So, we all know them. They all know us. Pickles infilterate our refridgerators. They must be stopped! A pickle is a mutant cucumber, drowned alive in dill and other ghastly preperations. After many months they are removed from the watery death prison to show – a horrible, mutant, green, bumpy, PICKLE! Then they are packages away into [...]
Hello All,
GUESS WHAT? I’m back! I’ll be writing more! I will be discussing topics such as guinea pigs, baking, and other fun stuff. Maybe I’ll even let you in on my super secret Chocolate Fudge Cookies… Isn’t that awesome? Now, I shall write more super soon. Bye!
TTYL, Meghan
Do you like to go camping?
Our class went camping at Tee-Pee park. This is what we did:
Thursday:
We came to the park and set up our tent. All the girls were in one huge tent! Arwen is the owner of this Marvelous tent! It is green and has 2 rooms and a hallway. We didn’t put in the rooms though. You want to know a crazy thing? Our tent has one of the smallest bag to put it in, but it is the biggest tent! We half set it up, when we went to the beach. Arwen’s dad finished the tent while we were away. 
The beach was great! It was sandy and the tide was going out. It was perfect. The girls put our towels down on the upper beach and we tanned for a while. But then, we decided to go swimming. We played in the water for a long while. It was really fun!
Later on there were a couple people skim-boarding. Thank you to Jordan for lending us the skim-boards and teaching me how to skim-board. It was a lot of fun! Then, it led to us having a water fight! People were throwing sand and seaweed at each other! It was awesome. To give you an idea on what it felt like, here it is: the water was cool, perfect temperature. The sand was grainy against my hand. I had sand all over, but I didn’t care. I aimed and threw the sand in my hand at another person. They jumped as the grainy missile hit them in the back. They turned around, and splashed me. The water was cold and salty. That was a bit from the water fight. My friends and I also played ‘trust’ in the water. Then, we went back up to have lunch. After lunch we went back to the camp and played Predator and Prey and Kick-the-can.
Then we had dinner. We roasted hotdogs and ate chips. Noah brought cheeseburger flavored ones! Dinner was tasty! Then we all went to bed (or in this case, sleeping bags). Before, however, we told ghost stories, Kendra’s were really good!
Friday:
We woke up. Arwen woke up WAY before the rest of us. Then we got up and told MORE ghost stories. It was really cool. Then we packed up our things and went outside. We were talking around the campfire. Then we had to get dressed. Mrs. Smith said that if we got dressed then we could have breakfast. Breakfast was GOOD. The parents cooked breakfast – scrambled eggs, bacon, and fruit. It was very good. THen we put our stuff in the vehicles and went to the beach. It was really windy. We ate lots of junk food! Then we shot a movie.
We had a lot of fun camping! Have you ever gone camping?
Hiya!
Most of you know how to play chess or/and checkers, right? There is also a whole bunch or variations of chess and checkers. 
But, have you played Beach board games? Well, if you haven’t, you don’t know what you’re missing! Beach Chess/Checkers is basically a game of Chess/Checkers, but at the beach. Normally, you can’t bring a Chess board to the beach – sand and water would get on the set and game pieces and ruin everything. You can improvise though! Here’s how to play Beach Chess/Checkers….
Beach Chess / Checkers
I hope you have fun playing Beach Board games!
Have you ever jumped out of a plane?
I certainly haven’t. I wish I could though! Today at our school the local SAR (search and rescue) jumped out of a plane, and landed on our field.
I hope this could be me someday!
First, they sent coloured strips of plastic down from the air. This was so that the parachuters knew where to jump. Then, they jumped out of the plane and opened up their parachutes. After that, the glided gently down onto our field. It looked really cool!
I haven’t ever had to be rescued by the SAR. I wouldn’t want to be part of that team. Too much pressure for me! When I’m older though, I want to go parachuting too!
Do you want to go parachuting?
Image by: deymosD
Hello world!
I bet if you have ever lived near a lake/ocean you have gone on a boat. But, have you ever sailed? Sailing is really fun. Compass Adventures taught my class how to sail!
We sailed on a type of boat called a Catamaran. These boats are a bit different than the regular type of boat. Why? Because our boats are little like Costco – they have multiples of a lot of stuff. Our boats had two hulls, two rudders, and two bows. I had a lot of fun! 
We learned all about the wind and how it affects when you sail. We learned that if you turn into the wind, also called turning into IRONS. We learned a lot about the wind and how it can help you sail. We learned how to set up our boat in less than 4 minutes! Four people can fit on a catamaran. The boy in the red PFD if helm right now. The helm steers the boat with the tiller bar. The boy opposite him is manning the sail. He tightens/loosens the sail according to how the wind is acting. The girl and boy in the front are the lookouts. They tell the helm what to look out for. We had a great time sailing!
