How Has Traveling Affected You? By Shayna Quessy

     Traveling has affected me in such way that it is now a part of me. How has traveling affected you? Traveling can affect you in good or bad ways by good or bad events. It made me want to travel more, helped and made me want to learn about other cultures and finally made me understand what life was all about.

    Traveling is a part of me. The first time I took the plane I was only a baby. Some time later when I could remember taking the plane and going to France, I was fascinated. Thinking that we live in a big city, a big town but it actually is so small ,for we live in such a big world. When I was young, I wanted to travel the whole world and see all that life could offer. Since then I dream of traveling, of going all over the world. The effects of taking the plane and going to France was huge; it made me want to travel and made me see the world in a whole different way. People sometimes ask you where would you want to go the most in the whole world? Well ,I, for one would have trouble answering that question, there are so many places you could go. This the way that travelling has affected me, the fact that I would have trouble choosing when you could go so many places.

   We are all different, different cultures, faith, traditions and such. Traveling has made me aware of the cultures in the world, the different traditions or the different kind of food. It has helped me learn that we all have our differences and that we aren't all that different at the same time. When I travel, I look forward to meeting new people or learning new things about the way of life for other people all around the world. Traveling has taught me that we all deserve the same rights no matter where we come from, it has inspired me to learn more about the cultures all around the world.

   Life, whats the point of life if we live to die and die to live? Well life is about taking chances, living your life to the fullest with many different experiences. We want to be free to run around wild and happy and to get the best memories ever.  Traveling is one thing i'll look back on when i'll be older. I'll look back when i'm older and wonder why I never went there, there or there. That's what traveling has taught me, it has taught me that the things you are most afraid to do are usually the most worthwile. I used to be scared to take the plane on my own, but now I know that I can live my experiences of my own and they will be the ones I will remember & cherish the most.

In conclusion, traveling can teach you many things only if you let it. Traveling can affect you in good or bad ways ,but I can only see the good ways it has affected me. Traveling has affected me by the way that I now want to travel more, that I now
 want to learn about different cultures and has helped me see what life was truley about.

Is Homework Worth It? By Thomas Canning

 In most, if not all schools, students are assigned homework. And you probably already know that the students don't like homework. Question is, is it actually worth it? In my opinion, I think that homework can be useless. Especially after a 6 hour school day. Teachers. Imagine this: you get home from school, the most horrid school day in a while. You're tired. You're exhausted. And you just want to go to bed. But you can't. You have hours of work to do. That's how students feel.

According to UVAToday, studies show that homework has little or no effect, but can also help to standardize grades. In my opinion, homework is a pain in the butt. But I also think that it can help us to memorize important elements that could show up in an exam or test. More statistics show that only 50% of parents think that homework is worthwhile. It might seem like a lot, but that means that the other half disagree with homework being worthwhile.

How ever, I do think that bringing technology to homework can make it more interesting for the student to work on. Take our school for an example. In the past three years that I've been here, we've been using more and more technology in our classes. Our school has done a very good job to introduce technology to students with online programs to remind them about upcoming events or homework to hand in.  

In conclusion, I think homework isn't really useful unless studying for an upcoming test or exam. Although I think that homework can sometimes be useless, I think there's a way for teachers to make it interesting. They just need to figure it out.

PEOPLE ARE DYING WAKE UP! Camille Tremblay

      DYING! DISASTER! HELP! POOR PEOPLE! WAKE UP! People need our help. People are dying, some people are living in a disaster, while some others are poor, some people are praying to God for our help. What do you need more to wake up and realize that on Earth people are struggling to stay alive? Do all this need to happend to you before you get up and try to change the world or to help people in need?

       We are suppose to be a united world and help each other. Why is this not happening? You guys don't want to help others because they don't have your last name or again you don't know them but hey you guys that just sit there and say the world needs to change or people are dying stop saying it and start doing what you say! Think of it people if you guys are in danger and you know that people know your in danger you would want them to help you so why aren't you doing it for them? The colours the religion the countries isn't a good excuse not to help them we all have hearts at the end. There's a 13 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan that was shot by the Taliban because she stood up for education for women. She influence a lot of people by standing up. There's a lot of singers that make songs about our world and how it should be. It's their way to say their opinion to the world. You need to find your way for helping people. If everyone would give food, cloths or would do a good move for other people that are struggling to stay alive maybe one day we would be a united world like we are suppose to be! Don't count on others to help others count on you and only you! 

      Are you waiting for all this to happen to you before doing something about our world? Think about it if in your country there would be people getting killed, injustice, poverity, unfairness, and haters! You would definately want people to stand up for you and to help you go through hard moments. You would think about all the people sitting on their sofa and watching TV and you would just pray and pray for one person to tell the world that on our planet there is people that need our help well I will make your dream come true right now! I hope after reading my blog you will close your TV and start thinking on how you can help the world. This is our future people so think about your decisions!

        I hope my blog changed your minds and I hope I made you realize how people need badly our help. We are all humans we NEED to help other humans, race, colours, religion, cultures, and languages, isn't a problem we all have so we should help the people in need.