DSNO -- Blogmeister

The snowboard half-pipe is a very challenging sport. Riders have to make quick decisions in case they don't stick or make a trick and hesitation has a better chance of injury. The riders travel about 30 feet in the half pipe vertically. The riders train year round, six days a week about 4 hours a day, with time off in may because to get tricks perfect for the Olympics you need to practice year-round. In the half pipe the riders perform a series of acrobatic tricks while going farther down the half pipe going side to side. There are many tricks possible in the half pipe like the 180 air which is a half turn or a 900 air which is two and a half turns, some riders ride with their left foot forward which is called regular footed opposed to goofy footed with the right foot forward. Snow boarding has developed very quickly, it has been an Olympic sport for almost 3 decades.

In the 2010 Olympics there are two American riders in the mens half-pipe to watch, Shaun White and Scotty Lago, Shaun won the gold and Scotty won the bronze, but we had 4 Americans in the mens half pipe but only Lago and White placed with a metal. For the womens half-pipe Gretchen Bleiler and Kelly Clark Gretchen didn't place with a medal but Kelly Clark didn't hold back and placed with a bronze medal. Out of all of the half-pipe we got 3 medals for the U.S.A. The U.S. Did very well in the half-pipe and next year in Russia we will hopefully do even better!

Hello to you, my name is Noah Shrasuas, I am a Roman foot soldier, my legionary is heading to the Celtic area to contain the recent uprising of the Celtic people. I only hope that the blood shed will be little to nothing but what can you expect from the Romans obviously not a clean containment order. I do feel bad for these people though they have an underdeveloped civilization, their houses are mere huts mud clumps with straw no drain system either, compared to our highly developed houses with drain systems and running fresh water they are primitive. I felt bad that these people were most likely going to get killed or enslaved. I had great sympathy for these poor people, their clothing was undyed and most likely uncomfortable their shoes were warm but wasted away soon with this terrain. Our shoes and nails on the bottom of them. On our raid of a Celtic village i saw what their blacksmiths were working in and with and it made our workshops and blacksmiths look like they were gods in the art. They didn't even have a bath house, and no underground heating or drain systems to flush away the daily waste, i felt sorry for them because they were just getting by, but compare us to them and we are living in sweet luxury they didn't even have a set up and well rounded government that had laws, they had a lot to learn but unfortunately if they ever decided to mess with the Romans some would be killed and most others would be captured and sold as slaves or flee. Well i must be going now, i need a good sleep for tomorrow and only hope these poor people can cooperate well.

In science class we had to make valentines. The valentines had to have sayings that had to do with things we have learned in science through the whole year. Here are my (very cheesy) science sayings: You're like high pressure air, only good weather can come with you! My love for you is like a star, it will only keep growing! Being with you is like being a cirrus cloud, weightless and so far up! You are like the moon with stratus clouds in the way, You're blocked but when you come out you're so beautiful. Yes these sayings are VERY cheesy.

Surroundings
The fog encases me,
colors all dimmed,
shallow pools of color,
vanished,
behind the wave of gray,
it conjures eeriness within itself,
we become partially blind,
the essence of rain,
it becomes overly suffocating,
so much distortion,
where am I now,
in the worst,
it hisses and rears,
this cobalt gray,
will hang,
in the treetops,
seep deep into the ground,
this fog in a final attempt,
has lashed out,
so far at me,
it's deception is deep,
but I am willing,
willing to lose myself,
beyond belief.

The Darkness
The fog,
is so dense,
too dense,
I can't take it anymore,
the darkness,
has returned,
I know,
that this time,
I wont be able to withstand it,
but this,
is what I want,
I want to go,
where no one,
will know,
all,
the unknown,
secrets.

In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech, I have a dream. He gave this speech right before a big march, he wanted all people to be treated equally, black men, white men, Jews, gentiles, protestants, and Catholics no matter who you are, you will be treated equal. “I have a dream that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” that's a quote from the actual speech, part of the speech he said and didn't read. His speech is over 17 minutes long and in those 17 minutes hundreds of people were inspired. He said that after a hundred years since Abraham Lincoln we should be free by now, but they got their freedom slowly and it was still coming then, and they were getting impatient. We celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and his brave speech that inspired hundreds and thousands to be free and set free, and today we are free, no one is scolded for the color of their skin, or their religion, they are judged by their character exactly as he had wished it was his dream and it has come true, today, and tomorrow.

