WATER POLLUTION

Water pollution, is more than the death of fish, dolphins,coral reefs, and turtles, it's the end of the world. Some people think that humans could exist even if there wasn't animal meat around. Well that theorie is actually true. Human's physiology is made similar to an animal who's vegetarian. We have,nails to peel off the fruits, long hands to reach odd from trees, we are erected so that we can reach our food also. Our internal organs are not made to process meat.So if we could live without meat, we could live of only fruits and vegetables,grains, and water. But what if we run of water? Nothing in the world can function without water.Fruits grow from trees who depend on a water source, plats from which grains grow use water to grow .Humans need water to grow and have energy. We all know those things but we still let people with money and factories contaminate our only resource that keeps us alive. It's been proven that you can live 40 - 50 days or 5 weeks, you can't live without water for more than 3 days. If water is so important what are we doing to save it?

We use water for almost everything. Drinking, irrigation,shower, cleaning are only a few of it's uses. Humans are aware of this but still they don't belie it. They all think that water is infinite but it isn't and it;s time for them to realize that. Not only humans use water, also animals. Animals need water in order to survive. Fish need water as humans air. Water for fish it's not only their habitat but their ecosystem, their environment and their live is in the water. To keep flowers alive and pretty in our homes we give them enough water for it to survive. IF we don;t give our planet enough water to sustain ecosystems then all the natural balance will be broken nd Earth could not eb longer be maintained "pretty and green".

This is not the first time people realize this. There had been many public campaigns, government advice, and the information about it has been given in school, TV shows, news, work, and homes. Parents always say they want the best for their children and they pay private schools and buy them cloths and travel the world, but they never think that if tehy keep polluting the world all of those things that they've given and taught their kids will be for nothing, because their kids won;t have water from which they can survie. There is people who believe that World War 3 will not be over land, or oil, it will be over water. There's going to be a point in life where water will be a non renewable resource.Some things we all give for granted but water pollution is killing us slowly, a slowly painful death.

Jungles and forests are also in danger of becomes deserts because water has been miss-handed and polluted. Factories' chemical wate flows out into near streams which will become branches of an important river. Every body of water is connected to another one way or another, so if you throw a ball in a river, it an either end up in the ocean on the other side of the world or in a lake near by.Chemicals in the water harm everything, soil for farmers, animals,humans, fauna and flora... everything. The worst of all is that we are all ignoring this problem and letting the other take care of it because we don't have time, but as Postal Service said in the song "Do you realize?" "Time is just an illusion caused by the world spinning around. "If we all took only a minute to make a change, we would ALL be benefited. It takes only one minute to turn off the water in your show while you are washing your haircut takes one minute to turn off the water as you brush your teeth. Even taking 5 mn showers instead of 30 mn showers. Every little effort helps .If you want a change don't wait for the other one, do it your self.

As you can see, water is here now, but it won;t be fot long if we don;t take care of it. Of we keep letting the government not push to the limits laws for water protection then the human race will be extinct in a few centuries or even decades. People have become greedy and selfish. They would do anything that takes to get money and to become rich and famous. People pollutes water and kills entire ecosystem just for money. The Canadian Cree tribe of Indians say "Only when the last tree cut down,the last river poisoned, the last fish is caught,people will realize that we can't eat money."

EARTH DAY VIDEO

Earth day is closer than ever, april 22, my birthday also. This year we made a video in Computer class and we had to take pictures and video for this day. My partner was Fernanda Corzo, we get along pretty well. Our video included many pictures and 2 songs, one poem and a video clip.
Chooosing the pictures was hard because he had to decide if tehy really repsresnt nature's treasures or don;t.Also going out and taking them took a lot of time. Choosing and finding the angle to take the picture was hard to do.Putting together pictures in the video and orgnising and editinfgw was the easy part.The music we selected was absed on the feeling we wanted to express such as joy and sadness. W e choose 5 years time and One of us.The poem we found was really beautiful beacuse it was talking about us being the earth. This project was fun and it opend our eyes to beauty of the world.

