Swimming

Tonight I am at my aunts house. she spoils me alot so...cant get any better. So any way its like 9:30 pm and I decided to put on my swimsuit and go swimming in my aunts pool in her backyard. I didn't actually go swimming, I just sat on a raft with a towel wrapped around me because the air was cold. So yeah....just thought i would share that experience with you. On Friday I am flying to California, and going to a resort for 4 days. This will help me and my family relax because we have all been stressed out with moving and stuff that crowds our life. Then the week after that I go and see my cousins for a week. And after that I stay with my grandparents for 2 weeks helping them fix up their basement because it recently got flooded so it looked like a mess. Then the week after that I fly to Europe to go to my new home. I can't wait because by that time we will be so sick of staying with people we will finally then have our glorious home. Then we can unpack and when we r done with that we can kick back and relax. Oh yeah, sorry I haven't posted in like forever but with moving and everything I got so caught up in stuff I needed to do so........yeah. Cant wait to go to the resort. Bye bye

iCarly

can't beat game!

Sorry

Sorry I haven't posted in so long!! we are super busy like I have told you all many times before.....
Getting everything ready for my new room, cleaning, packing organizing. This weekend I am going to see the play gossamer-it was a book, but they made it into a play too....
Then I am going on a mother daughter retreat with my mom in the mountains
Then I am going to my old school to help redesign the wetland so it is healthier and not as dangerous for kids.

Then I clean my room.
Check my email.
Do my homework-and work ahead
Then I help plan for some cousins that are coming.
Play the keyboard or guitar
Organize my office
School
Pack
Organize
chores

Then I might almost be good....for the day

Youtube

I have a youtube now-but it is not working with me. I havent posted in a while because I have been so busy and haven't really had a time to kick up my feet and relax. To not do anyhthing or feel like I need to do anything. My youtube account is called: CloStuff. I share it with my aunt. So anyway wish me luck with youtube!

BUSY!!!!

BUSY BUSY BUSY!!!!!

Garage Sale

This morning I woke up at 5 am and got all of our stuff to the top of our driveway and then we made like 3 dollars. I so we did all this work and I got 3 dollars. This frustrates me so much. This afternoon I am going to five below to get stuff for my new room in our new apartment. I am now righting about my awsome Aunt who drove 4 hours to come and see me. We are total dorks because its so warm and nice outside and here we are watching everybody hates Chris and on our laptops. Wow, we are sad. Bye bye.

Tommorrow

Good Morning

I was ready to go to school bye 7:24 this morning. I have been ready really early for the past few days and itdoesn't fell like I am doing anything different. Hopefully today will be sunny because for the past few days its just been raining, and raining, with some thunderstorms. Tomorrow I have writing state test thingys and hopefully they won't be hard. My friend who already took them said they were kind of easy so I should be good.

Paper Costumes

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Blogging from the Library

JUst got out of school and now I am at the library. Don't know what book I should get to read........Hmmmmmm. Maybe a mystery...

Busy Busy Busy May

Today I realized that next month (May) is a very busy month. We have to pack and do all of this stuff. I have a very hectic schedule now.......

Today

Now I have this weird addiction to this song "Today" by the smashing pumpkins. My brothers playing it for his talent show. Got to go laptop running out of battery!!!!

Websites

Whats a website or program that you like to use??? If you have on e that you really like just post a comment with it.
Some of mine are:

Scratch
Flip Editing Software
Windows Movie Maker

and many many more!!!!

Grooveshark

Do you want to listen to music online for free, and legally? Go to http://listen.grooveshark.com.
You can listen to all kinds of music, Everything from Elvis Presley, to The Black Eyed Peas. For free you can make an account and add music to your playlist and listen to it everything you previously added to your query. It is very easy to search for songs and is definetly user friendly. Then you can upload music from a CD or iTunes that you bought. What else would you want?
Besides for butter-nothing!!!!!!!

saturday

Happy saturday!!! Today I have to work on cleaning the cellar though.....

Marie Antoinette

I am reading Marie Antoinettes diary which is actually quite fascinating since we are reading about hewr in school to so its a nice collabaration.

Work

Today I don't have any school but I still have to work really hard!!! I am finishewd with all of my History, and Science homework and half way done Pre-Algebra and Language Arts. I will probably post more than once today since I have so much time. Its beautiful outside by where I live so it makes me happy. This weekend I am selling stuff on craigslist, cleaning out the cellar and basement,oh yeah-and the garage. So I have alot to do with more state tests on Wednesday. I love work though so I will be good.

