Hello Readers:mrgreen:
In school we are starting an “International Teen Life Project” we are doing this project with 3 other classes from around the globe. I am really excited to be doing this project I think that it is going to be really interesting to learn about teen life in other parts of the world. We were asked to write a blog post introducing ourselves.My name is Toni, and I am a grade 8 student in Mr. Fisher’s 7/8 class. I am an only child my parents names are Ann Marie and Tony; I have two pets A Cat, Louie and a Guinea Pig, Rayleen. I really enjoy spending time with family and friends. I love curling and volleyball, but my most favorite way to pass time is to sing. I love to spend time in my room singing.
Snow Lake is a small community with about 800 people. We have a small school with about 170 students. I love living in Snow Lake, I think it is a great places. I love it in the summer time because there is a lake in the middle of the town so we can go swimming, fishing, boating, water skiing and tubing. I love the outdoors but I don’t enjoy the bugs. Snow Lake is not only great in the summer time; it is great all year around. It makes a great place for Ski-dooing, in the winter. Even though Snow Lake is a small safe community we still have concerns.
A few concerns that we have in Canada are:
Drugs and Alcohol - I think that this is a major issue because many teens and adults in Canada are getting involved with Drugs and Alcohol. Two many people are getting addicted to them and killing them selves or others.
I think Global Warming is another big issue. I think that because many people are not recycling there garbage, and our planet is warming up. That means that in a few years many people will be without a home because many places around the world will be covered in water; unless we start recycling our garbage and taking care of our planet.
I don’t know what to call this issue but I think that just because some peoples skin is a different colour or there a little bit different then us they always get made fun of or put down. I think that this is very wrong, and just because they may look a little different or act different, that doesn’t give anybody the right to make fun of them.
I am extremely excited to be doing this project and I hope I get to find out a lot more about these countries and the way they live.
Until Next Time, Toni 
4 responses so far ↓
1 Arnold // Jan 22, 2007 at 7:25 am
Hi Toni, I’m Arnold. I live in Cartagena, here we also have issues like alcohol, and global warming. I think this is a ver interesting blog. Here in Cartagena we also do a lot of outdoors activities, I like going outdoors. Here water sports are very common like skiing, boating, jet-skiing and more cool things to do.
I think is very interesting Canada, I will like to know more about it and its sports.
2 Pau I // Jan 22, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Hi, Toni! I’m Paula but I like to be called Pau. I think alcohol and global warming are very important issues. Many teens use alcohol and drugs because their friends pressure them to do so telling them that they’ll be cooler. I think this is very bad and people should learn to say no.
Global warming is also something that worries me a lot. Not only humans can get damaged but animals too can loose their homes. I think some ways of solving this problem are to recycle but also that factories don’t throw their toxic gases in the air because that damages the ozone layer.
3 Ramzi // Feb 4, 2007 at 12:08 am
Hey Toni,
Love how you have such a big heart for the earth. I am also concerned about all the issue you have pointed out. I am also concerned about pollution and how sooner or latter nothing we do can stop it. By the way I am Ramzi in Mr.Raisdana’s class in Malaysia. Malaysia is a fun pace to visit but some days the heat is so intense I don’t have the energy to go out by lately the weather has cooled down a bit. I love sports mainly basketball and to past my free time I watching T.V. or I bike outside if its not to hot. I love the smell of fresh clean air here after a rain storm it really gives me hope for the world. I have one pet cat named Claudine but we spell it Clawdine. I use to have a turtle and fishes but it didn’t take care of it so my mom sent them away. My cat is probably the closes animal friend and she like a part of our family. I am the youngest in my family but I have two older sisters and two older brothers. They are all working or in college. In total I have seven people in my family including me. Hope to talk to you later and hope you can look at my blog.
4 Sam // Feb 23, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Hey Toni! As you can see My name is Sam. I live in Jersey and we have a big problem with alcohol! You hear everyday people are in accidents each day because of alcohol or drugs. Is there anything thing that we could do to prevent this? I Mean I have friends who got hurt in accidents because they were in a car with a driver who drank. I’m just so glad there is someone who cares about this as much as the rest of us do!
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