Oil Spill

I think that the oil spill was an accident, the company wouldn't do that on purpose. There are many things that we can consider to know what caused the oil spill. I personally think that because of the high tide, a big and strong wave hit one of the main towers. Then it broke down and caused the breaking down of the main system. The oil began to come out, and since it holds tons of oil, it became something massive. The oil spill is bigger than Vallarta, and bigger than small countries. We have to be aware of the consequences this is causing to our environment and to the wildlife that lives in that environment. It's something that will take a long time to fix.

Despite the severeness of the situation, we can repair the damage that as I write, is flowing through the ocean. It will take time of course, because of the size, but it won't be impossible. First we need to make sure everyone knows about this, and make everyone aware that this is damaging everybody. Then the company has to listen to us, listen to the people and hope that they will do as we hope. They can get help so they can fully clean the water contaminated by the oil. We could rescue animals that still had a chance to live, and keep them in a safe place until the oil spill is controlled. It will take some time and lots of patience, but together we can make it happen.

MAP Testing Week

Take a moment and revisit that post. Have your feelings changed? Take a moment and reflect on another testing week. How did it feel? What would you change about the process? Were you happy with your scores?

Going back in time and thinking about my previous MAP testing scores, I think that I did improve over the year. I totally got better at math and reading, I was always good at language, but those two subjects definitely got better this time. It felt good to be testing again, my mind felt refreshed and I did learn some new stuff. Those tests are actually kind of easy, you just have to read the question well, they don't show any impossible stuff, it's just different stuff from what we see in a daily basis here at school. I actually felt refreshed from doing those MAP tests. What I would change about the process of the MAP testing week is that some kids engage with the performance of other kid's tests. Some people change the answers of others and click enter just to enjoy themselves, and that's just wrong. Despite all of these things, I was really pleased with my scores and I hope it will be better next time. Thank you for your time and I hope you learned something while reading this text!

Environmental Power Points (Air Pollution)

After looking at some of my classmates presentations, I realized I missed something. I had too much information, yes it was good information, but I think it lacked creativity. It just had four opening images but no more in the middle of my presentation. When I saw other peoples pictures throughout their Power Points, I thought it looked cool. My favorite presentation was Eduardo's, it was catchy to the eye and had good information. My Power Point was also really good, it was just missing some artwork, some more images or graphics. It was exciting to see how everyone tries to save the world, and they have some interesting ideas. I now know what to do for next time, see ya!

Power Point Presentation

One day in Spanish class, we had this project that required a Power Point presentation, and it was horrible. I couldn't read it because of the font, it was manuscript and it was like font 10. It had an orange background and light red letter, it was just impossible to read. It had tons of animations that got boring over time. The spelling was okay, but it had confusing bullet points that didn't tell anything really. It had too many slides with a lot of garbage talk, only a couple of the sentences the person used were necessary. It was really bad, everyone talked about it in lunch, but of course, no ones perfect, and we don't have that much practice using Power Point. I hope this helps to understand bad Power Point presentations.

Thanks!

50 things I hate and love about Skateboarding!

Love:

1. The speed

2. Learning a new trick

3. Drops

4. When you do high, clean tricks.

5. Friends

6. Grinding

7. Getting to know skateboarding brands

8. Getting new shoes

9. Getting a new skateboard

10. Getting new skateboard parts

11. Getting new skateboard clothing

12. Getting new skateboard hats

13. The feel of new skateboard gear

14. The sound of the skateboard when you ride

15. The sound of the wind when you're in mid-air

16. The sound of the skateboard when it hits the ground

17. All of those three sounds happening so often at the park

18. Visiting a new park

19. The feel of a waxed ledge or rail

20. Watching your friends progress with you

21. Meeting new skateboarders

22. Skateboarding contests

23. Drunk people that come up to you, try something on the board, and fall

24. Skating places that you're not supposed to skate

25. The first time you skateboard

Hate:

1. Cops

2. Not getting permission to go out to skate

3. Getting really hurt

4. Sweating a lot

5. Losing your breath

6. Watching one of your friends get seriously hurt

7. When you want to buy something, but someone else buys it first

8. Breaking your board

9. Not finding your board when you're going to go out

10. When a wheel falls off the board when you jump

11. When a truck breaks

12. When a bearing breaks

13. Doing a high quarter pipe drop and falling backwards

14. Falling when you grind, one of the worst ways of falling

15. Not having wax and wanting to grind

16. When your shoes break

17. When the grip tape gets ruined

18. When the board chips

19. When the board gets wet and grows fungi

20. When someone insists on playing a game of S.K.A.T.E, but you don't want to

21. People who keep bragging about how they can do any trick

22. Fat kids who skate, sorry

23. Adults who stereotype skaters as drug addicts, not all of us are

24. Losing a game of S.K.A.T.E

25. When you feel like you didn't accomplish anything new during a skate session

Those were the things I love and hate about skateboarding, thanks!

