Day 19: Planes, trains and automobiles
It’s the last day in your country and it’s the final chance to head out and see places or people that you have yet to visit. It’s also your last day to sample the local food and enjoy the atmosphere. You decide that you will head out of the city and explore some of the smaller, neighboring towns. In order to leave the city, you will need to find a vehicle. It could be a bus, a train, a taxi, a bicycle, a scooter...
Activity 1
Let’s imagine that the neighbouring town was about 30 kilometres away. There are a number of beautiful villages and interesting things to see along the way. You have four options for this trip. You can take a:
- Train – 25 minute ride; No stops along the way; $12 for the trip (return)
- Bus – 45 minute ride; Two stops along the way to look at interesting villages; $8 for the trip (return)
- Scooter – 1 hour ride; Unlimited number of stops; $5 for the trip (return)
- Bicycle – 2 hour ride; Unlimited number of stops but there are some hills along the way; $1 (return)
On your blog, tell us which of these four options you would choose and why!
I’ll take the 1 hr scooter ride. It’s more efficient and only 2 people on the scooter. I would have a hour ride with unlimited stops. I can stop at several beautiful sightings within that times.
Activity 2
These days there are, literally, dozens of different kinds of vehicles that we can use. Some of them are quite familiar (eg. car, truck, bus) but some are very unique and different. Watch this Youtube clip of the most Amazing vehicles ever made.
When you have finished tell us which of the vehicles you liked the most. On your blog tell us the name of the vehicle and the reasons why you liked it so much. There are a number of pretty interesting options!
The vehicle I liked the most is the hover board. Unlike the the hoverboard with wheels this hoverboard actually hovers above the ground. I heard in the video that the board hovers over a non ferromagnetic material. I like that you can balance properly without falling back or frontwards.
Bonus Activity
The Canadian government has decided to build the longest walking trail in the world. It is called the ‘Great Trail’ and it covers 15 000 miles. Wow! For this activity, we are drawing inspiration from this walking trail and thinking about our own footprints.
Your task is to use DrawIsland tool to create your own digital footprint. The footprint must include your name and the name of the country that you are visiting. Otherwise, you can decorate it in any way that you want. It’s totally up to you! Once you have drawn your footprint, save it, and then upload it to your blog. Here is an example of my footprint:
Here is my design
7 comments:
Hi Luisa!
I like that you've selected the hover board as your 'amazing vehicle' of choice. Good idea! The hover board really does look very cool. I wonder if it is hard to balance on. I, too, remember hearing that it works well over non-ferromagnetic material. I believe that this means that it won't work well over any surfaces that have ferromagnetic properties, such as those with nickel or iron in them. Hmmm, I wonder how many of our roads or grates have nickel or iron in them. It could be quite tricky to ride our hover boards around if the roads contain nickel or iron...
In that case we'll have to stick to walking around, I suppose. Speaking of walking, I really like your footprint. It is small and compact but quite cute!
Congratulations on making it to Day #19, Luisa. You are one day away from finishing the entire journey. WOW! That is awesome.
Cheers,
Rachel :)
Hi Luisa!
A hoverboard eh? I like those. I am more of a fan of the single wheel scooter though. I also like your little footprint.
If I had to choose a vehicle to ride, it would probably be a scooter because I ride a motorbike in real life. Scooters are fun to ride, plus the longest bicycle ride I have done was 60km on the flat and it took 5-6 hours. I also told another student it took me 6 hours to do a 25km ride but I just checked the map and I was wrong. Oh well, I guess they'll just think I'm really slow forever haha!
I hope you're enjoying your day!
Mark
Hi Luisa,
It is fabulous to see that you are now on day 19! you have done so well and have continued to share high quality blog posts with your audience. One more day to go!
Hello there Luisa,
It's Von. WOW! amazing job for completing this task! It's so wonderful yo see you blogging and by the way I like your foot print it's simple and creative.
Nice job and Keep it up :)
Von,
Hi Luisa
Great Job keep it up and remember to comment
HI LISA
I really love your designs
Keep going
Luisa, you are great. Keep it up
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