Lizzie's Blog

It’s almost my Birthday so I’m getting excited! I’m having a sleepover with my three closest friends. We will be watching Get Smart… I love that movie! It might sound like a thriller but its so funny. It’s about a guy who blows up buildings… That sounds weird… Anyway, The Rock, Steve Carell and Annie Hathaway. They are all agents… Long, long, long story. Seriously. I could tell you more but I won’t spoil that ending for you!

For Halloween a guy gave out FULL size bag of cheezies so we will be eating them, pretzel sticks ( I LOVE them!) and BBQ Chips! My party is in 4 days unless you are reading this after four days from November 17th… My real birthday is on November 25th as it has been every year. Hee Hee…

What are you doing for your birthday? If it’s today… HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Image: Happy Birthday, Mom by ginnerobot

The Soldiers

In the trenches

Or living in the battle fields

Soldiers send letters to loved ones

While listening to gun shot

Then waiting for dark to fall

Burrowing tunnels and funk holes

Waiting for its end

Gone for many years with daily terrors

Alive or dead

With emotional ties

Away from the trenches

Never to come back again

- By Lizzie

I know Remembrance day is over but I wrote this in class for an assignment and we have to publish this on our blog… I hope you enjoyed the poem! We got a piece of paper that told you about war and we had to highlight pieces in the writing that we liked. We then used the parts in the paper and made them into a poem.

In our class we have been doing a thing in blogging called count three on… That`s when you find a completely new blog, look at their blog roll find another blog, look at their blog roll and find another blog… Comment on that blog and then you’ve got your count three on!

In our class we had to do at least three sets and I visited Rachel’s Blog, Courty’s Blog , Jacob13’s Blog and Jessica’s Blog. They all had great post and I commented on one on each blog. You should try by going to one of my classmates blogs and trying it out.

Lately my class has joined a website called YES I CAN Science. After learning about the seals and how it is to survive there, we did a web cast with Dr. Thomas  Hawke. He talked about his experience in Antarctica while we asked him question about seals and our other interests about the subject. We took notes on a clipboard and I learned a lot! We asked a lot about Weddell Seals because that was his main study on his past trip to the Antarctic.

Becoming a scientist was not always Dr. Hawke’s dream… He wanted to become a professional sports player but he decided to become a scientist because he loves to learn! Dr. Hawke was great at answering questions and describing his past experience.

I never read any questions cause I’ve got stage fright! I didn’t really have an audience but you know how it is! I wrote a class intro that Payton read… Riley and Eric both read questions! It’s was fun doing the web cast and we have another one scheduled soon!

Image: Antartica 2006 073 By HRC

*True Friends*

They always seem to care

True Friends

Are always there

True Friends

Are always on your mind

True Friends

Always seem so kind

True Friends

Can change

Or True Friends

Can stay the same

True Friends

Stick to your side

True Friends

Should never leave you behind

True Friends

Are close to the heart

Real True friends never break apart

Image: ₪ Cobija: Corporativa al atardecer – Flickr Meeting at Tusk ₪ by ►Voj►

Today our class and one other class in our school went to Lewis Park to watch… The Olympic Torch! Our 5/6 class and the grade 7 class had both won a trivia challenge and got a close up view of the Olympic torch relay. The torch looks different that I thought it would! I thought it would be a wooden stick with a wood bowl on the top and the flame glowing in the top. But I was wrong! It was more of a meter long, curvy white shape made out of aluminum, fiberglass and stainless steel. It was engraved with the words ‘ With Glowing Hearts’. It is the 2010 Olympic games motto! It may be pretty hard to run with the torch because it weighs 3.5 pounds which also is 1.6 kilograms. The torch was designed to look like the lines left in snow and ice after playing winter sports such as hockey, figure skating an all kind of skiing and snowboarding.

It was really cool watching the torch go by and getting to touch it and feel it! I knew one of the people who held the torch so it was fun to watch it go by! I am so happy that I got to go because I will probably never see one again.

It was great seeing the torch and all the performances. The Olympic sponsors were Coca – Cola and RBC so they were giving out free coke!

I loved seeing the torch and I hope you will see it sometime soon to!

Some books just stand on a shelf collecting dust because of the unappealing cover or boring title. But some books should be read.

