Student Life

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

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...

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 !

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 !

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

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.

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?

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.

As you get into higher grades, many of your friends will start working, get their own money and buy things you’d never be able to afford with your pocket money. Do you feel jealous? Did you start to have an urge to work as soon as you can? You already wrote the list of things you are going to buy after you start working? Yes, working while in school is very popular and it’s what many students do.

About 80% of my friends are working as part-time in various places. However, some people seem to think that working while in high school is not beneficial for the students. Do YOU agree? It’s not a simple, one-answer question. There are pros and cons of working while studying and here are some examples: