School is ending, and exams are starting. Out with the old teachers and in with the new. Some of us are unlucky enough to be staying in the same class again in September. Just joking Mr. Fisher! As I am in Grade 7/8 I will have the same teacher. Anyways, it’s time for your summer romance, the best time of your life. In September some of us are unhappy about going to high-school and I still have one year left. I am so excited to meet all the new people in British Columbia, Canada and I cannot wait for summer to get here. So here I am wishing you the greatest summer and I hope that the school year has been great for everyone. Have a great summer!

Talk to you in September,
Brianna

Truth is many things. Truth can remind a person of the past present or future. Truth is needed. Truth is wanted. Truth is love. Truth is waiting. Truth is difficult. Truth is being yourself. Truth is you. Truth is me. The truth beholds.

”Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.”
Fannie Lou Hamer

What I know to be true is that you cannot just change who you are. I thought that if I changed who I was, people would forget about the old Brianna and forget she was ever there. I saw that as my future, being someone else. If I tried that would everyone forget? Would they think the new Brianna was  good enough? Would it be like being able to live my life over again not worrying about the past? To tell you the truth, the grass was not any greener on the other side.

I did not like the new me but I did not want to turn back. The life I was living was not any better than the one before. It took my best friend’s knowledge and believing that I was better to realize. I hated me. I still do for those years that I tried to be someone else. It hurt me to see that haunting past. Thanks for telling the truth and getting me through that piece of life that seemed like an evil nightmare.

Brianna

What is random?

I don’t know.

Is Cheese random?

Is pizza random?

Is purple elephants random?

Am I random?

Wait. Are you random?

I am.

Hey,

Just about every friend of mine has read the book “Twilight“. I am just starting to read it as I haven’t been reading for a while. Some think it’s romance, others think it suspicious. I really don’t know what to think of it except for interesting. Twilight the Movie is ready to watch in November-December 2008. Girls everywhere want to see it, including myself.

In this book you may find yourself wishing one of the characters was really. What is said seems so romantic and you find yourself thinking about things you would probably never think about. I found that some people said about the book, (put into my own words).

This is a great read and I recommend it to all those teenage girls out there.

Peace,
Brianna

Hey,

My name is Brianna. I am like any other person. I go to school every morning and meet my friends at the school gate. I wait on the playground until the bell rings and then I go to class. I usually see my sister at recess. We sometimes talk but I really think she he known as “Little Ms. Annoying” to me.

I am just an ordinary girl who lives an ordinary life. I have 3 families,(really only 2). My mom’s family, my dad’s family and my friends. To  me friends are just as important as your mom or your dad. My friends are like my sisters and brothers. It sure feels like I see them more then my blood family though.

So now you know who I am, an ordinary girl, living in a slowly breaking world. That’s me. That’s Brianna.

Things I want to know before I get kicked out of my house:

• How to do laundry
• How to cook more than Pizza Pops
• How to figure out how to do a resume
• How to wash a carpet
• How to save money
• How to do Taxes
• How to do Mortgage and all that stuff

That’s all I need to know.

Brianna

Today’s topic is teenagers. When you think of teenagers you most likely think of troublemakers, or those kids that broke your window last Friday. Well that maybe true but they all aren’t that bad.

The real topic is what teenagers need from their parents as little kids, young adults and as adults. When these people were little they depended on their parents for everything. They needed so much from their parents like: love, attention, food, shelter, and care. Now as young adults they don’t need those things so much anymore. All they need now is the basics; food, shelter, love, and discipline.

The most important thing a parent can give a teenager is space. They need their time by themselves and with their friends. To me my friends are like a whole new family, a new group of people to care about and give them the advice and help they need. If a parent gives them a lot of space they will know that their parents understand them and that they can tell them things that are going on. Now this leads to the topic of what makes a parent a good one?

To me being a good parent means being there for your kids. If your teenager gets in a fight with her/his best friend, just being there to listen to the story. Giving them the advice they need when they need it and giving them their space. To these people space and freedom is everything. That is just my opinion. Tell me yours by leaving me a comment.

Brianna

TED Talks is a conference for Technology, Entertainment and Design. It costs a lot of money to go to this conference and speak to the other people that have paid to show you what goes on. Our class is having our own TED Talks and now it is coming to an end. We want to show you what it has been like to research this project and to teach you about it too.

The project that I worked on was Biodiversity. Biodiversity is all the living things on Earth that include: plants, animals, micro-organisms and the ecosystems they live in. Researching this project is hard work.

Researching this project was hard work because there was so much information and some of the sites had false information. False information can give you the wrong idea on what your topic needs and you need to be aware of that. Look at the information on the website to see what the content in it is. Look at other sites to see if they have the same information as the one site you were looking at. The content of my project comes from many of the sites I looked at as they had the same information.

The content of my project had no statistics and I could don’t find any graphs to show anything. Also there is nothing being done to help keep biodiversity safe from loggers. I think there should be laws against these problems and there should be only a certain amount of trees to be cut down each day.

Did you ever wonder what happens to after logging cuts homes, food and family to animals. I have. That is why I have researched this topic. Logging is one of many plant technologies that is being used. Logs are essential to our living as they make paper, homes for humans, and many other things too.

If you think about it recycling reduces the amount of trees cut down and it helps the environment too. That’s always good. It seems that many people do recycle but not enough, so I think that it should be a law to recycle in Canada,oh, and the punishment should be 1 hour of community service for each item you have not recycled. ( That means I would have to do a LOT of hours.)

The road to success has many stops to make as many things make you successful. The hard part is choosing the stop that will leave you successful. There is the happiness stop. Is happiness that stop you want to make? Will happiness do well for you? There are the same questions for all the other millions of stops to choose from. If you really think about it, there is a secret to these stops. Every stop makes you have a successful life in the end.

To me, success is just around the corner. There are many steps to take, but it is all worth it in the end. Success to me is going to college, getting a well-paying job and having a family that cares about you. Even if I were a homeless person and had my family I would be as happy as a millionaire or even a billionaire. Family is the most important part of success.

Family is the people that you are close to, the ones that are there when you need a shoulder to cry on. They are the ones that cheer you on to live a successful life. This is the people that you need to life a happy life.

Happy + Success = The Good Life