Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Slow Dance

This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.A terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. I think this is a beautiful poem and it just shows how much life is worth. We should be savoring every moment of life, not rushing through it because as she said you don't know how much your going to have left.

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SLOW DANCE
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Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun
into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast .
Time is short.
The music won't last.
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Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
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Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,'Hi'
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
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When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

10 things I hate about you

Kat Stratford:
"I hate the way you talk to me,
and the way you cut your hair...
I hate the way you drive my car.
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots,
and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick;
it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right.
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh,
even more so when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around,
and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."

We watched this movie in English class and this poem was so sad. It was said with so much emotion and it was great. The movie is based on the " Taming of the shrew" . Taming of the shrew was a comedy written by Shakespeare. The comedy is about a noblemen who marries a bad tempered shrew named Katherina. He tames her and makes her obedient. The main subplot features the courting of Katherina's more conventional sister Bianca by numerous suitors.

I really enjoyed the movie. It was extremely clever how they incorporated Shakespeare's work into it and made it an entertaining movie for teenagers. The poem is also based on Shakespeare's work. It was a really cool teenage movie.

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Monday, September 15, 2008

The game.

From the beginning of time man has played "the game". Everyone is always playing "the game". Every moment of every day for you entire life people have played it. The game its not a game you can see, it is not a game you can play on a board or with another person. Because the moment you think about the game you lose. As soon as you think about the game you lose and you have to say out loud "I lost the game"Therefore everyone around you thinks about the game and the result is that everyone loses " The game" The only way you can win the game is to not think about the game but by thinking about not thinking about the game you are actually thinking about the game. Which means that you lose the game. Confused yet. The only way to win the game is to drop the entire subject.

This is the most fun game in the world and its called "The game" My friend Lisa introduced me and my friends to the game. She said that every time we lost we had to say it out loud. Making everyone else lose. So she would constantly send us texts saying " I lost the game" to which we would reply "Oh Lisa, now I lost the game"I told this story to my friend Eve. I told it all serious and both her and I were taking it very seriously. She was liked Oh my gosh! Until we couldn't keep it up any more and we just cracked up laughing. Point is you have to try and play the game and play it with your friends. Its a lot of fun.

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Growing up

You know when your little, and pretty much every friend you had was the same. Sometimes mean, sometimes nice and then when you see those friends years later you begin to realize how much people have changed. Specifically when these years, these teenage years are when you notice not only how much everyone else has changed but yourself too. These are the years when everyone begins to define their own personalities, they begin to change and develop into the person that they will become. People change, they grow with every day and learn from their experiences. You can look around at your friends and notice how much they have grown. Not just physically but their personalities are growing up. So why don't we notice how much we ourselves have grown up. The signs are always around me but I never look back at what I used to be like until someone tells me that I have changed. I just keep looking forward. Cassandra and I were talking about this and I finally looked back. I have changed. So have all my friends. School makes you smarter but experience makes you wiser and looking back I noticed how much we had all changed. Our lives and everything about us has been altered.

This for me is mind boggling, I'm not sure why because at this stage in my life I am so happy. I look back an think that last year or the year before I would have never been having this much fun with my friends, with school, I would have never been coaching a team and yet now I am. I think the reason I never looked back is that now my life is so great and looking back might take me back instead of forward. Or maybe I'm just rambling incoherently. Most likely the later option. The whole point of this blog entry was that looking around at those young adults who used to be kids only a year or two ago makes you notice how fast were all growing up. The years go faster as our lives become more exciting. Time no longer seems relevant. It is as though your just floating on through life, enjoying amazing things. All of a sudden we have so much more freedom. Life just seems so good but it feels like its going to fast that maybe we might miss something.

Like they say "Life is to short" but I cant wait to live every moment to the full.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

New York Grand Central Station

Yet again I have another cool video to show you. I think its a phase im going through or something but videos are my thing right now.
Now you know when you see amazing stunts or performances done in a group and its just a group of people doing something cool. Well this video is one of those moments. Its just a group of actors (and again I saw this in drama class today) all getting together and freezing everything they are doing at the same time in the same place. They stay frozen for ages while people go by and wonder what the heck is going on.

Its one of those wonderful performances that started off really small as a joke and has turned into something huge that people all over the world do. A group of actors travel the world and do something they enjoying doing and the best thing is its entertaining for everyone else.

They go to famous places all over the world and do a performances like this one.


See its inspiring, everybody working together. Everyone played their own little part and created something really great. Its this kind of thing that makes me love human beings because they are all so inspiring and the amazing things that we can do a race is wonderful and a beautiful thing to think about.Things like this video show you how amazing people can be and what they can do if they all work together and plan do do something really random but really cool.

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Monday, August 18, 2008

101 accents

IWe were watching this in drama today and I thought it was pretty cool alright. This women- Amy Walker- can do 101 accents. All of which sound viable.

I suck at accents and when I saw this I just thought it was so cool. It is a very cool talent to have and I think this shows that she is a pretty great actress. Seeing this kind of cool stuff is what makes me really get into drama at school.

When I saw this I thought that it would be good to put on my blog considering ive gotten into a trend of putting videos on my blog. I should probably stop rambling now and put the video on I hope you enjoy it as much as me and my friends in drama did.

This video is of Amy Walker doing 21 of her 101 accents they are so cool. I like the Kiwi one its awesome such a kiwi accent and the Canadian one actually sounds Canadian, its sounds like my mom or my grandmother.I think the funniest is the Brooklyn accent its great.



Wow! isnt that cool. What a great talent to have. I told you the Kiwi one is awesome.

I find it crazy some of the things people can do. Like some people can do really amazing beat boxing and some people can rool their tounge and then you get some really random and weird things like this that just mke you smile and say "hey thats really neat"

There are so many types of people on earth and you dont really see how individual and unique every single person is until you see things like this. Then you start to look around at the people you know and think wow were all special were all different. I think the most amazing thing about man kind is the various personalities. So remember everyones special in their own unique way.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Gorilla man!

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Oh I love this add so much.Its one of those stupid adds that make no sense at all and have nothing to do with what they are promoting but I love it. So much. I think its so stupid and irrelevant that its brilliant. The people who came up with this add are geniuses because it makes people smile and laugh and most importantly it gets peoples attention.

If I didn't already want to by Cadbury chocolate (yum!who wouldn't want to buy it) than this add would convince 100%. So as you can tell I really really love this add this is probably the one and only add on TV that if I heard (from my room downstairs) I would jump up and actually go upstairs to watch.

The reason that that is so amazing is because my parents have a hard enough time getting me come upstairs and have dinner with them but there is a reason that I always stay in my room. Them, just jokes dad! Anyway Ive got a little bit off topic. I love this add I hope you do too.

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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Cristain the Lion!



You might not think this is very cool but I thought that this was amazing.John Rendall and Ace Berg found a cub lion for sale.It was cramped in its cage so they decided to take it home.The cub grew up and was raised with them.Eventually Crisatin got to big.John and Ace were forced to take him back to Africa.Once released into the wild Cristain became the leader of his own pride. A year later they wanted to go visit him but were told that now that he was introduced to the wild he wouldn't remember them anymore.Of course they went anyway.When they got there and the lion finally appeared and saw the men he ran up to them.He jumped up and hug his old friends, nudging them and wrapping his paws around them lovingly. It just shows that human or lion families always stick together and even after being introduced into the wild Cristain still remembered and loved them.

I love it.I think its so cute!and its an overall amazing and touching story.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

My friends and their wacky ways!

My friends. What can I say about my friends.Only that they are the best.My friends are always there for me, they are funny and nice and we may be weird in so many ways but that's why we all get along so great. We all have personal jokes that anyone else from other groups would not get they would just look at us like we were nuts. Take for example me and my best friend Nikki, we have so many inside jokes that go so far back that sometimes one of us wont even remember what the other is talking about.Me and Cassie are pretty much joined at the hip (another inside joke, same classes and some of the same sports).

The point of this is that I wouldn't be where I am today if my friends hadn't been such awesome friends.You've been the best guys best I could ask for. Thanks heaps.

