I love this video! I love the guys in it! Go marines!
Isobel
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Bob Marley
Ahhhhh! Love him! His songs are so cool! Here are some of my favorites (with links)!
Three Little Birds - Link
Buffalo Solider - Link
One Love - Link
Redemption Song - Link
Waiting in Vain - Link
Some information about him:
Bob Marley was born on Feb. 6, 1945 and died on May 11, 1981. He was a Jamaican reggae singer, who sung about social issues in his homeland. He was half black and half white, and his dad died when he was ten. He smoked weed and he belonged to the Rastafari movement (a religion that was a key element in reggae music.) He had twelve children, three with his wife Rita, two adopted from Rita's previous relationships and seven more with seven other women. He died of cancer when it spread through his body. He was on his way to his home, Jamaica , but he died in Miami. He died with his son Ziggy at age 36. His final words to Ziggy were "Money can't buy life."
I personally think he is very inspiring and that you should be constantly listening to him.
Isobel
P.S. Iris named her cat after him!!!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Kid Cudi
I am now into Kid Cudi. He is like a rapper, but he isn't a vain and really popular, he is kind of weird and awesome. Here are my favorite songs of his:
Isobel
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Awesome logo secrets
Each of these logos has a weird thing about it. Find all of them, and leave the answers in the comments for superiority among your fellow readers! Answers will be posted soon.
1. FedEx
Find the arrow.
2. Amazon
What does the arrow mean besides a smiley face? (think hard.)
3. Cisco
Name two meanings for the bridge here.
4. Tostitos
What is the "i"?
click here for the original article. (spoiler alert!!!)
-Iris
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sick!
Hello peoples!
I am so sorry I haven't been able to post lately.
I am so sorry I haven't been able to post lately.
Today, I am sick. I feel awful. I cannot say a sentence without coughing up my guts. I haven't gone to school for the past two days. I am sneezing constantly and I am miserable. On the bright-side I get to watch lots of fun movies! On Sunday I watched "The Bourne Identity", It was amazing! On Monday I watched Marie Antoinette for the fourth time, it was fantastic! Today I plan to watch Nemo, The Lion King, The Bourne Supremacy or something else. Well, I have to go take I shower... ugh. Goodbye!
Isobel
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Ski week
Well, so far ski week has been a total UN-success because the good part of the whole week has been spent with me having an earache, fever and really bad cold so I can't even enjoy it! The one good thing that has happened so far (and vacation's going to be over on Monday,) is that all the weather forecasts say that it's going to snow so much that there will be 1" in the financial district tomorrow morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! (I realize that sounds really pitiful to people everywhere else in the country, but dude, I live in California. Not once have I seen snow within a 2-hour drive of where I live.) So anyways, apparently this big nation-wide storm is going to hit where I live! Wowzers! There hasn't been as much snow as the forecasts tell of in 40 years. Extremely exciting though it is; it's got to make you feel bad about global warming. (If you don't already know that global warming makes extreme weather on both sides of the thermometer, you need to do your homework.) However, this storm was supposed to have started yesterday, which it very much DID NOT, so I am not setting my expectations too high. But it's going to snow, and I haven't seen snow in over 5 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Iris
Thursday, February 10, 2011
So you want to learn Chinese
我 叫 漠 如 思。我 十 一 岁 了。我 一 家 有 四 口 人。我 妈 吗，我 爸爸，我 妹妹，和 我。
Yes, my secret talent has been revealed. I speak (not fluent) Chinese!!! Yay me!
The best part is that you too can master this foreign language. My chinese teacher has created an entire database of flash cards for every single lesson for every single grade that she teaches. They can all be accessed by clicking this link.
Unless you already know the basics, you should start by clicking "Textbook 1" in the menu, then selecting "00 Pinyin." Pinyin is like the Chinese alphabet. (Totally separate from characters; those are all memorization!) It's simply a pronunciation key for characters. They have the same letters, but entirely different sounds. B is like "booah", Q is like "chee," and so on. Listen to the alphabet song, it's very helpful.
Anyways, all the lessons other than 00 Pinyin have a link that says "Flash Cards." Click it, and take the multiple choice quiz on the front page, then click "Study." Trust me, this will all make a lot more sense once you try it!
The flash cards show a character at the top. Write this character on a piece of paper, then write what you think is the pinyin, then the meaning. Click "Show answer" and see if you were right! Once you get through all the cards, try again! This time click "Reverse cards" and read the pinyin and meaning and write the character!
Of course I also use textbooks and worksheets and what-not, but this is a good start! So try it!
-Iris
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