New President!!

First Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/20/barack-obama-inauguration-us-speech

Second Article:http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/01/20/barack-obamas-inauguration-is-one-for-the-history-books.html

On the twentieth of January, this year, 2009, we got a new president. Our new president is Barack Obama. He was officially president at 12:01 on the twentieth of January, when President Bush retired from being president. During the inauguration he took an oath and gave a speech and all.
The speech that Obama made about changing everything was co-written by a twenty-seven year old man named Jon Favereau. Jon Favereau is the youngest chief speech writer that was recorded in the white house. Obama talked about a lot of things in his inauguration speech. The economy crisis, and all the things that he promises to take care of. His speech set a very high bar for all the other presidential inauguration speeches.
President Obama's inauguration was on to remeber. He took the same path as Abraham Lincoln. He went on a train to the Capitol stopping in Philadelphia, Willmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, just like President Lincoln. He went on the train with his wife and two daughters, Malia and Sasha. Some presidential inaugurations were more quiet and unnoticed than Barack Obama's for example Ronald Reagan. It was so cold on the inauguration day that he cancled the parade to save the marchers from severe frost bite and much worse conditions.
My opinion of Obama's new presidency is: it's pretty good. He's helping a lot of people if he does things right. But if he does things wrong we're bound to end up a third world country. I really don't care who's president, as long as they do things right, and make things right. I don't want a president who out of fear of being assisnated going incognito. I really don't want that. I want a strong president who will do things right. All in all, Barack Obama is a good president, he apparently knows what to do and will take action.

Girls+ Pink= :)

news url: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1654371,00.html

Summary: People have researched whether girls really like pink or is it just a streotype. In China the results showed that females perferred reddish shades to blue shades of color. Britain on the other hand showed more females in Britain perferred blue shades of color. They believe that women like reddish colors better because of the jobs that they had in the olden days. Women picked red berries. They took care of children with red ruddy cheeks.

My Opinion:
This is pretty cool, how they predicted the reason. Really, who would have thought of that? And how they tested the color preferences was really cool too. They had people pick between a series of two squares with two different colors on them. That would be a cool job.

Class Response: Owl Pellets

Who: Me and my lab partner
What:An owl pellet lab.
When:In science class.
Why: Frankly I have no idea.
How:
1. We take the owl pellet apart.
2. We dig out the bones.
3. We try to identify what animal bones were found in the owl pellet.
4. We put the skeletons together.
5. We're done!

My opinion: I did this in third grade and it wasn't that bad then. When I did again I was grossed out. It wasn't one where its disgusting but fun. When we put the skeletons together it was downright frustrating. Which one went to which animal? Does that go in the legs or arms? Awww, darn it fell off and broke into a thousand pieces! Ugh, the rib's a goner. That was mostly what my partner and I were saying. All in all the lab was good for learning but not that fun.

-swimmer/writerGirl