Nicholas’ Soccer Blog

Hi Readers,

I have been blogging for quite some time now and I have visited a lot of blogs. One of my favorite blogs is Goal! by Michael. I like it because I am a soccer fan and that blog is also about soccer!

The other blog that is my favorite would be Technology in our classroom by Ms.Wyatt because she always has challenges and activities on her blog for her readers to participate in.

Well those are my two favorite blogs leave a comment and tell me what blog is your favorite.

I would probably not want to be a drum set. The reason is who wants to get beaten up by sticks (drumsticks) all day. Also a big boulder (foot pedal) would be smashing into me as my heart beat!

I doubt I would enjoy being a flute either because I would be all happy with my performance and everything but then the flute player would destroy me (take me apart for storage). Spit… oh I hate spit. One harsh note and loogies are all over the place.

Bees! I hate them! Why am I always being played outside. Those bees make me sound terrible when they go through me! By the way, I am now a Saxaphone and as you can tell not enjoying being this instrument either.

This was a quick imaginary post by Nicholas. Leave a comment and describe the downsides of being an instrument!

Photo by, fvancini

Hi Readers,

On the weekend I was watching the NBA All-Star Weekend. It was held in Phoenix (home of the Phoenix Suns). Nate Robinson won the slam dunk compotition. He jumped over Dwight Howard (who is over seven feet tall) and dunked. The rookie (Daequan Cook) of the Miami Heat won the three-point shootout, defeating the two-time defending champion Jason Kapono. Derick Rose of the Chicago Bulls won the skills competition and finished with an awesome dunk to show of his skills. The Shooting Stars competition was won by team Detroit.

The next day was the All-Star Game (West vs East). East had won the last three out of four before the game started. Although east had won most of the games lately west defeated them with a blowout of 146-119. The funny thing is East was leading 20-10 at one point of the game. Before the All-Star game began Shaquille O’Neil did an entering dance with the “Wokojobies”. I have no idea why the dance group is called the wokojobies by the way.

The All-Star game was extremely cool. Shaquille O’Neil had a nice give and go through the legs of Dwight Howard and then he performed a slam-dunk. During the half time show the U.S. national basketball team players were presented with rings for their gold medal accomplishment in the 2008 summer olympics. Also just before the end of the game all the players stepped aside and let Lebron James have a dunk. He put the ball of the backboard then powered it down with an impressive dunk.

Take a look at videos, photos and more information on the NBA All-Star weekend by clicking here.

Hi Readers,

I was reading a post by Sue Waters called- “The Edublogger First Birthday Celebration”

She tells her readers to write a post about one of her many choices. I chose “Tips For Building a Blog Audience”.

I am not an expert but I will tell you how I build my blog’s audience.

1. The first thing a think about when trying to attract visitors to my blog is how are they going to know my blog even exists if I don’t leave a comment on their blog. Therefore the more comments you leave, the more comments and visits you will receive (sort of like the be nice and people will be nice to you theory if you know what I’m talking about).
2. The second most important thing for building a blog audience is leave the readers with an easy way to leave a comment. For example in the post I wrote before this about my soccer cleats and also in many others posts I always remember to put in a question at the end or somewhere in my piece of writing. If my post was just a story that would make the reader have to think much harder, and therefore he or she might just move on to another post. If there was a question in the post the reader could simply… answer the question.
3. Another minor way to attract an audience is to have an interesting avatar for when you leave comment. What I mean by that is if you have a avatar with a pizza on it maybe the person who sees your avatar will think you are into food and maybe that person is to, or if you have a soccer player avatar like me the person might assume you are into soccer.

I hope you this post helped you with building your blog audience! If you have any tips for me leave a comment and let me know. Thank You for reading!

Photo- “Business Man on Computer” by, kylemac

Hi Readers,

I don’t think I have ever mentioned my cleats were getting way to small and my dad said he would get me bran new ones. Well, anyways I was looking at cleats on the internet and these nice orange, black and silver cleats got my eye they were Nike total 90 lasers.

I was so excited (they were on sale). I quickly brought my dad over to the internet and told him how much I liked those cleats. My dad ordered them right away. Unfortunately they had to be shipped from the U.S. Yet obviously I was willing to wait.

The exciting thing is they just arrived to days ago! I already wore them to a game and played awesome.

The cleats I have are not the same colour as the ones shown in the picture above. My cleats are mostly black with a silver front and orange swoosh and studs.

This was just a quick post about what’s happening in my life. Leave a comment or write a post and link to this post and let me know about sports equipment you have received or purchased.

Hi Readers,

Do you have a special place?

Today our class was reading a very well written post by Stora Ines on Bringing us Together called “A Wonderful Place“. It inspired me to write this post.

I would like to congratulate my room for being rated the number 1 favorite place of mine. In my room I have a Wii. I just received my Wii for my birthday as you might of read in one of my previous posts. I have a T.V. in my bedroom to play the games on. Also because some nights I just put in a movie in my T.V. and just sit there with a cozy blanket watching one of my favorite shows.

Another thing I like about my room is my bed. I love my bed because I just got new sheets. Also I fall asleep better for some reason. Do you like your bed? What is special about it?

I would have to say my absolute favorite part of my room is my trophy shelf of my soccer trophy. The reason is they bring back memories of my favorite thing to do…. Soccer! I have trophies from my old town which I won with my old friends, therefore it can also be quite emotional. Do you have trophies of a sport you like? Also which part of your room is your favorite part?

The Forest was another favorite place of mine. It was the grouping of trees in my old house’s backyard. I would always go sit by one of the biggest trees eating my sandwich and listening to the whistle of the trees as the wind passes by. Memories there weren’t always fortunate, because one of the days I was hanging out there I got a nail in my foot. There was a wooden board with a nail sticking right out of it! I obviously didn’t know until my foot was puncture. Thank goodness it was all OK.

Where is your favorite place? What is it like? Leave a comment and let me know.

Photo Credits:

Wii Console- by, pickledshark

Bedroom- by, caribb

Thanks for reading!