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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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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Gorilla man!

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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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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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.............. :)

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.
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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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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."

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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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?”