Bye guys.

All good

Everything here is good. It was rainy this afternoon and it is still raining.
So today I had my performing arts school and in 2-D art we are using oil pastels. I learned also that I love oil pastels. There so fun and easy to work with. I love it personnally. We are actually doing fruit still lifes with oil pastels. I am doing a cocnut and a lime. So I really like that. This Friday I will be working from home so expect alot of posts. So yea. Bye bye!!!!!!

New Setting

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YEAH!!!!

Air clearing up in some parts by iceland and in all the test flights went well so tomorrow my dad might come home (finally) from germany!!!!!!!1


I am really bored. I have finished some of my homework for Thursday I am so bored.

Llama

Volcano

CNN says that the test planes they put out were fine with all the ash from the volcanoes. Hopefully my dads flight can get out.

Icelands Volcano-WHY???

So my dad is still stuck in Europe and this infuriates me because I miss him so much but the stupid volcano in iceland keeps blowing itself up. He now has plane reservations for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Anything to get him out of Europe.

Long Day

Got my report cards today0 did fabulous as usual. My dads stuck in Europe and can't get a plane out because of safety reasons with the volcanic ash and all. I haven't seen him for a week so its sad-I miss him very much. Today I presented my Sherlock Holmes, Hound of The Baskervilles clue box project and my teacher loved it!!!!!!!! I think I will get a good grade!!! Tonight the power went out for a minute or so-kinda freaky at first then you kinda got use to the idea-then the lights came back on. For lunch I ordered a Greek Salad-thats what I got. Hard working day though because we haven't seen our teachers for 3 weeks because of state testing, and spring break. Lots of homeworok though that we were responsible to turn in, so you had to be very organized about everything. Since it was a Friday were Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers were at school together it was very crowded and hectic as usual, the computer lab jamned with people on chats-or getting their homework due Monday or Tuesday done early. I finished all of my Homework due Monday and Tuesday, except for some Pre-Algebra. Oh yeah and after school when my brother was at the chess club my mom took me to the park and I got to swing on the swings!!!!!! I love the swings!!!!!
BUt I was so tired that on the ride home I fell asleep on my backpack. Today has definetly been another on of those long days at the office. So that is my random blog involving so many things that are just crowding my mind right know. OH YEAH!!! We found an apartment and we signed for it and now it is ours!!!! Or at leastwe are renting it for 6-7 years even though we will only be there for 3-5 years, the reason of renting it for so long-I don't know. Wow this is a long blog. So this is it-for real. So...um...yeah.........Bye

Sunny :-)

Its been so sunny outside and our cherry blossom tree has been blooming....

It makes you smile so much.

Follow Me!!!!!

Follow Me!!!Leave a comment!!!! Please!!!!! Can't hurt to follow me can it?
Its really not that bad. Or if something makes you smile in my blog-
give me comment about it-or a comment about anything!!!!

Tests

Today I took the first round of my state standards-they weren't to
hard. Tommorrow I have reading and math tests and then on the 28th I
have writing state standards-whatever they are. Its currently raining outside making
everything look dark. I can't wait for the fireflies to come out again.

Check out this website for the fireflies watchers- I have been a member since last year-If you want you can become a member too:

https://www.mos.org/fireflywatch/

Youtube

Here are 2 really good youtube videos:

http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/liaison_offices/wfp185786.jpg

Check out this interactive map about world hunger:

http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/liaison_offices/wfp185786.jpg

Laser Tag

Hi everyone! Today with my school I am going to lasertag which will be awesome!!!!!
I love laser tag and I think it is so much fun. Right now I am dressed in all black, so people won't see me at lasertag. The only downside is that its an hour ride in the car-but its worth a arcade, and lasertag building rented out just for our school. Plus 3 or 4 hours of it. So it will definetly be fun!!!

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

Taken from http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

Hunger Stats

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Every year, authors, journalists, teachers, researchers, schoolchildren and students ask us for statistics about hunger and malnutrition. To help answer these questions, we've compiled a database of useful facts and figures on world hunger.

