A new beginning

Recently, in the news the newtown incident has rocked the nation, quickly putting gun laws in foremost of president obama's current term. With many talks over the gun laws, the National Rifle Association has put together a rally to get teachers to learn to use firearms to protect children against these adversaries. They were recently quoted as saying " the only way to combat a bag guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun". Now Molleindustria, a political game creator, who has made games such as Operation Pedopriest, telling about rape of children in the vatican, and phone story, a game telling about the corrupt and problematic phone industry. Phone story was released on the apple app store, only to be removed within 3 hours of its release. They just released a game called The Best Amendment, which talks about the logic of the NRA's quote. The link is below
http://www.molleindustria.org/blog/the-best-amendment-shop/
Here is wired magazines take on the game
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/nra-the-best-amendment/
I highly wish for Mr. Olson to buy this game on the Molleindustria website by donating an amount of your choice.

T2-B6

ahhhhh secret santa today gave a chainmail bracelet, got nothing in return :(
like i thought everyone is supposed to participate disappointing how little work people put into stuff other than gaming and anime :( no really anybody did anything made by hand all purchased and stuff
after ss essay, metal works making a chainmail hackysack.. math polynomials and stuff..
after skating and we had a ripstik casterboard and me and my friends were fooling around on it
one more day of school!!!
gonna get some measuring glasses for the kitchen, cant do precise fluid measurements without one
and getting halo 4 tommorow!!

T2-B5

today in english showed mr hauck my cyborg shoe contraption. he even took a picture of it!! :D
after p.e., ran as fast as i could to langara station, boarded skytrain to vancouver city centre. there in downtown i tried to get a gift for my secret santa that they would like, to no avail. :/
candy aisle, lotta candy for the movie, then haneureum mart for a box of chelsea cookies!! after went to bunch of clothing stores, an army surplus place called camouflage, and then got to the theatre.
movie theatre food is wayyy too overpriced. :/
watched life of pi, actually pretty close to the book, except that skipped some parts in plot and killed a dorado before the flying fish.
gettin some gifts for christmas, trying to find what i need and want like a sling pack. useful things would also be a pair of maple fg's some sidi cycling stickers, and perhaps a phone? nothing to wasteful (except a videogame :D)
realized how many people play computer games and im so behind since i use my time for skating, youtube and school

T2-B4

assembled chrismas tree, when is secret santa due? i want to do some chainmail as a gift
so much things to do for school, ss essay test and map, math test nxt week, science fair project testing to be done... including..
CHRISTMAS LIST!!!
video games, skating stuff, cycling stuff, books, japanese candy, nostalgic 20th century toys, apps, a new sling bag are all wanted.

T2-B3

my 500m skating time is now a 47.86 while the top guys had a 46.6! I can get this time! i just need to focus on more technique ( less shoulder and body movement) , less pivoting (slowing down on the corners) and entering and exiting the corners with more crossovers. training today, working hard and  going competitively against my 17 yr old training partner who I am as fast as but he has more strength.

T2-B2

thought I just tell some more about my skating life
skating technique is amazing in koreans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvrkwSBkb2c&feature=g-hist
my goal in skating is to have fun with my friends, being the best of everyone,
skating helps me to release from all the school stuff and have a good time with true friends
school friends I dont know as much about them as my skating friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ3_MiasQEk thats me in the front

T2-B1

so first blog of term 2 some things that recently happened. Can West Short Track Single Distance Championships, got gold in the 200m and 1500m, and crashed in the 400m and 3000m points race. Also, got new bike wheels for my track bike, marks are great, A's and B's. hopefully get Halo 4, zellers at metrotown closing..and thats all I have to say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrcT7sseLZI

T1-B31

Today in Applied skills got assignment to collect $25 in pennies : ^ .
after ss discussed death of Louis the XVI
after in Metalworks began buffing the post for my balancing man, really hot and I was swinging my 'wand' much like a wizard. AVADA KEDRAVRA! XD

after school, track cycling at the burnaby velodrome. Weird thing I learned, there was a velodrome at China creek park? this was in 1962, so long ago. Track cycling must've been really popular back then!
now only one track in the lower mainland exists :(

T1-B30

My business has gone slow, no teachers have bought my coffee. I have inferred that the reason the teachers have not bought coffee is due to the school policy :1
1) school has coffee for 50c each, so teachers have their own coffee machines
2)thus they already have great coffee in their own classrooms.
I was trying to make profit off the fact that the school coffee wasn't very high quality, so starbucks coffee would be better quality and at a cheap price point. But since the teachers weren't in demand for better coffee since they had it already, my business hasn't been met by my main consumers :(
this has been a learning experience, from the Ms. Bains encounter about my business, to working and hiring, to supply and demand, I've learned more than I could have ever if everything went right :)

T1-B29

purchased all items for business this morning, couldnt start today because couldnt find a table. Mr.Olson, could i use one of your tables in the back of your classroom? also, is take your kid to work day mandatory? because i was hoping to run my business at school that day...
finally, is our npo due this week?

