This is a photostory created by my partner Blaise and I about what it means to be Canadian.

The Six50 hybrid car is a car designed by the Swiss company Mindset AG. It’s the latest in hybrid cars, with a solar panel on the top of it. Combining solar panels with fuel-efficient vehicles aren’t really efficient enough to give much power to a car. They also don’t have any effect on how fuel-efficient the car is.

Although the car is still a work in progress, around 10 000 of these are supposed to come out next year, each costing about $78 000 bucks.

I think this new hybrid car is pretty stupid. Since it’s not giving your car much power from the solar panel, why spend so much money on it when you could just buy a regular hybrid vehicle? In my eyes if I were looking to buy a hybrid car I would rather pay less and get something that won’t be useless to me. Why would I want a car that has a big solar panel on top of it, along with a bigger price tag, just for a little bit more power when I barely need it?

So the newest in hybrid vehicles isn’t really the best car I’ve seen. Sure it seems like a good idea, but its not really a good idea if it doesn’t benefit the environment, because that’s the whole point of a hybrid car.

To see the site I found this post on click here. To see the blogpost itself, click here.

* sara .

A dental therapist from Oral Health Dental Care visited Nata Village recently to make sure the village was taking care of their teeth and gums. He provided cleanings, fillings, and extractions to over thirty patients. The staff will continue to help villages like Nata. This service is provided by the Department of Public Health. Its free for the whole community.

This is a good project because it makes sure everyone who cannot afford it has good dental care. Its important because now everyone will have healthy teeth and they can have a better life, not only for Nata Village but all the other small poor places that can’t afford dental care either.

I think that it was a good, nice idea that the dental therapist chose to give up his time to help a small village that can’t afford to have their teeth cleaned, etc.

Here is a link to the Nata Village blog, and here is a link to the blogpost I wrote about.

* sara .

 Copyright is a law that tells us that we have to respect artists’ rights and their work. Its like plagiarism, just on the web. Its not very old at all, actually it is kind of a newer internet law. It is important because other people can claim the artists’ work as their own and take all the credit for it, and they could get money from it. Its also important because if you make a good piece of work, you should be able to share that with the world, but not handing it out for the public to use. You can copyright things like music, books, movies, art, sculptures, brands, recipes, and more.

Without copyright laws, anyone and everyone could claim someone else’s work as their own. The real artist would lose all credit to their piece, whatever it may be, and they would no longer make money off it. The person who claimed it would possibly get money for it and they would also have the credit of a good piece of work.

Public domain means we are allowed to use something that someone else created after their death plus another seventy years! Another thing that kind of relates to the public domain is fair use. The fair use of someone else’s work is using ten seconds of it for a specific use, like a parody or if you want a small clip of a song for example for a video.

Probably one of the best things about copyright is that you get to decide if you want the public to use your work or not, and it does into detail. This is called Creative Commons. This is a license that you can put on your work that tells the public what they can use of it. You can put a license on it that tells the people they can use your work but for example they aren’t allowed to get money from it, or they have to give credit to the artist.

Copyright is one of the best things to protect the internet. It makes sure everyone’s work is always theirs, until they die +70 years. Without it, no one would rally know who’s work was who’s.

 * sara .

Well, today is our second day of school. I couldn’t write yesterday because we were busy helping out the grade seven’s set up their blogs. This year we have another split class, it is grade 7/8. Its my second year in the blogging class of the school, so all of us blogging veterans helped out the newbies get used to it.

My summer was actually pretty boring; all I did was go to Brandon for a shopping trip and to my grandma’s in Holland. Also this summer my brother moved off to Winnipeg because he is going to the University of Manitoba. I couldn’t go to move him in though, there wasn’t enough room to bring me and my sister so we stayed home while my parents and brother went away for a few days.

Well, I have other back-to-school things I need to do to this blog, so I better get started.

* sara .

Well I know I haven’t written a post in such a long time, so I thought I should write one before the year ends. We have exams starting at the end of this week. We have one on Friday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Then we have no school on Thursday so our teachers can finish our report cards, and on Friday is the end-of-year assembly. I only have to write one exam (I think) because I got exempted from the other 3. Although we don’t find out of exemptions until tomorrow, I’m pretty sure I only have to write my LA exam.

This coming weekend is also Grad. My brother is graduating this year (:D) so I have to go to the pictures, the ceremony, the supper, and the social. Grad is pretty fun, and my friend Katie’s sister is also graduating so I will be with her for some time. Some of my family is coming in but not many of my cousins because they also have to write exams.