PS:
Nikki: been my best friend for as long as Ive been here.
Bailee: Best of childhood friends from way back
Gabby: Dito on the above.
Cassie:Joined at the hip literally-jokes-and figuratively
Tishana:All dimples and giggles-so much fun, tishana-llama
Charne:My pirates of the Caribbean buddy-pirate bob
Lisa: A personal joke right here-we know what they think
Kayla:And another one-My window buddy.....
Alisha: Yet again another personal joke-Hot?or Cold?
Becca: She understands everything and is always there to help
Jade:Hilarious in her own quirky ways
Amy:My sports buddy, and my awesome talking buddy.We get each other.
(Jordan's my best mate to but this is the list for my girl mates.My guys mates miss out)


You can tell that I couldn't think of something to right about today.............. :)

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Grief :(

Grief is the sort of thing that can either hit hard and fast leaving you broken and sad or it can come on slowly seeping through and permeating into all aspects of your life.Either way the result is the same.It still hurts just as much. You can loose a family member, or a friend. Or you might not have even lost anyone you've just been through something horrible and no one can no what you feeling because we all react in different ways.Some might get suddenly sad and nothing will put a smile on their face, some will get mad and some will just move on even though deep down their quietly grieving all by themselves.
As a friend there isn't a hell of a lot that you can do except to be there when they need you. You cant take the pain away you cant make it any easier on them even though you wish that you could. You can grieve with them but you'll never really know exactly what they are feeling.All you can do is lend them a shoulder now and again. Cry with them when they are sad, listen when they talk and be as much of a friend as you can.

Grief is upsetting and its everywhere. Its on the news, in the happiest of homes and even in the school playgrounds. What compelled me to talk about this I have no idea.Grief brings people together. That sounds horrible but it does. People who have been through something horrible will grow closer to the ones who stick it out with them. That's why I think friends and family are the best people to have around when you grieving.
One of the most random blogs ever written.........by..............................{E}{R}{I}{C}{A}

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Book review:Holes by Louis Sachar!

Time for the monthly book review which hasn't been so monthly oops! Holes by Louis Sachar is a surprisingly suspenseful story that story that weaves in and out of the past events from camp green lake and the present situation of a teenage boy Stanley Yelnats. It is a well written novel but also a great movie.Stanley Yelnats's family has a terrible history of bad luck and Stanley always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. So its no surprise to Stanley when his bad luck gets him in court for a crime that he didn't commit. He was given a choice of jail or camp Green Lake. Of course he chose camp Green Lake I mean what would you choose. The camp turns out to be a lot different than he expected. He was forced to dig one hole every day five foot wide and five foot deep through a dried out crusty layer of earth that used to be covered by a beautiful lake. While hes there the past begins to unfold on how exactly the lake dried up, how the Yelnats family came by such bad luck and how all these event tie in with camp Green Lake and the people residing there.

This is an interesting and suspenseful story that will confuse and excite you withs its many twists and turns. The book is great and movie is almost just as good.Holes by Louis Sacher.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Being that age!

Being a teenager isn't all I thought it would be. When I was younger I always looked up to my older brother. I couldn't wait to grow up and be a teenager.I guess I thought that it was easy turns out I was so completely wrong in that respect. I mean people say that this is the best time of you life that you should live every moment of it to the full. I find that it is fun but its hard. When your a kid you have no responsibilities. When you become a teenager everything becomes difficult. It feels as though the weight of the world is on your shoulders. Weather its looking after you younger siblings or your family to the smaller things. Pimples, relationships with your friends and the people around you, school, exams and god knows your future.

Sometimes it seems hard.Sometimes it feels as though it would just be easier to go back to being a innocent little child.Yet as these thoughts occurred to me today I know that if I had a moment to reflect on this I would choose to be where I am today. If only because despite all the embarrassment and stress of growing up it is like they say the best time of your life. So from now on this will be my motto...
" The hardest thing about this world is living in it so take every day as it comes.Live life to the full, because tomorrow you could be dead."

Sunday, June 8, 2008

United Nations (UN) world enviroment day!


Last week on June 5th the UN World Environment Day was held right here in NZ. The UN World Environment Day is held every year on June 5th to stimulate Worldwide awareness on environmental issues. It is used to enhance political attention and action on the matter.
The Logan for this years UN W.E.D was "Kick the habit!Towards the carbon economy". This year the program is calling out for countries, companies, and communities to focus their attention on greenhouse gas emission and how to reduce them.
Actions are being taken to improve on the situation such as alternative energy sources, and forest conservation.

This event is celebrated in many different ways including street rallies; bicycle parades; green concerts; essay and poster competitions in schools; tree planting; recycling efforts; and clean-up campaigns.World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. It is hosted every year by a different city and commemorated with an international events held throughout the week of June 5.
So we should do our best to make a contribution to help save the beautiful nature all around us. Every little thing helps so "Kick the habit!towards a low carbon economy"
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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Best experiance with a reliever.

