tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56789063656535936582024-03-13T04:06:20.142-07:00School blogRia Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-75501715072484332382013-06-19T14:24:00.005-07:002013-06-19T14:27:19.183-07:00Dead Poets Society Book Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Neil Perry,
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prep school. A new English teacher starts working at Welton and shocks everyone
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2. The Ruins of the Tartu Toomkirik.</div>
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The legend says that while building, the church kept sinking in the ground, or the walls would fall every evening. So the builders went to the town and and brought the towns most ignorant girl to the construction site, and they walled her in the church. So one day every year the girl comes back to life and has a chance to escape, by capturing someone walking by and changing places with them. Now, I just can't remember the day in which she was supposed to come back to life, so if you'r afraid of being walled in, I would actually not suggest going there :).</div>
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This is part of the <a href="http://www.studentdays.ee/en">Spring Student days</a>. This is a competition held over Emajõgi (It's a river that flows through Tartu). The participants have to build motorless flying machines, and attempt to cross the river. This is the 9th year this competition is held, no one has crossed the river yet. On a brighter note, no one has drowned yet either.</div>
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4. Light a candle to in memory of the victims of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi">operation Priboi</a>.</div>
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In the memory of the victims the town centre is filled with candles. It is the most gorgeous and sad scene I have ever seen.</div>
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5. Experience free Wi-Fi almost everywhere.</div>
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It really is a shock for an Estonian to go abroad and realize you can't exactly expect free wifi in every cafe or public park. In Estonia even some public forests have free Internet access. I am not kidding, you can literally check your email in the middle of nowhere.</div>
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6. Sing (or hum or something) along at the Punk song festival</div>
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Estonians are crazy about their song festivals. There even is a movie made called "The Singing Revolution". It is shown to about every single foreigner in Estonia. I have seen it about 5-6 times. Now, Estonians can't make movies. They just turn out seriously boring. Therefore, I have not only seen the movie 6 times, I have also fallen asleep mid movie every single one of those times. I do have a foggy memory that it has something to do with the strength of Estonians and how they stuck to their traditions even throughout the soviet union.</div>
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Getting back to the topic. The punk song festival is just the perfect way of flipping off to the formalness and the officialness of the traditional song festival. However, this doesn't take place in Tartu (which is also why the title says 5 things). But, you won't find anything quite like this anywhere. </div>
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Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-83259500315741409362013-05-20T14:33:00.001-07:002013-05-20T14:33:45.557-07:00The "What's in the Jar" ProjectIn the English lessons of the last few months, we have been organizing a event to raise money for a charity.<br />
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The first thing we had to to was to individually find a charity we wanted to support, then, in groups, we had to choose upon the best and make a PowerPoint presentation on it. The charity I chose was <a href="http://www.refugee-action.org.uk/">Refugee Action</a>. Once we were put in groups we chose the <a href="http://www.ymcabc.org.uk/index-1152.html">YMCA Black Country group</a> (proposed by Alicia) as our favorite. We did a short but informative PowerPoint and presented it in class.<br />
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We also had to think of activities to do in order to raise money. We agreed on doing a orienteering race. At the night before the presentation I thought of the idea of filling a jar of candy and having people pay for guessing the amount in order to win all of the candy. I added my idea to the PowerPoint at the last minute and with discussing it with my group. Luckily they were OK with it, especially since it was voted as the best activity.<br />
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In the actual execution of the idea, I had little part. I carried a table, and basically that was it. However there were many things we had to do before the day of the lottery. We had to do things such as: Designing, printing and putting up posters, buying the candy and counting it(well, I participated in the counting), writing a formal letter to the principal and setting up the area of the lottery.<br />
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As YMCA Country Group is English we would have had to put the money on someones bank account and send it to them Since that would have been way too annoying, we decided to give the money to a local Caritas.<br />
The event went well and we had many guessers. We made more than 100 euros. I really liked this project, and I would be glad to do something similar again.Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-59690674581012991592013-02-25T08:00:00.000-08:002013-03-09T04:14:50.429-08:00My AbilityI chose painting as my best ability.<br />
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I started painting in August 2012. I have always been able to draw but painting has seemed impossible, but now I have completely changed my mind.<br />
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I practice painting whenever I have the time. Which I am guessing to be a hour of painting per a hour of waiting for paint to dry.<br />
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I currently love painting, but I have no other use other than entertainment for it. I don't think I will be painting professionally, since there are almost no jobs available for artists.<br />
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Usually people are very impressed by my work, especially since I paint on a very small surface. My mom is very proud of my skill (unlike me) and keep telling everybody about it.<br />
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I love painting as a hobby which I want to continue and improve in the future.<br />
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Here are some photos of my creations:<br />
