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Yodio – MY Yodio by HailBrou

Trenches.

Okay, we are ready to play. Canadians against Germans, or Girls against Boys. Let’s go! The more shooting, the more lives lost. In real life, when you go in war, you have one life. Not 4 or 8. Sacrifices and mistakes were made, but all in all, World War 1 started in 1914 between the Canadians, and the Germans, and it also started on June 16, 2011 with our grade ⅞ class from Wingham, Ontario.

In Tillsonburg, a man named Robin Barker-James, took his farm and made it into a war zone and a battle field digging out trenches. He has a program up so that students and teachers from all over Ontario can come to see and learn about the World Wars. Interesting enough, it felt like war too, other than some minor changes. We went there on June 16, 2011, and we learned how to parry, lunge, thrust, throw a grenade or two, butt-stroke, and how to do a neck stroke. It took awhile to learn all of them but, when in battle, you need all those tactics and more, to survive.

What I was thinking about while crawling around in the trenches…
“Ugh, this helmet feels so heavy, and keeps falling off my head! Ouch! What is that? Why in the world, would somebody screw a screw there? I swear I’m bleeding. Take it off! Take it off! Hands, I order you to reach up to my helmet and gently take it off so that my brain doesn’t get damaged from the screw… Why are you not listening to me? My survival in the war is more important then a helmet digging into the top of my aching head? Yes, it is. Okay, but I order my hands to take it off anyways. In real battle, I wouldn’t of even thought about it. But I guess it’s okay now, since I’m not really in a real battle. Waiting to attack, the fear of knowing that these might be my last moments rattle my brain. Sweat dripping down into my eyes that I wipe away with the back of my hand. Good-bye dear friends and family, I’ll miss you all so very much.”

We went to Tillsonburg because, knowing that there may be a war in the future, it could help us decide whether or not we would want to go, or if we would let our children go to the war. Today, war is going on right now, and tomorrow, and everyday until the end of July, because that’s when the government wants to pull the Canadians out. It also helped us visualize what living in the trenches, and fighting in the war really is like. We experienced problems, and solutions close to the ones real soldiers faced, and will be facing. I’m glad that I went on this trip to Tillsonburg because it helped me with deciding what to do in the future, and I’m sure it would help you decide too.

In the Trenches.

Where I’m From

I am from torn clothing worn down,

at the dirty old concrete barn,
from Eminem & Lil Wayne;
I’m from baggy sweats and Nike shoes,
and from the silver Mustang GT,
with two white stripes down the middle.

I am from the sweet green grass
in my side lawn that takes three long hours to cut,
and the blue engine with four tires,
that dragged me across the muddy terrain.

I am from the white washer
to the old fashion metal clothes line,
from the salty but clear looking pool,
and the 107 acres of free space.
I am from D’s to A’s in two years,
from the “When nothing goes right, go left!”,
I’m from my favorite tree in my front lawn in Linwood.

I am from Dubble Bubble to Sour Keys,
from Viva La Bam, and Jersey Shore,
and from “God Bless Your Soul” and “You Noob”.
I am from white teeth to braces,
and from Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops.

Millions of years ago,
My life, and everyone else’s,
Planned to be,
A flash back of what once was,
And memories that we remembered,
are now lost,
forever.

Eminem

Robots With E Fingers.

Thinking about creating a robot tessellation? Good, because I have the right instructions on how to make one. This takes around 4 hours to complete successfully, and color it. Here are the materials you will need to create “Roberto The Robot”.

Materials:
- Large sheet of paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Tape
- Colored pencils (grey and light blue)

Steps to Follow:
1. First, draw a semi-circle from the top right to the bottom right from the square card stock, and cut it out.
2. After that, slide the cut-out to the opposite side of the square and tape it there.
3. When done, on the left hand side of the square, draw a E shaped hand and cut it out (sort of looks like this: ===E.
4. Repeat Step 2.
5. Next, put your shape in the middle of the large sheet of paper.
6. Now, trace the shape.
7. Slide the shape to the right, and put it right beside the already drawn shape so that the edges of the nibble line up with the edge of your card stock shape.
8. Now, put the shape in its original position and slide it to the top of the already drawn tessellation.
9. Keep tessellating the shape to fill the whole entire page.
10. Use the coloring pencils (grey and light blue stripes) to color the tessellation, and keep the pattern consistent.

Tips/Hints:
When coloring the tessellation, I suggest not to color outside of the lines, unless it won’t look like a “Roberto the Robot” tessellation. Also the tessellation should have no gaps.

Health: Anorexia.

On my Health project, I learned that there are three main types of eating disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, and Bingeing. Many years have passed, and anorexia is still causing thousands and thousands of people to die. Anorexia is an eating disorder than can affect anyone, at anytime, at any age, anywhere, any gender and from any culture. Being skinny is okay, but being too skinny, like anorexic type of skinny, is not and can lead to heart failure and/or death. Anorexics are obsessed with dieting, and controlling their body weight. 10% of people die within ten years of being anorexic. Anorexia is caused by genetics, social attitude, and hormones. When people become anorexic, they do not know that they have an illness, and the hardest part in treating a patient with anorexia, is for them to realize that they need help and have an eating disorder. There is no real way to prevent anorexia from happening, but parents, teachers and other adults like superstars and models can model and encourage healthy eating habits and a healthy body image.

Here is my Glogster.

The Word Shaker.

My 7/8 class in Wingham, Ontario along with another 7/8 class in Snowlake, Manitoba (also called The Idea Hive) have been reading a book inside of another book. This book is called “The Word Shaker”. The real book is called “The Book Thief”. The Idea Hive class had to infer on what all of these images were about. My group, Justin, Jessica, Sully and I inferred on what the images from “The Word Shaker” and they are below. If you want to check their blog here are the links: Justin’s, Jessica’s, and Sully’s.

#1. The picture is Erik in a German shop trying to buy Max some stuff like a fake mustache, a mustache comb, two bottles of cologne called Hatred and Fear to look and smell more like a German.

#2. This shows us that with the Fuhrers words like ‘reclaim’ and ‘rights’ show me that the Fuhrers words are really powerful and it sort of brainwashes them. The Nazis are giving Germans a Nazi symbol to wear, that is like when the Nazis gave Jewish people the stars they had to wear.

#3. It is Liesel holding a seed of Peace, Love, Hope & Faith.

#4. The trees are representing all the bad German people. The one that the girl is planting is representing a good person.

#5.  The tree is the only good tree in Germany like it is the only good thing in that girls life, I think it’s Liesel.

#6. It is a girl sleeping in a tree because it is the only safe place for her. This represents Max sleeping in the Hubermanns basement because its the only safe place for him.

#7. Max is packing his suitcase, or bag to leave the Hubermanns house because Hans thought that the two Gestapo men were going to search the Hubermann house, and he didn’t want to take chances so he sent Max away.

#8. Max is climbing up the tree to find another safe place to hide away from the Nazi’s.

#9. Max and Liesel looking for each other while looking for a safe place to hide that only Liesel knows about and Liesel finds Max and shows him that safe place.

#10. Max and Liesel standing above everyone in a tree and realizing what Hitler was actually doing to the Jews and other Germans.

#11. It is Max and Liesel walking on the branch of the tree to heaven because they will die some time in the future.