Last week our year ten English class had some trouble with a reliever. Our teacher was out for the period so another teacher from the school took over out class. The period didn't turn out to be very good and when our teacher got back she wasn't happy with us. So our punishment was to write a five hundred word creative writing story about the best experience you could have with a reliever. It was kind of hard to think of ideas because she said it had to be realistic but when it comes to creative writing my first instinct is to blow everything out of proportion. To exaggerate everything.So trying to write an interesting story but keeping it very realistic is very hard. Anyway ill stop rambling this is my story about the best experience with a reliever.

We had always heard abnormal stories about Mr. Witmore. Just little things shared at sleepovers and around bonfires at camping trips but they were enough to make even the staunchest of the guys a little bit scared of him. Of course they were meant to scare kids so were often over exaggerated. Sometimes people would tell stories about him being a blood sucking fiend who would trick you into staying behind after class then he would eat you. Or he was an alien with a really big body but a tiny head who would steal you away fr om you class and take you to mars to be studied by marsion scientists. Yes; we heard a lot of stories but we knew none of them could possibly be true. However when our teacher had a cold and was taking the day off we were told that our substitute for the period would be Mr. Witmore. The news spread quickly and by period four (the last period of the day) everyone was just hoping to get out alive.

Its kind of funny because at the time he looked so normal. He was tall, dark hair, young and he put on a smile that contradicted all the stories. He had a normal sized head on his shoulders and he didn’t try biting any of us once but that didn’t matter to us. Our imagination took over and from the moment he walked in the class we were frozen in our seats. We kept our heads down and tried not to make eye contact for fear he would prey on one of us. It was obvious he was uncomfortable because he immediately attempting to calm out nerves by talking to us. In the perkiest voice possible he said
“Hi class. I'm Mr. Witmore. Ill be your reliever for today, I hope we can have fun” All he got in return from the class was a chilling silence.

We were soon proven wrong in our judgments of Mr. Witmore. He didn’t set us any work at all he just sat down at the computer and put some of the best music out on. He turned it down and continued to talk to us. He told us everything about himself and we shared funny interesting and sad stories. Before we knew it we were laughing and chatting away as a class to Mr. Witmore. His jokes were hilarious and he was an all round cool person. The time came when he eventually had to set us some work but we were all having so much fun talking about and working on the topic that we didn’t notice how well we had done it. The class flew by as time does when you’re having fun. It was by far the most interesting lesson all day maybe even all week. The scary stories about Mr. Witmore weren’t so scary anymore.

At the end of the class, when the bell had gone and every one had packed up and left I stayed behind. I walked up to Mr. Witmore and said.
“You know sir your nothing like I thought you’d be. Those stories were all wrong”
“What did you think I would do? Suck your blood? Please, the worst I would do would be to make you do lines.”
His reply sparked an idea in my mind and before he turned ti leave I said
“Why would you make up those horrible stories about yourself? Aliens, vampires, and the evil teacher Mr. Witmore?”

A smile spread across his face as he replied

“Well I didn’t. You see I'm known as the horrific, mean teacher but when student see that I can be quite nice I'm not so scary anymore. So I tell them to keep it quiet. They make up the stories. So whatever you do keep it quiet, you wouldn’t want to ruin my rep now would you?”

Thursday, May 15, 2008

To Kill A Mocking Bird!

To kill a mocking bird is a powerful American classic written by Harper Lee.told from the point of view of Jean Louise Finch(scout), the youngest daughter of the lawyer Atticas Finch. It tells a story of small town Southern America in the 1930's.Through the eyes of this little girl scout we see both the rich characters of her town and also the prejudices lying just below the surface of the town.

The dramas of the book are opened up when Scout, her brother Jem and their friend Dill decide to meddle with the isolated and vulnerable Radley family. The kids imaginations had always made up tales of the Radley house and the tragic story of the handicapped Boo (Arthur) Radley. Although they had never actually seen Boo Radley, their stories seem to over power them into thinking he is a creepy evil and mysterious person that they needed to catch a glimpse of.

The second part of the story is based in the jail house when their father Atticus Finch, a lawyer is chosen to defend Tom Robinson. This was considered unthinkable as Tom was coloured. It spreads rumours all over the town and eventually all the kids were being teased.The family was considered poorly they were called "nigger-lover". Discrimination was huge in this time and Atticus was the only one to stand up for Tom. He stood up in a situation that nobody else would.

