This is the second year of our simulated country, and has gone by quickly, even though we have fixed some things, not all the laws were followed by government or citizen. This is a problem as to improve we need to recognize these mistakes and fix them, like how not all the bills have been passed in both first and second year. A few new parties are forming to try to help run our third year in Zugzwang but again, the same problems keep occurring like not building another power plant or farm, and not being able to evenly distribute all of the food and power and extra units needed for survival, because there are too many people that need too many things. This next year i hope we will have things more organized with more trustworthy leaders running our house of commons who can actually bring about our problems in our country and fix them as opposed to the last 2 years of our country where so many things have been missed and unnoticed. Let's hope this third year will be more prosporous with less deaths and laws broken 

The government complains about teenagers not getting enough sleep. Several times the government has contemplated making school times start later and end later, so that students can get enough sleep to survive the day without falling asleep in every class. Every time, they drop it because they think it is the students fault for this. Yes, we have lots of time to sleep, assuming you slept right when you got home until 7:20 the next morning to get dressed for the bus ride to school, which comes at 7:30 and you get to school at 8:00. You are also expected by teachers to do lots of homework each day for each class, you also have to eat, shower, are encouraged to have some physical activity each day, and in the morning you are expected to have a nutritious breakfast which would take at least 35 minutes to make and eat, then 2-5 more to brush teeth, and whatever else you may need to do like brush your hair or put on make-up or whatever which would take another 10 minutes or so. So i think that you do not have enough time to do what is expected of you and get enough sleep (8 hours per night) to properly function each and every day.

The first year of our simulated country in my opinion went pretty bad, considering almost 40 people in our country died. This year went pretty slow because all of us are still figuring out what they have to do to be successful. Hopefully this year our laws and government will be a lot more useful so not very many people die...

When I hear “coming home”, I think about my family and all of us eating together at our dinner table talking about our day. I think it means having a loving and kind family who cares about each other, a roof over their heads, and food on the table. I really think it's very important to have a family like this because then you have the love and support of your friends and family and this means you can be successful a lot easier than people who don't have loving families.

This morning, the 155th reported motor vehicle crash was called in to Saskatchewan's police department due to a horrible snow storm dropping 20cm of snow over most of Saskatchewan.
Alex Di Grazia quoted- "I've driven through blizzards and horrible conditions but this-- much worse than i expected." many kids couldn't get to school the next day due to the massive amount of snow on the floor. A bus that kids were on that were going to their band trip had crashed, and a small city took them in and gave them shelter and food until it was well enough to go home. I think this community that brought the kids in were very generous and this should be the behavior of towns, cities, provinces, and countries all over the world.

Yesterday, our class started the process of creating our own virtual country. In order for this to work, we as a class need to work together to create a society that meets all the demands of a normal developing country. I think this will be a really unique and fun way to help us learn about politics, things our governments do for us, and allow us to compete with each other to become the stronger group or individual than the others. I'm really excited to start bidding on the hexes we need to start building up our country, and i hope we do well enough for a long enough time, so that everyone has fun with this and gets something good out of the experience.

We discussed feminism in class a few days ago 'cause of someones shirt. Mr. Kemp said women earn 80 cents per $1 that a man makes; that's a lot of money. I think this is still a big problem in modern day society because I truly think men and women should be equal. Sure men are good at some things, but so are women, and it's completely unfair that women still earn much less than men make per hour. My dad used to tell me "if the women are happy, everyone's happy" and i think it would be a really big step in humanity for everyone if women gained the rights to be equally as important in society and this would make a lot of women happy throughout the world.

This is my standing on the political compass. Kemp says this means anyone in the lower left area is Canadian. Hope that's a good thing.