Allyssatm's Weblog

Goodbye WordPress

Allyssa — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:54:26 +0000

It’s been nearly a month next week since graduation. I meant to do this much earlier before graduation, but forgot. It was fun over the course of the 2008- 2009 school year, collaborating and commenting my classmate’s work and the Canadian student’s work. But now that I have graduated from 8th grade, and now will be moving on to high school, I will not be using this wordpress account ever again. Thank you to all those who read and commented. Farewell and good luck in all your blogging endeavors.

Ntwakgolo Support Group

Allyssa — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:23:41 +0000

Ntwakgolo Support Group in Nata Village has been educated during this current May through courses. A six week course gave the Ntwakgolo Support Group the ability use leather and sew at home independently. At the end of the six weeks, the group received certificates certifying their course completion. The group can no make leather shoes, jackets, wallets, bags or anything leather needed. They can also enjoy bead work jewelry, like necklaces, bracelets, and earrings made of magazine or paper. The future goal for the support group is that they may make more of these items with their new work at home independence and hopefully make a profit off this project. Using the Ntwakgolo Support Group’s example, do you feel that taking courses and completing them are important or a waste of your own precious time? I feel courses are offered to learn something you don’t already know or fully understand, courses are always good and help you become more of an expert in whatever area, because no one is a complete expert in anything. What do you think?

Sua Community Junior Secondary School

Allyssa — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:15:26 +0000

Sua Community Junior Secondary School, or let’s call it SCJSS for short, recently got a lectured by guest speaker, Peter Martinez, Peace Corps Volunteer from California about the dangers of STI’S, teen age pregnancy, alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. About 600 kids were in the room where Mr. Peter Martinez, the Peace Corps Volunteer, spoke. Each topic was addressed in a very serious and bold manner, to show the young students how this is affecting people around the world. They showed students how dangerous STI’s, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, alcohol abuse, and domestic violence is through statistics of casualties and charts of how many people are in suffering in their community alone. After the lecture, the students at Sua Community Junior Secondary School definitely must had a clearer understanding and learned the seriousness of these devastating issues that affect the world. Maybe someone has already talked to you about those things, maybe someone hasn’t; but if someone talked to you personally to the point where they gave you the statistics and facts on how many people are suffering through HIV, AIDS, domestic violence, etc, would you listen or turn away in ignorance?

R.A.D.S Donations

Allyssa — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:47:08 +0000

The Remote Area Development Service or R.A.D.S. , a group by that includes Peter Martinez, Kenewang Rancholo and Seloma Tiro, recently donated nine soccer balls to the children of Nata Village. The nine soccer balls, are being put to good use in the Nata Village School Recreation Facility. After school, and after students finish their homework, they are allowed to join in and play soccer with the donated sports equipment. The donations were given by the R.A.D.S. through a trust fund, in hopes that it will encourage recreational and healthy play. This is important to me, as a person in another continent, country, and even city because this allows me to understand the difficulties of developing villages and how many possessions I take for granted. In the Nata Village school before the soccer ball donations, the school had no soccer equipment; while in my school, we own several soccer balls and other sports equipment. How do you feel about the R.A.D.S. donations? Do you think you take your school’s property for granted at times?

The Internet Welcomes Nata Village

Allyssa — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:38:56 +0000

Nata Village has now opened several places where Internet is available. A bit more than ten computers are available through out Nata Village, six in the post office, four at the Wild Butchery, and a number of computers with Internet at North Gate Lodge. The Internet and usage of fax machines and the ability to make copies is also given to travelers, campers, or natives of Nata Village. There is no specification if the Internet will be fast or slow, or whether it’ll be wireless or wired. But surely, these three places where Internet, fax machines, and copy machines are available will help Nata Village come into the new technology era of exploration of cyber information. Congratulations Nata Village.

Keep Track of the Swine Flu

Allyssa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:56:05 +0000

A influenza scare has been brought upon many places over the globe. First starting in Mexico, and now being affected elsewhere, the Swine Flu should be tracked by those who want to remain safe. The following sites are a couple of good to keep track of the traveling virus.

