Blackboard-it's ups and downs

Blackboard can offer interaction with people who are from, and live in different places other than where I live and am from. An example of this is that I live in Isaan, Thailand and am from Finland and New Zealand. Other people who do Blackboard live in New Zealand, Spain, or the United Arab Emirates and come from Thailand or New Zealand etc. Blackboard also gives feedback pretty quick compared to lets say, posting mail. I have sent lots of work(my booklets) ages ago, and I mean AGES AGO and have only received a few back. Another good thing about blackboard is that I can interract with English speaking people. The place where I live only has a couple foreign men. There are no foreign kids in this province, let alone foreign kids my age!
These are all good things about black board, but there are also some down sides. When you attach a piece of work, you can't actually open the the attachment to see if it's the right one(or if there is a way, I haven't found it yet!). Sometimes I send off the wrong attachments because of this. It would be nice if we could change or edit what we've done. For an example, if we accidentally put the wrong attachment, then the person who put up the work could go back and attach the right one. This is one thing that I especially like about this blogger site. Right now I can't think of any other thing that I would like to do with my online learning that black board doesn't do. If I think of anything, then I will put up my idea.

....naarak and poppy in my hammock...

Naarak and Poppy are sitting in my hammock. They are always so scared whenever they sit in the hammock because their little paws fall through the netting of the hammock.

my best work on bb

I think that my best work(s) were when I made the slide show about shell and frame structures and sketched the chedi. It was lots of fun doing these because I enjoy sketching and I sketched the different structures for the slide show, and sketched the chedi for the other activity. At the same time, though, it was challenging drawing the chedi because it had so many different layers/steps. It had quite a bit of detail, and because it was an ancient building it was crooked here and there and wasn't symmetrical. The slide show also was difficult in some areas for me because I am not very good at things to do with computers and techy stuff. After doing that activity I learnt that the more I do things, like working with computers, the better I get. Now I don't need help from other people as much as I used to when on the computer. Another thing that I learnt about myself is that I don't mind going off for a while and just being by myself and sketching.

The weather

One day it was 37 degrees celsius, the next day our family went to a friend's house and the gazebo blew over because of the wind, and the day after that it was so cool that I needed my bedspread on all night with no fan on- very unusual for this time of the year! Within a couple of days we had really hot, windy, and cool weather!

cutting down the bamboo poles

I am making a shelter or covering for a hammock. The hardest thing though was finding two trees that are the right length apart for a hammock. I needed four bamboo poles for my original plan for the shelter, (but when I was building it I realised I only needed two- things I make hardly ever turn out the way I plan them to be like). So yesterday during the heat of the day, a Thai lady , my sister, and I went out to the back of our section/field and cut down the bamboo poles that I needed. The hardest part was pulling the poles down after they'd been cut at the ground because there were so many leaves and branches twisted up at the top. Each time we managed to pull a branch down, a shower of big red ants would come down too. I was very lucky not to have been bitten, and very thankful too as their bites really sting! We were there for about 45 minutes. Today the temperature is about 36.5degrees Celsius and yesterday was about the same, if not hotter! When we came in after being outside, all of us were just dripping with sweat. The best part was that we went to the swimming pool in the next town (because there isn't one in our town), right after cutting down the bamboo!

a question for sandy..

i was just wondering why micah and i are in the southern on-liners when we've only ever been in the south island once. also all of my family and friends live in the north island.

My slide show

It was really hard making the sketch slide show, best of luck to anyone else who tries to put their own photos on a slide show like this! And I really do mean best of luck! Without my dad I would've never completed it.

A few tips on the slide show...

If you want to see the captions for the sketches, double click the slide show picture. This will take you to my google images acount.
Thanks
Emma

The dogs

The first thing you see when you come onto this site are the dogs! Well....they were a bit bigger than I originally wanted them to be, but ohh well.

Fish

I finally found out how to add other stuff like fish. It's cool how you can feed them! I intend to add some drawings or sketches of mine aswell. Seeya!

getting the blog started

It was pretty easy getting on to this blog as Micah had already done it and helped me get onto it.