Rentreé

Today, I had to go to school to get my schedule and get some informations from my Class Director. The swine flu was the finnishing theme of the presentation; we were told some measures we should take as to prevent the flu from spredding inside the school, and from the school to its outside.

I left school having a lift from a friend of mine; I stayed at his home until 3 o’clock playing a Stratego (my first time). When still at his home another friend texted me suggesting I’d join her and others at school. After leaving my friend’s home at 3 p.m., I came home, edited my schedule on the pc, and, afterwards I went school to meet my friends. I stayed there until 6.25, after which I returned home once again.

I won’t write in detail, because I’d have to write a bit of my heart here. Bye.

Storm

Hi, all. It’s 8:22 in the morning an it’s a completly crazy storm outside. Today I have plans of going to a swimming pool with some friends, but now it really seems we have to change or cancel our plans. The thing is: it seems everyone’s still asleep, meaning it is a bit more difficult to make plans changes. The swimming pool we planed to go to is uncovered, obviously meaning it is a bit insane to go there with a thunderstorm outside and a hail fall.
This is how the weather is right now:

It is now “light rain” but it is still cloudy and thundering.
The good news, right now, are I’ve just been able to contact one of my friends through texting and suggested that we’d go to C. Colombo instead; she said she was going to contact the others.

More texting: it seems we’re not going anywhere after all. Anyway, tomorrow I have to go to school to get info on my schedule. It seems some of my friends were already planning to go to Colombo, tomorrow before going to school; therefore, they don’t feel like going there today. They say tomorrow I can go with them too.

My friend Catarina stated the following about this stormy rain:

Isto é um sinal divino que diz: “Chavalos, amanhã já tem aulas, logo vistam-se de preto e acendam uma vela em vez de irem curtir para as piscinas”

translated:

This is a divine signal saying: “Kids, tomorrow you have classes already; therefore, dress in black and light a candle, instead of going tan in the pools.

That is all I have to say for now. See ya ‘ll.

Classes almost starting

Today, in the morning, I went to my school in order to get my books for this year. I came back home by bus, and, I must say, the plastic sack in which I brought the books home was so heavy that I nearly have lost my precious fingers. Once at home, I removed the books from the sack and took a look at them, not unwrapping them from the plastics they are wrapped in.

Sometime later, I came to my computer and I found that a friend of who, collaborated with me in our last school year’s blog development, was online. We had already made some plans about developing a blog for our class this year, but, this time, unlike the last year’s blog, this one shall be creating from nothing at all. I mean, this time we create not only insert information into the blog, but, first, we have to create HTML model pages and articles and CSS stylesheets. I had already created both an article and a page model, when classes finished; but, although I really liked the article model I did no like the page model. What I did today was fully recreating a page model.

That is how it now is. In that image it can seem rather simple once we’ve not put it into use yet and it lacks the links space (I haven’t done that because I’m not sure where to put them; I’m going to ask my friend where he thinks I shall put them, either on one of the side columns, on top or bottom). I think this is pretty good, considering that three months ago I knew almost nothing about HTML language and nothing at all about CSS. I’m not content with the title, though. I don’t want it to be too distant to the text but I don’t want it to be so close to the column to top, as it is now, either. In that picture a “span” tag is being used; and the distance to the text is just fine; on the other hand, it is too close to the column’s top. Using a customized “h1″ tag makes it look like this,

which my mind has been considering too away from the text (now that I look at it again, it seems just fine).

Well, I haven’t got any more time to write right now. Bye all.

I’ll Make a Man Out of You

I’m writing this post only to share a song some of you might know. It is called I’ll Make a Man Out of You and it is featured in Walt Disney Pictures’ Mulan animated movie, released in 1998. This is, by many, considered the best song of the movie.

In my opinion, this video perfectly shows how group strenght and motivation can be important when learning, and how you must work hard to reach some objectives. Maybe this should even be shown to high school students when starting their school year.

The song actually starts around 1:07 video time, but I think it is worth watching the rest. Here you have the lyrics.