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Okayokayokay, none of these are paintings. While browsing the pictures of stuff I have painted, I realized thet the nails look the best. See more at <a href="http://brushmeblush.blogspot.com/">brushmeblush.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
<br />Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-18551826305378741842013-01-07T14:02:00.001-08:002013-03-06T13:21:46.750-08:00My Christmas HolidayI spent my holidays in Estonia. The weather was freezing (-30 degrees) and the snow was up to my knees. Awesome. I also have loads of pictures from this trip and I plan to show you some. Traditionally the whole family gets together during Christmas. So I would like to introduce them to you.<br />
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This is my one year old cousin. Her name is Hanna. Me my aunt and my other cousin took about 400 pictures of her. Here is another one</div>
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She is a total TV addict, in this picture the TV had just been turned off. She was in despair and kept exclaiming: GONE in the saddest little voice.</div>
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Here is a picture of me and another cousin of mine. His name is Robert, he is usually called Bob. He is five, and adores everything related to cars. He is generally really photogenic but I got some shots that stated otherwise.</div>
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This is Bob's mother called Maarja. She took most of the pictures I am using in this post.<br />
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This is a picture of my grandmother. Sadly the only picture of her is when she is thinking. So she looks kind of sad.<br />
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Here is the only picture where you can see my grandfather. I was feeling Cinderella-ie so I was helping in the kitchen (which explains the towel).<br />
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Here you can see (from left to right) the mother of Hanna and the girlfriend of my uncle: Anna-Liisa, my uncle: Urmas , another uncle of mine: Andres and Bob. We were going sledging with the whole family.<br />
Here are some pictures from the sledging trip:<br />
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I had a wonderful Christmas and I hope you liked my post about it!<br />
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<br />Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-36989924399605728782012-12-16T13:47:00.001-08:002012-12-16T13:47:17.529-08:00Christmas and New Years in Estonia This entry is written for an English class. I am going to talk about the way Estonians celebrate Christmas and New Years eve.<br />
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In Estonia the Christmas season starts on the first advent when the children put up Christmas stockings. Most kids also have advent calendars which start on the first advent and end on Christmas day. Families bring Christmas trees to their homes and decorate them.<br />
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In Estonia Christmas day is on the 24th December. Christmas is usually celebrated with families. In the evening there is a huge feast which includes traditional Christmas foods like: Gingerbread, black pudding, headcheese, mandarin oranges (I have no idea why), sauerkraut, mulled wine and a lot of non traditional foods. After eating people gather around the Christmas tree to open presents. In exchange for the gifts the receiver has to preform something (sing a song, recite a poem etc.).<br />
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Estonians celebrate New Years with watching and letting off fireworks at midnight, and drinking champagne. Often people also make new years resolutions. In my family it is a tradition to do a collage of our wishes for the next year.<br />
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These traditions are quite similar to the ones in other countries in northern Europe, but the Spanish traditions are very different.<br />
<br />Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-59657374685561807382012-12-11T10:13:00.003-08:002012-12-11T11:20:01.212-08:00My movie making experienceThis year me and a group of my friends made a scary movie for halloween.<br />
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The story begins when 6 friends go out drinking in a graveyard. Then one of the friends laughs at a tombstone and becomes possessed.<br />
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In the next scene the friends go to see her at her house. They are greeted by her mom. When the friends get to her room Blanca (the possessed girl) is sitting on her bed staring into nothing. The friends go to say hello but Blanca grabs a knife and tries to kill them. One of the girls hides herself in a closet. She sees a note in there by Blanca's mother. The note explains that the mom is a demon and Blanca is adopted so she could posses her with her real daughter's soul. Maria (the girl in the closet) escapes the house and invites a priest to exorcise Blanca.<br />
In the next scene Maria is being cornered by the mom and Blanca who are trying to kill her. The priest (me) arrives and throughs Maria a cross to protect herself. Maria stabs the mom with the cross and plans to do the same to Blanca. But the priest takes the cross from her hands and stabs it into Blanca's heart.<br />
Blanca wakes up from her possession. The soul goes from Blanca to the priest. The priest becomes possessed and jumps out the window to kill the spirit.<br />
In the last scene the girls are in the funeral of their friends. They walk to the grave and see the priest. They freak out, and the priest says that he is immortal (yes, I was in the role of a man).<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVLRoRo1kK8&feature=player_embedded">Click on this link to see the movie.</a><br />
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The movie was really fun to make. The only problem that we had was that we had to meet on three days. On the first day camera's battery died. On the second day we brought 3 cameras and rechargers and batteries, still ran out of energy and light.Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-61439288745828328222012-11-26T01:11:00.004-08:002012-11-26T01:13:39.025-08:00Happy ThanksgivingIt is thanksgiving and I would like to say thanks to my family, my health, my home and food.<br />
First of all I would like to thank my family for always being there to support me. They have celebrated with me during good times and comforted me during the bad times. Especially I would like to thank my mom who has not only been a great parent, but also a good friend.<br />
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I am also very thankful for my health. There are a lot of people my age that have fatal diseases.When I was 8 the doctors found a irregular mole on my body. They thought it would develop into a tumor so it had to be removed by surgery. For me the danger of a tumor has passed, but the scars remind me to be thankful for every day of life that I get.