Top Reliable Sites ordered by my favorites:

#1. Health Map: Probably my favorite, you can track and see the intensity level of the recent 30 diseases around the globe.

#2.Swine Flu with Google Maps: Another favorite of mine, Google map is used to track the many cases of Swine Flu. The site uses markers to identify the locations that have had suspected, confirmed, and deceased cases of the Swine Influenza.

#3.Travel Notices: If you’re going to travel in the near future, checking this site will help you be cautious of the diseases lingering in your home country or country you’re visiting.

#4.Google Flu Trends: A site where it tracks the percentage of flu being diagnosed in America and where it is most common.

and a site NOT to go to for relible level headed information is sites like Twitter or other social networking sites.

DSi

Allyssa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:50:11 +0000

Releasing this weekend, the DSi, the new upgraded hand held console released from Nintendo. For those of you who have seen or own the DS lite, you’ll see that the DSi is definitely different and much more advanced. DSi will contain SD card slot to hold music and pictures, it will contain a camera, wi-fi internet. Comparing it side by side to the DS lite, you will see that it is 12% slimmer and has a wider screen. Buttons are also rearranged. The downside of the DSi is that it will not work with the DS Lite’s stylus or chargers, it will also not have a slot for the Game Boy Advance Games. In the end, I think that the DSi has a good price at $179 with all the new features, but as DVICE says, if you already own the DS Lite, I’d wait off until prices drop or you could exchange it. Between the two, which would you get?

April Vocabulary

Allyssa — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:24:49 +0000

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Idiosyncrasy: a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.

He’s shy in front of people he knows, but is friendly and out going with strangers, that is James’ idiosyncrasy.

Flaccid: limp, weak, relaxed

May was so tired after the fifth race, she fell flaccid and limp as she sat on the bench.

Calibrate: to determine, check

The two needed the machine to work for tomorrow’s presentation, so they calibrated the machine in advance.

Reckoning: count; computation; calculation

I’ll be sure to put her in my final reckoning.

Swine: the domestic hog

Swines are pigs, and pigs are swines.

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Imply: to indicate or suggest without being obviously stated

“From your tone, I can imply that you did not do your homework.” Said the teacher.

Dean:the head of a faculty, school, or administrative division in a university or college

There are several deans in the school, the dean of admission, the dean of men, the dean of women, etc.

Infraction:breach; violation; infringement

He had missed his homework for the first time this quarter, therefore he suffered his first infraction.

Merit: claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.

The student is a sound character of merit.

Astounding: capable of overwhelming with amazement; stunningly surprising

The play was captivating, it was astounding with all it’s songs, dances, and awe-inducing actors.

Reflection

Allyssa — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:09:17 +0000

Since the beginnging of this year, we’ve been blogging with a Canadian class. In the weekly process, we post an article Monday, post vocabulary words on Tuesday, and then comment on my classmates blogs and the Canadian blogs. It’s fun and usually, we learn something new from each article we post and read. I am more than half way through the school year, and I feel that I’ve learned so much from blogging weekly. From the articles I’ve posted, I feel that I have learned about the new and upcoming technology from the DVICE blogs I read about. The knowledge is nice to know and can be used in daily conversations. From the articles I’ve read from my peers, I learn something new from them too. They usually post about the new updates in their town, something they happened in another country, a personal reflection on the book they read in class, or some new divce. After this year is over, I’ll be sad to see an end to this, but we’re colllaborating globally when we post, read other blogs, and comment what we think about it.

Pizza Vending Machine

Allyssa — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:19:52 +0000

I’ve seen soda vending machines, candy and junk food vending machines, even those vending machines that sell iPods and other fancy stuff. But what if there was a Pizza Vending Machine? There is. It’s called “Lets Pizza”, made by Claudio Torghele, it creates a fresh, appetizing, and fast pizza in under three minutes and costs about five bucks. The inventor, Torgehele has already made Lets Pizza popular all over Trentino, Italy. His future plans include expanding his machine to the United States and to more countries all over Europe. But does this mean it’s a threat to local pizzeras? Will the taste and delciousness be the same from a standard pizza than Lets Pizza that is made in three minutes? What do you think?