Assignment #26: Where Children Eat and Sleep

Hello Blog Readers!

Welcome to assignment #26.

In geography class, we are creating our own, imaginary country, and Ms.Pollock wants us to do a reflection about what our people, in our made up country eat, and what their life style is at home. 

     My ideal home life in 'Clarizonia,' is nice, modern, beach houses. Since, Clarizonia is located near the Bahamas, the tropical region. In such a warm location to place my country, they grow coconuts, mangoes, and vanilla. In my country, the biggest industry we have is exporting the drink brand 'Arizona.'

 

Beach Houses. 

Arizona Iced Tea, is a big industry in Clarizonia. 

Anyway, I'm going to the second part of the assignment, and I'm going to write in a little girl's perspective, about living in Clarizonia, and how her lifestyle is.

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     Hello. My name is Lafonda Dillet. I am six years old, and I live in Clarizonia. I am in grade one. My favorite subject is art, because I like to color with crayons. I like to play tag with my dad, make sandcastles on the beach, and play with my dog, Biscuit. When I grow up, I want to be a nurse. Just like my mom. My favorite thing to eat is mango popsicles. 

Well I'm done my 26th blogpost!

Hope you enjoyed it! 

-Claire 

Assignment #25: My Childhood Top Ten

Hello Bloggers!
It's been quite awhile since I last posted on my blog, right?
Anyway, I have returned with a new post; Assignment #25.
Today, I'm posting about my favorite things when I was younger, with pictures, and a small paragraph. So here it goes! 

1. Lilo & Stitch (The Movie)
Lilo & Stitch was my all time favorite movie when I was a kid. I remember I bought a hula skirt from the dollar store, and a lei, and pretend to be Lilo. My cousin and I would take parts of the movie and reenact scenarios. I literally watched this movie over 100 times! 

I loved it so much because the movie was funny, and really cute, with quirky characters. It is still very special to me, because people I know would joke around with me, saying I look like Lilo! I wish I could watch it again, now that I'm older, but I only have it in VCR, and our VCR is broken. Maybe my parents could buy it for me, for my birthday! (May 23rd, just saying.) 


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2. Go, Dog. Go!
              By: P.E Eastman


When I was younger, I would read this book all the time! I liked it so much because of the colorful pages, and the cute dogs. It was 
also revolved around to specific dogs, who could talk, and that always made me laugh. It isn't as special to me as it used to be, because I guess I'd rather read thicker books, and magazines. 


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3. Webkinz 



Oh boy. I remember when I had one of these! When I was about 7 or 8, Webkinz where the coolest plushie you could have! You were connected to a virtual world with your Webkinz. That's why I liked it so much.


I had alot of them! But my favorite was my reindeer I got for Christmas, when I was about 8. His name was Blitzen, and he is still special to me because he's sentimental value. 


 
Reindeer Webkinz. 


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4. Glasses For D.W
                  By: Marc Brown



This was another favorite of mine when I was little. I was a huge Aurthur fan, so that's why I liked the book so much. It's not as special to me, but I like to read it from time to time. 


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5. Now You See It, Now You Don't
                                           By: Anne Mazer 







'The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes,' was my FAVORITE book series ever! The characters were really relateable, and witty! Especially Abby Hayes. But this was my favorite book out of the whole collection. The genre for this specific book was sort of mystery, and that's my favorite genre! It's not really special to me anymore, because I read it over, and it's a really easy book. 


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5. Love You Forever
                     By: Robert Munsch





I really liked this picture book because when I was little, I read this to myself. I read it as if it was lyrics to a song, so there was a certain tune to it. It's sort of special to me now, because it reminds me of how much my mom loves me, and still will love me in years to come. 


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6. Kraft Dinner!



My dad told me, that when I was about six, I was obsessed with Kraft Dinner. I guess I just liked the cheesiness to the pasta. I still like it sometimes, but not as much as I used to. I upgraded to tortellini and fedichinni!


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7. Vtech Laptop



This was my best friend when I was six. Haha, just kidding! But I truly loved it. I'm not really sure, but I think I got this for Christmas. Or birthday. I adored it so much because I thought it was the coolest thing! I had a 'virtual' dog, and a 'credit card' I'd use, to buy stuff for my 'dog.' The laptop was also educational. It had number games, patterns, spelling games and other fun games to choose from.


 It doesn't work anymore, so I stopped using it for a very long time. It's not as useful/special to me. Cause, well I have an actual laptop!


