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Top ten Instuments…

1) Piano

2)Saxaphone

3)Guitar

4)Drums

5)Bass

6)Trumpet

7)Violin/Viola

8)Cello

9)Flute

10)Clarinet

Please comment honestly about what your favorite instrument is and why. I wish you would have another explanation other than, “I like it because it is cool.”  I think that the piano in my favortite because  of its versitility, you can play it in a solo or in a whole orchestra, and you can sing while playing it, that is why it is my favorite instrument.

If I were not afraid I would probably speak up more in class, and in general about things that I think are done wrong.  I would also speak out more if I think or see things that I feel  are  unfair or unreasonable. If you would like to speak up in class about a lesson you should not have to worry about detention or being verbally undermined in class.  Even though teachers know alot about their subjects and they have gone to school to learn how to teach us, listening to a students opinion can change the whole  course of the year. That is what I would do if I were not afraid.

I think that all students should be tested, that is because even kids in after school activities can get involved with drugs. and excluding them could make all drug users want to go to an after school program to avoid being tested. Then we have a school with too many people in after school activities and the people who realy want to do them cant do anything because the people who did it to not be drug tested will take up their spots.  But some drug users might stop all together if they join a after school activity and that would be a good thing. So all students should be tested regardless off their after school participation.

Weekly Riddle…

What Is the only thing that when you take away from it, it gets bigger?

Last Weeks Riddle Answer: The King of Spades in a Deck of Cards

Mary (Church Secretary)

 Questions:

1)How did you spend your time differently?

I would spend more time outside riding my bike and playing.

2)What things were easier to do?

I think that the internet has made it easier to contact people who live far away and with instant messaging and email, communication is almost instantaneous.

3) What things were harder to do?

Writing 

 4)What would you change about the internet?

I would make it faster.

Jennette (My organ Teacher):

1) How did you spend your time differently? 

Reading and practicing the organ and an instrument called the Gamba

2) What things were harder to do?

    Finding information was harder.  You had to leave the house and go to the library to do research, unless your family had a set of encyclopedias. Information was not at our fingertips.  Now you can Google a subject and you can find tons of informaion quickly without leaving your house

3)What things are easier to do?

Communicate with people across town and around the world.

4)What would you change about the internet?

I would like it to provide more personal security. I don’t like it that my personal information is readily available to anyone on the internet who wants to look.

Diana (Church Member)

1)How did you spend your time differently?

I played dominoes, card games, and board games more

2) What things were harder to do?

I think it was harder to talk to people who were far away or spoke another language.

 3)What things were easier to do?

It was easier to meet your neighbors and see people face to face.

4)What would you change about the internet?

I would make it so everyone has the same version.

This style of blogging is called Feature Blogging and occurs once a week for a certain duration. And if you think you know the answer, just E-mail me on my Wiki space, RoamingGnome #63.

I am The king Of Shovels.

I Have a double.

I am as thin as a Knife.

I have a wife.

What am I?

Last weeks answer: The Letter E.

This is the first in a hopefully succesful weekly entry. I will post the answer to last weeks riddle the next week, and feel free to guess in the comments section.

I am at the beginning of eternity

The end of time and space

The beginning of every end and the end of every place.

What am I?

September 11th was a day just like any other. Men and women alike, went off to their jobs at the World Trade Center. More than 2000 of them would never return.  The first plane slammed into the Twin Towers around 8:46 am. Then the second plane crashed into the other tower.  About 45 minutes later the first tower collapsed. I was in second grade when this incident happened. I remember my teacher,  Mrs. Len  told us all about the attacks on the world trade centers. I remember that my mom took us out of school early. Other that that it was all a blur, being in second grade, I had no idea who attacked the World Trade Centers. I didn’t understand what terrorism meant. I remember my family being very subdued at home and the teachers were like that too. I just think that no single person can understand the magnitude of the event that took place that day. I think  it will take many years to finally realize that the amount of people that died is not a way to measure the size of an event but it is the number of people who cared and were hurt not physically but mentally. We should remember those who perished, but we must not dwell on events that were so tragic, but instead think about the good things and remember the people we lost as they would have wanted to be remembered.

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