**My Passions**

Traveling to other countries is also one of my passions. My whole family is from Europe so when we go visit them my parents always take my brothers and I to a new country we haven’t gone to. I am pretty sure everyone likes to go traveling to shop and to well shop some more, but what I like is going to museums and historical places to learn about the countries culture, and obviously to shop also. One of the places that I enjoyed visiting was Italy. The country is so beautiful there are so many places to visit, if you ever have the chance to go there all tell you some places you should see. You should definitely go to the coliseum, if you find it amazing in pictures they are nothing compared to the real thing, you can even go inside and a tour guide will tell you the history about the place. Another place you should definitely visit is the tower of Pisa, I was able to go there when they still had it open for the tourist to go to the top, but because every time the tower is inclinating more and more they don’t want to take the risk of losing the tower and something happening to the people that are inside at the time that it falls so its no longer open to the public, but it is still beautiful to look at it from the outside. You should also go to Venecia, even though it smells bad because of the water that isn’t cleaned, you get used to it and it was so cool to be in a city that was on top of the water. The buses, cars, taxis were all boats; it was one of my favorite places in Italy because it was so different from all the places I’m used to going. There are other sites such as the museums, churches, parks, and fountains that make Italy so beautiful; if you ever visit I can promises you, you wont get bored.

This week Ms. Rumford asked us to write about what freedom meant to us, and how it relates to edublogs. What freedom means to me, is that I am able to speak out my thoughts and opinion without being judged, that I am able to do whatever I want that doesn’t violate any laws. It also means that I am free, in other words I am not owned by anyone and I have the same rights as everyone else around me. So time ago slavery occurred all over the world, which was when a person was involuntarily sold to another person and they had to do everything their owner told them to do. They were treated as their personal property and some lived in very bad conditions. This in my opinion is an example of not having personal freedom. Slaves were treated as if they were owned by someone else, and didn’t have the rights their owners had. I think freedom relates to blogging, because when we blog we speak out our thoughts and opinions, and that is the hole point of writing in edublogs, is so other people can read what you think about a topic, and other people around the world can write back about their opinions of what you think.