Hello! It’s Christmas eve!!! YAAAAYYY! I’m really excited! To get everybody in the Christmas cheer, here is an adorable video of cats singing ‘Oh come all ye Faithful’ Look through my older posts and you will see that I posted a video of cats singing ‘White Christmas’ last year. Enjoy the video, and have a merry christmas and a happy New Year! Yaaaay!
Hello again!!! I have been on Odosketch again, as you may tell from the title. This time I did an awesome one of a peacock. It actually started out as me being bored and scribbling, when I realized it looked pretty cool so I turned it into a peacock. I added some grass, because it looked a little boring just with one little peacock up in the corner. So, anyway, I hope you like it!
Tadaa! Cool huh. It’s funny how the most messy and untidy pictures can turn out to be really cool, like this one.
If you hover your mouse on the little arrow above the picture, you can click on my Odosketch username (ilovecookies) and check out my other sketches. You can also choose the size you want, and embed it onto your website (of course you’ll want to because it’s so awesome – haha). Do this by clicking on small, medium or large (the sketch in this post is size medium, the post before was size small) it will say ‘The html code is now copied onto your clipboard’. Don’t go searching all around your computer for your clipboard though (like I did at first ) because all it means is, go to where you want to embed it, and push Ctrl+V and viola, it’s embbeded! Yay!
Hello! Sorry I haven’t been posting for, like, EVER, but I’ve just been so busy.
Recently I signed up to a site called Odosketch, where you can make your own sketches and publish them on your blog and other websites. I have done a few sketches, but a lot of them are a bit scribbly and terribly messy. It’s quite hard to do an absolutely brilliant picture using a mouse on a mousepad that moves around alot and nearly knocks the computer speaker off the desk. Seriously.
It musn’t be that hard for the amazing people who did the awesomely awesome sketches that are featured on the main page of the site though. I can’t believe that they did them on a computer. They are so detailed and so, awesome! Check them out for yourselves! Here is the link to the site >>>>>>Link!!!
Anyway, here is one of my better attempts at a sketch. As you can see, it is of a butterfly flying off a tree. The butterfly is a bit demunted-looking, but it is the best I did. All the other ones went triangular, or a bit squarish. One of them went really wrong, because the wing went straight through the butterfly’s body. Poor thing. I clicked the eraser button very frequently in the process of this picture. Anyway, I hope you like my sketch!
If you want to create your own sketches, go to the site and click ‘Start Sketching’ at the top of the page. However, if you want to save it and and put it on your website, you have to sign up, which is kinda sucky because when I created my first sketch, I didn’t realize that, so I had to go through all the signing up and waiting for the confirmation email business. It didn’t take very long, actually, but I just wanted to get on with it!
Hey guys! Sorry I haven’t been posting for ages, I’ve just been so busy with camp (which was REALLY fun) and I want to tell you about it but it isn’t going to be the subject of this post so I’m going to wait until I’ve loaded photos onto the computer, and until I can actually be bothered writing about it.
Well, anyway, what this post is going to be about is, of course, what the title says. I’m in Aussie! 2 days ago the school holidays started. I left school at lunchtime on Friday, the last day of the term, and mum, dad and I drove to the airport. We went on an Air New Zealand plane, and on the way over I watched Mr Popper’s Penguins, which was really funny. When we got there, we collected the bags, and I scored a ride on the luggage trolley out to the carpark. We’re staying with my aunty Ann-Maree and uncle Adrian in Melbourne. The reason we came over is for my cousin Lindsay’s 21st. That was last night, but I’m still staying until next Sunday. Actually, my dad is staying until Wednesday because of work, but mum and I are staying on until the following Sunday. My mum’s cousin Jo Anne is also over here. Yesterday mum, Anne-Maree, Jo Anne and I went shopping at the Melboune mall. We call it the eternal mall, because it nearly goes on forever. It takes at least 10 minutes to walk from one end to the other! I got a magazine, Smiggle pens, and a nintendo game. It was $70 down to $10, and it was half price so I got it for $5! Yay! And that night was the 21st, which I got bored at but I liked the chicken burritos!
