Who would you meet?

We all live in the year 2012 which means our planet has a long and interesting 2012 years of recorded history. That made me think. If I could meet anyone who lived in the past from any culture or nationality who would I meet?

Wow, there are just so many interesting and iconic people that I would love to meet and it is extremely hard to choose just one. If I had a top three I think I would choose:

   

                              Steve Jobs                          Sr Francis Drake               Charlie 'Bird' Parker


Steve Jobs, as I'm sure many of you know was the creator of the Apple company and responsible for helping to invent the iPod and much more. When people talk about him, it is often said that he was a great visionary and a creative genius. He explains it himself in an advert that was created to promote Apple products.

Sr Francis Drake was a great explorer, a vicious pirate and also an amazing naval commander. He is very famous in England for helping to defeat the Spanish Armada in the English Channel.    

Last but not least is  Charlie 'Bird' Parker. As you all know I love to play the saxophone and he is perhaps one of the greatest jazz alto saxophone players that has ever lived. Below is a short video of him playing.

So who would I meet out of the three? Probably Sr Francis Drake. His life was just so different to mine that I can't even imagine what is was like to be him.


What about you, who would you like to meet?

Spring Cleaning My Laptop!

Well another weekend has quickly flown by and it will be soon time to learn at school on Monday morning. One of the jobs I thought that I would have to do this weekend is give my laptop a good spring clean. Spring cleaning?! I hear you say. Why, yes of course. I have noticed recently that my laptop has been running more and more slowly and I checked to see how much memory space I had left. Oh gosh! None left! That is why it has been running so slowly and so I had to clean out all the old files/movies/documents that I no longer needed.

I started with the movie files first as these usually take up the most space. I do like to watch some films and TV shows that I have downloaded but I haven't deleted any for ages so they tend to take up a lot of space. While I was going through all the movie files, I came across a file called 1P. 1P? I thought to myself, I wonder what that could be? Well, after watching it, I laughed and laughed because it is a video about food that you guys made when you were in 1P with Ms Patsy. There are some faces missing and some faces that I don't recognise but it is still good fun to watch. What do you think?

Parents Google Docs

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Games For Thunderbolt

Once again I was reading Thunderbolt's blog and he made a quick post about the games he plays on his iPad. I don't really have much time for games these days but every now and then, usually on a plane or train whilst travelling, I like to play either Fieldrunners or Bejeweled Blitz.

My highest score on Bejeweled Blitz is 172,950. Has anyone got a better score than that? 

Thunderbolt's Ambition

Hi guys,

I was reading through some of the blogs written by students at BIS and I was really pleased to read Thunderbolt's blog. His title for the blog is 'Ambition' and he explains that his ambition is to be a football player. I think it is really important for everyone to have at least one ambition that they can work towards. It helps keep you motivated and focussed on improving yourself. My ambition is to run a the Singapore marathon in December this year. I know it is going to be really difficult but I'm sure if I put my mind to it I will reach my goal/ambition.  The perfect way to end this blog is in exactly the same way Thunderbolt did....

What's your ambition?   

Are You Brave Enough?

I was reading the news when I came across this article. I don't think I could ever be that brave. The man is going to ride a hot air balloon so high that he is right at the very edge of the Earth's atmosphere, nearly in space, and then jump out! He will travel so fast when he is falling to the ground that he will be falling at over 1,000kph.

He is already famous for skydiving over the whole of the English Channel and he has also jumped off the top of the Petronas Twin Towers.  Below is a video of  him doing exactly that. 

It made me think and wonder. What is the bravest thing that I have ever done? After some time wondering I have decided that the bravest thing I have done is probably go SCUBA diving with sharks in Pacific Ocean near the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. What do you think is the bravest thing you have done? 

Adventure Fun

Hello Year 4,

After break today please add a blog entry about our IPC entry point for the Adventure topic. Click here for the photos from this morning.