Cointha’s Blog

I’m really sorry but if you are waiting for more posts on this blog, it is technically not in use anymore except for tiny little notices like this!

Go to my new blog at:

http://cointhaw.edublogs.org

That will take you there!

Thanks!

Hey Everyone!!!

I have just started my new blog with Edublogs!! It is going to be for next year as this blog now is basically jus a school blog I’ve had that my teacher Mrs C started up for me and my other classmates! So I have now created another blog which will be the one I’m using, though this blog will still exist! I am still working out some things on it as it is an Edublog, instead of a Learnerblog which I am currently using!

The address for my new blog is:

http://cointhaw.edublogs.org

Hope you go and visit it!

See ya!!

Cointha 

Hi everyone!!

I’m sooooooo sorry, you probably thought I had disappeared or something, as I haven’t written any posts or commented on anyone’s blogs for AGES!!!! This was because I’ve been in Canberra, the capital of Australia, for the last week with the grade 6 students from my school and so therefore couldn’t do anything on the computer because we didn’t have access to them!

I had an AWESOME time in Canberra but it was over in a blink! We went to lots of different tourist sites and must-sees in Canberra! One of the best things there was Questacon which has a big vertical slide and a roller-coaster simulator and other great things!

Another high-light was the old and new Parliament houses. We got to sit in the audience seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate House in the Australian Parliament House and we actually were allowed to sit in the seats where all the politicians sat in Old Parliament house! Though we weren’t allowed to even touch the seat of the Speaker as it was too old and well protected.

Anyways, I am going to put on another post soon about our Canberra camp soon as this is just a post to tell you about why there were no new posts being added to my blog for a while!

Oh, by the way, if you are looking for more information on Canberra, you can click here!

See ya!

Cointha xx

This is my new pet monkey Ferdinand!!

If you want one of these critters just click here! Then customise and adopt your very own pet! Unfortunately, it is not as easy to upload these widgets on Learnerblogs but if you are on Edublogs, you are all lucky ducks! To view Ferdinand you will have to click on him which will take you to a different window to see him moving through the branches and feed him bananas. It’s quite tragic, well, not all that tragic, but it is very tragic that you can not play with him right here. LOL!! Sorry………………….

But still, we have to get over these things so, click on him and you can feed him and watch him go!!

Bye!! Hope you enjoy him!!

Cointha!

Hi guys!

As part of the Student Blogging Competition, one of the tasks is to write about yourself which I hadnt done yet and gone onto other tasks so here is my post about myself:

I am a 12 year old girl who is in grade 6 this year and my name is Cointha.

The name Cointha is actually Egyptian but while my parents were overseas thirteen years ago they met a Dutch couple and the womans name was Cointha and they became good friends with them so when they came back from their holiday and had me, they named me Cointha after the Dutch lady with the Egyptian name. Her name was Egyptian because her mother was looking for an unusual name to give to her daughter! So it is all very complicated!

Cointha looks like it is pronounced coin-tha but it actually has a silent ‘H’ and so it is pronounced co-in-ta. Sort of like Cowinta! LOL!!

Well enough about my name for now!

I am 156cm tall or 1.56m. I have dark brown, thick, wavy hair and green eyes. (I think! Because my eyecolour has been known to change colour! Ha ha!)

My ancestors were Italian, English, Scottish and Spanish. So a mixture.

I live in a small town in Victoria, Australia and am only a 2 hours drive from Melbourne. I go to a public school and am in grade 5/6C. You can visit my class blog at http://56c2008.edublogs.org

I have a cat named Lucky and a dog named Sacha. They are both great!

This is my puppy Sacha!!

Isn’t she cute!!!!!!!!!

The footy team I barrack for in AFL (Australian Football League) is the Western Bulldogs. My favourite players are Brad Johnston, Adam Cooney and Daniel Giansiracusa. GO DOGS!!!

 I have lots of cousins who mostly all live in Melborne or Geelong but some live in NSW and only 3 of them live in my town! But I still go down to visit the ones who live further away!

