But as it is 2007 I have even more things to look forward to, starting year 9, choosing electives in school, new teachers, band performances, wonderful camps to look forward to and loads more.

    It has only been a few weeks back into school and it is already getting hectic, I mean it was the first week back at school and my homework section in my diary was as full as it’s ever been! Not to mention all the band rehearsals I have had, witch I enjoy immensely, but this year I have been asked to do V.C.E. music so there’s even more songs to learn. If you didn’t know already, I play the clarinet. I started learning the clarinet in year 7 and I am in the school band which is fantastic, we march as a band in the Anzac Day march in the city, which will be coming up soon!

    Well I better get going, tomorrows Friday, last day of school for the week! I am really looking forward to this weekend as it is the Maroondah Festival and I am going to be on duty with St. John Ambulance in the morning, then I will have a good look around the festival in the afternoon,(I will tell you more about what I get up to at the festival in another post).

       So there is loads of things you can read about on my blogs whether it’s a piece of my work or just a blog on my day or weekend. Be more than happy to leave comments on my blogs, I like to her about what other people think of my posts or about something interesting you want to tell me, that’s fine I would love to hear.

     Ok, now I really have to go, enjoy your weekend and I will talk to you all again soon!

                                 love  Goody Goody xxoo

       Making this movie was so much fun, a great learning experience and challenge as I had never done anything like this before! I came across Windows Movie Maker on my computer not long after we received this assignment. I had no idea how to use it or what it did, so I played around with it and worked out how to get some movie scenes on it and music. When I saw that I could do this, I thought I would try and make a movie for my imaginative assignment for English as a challenge for myself and to do something different that I had never done before.

     Doing this movie was a great success, I have now learnt how to do so much more. I now know how to make movies, edit them and burn them onto DVD’S! I can’t wait until I get another chance to do something like this again!           

    I have also found two pieces of music appropriate to my movie, with the view to capture an audience similar to my own age. I am now in the process of incorporating this music into the first scene. I would also like to use some of the songs on my clarinet for further scenes in the film.   

     The internet. People use it everyday now, for work, school, shopping and for free time, just to name a few uses. It can be useful in some ways,for example, a new reference source instead of using books, but that can have its downs as anyone can make a website on the internet ,so the information you find out may not be as factual as you think. The internet can also be very frustrating and in some cases a very time wasting piece of technology. When using books you can  find the pages of information that you want, but when using the internet there are so many sites to choose from and half the time you don’t know if what you are reading is true or not. The internet can be a good way to communicate to each other as you can send emails, or talk on messenger.What though , has happened to the joy of talking to a friend on the phone or indeed in person? Using the internet can also be very unsafe as on chat sites. You don’t know who you are talking to as they are complete strangers that might say they are 14 years old, but they might just be a 40 year old criminal! The internet also has a bad influence on children these days as some games on the internet can be very violent and inappropriate. These games take up a whole lot of the child’s time, when they could be outside playing games with their friends. The games also give some children the wrong idea on how they should act. Children, and adults may think that being violent like on the internet is ok in society, which can cause heaps of problems. 

      Well as you can see, the internet does have its good side and it also has a bad side. I personally think we would be better off without the internet as it just troubles people, and sometimes puts a whole lot of unnecessary stress on families.People these days spend way to much time using the internet. I know when my mother and father were my age they didn’t have computers, and they turned out just fine. They have said to me that when they were my age they had a lot of time to play outside after homework,but  instead these days people use the internet because it is there to use and it  is to most people  more interesting than  a book. Reading a book is a wonderful experience that is lost reading the internet .It just isn’t the same.I think time is mostly wasted on all the different things the internet has to offer, as once you have read what you need there are loads more sites and advertisements that make people more interested in the internet than the enjoyment of a  good old book and having some old fashioned fun! You only get one chance at childhood and it is a time ,in my opinion,when you get to play with toys, play games, read books, play sports and explore the marvelous outdoors!