My year in Journalism

I can't believe this year is almost over! It's funny how things have changed so much since the beginning of the year! We have done so much in this class too! We've pretty much done it all, from making gingerbread cookies to eating at california pizza kitchen! Let's recall some of these memories!
My favorite memories are from the beginning of the year when we made our impromptu videos! They were so great! Like- A- Box still makes me laugh just thinking about it! How about when we used to play one man out and we broke several chairs! We even made gingerbread houses! Now that's pretty "legit".
How about the not so great memories... Can someone say BLOGS?? Well, at the beginning of the year they were pretty cool because it was better than regular school work. But then they piled up.. and it got to be way too much Mrs. Melancon! My 50 newspaper ideas every week, turned into the first 50 random words that popped into my head!
Well all of the fun and pain was well worth it as we near the end of the year. This year we have managed to accomplish a pretty awesome paper. Whether people like it and read it or not, we've all worked hard on it! And Mrs. Melancon, I think I've learned more in this class than I have in any of my other classes! It's definitely my favorite! Love you! (:

the icelandic valocano

The Icelandic volcano crisis has wreaked havoc on passengers and airports across Europe, and it may drive a few European airlines into bankruptcy. But analysts expect the crisis to cause far less economic damage to carriers in the United States.
The International Air Transport Association said Wednesday that the ash crisis has led to the cancellation of 100,000 flights and cost the world's airlines an estimated $1.7 billion. The group said airlines lost $400 million per day between Saturday and Monday, the period when air traffic disruptions were greatest.
The crisis could, however, delay the modest recovery that airline officials had hoped for this year. Global airlines are expected to lose $2.8 billion in 2010, compared with $9.4 billion lost last year. European carriers were expected to lose $2.2 billion, the worst result of any region, according to an IATA projection from March.
In the current crisis, both U.S. and European airlines will lose money because they depend heavily on flying between the United States and Europe for revenue and profits. Transatlantic routes are among the industry's most lucrative because of the high number of first-class and business-class customers.

Happy News

Astronauts Play April Fools Trick in Orbit
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36143006
Who:Astronauts
What: Sent a fake photo of them flying outside of the station without suits on
Where: International Space Station
When: April 1
Why: to be funny
How: photoshop


8 Year old boys Save Drowning at the Beach
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34820923/ns/world_news-wonderful_world/
Who: two 8 year old boys
What: they saved a drowning man by helping him onto their board
Where: australia in the ocean
When: January
Why: because he needed help
How: pulled him onto their boards

After Near Death Experience, Child is honored as Hero
http://www.happynews.com/news/4192010/near-death-experience-child-honored-hero.htm
Who: Miranda age 6
What: survived falling into a frozen lake
Where:Missouri
When:April 19
Why: she was skating on the lake
How: the ice broke

National Geographics

Lyrid Meteor Shower to Peak on Earth Day
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100419-lyrids-meteor-shower-earth-day-peak/
WHAT: meteor shower
WHERE: bamff national park in canada
WHEN: aprill 22
WHY: cause its nature!
HOW: its on its own... idk

Wolves vs. Bison
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/wild/community/blogs/inside-wild?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&UID=a012510e-33b9-4c7e-b708-b747ec4dd594&plckPostId=Blog%3aa012510e-33b9-4c7e-b708-b747ec4dd594Post%3af1af1115-028b-4f9d-b223-e8cbc28faecc&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest
WHERE: Yellow stone National Park.
WHEN: overtime
HOW: they are reproducing
WHAT: they are growing in size and their feud is growing

Prehistoric Mummies Poisoned
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/100412-chile-oldest-mummies-poison-arsenic/
WHO: OLDDD people
WHAT: they were found dead from poisoned laced drinking water
WHERE: Chile
WHEN: 7,000 years ago
WHY:they were exposed to high arsenic levels in the water
HOW: ^

rural life museum

The LSU Rural Life Museum is a museun of Louisiana history. It is located on the Burden Plantation, a 40-acre agricultural research experiment station. The state has many diverse ancestries. The descendants came French, Spanish, Native Americans, Germans, Africans, Acadians, And Anglo Americans.

The museum shows the life of people back from the past. It demonstrates their way of life. They have different shows and presentations of how they lived their everyday lives. You are able to eat some of the food. You can even participate in helping the workers utilize the old machines.

The museum is essentially a collection of seven buildings that illustrates the various cultural influences of Louisiana's settlers. The Barn holds many items from prehistoric times to the 20th century. All of the buildings have something interesting to go see and are all functioning. The workers dress in old-timey clothes as well to give you a real sense of how life back then was.

The rural life museum is pretty cool. Well it was when I was ten. I remember eating corn and really good gumbo from there. I'm glad i didn't live back then. I really wouldnt want to work there either.. I'd get so bored.

Anyway I'm really excited about going tomorrow. Not for the purpose of seeing the museum. But I get to get out of school. And then we get to go eat at california pizza kitchen and i love that place. Thanks Mrs. Melancon! I love you lots.

Iron Man 2

Babies

Robin Hood

Just Wright

Shrek Forever After

John Rabe

The Karate Kid

Ondine

The A-Team

Toy Story 3

Knight and Day

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

The Last Airbender

Despicable Me

And that's just a few of them!

summer quotes

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen

Life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon...the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James

"Summer is the season when a man thinks he can cook better on an outdoor grill than his wife can on an indoor stove." ~Anonymous

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!
Takayuki Ikkaku