“the secret for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly..”
Exams start tomorrow and go on until Wednesday. We have the day off next Thursday and on Friday we come for about an hour and for closing ceremonies. I can’t say I’ll ever write on here again so I would say don’t come back here just to save you the waste of time.
Everybody have a good summer and a good school year next year!!!!
Truth is the actual state of matter, the actuality of actual existence. The truth is accurate. It is what actually happened, how someones actually feeling, what someone actually said, etc. It’s the opposite of a lie. It’s comming clean. The truth is a fact, it’s reality. It’s accuracy, correctness and exactness.
Sometimes people are presented with a situation where they can accept the truth and deal with it, and live your life on the truth. And sometimes people actually can live their whole life on a lie. A lie is less hurtful, and makes people feel better, for the time being. Once they discover it is a lie, they are hurt. The truth, in many cases, is painful and hard to deal with… this is mostly the reason people rather hear a lie.
I recently learned about The Law of Attraction, I think that this is true. You attract all things that come into your life. If you only think negative, then only negative things will happen to you and you will only get negative things. If you want something, visualize it, act like you already have it, this way, if you stay positive, you will eventually get it.
I know that there is always people who are going to let you down, and people who make you unhappy. You just have to deal with these kinds of stituations and these kinds of people, they probabaly have something going on with themselves. You can confront them and see if everything is okay because this could be a reason they are acting like this.
I know that karma is true. What goes around comes around. This is almost always true. I used to not like my job very much. I always hated working weekends, or just anytime. I would always call in sick or get someone else to take my shift. I remember for almost a whole 2 week schedule I got like 3 other girls to take 3 of my shifts. The next schedule I realized they would be asking for me to repay them by taking one of their shifts. I knew, I couldn’t get out of it. No matter what, if you expect to get, expect to give.
I’m going to talk about another really personal thing that happened to me that had a lot to do with karma. In about September, my really good guy friend started liking this girl in my school. I didn’t mind, I thought it was cute and tried to get her to want to date him. So they started dating, of course, me and my friend started drifting apart and hung out a lot less than we used to. We actually never had time for eachother since they started dating. I actually got pretty close with his new girlfriend and you could pretty much call us best friends. About two weeks before they broke up me and this girl started pretty much hating eachother. We just got really sick of eachother. The broke up in the middle of February and me and her ex started being friends again. But me and her was a whole other story. I treated ehr really badly, for like, a month straight.
I walked away from her every time she tried talking to me. I jsut avidoed her altogether. I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I just couldn’t explain to her what was irritating me about her and why i was acting like this. I mean, if i did I could have made everything better and not hurt her so much.
I still wasn’t friends with her by the time Spring Break came around, my ex boyfriend, stayed at my house for half the week of Spring Break, me and him decided to break up together, but I was still preally hurt by it. We stayed friends, but then his parents called and said he had to stay at his cousins house instead of mine. so he went there but I went to go see him the next day. He treated me really badly, and I wanted to know why.
I realized the girl that i had been treating so badly and him had a thing. This just, really sucked. But hey what goes around comes around. So I know that karma is true.
Me and this girl are now pretty good friends again. Forgive and forget.
That’s my story Haha, hope I wasn’t really, really boring.
My name is Shyla. I live in a small town in Northern Manitoba. It is really boring here. There is not much to do here. Not a lot of people live here so everybody knows who everyone is, and everything about them. Which can get really frustrating because the whole town knows your buisness like 10 minutes after you find out. Just being honest. HaHa.
It is a mining community and lot’s of new mines are opening up in the area so lots of new people will be living here.
I go to JHK school. I am in grade 8. My teacher is Mr.Fisher. He teaches us E.L.A, Math, Social Studies and Science. My Home Ec teacher is Ms. Nogier. My health and phys ed teacher is Mrs.K.
In the fall I play volleyball. That is my favourite sport. I wish that is ran all year long but in our school it usually only runs September-October or November. We have co-ed volleyball now but it’s not the same. Sometimes I join the floor hockey or soccer team, only to go to frontier games out of town, because I don’t particularily like those sports.
In the summer I mostly hang out with my friends at the beach and swim. It sounds boring to do everyday but it actually is a lot of fun. Me and my family got a pool last summer and I didn’t really get to use it so that is something that I am looking forward to this summer.
I have a job as a waitress at the Diamond Willow Inn. All I do basically is dishes, serve tables, and book hotel rooms. I sometimes help out with housekeeping and clean rooms on the weekend. It is an okay job, I complain a lot about it, but if i quit I would probably miss it… and the money, so that’s why I keep working there.
