Ghana

I have decided to send the kids in Ghana a small Green Bay Packers symbol. Football is a big part of American culture so I decided to send them the symbol of my favorite team. In class we talked about what is American culture, so I picked this symbol for that reason. Me and my dad love to watch the Packer game every Sunday and although they can't watch the game, I hope they enjoy it.

5 weeks, 8th grade

8th grade is very similar to 7th, except we have more homework, and we don't have some of the great teachers like Che or Eddy this year. So far 8th grade is much like what I expected it to be, but it is to early to tell whether I will have as good of a year I had last year.

Although I miss many of my really close friends that either left the school or graduated to high school, I still have many friends in both 8th and 7th grade and I look forward to meeting new ones.

I look forward to getting to know some of our classmate, especially some of our new sevvies. I lead by example, and by trying to talk more in class and get involved in the class discussions more often I would like to show the sevvies that talking in class is a very important thing to do.

I would like to learn to become a better studier for high school because studying is a very important skill for high school and I and not the best at it. I'd also like to become more organized so that I don't lose as many things and I forget to do less assignments. I think it is very important to prepare for high school this year, but also very important to make the 7th graders feel welcome to junior high, and also ready for the differences and challenges in their 7th and 8th grade years.

CIH

This year our class is working with CIH (Children Inspiring Hope). The program will connect a North American kid and my class with another class of kids in the same grade as us in Ghana. Through mail and projects we will connect with the class and develop a friendship with the kids from Ghana. We will be creating peace through friendship, which is a very good way of creating peace. I create peace through information. The more you know the less room there is for racial stereo-types and prejudice of other people because you know the truth. To me peace is the lack of serious negative conflict, a peaceful world, to me, is not a world without any conflict at all. It is a world in which there is equality, not complete equality, but equal opportunities for people in the same situation, even if they have a different heritage. As the project we will send to our new Ghanaian friends I think we should send the speeches we wrote for elections minus all the election parts so they know a personal story about us and we have made it safe for a strong, open, and trusting friendship between us.

Hello

Hello!!
My name is Pill Boy. This is the blog for my 8th grade year in the class MAGR. I will be posting for a lot of our classes. If you follow this blog you will have a lot of fun reading my posts and playing/ feeding the fish on my blog!