Chloe Lukasiak

My second favourite dancer is Chloe Elisabeth Lukasiak. She is fourteen years old dancer, model, actress and fashion designer. Chloe is mainly known from reality show “Dance Moms”.

She was born on May 25, 2001 in Churchill, Pennsylvania. When she was two, she started her adventure with dance and joined Abby Lee Dance Company.  From the ages of four to thirteen, Lukasiak competed with “Dance Moms Junior Elite Competition Team”. She trained there in  lyrical, contemporary, musical theatre, ballet, jazz, hip hop, acro, and Bollywood.

Abby was treated Chloe very bad and unfair. Because of her mother’s arguments with Abby and because of Abby’s behaviour Lukasiak quit the ALDC and moved to Studio 19. Chloe said many times that she was happier when she quit Abby Lee Dance Company because she didn’t feel so much pressure.

You could see Chloe in some music videos like:

• "It's Like Summer" – Lux – she was leading (2011)
• "Summer Love Song" – Brooke Hyland – she was a supporter (2012)
• "Fool Me Once" – Jess Godwin – she was leading (2015)
• "Turn It Up" - Solveig Romero – she was supporting (2015)
• "Alice" – Bianca Ryan – she was leading (2015)
• "Wrapped Up For Christmas" – she was supporting (2015)
• ”Love is blindness” – Jack White – she made this video with Studio 19 (2015)

She appeared in:

• Today (The Today Show) (2011)
• The View (2012)
• Anderson Live (2012)
• Katie (2012)
• The View (2013)
• Good Morning America (2013)
• The Doctors  (2015)
• Center Stage: Dance Camp (2016)

Chloe won a National Small Fry Miss Dance Educators of America 2010 and Junior Miss Dance Educators of America 2011 2015 Teen Choice Awards and Industry Dance Awards.

TIBITS:

• She’s got a younger sister Clara.
• Chloe’s got a boyfriend – Ricky Garcia.

            

• Her parents are Christi and Marc Lukasiak.
• She’s got a dog called Maggie.
• Lukasiak became a spokesmodel for Just For Kix, an American dancewear company.
• She created an anti-bullying campaign called #NobodyisYOU.
• Lukasiak has modeled for Glitzy Girl and Sally Miller.
• Chloe hates Pizza.
• She did the commercial for Candy Apples just for the show.
• Her best turns are Fouettes or a La Secondes.
• Chloe dances 4-5 times a week.
• Chloe has asthma.
• She has been to Disney wolrd 9 times.
• Her first best friend was Maddie Ziegler but now it’s Paige Hyland.

                                         

• Chloe and Paige are called Twinnies because they look very similar.
• Her nickname is Chloebird.
• Chloe was diagnosed with Silent sinus syndrome. She had eye surgery to correct her condition in September 2015.
• Lukasiak is scared being home alone because she is afraid that when she sneeze she might hear the response: bless you. 

•  You can follow Chloe on instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/chloelukasiak/ , on twitter:  https://twitter.com/chloelukasiak?lang=pl , on vine:  https://vine.co/u/933544636918673408 , on her official  website: http://chloe-lukasiak.com/ , on facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/OfficialChloeLukasiak , on  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0D4TPONTJ6cppMxQ9SD97g and on snapchat as: OfficialChloe .

                                                                                                      Weronika

What is a winter break for you ?

I think everyone gets fun out of  a fortnightly winter break but I'm sure all of us spend this free time in a different way.

For someone winter break is a chance to do nothing, just take a rest and finally get enough sleep but for someone else it's an opportuinity to do as much things as they can and be active. For example go skiing, walking on the mountains and having fun with snow or maybe going away, traveling, sunbathing and swimming in the ocean. Somebody else probably stays at home and enjoys reading books, watching serials or spending time with friends.

So what is the winter break for me this year ? Maybe a little paradox ? It's getting enough sleep but waking up quite early (Sleeping all day ? No way !). It's taking a rest but doing so many things every day. It's reading a book, meeting up with friends, working out a bit and practising playing the guitar a lot.

