Joining Up

In today's world, when the Internet is a huge thing, social networks are huge. I mean, if you're reading this, you're on one right now! Out of my class of 40 something, I think about all but five of my classmates have Facebooks. Half of them have blogs, and every one of my classmates has an email. That's a lot. For part of the Blogging Challenge, we were to answer these questions... Enjoy :)




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Q. What Internet sites have you joined?

A. A LOT! I'm on Blogger (duh), Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, Neopets, Snapfish, Piknik, Youtube and probably twenty more...

Q. How much info do you give out on those sites?

A. Umm.. I try not to give out much. I normally stick to my first name, state, and age.

Q. Have you filled in the asterisk questions? (with this*)

A.Sometimes. Not if it seems usless/dangerous.

I then websearched my name and my town to see what I could find.

Q. What did you find?

A. I found out that I am in the paper... a lot. Sports stuff, honor roll, and random things from when I was little. I was also apparently in some ads for my school when I was like five.

Q. How many footprints are you leaving behind?

A. I'm not sure. Probably a lot. A lot of times when you're little, people say that your parents can start the footprints for you, but my parents aren't online very often, and I'm not sure if they even had a computer when I was born, so I'm almost positive that they wern't posting baby pictures online. :)

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 What about you? Do you have a Facebook? What sites have you joined? Are you careful about how much info you give your viewers? Search Yourself, and try to answer the following questions in a comment please :)

Visit These

Hi Guys... Yesterday I went out visiting blogs. I found some very cool ones that I want you to see:

•  Okay, the first blog you should look at is Kara's. I really like her blog, and she put an interesting post in Swedish :) Her blog is http://shskaraf.global2.vic.edu.au/ Check it out!
•  Another blog that I like is Megan's. (She's in my class) She always has interesting posts and videos, and Meagn has a really cool background. Megan's URL is http://ritzcrackermegan.blogspot.com/ 
•  Okay, the last blog I found yesterday that I liked was Weyshan's. She lives in Vietnam and uses her blog to tell more about Asia. I learned that where she lives, they only have two seasons! Her blog is http://shanyung2015.edublogs.org/ 

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I'm sure these guys would really appreaciate your comments, so visit their blogs. (They are all in the Student Blogging Challenge) Go out and check out some blogs, and let me know if you find any cool ones. Just add their URL as a comment so I can visit them. Have fun, and you might just find something in common with someone!

Enjoy my strange little sister... lol

My Blog in Review...

This week for the Student Blogging Challenge, I am going over this past history of my blog. I've written some funny things:

• Fred the hot-tempered mouse...

I've written some interesting things

• Construction Work Go Away!

I've also written the straight facts.

• Another Recount?
  Of course though, if am going to recommend a post to you, it has to be my favorite post of all time All Because of a Cookie. It is the interesting story of me, my mom, and my grandma, trapped in a car behind an accident in a blizzard coming back from the Mall of America, all because of a cookie. If you are going to take time out of your day to read it though, you should really read Hooky first, and the read She Still Gets That Cookie. Confusing? Good.

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Do you have any interesting posts that you've written? Any interesting shopping trips with your grandmothers? :) Comment letting me know what posts you have that i should read, and why I should read them...

Doodle 4 Google

            Last week, our teacher decided that we are going to enter the Doodle for Google contest. You design a logo for Google following the theme, " What I'd like to do someday..." We saw the winners from past years, and they got to go to the Google Studio in New York. They also won a college scholarship a graphic design tablet and a laptop computer. I really want to to win... but I'm not going to get my hopes up. I think being in this contest will be a great experience.

Hello My Name is ______ and I'm a Shopaholic.

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          This week in 21st Century, We are learning about spending money. That is something I like to do. Unfortunately, a lot. There are two kinds of people in this world, spenders or savers, and I think we all know what category I'm in. We went to the U.S. mint website, and played some games and took quizzes on spending money. Go to tips for teens, and try the Spending Challenge. It was a challenge for me alright. You're supposed to see how much money you have left after a certain amount of weeks. I think I went into the negatives. I took the Money Quiz, and got Spender. Like I didn't already know that. H\ello, My name is Hannah, and I am a shopaholic.

