Priya's Purple Blob

Imagine life without sorrow,

Imagine living with no tomorrow.

Imagine life you can live again,

A life without any pain.

Imagine a life of children’s joys,

Happiness and innocence found in toys.

Imagine a life without hate,

To rely on only love and fate.

Imagine a life where wrong was not known,

And on each face joy was shown.

A life entirely based on trust,

Deprived of jealousy and all lust.

Imagine a life where the blind could see,

And the deaf could hear a melody.

A life like this could be only a dream,

A simple fantasy it would seem.

By my sister, Pragya

Review

I love this poem that my sister wrote. It was one of the first she did. I think it really captures what a kind and caring person would imagine the world to be. I like this certain poem because it speaks of a perfect world. On the top of this post I have a picture that says ’Imagine’ in black tiles with a yellow rose on top. I chose this picture because I think that if the world was like this it would start with a spark of light and spread all over.

Image ‘Imagine’ byMrOmega

Hi Everyone

There is a post on Miss Wyatt’s blog  that you can check out which tells you that if you send comments on peoples blogs out of the class then it is likely that they will comment back on your blog, but there is much more to it. That is why you have to go to the link on her name to see the post. Here are a few blogs that I visited that I think are amazing and if you like my blog then I  think you will love theirs. The first one I visited was Antonio’s Blog . Antonio  likes cartoons so if you want to know what he likes visit his blog.  You can also visit Nick’s Blog which is about diffrent things like mine and Eva’s Blog.

Ypres

Fourteenth-Century town encircled by a moat 

By the time John McCrae arrived at Flanders

However the soldiers called it ‘Wipers’

Was ruined and refugees streamed from it

 Troops were camped not far from the Yser Canal

Where they cooked meals,

Wrote letters to loved ones

And strengthened friendships

A soldier’s day included a lot of waiting

Waiting in a line for a once  a week shower,

Waiting to be seen by a nurse or a doctor,

Waiting for food or water,

And often going for days without either one

Image  hippy hoppy poppy by  jenny downing   

Today we talked to Mr. Hawke from McMaster university and Mr. Kanatous from Colorado State University. Yes I Can Science is a organisation  to help students connect with science. The webcast was very exciting though we had some problems in the beginning. The most interesting answer was that the Antarctic was a desert. I also never knew that all countries  shared the Antarctic.  You can also visit the Yes I Can Science site.

Image Mount Leotard and Anchorage by Divedivjade

Monday was a very exiting day. We saw the Olympic Torch! We went to Lewis Park for the celebration of the Olympic Torch coming to the Comox Valley. There was music, Acrobats, Irish Dancers and Tap Dancers. . It was one of the most amazing things that has happened in my life. I think that this would be a exciting ceremony for people who are interested in sports, their community and their friends and family that are involved with the Olympics. After one and a half hours the torch came. The man who brought the torch up looked like he was 80 but he was very active.  He lit the couldron with the torch and everyone was screaming and taking pictures. Then, when we were going to the bus we saw a man holding the torch and the whole class ran and touched it. We also took some pictures that you can see on my friends’ blogs.

Image DSCN6918 by Sweet One

The book that I recommend is a book by Liz Kessler called The Tail of Emily Windsnap. I think that girls would rather read this book because it is about mermaids. This is a story is about Emily Windsnap who lives with her mother on a boat. Emily has always wanted to go for swimming lessons but her mother always says no, but today was different. When she goes for her first lesson something strange happens to her legs in the water. She wants to find out what happened to her that afternoon so at night when her mom is fast asleep she goes into the water and then a beautiful tail forms. She goes further into the water and finds a beautiful mermaid  who becomes her best friend. Emily and her friend find out that  Emily’s dad is still alive and in prison. They go on an adventure to unknown places to find why he’s in prison but who knows what what mischief they might get into. There are two more books after this called Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the deep and Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the mist.

Table Mountain is a mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. It is called Table Mountain  because it looks like a table. When you look at it from a distance and when there are clouds it looks like the “table” has a table cloth. It is 1089m high and it rises above the sea. The flat  part of the mountain is about 3km long. You can get to the top of the mountain by cable car. The mountain looks over the city of Cape Town. Table Mountain is one of the best tourist attractions in Cape Town.

There is a very small Island near Cape Town called Robben Island. This Island was used as a prison. It is famous because Nelson Mandela and his fellow prisoners were locked up. Nelson Mandela and his friends were imprisoned because they fought against the Apartheid government in South Africa. Apartheid was when the government of South Africa seperated black and white people and treated the white people better. It was also used as a defence station in World War 2 (1939-1945) and it was a hospital for people with leprosy and mentally ill people.

Image Table Mountainby geoftheref

Image 0503 Cape Town Robben island (15) by garybembridge

I think some people have seen my Deepawali post but now there is something different. I  have added a picture of a deep. A deep is something that you light at night so you can keep the house bright. I think it gives you a very good idea what Deepawali is about. Please look at the post the picture is truly beautiful.

Mount Everest is in Nepal. Most people think it is in China or India but it is actully on the top of Nepal. Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth; it is 29,029 feet high. It is called Mount Everest because, in 1841 Sir George Everest a Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843 first recorded the location of Everest. Before it was called “Peak XV”. In 1865, it was renamed Mount Everest to in the honour of Sir George.

 If you climb up Mount Everest you will find out that the higher you go the less the oxygen you have. That is why we have to carry oxygen in a oxygen cylinder. The temperature on the top of the mountain can be 100 degrees Fahrenheit below zero and on a good summit day the person who is climbing can expect around -15 degrees Fahrenheit. The first woman to  reach the peak was Junko Tabei and she did it in 1975. The first people to reach the summit were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay . They climbed up the mountain in 1953.

Image: Everest-4 by A. www.viajar24h.com

This is a sweet that my mom makes that my sister and I love. It  takes about 30 minutes to make. If you would like to try it here is the recipe.

You will need:

1 can (300ml) Condensed Milk

500g of icing sugar

390g (5 cups) of desiccated (dried/powdered) coconut

Pink food colouring

Method:

1. Combine Condensed Milk, icing sugar and coconut.
2. Divide mixture in half.
3. Press half the mixture into an 18 x 28 cm baking tray.
4. Put a few drops of pink food colouring into remaining mixture. Press into pan.
5. Allow to set before cutting squares into serve.

Variations:

• Ring the changes by adding 3-4 drops of green food colouring OR 60 ml (1/4 cup ) Cocoa and 15-30ml ( 1-2 Tbsp) milk insted of ofthe pink food colouring.

Enjoy!

Image  Coconut slice by Peter