GLOBAL HUNGER

1.02 billion people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union;
(Source: FAO news release, 19 June 2009)
The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007 and 40 million in 2008, largely due to higher food prices;
(Source: FAO news release, 9 Dec 2008)
907 million people in developing countries alone are hungry;
(Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2008)
Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people;
(Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2008)
More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women;
(Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2006)
65 percent of the world's hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
(Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2008)
CHILD HUNGER

Every six seconds a child dies because of hunger and related causes;
(Source: State of Food Insecurity in the World, FAO, 2004)
More than 70 percent of the world's 146 million underweight children under age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 per cent located in South Asia alone;
(Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths;
(Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
The cost of undernutrition to national economic development is estimated at US$20-30 billion per annum;
(Source: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, UNICEF, 2006)
One out of four children - roughly 146 million - in developing countries are underweight;
(Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2007)
Every year WFP feeds more than 20 million children in school feeding programmes in some 70 countries. In 2008, WFP fed a record 23 million children.
(Source: WFP School Feeding Unit)
MALNUTRITION

It is estimated that 684,000 child deaths worldwide could be prevented by increasing access to vitamin A and zinc
(Source: WFP Annual Report 2007)
Undernutrition contributes to 53 percent of the 9.7 million deaths of children under five each year in developing countries. This means that one child dies every six seconds from malnutrition and related causes.
(Source: Under five deaths by cause, UNICEF, 2006)
Lack of Vitamin A kills a million infants a year
(Source: Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency, A Global Progress Report, UNICEF)
Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition worldwide, affecting an estimated 2 billion people.6 Eradicating iron deficiency can improve national productivity levels by as much as 20 percent.
(Source: World Health Organization, WHO Global Database on Anaemia)
Iron deficiency is impairing the mental development of 40-60 percent children in developing countries
(Source: Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency, A Global Progress Report, p2, UNICEF)
Vitamin A deficiency affects approximately 25 percent of the developing world’s pre-schoolers. It is associated with blindness, susceptibility to disease and higher mortality rates. It leads to the death of approximately 1-3 million children each year.
(Source: UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. World Nutrition Situation 5th report. 2005)
Iodine deficiency is the greatest single cause of mental retardation and brain damage. Worldwide, 1.9 billion people are at risk of iodine deficiency, which can easily be prevented by adding iodine to salt
(Source: UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. World Nutrition Situation 5th report. 2005)
WFP-supported deworming reached 10 million children in 2007
(Source: WFP Annual Performance Report 2007)
FOOD & HIV/AIDS

In the countries most heavily affected, HIV has reduced life expectancy by more than 20 years, slowed economic growth, and deepened household poverty.
(Source: 2008 UNAIDS Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic)
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, the epidemic has orphaned nearly 12 million children aged under 18 years.
(Source: 2008 UNAIDS Global Report on the AIDS Epidemic).
WFP and UNAIDS project that it will cost on average US $0.70 cents per day to nutritionally support an AIDS patient and his/her family.
(Source: Cost of Nutritional Support for HIV/AIDS Projects, WFP, July 2008)
Assistance for orphans and vulnerable children is estimated at US$0.31 per day.
(Source: Cost of Nutritional Support for HIV/AIDS Projects, WFP, July 2008)


AID SPENDING

In a 1970 UN Resolution, most industrialised nations committed themselves to tackling global poverty by spending 0.7 percent of their national incomes on international aid by 1975. Only Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Denmark regularly meet his target
(Source: DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) facts map, 2006-2007)
The 22 member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, the world's major donors, provided USD 103.9 billion in aid in 2006 - down by 5.1 percent from 2005
(Source: OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007)
The largest donors were the United States (US$24 billion), Japan (US$18 billion), the United Kingdom (US$13 billion), Germany and France (US$12 billion each), the Netherlands (nearly US$6 billion), Spain and Italy (just over US$4 billion each) representing 80 percent of the total
(Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007)

World Food Program-Woman

I have helped make a difference. Now you should to.
Donate to World food Program, or Heifer International.
Make a difference today. Make an impact today.

Ummm.......

KFC has created a new "food" item to its menu. It is quite, how do you put this, unuseual.
KFC thought that adding a sandwich to their menu wouldn't be good enough
for them. They created a sandwich between meat not bread. Very interesting.
Go to the following link to see a picture and article about the KFC "Double Down:


http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/kfcs-double-down-ups-ante-on-food-porn/19433996?icid=main|hp-laptop|dl1|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fweird-news%2Farticle%2Fkfcs-double-down-ups-ante-on-food-porn%2F19433996

Made at 7:57 pm

I'm Back

I am back from my vacation and all is well. I am currently in my house, suffering from jet leg. The flight was 8 hours long. I hated it. But we found an apartment to rent and now its ours!!!Written 3:14pm.

