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              Did you know that 500 million people depend on coral reefs. They depend on the for various things such as food, protection from a raging storm, recreation and jobs. Sadly, these reefs are being destroyed everday due to our human activites. Some of these activites are just regular fishing, overfishing, deforestation, and pollution. Pollution is a big problem because we don’t even realize that we are polluting our earth and its oceans.  On reefcheck.com, they stated that “threats may continue to build as the global temperature rises”.

             Thankfully, there are many types of organization that are trying to help these reefs. One organization or group is called the IYOR (simply, International Year of the Reef). This worldwide campaign is here to raise awareness on how important these reefs are and the threats we put on their homes. Another thing they do is to improve the understanding and take immediate action to help those who have been threatened. The IYOR want to help motivate people to help these suffering reefs that we put in pain.

           I chose the topic “International Year of the Reef 2008″ because I feel that not only can I help but we can all help and support the IYOR by doing various things. Also it relates me a lot because I enjoy helping out and this is one thing that I would definitly help coral reef. Some things we can do to help is to continue recycling and not overfish. We don’t realize it but we are the ones that are killing these coral reefs. If we don’t help the IYOR and take action, we will be in a whole lot of trouble. Like I mentioned before, us – humans- depend on these magnificant, colorful reefs for many different things like for food and protection. Imagine what would happen if we didn’t have any more of these left. It wouldn’t be mother nature’s fault, it would be our faults because some of us were being careless and not doing simple things to help like recycling. The Year of the Reef is a very important year and if we all do some simple things, we can help them stay here forever!

Pictures are from iyor.org and wikipidea.com

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Recycling Video

Everyone recycles in their own way. My family and I have two recycling bins. We recycle mostly paper because we have a lot of newspaper that we don’t really need. Anyway, occassionally, we would recycle cans and plastic bottle because we have a lot of coke cans and bottles. We also changed all of our lightbulbs into florescent lightbulbs or the ones that don’t hurt the environment.

Now in my school, we just started a new recycling program a few weeks ago. Everytime we need to throw away paper, we put it in the recycling bin. Then every Friday, a few students go around and empty them. I am proud that my family and school are starting to go green and help the environment!

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♥I have checked out many blogs from other countries. But there are some I haven’t seen. Well, a lot that I haven’t seen. To begin with, on the participants page, I first clicked on Kayleigh’s blog. She is from the Netherlands. I liked her blog a lot because her theme was very nice. Then I clicked on Andrea’s. Her blog was funny because it had a south park (cartoon) header. Lastly, I clicked on Edouard. I chose to comment under his post called Twilight. He says that he loves the book and I also love the book so it was the perfect blog that I could comment on. They are all participating in the competition. I chose all of their blogs because they were either very interesting or had something that I liked like how Edouard’s had those posts on Twilight the book. ♥ 

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The 4th of July is a celebration that takes place on ,obviously, July 4th.  It is a very important celebration for us because, according to Wikipedia, “it is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain”. Pretty much, it celebrates the day the USA became an independent country. In addition, 4th of July is also called Independence Day.

     During this day, we would usually celebrate it by going to a carnival or festival. While there, we would ride many attractions, have barbiques or picnics, and listen to music from a concert or watch a baseball game. At the end of all the fun, we would watch a fireworks show. There would be large fireworks, small ones, and they would all be different colors. All of the kids would hold sparklers which are shown above. We would swing them around, back and forth and have a blast! I love this celebration because it is so fun and it celebrates a very important event in the USA.

      I would like to go and celebrate the holiday called Boxing Day. According to Wikipidia, “Boxing Day is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, as well as many other members of the Commonwealth of Nations.” On this day, they give gifts to the poor and less fortunate people in their society. They usually celebrate it the day after Christmas. On December 26.  I think it is a wonderful thing to do because you are helping people and I would love to be a part of that and celebrate this tradition.

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♥My top three favorite blogs would have to be my BFF’s. Farihah140’s, devonv140’s, and nataliaj140’s blogs are my most favorite blogs. I love their blogs a lot. Especially, their theme and their avatar. The avatars express them in a bunch of ways. Now I like many other blogs too, but the three I like the most would have to be theirs. Check out their blogs which are linked on my blogroll.♥

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According to Global Issues.com, almost half the world, over 3 billion people, live on less than $2.50 a day. 1 billion of them are children. Some of these children, who are at our age or even older than us, cannot read a single page from a book. Now we learn how to read as soon as we go into Kindergarten. All of these poor children are deprived from having any education. All of the money they have, they use it to get food so they don’t starve everyday. They don’t have enough money for healthcare or education. About 400 million people have no access to safe water and 270 million have no access to health services. We have everything here. We have freshwater, and abundant amount of food (some we throw away just because we don’t like it), healthcare, and good education.  We can all help stop poverty by taking our time and stand up against poverty! We can all make a difference just by giving a penny or dollar. You would be sure that one child can get food and some healthcare. We can also send old books to these poor countries. They would really appreciate it and actually learn something. They would feel special. It is an awesome way to help someone in need!

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♥I live in the United States of America, specifically, South Florida. It is Southeast in the United States. It pretty much just sticks out. Florida is a peninsula. Well, anyway, everyday I have to go to school, obviously. My school looks big but on the inside, the halls are so tiny it is hard to get around with 600 other students trying to get to their next class. Other then that, my school is pretty good, especially when they teach us valuable skills because it really helps us for our state test called the FCAT. Now, if you visited South Florida, you have to visit disney world! It has five theme parks that are spectacular! I love going there. I go there every year to every single one. There is Animal Kingdom (all about animals), Magic Kingdom(All of the Magic is mostly here and so is Cinderella’s Castle) , Epcot (Outer Space, etc.) , and MGM Studios (The movie park)! Of course, at every park, Mickey Mouse and his friends are always there. Without a doubt, if you visit South Florida, you need to go up North, to Orlando and visit Disney World, the place with Magic!♥

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♥To begin with, the main reason why I chose my avatar is because it is me! It expresses me in so many ways. For example, I am constantly on the phone talking to my friends. My parents would always get mad at me because they have to use the phone sometimes and I am still using it. Well, even when they are using the phone I would use my cell phone to talk to my buddies!There is not one day when I am not talking to them. Another reason why I chose my avatar was because it kind of looks like me and the outfit she is wearing is something I would definitly wear. Also her hair looks like mine. Now she doesn’t look exactly like me but she does express me a lot.♥

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♥First of all, the reason why I chose my theme was because as soon as I saw the color green, I just immediately clicked on it and fell in love with it. As you can see, I am in love with the color green. Anyway, another reason why I chose this theme for my blog was because when I looked at all of the other blogs, I noticed that most of them were either to dark, or they were just boring. I was thinking of getting the chaotic color one but then I changed my mind because I didn’t like the set up of it. Personally, I prefer three columns not two. I also liked the pretty pink one with the guitar on it but I hate pink. It was between the bluegreen theme and this green theme. I decided to go with this theme because I felt like you can see the green more than the other theme. The only thing I don’t like about my theme is the type of green. I wish it wasn’t as bright as it is but I can live with it.♥

♥Sadly, my blog theme does not allow me to have a tagline. If I could have a tagline it would probably be, “The coolest place on earth!”. The reason I chose that tagline would be because it would be describing my blog. My blog is a cool place to go to and it will be very colorful. Also, I would have many posts on there for my school work. Don’t worry, they probably won’t be boring, if they are, I  would just try and make them interesting like I am now, even though this is not a boring post. My blog is the coolest place on earth!♥

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