These two story lines seem separate but throughout the book they become carefully interwoven. This is a profound book that has enchanted readers for more than 40 years. It shows the damage that racism can do in society. Atticus's only offense was to offer real defense to someone who was consider beneath everyone else. He offered a real enough defense to make the people of the town question the injustice they did to all the black inhabitants.It is an amazing book and I really recommend it.

I rate to kill a mocking bird one of the best books written in the 20th century and out of ten I would rate it 10 out of 10.

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Concealed Friend...

Ok, new English assignment . We were told that we had to write a paragraph about a friend without describing any physical characteristics. Sounds easy right well not really. Trying to describe someone without describing what they look like is like trying to describe eating an apple without describing what it tastes like, only harder.So I made an attempt. My first attempt was my mom and now im doing a friend and here's what I came up with when describing my concealed friend...

...There are many attributes of her personality I could start with, but the one that stands out the most to me is what a devoted friend she is. She is the kind of person that will always be there for her friend no matter what. If they need advice on how to devise evil schemes for sleepovers she will definitely be there. If they need to ramble to someone she makes it the easiest hour of talking ever and if someones being horrible to them she will help you yell at them.If she is scheming it would be best not to be the first one asleep at a sleepover (especially if shes teamed up with other characters from our group, for eg:Charne).
Rambling is a speciality of hers from things like school to things that make no sense at all like, I don't know, teeth( not really teeth but I couldn't think of anything).She puts up with my "out of it days" and when I tell dry jokes. Shell laugh at little things that noone else notices but deserve to be noticed, such as some people pushing their glasses up and scrunching their nose. (I wont say who).She is focused and determined. Her priorities all mesh and she can focus on her school, sports, and friends all at once.She is closest to normal out of our entire group she balances out all the craziness of our group. When were walking to class together we always get sidetracked easily and we are constantly late to class. Yet we never leave earlier because its so fun on the way to class to hear her say"oops I think were late again" and have to sprint there.She is a fun and hilarious person and she is one of my closest friends.

- My concealed friend is Cassie.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Mystery Family Member!


Shes my best friend always.She inspires me to work hard and she always believes in me. Although she can get over protective, and there is no doubt she can be very embarrassing she sees the best in people. She is a fun and caring person. A great quality of my persons character is her outgoing adventurous nature, she'll think about the fun before she worries about the fear.Her fear of heights wouldn't stop her from jumping out of a plane,she takes everything as it comes. The amazing way she looks at things has an sort of silver lining effect on people, instead of the glass being half full its always completely full (and never any where near empty).Taking into account all the great things I've said about her, she does have her flaws. She is almost always late. So its always best to tell her the real time is half an hour earlier than it actually is, thus insuring shes on time.If your talking to her while shes txting she wont reply to anything you say until either ten minutes later or even longer once shes finished the text.The good and bad list goes on but ultimately my person is a smart, caring, enthusiastic, and most importantly fun person. She is my mother Marsha Marshall (no pun intended with the two M's just a mere coincidence).

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Creative writing assignment!

In class today we were told that our topic this term is creative writing. A picture was projected up onto the smart board of a young man in a bmx competition. He was half in the air and their was a crowd of people below him cheering. The assignment was to write a piece of creative writing using the picture as a visual starting point. Here, this is what I came up with:

The wind rushes past my face and slides across my skin like water over sand and in one moment I am detached from the rest of the world. I no longer notice the roaring cheer of the crowd. My feet are moving on the petals and I am performing my trick without even thinking of it. When I am riding I am free. Free from all the dismal feelings of the world, From the dramas and grievances it can create, From the feelings which portray the memories of my past life that makes me who I am today. Sickness seems to be less susceptible to me, War doesn’t exist where I am, drugs don’t corrupt so many people, the environment still contains the beauties it did decades ago and my family isn’t screwed up like it is now. All hopeful of these are just hopes and figments of my imagination because when I'm in this place, when I'm riding anything is possible. So even though I know at some point ill have to come rushing back to reality, I still close my eyes and hope that when I pull the brake and land my bike on the pavement all the horrors will be gone. Only the genuinely kind people will exist.


