent each colour. The fourth picture is for the colours I talk about below this.

Recently, I have become a quite of a fan of yellow and orange. Mostly for clothing though, especially in the summer becuase it looks really good. I like them also because they are so bright, happy, and just out there. (: I’m also very random and usually happy so they seem to match me a little bit.
What is/are your favourite colour(s)?

This post was for the 2011 Student Blogging Challenge (Challenge 5- Activity 3)

Original CC Flickr Images Blue Water by Fox_kiyo, A Purple Pansy by Anne Davis, Green Leaf by Tgrab, and Copy of Happy Orange Slices by Rainbow Photos! All Released under attribution non commercial (except for Copy of Happy Oranges in which is free to use for commercial use)

If I ever got to choose a place for a vacation, I think I’d still want to go somewhere hot and sunny. I know I’ve already told you guys this but I’m still stuck on it. The thing is I’m not to sure where exactly would be the best place to go. I was thinking maybe a little feed back from you guys to help me decide on where my dream vacation somewhere hot and sunny would be. So I have made a poll for you guys to take if you’d like and the feedback may help me if one day I decide to go somewhere.

Also if you’d like, maybe even comment on why or where in that place you’d like to go to be more specific. Also after a week or so, I’ll make another post to tell you all the results I got and a thanks to everyone who participated.

This post was for the 2011 Student Blogging Challenge (Challenge 4)

CC Flickr Image Palm tree in Seliva, Spain  by Aljo.Hartgers