Upcoming Movies to Watch- by Grace

Do you feel like you’re sick and tired of school homework and you’re just longing for a break? Well, you can look forward to the week-long October Break which stretches from the 18^th to the 26^th of October. In fact, you might already be planning things to do during this break.

One of the things you might want to do is catch a few movies that come out in October. Here are a few you might want to check out.

On October the 3^rd, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, a Walt Disney Pictures film, will be released. It’s about a Chihuahua, Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore), from Beverly Hills who lives the high life and doesn’t even notice Papi, a fellow Chihuahua who’s “head over paws” in love with her, until she gets lost in Mexico and Papi sets out to find her. Sounds like an Elementary/Middle School-aged romance-cum-adventure lover’s catch!

For those who love adventure and fantasy, here’s City of Ember, about a city where people live in a seemingly endless world of glittery lights. However, the city’s once-powerful generator of light is beginning to fail, and two teenagers must search Ember as fast as possible to unlock the mystery behind the city’s existence, and help the people to escape before they are all thrown into eternal darkness. This film stars Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, and Tim Robbins, amongst others. Adventure seekers and fantasy lovers out there, this is a film for you!

Last but not least there’s something more people might have heard about- High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which is slated to come out on the 24^th of October. Join Zac, Vanessa, Ashley, Lucas, Corbin, Monique and the rest of the HSM cast in the third (and allegedly final) installment of the Disney phenomenon, where a basketball championship, prom and spring musical take place. If you liked the first two movies in the series, why not check this out?

With this plethora of upcoming movies available for you on the Internet, you can be more than ready when October Break swings around…

All information and pictures from upcoming films are taken from http://www.comingsoon.net/movies.php.

Operation Smile by Raimy

Join the Operation Smile club and help people with cleft pallette. This is an all year project for the whole middle school if you choose to do it. Mrs. Baker is the advisor that works with this club, so go ahead and talk to her.

ISB started emphasizing the importance of smiling 5 years ago. The first thing that came up was called Smile Week, when the students thought about how healthy it is to laugh, to smile, and then they thought, how good it would feel to give someone else a smile?

Operation smile is a project known world-wide, and supported by lots of different schools. Surgery is given to children and adults with facial deformities called Cleft Pallette, and Cleft Lip. This is when the roof of your mouth remains split open. Babies with these deformities usually don’t grow that much because they cannot hold and suck their bottles. It’s sad to think that the adults who come to get surgery have had the trouble of eating and speaking through their whole life. A group of doctors, dentists, nurses, and speech therapists come to help the children. The operation costs about 8,000 baht per person. Last year, the students working for Operation Smile raised almost 800,000 baht. There were bake sales, garage sales, and two sixth graders had a recital and everyone who came to watch paid.

Operation Smile is a great way to get involved. For more information, you can google “operation smile,” and find out more about it! Give people a normal smile on their face!

Your Class Next Term? By Sasha

Thinking about what to do next quarter for a class? Look no further than this class, as it’s a possible choice for you. This class teaches you the skills needed to achieve a good piece of improvisation, something you will heavily elaborate on during your time in this class. Just ask the many people who have been in this class for one or two years, and then see how much they compliment this class. In fact, I am taking it this quarter, only to find a whole new side to classes, as this class really brings out the real you. You basically make new friends and have fun! The benefit to this class is that you learn how to jump into a situation immediately, and can improvise different things, which can teach you about teamwork, and most importantly how to handle real-life situations.

I took this class and wondered what I was supposed to do. I took this class in my previous school and it was downright horrible. I expected more or less here, but now that I’ve seen it, it has changed me forever. It will surely do the same for you too. Consider this class for next quarter, because this class is DRAMA THEATER SPORTS!!!!

FLASH DRIVES BY TIM

What are these small miraculous little gadgets good for? Well first of all they are good ways to load all kinds of stuff: homework, essays, reports, etc. These flash drives can store up to millions of projects depending on what how big the flash drive is. They have 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and even 8GB!

I think these things are miracles, but let’s see how some other people reacted.

Sasha said, “Flash drives are very useful, and have knocked floppy disks out of business with their

compact design.”

Afek calmly described them as miracles.

Ethan said, “I love flash drives. One of my flash drives is wrapped up in a double mint gum wrapper.

People keep asking me where I got it.”

Robbie said, “I wish I had cooler flash drives, all of mine are so old!”

As you can see some people like them and some people don’t. Flash drives come in all different shapes and sizes:

Baseball

Basketball

WII Remote

Dominoes

Animals

Bomb

Cars

Flexible

Phone

There are so many flash drives to choose from so hurry up and get yours today.

Google's New Web Browser, Chrome by: Robbie

Google has just come out with a new web browser, Chrome. Many people have downloaded it just because it’s from Google, like I did. Google chrome is not the most appealing web browser like Opera, internet explorer, Firefox, and Safari, but it has many shortcuts that makes surfing the web easier.

If you have multiple tabs open in one window, when one crashes, none of the other tabs crash. This has happened to me many times with Firefox and Internet explorer, so this will save time. Google put the tab buttons above the address bar, not below like every other browser has done. The default home page for the browser and the new tab page has the most visited sites in little thumbnails. To the right there are recently closed tabs. This makes getting to a site easy, if you just open the browser up or open a new tab.

In the address bar, when you are typing in a URL address, it gives suggestions, even if you haven’t been to the site on that computer. Also, if you want to search Google, but aren’t at the Google site, type what you want to search in the address bar, it searches Google if there is not a www. or .com, .org, etc. this is handy because in other browsers the Google toolbar takes up a lot of space in the browser.

It’s more fun if you learn it yourself, so go and download Google chrome, for FREE. I recommend watching the tutorial videos and learn all the cool little things that make this browser better than the rest.

Protest Effect on Schools in Bangkok - Toey

The schools in Bangkok were closed on the 3^rd and 4^th of September. Some of them remain closed on the 5^th. Why? Because of the protests going on in Bangkok. This is causing the school faculties to think that it would be dangerous for students that may have to pass through the mob because it could be along their usual path back and forth to school. At first, the protestors had not intended to have it become a violent cause, but it seems like it has become more than they can handle. Parents in Bangkok are disappointed that their children cannot attend school regularly because of politics, but the protestors do not look like they are going to give up until they get what they have been asking for. Clashes between the pro- and anti-government supporters left one man dead and 45 injured, and this is why the City Hall ordered, as a precaution, for 435 public schools to remain closed for three days; Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. However, ISB is still open because we are far away from the hectic situation and there isn’t much danger or harm towards us currently.

Video Games Good or Bad- Christian

Video games are fun, we all know that. It is not bad to play for an hour. It is actually good for reflexes and things that apply to them. For example: a guitar. You need to play fast, and so you can practice with video Games. But there, of course, is a bad part. You cannot play too much. Some kids play up to 8 hours a day. Some times more. It separates you from the world. I know someone who played so much, he fainted. A man played for 2 days straight without food or water. Only a diaper. He died. You see? Playing too much is bad.