In the world long ago, when the gods were very known and worshiped, the tiny humans could walk and sleep on clouds. But they also lived on the ground too, they just slept in the sky. So everyone had their very own cloud bed, and it grew as you got older. But the gods had the biggest and comfiest clouds of all, no one complained though. Yet one small human man named Justin didn't like that. He thought that he should show the gods what it feels like to see someone with a cloud bigger and way better than yours just because they control the elements. What's so special about the elements anyway? So that next night, while everyone was asleep, even the gods snoring away, he went and took every ones cloud bed!

The next morning the sun was already quite high when the gods awoke. They all ached. And they were all very frantic, their cloud beds had been stolen!
“How did this happen!” exclaimed Hera.
“Where have our so comfy beds gone! Who DARE take them!” roared Zeus.
“Wait” said Poseidon, “Look there, in the distance!” then, all the gods looked, and what did they see? They saw all of their cloud beds, smushed and crushed together to make THE comfiest, and biggest cloud bed of all time, they were stacked on top of each other! So the the gods charged toward the giant cloud into the distance.

Just then, Justin was waking up, and he heard the gods. He looked up and there they were charging at him! He knew why of course. In the middle of the night when everyone was sound asleep he took all of the clouds for himself, because he wanted the gods to know what it was like to look upon something with envy and know you can't have it unless you fight for it which with the gods is almost impossible. And he liked being the only one with a cloud.

When the gods got to the colossal cloud and him,
“ We have chosen a punishment suitable enough so this won't happen again and you shall suffer forever! We the gods are taking away your human ability to walk and be upon clouds!” roared Zeus.
“ But, I only wanted you to know what it was like to look upon someone with envy of their cloud! You all have the biggest clouds and the comfiest!” pleaded Justin. “ Because without us, the elements would work themselves, and if that happened you would live in a place where tsunamis would be daily events and volcanoes erupting every hour, and earthquakes happening almost everyday, they would have no natural order.” said Athena.
“Just know that this is YOUR fault Justin.” said Artemis.

So Justin was then despised and detested forever because no one would forgive him for being so selfish. And he slept on wood while everyone else slept on comfy mattresses. But he was all alone forever and ever.

THE END

I did a project about Rye's transportation history. It was about all the transportation in Rye and how we have progressed so much in a small amount of time, from how we have gone from riding horses to have planes and cars and so far. I really liked doing this becuase it was interesting to learn about the transportation we have had in Rye.

My artist statement
The theme of my work was horses and things to do with horses. I chose this because horses are a very important part of my life and I love them so much. For materials, I used magazine pictures and paint. First, I cut pictures out, I layed them on my board where I wanted them, and mod-podged them. Lastly, I made my stencil and painted it with pearlescent to add shine to my collage. The thing that made my artwork unique was that I had a certain theme that has to do with me for my collage. I was influenced and inspired to use horses because I ride them. So I was inspired to do something I love to have in my life.

I think that we need more field trips, and the field trips need to be better, better as in more interesting and more fun. If the field trips were more fun then we would learn more. Most people know that when you have a good time you remember those things really well right? Well if the field trips were more fun, the kids would have a good time, and they would remember what they learn, and there fore that would help them with their learning. Most kids when they learn in regular classes they just zone out and they don't even listen and they don't learn anything in return. But if they thought that things would be more interesting, as in more field trips and better ones at that, then they would look forward to class and they would listen and they would remember. And that would make them have better grades which is what teachers and schools are always aiming for.
Having more and better field trips is also a good idea because it is a good way to present knowledge and teachers are always looking for a different way to present knowledge that will help their students with their learning. Kids would also have good memories of field trips, and that's something that parents will agree to. Kids would also look forward to school, and who doesn't want a kid to look forward to school?