Anyways, that is pretty much all I can think of about me.
Before I leave home I want to know what I wanna do with my life. I don’t want to leave home and just get a job somewhere and never go to school. I want to know what my careers going to be.
I want to travel. The places i want to go to most are Australia and Europe. Another thing I really want to do before I leave home is become an exchange student for a year. Go live in some foreign country and another kid would come live here in my home and go to school. That’s something that means a lot to me and I really want to do that.
Before I leave home I want to make sure I know all the stuff about the law and like stuff about doing taxes and buying a house. All the boring paperwork stuff. I wanna learn that.
Before I leave home I would like to be able to drive. Also do all the car paperwork and junk.
I want to know how to do all my banking and stuff and how to get loans if I need one. Just basically how to manage my money and make sure I don’t end up broke and starving while I am in school.
Mainly, I would just really like to travel and then come back home to Canada and become very successful and happy. Before I leave home I want to know whatever it takes to do these things.
What is the most Important thing that a parent can do for a teenager?
I need a lot to be happy, sorry to sound high maintenance. I’m thankful for the things I have and my parents are a big part of why I have those things. Living in a heated house thats warm in the winters and cool in the summer is important to me. Having hot water when I shower is something that I really appreciate. My parents do this all for me. They fill the fridge with food and they give me money when I’m broke. Most of the time I say I will pay for my own things. It’s important to me that I have make-up, a bed to sleep in, a computer, internet access, electricity, tv, straightner/blow-drier, nice clothes and shoes, soap and so many other things.
All of the things I just talked about, my parents provide for me. I may sound a little high maintenance, but these are the things I am used to having.
When I’m going through rough times with my friends or at school or anything, my parents are usually there to give me advice. I am pretty close with them. I am lucky to have parents like that.
I need my own space and privacy, so I have my own room. When I’m in a bad mood and tell my parents that I don’t want to talk, then they listen and leave me alone. When I am out with my friends they tell me to be home be a certain time. By doing this they are giving me freedom.
I think what makes a great parent is one who actually cares about their kids education. One who cares what their kid is doing on their free time when they are out with their friends. One who cares what their kids eat and all that stuff. I think your parents need to do all this but at the same time give you space and freedom so that you can have time to figure out who you are.
I think that what kind of person you are reflects on how your parents raised you.
Parents need to raise their kids the right way to make sure they are successful adults.
Today I looked around the blogs of a few of my classmates here in Snow Lake. Then I looked at the success and culture posts the students in L.A. wrote.
The kids in L.A. know a lot about their culture. Some of them are from El Salvador, some are Vietnamese and some come from the Philippines. In Canada, we all have many nationalities but we are all born in this country.
We all live the same here and have a Canadian culture. We could say that culture doesn’t have much of a role in our lives, but really, Canadian culture does. Our nationalities cultures don’t though.
I know that some of my nationalities are Indian and German. My Dad’s side of the family comes from Nova Scotia. But mostly I live in a Canadian Culture, no matter where I come from, I was born in Canada and that is the way I live. That is the way most people live around me too.
I got most of my research for my TED “Talks project from search engines (google) and when I didn’t understand a word I looked it up on Dictionary.com.
The site I found most helpful during all of my research was Avert.org. Avert focuses completely on AIDS. They have great statistics and information on where you can get help and lot’s of other things.
I also subscribed to The Nata Village blog. I searched HIV/AIDS in technorati and subscribed to that on my iGoogle account.
As you know, I was doing my TED Talks project about HIV/AIDS. I already knew a lot about AIDS before I started this project.
One thing I learned is the theory on how people became infected with AIDS. The most popular theory is Dr.Beatrice Hahn’s. She studies the origin of AIDS. Her theory is that HIV came from Chimpanzee’s in a hunt.
I also learned that HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Immunodeficiency means when your immune systems slows down, more and more over time until it completely shuts down.
The definition of Culture is the behaviours and beliefs characteristics of a particular social, ethnic, or age group. I think culture is a group of people, like a family, with traditions, religions, foods and languages that are different from others (cultures). Some cultures are Ukrainian, Mexican, Japanese, etc.
The elements that combine together to make culture, like I said, are traditions, foods, languages, holidays, values, religions and many other things.
I wouldn’t say I really have a culture. A tradition in my family is that every Christmas morning we have Creamed Shrimp on toast. It sounds so gross but it’s like really good. My family (on my Dad’s side), comes from Nova Scotia, and I think that is where that tradition came from.
What Is Culture?