SPRING BREAK

This Spring Break was good but not as i expected it.The first week was an easy week for everyone. Heat, cold ocean water, no guests,Until my It was a relaxing week. Diego was gone to Cozumel, Xime had her cousins over, Priscila was with me until wednesday night. I would help my mom cook things. We did cakes, strudles, muffins, cookies, pasta, salads, soufles...Then my aunt and her son came.One night after going to a hotel, Prisci and I went to Pedro Pablo's house to have smores in the mini campfire they've made. We also saw a movie called the 40 year old virgin. We would go to the beach club to a hotelwith my cousin.We also went to la Cruz where my cousins live. I learned to use a trainer kite and we took many pictures of the moon which that night appeared to be orange. We had also lots of fun with the sand.I had lots of fun with my cousin.Going to the Gym was fun too becase Prisci makes me laugh a lot.We would also go to the movies. ( MMCINEMAS). One movie taht I really liked was THE BLIND SIDE with Sandra Bullock.I was also invited to a yacht where we went to Yelapa.We had 2 wave-runners.I fell 2 times I had an amzaing time.

Saturday my other cousins arrived. W e went skating to Sebastian Tron's house to jump on their trampoline. I had fun jumping. We watched Tv and we ate like 45 quesadillas each. After we went home. The next day we went to a Ranch in Ixtapa. It was beautiful. I t has horses, dogs, chicks, roosters, cows,goats, and a pool,and beautiful house with a fountain.Monday more cousins arrived. W e went to the beach club of EL TIGRE in Nuevo. I learn how to use a trainer kite better and i learned how to do MANY MANY LOOPS AND REALLY FAST! (yay me!).That day we watched New Moon with my cousins (because it was a present for me ).TUesday we went to Sayulita. I already knew how to stand up in the board but that, i learned it last year in spring break.While i was "SURFING" a guy came up to me and said " hey you are a really good surfer!" I was really happy to hear that. I taught my cousins how to stand up.That was a FAIL. they are not very habile.We went shopping in Sayulita streets.Wednesday Diego arrived after being away for 14 days. That day i went to the Marietas to snorkel.I loved it. At the end i was sea sick and i wanted to go back. I came home and Diego came to say I, i couldn't believe he was finally back. I really missed him.That night i went out with my cousins to MANDALA. I had an excellent time.Next day we went to LITIBU to a beach house. There we went into the wild sea, palyed soccer( i socered 5 goals to Diego and he only scored me 2.),watched the sunset with my cousins, ate icepops,gansitos,and had a great day.The next day we went to la cruz again. My cousins and i went out to ask for money for the RED CROSS. What an experince!

Saturday all my cousins were gone. That day my aunt from Merida came for Breakfast. After we went to Saku to eat. After Diego picked me up and we went to the movies to watch DATE NIGHT. That movie had me laughing all the time. It was a pretty cool movie. In the night i watched Ice Age with my brothers.Sunday. the Tron's family(whoa re very close friends to mine) invited us to eat. We made "ORGANIC FOOD". It was really good. After eating we had lemon pie. We went jumping on the trampoline.After those days of beong full of guests school would be next.Spring Break was really cool but i think last years were funner maybe beacue i didn;t have a one week full of almost "NOTHING TO DO".I miss my cousins a lot and al the noice and the late nights laughing at nothing, or watching movies.

I wish next year is better.Maybe my cousins come for 2 weeks so we have lots more to do. oR I would also like to go to Mexico City with them. This year, I learned many things, had a lot of family unity going on.In this time of the year is when you rwlaize how much you actually miss your family who live far away.This time i didn't missed my friends like i used to for christmas or summer. This time i enjoyed a different type of company.vacations are awsome but the only bad part is when you have to come back to reality.

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The color of hunger. Hunger may not have and actual color, but we give "hunger" the ciolor baserd on the emotions and thoughts taht come when Hungry.

To me, hunger is white.White is everything and nothing at the same time. A white room may seem more empty than a black room. Our body is like a house where we store evrythings. there is a room for memories, one for feelings, one for thoughts and one for loneliness, one for physicall exaustment one for food. If the room of food is empty, we become hungry. The color of this room is white. when a white room is lighted there are no different shapes of different refellctions. White, is to be said, the color of life.White is the blending of all colors and is comnsiedered a color.
Light appears colorless or white. Sunlight is white light that is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. A rainbow is proof. You can't see the colors of sunlight except when atmospheric conditions bend the light rays and create a rainbow. You can also use a prism to demonstrate this. The sum of all the colors of light add up to whie. When youa re hungey you feel physically complete but there is something missing.

