Metal

My favorite kind of music is heavy metal. Some names of bands I listen to are Blessthefall, Vanna, and Killswitch Engage. My favorite band is the devil wears prada.
I also listen to older rock like AC/DC and Guns n’ Roses. For some insane reason I hate rap and hip hop with a burning passion. Every time I hear a song like that I get so annoyed. I never listened to rap or hip hop even one I was little. I have been listening to rock for as long as I can remember what music was.

--Borat

Ginger Girl's Tips, Tricks, and Advice

Hi my name is Ginger Girl, I am in 7th grade and love school. I am working on learning tricks to do well in school and other things so if you need some tips or advice please leave a comment and I will try to answer it in about a week. Your comments don’t have to be about school they can be about anything; cooking, cleaning, chess, anything really. I can even give you computer help. I am also good at animals. If I don’t know the answer I will soon know.

Grinding Milton's Gears

You know what really grinds my gears?

You know what really grinds my gears, when I’m at a basketball game some of the players try to shoot but they always miss their shot. That is what really grinds my gears. These are some of the things that grind my gears. The thing that grinds my gears is people that are slow at doing everything like at sports, reading etc. Another thing that grinds my gears is when I’m at a theater at people won’t shut up. The last thing that really grinds my gears a lot is when people spell a word wrong and say it wrong.

Shane's View

What’s Happening

Know what almost all Americans with retirement benefits are asking “will I lose my benefits?” It a huge problem for retires form the car industries. With companies trying to stay above water they are cutting retirement benefits like dental fast. Last year benefits dropped 27% and are expected to drop more now. My whole family is affected by this so I hope the bailout works but so far it does not look good.

You know what twists me off, the salmonella incident. We had a batch of fresh baked peanut butter cookies and had to throw them away. I can’t believe that the Peanut Company knew about it! They endanger a ton of people just to and I quote “make some money on these peanuts on the floor”. this was after they proved the peanuts had salmonella. Repeat after the company had proved they had salmonella. What greed. I hope the company is shut down.

Emanuel's World

My name is Emanuel. My hobbies are playing my guitar and listening to music such as rock and metal. On my free time I watch TV, play games and go to town. When I go to Borat’s house we mess around with fireworks, play Guitar Hero and play our guitars. The surprising thing about this is, even though we turn it up all the way and play recklessly and loud, nobody complains to us that it is too loud. We also watch videos on his computer.

One day Borat (Bryan) and I were chillin’ outside the bathroom when we saw a head pop out of the boy’s bathroom. We ignored it the first time, but, the kid kept peeking out of the door for a long time. He stayed in the bathroom for about 15 minutes then came out, kicked my shin and ran away. He stopped in front of his classroom, and kept looking at us. Then he ran into his classroom. We were laughing for about 5 minutes and then we went inside. We tried to re enact it but we couldn’t make it as funny as the first time.

Marco's Hopes

I hope that president Barrack Obama does a good job in the White House. Or at least better than the ex president George Bush, but doing better than George Bush isn’t very hard because, in my opinion, Bush is the worst president that has ever been in the White House. He is one of the most hated presidents.

Barrack Obama is a good president so far but it has only been a couple of weeks since he took office. Maybe he will be a bad president or maybe he will be the best president that the United States has ever seen before.

He is a pretty inexperienced president and that is why some people didn’t want to vote for him. Some people thought that John Mcain would be a better president because he has more experience than Obama. Either way if John were to be president then he would have been the oldest president yet.

Candy Grams

Friday the 13th of February in the year of 2009

Every Valentines Day at our school, we do a special fundraiser called candy grams. A Candy gram is basically a valentine message that is sent with a piece of candy attached to the card. Almost every year the 8th grade does three types: friendly, super friendly, and mushy. This year when the 8th grade chose the rhymes it took a long time. But when we finally decided, we were happy with our choices. The friendly rhyme is monkey, monkey in a tree; I wish you were up here with me. The super friendly is rubies are red, sapphires are blue, you are a gem, so I’ll treasure you. The mushy rhyme is the rain keeps the flowers from dying, the sun keeps the earth lit up when it’s shining, and the night-time sky has a blanket of stars and the moon, and baby I got you! I wish they would have used this rhyme: Roses are red, lizards are green, you’re the best looking thing I’ve ever seen. The 8th grade does candy grams every year as a graduation fundraiser. This year a lot of other kids in my class are helping a lot and I (Chelsea). Now all we need is for more kids in my class to bring candy because we usually make about 3,000 candy grams. So, far I think we’ve got about 1,500 so I guess we’re half way there. I’ll report back to you when something else exciting happens.

Monday the 23rd of February in the year of 2009

After the Fact

Well, what can I say? We just got back from our week of vacation and my class just found out about how much money we made off of the candy grams. This morning when I asked my teacher, he announced to the class that we made over $600 from our candy gram fundraiser. That means we did better on the candy grams than almost every other class that has ever done candy grams (at least that’s what our teacher says). This is our second fundraiser this year and we’re doing really well so far. I think we have about $1,149 in our account because we have also gotten some donations. We’ve got a pep rally coming up soon and I can’t wait ‘till we get to go. There isn’t much else going on right now but I’ll get back to when something exciting happens.