T1-B28

REALLY, REALLY MAD AT GRACE
she fired me from the group so now i cant have Daniel help me on Monday. Now I hired Mason to help me on the afternoon shift.
All set for monday. I open at 8 until 8.15, and 11:45 till 12:10
my stand is right next to the new dogpound
FRESH GRIND STARBUCKS COFFEE FOR ONLY $1.50 ($1.25 IF U HAVE YOUR OWN MUG)
cookies for 75c, and 2 dollars for cookie and coffee ($1.75 if have your own mug)
Mr.Olson, i was wondering if i could store my supplies in your classroom and I could pay a rental fee for the storage of my coffee maker, water drums, and milk :)
or i could give you discount for coffee :D
I was also wondering if you could also tell the other teachers that I'm selling coffee for charity and all proceeds go to the SPCA.
THANK YOU

T1-B27

Short day today, mitosis of animal cells and plant cells, english assignment of cyborgs (yay!). Anything we can do related to cyborgs, thinking of doing a LEGO mindstorms robot accessory that helps with a disabled person to detect others, hear better or an implant sort of thing :)

T1-B26

Dont have much about day, only horrible news about lucasarts. STAR WARS GOT SOLD to DISNEY for 4.08 billion. Reports also of a possible 7th movie D: The evil Empire must be stopped; begin the Rebel Alliance!!

T1-B25

Today began making base of balancing man, after in Applied skills worked out where coffee business will stand. After in S.S. watched video about French Revolution
after in cycling did 2 20 minute rides at 40km with a sprint at the end. A guy behind me crashed out and cracked his cycling helmet. He hit my rear wheel and he lost his balance, and took out another rider :S

T1-B24

havent had time to blog, ss project , and science test.
Today in english we finished a new hope and now began my new favorite subject: STAR WARS PHILOSPHY :'D
discussion whether a droid is a person. gave some epic star wars facts and debated the facts behind that philosophy.
now is this a human or droid :/
http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/bomarr-tm.jpg?w=300&h=201

T1-B23

today in math quiz, and in applied skills i began to plot together my coffee business and when to start it off.
After in s.s. worked on world poverty project

T1-B22

back to school after meet in poco, got a new helmet, new pb for my 500m a 48, with hands on back XD
could probably get a 45 if i tried, also crashed twice, but on the 3000m i caught back up to the group :D
anyways today in school science, essay test today, and in langara run i got 11.25. pretty good considering i was sick and havent run in a while :)
got interim report, satisfied :s
after at track cycling did a whistle drill, tired but happy :)

T1-B21

Today in metalworks finished off most of the balancing man. After, in Math we had a earthquake drill. Then, in applied skills we had Mr. Zhuang. Apparently he was your former student. Anyways, found out quite badly that Grace had started her OWN business for herself and we would have to make our own business bevause she said we were lazy. LAZY??!@!@ I was plotting all of the stuff for our coffee business and she went and did something else. pissed' off
disappointed i ran out for a deal for a track bike on ebay :(

T1-20

20TH BLOG IS EPIC!!!!

Today everything was as normal, but in English oddly instead of the essay test, WE had Star Wars instead!!! :D

Watched A New Hope, sadly a bunch of people never watched or knew anything about Star Wars :(

Our substitute P.E. teacher told us that if we ran under 3 minutes for a 800m, we would get a honourable mention. Seeing the opportunity, I ran in 2:36 and got the honourable mention thing. Now to see if it is really true...

T1-B19

hello today www, in metalworks worked the metal lathe, nearly broke my finger on that thing, :/
after in math quiz!! yay i guess found out about pro d on friday. time to prep for my season debut meet!
Applied skills you weren't there instead there was Ms. Nelson, went onto real canadian wholesale website ( that insanely big costco style superstore) and found stir sticks for about $1 for 200, Starbucks coffee for about $7 a pound, 20 cups with lids for $2 (hopefully with sleeves). Finally presentations in S.S., on Congo and Sierra Leone. Essay test tomorrow AHHH
anyways at the rate of my business looks like I'll be one handing it :/