Olympic Facts

• The five rings of the Olympic flag symbolize Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas and are said to be ‘linked together in friendship.’ At least one of the rings’ colors – blue, black, green, yellow, and red – appear on every national flag of the world.

• The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). In 1894, a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a revival of the ancient tradition, and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games were born.

• In the first modern Olympics, Athens 1896, first place winners were awarded silver medals and olive branches. Second place contestants were awarded bronze medals and third place finishers left empty handed.

• First place winners in the 1900 Paris Olympics received paintings instead of gold medals because they were considered to be more valuable.

• The first Olympic city to award Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals was St. Louis in 1904.

•  Every two years the Olympic flame is lit at Olympia, Greece by women clad in traditional Greek clothing. Lit through use concave mirror and the sun’s rays, the flame then begins a journey from Greece to the host nation where it is paraded around for months until the opening ceremonies.

•  Women were not allowed to participate in the first modern Olympics, but they were soon added to the competition for the 1900 Paris games.

• Three continents – Africa, South America, and Antarctica – have never hosted an Olympics.

Summer Olympic Sports:

archery, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoe / kayak, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon (shooting, fencing, swimming, show jumping, and running), mountain biking, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, track and field, triathlon (swimming, biking, running), volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, and wrestling.

Winter Olympic Sports:

alpine skiing, biathlon (cross-country skiing and target shooting), bobsled, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hocky, luge, Nordic combined (ski jumping and cross-country skiing), skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and speed skating.

Baseball Game

We went to do the Rochester Wings and the Syracuse Chiefs baseball game with all the students from NAZ.
It was my first time in a baseball stadium ever! Actually my first time watching a baseball game.

To tell the truth the game was kind of boring.

I didn't like baseball that much, and I don't think it's as half fun as soccer or basketball.

However, I enjoyed the environment there, with all the music and funny stuff shown on big screens or in the field between inns.
And also all the food there.

Seneca Park Zoo

Seneca Park Zoo was a nice place that we spent one friday morning in.

The zoo was nice and big. not that big really, it was a medium sized zoo with a couple of animals of each animal or specie.

We learned lots of new zoology related words,, mainly because of the 3 papers filled up with questions that the teachers required each of us to walk around and try to figure it out and answer by reading the signs all over the zoo, and by asking the folks working there.

Turning Point Park

We went to the Turning Point Park on Friday the 15th of July.

The weather was nice that day, kindda warm actually.

The park crosses over the Genesse river with a big long bridge.

Hiking over the bridge was the coolest part of our trip - basically it was all what we did there -

After that we went to Charlotte Beach and grabbed some frozen yogurt from abbot's ( or ice-cream, I can't tell the difference! ) 

It was a good day in all.

Egg Drop Experience

The egg drop experience was an experiment that we did in class a long time ago.

We had to work in two teams. Each team had to think together of a way to drop the egg 10 feet in the air without it breaking.

We got two eggs, 10 straws and a few inches of thread.

I was on a team with Erick and Chinese Ben. Maybe someone else too?!

We bended the straws over the eggs. 

Our first egg broke. 

Our second egg broke too!

GCV&M

1. In what town is the GCV&M located? 

Mumford, NY

2. What century is represented in the village?
19th Century

3. How many historic buildings are in the village?
47

4. Many jobs are demonstrated. Name 3.

Blacksmith,wagonmaker and dressmakers.

5. What sport was played in the 1800s that is still played today?
Base Ball

6. What does a cooper make?
Wooden containers  

7. What foods did the pioneers eat?

Stew pot, corn bread and other food.

8. What is building #4 on the interactive map?
schoolhouse

9. What is a livery barn?

10. What color is George Eastman’s boyhood home?

White

Humaira's

This was a part of my dream last night. I added the last part though.
Hope someone will get something out of it.
and yeah, I'm The worst at drawing.

FRIDAY'S FLY TIME

"In a world in which we are all slaves to the laws of gravity, i'm proud to be counted as one of the freedom fighters. Skydive!"

-Anonymous

So yeah, that's what I have in mind for Friday :D

Off-course we''ll go with the Tandem Skydiving, that's when an instructor is attached to you.

and there's a 3 different based on the amount of fun that you want to have :D

We'll be able to take pics or even purchase DVD video for the whole free fall time :D 

I'd love to see your faces -students and teachers- while you're going down :P

But the thing is, I don't know whether NAZ is paying or we'll have to pay,in that case am BROKE!

The prices aren't there but I contacted them and still waiting for their reply with all the info.. The price should go around 200-300 per person and it'll take half a day.. it definitely worth it. 

So if you wanna be a FREEDOM FIGHTER and

 Fly as a bird, you know what yu have to do ;)

http://www.rochesterskydiving.com/

Homelessness

At Nazareth's college library I saw a photographic exhibit shedding the light on the phenomenon of homelessness.

I was never exposed to homelessness or to homeless people in my life!
 (in SA we don't have this terrible issue)

What I saw was a bunch of pictures of homeless with a caption under each picture from the own words of the unfortunate person in the picture.

I just wanna indicate and emphasize on "unfortunate" because i really hate it when people say that poor or homeless people are like that because of their own mistakes or laziness, and that's so not true, just like being rich doesn't mean your a better person you just got lucky, actually we can say that many of rich people are evil who lie and cheat for money and poor people are mostly nice and good people who just weren't lucky.

Back to the exhibit. What I really liked was on one of the pictures with a group of homeless people laughing and smiling and looking happy and the caption said:" we are homeless not hopeless. "
That was strong.

One more thing I honestly adored was that 19 years old homeless mom that wanted for her 1 year old son to grow up and be strong like her.- That's really strong!

But then there were these couple pictures that stroked my heart, a 12 year old homeless kid facing the roughness of this inhumane life all by himself. In one of the captions what he's saying can break a rock - and I quote:
" I stand on the corner -- no place to go. My mind all twisted with my own thoughts. No place to go. Nowhere to turn. No one to love and no one to love me. I stand and wonder where to go so I live on the streets with the trees as my friends and the grass as my bed. " !!


What's really tough about homelessness that it's like a vortex! 


Once you get in it keeps pulling down and down and it feels like it's impossible to get out of it and it really is semi-impossible to get out of on your own. 


Then when you start loosing hope and it feels like this is your last seconds, someone throws the lifeline right at you and a new life is written and ahead of you .


Unfortunately this doesn't happen a lot with the vortex because it kills in the matter of seconds.


Likewise with homelessness except it's not a vortex and it doesn't kill in seconds, and there's always a hope for the homeless person that someone will give him a chance to live and throw the lifeline at him.


That's the whole point from the vortex thing, We all should help the homeless people to stand on their feet in their own HOMES and that's our responsibility not their's! 
- and we gotta keep in mind that any of us can be homeless one day and we'll need help-


If they can't help themselves and all we have to do to save their lives is a small effort that's not gonna cost us much -us fortunate ones- and still we choose not to help, what does that make us?!!!


 Simply: K I L L E R S  




Here is a few organizations in Rochester that we all can help through either by volunteering or by donating: 


http://homelessconnectrochester.org/


http://centerforyouth.net/


http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use/www_use_rochesterny.nsf


http://www.hillside.com/


http://www.cfcrochester.org/








p.s: I got carried away huh?! lol,, but it's a really tough issue for me and it was a long day and i'm honestly so tired and sleepy to rewrite or edit right now, besides, i ain't so accurate  about what am i supposed to write about exactly :) 


  
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