Today we went down to the Victoria Markets, and I got a cool jacket, a cool blue watch with a heart on it and a pack of 12 koala toys for my friends for $2.50! Tomorrow mum, dad and I are all going down to my aunty Brigid’s house. She lives about an hour out of Melbourne so we’re going to stay with her until Wednesday, and dad will fly home and mum and I will go back to Anne-Maree’s house until Sunday. Some other activities we have planned include going down to St Kilda’s and going to Luna Park and we’ll bring the camera this time ( last time I was in Melbourne we went to Luna Park but we completely forgot the camera!) We also might go to the beach, which will be fun because I like going to the beach! Yay!
I am going to have an absolutely great time and I can’t wait to tell all of my friends about ot when I come back!!!
Hello! This is for the Student Blogging Challenge, Challenge 2. This is a quiz testing your skills on Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Enjoy it! Leave a comment letting me know how you did! Good luck!
My avatar is a picture of my cat Billie. I have explained about her in another post of mine and on my About Me page, and I will do so again! So, this will be the trillionth time I’ve told this story, but here I go! When my uncle Stephen died he left behind a lot of things, including a cat called Billie. She was pretty much orphaned, but we had no choice, we had to take her. Well, there was another choice, but that was for her to be sedated, put in a car with a jumpy dog that gets overexcited way too easily for 5 hours, and go and live with the dog and 3 other cats. I wonder which one she would choose.
She has been living at our house for just over a year now. She came on the 5th of September last year, so we made that her birthday, or her coming- to-our- house day! This year we got her a special Fancy Feast dinner – turkey flavour!
So that is what my avatar picture is of, and how my cat came to our house!
For homework we had to write about somewhere in New Zealand that we would recommend Rugby World Cup visitors to visit, and I chose Kaikoura.
I recommend Kaikoura because it is a beautiful place, with great views. It is a rugged coastal town, with lots to offer to visitors from around New Zealand and overseas. It is known for its crayfish, because heaps are caught around there. During the day, you can go for a walk through town, and stop at one of the nearby cafes or restaurants, and have a drink. You can stay the night at one of the many great accomadation choices Kaikoura has to offer.
One place I recommend you stay at is Kaikoura Top 10 Holiday park. I stayed there with my family when we went down. It was great! You can choose from a Self Contained Unit, Ensuite Unit, Park Motel, a Studio Unit (what we stayed in) or a Campground where you can park your caravan or set up a few tents. There is a Games room, Conference room, Jumping Pillow (which is really fun!) Playground, and a pool. There is also Wireless internet, so you can set up your laptop or pay 2 dollars per 20 minutes or something like that, for the computers in the Games room.
For dinner, I recommend Robbie’s bar and bistro. They make really yummy food ( and I accidentally knocked the lolly machine there and a whole lot of m&m’s fell out). I had spaghetti bolognaise there, and it was so filling, but delicious, but of course I had just enough room for ice-cream! A really great restaurant.
Here are 3 activities I recommend you doing:-
1. Whale watch Kaikoura. A 2 hour long boat ride led by whale experts that tell you where whales might appear, at what time of day, their movements, and some amazing facts about whales. When you reach the right spot, they stop the boat and you can go outside onto the deck, and go on top of the boat if it’s not too rough and take photos. Once you get used to the boat, you can lean on the side of the boat while the boat moves along which is so fun. When I went, I saw one humpback whale, a pod of Bottlenose dolphins, 2 albatrosses and a seal. It was really great.
2. Albatross Encounter. I didn’t do this one, but we were considering it because it looked really great. You go on a boat 15 minutes off the coast of Kaikoura, and you can experience Albatrosses and maybe some other magnificent ocean going birds, like petrels and shearwaters.
3.Kaikoura snorkeling tours. I didn’t do this one either but it looks really great. It offers you a unique experience, led by tour guides, of exploring the underwater world of Kaikoura’s peninsula. You can learn how to catch paua, crayfish, or spear a butterfish, and, afterwards, enjoy a BBQ taste of your own days catch.
Kaikoura means Crayfish food, or food crayfish or something like that because Kai means food, and koura means crayfish.
Kaikoura is a lovely place and I really think you should visit it.
Hi there! This is a persuasive writing post about why bullying is bad and reasons why it has to stop.
There are lots of reasons why people bully. They might be having a hard time at home, is being bullied themselves, jealous of you, you do things different to them, your culture, your family, the way you dress, there are many reasons. But whatever that reason is, it has to stop. Here are my reasons why bullying has to stop.
Firstly, it can nearly ruin the life of the person being bullied. It could make them confused, self-conscious, worried, scared, offended, insulted, uncomfortable, threatened, and lots more. It could make them scared to come to school each day, waking up each morning with the fear of being teased and harrassed. It can affect their learning. It can isolate them from other people, making it much harder later on in life. It can badly injure them, if they are being physically bullied. Signs of physical bullying are being punched, kicked, pinched, hit, slapped, smacked etc;. It can make the person feel lonely, down, torn up to pieces and ruined.
Secondly, sometimes, bullying is encouraged. Everybody stands around the bully and its victim, shouting “Hit him, hit him.” Or “Fight! Fight!” and “Go! Knock her out!” Hardly ever has anybody shouted out “Stop! Knock it OFF!” instead. It you are ever in a situation like this, instead of standing around watching, do something! If you feel safe enough, go up to the bully and tell them to stop what they are doing to the poor person they are bullying. Otherwise, walk away, and tell the others to do the same (this will take away the bully’s power and audience). Support the person being bullied, it will make them feel just a little bit better knowing that somebody is on their side. Tell them you will go with them to tell somebody, or report the bullying for them. So remember, take a stand and don’t join in.
Thirdly, it just MEAN! I mean, imagine what it feels like being teased every day, and being ignored and left out of everything. If it has never happened to you, it will probably be hard to imagine how bad it really is. If it has, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Millions of people all over the world experience this everyday, tearing them up into little pieces on the floor. If you’re being bullied, do something and tell someone, don’t just curl up into a ball! You might feel like doing just that, but it isn’t going to change anything if you do. If you run off crying or are getting affected, try not to. Usually, the bully is only there to put you down and get a reaction out of you. If you ignore the situation and just give them the cold shoulder when they try to do something mean and nasty, they will eventually stop because they will get tired of bullying you for no reason if you ignore them.
So there are my reasons why bullying is bad and why it has to stop. I hope you have been given some tips on what to do as well. Oh, and if you are a bully, STOP IT NOW!
Hello everybody! Sorry I haven’t been posting for ages, two weeks ago the holidays ended and it’s now week three of Term 2! My holidays were average, nothing much really happened. I had a few friends over, I went to Charlotte’s birthday party and saw Rio in 3D, and my cat, Billie, threw up on the stairs and I stood in it, and that was really disgusting! Week one of school: School and stuff. Week two of shool: School and stuff & school cross country (boohoowah) In the cross country I made it into the interschools, and in about an hour or two, I’m going to the domain to run. Grrrrrrrrr. Oh well. Um, nothing else to report, I just hope you all had a great holidays!
Hello! Here is a random list of things that it’d be wise not doing! Don’t make my mistakes -
Never brush your teeth while holding a cat, I accidentally spat on my cat’s foot. ( Billie ended up licking the toothpaste off, and she didn’t like it very much, I could tell by the disgusted scowl on her face!!!)
Never put a starburst lolly in coke, when I did that, one half stuck to the bottom of the cup, and the other half broke up into lots of little pieces and floated around making it look really yucky.
Never jump on a trampoline directly after eating. I found this out when I ate a lot, then jumped, and I felt terribly sick afterwards!
Never have cornflakes after garlic bread. It’s disgustingly gross. ‘Nuff said.
Never go out an entry with those sticky-out things ( like in supermarkets ) that only go one way for trolleys ( which is IN! ). I saw somebody from school and went in to talk to them, but they walked off somewhere else so I went back out to Mum who was talking to a friend she had bumped into. Wrong thing to do. My very large bruise from the one way sticky-out supermarket trolley-entry things was on the side of my left leg for two weeks. THE PAIN!!!
Never run around a corner. Once I did, and I bumped into somebody and we both got huge bumps that were there for days!
Never dive into a shallow part at a rocky beach. I dived in once and a sharp rock cut my tummy and it really REALLY hurt! The cut was there for ages and when it finally cleared up it left a big scar that I still have now!
Well there you go! My random list of things not to do.
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