Guatemala Hearing Aid Presentation

Yesterday, my teacher's mom came in to talk to us about hearing aids! Every year she goes to Guatemala to put hearing aids into peoples ears. It is amazing because some people may have never even getting a chance to hear, hear. She must feel great after helping all those people!
It was really fun, she made a hearing aid for our teacher by mixing together some play dough like mixture and putting it into a tube then compressing it into her ear. Then we waited till it hardened and took it out. It looked kinda funny because you could see the part where her root canal fitted.
Here is her Blog!
Here are some pictures of Guatemala (she did not take them though):

Beautiful Antigua, Guatemala

This is some of the cloths they wear-close up

This (I think) is one of the hospitals she went to

A Safer and More Bicycle Friendly Town!!

Today we had a guest come in and talk to us about Streets and Bicyclists.
We talked about what's dangerous about streets and what's safe about streets. We also talked about what streets can be used for. Most people think streets are just for cars, but no, that's not true they can be used for other things beside cars.
Such as:
-pedestrians
-buses
-cyclist
-motor cycles
-wheel chairs
-strollers
-animals
Some people call Ottawa: Autowa  because our town has so many cars.
Here's a video that we watched to inspired us to want our town to become like Copenhagen's:



We are trying to come up with some ways of helping our city becoming like Copenhagen's.
We thought we could write some letters to the city, or something like that.

The reasons why I think we should have Ottawa like Copenhagen are:
-I know that it may be expensive for the city, but I think it's diffidently worth it, because bikes are just as important as cars, put it this way, bikes could be some peoples only way of transportation
-Another reason I think we should do it is because we could probably reduce the amount of bicycle accidents that happen if we make it safer for the bikers
-Plus it would help reduce the pollution in Ottawa and the other environmental issues that may occur because of car's gas/fuel

But remember if you do want to bike, you should wear a helmet just to be safe!!