I have a mum and dad and a younger brother called Daniel and he can be really annoying at times!! Like all brothers! :(

I like swimming, playing netball, reading, dancing, writing, listening to music, doing artistic things like painting, blogging of course, making videos/movies with friends, skiing, snorkelling, anything really!

My favourite holidays that I’ve been on are especially when I went on my really long holiday from January to August around Europe and also when I went to the Whit Sunday Islands in Queensland for a month and went sailing and snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef a few times and I spent nearly everyday on the beach either paddling through the water or body boarding on the waves! It was soooooooooooo fun!!!!!!! And it was great weather every single day!

 www.totaltravel.com.au

There are heaps other things about me but I cant exactly write EVERYTHING here on this post so I will stop and leave you guessing for the rest!

So you probably know a lot more about me now!

Cointha

stubc08

Hey all you bloggers!

This post is all about where I live!

OK, most of you know I am Australian right? Well, if you didn’t, then now you know!

I really think Australia is a great country to live in! Though some people who live overseas do not want to come to Australia because of a fear of snakes, spiders and crocodiles! Ha ha! When I was travelling through Europe a lot of people said this and that they are scared of coming to Australia because, well, they might get eaten by a croc or something!!

Now all you bloggers who are not Aussies, I assure you, you are not going to die from a snake bit, spider bite, or a shark ripping off your head if you come Down Under! It is completely safe! You will only come across a crocodile if you go to the outback in some parts of the country and go searching for them if you are someone like Steve Irwin was! Or, if you see them in a zoo! Ha ha!

Now that is just a bit about the safety of crocodiles, now to get back to what I was trying to say!

Australia is divided up into different areas which are the states and territories. They are:

Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the A.C.T (Australian Capital Territory.)

The A.C.T is inside NSW (New South Wales) and holds Canberra, which is the capital city and is the home of Old Parliament House and New Parliament House.

I live in the state of Victoria. It is in the south east, below NSW but above Tasmania.

It is a very small state compared to some of the others but it is still a great place to visit if you are touring Australia as it is the home to Melbourne, Victorias capital and in Melbourne you can visit lots of great tourist spots like Federation Square, Old Melbourne Gaol, Melbourne Zoo and Aquarium, Crown Casino and lots, lots more!

Melbourne city at night!

www.latrobe.edu.au

The population of Victoria is 5,205,200, as was estimated at the end of June last year (2007). But in about a decade, because of the baby boom that is going on, there will be heaps more people! Australia doesnt really have a big, big population compared to say England, where everyone is squished together! We have lots of space and plenty of room to let in new refugees and imigrants from overseas!

These are some tourist attractions you might like to visit in Victoria:

#1. Ballarat, where you can discover the history of this maginificent place and maybe go to Sovereign Hill where you can search for gold, walk through gold mining caves, see lots of old fashioned things that are set up there for you to feel like you are back in the gold rush times and you can watch a blacksmith melt gold and turn it into a wonderful, blinding, its so bright, bar of pure gold!

#2. Mount Buller and Mount Hotham, two marvellous mountains with fantastic ski resorts and snowfields for you to try new things like skiing, snowboarding and tobbogoning! Or even just taking in the mind-blowing scenery of the snow covered mountains and the chairlifts running up and down the hills!

You can also go onto this website if you click here and it will tell you about more tourist sites and places that are recommended to visit. There are HEAPS of things you can do in Victoria even though it is just a small state! Another thing you might consider doing is going down to the Murray River and taking a steam boat ride or just have a walk along the bank. It is also good to go to any Australian wildlife parks eg. Melbourne Zoo if you want to see the different sorts of animals we have here in Australia like kangaroos, koalas, wombats, emus etc.

If you are coming to Australia, or you live in Australia and you are coming to Victoria these places I have mentioned might become part of your trip!

Here are a few more websites to find out more about Victoria:

Major Tourist Attractions

Victorias Tourist Sites

Tourism Sites Victoria

Cointha

stubc08

Hey everyone!

