Song of the day ;)

My Crazy Easter Holiday !!!

Hello Dawn, how are you ? I'm writing to you to tell you about my Easter holiday. I went to my grandmothers house. I went to the farm and I said "That's it I'm done with the countryside!!!!!!!

Bees,flies and mosquitoes were flying everywhere and worms, ants and beetles were all around the deep grass.

Her farm is up on a mountain called Lalioti. Its in Korinthos.

While I was there I was sitting on the roof of our car, because there was a pig. The pig was looking at me all the time with a mean look. Seriously. My cousins had big sticks and they were chasing the pigs. The opposite thing was happening to me. Only that the pigs didn't have sticks but they still were trying to get me when I was ON the car. I'm not going there never again!

How was your Easter holiday? Write back soon.

Chris

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was an American and she was the first female pilot to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

Not only was Amelia a pilot but she also was an author and wrote best selling books about her flying experiences.

In 1937, Amelia attempted to fly around the globe but sadly disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

My cousin the vet

My cousin Angelina wants to be a vet. She loves all kinds of animals and enjoys learning about medicine.

Angelina ia already at college and studying to be a vet. Her first studies are mainly Biology but she will continue with many more studies like physics, chemistry and lots of medical too.

I think she will succeed because she is very devoted and the many years of studying are making her more eager to achive her goal.

My best friends job !!!

My best friends name is Louis. He wants to be a pediatrician like me. He has many skills. He has a steady hand and he can remember many things.

We both read medical books and study hard for Biology. We also watch Doctor House at the STAR Channel. We try as hard as we can to learn much about medical practice because our dream is to open our own medical center.

I think that we will succeed because we love kids so much and we also love medicine too.

PREPOSITIONS

1. You're capable of doing everything you want.

2. I'm not interested in the Maths competition.

3. You're jealous of her.

4. You're popular with your classmates.

5. I'm very proud of you.

6. Who is responsible for that mess?

7. That movie is not suitable for you.

8. I'm worried about you.

Environment

Dear Madam,

In the newspaper article it says how each person can help the environment. I disagree!

You haven't written enough advice and everything you wrote is wrong! How can you save the environment by not watering the plants? That's crazy! If you water the plants, they will make oxygen. That way we save the environment.

Other things that also help are: always close the tabs so you don't waste water and always turn off every light in your house so you don't waste electricity. Try to ride your bike more, cars need petrol and it releases filthy gases that poison the air, water and flowers. With the bike you are going to lose some weight and fat too. It's very healthy. See, it's very good both for you and the environment.

I believe we will save the environment if we keep it like this.

Yours faithfully, Chris Paleologos

The Legend of Li Shao

One of many Chinese legends is the "Legend of Li Shao". They say every 1,000 years the dark and light forces arrive.

The dark's forces name is Shao Li and the light's forces name is Li Shao or also known as Ying and Yang. The forces are separately trapped in two humans' bodies. These two humans will meet each other and start an epic battle between good and evil. If the light wins the world will be in goodness and happiness. But, if the dark wins the world will be destoryed!

A weird thing !!!!

Hi Sofy, How are you? I'm writing to you because something really weird happened to me. Last Sunday, I went to the mountains. While I was walking, I saw a dog running toward me. It was trying as hard as it could to tell something to me. It was like it wanted me to leave from there. I smelled smoke in the air and realised that a wildfire was a few metres away. I wasn't worried because four airplanes of the fire department quickly poured many litres of water. The weird part is the dog and why it tried to save me. Right now I have it on my lap and petting it. That's right, I took her home. Her name is Dawn and she's a girl. Has anything weird happened to you too? Write back soon. Chris

Dwarf Hamster

These little rodents are even more adorable than their bigger cousins. There are three species, but my favorite is Campbell’s dwarf hamster. These creatures come from the steppes of China and Russia. They are sold as pets in just about every pet store. Chinese hamsters are also adorable and sometimes called dwarf hamsters, although they are not in the same Genus.

African Pygmy Hedgehog

These mammals are the most adorable members the family Erinaceidae (mostly hedgehogs), even though it is filled with cute critters. You probably have seen one of these before or at least know how they look like. They are vaguely rodent-like mammals that have many small spines on their back. They can roll into a ball to protect themselves. This particular hedgehog has been domesticated, so you can have one for a pet without too much trouble.

Honeybees cant see red

Honeybees have five eyes. You would think that this would enable them to see with a greater level of clarity than other animals, but that isn’t the case—or not exactly. Bees have two large eyes on the sides of their heads and three additional, simpler eyes in the center of their heads to help with flight navigation. However, bees see very few colors.

Experts are not entirely in agreement as to which colors are perceived but the consensus is that these lie mostly within the blue-green color spectrum with some oranges and yellows. This is the light spectrum of 300–650 nanometers—humans see the wavelengths of 400–800 nanometers—and excludes the color red entirely. Bees probably see red as black. The incredibly adaptive feature that helps bees make up for this smaller range? They can see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans. Bees use this spectrum, which is dense at the center of flowers, to guide them to their targets. If deprived of ultraviolet light frequencies, bees lose all interest in foraging unless forced to by hunger.

