If You Land on a Deserted Island...

Today in my Law class we had to discuss, in groups, about what to do on a deserted island (in the South Pacific). Of course you must find food, water, build a shelter (on high ground), make a fire, create tools to use, and of course the two guys in my group decided that you must also search for pirate treasure. The following question was what is the order of most importance:

1. Find food and water
2. Find high ground to build the shelter on (one guy suggested that somehow we build the shelter then find high gound)
3. Build the shelter
4. Make a fire to heat the water and maybe cook with
5. Create tools to kill animals for food as well as for protection
6. Find the pirate treasure, that is supposedly on this deserted island.

Then form a democracy, the person who believed he should be in charge wanted to build a shelter first than find high ground to build it on was also the guy who planned on finding pirate treasure so that if we were ever found we would be rich. If they can't take the assignment seriously (even though he swore he was being serious) I would hate to see what happens if they ever end up on a deserted island.

By the time we had finished 4 of the 8 questions the rest of the class was done and we (the girls) were trying to explian you don't need temperary shelter it was barely dawn.

So here's my question to you, if you were stranded on a deserted island what would you do, and do you think you would come across these problems????

Well, I have survived the first to days of gr.11. So now I am avoiding my homework by blogging. None of my friends are in my classes, but it's not so bad. Chem doesn't give any time to talk to people, bio I sit near a bunch of guys who never stop talking, even though they talk about nothing, I spend most of that class trying to keep from laughing 'cause I can hear their conversations loud and clear. English we get a seating plan tomorrow, they finally found a different classroom for the class, so I don't know who I sit near then. And law, I sit alone but it seems at lot of the work will be done in groups so that doesn't really matter. Beyond that school is school, uniforms are uniforms the normal grey pants, white shirt of course the school I attend is the only one that allows kilts but not the girl version [pants and shirts] of the uniform to be worn, which means its guys clothes 'til I graduate.

Well, school starts tomorrow. This is the last day of summer vacation before gr.11. Even though I have been going to high school for the past two years this year is different than those two. The bus routes have changed so I get to leave later (7:15 was just to early), and science is not all in one class. I'm just glad I didn't end up with three sciences in one semester. Oh well, I have to finish preparing for school.

Lunar Eclipse

For those of you who haven't heard on Tuesday, August 28th there shall be a lunar eclipse (a total lunar eclipse at that). So starting at 4:51 eastern time the moon will gain a redish glow to it. The next eclipse after that won't be until Feburary 2008.
Time for a little lesson (if you don't already know this):
A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth moves infront of the sun making it so that the suns rays are not able to reach the moon which puts the moon in darkness. This occurance makes the moon appear to glow red.
It shall be something different to see.

Punishments...and Loop Holes

During the school year when I am punished there are always loop holes in those punishments, why because of homework. These loop holes are easily found if you realize them. Punishments and loop holes:

1. No computer- many assingments when you reach high school have to be typed up, meaning you need the computer to type the assignments, and more than one program can be opened at once. This allows you to have your homework and something else up at the same time.
2. TV- for things like english and business you can claim that you need to watch commercials to watch how the people talk and use words/images to get your attention in a few seconds. It would be best to refresh your memory and not go by what you were not paying attention to a few days before.
3. Reading (I love to read so no books is a punishment for me)- you can't read you can't read the notes you write so you have no way to study, reading a book for english or the old way of sticking the book inside of a binder or text book.

If you use the careful and wise, some people are harder to fool than others.

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses

When I think of school (which starts soon) I always think of the homework excuses used when homework is incomplete. But we do not only use excuses for school we use them everyday. I decided to write some excuses that we use for different things. There are house cleaning excuses:
Why The Dishes Aren't done:

• If you wait until after supper/ breakfast the dishes from that meal will be done as well.
• I swear there is no soap left to wash the dishes with.

Why your room is still a mess:

• You told me to clean the room, so I cleaned it to my standards, this is the result.
• I can find everything this way, if it's organized I can't find anything.
• It's a work in progress it should be done within the next century.

Why the dusting isn't done:

• It looks nice with a thin layer of grey on top.
• It will only settle back to were it is now within five minutes.

More excuses shall come later on so keep an eye out for them.

Sunburns

So this year I learnt never spend a day on the water without any sum block. Why???? By the end of the day you may end up with a massive sunburn. Well at least I have enough Aloe Vera to last the week 'til the burn disappears. Until then I shall live with the pain and keep the lesson with me for a long time. Or forget and relearn the lesson, which ever occurs first.

Until next time ~Bies~