Haiku

Basketball
Round, spins
Makes the ball look unordinary
Like it helps make things happier


Fall
Fall is when leaves fall
It’s a time to get ready
Leaves will make time fly


Hong Kong
Drink Kowloon dairy
Delicious food on the street
Diamond Christmas tree

Chinese School

When I was five, school was a stool trap.
I never liked school, like I’m stuck on a map.
It feels like prison lap after lap.
I was tied with ropes no matter where I napped.
Hate, hate, hate is a powerful slap.

Happy hopes have hate.
Happy memory will get lost,
Hateful memory will last forever.
Hatred will make you regret.
Hate, hate, hate remains.

When school started, I thought it was cool.
But when you trust your school, you will be a fool.
Don’t trust your school, and always stay cool.
Trust yourself and you will be free from the stool.
School, School, School will make you a weird tool.

IOC vs Public

Would you vote for Germany to host the 2018 Winter Olympic games or would you vote for South Korea to host the 2018 Winter Olympic games? At the time this article was written the IOC was already voting on which country would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. The vote was between Munich and Pyeongchang. The writer thought that Pyeongchang would win.

On Wednesday July 6, 2011 the International Olympic Committee was having a vote for who would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. The IOC was in Durban (South Africa). This voting would be a secret ballot (not for the public to know about, until they have decided who would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games). The public didn’t know who would win the ballot, but they did know the ballot was between Munich, Annecy and Pyeongchang.

Even thought the IOC was voting on three cities (Munch-Germany, Annecy-France and Pyeongchang- South Korea), the public knew that France was not going to win the ballot.The writer pointed out that if Munich won then Munich would host the Winter and Summer Olympic games. The writer never gave information about why France was not going to win, but the writer did gave a lot of other information about why Pyeongchang should win.

Furthermore, it seems that the writer agreed with the public because in his article he convinced his readers to agree with them. If Pyeongchang got to host the 2018 Winter Olympic games then Seoul would be more able to promote winter sports in Asia. An international women’s Olympic figure skating champion came from Pyeongchang. She tried to convince the IOC to let her home city host the 2018 winter Olympic games because Pyeongchang lost two times to other cites (and I think every other country had hosted a summer or winter Olympic games and it should be Pyeongchang’s turn to host the 2018 Olympic games).

The writer thought that Pyeongchang would win because an Olympic women figure skating champion tried to convince the IOC to let Pyeongchang host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. The IOC was planning to have a secret ballot to decide who would host the 2018 Winter Olympic games. Even though the vote was between three countries, the public thought that it was between Munich and Pyeongchang.

The EU is Wrong

I disagree with the people who want to lend money to Greece.The author of this article said, ”The agenda for the summit deals with the possibility of a second financial bailout.” I know I am young, but I don’t agree with the second financial bailout. I think that the EU shouldn’t help Greece because if you help them, they might borrow money and might not pay it back. Then the problem would never go away. In their emergency meeting on Thursday I think that the EU should make up new rules about borrowing money.

On Thursday there was an emergency meeting for the members of EU and they talked about Greece’s financial crisis and how to fix it. On Wednesday Germany and France had an emergency meeting where they talked about what they should do about Greece‘s financial crisis. France and Germany were hoping Greece would pay back the money that Greece borrowed from EU instead of defaulting.

Last year, the EU gave Greece a bailout (via the IMF). Greece borrowed money, but never payed it back to the EU or the IMF. Greece asked for another bailout for this year. It looks like Greece doesn’t know how to organize their money.

Since Greece couldn’t pay back the money, EU shouldn’t give more money to Greece. EU should let Greece stay in as a member of EU, but I think that EU should make up rules about letting people borrow money. These new rules should protect the non debt-ridden countries from the debt-ridden countries.The EU should make up some rules like once you borrow money you can’t borrow more money until you have finished paying back the money you borrowed.

As you can see, I strongly disagree with the people that are trying to help Greece pay back the money. Greece never did pay back any money to EU, and if EU did lend more money to Greece then the situation might never change. My solution is to let Greece stay in EU, but Greece do need to pay back all the money before borrowing any again. I would make up a rule about once you borrow money you can’t borrow money until you have finished paying back the money you borrowed.

My Media Education

1.Scene 1

· Been friends for 10 years

· Live together in a big house

· Work together in crime lab and are campers

· Claire the solver

· Jackie, Alice and Sarah action

· Susan is the mastermind

· There boss sent Jackie, Alice and Sarah to England

· Three of them felt joyful because they were sent to England

· Susan and Claire goes to England with them

· Get on the bout but do not read the signs (WHO EVER GOES TO ENGLAND WILL DIE!!!)

2. Scene 2

· Waves and a big thunder storm

· The boat crashes

· They pass out

· Wake up the next finds themselves on an island

· Discovers that people on the bout besides them are dead and the captain

· They found passengers body with vampires teeth marks or zombie marks and they are disgusted

· Finds a magic pond

· Claire and Susan don’t drink the water from the pond

· Both of them were angry about them drinking from the pond

· At night Vampires come out from the grave

· All scream and run

· They are in fear

· The three of them who drank from the pond had slayer powers and killed three vampires

3.

· Sunrise found a cave where the zombies are locked up

· They accidently opened the hatch

· Run and are chased by zombies

· They were in fear

· They go on a mountain and killed zombies

· At night they go back beach and make hut and camouflage it with leaves

· Using cedar trees to built the hut by cutting them down

· Looking like a big tent

· After putting cedar wood on they put big leaves on top to look like the rocks

· Hunts for food carefully using guns and knives and a pot to cook

· Fish, ducks, fruit, salt water, coconut, and the pond

4. Scene 4

· Live in the hut for two days

· Figures out what is happening

· They met the zombie king who tries to kill them

· The zombies make an alliance with the vampires

· They fell into a dungeon in the zombie palace

· They met an werewolf

· They trusted the werewolf to help them escape the island and the dungeon

· The werewolf helps them escape

· They built a raft to go home

· The werewolf dies

· They were really sad

· The island sinks

· They figured that the werewolf is the main source of the island

Current Event

What advice would I give to youth who choose to light up?

My advice to youths about smoking is not to take it when your friends are threatening you. The other reason for not smoking is because you can end up dying or kill people around you by making them smell the smoke that you made. You may end up having lung cancer. Did you know that there are 4000 chemicals in cigarettes and did you know that there is 37000 Canadians die each year form smoking? Did you also know that there are 1.6 billion teenagers smoke every year?

If friends are peer pressuring you to smoke do not try it you will die. If you start to smoke you may eventually get addicted to it and it will be hard to stop smoking. If you see a cigarette package you will see warnings like if you smoke you will die and you will have lung cancer. Some cigarette packages show damaged lungs, mouth and heart. If you smoke you could be one of the 37000 Canadians that died. Friends and family would be disappointed at you and be sad because you die each year. Did you also know the money that you paid goes to the government?

By Veronica

Play dough recipe

Preface
I chose this recipe for my friend, Jen, who had never made play dough. She wanted to do it with her daughter at home. This one is a bit simpler than other recipes.

Ingredients
1 cup salt
2 cups flour
4 tablespoons cream of tartar
2 tablespoons cooking oil
2 cups water
food coloring

Instructions
Step 1. Take a saucepan and mix all the ingredients in it.
Step 2. Now heat the mixture with medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes. While heating, constantly stir the content until it becomes stiff.

Tip
If they are stored in the refrigerator, then the play dough will last for weeks or even months!