Peer evaluations and project

I think that both of the evaluations I graded were good. They had original photographs and the audio was clear. They used creative ideas, but they had some minor flaws. For example, one of the projects I graded used last names for their credits, but nothing exaggerated. They were really cool, not exactly shocking masterpieces, but I did enjoy them. I don't think there was like a PERFECT project, since no one is master of perfection, but there were some that were better than others. It was a really nice thing to do, the evaluation also helped me to look more clearly at my project.

By reading the evaluation and grading other students, I realized what qualities my project had, and what flaws it contained. I could notice that my project was missing something important, and without the evaluation, I don't I would have found that mistake. My project lacked of pictures, that is what I realized when I was looking at the evaluation. I only used three pictures because I did a mistake. The teacher gave us a maximum of three pictures taken from the internet, and I used only three pictures in total, thinking that the maximum of pictures was only three. I really messed up, now I know that.

If I could change my project at all, I would put in more pictures than I did. At least like fifty pictures or something, but three are almost none, and it was a mistake to do that. I will think about re-doing the project or not, I still haven't seen my grade. If my grade is kind of bad, I will probably re-do my video. I would also like to have higher quality images, since the ones I put in did not have the best quality, for some reason. So now we all know, the evaluation opened my eyes, I would like to change something about my Earth Day Video project.

Earth Day Environmental Post

I am going to talk about an environmental idea. If some billionaire came up to me and simply gave me a billion dollars, I would make a center to take care of the Earth. I would make this building in which people did things to protect the Earth. We would have like a cleaning site, a place where you could admire nature and much more. It's probably something I will never be able to do, but if I could, here are my ideas. They're pretty great, I hope someone does this someday. Not exactly the same as I will describe below, but something where people could enjoy the amazing nature that our Earth contains.

I would build a place called Nature, it's not that creative, but it's catchy and easy to remember. In the cleaning room, we would store gases with a suction system and clean the toxic matter it has. We would then use it for machinery, which I will talk about later. The gas would enter this chamber in which many components would take that gas and extract toxic or harmful matter. Then it would go to a double-check chamber, in which small remaining particles would be removed. Then the gas would come out into the using chamber, where it would be clean and ready to use. It would be a place where only authorized personnel could enter.

The now processed gas would be used for machinery. These machines, which would be located in the Ozone Layer section, would clean and prevent the ozone layer from being destroyed. The processed gas would be launched into the Earth's surface, in which the ozone layer is located, and kind of form an artificial layer so the ozone layer doesn't get all of the impact from harmful material. The artificial layer would come less effective, but when that time comes, we would just shoot up some more gas, it's as simple as that. This would also be part of the restricted area.

We now move on to the public are, where everybody can go and enjoy of the creation of the building. We would have kind of a food court, but with natural and healthy food only. Meat would come from naturally dead, well fed, and not processed animals. The majority of our food would be vegetables and fruits. We would plant them ourselves and cut them ourselves, no fertilizers or bug sprays, our personnel would take care of them naturally. We would have a viewing area, which would be out in the open. You could just sit there and drink a cup of hot tea while admiring the beautiful forest and fauna we would have at the buildings side. We would also have a waterfall full of trees, in which birds would stop to chirp the day away.

Our prices would be regular, not expensive, but not exactly super cheap. This is because the maintaining of the building, even though we would have the gases, would be really expensive. Therefore, the prices would be average. People could also buy yearly passes, and they would be cheaper than buying a ticket daily. Of course, this would probably never happen, it actually kind of fits in the fiction area, it's not that realistic. Well, at least I have shared my ideas, I hope someday at least something similar is built. Hopefully you, yes, you, take care of the Earth, let's save it! Thank you for reading.