Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Eva's Life Story A Story of a Holocost Surviver

On October 26 there was an interesting speech that was spoken by a Holocaust survivor of 1939-1945.

Eva Olsson was a Holocaust survivor and is now speaking to thousands of people teaching them all about the Holocaust and what it did to the people. At the beginning of her speech she told us not to ever us the word hate but rather us the word dislike. She had also told us that there is no difference between a bully and a spectator. If you are a spectator and you are watching a bully bullying someone you are just like another bully. Because instead of stopping the bully you watch and let the bully hurt the person.

From the beginning the near end Eva talked about what it was like living in the Holocaust and how bad it was. She told us that when they were going to be working at the factory which the Nazi lied about. Lots of people were gust standing on the side of the railroad being spectators as they boarded the train. Just like if it were a Santa clause parade. On the ride of the train Eva said that they were so compacted that no one could sit down so they had to stand for two days straight. She said that lots of people died in the train because there was very little oxygen moving through the carts.


In Eva Olsson's speech she said that she had lost her mother and father during the Holocaust and that she never got to say how much she loved them. I think that the Holocaust was very bad and wrong and that it should never be done again. Something that surprises me is how at the time no one new about what the Germans were doing to the Jewish people.


In this blog I talked about the Holocaust survivor that gave a speech on October 26 and how it moved me while she spoke.
By: Marcus Engel



Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Norval Trip

On monday the middle school classes went on a field trip that was at Norval a camp that is owned by the school UCC.

Things that I think that my group did bad was the amount of turns that each person got to have. In the amount of time that we got to play at the low ropes we didn't use the time effectively. One example was when our teacher was telling us to stop talking but we didn't and so we wasted time to figure out the problem by not letting her explain. My group was one of the crazy groups just fooling around. The people that were in my group was Jordan, Hannah, Alex, Lindsey, Saski,Tyler,Aleda,Emilie.V and myself.  

Somethings that I think that we did well in was our idea list. My group did well in thinking of different ideas for the situation. For every situation each person got to say their opinion on what we should do to accomplish our goal. Our first task was to get a tire over a tall 10 foot log But we couldn't use any supplies or tools from the forest. The first idea was Aleda's and it was to make a pyramid out of the people that we had. We had put the large people on the bottom and the smaller people at the top. Fortunately this first great idea did not work.

 The next task was to walk across a wire from tree to tree with only a short rope for support on the way there. For a little while we got on and tried different things to get across but soon we thought of using each other to help other people who were on the thin wire. Our idea was the very front person would have to go across with no help to the next tree. Once there they would pass the rope to the next person. Meanwhile the second person would be passing the rope to the third person.

Thank you for reading this Blog and it was about the middle school going to the camp Norval.    

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

how cloths shape a person

I think that cloths shape a person because the way that you are dressed shows your personality.

One reason how it shapes or makes a person is if you see a man and what he is wearing is a cow boy hat a pare of jeans and has a shirt on you kinda want to think that he is a cowboy right. Or what if you saw a guy on the street and his clothes on are dirty and ripped or are not taken care of then you start to think that it is a homeless person or is a person that can not afford the money to clean or to change into another pare.  

Now let's stop talking about the homeless or the pure and move on. Lets say your at a printing company or any other sort of company. You are in the back where there are not as many offices as there are in the front. But you look at the people and what they are wearing ,and you notes that the people are not as fashionable. They are more in rough  clothes because they mite get dirty with paint or some ink or some dust.

Another reason why I think that clothes make or shape a man is what he is wearing mite change his or her personality. If you were to take a man and put some clothes from a pirate and put it on him he mite change his personality to a pirates personality. It's like watching the TV show bugs bunny. There is this one episode that bugs bunny is always changing hats and every hat he gets the personality of the hat changes his. 

So thats my answer on the question (Does Clothes Shape a Man)