For me (that's what I'm telling you only in a secret) it's also a way to traveling which I love so much, meeting new people, so improving my English as well, even riding a camel, watching 'red elephants' and another animals in their natural habitat for one day, diving and feeding giraffes :) Just having a best adventure in my life before all of us will have to back to school.

And what is this year's winter break for you ?

- Nika 

Who is my favourite celebrity?

I really like following dancers life, especially Maddie Ziegler's.

Maddie Nicole Ziegler is a thirteen years old dancer, actress and model, known from Sia’s music videos, for example : Chandelier, Elastic Heart and Bad Girls Cry and also from  Lifetime’s reality show Dance Moms. 

She was born September 30, 2002 in Pittsburgh. She started dancing when she was only 2 in the Abby Lee Dance Company ( ALDC ). She trains there with her younger sister Mackenzie Ziegler in tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, acro, jazz, and aerial dance. They joined the Dance Moms in 2011 and they dance in every single season of it. 

Before Maddie became a ‘little creepy girl dancing in Chandelier’ she appeared in:

• Live to Dance – a reality program and dance competition (2010)

• “It’s like Summer” –supporting in LUX’s music video (2011)

• “Cry” –leading in Alexx Calise’s music video (2012)

• "Summer love song” -  supporting in Brooke Hyland’s ( her friend from Dance Moms) music video (2012)

• “The view” – performing with dance "A Child Is Born" ( 2012 )

• “Drop Dead Diva” – playing Young Deb as a guest (2012)

• „Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition” – performing in 2 episodes (2013)

As a famous dancer she appeared in:

• „The Ellen DeGeneres Show” – performing Sia: Chandelier (2014)

• „Jimmy Kimmel Live!” - performing Sia: Chandelier and teaching how to dance “Chandelier” (2014)

• „Dancing with the Stars” -  performing Sia: Chandelier, with Allison Holker (2014)

• „Good Morning America” – giving the interview (2014)

• "Freaks like Me"- supporting and singing in Todrick Hall’s music video (2014)

• "It's a Girl Party" – supporting in her sister video (2014)

• “Shine” - supporting in her sister video (2014)

• "Elastic Heart” – leading in Sia’s video (2015)

• "Big Girls Cry” - leading in Sia’s video (2015)

• „Saturday Night Live” – performing Sia: Elastic Heart (2015)

• „The Ellen DeGeneres Show” – performing Sia: Elastic Heart (2015)

• „57th Annual Grammy Awards” - performing Sia: Elastic Heart (2015)

• „Austin & Ally” – playing Shelby Hayden as a guest (2015)

• “Lucky Thirteen” – 2015

• "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn” – guest-starring Eiffel (2015)
• Ralph Lauren's Fashion Show - 2015   

And now she’s acting Christina in Collin Trevorrow’s film “The book of Henry” and Sia’s movie “Sister”.

TITBITS

• Maddie and Mackenzie have also three brothers and sister : Ryan Ziegler, Matthew, Tyler and Michele Gisoni.

• Maddie’s best friend is Kendall Vertes but her first bf was Chloe Lukasiak.

• You can follow Maddie on Instagram: instagram.com/maddieziegler, on twitter: https://twitter.com/maddieziegler?lang=pl, on vine https://vine.co/u/1055927473205919744, on musical.ly as maddieziegler J

• She’s got a lot of funny nicknames : Bubby ( by the Ziegler family), Muddog ( by the Ziegler family and friends) and Missie ( by her schoolmates ).

• She’s homeschooling to have more time for dance.

• Maddie's lucky number is 13. "M" is the 13th letter in the alphabet, with Mackenzie and Melissa's names also starting with the letter.

• Her favourite styles of dance are contemporary and tap, but she likes all types of dance.

• Maddie’s favourite colour is purple.

• Her favourite animal is dolphin.

• Maddie's celebrity crush is Zac Efron.