I am very thankful to the basic but important things in life like food and a home. Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-27260641841052875852012-11-18T02:15:00.000-08:002012-11-18T02:15:34.789-08:00English music projectI recently did another project in an English class. the mission was to choose a song and find pictures that describe the song. The song we chose was "White Sparrows" by Billy Talent. So here are the pictures with descriptions.
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In this picture you can see a man crying at a funeral. This
picture describes the song perfectly because in the song the
singers lover dies. The black and white colors emphasize the
sadness of the picture. I think that this picture is very dramatic,
moving, and powerful.
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In this picture you can see that two persons are holding their
hands in the rain. The relation with the song is that the singer
says that he was holding the hand of his girl while they were
trying to shelter from the rain. I think that the picture is really
moving, powerful and romantic in his context.
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Here we can see a white sparrow in the ground who want
to fly. The relation with the song is that these sparrows fell
from heaven and carried the girl away away. I like this photo
because it is very spontaneous and it is very beautiful.
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In this photo we can see an eclipse over the clouds, in the
left part we can see a dark side and in the right we can see a
colorful side. The relation with the song is that it express the
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Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-23637030005391914502012-06-01T08:46:00.001-07:002012-06-01T08:46:50.362-07:00London 2012Here are the Spanish representers of Basketball, Boxing, Equestrian, Judo, Taekwondo and trampoline in this years olympic games:
Basketball
Spain's men basketball team qualified for the event by reaching the final of the EuroBasket 2011.
Men's team event – 1 team of 12 players
Boxing
Spain has qualified boxers for the following events
Men's light flyweight (–49 kg) – José Kelvin de la Nieve
Men's light welterweight (–64 kg) – Jonathan Alonso
Equestrian
Dressage
Spain has qualified one team and three individual quota places after finishing in fifth place at the 2011 European Dressage Championship.
Team event – one team of three riders
Individual – 3 quota places
Judo
Men's −66 kg – Sugoi Uriarte
Men's −73 kg – Kiyoshi Uematsu
Women's −48 kg – Oiana Blanco
Women's −52 kg – Ana Carrascosa
Women's −57 kg – Concepción Bellorín
Women's −70 kg – Cecilia Blanco
Taekwondo
Men's –58 kg – Joel González
Men's –80 kg – Nicolás García
Women's –49 kg – Brigitte YagüeRia Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-82092209715510398122012-05-23T06:38:00.000-07:002012-05-28T05:07:40.902-07:00interviewI made an interview with Birgit Õigemeel who is a Estonian singer. She is 23 years old. She has been she made her first album 4 years ago. Since then she has made 2 albums more.
Have you always wanted to become a singer?
Yes, I have been singing in a choir since i was 5 years old. That's whan I knew that I wanted to become a singer. I have also tried dacing but I am not verygood at it.
Does your skill for singing come naturaly or by practice?
I have always been good at singing but i have practiced a lot also. I ave had many teachers and i have sang in many competitions.
What makes you different from other singers?
For me it is important to give positive emotions to my fans. Even more important is to express my emotions in my singing. But I can't say what makes me different.
What kind of music do you listen to and who are your idols?
I have never had any idols. I listen to music according to my mood.
What are you planning to do in the future?
I am planning to keep singing or even start writing my own songs. I am sure that I want to stay in Estonia.
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Level:hard<br />
High-Low Shower is a trick where you juggle a small shower underneath a higher shower. These can be done with any number of balls, but this one is the easiest. <br />
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While juggling the regular 3-ball Shower, make one of your throws extra high. While it's in the air, make a small exchange underneath it. Continue alternating the high throw and the low throw.Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-65208947917815154542012-02-08T12:07:00.000-08:002012-02-08T12:09:34.164-08:00clawsecond trick : claw<br />
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Clawing is the act of catching a ball with your hand on top, by slapping down at the ball. Claws are used in many different tricks or can be used as a stand alone trick. <br />
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It's best to start out by clawing just one ball out of a 3-ball cascade. One ball is not hard, but it gets harder to do it on every throw. It's not the catch that makes it tough, it's the throw. To juggle the claw on every catch, you have to make all your throws from the claw position too, which takes some practice to get consistent.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://kingscascade.com/3BallClaw.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="250" width="200" src="http://kingscascade.com/3BallClaw.gif" /></a></div>Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-26137025688937111252012-02-08T12:04:00.000-08:002012-02-08T12:04:36.160-08:00yo-yo1-st trick : Yo-Yo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://kingscascade.com/3BallYoYo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="250" width="200" src="http://kingscascade.com/3BallYoYo.gif" /></a></div>Instructions: <br />
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This is a trick for people who can perform fake columns. Just lead one of the balls of your 2-in-one-hand with the held ball. Try to make your hand move in the exact manner and timing of the thrown ball. Make it look like you are pulling the thrown ball up with an invisible string.<br />
Level: easyRia Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-30069505822712468682012-01-26T06:10:00.001-08:002012-03-26T06:31:12.496-07:00Our experiences about ChinaI am going to talk about a group work in an English lesson. We had to choose a country and find information. We chose China.<br />
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China is a huge country located in Asia. China has the population of 1.2 billion people. That is about 1/5 of the worlds population. Most of the Chinese work in farms to produce enough food for the huge population of China. Chinese traditions are very interesting. China also has fantastic landscapes and various animal species.<br />
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The recipe we chose was Oriental Fried Rice. (link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnyrU4Z-QsA ).The ingredients were: rice , peas,sweet corn, bell pepper, onion, carrot, two eggs and soy sauce.First we chop the vegetables and mix the eggs with soy sauce. Then we fry the egg mixture. When the egg mixture is fried we added the vegetables and rice and cooked for 2 minutes.<br />
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This was a really interesting experience because we found out a lot about China. The recipe was easy to make and tasted great.Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-73900982670720969542012-01-23T13:38:00.000-08:002012-01-25T03:28:42.493-08:001000 cranes for peace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CcTThG0PLq8/Tx3PbruvpVI/AAAAAAAAABo/G666uUbWl5E/s1600/dcr0664l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="295" width="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CcTThG0PLq8/Tx3PbruvpVI/AAAAAAAAABo/G666uUbWl5E/s320/dcr0664l.jpg" /></a></div>Discriminating other peoples opinions<br />
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Everyone has their own opinion but mostly these opinions are not shared with others due to the fear of judgement. A lot of people don’t care about other people’s opinions, because they are sure that their opinion is the only one that is truthful. Mostly these people are dominant and make other people feel inferior. So some people feel free to express their thoughts and others don´t.<br />
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I think that people should be free to express their opinions without fear of judgement. To achieve that we have to start thinking about the other persons point of view,and try to understand it. When expressing your opinion also try to consider the other persons feelings. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YTeycaMeMag/Tx3S-cYyljI/AAAAAAAAAB0/K5I9-HHAYRk/s1600/1742564_700b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="242" width="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YTeycaMeMag/Tx3S-cYyljI/AAAAAAAAAB0/K5I9-HHAYRk/s320/1742564_700b.jpg" /></a></div>Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-15626475905710860872012-01-23T07:27:00.000-08:002012-01-23T07:27:27.406-08:001000 cranes for peace1000 cranes for peace<br />
An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. In Japan, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's wish come true.<br />
Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese girl who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. She was exposed to radiation and she soon developed leukemia. When she was hospitalized. Her best friend came for a visit and brought her a paper crane. She told the story about the 1000 paper cranes to Sadako. She was inspired by legend and she began making origami cranes with the goal of making one thousand. In a year she had folded 644 paper cranes before her death. Sadako died at the age of 12. in her honor, her friends completed her mission and folded the rest 356 cranes. Sadako Sasaki was buried with all of the 1000 cranes. <br />
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Now the cranes are created in honor of the people who were hurt or killed during the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to the tradition folding paper cranes will happen every year until all nuclear weapons have been disabled. <br />
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The official slogan:<br />
Let there be Peace on Earth.<br />
Let it begin with me.Ria Marii Olthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13448464658645300212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5678906365653593658.post-56270527166490366112011-11-22T14:46:00.000-08:002011-11-22T14:57:07.515-08:00my powerpoint link 1 (embed) <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cdiv%20style=%22width:425px%22%20id=%22__ss_10278103%22%3E%20%3Cstrong%20style=%22display:block;margin:12px%200%204px%22%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.slideshare.net/riamarii/warm-up-10278103%22%20title=%22Warm%20up%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EWarm%20up%3C/a%3E%3C/strong%3E%20%3Ciframe%20src=%22http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/10278103%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22355%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20marginwidth=%220%22%20marginheight=%220%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E%20%3Cdiv%20style=%22padding:5px%200%2012px%22%3E%20View%20more%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.slideshare.net/%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3Epresentations%3C/a%3E%20from%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.slideshare.net/riamarii%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3Eriamarii%3C/a%3E%20%3C/div%3E%20%3C/div%3E"><div style="width:425px" id="__ss_10278103"> <strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/riamarii/warm-up-10278103" title="Warm up" target="_blank">Warm up</a></strong> <iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/10278103" width="425" height="355" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> <div style="padding:5px 0 12px"> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/riamarii" target="_blank">riamarii</a> </div> </div></a><br />
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