A good old Canadian band from Edmonton called Turn Me Up won Disband last year. They changed there name to Stereos and became one of the biggest new bands in 2009. There songs Summer Girl and Throw Your Hands Up are incredibly popular and some of there other songs include Hey cupid and Jet Black Cadillac. They are my favorite R&B/Hip Hop/alternative band. They have really good music and I love there songs.
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In Febuary of this year Chris was arrested for assualt on his girlfriend (at the time) Rhianna. Since this happened there has been a lot of contraversay on what happened and he has been attacked with insalts and racial slurs on Facebook, Myspace and other internet sites. On his officail home page he has an apoligie video and I think that he deserves the chance to prove he is truly sorry for what happened. Check it out.
In part of the video he says that he grew up in a house with violence. If you didn’t know he saw his step dad beat his mother when he was still very young. It would be a very hard thing to expeirince and it would affect him for many years to come.
I belive that Chris is a good person that made a very big mistake. It was a choice that was made out of anger and I hope he gains forgivness from more and more people. He is still the same person he was before and thats never going to change.
School is only 3 weeks away. Summer really went by quickly for me. For the last three weeks I have been traveling around Canada. I started out just going to a volleyball camp around home and I really had fun. Not even a week later We packed our bags and left to the lake. I wrote a post earlier this year about my two favorite places in the world and one of them is Seech lake. Its about 20 minutes out of Rossburn which is a small town north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. I love going there and seeing my family. This year was lots of fun because I got to babysit my baby cousin who is only 2 1/2. She is the cutest. I spent lots of time with Tyanna and Annika because they are the only girls. They are both younger then me. Annika is 9 and Tyanna is the baby. my other cousins are all boys and all at least 2 years older then me. I enjoyed seeing the people I haven’t seen since last year. After We spent 2 weeks there my mom, brother and I traveled with my some of my cousins to there home in Edmonton. In Edmonton Annika and I were doing a Ukrainian Dance camp with a group called the Shumka Ukrainian Dancers. They are a very big group and in the summers they do camps with who ever is interested. This year the Region we were focusing on was Polissia which is the least populated region in Ukrainian. We did lots of Ballet Barre and other various things. Taking this camp was awesome for me because I want to start helping with choreographing some dances in my home dance group. I’m starting to really take my dance seriously. After a week there we finally started to travel back to my home land. Back to Beautiful British Columbia. We got to Vancouver 2 days later and spent a night at my second cousins. She had just gone to a Gay Pride perade which I think was great of her to do. She got to march down the streets (but she only did that for a little while) and then watch the perade. There were some really good pictures she got of all the people in the perade. The next day we got a farrey back to the Island and in 2 hours I was home. It was a long time away from everything I knew but it was fun.
Since I got home 3 days ago I have been spending lots of time with friends. My best friend Aja came to visit from Prince George and it was great to see her. The last two days I spent time with my some of my really good friends from around here swimming in a nearby river. Its been a great summer and I hope it gets better.
CONGRATS COURTENAY!!!! We have beaten the heat record from many years in a row. The heat has been unbarable I hear. TO BAD A WASN’T HERE 
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“…SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER…”
So it summer… WHATCHA GONNA DO? well I am very lucky this summer. My family owns a small lake in winnipeg and I get to go there in 2 weeks. Its one of my favorite places in the world. I also get to go to Edmonton becuase I get to take a… (dramatic pause) UKRAINIAN DANCE CAMP!!!!!!!! In Edmonton there is a group called Shumka and they are a ukrainian dance group and offer camp in the summer. Since I have been dancing for 7 years my mom and I decided that it was time I take a camp and my cousins who liv ein edmonton, the youngest, was going to a dance camp and so my aunt suggest I go and take the camp to so I get to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so happy about it. Also my best friend who moved to Prince George is going to be coming and I get to see her. This is going to be an awesome summer. Just this weekend me and my friend were at a party and there was face paint so we made him a pretty rainbow kittie and then he just made a mess on my face. It was still lots of fun.
Enjoy your summer and have fun!
There are only 25 days left in the school year for us and I think its time to reflect on the year. Grade six has been good to us. We have all made friends and lost friends. We have fought and made up and finally its all come to an end. The last month of this school year. The last month of Ms. Smith. OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Its the end of the world. This is our last month with Ms.Smith. Wow. For most people they would be moving on to high school but in the valley elementary school goes until grade seven so we have another year at this school.