• Maddie says that when she's not dancing, she's at home - dancing.

 

Weronika 

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TRIP TO THE ZOO

We enjoy spending time time with our class so much. That's why we loved that great day at the zoo, where we had been before holidays began. Every group had something else to do and our task was to watch other  teams, dealing with their assignments. They made them pretty good!

the crew  

 At first we had an opportunity to saw the newest Afrykarium which was opened a few moths before. It is such an amazing place where you can find black land's animals, for example sharks, water tourtles, stingrays and so on. As we entrace, we pass a big waterfall so you can feel like in the rain forest, then after few meters there is a huge water tunnel, which takes about 20m. What is later, we'd keep in secret, so you can discovere it on your own ;)
Even unbelievable hot weather couldn't stop us from having a good time. Looking forward to go there again!

                                                                               

Body Worlds & the Cycle of Life

Before Christmas, we saw exhibition called 'Body Worlds & the Cycle of Life'. It's not difficult to figure out that it was connected with science, life and body. It all was about the human and inner life.

 We watched bones, human skeletons showed in many different ways, internal organs like liver, intestines, heart, brain and all what the human is build with. Probably all of that was real but it was unbelievably ! Some of exhibits looked such unreal (of course, mostly in positive meaning). There also were captions under exhibits and screens on walls. Everybody could read them or watched short movies and learn something. Perfect if you are interesting in science and biology.

I think the exhibition could be a bit shocking or creepy for some people but I can say it was quite interesting but I also expected a bit more. So, what I liked the most ? Wall with quotes about life and histories about health, age, the happiest or the longest- living people. I drew a blank on majority of them but I remeber two quotes. They go this way :

'Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.' ~ Mark Twain

'And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.' ~ Abraham Lincoln

-Nika

What is the real meaning of Christmas?

Candles burning low? 

Lots of mistletoe? Lots od snow and ice?

I think there is no wrong anwser, Christmas time could means for you

buying present or just decorating a tree, for your neighbor, spending time

with family or watching home alone.
But for me it could be someting more than that,

deep,deep inside I hard belive it's all about love. 

Who does not need love?

Only crazy ones. 

People hete being lonley and for me, christmas is time to

find love! Of course nothing can be forced, however look around;
cupcake in heart's shape, pink sweaters, even malls are decorated with sweet,
shiny patterns.

Maybe this year try to focus, how you express feelings to your closest?

People often, in christmas time fever, forget about important values, I do not say
that buying gifts or doing housework is wrong and unnecessary, but definitely 

not the most expected. Remeber that even old-fashioned "I love you" can make 

a smile on their face.

J.S

Something about black Friday.

What is this?

Black Friday it's a name of the first Friday after The Thanksgiving Day. 

It's a day when shops are extremely reducing the prize of their products, it's also kinda an inauguration of the frenzy Christmas shopping season. A few years ago, this special Friday was known only in America or Great Britain, but now it starts to spread in the whole Europe, including Poland. During this day people can do everything to get whatever they want for the least prize. 

They are able to stuck many hours in uncommonly long queues or even overnight in front of the shopping centre to get what they want, before it will be sold out. Pretty crazy, isn't it? ;p 

You can see it below. 

Before and after

Many sources tell that the term "black Friday" was used first in 1975 to refer the losses and profits after The Thanksgiving Day. Profits were written in black ink and losses were written in red ink. 

That year many of sellers had gained much more profits than losses because of uncommon traffic in their shops. Nowadays we can see that it' s kinda extra consumerism holiday that really gives a huge amount of profits to the biggest companies in the world
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My opinion

Black Friday is a very specific day, that people (especially from Europe) can perceive in very different ways. After all these crazy people fighting, anyway I find that it's nice occasion to buy something for an extra low price, but if only you'll keep the restraint and self control ;) 
Sometimes we just need to get crazy and buy something that we want to, but we need to be serious and remember that it's only the sale and only another Black Friday Day :) 

                                                        

                                                                                                              - Natalia