Rollercoaster

A few days agoMr Picketts took the class downstairs to watch rollercoasters of the 12 graders ( I wasn`t there) I didin`t see the projects but my friends told me about them. From what they told me I thought they were really elaborated. The themes they told me they were about are: Candy, a city, and christmas. I don´t know who won but I bet that the highest one did. the people are always amazed with the biggest rollercoaster. I would like to do that when I am in twelve grade. I wish I saw the rollercoasters from what I heard.

Christmas

This Christmas I did many fun and amazing things. The first week I invited friends to my house. We played Xbox, ate, and then skated. One day I went to skate with two friends and I learned how to jump four stairs. i hurt myself when I fell but it was worth it. that same week, some friends came from Macalen to visit us. They always rent an apartment near ours so I can visit often. We made plans and went to placeds they didin't know. One of the place we went was Splash. This is a water park where we rode all the water slides. The rest pof the week we just played videogames and watch tv.

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In the Second week my family and I were getting ready for Christmas eve. We decorated the entire house. We created a little village with houses and people. It took as many time and effort to cover the whole house. After this I went to the movie theatre with my Friend Ernie to wach the movies Avatar. I thought it was one of the best movies of the year. Christmas came and as all the previous years we went to my mom's friend's house . many friends where in her house and we talked for hours and later on we ate. the food was amazing when I was finished I was about to explode. At 12:00 the gifts were given. I got two videogames, a shirt and a skateboard.

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The next day the daughter of my mom's friend came with all her friends from London. we went to the beach with them and played volleyball. New Year's party was coming and we had to know where we were going to celebrate it. We found out that our friends were going to Velas(hotel) so we decided to go there. The party was awsome, there was good music and food. Everything was going right Until a firework exploded and struck a man and his daughter. They were both translated to the hospital even do the injuries were not severe. When the New Year started I was really preocupated because I needed to finish my homework. I made my science project but I was to lazy to make the english one. time passed it was Monday, I had one day. So I grabbed my computer and finished it In 1 hour.this was all the things I did in my Christmas vacations.http://thestartingfive.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/new-year-fireworks-hk.jpg

reflection of Fransisco

Today at miss Fenton's class a man called Fransisco came to talk to us about his experience as an American soldier in Iraq. He started to talk about how he entered to the Citadel ( University) and about himself for the situations he would experience.

Me

Hi I am Raul and I live in Puerto Vallarta. You are wondering "What place is that?" Puerto Vallarta is in Mexico and its near the Pacific Ocean. I like the beach and I practice Wakeboarding. This is a sport known in many countries and its similar to snowboard but it is done on the sea. My favorite sport is soccer. I've played it all my life. Every recess, the boys gather to play a soccer game. A few minutes ago we were playing. Another thing I do most of the weekends is go to the movies. I always call some friends and go to the movie theater to see the new releases.

I also love to play videogames. I could spend all my day playing Halo 3 ( Wich I don't) I play for one hour or two maximum. I really enjoy music of any kind ( Except Heavy Metal) I spend one fourth of my day listening to my Ipod. I don't know how to play an instrument but next week I am going to take classes of guitar. I want to know how to play it so I can participate in the Talent Show next year.

I measure 5,5 and have black hair. One of my favorite tv shows is Two and a Half men. I think that they are great actors and actresses. A hobbie I have is looking at videos with my friends. Youtube is the best web page there is. I even made an account to have my own videos. I don't use the computer much except for facebook and youtube. This are the things I like and do so I hope you enjoyed it and learned more about me.

listening

All the project I heard today were well done. They all had the time necessary that was 90 seconds. What I liked about the projects is that they had a variety of sounds. Some of them were from the Internet and others from sounds they made. what I didn't like is that some of them were really repetitive. I also didn't like that the sounds they did were too close to the microphone and they sounded bad

effects

In my project I used several types of sound effects. One of them is changing the speed. I used this effect to make a fast sound match a slow one. I also used the repeating effect many times. About 50 percent of my project had the repeating effect. The last a effect I used was fade out. I used it at the beginning of the song when the next sound was approaching. This where the only sound effects I used in my audacity project. This has been the best music assignment I have done in this class

audacity reflection

I really liked this project we did about sounds made by ourselves. It took me many classes to find a good beat that matched with the others but at last the song was a success. This project was a challenge for me because most of the sounds I needed had to be done by me. I think that it was a good idea to do our own sounds so we don`t have to depend so much on the technology. Most of my sounds were made by my mouth and only a few were from the internet and by making noise with things. The time Mr Mark gave us was enough to finish the song and the video. The only thing I do not100% is that it has to have a duration of 90 seconds. This was my reflection of this great project about audacity.