Student Life

Resist Criticizing
 

One of the easiest habits to fall into is to criticize others. Why is that? Unfortunately the most common reason has to do with our own self worth issues. Mostly we do it unconsciously, so let's make a conscious decision now. When I notice that I am criticizing someone, I am going to stop and examine myself. Am I focused on maximizing my progression down my own path toward my own special purpose? Am I inspired by my own purpose? Have I identified my purpose.

Earth Day 2010
 

Earth Day is on April the 22 which is suppose to be...today!! 2010 is the year of CHANGE. We must go towards Green Thinking everyday!! At Burnaby South, The Green Team is hosting Earth Week from April 19 to 25, there are unique events : T-shirt sale that will support Green Team's School Organic Garden Project. Earth Day be Green , which is on April the 22. Moneyless Monday, Turn-of Power Tuesday, Walk to school Wednesday, No Trash Thursday, Good Food Friday and GO Green At Home: Sustainable Saturday and Sunday. Earth Day should be EVERYDAY, Well, it is Earth Days everyday for me!!

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BC Green Games Voting Time !!
 

Hello Everyone !! Just an update on Burnaby South Secondary School's GREEN TEAM!! We have completed our BC Green Games Projects !! YAY!! CHEERS!!

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Take Action Time!!
 

Helloo everyone !! More updates on Burnaby South Secondary Schools' Green Team !! We started our Composting Program !! For those who does not know what composting is, it's a solution to reduce garbage by collecting fruit and vegetable wastes such as: Apple cores, Banana peels, orange peels, egg shells, coffee grinds...and many many more !! EXCEPT Dairy Products : yogurt. cheese...

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BC Green Games
 

Hello other schools of BC. Our school just joined the BC GREEN GAMES competition. This is our first time. Just wondering if you have joined yet?! If not, you still have till Dec.1 to register! So get your Green Team, Environment Club, Animal Club...etc together and join the contest !! Go to : www.bcgreengames.ca to register and view 2009's entries !! GOOD LUCK !

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BC Green Games
 

Hello other schools of BC. Our school just joined the BC GREEN GAMES compitition. This is our first time. Just wondering if you have joined yet?! If not, you still have till Dec.1 to register! So get your Green Team, Environment Club, Animal Club...etc together and join the contest !! Go to : www.bcgreengames.ca to register and view 2009's entries !! GOOD LUCK !

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Green Team Presentation Booth
 

A picture of our Green Team presentation booth at the Grade 8 Retreat.

Green Team Club
 

Greetings !! This year our school'Green Team club is really successful !! For the previous years, we only had around 5 participants in Green Team, BUT this year ( 2009-2010 ) We invited more than 100 students to consider joining Green Team by doing presentations. 90 people from different grades signed up and more than 60 people came to our first official meeting. :D Yes, the club sponser teachers and I are very joyful over this vast change to our club's population.

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How The Internet Age Made Us Dumber and Lazier
 

Technology has taken over our world and our minds. Think I’m wrong? Check all that apply to you:

  • You have a TV
  • You own a computer
  • You keep a cellphone
  • You need a calculator to answer simple math
  • You have used “google”, “blog” or “facebook” in a sentence at least once
  • You don’t read books, you read e-books

If you checked one or more, your life is definitely ruled by machines. Truthfully, technology has made our lives efficient and modernized. It has changed how we work, travel and learn. It makes communication with others and renders long division obsolete. However is this really a good thing? Have we really become more efficient than we were thirty years ago, or has our reliance on machines just made us plain lazy and dumb?

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Too Much Attention?
 

Today, I found that TV was making a celebrity named Jessica Simpson so famous, because she was on TV for 6 hours. 6 HOURS!? Isn’t it so weird and unacceptable that only one person who is not important as much as George Bush was on TV for 6 hours in consecutive? Nevertheless, now it is neither weird nor unacceptable for audiences, some even would enjoy watching celebrities or people who are on TV again. For example, the daughter of the president of Hilton Hotel got so famous just because the media liked her and made her be on TV. I think the media, which are supposed to inform us with proper and selective information are not as normal as years before that I’ve never seen her. So, I agree that the media pay too much attention to the personal lives; it can ruin some people’s private lives and it can make less important the people who supposed to be more important than the people who are on TV.

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