Insight On Me.

In my grade eight year, the time I am looking forward to the most is the week I will be spending at Trillium Lakelands Arts Camp. The reason why I am so excited for this is because I had such a marvellous time last year. TLAC is a great place that helps you meet and interact with other students throughout the Trillium Lakelands School Board. Not only do you meet friends, you also have to go to class as you would any regular day at Beechgrove. But the teachers at TLAC are wonderful, and assure you have a great time. The cabins and food are tremendous, as well. The cooks are professional, so there is no doubt you will l0ve the food. The bread they make fresh daily, is too die for. Not every student gets the privilege to go to TLAC. You have to have a decent grade average, have an interest in the arts and generally be an excellent student. I try my best during the year, to insure that I will be able to attend this extracurricular activity. Over all, I had a great time at TLAC 2009 and can’t wait to go back for year two.

What I am worried about most at the moment, is how my life will turn out in the long run. I anticipate that I will succeed in life. My ambition is to make it through high school, and go on to Ryerson University to major in something I am deeply interested in. I would then like to continue on and get an incredible career, while living in a charming house with my family. But who can tell for sure, if that will actually happen to me. I guess I can only hope. I am extremely anxious to live my life, and I will try to achieve my goals while I’m at it.

One of my three Goals for this year is to, use my leadership quality’s to help as many students and staff as possible. Not only, does this make me feel good about myself to know that I am making a difference. But it also gains respect from my fellow classmates. An additional goal I have set for myself is to be a superior remodel to the younger students. I understand that they look up to us, just like we looked up to the older students when we were young. I will try and have a positive attitude towards school and smile as much as possible. My last goal for the year is to become more fit. This is not because I think I’m obese, but I would like to build up my endurance. This is important to me because of figure skating and other sports. I intend on trying out for the sports teams again this year, and I think that being more fit could really help me. But then again, now there are more overweight people in Canada than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average, which means most people have met their New Year's resolution. I hope, throughout the year I can achieve all my goals.

Texting

In my opinion, I think students should not be allowed to use texting language in their reports. I find that school is for learning proper grammar, not for improper grammar. Texting language such as “OMG” or “LOL” should not be prohibited in the schools learning system.If students get used to texting language too much it could spoil up their spelling skills. Teachers should not want this for their students, since it with make it harder for the students in the long run.
Another reason why I think texting language should not be aloud, because not everyone understands it. Say you have an old professed that has no clue what “HBU” meant, you would fail.
My last reason why I think it is a terrible idea to allow texting language in school is because it shortens student’s vocabulary. Soon essays that were originally 200 words will be slashed to 150 because of short form.

In conclusion I would say that it is a terrible idea for school to go through with. I believe that some thing may change throughout the years but proper grammar should not be one of them.

Ashley this is Mr. Knot talking. What's with the flowers?

Level: cherry on top

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The Bear Attack

America`s Next Top Model Real Or Fake

Dear Ken Mok, Feb. 26, 09

Nobody knows what to think of these new Reality T.V. shows such as America`s Next Top Model. Most people say that it is all bogus, while others by into the whole idea. Come on, as if millions of girls that start out as waitress tryout for the show and just happen to make it. Not to mention their perfect bodies. I don’t think so. From my perspective I think that it is all a bunch of lies and no one wants to be lied too. I believe that if you want to feel good about your job, you should not have to lie. You know what makes this whole scenario even worse, you don’t even care. Don’t expect to be in this business for much longer, because sooner than later all your secrets will be reviled. Let me tell you, you will have a lot of angry fans. What do you think you are going to tell them? That it seemed okay at the time! I don’t think that is going to cut it. Obviously these girls are fake. I am surprised that everyone has bought into it for such a long time. But let me tell you, they won`t for much longer. All I will do is laugh when I see your business go under.

Sincerely,
Ashley Williams

The Giraffe Explanation

Giraffe Explanation
By: Ashley
The giraffe is a long-necked, cud-chewing hoofed mammal of Africa, with extended legs and a fur pattern of brown spots they are truly a very unique animal. Giraffes are the tallest of all land animals. The Average male Giraffe can reach a height of 6m and the average female can reach the height of 5m tall.
Giraffes get most of their height from their long necks. There are seven vertebrates in a giraffe’s neck which is the same amount that are in a human’s neck as well. The vertebrates in human’s necks just do not extend as much as they do in a giraffe.
The reason that giraffes have such long necks is because of their way of life. Giraffes have very long necks so that they can reach leaves high in the trees. But scientist have recently discovered that during the mating season male giraffes fight with their necks to determine who gets to mate with the female giraffe.
The average giraffe lives for up to 20 to 25 year. In these years most female giraffes have 1 calf. The calf will depend on its mother for the first year of its life, and then it will grow independent.
As many other young animals are called different names, a baby giraffe is called a calf.
When a new giraffe is born it weighs around 45.359 to 68.039 kg. But as they get older they can reach the weight of 1,100 to 1,915 kg.
It`s amazing that an animal that only eats plants can be so large. Giraffes are herbivores which mean they are plant eaters. They mainly like to eat Acacia leaves that are high in trees. The tree branches have thorns which makes it hard for the giraffes to get to the leaves. Luckily the giraffes have long tongues that can reach through and grab them.

The giraffe is beyond doubt a very interesting animal. One of their key features is their spots. Giraffes have spots to camouflage themselves in with the trees. This makes it hard for their predators to find them. Not that they have many.
Another one of their unique features is their blue tongues. The giraffes tongue is blue because it has very few blood vessels. Because of this the tongue appears to be black. The animal eats a lot of thorny and prickly plants.
Since the giraffe is such a tall animal it has very few predators. Its main predator would be the lion. The lion tends to take out the baby giraffes and the weaker adults. Some of their other predators are hyenas and leopards. Giraffes also only rest periodically throughout the day so it is hard for their predators to get them in their sleep.
Giraffes can communicate with each other either through low pitch sounds or through touch. As giraffes intertwine their necks together is a show of affection toward each other.
Even though the numbers of giraffes have decreased in the past century, giraffes are not currently endangered, but listed as “lower risk” with rather steady populations. To keep giraffes at low risk of danger we have to continue to help them in any way possible. I would be ashamed for anything to happen to this amazing animal.

The Avalanche

One day 17 skiers went out to ski in the mountains of Rogers Pass in eastern British Columbia. They thought that it would be a fun, safe trip and that they would be back at home in a few days. To their surprise an avalanche hit and not everyone survived.

The skiers had set out on their trip. Their first day went smooth with sunshine and they felt satisfied. Then they met two other skiers that were also out backcountry skiing. They would have been the last people that the 17 skiers saw before the avalanche hit.

It was around Saturday afternoon when it struck. The skiers heard a deafening roar and watched the snow come tumbling down. They were shocked as the snow swept them away. The avalanche carried them in different directions. The skiers were tumbling head over foot down the hill and almost 5 meters below the snow.


After the avalanche was done it was time for the rescue team to come in. The rescue workers had a hard decision to make. It was who to save first. They went with the first person they saw. They would only dig people as far out as it took to see if they were still breathing. If they were not they were left in the snow as the rescue workers move on stay. But if they were alive they would have to dig themselves out the rest of the way.

Very few people survived this tragic avalanche that occurred on Jan. 8th 2003.