Welcome to Teacher Cindy's Blog!

This blog is for my students at Bleiker High School in Asker, Norway. Here I will post things I think you may find interesting. Sometimes they are related to what we are learning about in class. Other times they have to do with English as a language and as a subject. Please jump in and be part of the conversation!

Monday, May 9, 2011

Samoa skips a day

The tiny island nation of Samoa(which used to be called Western Samoa) sits very close to the International Date Line, the imaginary line that divides Monday on the western side from Sunday on the east. Samoa currently sits on the eastern side of the line. Now the government has decided that Samoa will move to the western side of the line. This is because Samoa mostly does business with Australia and New Zealand to the west, and not so much with the countries to the east. The islands, of course, will not move, just the imaginary line on the map.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011