Sophie’s Blog! (Obviously)

Wow.. it has been… a while since I’ve posted anything. There isn’t really a point to this post. Just thought I’d say, well, HI! how are you? How was your summer? Mine was great, thanks for asking. I got to go to the American Idol Season 8 live concert at GM place in Vancouver! It was held on July 8th. Still excited about that!!!
Well, I’m glad to assume you had a good summer,
talk to you soon,
-Sophie

Summer is almost here and gets me thinking about the past year, and the year ahead. Our class has experienced so many things and we still will up until the dismissal bell rings at 2:30 pm on June 25th. The last day of school.

Some of the highlights of the year included…

• Our juggling routines we made. Ours was… Interesting. Yeah. Interesting is probably the best word for that…um…. Experience that was indeed… interesting.
• Another would definitely be our camping trip we took back in September. Sure, I go to Hornby a lot because I have a cabin there, but this trip was really fun. Even though, my friend Tina and I slept in a tent the size of a bathroom stall… That’s okay. They usually do the camping trip at the end of the year in early June but this time they wanted to have it at the beginning of the year to start friendships. The only thing I don’t think they thought of was that there were almost no new kids in grade 6 at our school this year. Oh well. The weather was good at least. Thank goodness.
• One more good thing about this year would be… Our blogs! To be honest, I think that helped our friendships more than the camping trip. Once again, oh well!

If you are a student and you are reading this you’re year may be coming to an end too. So, I want to know… What was you’re most memorable moment of the school year?

-Sophie

Picture by: jmrosenfeld1

Not just a colour… But a way of life.

Yellow. The colour filled with lemons and other yellow objects. It is my FAVOURITE colour. If you didn’t catch that… I like the colour yellow. I have created this photo story to express my emotions for this fab colour. Dramatic, right? Enjoy this expressive, bright, happy, yellow, smiley, video… Oh yeah! It is about the colour yellow.

yellow-movie

Over the past 2 weeks our class has been working with Franziska and Josh from Arts Umbrella. Using a web cam, we took hundreds of pictures using two different programs. Motion Sequence and Multiple Exposure. Haley and I used Motion Sequence for this particular photo. It is a picture of a broken battery charger. INTENCE! Once I put a non-rechargable battery in the charger and it sort of… BOOM!… Actually, I did that twice. He he… Woops!

In Motion Sequence there many different grids you can use. For this picture we used 4 by 1 and made the border really big to create this… Masterpiece???

I really like this picture because of the border and the slant it is on. The thing I would change would probably be making sure that you can see the whole word because you can’t really read it.

Today our class went to Mark Isfeld to watch a performance put on my the grade 11 and 12’s and a grade 4 class from our school. It was…. Interesting.

What do you think of my photo?

Photo by: ME!

P.S. Guess what? My blog has reached it’s goal of 1000 visits! Actually 1025!

I have been tagged in the past, but this time I am starting a taggy-posty thing myself. One of my own! If you know me well, then it is very clear that I am a little random…. Well, maybe a lot. But I can’t be held responsible for my actions… So…Yeah…. Any who. My taggy-posty thing is:

What are the top 13 chart busting lines you would say to a telemarketer or recording on the phone?

My reply is:

1. Yellow?!
2. Hi mom.
3. No I don’t want any cookies.
4. Yes I’m voting on Tuesday.
5. I will consider it.
6. Yes my refrigerator is running.
7. Is this my therapist? I need to make an appointment.
8. Subway, eat fresh.
9. I don’t care that your cat’s in a tree… This isn’t the fire department.
10. Hello? Yeah I am going to hang up now. Yeah, okay you do that… Bye.
11. What’s that.. hm… I see… Yes, yes… I totally understand. And how do you feel about that?
12. This is a friendly reminder from blockbuster. Our records indicate that YOU HAVE SOME OVER DUE ITEMS! GO RETURN THEM LITTLE MISS “I’M A RECORDING,”!
13. Say what?!

Well what are yours? I have decided that I am not going to tag people for this one… I am just going to put this post out there so people don’t feel pressured to respond. Please feel free to write a post like this on your blog but please let me know if you do because I have no way of knowing. Anyway,

Thanks for reading!

-Sophie

P.S. Yes, that is a cellphone in the toilet. That person must have been pretty ticked about those pesky telemarketers.

Photo by: jurveston

Nope!

This is a post that I have neglected to publish. For years I have been nagging my parents to let me get my ears pierced and I remember them saying, “when you’re 12!”. I thought the big one two would never come. Guess what? It did.