Update!!

Sorry, I haven't posted anything in a few days. Just wanted to let you
know I am alright in the European city, and th search for apartmentd is all well.
Hope everbody had a great Easter!!!

Traveling

Today we are traveling to a European city. If you don't know flights to Europe are
usually 6 to eight hours long. So you can get bored easily. But on most international
flights they have tvs in the seats with a bunch of movies that you can watch. If you
every travel internationaly I would suggest making your clocks the time it is in your
destination. Then to help prevent jet lag you do what you would normally be doing in that place.
So in my case I will try to sleep most of the time because it is at night in my destination during my flight.
When we get to the city and land I think it will be about 6 am, their time. We will then probably check into the hotel
and settle in, and relax. I wish we could just be there already, you know with like a transporter machine and
you could be in a place far from home in a second.

Folgers- Rockapella

Last year at camp my counseler would wake up our cabin with the Rockapella Folgers
Commercial. One of the challanges/activites at the camp was to make the camp director a song, to see who would go into breakfast first. So since we woke up every morning to the Folgers-Rockepella commercial we put it to the tune of that and it turned out well. I was able to find that commercial and now I listen to it all the time. Here it is:




It is currently 9:43

Skype+Side note

I realized today that a free online phone called Skype, really helps you connect with others.
For example I have break for 2 weeks, and won't be able to see my Best Friend Cassidy. So what
we did was she created a skype account so that we could video chat. And you don't even need to video
chat, you can just send live notes back and forth between you and your friends. This way if you move,
or are away from your friends for a long period of time you will be able to still comunnicate and talk to them, and see their face.
Its almost magical. Any one can do this, from a 5 year old to a 95 year old this is a great way to connect with family and friends who live far away.

Side note:
Today it rained all day keeping me inside, so today I might do two blogs like I did yesterday. Don't forget to comment below,
and read my other blogs.

It is currentlty 3:40

A billion For A Billion

In the next 60 seconds: 145, 833, 233 emails will have been sent. 2,777,731 videos will have been watched on youtube. $43,681 will be spent on ebay. 83,273 people will login to Facebook. The word Love, will be googled 4,260 times. 2,083 tweets will be tweeted.

And 10 Children will die from hunger.

For the first time in humanity the amount of starving people in the world will exceed 1 billion.

Right now there are over 1 billion people online who can help. JUst 25 cents can fill a cup with food. You are one of these online billion. You can turn this around.
If you tell all your friends online to help, and they tell all their friends, and all their friends tell others, Just imagine what the online billion could achieve.

Lets Get the online billion, to help the hungry billion.

60 seconds is up.

You can turn this around

A billion for A billion.

Please go to http://www.wfp.org/1billion and donate, the smallest gifts can make the biggest change.

Please go to www.freerice.com
On this website you answer trivia questions and for each question you get right 10 grains of rice is donated to end world hunger.

Today----Nothing Much

Today was the first official day of spring break. It wasn't very special by us. We are just working hard
to complete homework that was assigned to do over break so that we can relax and enjoy ourselves when we leave
for our Vacation on Thursday. I have been working really hard on my Language Arts, Hound of The Baskervilles
Project. What I am doing for this project is making a "Clue Box" and in it is going to have clues from
Hound Of The Baskervilles. I am pretty much done with that though so......
I already finished science were we had to do a project testing the salinity of water. I thought it was really
cool.At the end of my blogs I will type in the time I put it up. The time that is automatically put up is the time
in California, so its different. Also its weird because I time the blogs to go up, and its just
confusing. So anyway as I finish this blog it is 9:37.

My First Blog

Hi everyone! I am starting a blog so that you can track my life as I leave my nice suburban home, and move into the busy European city. I am doing this partially because my awsome English teacher (GO Mrs. G!) Sugggested that I do it.

Right now we have sold the house and are getting rid of some stuff and packing things that we won't be needing in the next 4 months. It is very hectic!


Right now I feel very tired because is 11:02, and I should be asleep by now but I am not, so its a good thing I don't have school tommorrow otherwise I would be very tired.

I found out today that my cat likes to roll dice. If you put a dice in front of her she will take her paw and wack, making it roll. She also likes rearanging my american girl doll boots into a staight neat line.