Uzma’s Blog

This is my first free entry in this blog. Soooo… I will write about my summer vacation. I don’t think I will do anything worthwhile except read,play my gameboy, watch my chickens eat, and sleep. I wish I could have visited Venice, Italy because I want to see what it feels like traveling on water instead of roads. I’ve read a very exciting story called The Thief Lord. It was about a kid who wanted to grow up because he didn’t like his parents treating him like he was a useless person. The main characters are Prosper and Bo who are two brother’s who ran away because their evil aunt wanted to seperate them after their mother’s death. I think that’s all you need to know about this book and that it has a little bit of Harry Potter magic too!  That’s it for now, Bye!

The 4th Quarter for 6th Grade is about to end and so is our blogging class. I have experienced a lot of things like getting good and bad comments, what happens if you blog a lot(you can make new friends), and many other things. So far I have learned that blogging is good for you because you can meet new people and get to know waht other places are like. I have also learned that computers are slow if they are all connected to one main computer. The lesson in life I have learned from blogging is that blogging will make you a better person. I think that in my life as a 6th Grader, blogging is a fun thing to do. It can be like a hobby or you can just blog for fun. I think I will still use my blog after this class because I can write about anything I want to now. I can tell other people that I’ve learned that blogging is a good way to express yourself and you will like blogging even if you think it is boring at first. A memorable moment for me in this class was when I won my first contest. A moment in class I would rather forget was when we typed all class period and did nothing with our blogs.It was really boring and my hand hurt a lot!!! I would definetley reccomend blogging for other people because they can make a new friend sand if they are shy, they can write what they are too shy to say in front of other people. To the new 6th Graders, I would like to give them this advice: never break any blogging rules, always write positive comments to your classmates, and most importantly, respect your blogs. Write your posts correctly and don’t use abbreviations and slang words that you would use when you chat. That is all I have to say to you and GOOD LUCK with your blogging next year!

I like blogging very much!!! It is a fun way to talk to people! I think it useful in our studies because if a teacher gives out homework and one student is not at school, the student won’t know that there was homework and will get a 0 for it. If the teacher puts it on his/her blog instead, all of the students can do their homework on the computer. Another way it can be useful is if a teacher needs to discuss a problem during the summer students can comment the teacher even if they went off-island and give suggestions on how to solve that problem. I think I have been following the rules so far because I haven’t done a thing wrong. It’s nt that hard to follow the rules. All you mainly have to do is not send an insulting or bad comment to anyone and you’re not breaking any rules. I think blogging can be useful outside of school too because if two people want to talk to each other but they are half way around the world from each other and they aren’t allowed to chat, they can blog to each other. That’s all I have to write about blogging!   

This is a true about a girl and what hppened to her one day in school:

Julia was in 6th grade and had been at her school since kindergarten. Her two best friends were Wendy and Erin. Erin was the most popular girl in the class and all the girls saw her as the leader. One morning Julia arrived at school and Erin was acting weird. When Julia said hi to her, she didn’t respond. She just looked away and smiled at a group of girls in the corner of the classroom.

It didn’t take long for Julia to figure out that Erin had turned most of the girls against her. But, she didn’t know why! She went to Wendy and asked her why Erin was mad at her. Wendy acted nervous and said that all she knew was that Erin told her that if she hung out with Julia, none of the rest of the girls would talk to her anymore.

The rest of that day lasted forever. Whenever the teacher was looking everyone was nice to Julia. But, when her back was to the class, Erin or another girl would throw pieces of paper toward Julia or whisper to each other and look in her direction. Julia thought Wendy would help her but Wendy just pretended nothing was happening.

That night Julia talked to her parents and they told her to wait and see if tomorrow was better. If not, they said, perhaps they could help Julia talk to Erin and work through the problem. Julia felt like that would make her look stupid if everyone found out that her mom and dad had to get involved. She knew that sometimes the class would pick on someone, but she never thought her friends would turn against her and do the same thing to her. She felt like she didn’t have any friends and nobody liked her.

