Today we had Thinker Key Cards. Darryn was doing the Brainstorming key, Katie was doing the Ridiculous key, and Alana was doing the Variations key. We only got to rotate once so I missed out on Alana, (ohhh). The first thing we had to discuss in Katie's one was, 'What if every county had the same times'. The little twist was you were only allowed to say positives to the question. One of the good ideas for this was at least on Facebook or emailing someone, you wouldn't have a delayed response. At Darryn's one we had to brainstorm the ideas for it. Hannah and I picked "Use other materials to make clothes". Some of the ones I came up with were: Meat, paper and Money.
I don't know about you, but I would love a money dress!!

This is the Nisshin Maru, the Japanese factory ship

Today a guest speaker came and talked to us. His name was Grant. He is apart of the crew on Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherds protect the Whale Sanctuary in the Ross Sea near Antarctica. He talked to us about the Japanese Whalers. It wasn't illegal to hunt whales until the International Whaling Commission (IWC) stopped whaling in 1986. The Japanese found a loophole. You were only allowed to kill whales if you used them for research. So they were killing them once again. Fortunately Sea Shepherds have set off on a mission "to stop the Japanese once and for all". The good thing about Sea Shepherds is that they don't just protest against it, (not that that's a bad thing) but they head out and do it themselves - they are proactive!