Well were’nt those past few weeks frustrating? Not being able to get on our blogs, or other peoples blogs or more to say, anyone who is on Learnerblogs!

My teacher sent several E-mails to the Learnerblogs company to remind them to fix all the problems preventing us from getting on our blogs and not being able to visit others blogs and I’m sure many other people E-mailed them too!

But, I got on today just to check if they had fixed the problem and………………….

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I could get on my blog and start blogging again! So everyone, lets get back to writing posts and leaving coments again, now that, that terrible problem is finally fixed!

Cointha

Well,

The votes have come in for the post on Your Opinion about what you’d rather do in your spare time!

So, the viewers left their thoughts and…………………………

Listening to music ended up with 3 votes and I must say, quite a few of them were very close!

I think it is a very good choice and I thank all you guys who voted!

Well, that poll is over soooooooooo……………..

Here is the next thing for you to think over and leave a comment about:

What would have been your most embarrasing moment and what happened?

This may take a while to think about. Hope you share your stories!

Blushing with embarrasment!

Cointha

Hey everyone!

Well as I found out from various comments, lots of people want to know about my trip around Europe!!

So…………………

I am going to put on more posts about some of the fascinating places I went to! Here are some pretty good photos that might interest you:

  This is a photo of me sitting on a big pile of boulders in Dartmoor with the view of the beautiful countryside behind me! Dartmoor is a very interesting, historical place!

The Tower Bridge!

This magnificent bridge is of course very remarkable and you would probably have heard somewhere that this is the London Bridge. But no, the London Bridge is not quite as spectacular as this! This is the Tower Bridge and on my last day of my trip overseas I went to London and visited this very famous bridge, which has a great view of the city all around!

The Eiffel Tower/ le Tour Eiffel

Well of course you all would have seen a picture, photo or at least SOMETHING about this marvellous tower because it is one of the most famous buildings in the world! When I went to the Eiffel Tower it was winter so before we took the elevator up it was quite cold! But we soon realised that was nothing compared to when you were up there because it had the added extra wind! But other than the cold and the wind it was a fantastic view and it was mind-blowing that I was actually standing on the Eiffel Tower!

Did you know, that while we were there, on the first floor they had an ice sculpture of the Eiffel Tower which was about five metres high! I didn’t actually realise it was made from ice when I first touched it because it wasn’t much colder than the temperature! He he! 8-|

I must admit, that it was higher than it looked when you were far away from it! It especially looked high when you were right down below it, looking upwards! But I do strongly recommend that you visit the Eiffel Tower someday if you get the chance to go to Paris!

So there are just a few little photos to show you some places I’ve been to, yet there are heaps, heaps more!

Hope you like them!

Cointha

Fly, Turn Invisible or Breathe Underwater???

 OK, so this is one of those questions you are always asked but when it comes down to the answer, there is usually a tie between turning invisible and being able to fly! Though being able to fly is mostly what people will say! And then there are a couple of people who say they would prefer to be able to breathe underwater. I must say, it would be best to be able to do all of these things but when you are asked if you had to pick one, what would it be??? Post your comments and tell us what you would choose if you could have any of these super powers!

Remember the choices are:  

FLY, which would be great as you could see all across the land and it could be very helpful in lots of places where you need to get away or go somewhere through a high place etc. But the main thing would be that flying would seem so fun!

Breathe Underwater, you could swim through the ocean and you could go down between the coral and fish for ages, deep down without worrying about losing your breath. And if you were in a ship and it sunk you would survive because if you got tired and your head sunk under the water, you would still be able to breathe and it would help a lot more in the swimmimg races in the Olympics!

 or………………

Turning Invisible, you could do so many things that are fun and adventurous like either sneaky, annoying, funny or helpful things! I’m sure you could imagine all that stuff that you would do if you could turn invisible any time you liked!

Well there are the choices and remember, think it over so that you really decide what YOU would turn into! So share what you think, this is YOUR opinion and leave a comment to say which one you would be!

Bye!

From the writer of all the posts on this blog,

 Cointha