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8. Blue's Clues



This was one of my favorite shows when I was about 3 or 4. How ironic, I said I'm appealed to the genre of mystery, and I been watching 'Blue's Clues' since I was a kid. I just realized that. 
It was special to me because it felt like the host, Steve, was always talking and referring to me. And I would always interact back with him. This show is still special to me, because before Blue's Clues aired off TV, my little brother Ben would watch it, and I would remember some of the lines!


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9. Burritos



I think I was 8 at the time, when my mom used to pack me a burrito almost everyday for lunch. And it wasn't even the good kind. It was the refrigerated ones! I got so sick and tired of it! I liked it because it use to taste good. It's not special to me anymore. Unless it's the Taco Bell kind, cause I love those! 







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10. Pokemon Emerald


I admit. When I was I think 8... I was a Pokemon nerd. I don't know how much time I wasted playing my Pokemon Emerald on my Game Boy Advanced SP, but I'd say ALOT. I got it for my 8th birthday, because a couple of cool, older guys I looked up to played Pokemon. So, why can't I? 


It was actually really fun being a Pokemon nerd. It was like I was transported to a whole new, make believe world with strange creatures. (Aka the Pokemon.) It's not special to me anymore, since new and improved technology came out like ipods, cellphones, and social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Tumblr. 


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So anyway, thanks so much for reading, and I hope you learned alot of new things about me, and my childhood.
See you next post,


-Claire

Canada & China

Hey Guys!

Welcome to assignment #23! Tomorrow, we are going to have two new exchange students who come all the way from China to learn more English, and our Canadian Culture.
So, Ms.Pollock has us comparing the two countries.

        

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>In China, an average male goes to school for 11 years, and the average girl goes to school for about two years.

>In Canada, both male and female go to school for 17 years.

I'm inferring that people who go to school in China have more challenging work than Canadian students in the same grade, because in China they only have 11 years in school. So I guess they have to learn so much more in school, to fit their school life expectancy.

            

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>In China, their common religions consist of; Taoist, and Buddhist. 3-4% of Christan, and 1-2% of Muslim.

>In Canada, our common religions are; Roman Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Baptist, and 1-2% Muslim. 
>Where we live, Canada seems as if the common religion in general, is Christianity. In China, they have their own general religion, which the two (Taoist & Buddhist), seem to be the same a swell
                                                   
                                                                    Taoist Symbol. 
                        
               Taoist Temple.                                                                               Catholic Church. 


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>In China the common ethnic group is Han Chinese, with a percentage of 91.5%. And 'other nationalities' have a percentage of 8.5%. 
>In Canada, the common ethnic group here, is British (28%) and French (23%) origins. 'Mixed background,' has a percentage of 26%.
>Canada seems to have more multicultural backgrounds, than in China, when most of the people are the same ethnic. 


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So yes, I'm done. Thanks to CIA - The World Fact book, for all this interesting information.
See you all soon!


-Claire

New Wrangler Jean Ad - We Are Animals

Good Afternoon Readers!


Once again, I had free time, and I wanted to do something with my Blog. Ms.Pollock had my researching something called 'New Wrangler Jean Ads. (We Are Animals.)'


We are animals? WHAT?
What kind of advertisement will this be? Let's just say..
wild.


Check out the video ad. (I don't think it's a commerical, it's just a video.)



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Here are some pictures for their campaign;






To be honest, the first time I saw the video and pictures, I thought it was bone chilling, and creepy. 
It just blew my mind! 
There aren't alot of clothing advertisement like this, and I thought this one was really unique, because no one ever thought of this idea before. THEY are portraying animals! 
When I was researching these pictures on this site;  http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2009/wrangler-we-are-animals-campaign/, there was a comment there that really stuck to me.


'Perhaps we are the only animals wearing jeans.'


That totally made sense to me since this is an animal related ad! 
Totally genius. 
Any thoughts on this? 


-Claire

Model's Airbrushed?

Hello Bloggers!

I really wanted to do something new with our blogs, so Ms.Pollock gave me a few things to research on. I chose the topic about models, and airbrushing/editing.

Have you ever seen billboards, or pictures with flawless models?
Something like this:
                          

Let me tell you, some of them are not even real!
Well, real people being edited.
Don't believe me? Watch this video;
                 

Amazing huh!? Check out the HUGE difference airbrushing made;
                            
                        

But honestly, why would someone go through all this trouble for public media attention?
I think people nowadays should show true beauty, and not somone who has just been edited, and unreal.
But what do you think?

-Claire