White is also the color of hunger because there is energy missing even though there is light and yiu look kinda alive you're internally diying. When you eat you'll feel like a rainbow. The food for the examople above is like the weather condition, the light andc energy are there qand when you combine both it forms a rainbow. The only difference is taht a rainvbow is a visual effect of the prisma colors. Even though we can't label hunger with the color white. We can imagine fromt he feelings we get that if we had to give it a color it would be like white. It is also a color that never satisfiys you there is always somthing missing. There s alwyas the contrast with another color with whiite to make you really like and be able to appricite white. Hunger is a horriblw things and must of us ignore it because we son't have to deal with it , but still we have the guts to say ND OWN THINGS. wE SAY WE OWN THE WORLD. we don't own the world. And think about this, we say OUR WORLD. there ishn't a paper that says this is your world. The worst aprt is tht we say is ours bu we are trashing it. W e never takle the time to appriciate it. We never take yhe time to look art hunger, poor people, death, trash, destrcution of life. We and only us are the responsible for this. Also whoite is thwe color of peace. When we are hungryu we are pwacful with the environment becvause when we manage to get food we learbn tio aprriciate every bit of it.
(bold part from this website ... http://www.colormatters.com/vis_bk_white.html )

rotoball

8th Grade RotoBall from mistermark on Vimeo.

The last project we've done is ROTOBALL.My project was about a girl(me) who is playing under the ocean ands suddenly a ball comes in. Then she garbs the ball and she appears in a prairie and the ball turns into a flower . After the flower gorws very tall and disappears. Next, she is wondering where the ball is . Suddenly the ball re-appears and the girl transforms it into a dove and it flys away.To do it it was very easy because irt was our second project in macromedia. The problem was that sometiomes I forgot to do another layer and the symbols wouldn;t work. It was tiering and boring tracing the girl in EVERY little frame. When i was doing it I thought of another idea if I had to do another projext. I guess this timne I would like to make it but with another person. Also it would be really cool to make it that the girl is the one that tramnsforms.The prjects are really cool and i've seen a professional one in TV. Doing thius project was a challenge because you had to make your own idea of what you wanted it to be. Also it was really hard to do every detail of the girl. Sometimes i messed up and had to erease a whole frame. I learned many things thati will the again use later. We should do one but with more people in it. And make it more intwresting. Also this would be a coold projecrt for another project in any othe class. I guess peopel did what they were feeling and teh things they like,. They use the things the ball becamne to as symbols of who they are re or how they arw actually feeling. This project is really interesting and I hope we work on it again.

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The video overpassed my expectation. Everybody used a lot of their imaginationa nd time to put it togetehr,. I was astyonished when i watched them all. I want to congartulate al but specially rodrigo and mr mark for editong the video. I wish we all had a great time and learned a lot. I am impress of how good it is and how good it looks because it was our first project of rotoball. The group is a verty imaguinative and fun group all the project were good because they are all different.

ROTOBALL

The last project we've done is ROTOBALL.My project was about a girl(me) who is playing under the ocean ands suddenly a ball comes in. Then she garbs the ball and she appears in a prairie and the ball turns into a flower . After the flower gorws very tall and disappears. Next, she is wondering where the ball is . Suddenly the ball re-appears and the girl transforms it into a dove and it flys away.To do it it was very easy because irt was our second project in macromedia. The problem was that sometiomes I forgot to do another layer and the symbols wouldn;t work. It was tiering and boring tracing the girl in EVERY little frame. When i was doing it I thought of another idea if I had to do another projext. I guess this timne I would like to make it but with another person. Also it would be really cool to make it that the girl is the one that tramnsforms.The prjects are really cool and i've seen a professional one in TV. Doing thius project was a challenge because you had to make your own idea of what you wanted it to be. Also it was really hard to do every detail of the girl. Sometimes i messed up and had to erease a whole frame. I learned many things thati will the again use later. We should do one but with more people in it. And make it more intwresting. Also this would be a coold projecrt for another project in any othe class. I guess peopel did what they were feeling and teh things they like,. They use the things the ball becamne to as symbols of who they are re or how they arw actually feeling. This project is really interesting and I hope we work on it again.