The next day was even worse. No one wanted to hang out with her at recess and she had to sit by herself at lunch. At the end of lunch she went into the girls’ bathroom. While she was there, a girl from her class came in and said that Erin had sent her in and that Julia had to take off her shoes and send them back to Erin or no one would talk to her tomorrow. Julia just wanted to go home. She didn’t want to cry but she was confused and hurt and scared. She gave the girl her shoes.

Now she was late for class and was in the bathroom with no shoes. She headed to class and walked in quietly with her head down. Before she could get to her chair, the teacher asked her why she was late and where her shoes were.

Resolution means finding a way to solve your problems. For me it means looking at things from a different point of view. If you don’t understand something at first, try looking at it from a different angle. Here is a sentence: If you can’t find the answer to a question, resolution is the way to go! If I ever have to think about doing something that seems impossible, I try seeing it after I complete it. (Something like that.)

I took a personality test on the internet.The web adress is: http://www.queendom.com/cgi-bin/tests/transfer.cgi. 

According to the test, my personality type was Type B. I don’t really thing I’m a Type B though. I don’t think personality tests like these are ever 100% accurate. They should just be used for fun. I hope everybody who takes this test will have fun with it!

On Sunday, May 14, it was Mother’s Day. I didn’t really celebrate it because I was busy. I think I would have given my mom a very big present but I didn’t. I feel guilty. I think it is very important to have a holiday lke Mother’s Day so our moms can feel appreciated. If I would make a special holiday, it would be when I met all of my friends. I would make the special holiday on a summer day so I won’t forget about celebrating it. I won’t forget to celebrate Father’s Day!

“The Giver” is a book about what a community would be like if there was Sameness everywhere. There would be no choices, color, or even feelings. Everything would be black and white and you would be assigned to a certain job that fits your skills. This kind of community is a utopia. The main characters are Jonas, Gabriel, and The Giver. In this book, people chose to go into Sameness so everybody is exactly the same. There are only some people who have the ability to experience the world without Sameness. These people are given the memories of when life had choices, color,etc. It is a really good book so whoever is reading this post should read “The Giver”. 

There is a story about a Filipino boy, named Luc, who goes to a Canadian school and got in trouble for using a spoon and fork instead of a fork and knife like all Canadians do. While he was eating, an adult who was watchng all the kids told him he couldn’t sit with his friends if he kept eating like that. The principle also agreed with the adult about this and told Luc’s parents that he would not sit near anyone if he didn’t act like all Canadians did.

I think this is really racist because my school has a lot of different cultures and they all eat in different ways and do different things in different ways. I think the adult and principle acted like that because they probably never had that kind of prolem before so they didn’t know what to do so they just did what they thought was right. If I was Luc, I would feel angry at the school for not letting people with different cultures do things differently. Also, I would continue to eat like I normally do and not care what other people say. The thing that is really wrong with this story is that the adult and principle are being unfair and they care too much about their own culture and not different ones. I would never want to be in a school like that because I think it is a bad school if it cares about the way people do things that have nothing to do with learning.

Discrimination is when someone acts prejiduce to someone else and treats them unfairly. I don’t think I have ever discriminated anyone before and I don’t think anyone has ever done that to me. If I feel that someone has discriminated me, I would ask them why they did that. if they keep being unfair, I would get really mad and tell a teacher or other another adult. All of my friends have different ethnic backgrounds and nobody in my grade has the same ethnic background as me. I don’t think they should change being who they are to be someone’s friends and I don’t think I should either.

Today, I finally won a contest! We had to go to google again and look up about the world’s highest waterfall. The questions were: “What is the name of the world’s highest waterfall?”, ” When was it made?”, ” Who discovered it?”, and “Where is it found?”. The answers were: The name of the highest waterfall is Angel Falls, it was discovered in the year 1935, Jimmie Angel was the one who discovered, and it is found in Venezuela. I don’t think I’m going to win any more contests for quite a while.