On Good Friday on the Easter weekend, my mom took me to ‘Peoples’. FINALLY. This was my birthday present. My birthday was actually on the 26th, but that’s another story. I was really nervous because all my friends told me it didn’t hurt but I didn’t believe them. I thought 100% that they were lying. They weren’t. It didn’t hurt at all. Let’s back this up a bit. When we got there, I went over to this little stand to pick my earrings. I got these really cute studs with little square diamonds. They were 14 carrot gold. Even though they were silver… Yeah… Anyway…. Then they loaded… dramatic pause… The gun. That sounds really harsh…(Gasp) I sat down in the chair and they cleaned my ears. After that they dotted my ears with a purple marker. Awesome, right? PURPLE! Any who, they counted to three. One… Two…. Three…. CLICK.

It didn’t hurt AT ALL. If any readers are out there and are wanting to get there ears pierced, Don’t worry at all. Take it from me. It doesn’t hurt. It’s like someone  pinching your ear. It’s not that bad and it is totally worth it.

After they were done they told us to go to a place called ‘Faces and Shear’ to get stuff to clean my ears.

That was about 4 weeks ago and I survived so don’t worry if you are getting your ears pierced. This weekend I am aloud to change them and I have a few funky earrings that I will be wearing in the very near future.

When we left ‘Faces and Shear’ we went to ‘Starbucks’! My absolute favourite beverage destination. But like I said…. That’s another story.

Photo by: BabyEksy

But I already know what I am being for Halloween!

You may have noticed that on Sam and Chelsea’s blogs, that they have changed they’re theme. Chelsea is “Batsea” as in Batman and Sam is “Spider-Sam”. A whole bunch of us want to go trick-or-treating together as superheroes! You can probably tell by my blog banner that I am going as SUPERMAN! He is my absolute favorite superhero. He is above all superheroes in my eyes. For Halloween, all the girls are being male superheroes and all the guys are being female superheroes. That will definitely be interesting. It is probably easier for us because there is way more male superheroes. The only girl superheroes are…. um… Wonder-Woman, Super-girl, Bat-girl, Cat woman….. um…. That can’t be all.. Do you know any?

What is a hero? You don’t have to have superpowers to be a hero. You don’t have to be brave or strong. Like in “The Wizard of Oz”, the Tin Man didn’t have a heart, but in the end, it didn’t matter because he believed that he was a hero, and you should too, because to someone somewhere, you are. You just have to care. Care enough to help someone when they need it most. That, is a true hero through my eyes. It doesn’t matter if you are tall, short, smart, average or even below average. YOU, are a hero. 

Photo By: TCM Hitchhiker

I think I can, I think I can…

I am so close! I can feel it. Confused? Let’s take this back a step. I just reached 913 viewers on my clustrmap from all over the world. My all time goal for this blog is to get to 1000. I am so close! I just need your help. First off I would like to let you know that this is in no way a publicity stunt, it is a goal that I would like to meet. If you would like to help me you can.. Umm… I am not sure… I should probably deal with that first. Let’s change paths here. If you want to help me by helping me with ideas on how to help my blog… Is that right?.. Anyway. Please leave me a comment with what you think I should do to help me by helping with… You heard it once!

P.S. THANKS!

Yesterday in the afternoon, we went outside to and sat down somewhere, alone, not distracted, to write about our appreciation for nature. I was really tired that day, so I just wrote my thoughts. This is what I ended up with:

Sitting here, in the field, leaning against a goal post, makes me feel very relaxed. I love soccer and nature. It’s the best of both. I’m tired. And hungry. I want some sushi. A cucumber roll perhaps? Or a spicy California roll? Mm… As the Japanese say. Actually I don’t know what the Japanese say. I have to go to the bathroom. I am in the middle of a field, quite far away from washroom facilities. Oh no. I see… A straw? And a clipboard that Haley has left on the field. Supposedly “thinking” as she rolls around in the grass. Okay, now I’ve gotta go. Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go! Ashyratplydono!! (What did I just say?) Whoa. A really evil fly just landed on my paper. “Hi!… Okay… Sorry… Good fly…(help)” I say in my mind. He made a very sudden movement “AAAAAHHHHHHH! BUG!” I yell even though I’m not supposed to speak. I know I will always come across things in nature I will not be fond of, but I still love it. Mother Nature? Thanks. I appreciate it.

How did I come up with that?