Map Testing... Again

Once again, we had Map Testing last week. This time I didn't get good scores... Well, I did, but we were suppose to beat 2 of our 3 high scores in order to get a spirit day. The 3 of my scores were lower by 3 points. I didn't think any of them were hard. My grade wasn't bad, but I could have done better. The Map Testing we had on October were hard while I did them, but my grades were better. I hope next year I do better and get a spirit day.

PowerPoint Presentations

Over the years, before coming to high school, we had to make book talks on PowerPoint every year. I remember that we were all nervous before presenting, but I also remember that we were very lame. We all talked funny and no one could understand us. Our teacher pretended to and gave us a good grade but I could see on her face that she was so bored. I remember watching some students do a very bad job, like misspelling every single word, saying ''Um...'' in between each word, inserting dumb pictures that din´t even make sense and were so blurry that you couldn't see them! Now that we're in high school we have become much better. We talk clearly and don't get nervous. I feel like after each presentation I make, I become better than last time.

Peer Evaluations

When I did the evaluations yesterday I learned to look at more of a video than just the sight and music. I learned to really pay attention to it and look at the good and bad things of it. On my video, I would take off the last names and give credit to the person who made the song and to the Google images. I think that's all the bad things on it. On the two videos that I graded I did see some bad details. The eight grade video was good except for the clearness in taking of one of the students and on the twelve grade the images were all taken from the internet and completely random in order to the song, but other than those things the videos were pretty cool. This was an interesting assignment.

Biography

Cabezzzzzzzzzza is a boy with a big head, he's best friend is Molacio and he lives in a wave. He is oo (infinity) years old. He likes to do lots of water sports. He has 3 bros. They all live in waves around him and have lots of fun. Cabezzzzzzza really lives in a lucid dream. He does anything he wants. Anything you can imagine. "I want a banana pancake... I want another one." He has lots of friends, human and animal. He surf with Donavon Frankenreiter and kitesurfs with Youri Zoon every day after school. He lives in the beach of Fiji right by all his friends and family. For a living; he's a pro kitesurfer.

7

If the electricity would shut down in my house I would:

-Use a flash light for any problems I have.
-Turn on candles and put them all over the house.
-Use battery lanterns.
-I can't watch TV so I would use my laptop.
-Draw.
-Listen to music.
-Call friends and make a small party.
-Play my acoustic guitar.
-Create a song.
-Do some homework...
-Go to a friends house.
-Sleep

I would use a flash light to find thing I need. Like the candles. Or the lighter to light candles. I would use battery lanterns because I can't connect them to power. They would work the same way. Since my computer needs power too I would just use my laptop. I can use internet.

I can listen to music. I can do anything I can do on a normal day with it. I would maybe draw. I would get really into it because I would be very bored. I can call some friends. They can come to my house and talk. I could also go to someone else's house.

I could maybe play my acoustic guitar and have fun. I can invent a cool song about what I'm going through. If I'm very bored and have nothing else to do, I would do some homework. I would also sleep if I'm tired. Since it's late or night, I can't go to the beach or skate. I would go kitesurf or somewhere if it was during the day. I have many things I can do when the power goes away at night though.

Sixth Sence

I can only start with... AMAZING!!! This guy is incredibly brilliant and just wonderful. I specially liked the way he thinks about technology and the reason he made that project for. He said he hates that people these days are always sitting on a chair doing things on their computers. They're just getting fat... He made it so that people can use that same technology but with everyday objects. That way you can be doing what you do everyday. I like his way of thinking very much.
Like I said before, being able to do anything you want and still use technology is the best thing about it for me. This can lead to something great in the future. I also liked that it looks just impossible and fake, almost like magic, and taking pictures of a building with just moving your fingers can look unnatural for some people, but when you understand what he's really doing, and that is giving a signal to a camera with his fingers and sending it to a computer using blue-tooth then projecting it in a piece of paper, you realize that it is very much possible. The bad thins about this is that you would have to wear a helmet or a heavy deckles and things on your fingertips all day. Nobody would like that. Maybe this can be fixed after working on it though. It has good things and bad things. Although, it can all be fixed.
Open Source is what he said this project will be. It means it will be available for anybody that pays for it. You will be able to buy it as another computer in shops. It is great that he will sell this because he will earn lots of money and help many fat or ignorant people "look outside the box" and do everything they did in a very creative and social way. However, it can also be bad. Maybe after a few years everybody will use this. After time everybody will start depending on technology and new thing will be discovered. We will convert into lazy people like the ones in the movie Wallie...

What I Did Over Winter Vacation

Over my winter break I did many fun things. First, I drove up to Guadalajara with my family. We stayed there for like two days and then took a flight to Mexico City. I left my skateboard on a taxi cab and lost it :(. I had Christmas there with my mom side family. I got a MacBook! I also got lots of cool little things from family like cloth and a swatch watch. After that, we went to Cuernavaca by car and stayed there for about a week with my grandparents and cousins. My computer kind of wouldn't turn on after a few days that I uses it.





I came back to Puerto Vallarta and the next day there was a huge New Years party at my own house. There was over 70 people there and all my friends too. Julian and Mateo were there too. The long night finished at about 3 am. and Mateo and I went to bed at about 5 am. Next morning we left at 12 am. on Mateo's boat and cached up with Julian's boat and used the water skiing tube on the way to a restaurant in La Cruz... I had a few more days to rest and then I heard that it was the last weekend before school started. So that was my winter break. It was fun while it happened.

If I could change anything of my winter break it would be 3 thing. One, I would've loved to not loose my brand new $100 skateboard. Two, I would had appreciated that my laptop could still be working today and not wait to go fix it, even if it's for free. Three, I would have liked so much to not have my skate ramp run over with a car and broken! Someone crashed with my ramp... Besides that everything was awesome. I loved my winter break. I'm glad I'm back in school but sad at the same time.

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