I am also having family coming in later, but not until after grad for their annual fishing trip that all my uncles go on every year. The girls all stay back and bake and watch movies and stuff like that. For the rest of my summer, I will probably be going out of town to my grandma’s and maybe Winnipeg, nowhere fancy. In the summer I usually tan outside, go swimming, tubing sometimes, that kind of stuff.

Well, this could be the last post of mine this year, so have a good summer and see you next year!

*sara.

What is true? That can be a hard question. There are two ways to answer that. Yes, it’s true that Global Warming is going to kill the world soon, but there’s another way to answer it. It’s what you think is true in life.

Being truthful is the opposite of lieing. It’s being faithful to someone or something. I think that truth is hard to tell, definitely harder to tell than a lie. Like if you do something you shouldn’t have, and then you go home, what do you say to your parents? Well, if you lie, then its not as hard. But if they find out that you lied, you will suffer the consequences. But if you just tell the truth in the first place, maybe they’ll understand and you won’t get in as much trouble.

I also think that its true that life can be hard. But sometimes, and most of the time, you bring it upon yourself. Like for example, say you’re a bit late for something but you have something more important to do so you skip what you had to do in the first place. If you get in trouble for missing that, its only your fault and you will suffer the consequences.

Its also true that mistakes make you stronger. Mistakes shape you as a person. If your life is totally focused on being perfect, you won’t change as a person and you will stay on one level. You will never learn different than what you already know.

There are a lot of things that are also true. But things that are true in life are different, like how you think life should be, what you think make make you or break you, etc.

*smotto.

This weekend was pretty fun for me. On Friday, I hung out with some of my friends. We watched some fireworks that were going on that night, walked around town, and went for ice cream. But because we’re girls, there was a little bit of drama for a while but it cleared up.

On Saturday, there was a dance called semi-formal. Its a dance that we have at our school. But this dance is a bit different than the other ones we have at our school. This is the one chance that people have where they can dress up, and most people take it. I got ready with my friend Elaine at her house, and as everyone says, getting ready is half the fun. Then we showed up to the dance together. It went from 7-10 pm. After the dance, me and some friends walked around for a bit, but they went out and I went home.

Well, silent reading is over now so I better go do some work. Bye!

*smotto.

Hi everyone,

We’ve been told that some new people are going to be looking at our blogs, so I’m gonna tell you a bit about myself.

My name is Sara. I’m 12 years old, almost 13, and in grade 7. I live in Snow Lake, MB, Canada. I go to JHK School. Snow Lake is a small town with one school. There’s basically one of everything, except houses restaurants, and small convenience/candy stores. There’s not much to do here, so me and my friends just usually hang out and walk around town and watch movies, that kind of stuff.

I don’t exactly have one hobby really, I play volleyball sometimes when there’s practices and games. I like to read lots. I’m also good in school, but I don’t really enjoy it, well no one really does.

Well, I’ve introduced myself, and I hope you do the same so we can all learn about you too.

*sara.

I know its a little early to talk about the weekend, but I have nothing else to say, so I might as well.

This weekend, I am going to my Grandma and Grandpa’s house in Holland, Manitoba. Its a small town about an hour to two hours away from Winnipeg. Its kind of an old people town so we don’t have much to do there, but its just good to see them. Also on this trip we will be spending a day in the city to get grad outfits and whatnot since my brother’s grad is in June.

My whole family except for my sister and the dog will be traveling there on Friday after my mom is done work at 5 because she can’t get time off. Its about a 7 to 8 hour drive so we won’t get there til late. The next day, we are going to Winnipeg to shop. It sucks though because I only have a few hours to get everything I want/need, and trust me I have a long list.

When we get back to Holland on Saturday night we will just be hanging out and spending time with them because my grandpa is in the hospital lots so we don’t see him often. Then the next day is when we will have our family supper. My aunty, uncle, and 2 cousins will be coming in from Morden, and my aunty and uncle from Cartwright will be coming in too. My other 2 older cousins might not be coming in since one lives in Calgary I think and the other is going to have her baby in the next week or so, but I’m hoping she comes in because I haven’t seen her in a long time and I’m hoping she might already have the baby.

We are leaving on Monday, so I won’t be in school, and then the next day my class doesn’t have school so I get two days off, and then the next day we get out early. Also, I know its a long time from now, but my sister and my mom have to go into Winnipeg for like 5 or 6 days for my sister’s braces, so I will have the house to myself! Except for my brother though. But that’s okay. And he will be gone one day so I think I’m going to get a friend to sleep at the house with me, we’ll see what happens.

Well, silent reading is almost over, so I hope your weekend is going to be as good as mine!

*smotto.