Holly’s Space

Michel Fournier a french adventurer age 64, attempted to break a world skydiving record last Tuesday at Battleford, Saskatchewan. He had hoped to break the record for the worlds fastest and longest free fall. At the same time he also hoped to break the record for the highest parachute jump, the highest balloon flight and also he wanted to bring back some information to help astronauts and others survive in high altitudes.

It was all ready for him to attempt. He had a $200 000 helium balloon in which he hoped would take him to a height of 130 000feet (39 624metres). This is around the equivalent of four Mount Everest’s on top of each other or about three times higher than what a commercial jetliner flies.

So the huge helium balloon was to be attached to a capsule in which he would free-fall from and break the world record. But unfortunately it somehow became unattached from the capsule and just floated up and up. Michel Fournier had to just stand there and watch as he chances floated up towards space.

I think that Michel Fournier would have been absolutely devastated. To see his chances of breaking the world record and $200 000 floating away into space, he would have been very annoyed and sad. Although I did actually find it quite funny but I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have. I also think Michel Fournier is very brave for even wanting to try this, I know for sure I never would have.

Here is a website I found with an article about it. This is where I got most of my information from-http://www.insidesocal.com/dailylink/2008/05/skydivers_chance_at_world_reco.html

I also found a video of it which is on this website. It was part of a news program which is all about this disaster-http://tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/1803758

This is my presentation about Life ’round Here, it was made on photostory. If this is taking too long too load you may like to try watching it here.

Lately our class and a class from Adelaide have been working on an Island Talk Project. We have been asking questions and gathering answers from the class in Adelaide. This presentation is mine, Hamish’s Shannon’s and Gareth’s comparison between Australia’s and New Zealand’s, Sport and Leisure.

At the moment my class is involved in Life ‘Round Here. It is a competiton for intermediate age students all around the world. For this competition each class that enters, six pupils from it have to make photostories showing what their life is like where they live. We had to use photostory3 to make them, we had to make sure it shows the actual truth about our life and not our lives the way all the flashy brochures show us.

I think that this has been quite a hard task fo me to acheive. I found it hard to try and figure out how to use photostory3 as this being only about my 3rd or 4th time using it. I also thought it was a bit difficult deciding on the main topic I could focus on and still make my story worth watching. I had to take most of the pictures for myself as sites like Flickr Storm could not provide me pictures of my hometown or community. Overall life ’round here has been a great experience for me so far and I hope that my finished product will be worth all the hard work and effort I have put into it. I just can’t wait to get to the end and hear the results.

Later on this term I will put my finished product on my blog for everyone to see.

Here are some pictures I may include in it-