Every time I land (even if it isn't a landing of particularly good quality)it brings me back down to earth. That is why I ride,to escape the rest of the world. To get a chance to dream what is just not possible when I'm not riding. As I begin landing the cheers of the crowd below me break through the barrier of my imagination. Although only a few minutes past while I completed my ride (and only a few seconds while I was in the air) by the time I had landed it felt as though I had spent a life time in the air or on that bike. It was a great ride but a mediocre trick and I didnt win the competition. None of that matters though. As I took my bike of the track a smile spread across my face. I wouldnt give up rideing for the world.

Just my first attepmt at creative writing. It will get better, I promise.Well I hope!

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hard Times: Book Review

Hard times by Charles Dickens is a book i read recently and since were supposed to write a book report on our blog i thought id do it on that.
Hard Times is based in an industrial revolution sort of time where all the machines are just being made so alot of people were out of jobs. There was alot of beggars and alot of thief's. Mr Grandgrind who is the father of Tom and Louisa Grandgrind. He had raised them by nothing but fact, they were taught not to imagine not to believe in things unless they had been taught it. They were raised with repressed feelings and taught not to show there emotion. As Louisa grows up she gets married to Mr Bounderby who is at least twice her age. It does not matter that she does not love him because she doesn't care and she feels she can grow old with him forever. But when there is a robbery everything gets ruined. She finally realises all her repressed feelings when she falls in love with Mr Harthhouse and she knows that the way she was brought up was wrong. The mystery of the robbery is still intriguing them and by the end of the book they are shocked to find out who it was!

This book is a classic, it is a must read. It is the kind of book that everybody should read. It was intriguing and challenging. I really recommend it. I rate it 8/10

Hard Times by Charles Dickens: A must read.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

pirates of the caribean

*Pirates of the caribbean*

Since i cant think of anything to write about today im writing about the best movie ever.It seriously is the best movie i mean Johnny Depp is brilliant in it hes like a box full crazy and you seriously cant meet anyone who idolizes him more than me and my mate charne.Johnny Depp is our idol and not to far behind is Orlando Bloom.

SOME AWESOME JOHNNY DEPP LINES:
"no,if we dont have the key we cant open whatever it is we dont have
that it unlocks, so what purpose would be served in finding whatever need be unlocked-which we dont have-without first haveing found the key what unlocks it"

"no,you want you to find this because the finding of this find you
incapacitoraly finding and or locating in your discovering the
detectinging of a way to save your dolly belle,ol whats-er-face"

see awesome.....

So any Johnny Depp fans your always very welcome on my site because you rock.

{E}{J}{M}{X}{O}


never drink and drive


I went to a birthday party
but I remembered what you said
you told me not to drink at all,
so i had a sprite instead.
I felt proud of myself,
the way you said I would,
that i didn't choose to drink & drive,
though some friends said I should.
I knew I made a healthy choice &
your advice to me was right
as the party finally ended
and the kids drove out of site.
I got in to my own car,
sure to get home in one piece,
never knowing what was coming,
some thing i expected least.

Now I'm lying on the pavement.
I can hear The policeman say,
"THE KID THAT CAUSED THIS WREAK WAS DRUNK."
his voice seems far away.
my own blood is all around me
as I try hard not to cry.
I can hear the paramedic say,
"THIS GIRL IS GOING TO DIE"
I'm sure The guy had NO idea
while he was flying high,
because he chose to drink & drive
that i would have to die.
so why do people do it,
knowing that it ruins lives?

but now the pain is cutting me
like a hundred stabbing knifes.
tell my sister not to be afraid,
tell Daddy to be brave,
and when I go to heaven to
put "daddy's girl" on my grave.
someone should have taught him
that its wrong to drink and drive.
maybe if his mum and his dad had
Id still be alive.
my breath is getting shorter
I'm getting really scared.
these are my final moments,
and I'm so unprepared.
I Wish that you could hold me mum,
as I lie here and die.
I Wish that i could say
I LOVE YOU AND GOODBYE

Source:i found this poem in the book "chicken soup"

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Hi my name is Erica but my nickname is EJM.
So this is my site! I know not an original opening line but I couldnt
think of anything else. Today we started our own websites for the new year.I cant wait to see what happens this year in 2008.Should be so much fun.

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:)These are some of the links of some of the people in my class. (and my
teacher ) :)

Cassandra

My del.icio.us site

Lisa

Tishana

Jamie-Lee

Miss Wilson

Amy

Atarangi

Jade

Isaac .g.

Dylan

Kyle

Jayson

Richie

Charne

Kayla

Jordan

Salli