Ghost bat

This white furred bat is found in tropical rain forests from Mexico to Brazil, and also in the island of Trinidad, in the Caribbean. It is a solitary animal that spends daylight roosting under a palm leaf, and then flies high at night, hunting moths and other flying insects

Night attack

If animals really want to catch us at our weakest, they need only attack us at night. While we’d be running around stubbing our toes and tripping over carpets, they could navigate the darkness with razor-sharp precision and unleash their fury at their convenience.

Just consider snakes. Many of them, such as pit vipers and some boa constrictors, have the equivalent of our infrared goggles built right into their bodies. These organs, which are on both sides of their heads, detect heat and produce a heat map image which the reptiles use to zone in on their prey.

And while the snakes are giving us their worst, the felines could easily join in on the wrath by relying on the special light sensitive cells in the back of their retinas to show them the way. This shiny layer of cells, the tapetum lucidum, reflects light back into the retina, effectively giving cats a second chance to absorb every photon. The reflective nature of these cells is also the reason why cat eyes seem to glow at night, and a pack of glowing cat eyes is enough to freak out any human. It’s true, they can’t see in total darkness, but because their eyes are so efficient, they need only a small sliver of moonlight or even the tiny standby light on your TV to unleash an assault.

Unusual animal friendships

Animals don’t always get along well with each other, especially if at least one of them is a carnivore. But at the Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, a baby chimp, a baby wolf, and two baby tigers have bonded together and become inseparable. But since they’re cubs, it’s only a matter of time until they outgrow their childish fondness and become mortal enemies, right?

Enter another unlikely animal trio: Baloo the bear, Shere Khan the tiger, and Leo the lion. The trio were rescued during a drug raid in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2001 when they were barely three months old. Today, they’re fully grown adults, with Baloo tipping the scales at 450 kilos (1,000 lbs) and Leo and Shere Khan each coming in at 159 kilos (350 lbs). The three animals all live in the same enclosure at the Noah’s Ark Animal Rescue Center in Locust Grove, Georgia, and are the best of friends. They not only eat and sleep together, but also hug, wrestle, frolic, and do all the things normally reserved for a box full of kittens.

Cats and Dogs can blind you

It is well known that close contact with dogs, cats, or their waste can be asource of parasites, and that such parasites may cause illness, especially impaired digestion. However, the results of certain roundworm infections known as Toxicariosis can be much more serious. Infection by the nematode parasite responsible for Toxicariosis often occurs through waste-contaminated soil or physical contact with dogs and sometimes cats. The debilitating Toxicariosis organism may trigger blindness if not properly treated. In addition to fevers and breathing difficulty, advanced cases of infection have been known to cause detachment of the retinas, leading to potentially permanent and serious ocular damage. While only a few cases are reported every year in Britain, thousands of cases of infection occur in the United States. Proper hand-washing can greatly mitigate the threat.

Natural phenomena: Columnar basalt

At some point in time, basalt looked at itself in the mirror and realized that if it ever wanted to be noticed by the cool kids in nature (us), it would have to step up its game. And so, much like the unpopular girl who is secretly gorgeous when she takes her glasses off, basalt showed the world what it was capable of—by arranging itself into columns.

Admittedly, on the surface this doesn’t seem all that impressive—columns aren’t traditionally very exciting—but when put together into a sprawling honeycomb, this type of basalt is a sight to behold. The unique formations are a result of lava flows cracking as they cool, in a perpendicular direction to the original flow. Columnar basalt clusters can be found all over the world—and then, naturally, climbed.

Natural phenomena: Snow donuts

You know how when you were a kid, and it snowed outside, the first thing you did was roll up a nice big snowball? You either threw it at somebody’s face or made a snowman with it (depending on what type of kid you were), but that’s not the important part of the memory right now. The important thing—the fantastic thing—is that nature has its own way of rolling snowballs: snow donuts. These rare shapes are formed—under perfect temperature conditions only—when a mass of snow either falls or is blown by the wind. If it manages to catch on to some other snow, and gravity or the wind is in its favor, then the new snowball will roll itself in the exact same way we all used to. In this case, though, the middles tend to collapse to create a donut shape, which can end up as tall as 26 inches (66 centimeters)

Natural phenomena: Penitentes

Here’s another cool ice formation, about as far away from underwater as you can get—high in the mountains. These spiky fields of ice are called penitentes, and each individual shard can be up to a whopping 13 feet (4 meters) high. These intimidating snow structures are formed in high-altitude areas with low humidity, such as the glaciers of the Andes mountains. If the conditions are right, the sun’s rays are so hot that they can actually sublimate fields of snow—meaning that the frozen water vaporizes without ever becoming a liquid. This leads to slight pockets in the ice, which—thanks to their shape—actually end up attracting even more heat. The sharp spikes, then, are just the lucky parts of the snowfield that the sun didn’t target for complete and utter annihilation.

Natural phenomena: Sun dogs

Here’s another phenomenon that has to do with ice crystals in the atmosphere. Like fire rainbows, sun dogs are massive halos in the sky as a result of light refraction—though in this case, they appear to actually encircle the sun. Sun dogs can be recognized by the two distinctive bright spots on either side of the halo—if these blips are bright enough, it can even look like there are three suns in the sky, all side by side. And the good news is that this happens all the time, all over the world, so you’ll be able to start seeing them if you look closely enough (especially when the sun is low in the sky). Just remember that if you look closely enough at the sun for too long, you won’t be able to see much of anything. Ever. So try to be careful.