You should try it!
Edited by: Arwen
Hello there,
Just a few days ago my class did a very interesting project – It is called an election. Six kids from my class were the candidates, running to be part of the Huzzahnian Goodwill Council. I was one of them. Here is a bit of Information about everybody:
Me (Meghan) L . M . A . D . (Let’s Make a Difference) Party
Jack The Happy Party
Darion D.A.D.A. (Darion, Andrew, Daniel, Amber)Party
Molly W.C.H. ( We Can Help ) Party
Keenan Change, for the Better Party
Max Rasta Party
Jack, Max, and I got voted into the Goodwill council. We learned alot about elections, like how to do advertising, speaking speeches, and how to run an election. At the election, there were some people who had to supervise the election. They were called scrutineers. There was the people who were running for election – they were called candidates, then there was Deputy Returning Officer, the polling clerk, and the Chief electoral officer. They all helped our election very much.
I learned a lot about elections. I had a good time, and I wonder who will win?
Hello World (again)
one of the things I love to do as a past time is to take pictures and videos. Using a fujifilm camera, most of my pictures come out wonderfully. I like to take pictures of a lot of things, such as my guinea pigs, nature (flowers, the beach, trees, etc.), and my puppy. I also photoshop most of the photos I take. I rarely don’t photoshop a picture I will use professionally. I really love to take pictures. But, really anyone can take a picture, right? Well, the more pictures I take the more I learn about how to make it a good picture, not some blurry mess. My camera has many settings to help with this. Here are some of my most famous pictures….
This picture is of my guinea pig Tiger. He is very tame, as you can see. I did NOT photoshop this picture (amazingly enough) I had a hard time making this picture work – the sunglasses kept on falling off his face! This is also my all-time favourite picture that I have ever taken. Why? Because a) it’s a picture of a guinea pig, b) because it’s a really funny picture!
This is my prize picture. I didn’t photoshop it at all, save the writing above the flower. Beautiful, huh? I’m not exactly sure what type of flower it is, do you? It was on a tree in my backyard last year. I really want to photograph it more, just, it isn’t in bloom right now though!
I learned all of this outside of school. Photographing things is one of my favourite hobbies, what about you?
Images by: Me, Meghan
Edited by: My loving father
Hello World,
As most of you know I am Ukrainian. Pysankies are Ukrainian Easter eggs. The Ukrainians make beautiful Easter eggs at Easter time. You might have seen them in store windows, or maybe you might have some at home. Either way, these objects are really gorgeous!
This is what a traditional pysanky looks like.
A pysanky is a egg that has been blown – so that it 
doesn’t go rotten.
A blown egg is an egg that has no egg stuff inside, it’s just an egg shell…egg.
I don’t know the exact details about how it’s done, but I know that much. Ukrainians made pysankies to celebrate rebirth. They are made around Easter. What I think is cool about pysankies is that people adopted the idea of Easter eggs from the Ukrainians. I think that pysankies are a very delicate art form, a egg shell can break so easily. Don’t you think that it is amazing that people can put so much detail on such a small object? I think that the best qualities of my pysanky is that I put a lot of different symbols on it. My favourite symbol is the grapes, they are right above the rooster. I also like the cherries, rooster, wheat, I like it all really!
Have you ever seen a pysanky?
Edited by: Laina
Image by: so_jeo
Do you ski? Snowboard?
Well if you do, you should go to Mount Washington!
Mt. Washington is a ski hill. There’s lots of different runs there – from bunny hills to double black diamonds! You can also take lessons, rent equipment, snowshoeing, tubing, or even cross country ski!
I love to ski, downhill of course. My Dad taught me how to ski a couple years back, and I love it more than ever this year! The cool thing about Comox is that you can ski and swim in the same day! Mt. Washington is really close to Comox – it only takes about forty-five minutes! I really LOVE Mt. Washington!
Image by: Moosealope
Who has a dog?
Well, I didn’t but now I do! He hasn’t come home yet – we’re waiting until Sunday – but I just can’t wait! Our dog is a wirehaired pointing griffon. We are getting him from Griffonpoint.
I am very excited about getting him. There are three males in the group of puppies – one of these will be mine! The puppies are almost ready to come home to the families. When our puppy comes home, we will name him Hairy. Why? Because wirehaired pointing griffons are very hairy. Wirehaired pointing griffons are hunting dogs, bread to hunt birds. When they see/smell/sense a bird, they point (as shown in the picture above). The puppies are normally white, with dark spots.
Adorable, smart, and clever they make the perfect dog!
Meghan
