BREAKING NEWS

A recent report conducted the well-renowned Dr. Dip has shown that video games and excessive amounts of time spent playing XBOX Live can lead to a) lack of vision from bright artificial lights, b) obesity from lack of exercise and too many flaming hot cheetos and c) inability to interact with the opposite sex. The Doctor recommends children in such a position attempt to both "shred the gnar" and "skate the gate" in order to avoid falling victim to video game addiction.

In other news, thanks to EVERYONE that helped out for the Hot Dog and Pizza Bagel lunches! Thanks to the parents that donated food, too - kids, give them a big hug. Shoutout to Ms. Trudy for running the operation so smoothly. We managed to successfully raise over $800!!!!!

Yes kids, you know what that means. It means Mr. Diptesh can finally pay rent and buy that pair of Nikes he's been eyeing for the last month. WOOT!

It also means we'll all have pads and helmets taken care of AND some money for ramps/rails or more legit skateboarding gear such as trucks, wheels etc. BIG DEAL!

Pictures of the last Shred Francisco painting session are up on the fb page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shred-Francisco/101203619950441. We'll be having a meeting this week - same time, same place - and we should be starting to wrap up the board painting.

In the meantime, I leave you with one of the COOLEST little videos I have seen in a long time: Lakairomania. And no, we can't try this at the school.

Skate the Gate!

Mr. Diptesh

FOUR YEARS. GO.

Hey Everybody,

Thanks to Janet at FOUR YEARS. GO, we've got ourselves a little press coverage. Check out this article on their website:

http://www.fouryearsgo.org/2010/11/13/allied-organization-stories/shred-francisco-building-community-and-fitness-through-skateboarding/

The goal of FOUR YEARS. GO. is to build a global movement of commitment and action that will cause a positive tipping point in humanity’s future by the end of 2014, setting us irreversibly on a new path to a just, thriving and sustainable future for all.

Be sure to check out some of the other Allied Organizations and support FOUR YEARS. GO and the work they're promoting!

Mr. Diptesh

Priming's done, and now it's time make that sweet sweet ca$h

What’s up dudes and dudettes,

Hope you all had a good weekend and are getting ready for a fun-filled week at school! A wise man once said that “Education = Awesomeness.” That Wise Man was myself.

Last week we all primed our boards (unless you didn’t show up because, oh I don’t know, you were at the GIANTS PARADE!). Next week we can apply our background colors and get going on the details of our designs. Dan “The Man” Allende should be with us again to give us some helpful hints so don’t be afraid to ask him some questions.

In other news, Ms. Gualco has given us the O.K. on a two-day lunch fundraiser. On Monday Nov. 22^nd we will be serving a hot dog lunch and on Tuesday Nov. 23^rd we will be serving pizza bagels. Since there will be no hot lunches on that day Ms. Gualco said that the school will pay for the lunches of those people that usually have hot lunches. That means that we will automatically make $400 on that day if all supplies are donated. SWEET!

Which brings me to my next point: please ask all your parents if they’d be willing to donate some food goods and/or their time on either of those days to helping with the fundraiser. Things we’d need include…

- Hot dogs

- Buns

- Ketchup packets

- Mustard packets

- Juice boxes

- Bags of chips

- Bagels

- Red sauce

- Cheese

- Pepperoni

- Brown paper bags

I will be sending out more information in the Wednesday folder this week. We already have Derek, Taylor, Rene, and Nataly making posters but let me know if you guys want to help in any other way. (And thanks to Taylor and Grazie for talking to Ms. Gualco about it)

I shall leave you with a funny video by Stefan Janoski on how to do my favorite trick - 360 flips. As he says, “driving’s boring. Skate around town. Do 360 flips on the way.”

Also, check out the pics below of the good times we had priming and painting last week. And don’t forget to Like the facebook site, get your facebook friends to Like it to, and follow the blog if you can!

Skate the Gate

Mr. Diptesh

To see more pictures see the fb site at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shred-Francisco/101203619950441

Derek's First Pop Shuvit

Ch-Ch-Check it out everyone. Derek AKA DBallPedro's pop-shuvit extravaganza!!!!

Be sure to watch the whole thing - the end is by FAR the best part!