At the beginning of this school year we went to hornby island for our school trip. We stayed two nights with our friends in tents and did lots of activities. We learned about ourselves and others and made some really good friends. I learned in those 2 days most of the things I know about my friends. I learned that most of them are loud and some of them are quiet. Some are crazy and some are calm and some are just everything in between.
My best friend moved to Prince George at the end of last year and coming back to school this year knowing she wasn’t going to be here was hard. It turns out with her not being here I made two best friends that I hang out with all the time. If she had been here I would have always been with her and I’m not saying its a good thing she moved it just I got to make other really awesome friends. Even though I lost some of my friends this year but I also made lots.
This year one of our units in PE was juggling. It was one of the most challenging things this year because it was so hard to keep a straight face. For my group we had Sophie, Haley, Chelsea, Max and me. We did our routine to “Mambo Number 5″ and it was pretty ridiculous looking. There was lots of arm flailing and leg kicks. It was just for humour and fun and I was not surprised we had lots of fun. We thought that no one could beat our crazy humour but sure enough someone did. Michael.G , Nicholas, Dom and Brayden had a very interesting moment. They practiced so much and worked on it a lot to land this one move at the end and they got it perfect on the last time but it all went wrong in their performance. Michael went for the jump and … (dramatic pause) he missed and kicked Brayden. Brayden had been standing on his head and michael was supposed to jump over him. They had gotten it a couple of times and in the moment Michael didn’t get the right amount of height on his jump and kicked Brayden. They both fell over and ended up moaning on the ground. This is also my favorite moment from this year.
Lots of people have differant favorite subjects and no PE and Music do not count in this case because I am talking about academics. My Favorite subject is Math!!! Math is my favorite subject because I think it is just so cool. Chaeyoon also loves math and when it says math on the board she goes up and puts hearts and writes “MATH ROCKS”!!!! Math is so cool because you can figure out were a person is going by things that you know about them and what their pattern is. You can learn how to caculate the sqaure route of pie which you might not know what that is but its math. I really love finding out eqations and differant formula’s. most people would say “EWWWWW math is gross” and ” thats crazy who likes math”. Well heres a news flash… I LOVE MATH!!!!!!!! Math is just so coool and fun and YAY!!!!!
For christmas we had a wacky gift exchange. We each brought in a gift that we have had for a while that are jsut fun things that are humourus and joking around items. I brought in a gift that I have had for a while since I was about 7 and it was a very girly toy. I took 2 foam balls and painted them like faces and put them on pipe cleaners and then taped that to the box. I had choosen the biggest box I could find so someone unsuspecting would choose it thinking ti was something big and awesome. So when it was time to choose gifts a very unsuspecting hayden chose my gift. When he open it everyone started laughing and so didn’t he. He opened it to find a little doll that turn in this skirt to open it and make an ice cream shop. it was a pricless moment and very fun.
As the end of the school is just on the horizen I relise it has been a fantastic year through good times and bad. Next week on Thursday we will be saying good by to being juviniel and crazy and when we come back to the school we will be saying hello to our last year at valley view and having to be mature leaders at our school. I want to thank all my class mates for making this such an awesome year for me and to Ms.Smith who will be leaving the school next year. Also Good bye Chaeyoon!!! we will miss you so much when you go back to Korea
There are so many things that I could be.
Writing is my passion. I blog, I write poems, I write songs, I write storeys, I’m working on another book. The list goes on. I have been writing for a long time and it really helps me get rid of things that Idon’t want in my life and things that I need to move on from. When something happens with a friend… I write about it. When something happens in my family… I write about it. There was a really hard part of my life that probably lots of people go through and I want to be able to write about it and let the people that are going through it know that there are other people out there who go through the same thing. Writing can help you and other people get through things that are hard and I want to be able to do that and make a difference in some one’s life because of a book. That’s why I want to be an author.
2. Hair Stylist
I like to be creative and use colour in things. Working with hair helps make other people feel good about how they look and its just so much fun. My mom and sister have friends who are hair dressers and my mom’s friend went to Paris to study painting and is in art school. My sisters friend is really creative and cool and does my sisters hair and it looks awesome. I just really want to be a hair stylist because its so fun and is a great way to be creative and meet some really interesting people.
3. Motor Cross Racer
This one probably sounds ridiculous because a lot of people think that this kind of thing is for guys. Well no its not just for guys. I have been interested in motor cross racing for a while and ,unfortunately, I will not get the chance to ride as a kid. One because there is no place to ride. Two because the bikes are WAY to expensive. The chance of a life time is what I call it and even though I will most likely never make it close to going pro it would still be an awesome job to have.