I do know that there are things that stand in the way of having more field trips and better field trips. First thing most people think of, especially these days, is the school budget. Also we would be missing regular classes. The teachers might not like that because what if it's a science field trip? And say the other teachers just don't know how to connect with that subject and that can get them frustrated and therefore they will have to give more homework to the kids and that is NOT something that we want at all. Then there is also the thing that some kids might not like the field trip or the field trip subject or something, they just don't agree. Then they might tell their parents, which brings us to the subject of parent disagreement. Some parents might disagree with the field trip, they think it's stupid, maybe a waste of their hard earned money, and a waste of our time and that we should rather be in class. Then there is also the thought of sometimes we stop for fast food. And that's not good. Long bus rides is another thing, a lot of kids hate the long bus rides. And the very bad school policy doesn't let us bring ANY electronics unless the bus ride is TWO HOURS or MORE=http://! How ridiculous is this? Now ask yourselves, if you had to sit in a car, for an hour or even more, with nothing to listen to or anything, not even the radio, you can't even talk on a cell phone! See? Would you want that? No, exactly no one wants that, so if you don't want it then why would you make us suffer like that? That's just wrong.

Now, I have found that I can turn some of the bad things into better things. The first one is that for the budget issue we can just have more fundraisers and that can help a lot. And for missing regular classes, there is actually a simple thing to think about. A lot of kids learn by having fun, and by promoting more and better field trips this would help kids work. Thirdly some kids who might not like the field trip we can have a vote so when there is say 90% or something or less for something we should rethink some things, and this would be good, because teachers always go on an on about how they love to make kids happy and happier, so why not actually do it? Now lastly is for the long bus rides. For the long bus rides or any bus rides that are 30 MINUTES or MORE long, we should be aloud to bring electronics, because the teachers bring them so we should be aloud to bring them too. And also, it's a time to unwind, but don't think that singing and going a little crazy is bad, because that's how we get rid of our energy.

Why would this not be a good idea? Are the teachers too reluctant to come out of their well known comfort zone? And I do believe that these ideas to form a bigger and better idea are going to work, that is if you let them happen. But why wouldn't you want these things? Why wouldn't you want us kids to be happy? Do teachers really have a thing for wanting kids to SUFFER all day and all the time? But why would you listen to me? Because I am JUST a KID according to adults, but think about this, adults are just kids, but taller, it DOES NOT make them smarter and better, that is not what happens. Actually if adults listened to kids more I think our world would probably be a better world, because just being under eighteen apparently makes us less important,yet people keep saying that kids are the future. But, hey, why listen to me, I'm JUST a kid, I mean I'm just the FUTURE I'm not that important, because why listen to a kid about what kids want? It's not like a kid knows what kids want or need, so if adults want to keep guessing what we want that's perfectly fine. Just know that we do really want that. So please listen to our pleas of help. Please.

In November we went to the church and did project safeguard. We took different classes, the first one that I took let's communicate, it was about parents and their children communicating. First we wrote down a question, like why do parents always want to know every little thing that we do and are doing? And then the parents would answer the questions and try to tell the kids why they do these things. The parents would do the same ask a question and we would answer. We did other activities like we got a card, and held it up on our head and we couldn't know what it was unless someone told us, but we couldn't talk. It was fun and I had a good time at let's communicate. For the next class I went to get an attitude. There was a motivational speaker there and he talked to us about being positive and that kind of thing. I really liked it because he was funny and very energetic. I had fun at project safeguard.

For two weeks Joe Flood came to talk to us about drugs and alcohol and what they do to your body and how they're bad for you. But the interesting thing about him was that he used to be an alcoholic and a drug addict, so he was really experienced in why not to do it. He taught us about our brain he used a medafore, it was that we had six lights on in our brain and when we start drinking or doing drugs a lot if we do a lot at one time the first light turns off and that's thinking, and then the second light turns off, and then the third, and so on. He said it was dangerous for the lights to go off. He asked me what I thought was the light that turned off and that's when it started getting dangerous, I said the second or third, but I was wrong, I should have said the first. He told us a story about how a girl was drunk, she was about 16-17, and she was drunk and she woke up in her bed with no clothes on, and she couldn't remember much, her friends told her she went to her house with a guy. So it can get really bad, because she was drunk her first light turned off, her thinking light, and normally she wouldn't do that kind of thing, but her thinking light was off and she thought it was a good idea, but it was more like the alcohol thought it was a good idea. He told us many more stories, we saw him for 4 classes and I learned a lot of stuff.