Have you ever had an amazing book in your hand and you never want to put it down? Just think for a minute… I bet you have. I have read many books, but I have to admit that many I have put down and never picked up again. One of my favorite books was called Inkheart. I loved the first book in the series, finished the second but got lost on the third. The first was by far the best, but when I watched the movie it changed my opinion a lot. They cut out parts and added new ones. Nothing was the same… That shows it is better to read the book than watch the movie (even though I am a HUGE movie fan!).

Inkheart By Cornelia Funke

Lots of books are chosen by their cover. That’s why a book cover should always have detail. Inkheart has many different covers and all have great detail. Of course a book needs good work on the inside to and that is what the book Inkheart captured. All its words flow smoothly together in every sentence. The words take you into a different world… a world of mystery and despair. I loved the book and actually bought it! You should really read it!

Even though Summer was two months ago, I am still thinking about it because it was so fun! I wish it was Summer now… no offense to school or anything, just it was so great this Summer…

It started off in busy planning and ended in a great success! For a while my family just hung around and took small trips around the island. On June 18 we went on a trip to Sooke, Victoria with some close friends. It was so much fun! We had rented a beach house called Black Otter Cove… We spent a whole week there and not a moment was dull! On one of the days we went into the busy city of Victoria and went to the mall… (Ohh… LALA!) We all took our separate ways (because they have three boys) and met back at the theater to watch Harry Potter 6! Best time ever…

That was not the end! We went on a cruise to Alaska and visited three ports. One was in Sitka, one in Juno and one in Ketchikan which was my favorite. It was a week long but I could have gone forever! It is kind of hard to explain because it was SO much fun! If I said all I did that I had fun doing I would probably bore you and take up hundreds of pages all about fun stuff, so I will just explain my favorite parts… Every morning I got up at about 10:00 and went down the elevator to the cafe. It is so huge.  I got a bowl of cereal (see even on a cruise I still can be causal!)  I also have a dessert… (tee hee) YUM!

I spend most of my afternoon and morning in the Club that they have there… Some in the pool or with my buddies in one or our rooms. I might as well admit that I watched quite some TV there. My evening is either in the dining room or the buffet. Our waiters were great and my parents are  still in touch with one!  Some nights in the dining room are fancy so we dress up real nice in dresses and high heels. One night for dinner I tried escargot (snails) and another night frog legs! They were pretty good!

After that there was the show… There was many different acts like a magician a comedian and singers and dancers in shows like Broadway night and many other themes. On Variety night when all the nights were put together I got the awesome Adam Trent’s signature on my shirt! So cool! A famous guy signed my shirt! After that a pillow chocolate and good night! ZZZZZZZ…

Image: b a r e f o o t . s u m m e r by katiew

Most people don’t know what goes on in my mind. I bet you don’t! Whenever you are with someone, not in your family, you are a different person. Only my best friend and my family knows what I like… what I usually have for breakfast… and my regular day routine. I am going to let you know what happens daily.

I wake up at 6:30 AM and take a warm shower. ( It wakes me up!) I  get dressed… (Duh!)  I eat breakfast like a civilized person. It is usually just cereal. After that I can do anything I want so I either go on the computer or sit by the fire till it is time to get ready for school. (About 7:45) That leaves me time to get my mom to sign my planner and get my lunch. Nothing much happens for about another 6 hours except walking to school and going to school itself (Yawn).

When I get dismissed from school I walk home with my older sister (except for Thursdays when I have an after school club). Only hanging out around my house happens till 6:00 when we have dinner. At about 9:30 I am in bed with the lights out. (ZZZZZ) That is what goes on in my life that most people don’t know about.

Image: Eternal Clock by Robbert van der Steeg

Everyone’s life is like a play-list… when it comes to a soft lullaby at night or to a rock concert in the sun, everyone’s play-lists are different… Like no one is the same or had an identical life. All songs have a meaning and they all mean different things. It can go from a sad meaningful song to a plain just rock out and have fun feeling. Most people listen to music depending on their mood. Some songs may make you cry but some make you feel like blaring the music! Ups and downs of life are just like the beat the drums… the times of patience are the strum of a guitar… Your conversations are the singer… all part of a big, big song. A song about… YOU!

Whats on your Play-List?