4. A Math Professor
Ah math. To most kids they run away from math and hate it but for me math is the best. Math and Science are my favorite subjects and I am pretty good at it. I like doing equations and chemistry. If not math I want tobe a chemist or something with computers. Math is just so cool and you can solve so many things with different math equations or rules.
5.A Singer
Just like ever other little girl I always wanted t be a pop star. As I got older I got interested in differant kinds of music. I now want to be in a band or be a solo artist. I write songs adn play guitar and piano. I really enjoy playing music. I want to one day be successful in the music buisness.
I will never forget you no matter how long.
I will not forget how you were so strong.
You left us so quickly.
Not even goodbye.
And still to this you can see me cry
I will always miss and I will never forget
This is a post about my grandpa who passed away when I was six. My grandpa was so much more then just an old man. He was my best friend and a great man. He helped build a camp site that we still go camping at. Unfortunatly he fell asleep and did not wake up. He is in a better place now and I will remember the good times with him.
RIP
Grandpa Cliff
This is my favorite picture I took with the software
The Glocal project. From Arts Umbrella.
Ah art. The best expression. A window into the soul. Art is so many different things it just depends on how you see it. Art is a way to express everything that is inside you. Writing, drawing, painting, poetry even dance and singing are all forms of art, but I have to say one of my favorite forms of art is photography. You can take a camera anywhere and capture something amazing. All the pictures I took were in the computer lab because the camera was like a web cam and it was attached to the computer.
Arts Umbrella is an art school in Vancouver, BC. People from age 2 – 30 are going to the school and taking classes or going there full time. We were lucky enough to have a teacher and a volunteer come to our school every morning for the last 2 weeks. Josh is a teacher at arts umbrella and he showed us some of his work and it was amazing and creative. Franziska is a volunteer from Germany who is also helping out. They are both very nice and fun.
What to do, what to do? When I take pictures I tend to get stuck when I’m limited to a space filled with computers and brown walls. Some times I had to get ideas from people around me. The picture I took is actually a picture of the computer I work at. The glass screen made beautiful patterns when I moved the camera around. The camera is connected with the USB port so we can’t move very far away. The software we used was easy to navigate and take pictures with and its a free program and you can get it off the site I have linked to above.
Again I want to thank Josh and Franziska for being so much fun and teaching us how to take a good picture and that you can get inspiration from anywhere.
I hope that anyone who reads this post never has to go to court for any reason whether it be witness, victim or accused.
A courtroom. One place you only want to be if your a lawyer or on jury duty or a judge. In class we have been learning about justice through the three little pigs story. That may sound funny but its a good story to use. We have been trying to figure out who should be brought to justice. One of the things we learned about is who is in the courtroom and what are there jobs. Here are some different jobs in a courtroom.
The Judge
The judge is one of the most important people in the courtroom. If there is no jury it is his job to decide if the accused is guilty or innocent. He/she has to listen carefully to the evidence and make sure the court is a safe place to testify. He makes sure the rules of the court are followed and makes a sentence for the accused if they are found guilty.
The Court Clerk
The court clerk is the official assistant to the judge. They call the court to order and makes the person on stand swear on there religious book (aboriginals may swear holding an eagle feather) or take an oath if the do not practice a religion, to tell the truth about everything they say.
Court Officer/Sheriff
The court officer is in the room to escort the accused to there seat and make sure the court stays safe. If the accused is already in custody the court officer may have to bring them to the prisoner box (A wooden box were if the accused are in custody may sit).
Crown Attorney
The crown attorney works for the province or territory. There job is to prove the accused is guilty by asking the victim and witness’s questions.
The court case must be fair to both people. The sentence depends on the crime and whether or not the judge or jury finds the accused guilty or not guilty. The court has to put everything they think about the accused to the side until they can be proved guilty or innocent.
The accused family can not be their lawyer or be in the jury or be the judge of the trial because they will either think one way or the other and may choose unfairlyin the final choice. This also applys to the victims family. Family members involved in a case are not good because they are in a mind set that is not fair to both sides.
There must be enough evidance againest someone to put a case to trail. If there is no evidance to accuse someone then there is nothing but a crime left unsolved.
Well that just about wraps it up for now. I hope this information helps you and like before, I hope you never have to be in a court of law as the accused or victom.
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