Atheletic Budget Cuts

As the Grosse Pointe Public School District continues to cut the atheletic budget, students continue to pay more and more to play sports. The price to play sports will increase by $15 next year. Here are the facts: 2004-2005: $50 one-time fee 2005-2006: $100 per sport 2006-2007: $115 per sport. This is because the shool district is cutting $122,000 from the atheletic budget because of cuts.

Issues with Blogger

I have been having some major issues with Blogger here at school. It seems like some of the code gets through, and some of the code doesn't.

Let's talk Finals

Final exams are going to be mixed. Some are going to be difficult, and some are going to be easy. There are some classes that I have that don’t even have a final exam. We have a final project instead. Those classes are great right now, because it really takes a load off of my studying junk. Instead of the final exam, we do a huge project that is a bit boring, but it is still better than the final exam! In Science, we have an entire piece of paper that we can use to put notes on for the final exam. In Math, we have a 5 by 8 notecard to put notes on. Even in Civics, we have a 3 by five notecard(both sides) to put stuff on. I have high hopes for these final exams, and final projects.

Extra time!

Hey all. Since this is my online journal, I wanted to inform you all about the special schedule this week. We start at 9.37 because seniors are taking their exams. I think that that is just awesome, because now we can just chill out and lay down in bed for an extra hour. I prefer to sleep, but other people go out to the local restaurant called the Pancake House (with the best food), and some people even come to school early to do catch-up work or even to play on the computer. There are a million ways to spend that extra hour. I am in first hour right now, and we are getting free time to work on stuff, and since I’m done, I can do this. Yay! :)

Swedish Chocolate

When my parents came back from Sweden, they brought back some Swedish chocolate which is delicious. They brought back to candy bars for me. One was regular chocolate with a lot of little air bubbles inside the chocolate, which made the chocolate taste very light and airy. The other bar was chocolate that tastes like oranges. It was amazing!

Back from Sweden

Well my parents are back from Sweden. It must have been fun for my mom, because she was just tagging along with the group of wives of the other execs. She told me that she was the "low girl on the totem pole". I found that pretty funny, because at GM, she was pretty high up in the company.

Comments

LOL! After like months, people are finally commenting on the site. I love feedback of any kind, rants(probably not), but suggestions, comments, and requests for discussions are always welcome.

More Sweden

Did you know that there are more people with cell phones than regular phones(landlines) in Sweden?
Did you know that the country calling-code for Sweden is 46?
The internet county code (like blahblahblah.com) for Sweden is .se!
6.8 million internet users in Sweden!
Thats more than the amount of people that have landlines in Sweden.
There are 255 airports in Sweden!
The public debt is 50.3% of the GDP. That seems pretty high.
Unemployment rate: 6%
The "population below poverty line" is N/A
Inflation rate= 2%!!!!!!! THAT'S AMAZING!
Sweden was a powerhouse in the 17th century, but since have been neutral, remaining "armed but neutral" throughout both world wars.
99% of the population both male and female are literate.
eighty-seven percent of Sweden is Lutheran.
HIV/AIDS deaths = less than 100 (2003 est)
HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate = .1%
population growth rate = .16%
temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north
slightly larger than California

Sweden

Since my parents are visiting Sweden this week on a company retreat, I thought that I would talk a bit about the country.

ANSWERS

1. german
2. spanish
3. italian
4. portuguese
5. arabic
6. french

Different languages

1. Ich schreibe diesen Satz in, welche Sprache?
2. ¿Estoy escribiendo esta oración en qué lengua?
3. Sto scrivendo questa frase in che lingua?
4. Eu estou escrevendo esta sentença em que língua?
5. اكتب هذه الجمله في اي لغه؟
6. J'écris cette phrase dans quelle langue ?
7. I am writing this sentence in what language?

Post #211: UPDATE ON MY LIFE

Hey all. I have been SOOOOO busy that I have not been able to write at all! My parents are away, so we are staying with a family friend who I have mixed feelings about, because often times I feel like she favors my younger sister ALOT!!!! She can be fun at times, but I don't really like being "baby sat" by her.