This Year in School...

By Bart Everson

            This year in school, I have been doing pretty well. I definitely did better than last year. I mostly like all my classes, except for math. I think math is boring. I’m not bad at it, but I really don’t like it. Right now in math we are learning about factoring polynomials. Blech.

           I like religion, because it's really fun, and right now we are making soap operas. (Long story… will post them later) They class I hate most though, is band. I like playing my instrument, but that’s all I want to do, I don’t want composers worksheets, and I really don’t want to practice. Double Blech. Other than that, I pretty much like all my classes.

Happy Valentine’s Day! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Do you have a special Valentine?

National Debt....

             As you probably know, our national debt is huge. Really huge. If we spilt up our debt, there would be $200,000 for every man, woman and child to pay. But Why?

We are self indulgent

We spend money we don't have

We need to lower our debt, or else other countries will stop lending us money, and we'll be even worse off. 68% of our borrowed money is from other countries, and they are getting impatient.

Obama refuses to pass this problem on to another generation

Doing nothing is not an option, and we need to lower the national debt.

But what I don't get is:

Why’s the deficit so high?

What is it we are paying for?

Was there something huge that started the debt?

When we were in the green with Clinton, why?

How can we pay back other countries without raising taxes?

 

TACKLE THE FLU!

http://www.lincolncountyhealth.com/PH/FluPage.htm

        This past month for class, we've had to make flu prevention related public service announcements. I was in a group with Megan, Jacob and Tim. We definitely had an interesting time. Tim played our flu germ, but we couldn't figure out how to portray the flu. We ended up just making a giant paper germ and hanging it around his neck. We weren't sure people would be able to tell what he was, so we had to make a sign too. Unfortunately, Tim's costume kept ripping and we had to use packing tape to fix it. Paper probably wasn't the best choice. 

       I hope you enjoy our video, we spent a long time on it. If you want to see some of our classmate's videos as well, they are on http://vimeo.com. Just search flu prevention under groups. These videos were made for a contest online. The winners get $1,000 for their school. Wish our group luck! Winners are announced February 11th. Enjoy our video:

 

Tackle the Flu from sharleen berg on Vimeo.

Catholic School's Week

         This week is Catholic School's Week. It's like spirit week for Catholic School kids, but ironically we have spirit week, too. The real reason for Catholic School's Week is so the staff can try to get a whole bunch of people to register for St. Mary's next year. My mom and I came in on Sunday to lead tours of the school. We only got to lead one tour in the hour and a half because the people asked so many questions. We were successful though, because right after the tour, they registered! During Catholic School's Week, we do lots of fun things. Today, for example, we have to dress up as book characters. I'm Jesus. Sadly, only three people in my whole grade dressed up. Party Poopers. Tomorrow is Era Day, and I'm wearing a poodle skirt and saddle shoes. Wednesday, each grade is wearing either red, white, or blue and then when we are at church, someone will go up in the choir loft and take our picture, because we'll look like an American flag. Thursday we'll be in camo, because it's support our troops day. Friday, we're wearing sports  clothing. Look's like fun!

Why I Love Going to St. Mary's!

     
        Yes, I go to St. Mary's...I think its a great school. I've been going to St. Mary's since preschool, so I've been there for ten years, and that's a lot of my life! I wouldn't spend that much time at someplace I didn't like (unless my parents made me...)  I like St. Mary's for the obvious reasons... small class sizes...Catholic teaching...etc. But I also enjoy St. Mary's for other reasons. My friends are there, and if I went to public school, I'd probably be an invisible nobody. At St. Mary's, there are less than 40 eighth graders, so everybody knows everything about everybody. That can be a positive or a negative thing, because good and bad things about you can spread quickly. Overall, St. Mary's is a great school, and I will be very sad when I go to the public High School next year.