My Trip from Auckland to Cairns #5

When I jumped out of bed I went straight to the bathroom and dress myself at 6:00AM because the taxi was picking us up early to head over to the airport. We hop down to the reception place and then go to the restaurant and bar to eat our breakfast.

I ate some succulent breakfast with rice bubbles, toast and some juice. After Breakfast we head off into the taxi for Auckland Airport.

The taxi drops us at the international terminal and signals us goodbye. When we finished the check in we went to the immigration customs to confirm that we're leaving New Zealand. We settle ourselves once again in the Koru lounge to wait for the gate to open and start boarding. I ate some real delicious food in the lounge even though I already ate some breakfast.

The gate for Cairns was confirmed open so we scrambled ourselves towards gate 3 to board onto the aircraft. Our tickets get scanned and where off to board the aircraft. We enter the Airbus A320 and scramble ourselves to economy class to be seated. Before takeoff we had our safety procedures aboard the aircraft so like that we would be safe and ready to go. The plane vanishes in the clouds once again. Aboard the aircraft I watched one great movie which was, Maze Runner: Scorch trials, to me it was a great movie but also sad at the same time. We started to descend towards Cairns and while we were descending I saw the Great Barrier Reef in the distance of my window which was a stunning view.

We land at Cairns Airport and exit the aircraft and enter into the airport. As soon as we slip out of the airport, BANG a huge pile of hot wind collapses onto me and I wasn't surprise it was hot as because it's obviously Australia so you would be dying of to much heat but for me it was so hot that I was literally dying. We hop into our new car that we rented in Australia to travel to places that we would go to. The car starts up and departs onto the highway of Cairns but we weren't exactly staying at Cairns we were staying in a town a couple of miles away from Cairns called Port Douglas.

When we entered our hotel, ( the pullman resort ) I was stoked of how beautiful it was, it was basically a retirement village except with cooler features. I enter our appartement and for god sake we had a fan because it was to hard to handle the pressure of the sun it felt like you were getting roasted for dinner.

My brother and I were having some fun in the pool having great time squirting each other and playing games. At night we go down to the big pools and when I saw the pools my jaw collapsed to the ground after of what I saw, it was a pool city basically. After that we went back to our hotel appartement, to jump into our warm beds and sleep for the next day ahead of us.



  

My trip from Palmerston North to Auckland #4

On the 30th of September at 6:00 pm we got a call from Air New Zealand saying your flight has been delayed three hours. As soon as my dad heard it on the phone he stressed because the flight to Cairns would have been at 9:15am but the Palmerston North flight to Auckland was 30 minutes after the flight to Cairns would have taken off, so we had to think and problem solve what we could do.

Air New Zealand called us back for good news. The good news was that there was a flight today that could go to Auckland that would arrive at 12:00AM and also that Air New Zealand would pay us the flight. They also payed us a hotel at Auckland to stay for the next day.

We arrive at Palmerston North Airport and go straight to the check in for our flight to Auckland. It was 9:00PM when we arrived at the airport I was so drowsy and was about to collapse to the ground and sleep. We settle ourselves in the Koru lounge of Palmy. We hop down to the gate to get ready to hop into the plane for Auckland. We cross the tarmac to enter into the plane and the flight attendant greets me nicely aboard the plane. We had some safety procedure from the flight attendant before takeoff. When the plane is lined up with the runway the two propellors spin like blades spinning at millions of km per hour. The plane speeds up and the big metal bird flies and goes up into the clouds and vanishes without a single trace.

The Captain announces that the plane is going to descend to the runway of Auckland and had to turn off all electronic devices and stow them in the over head locker and to put tray tables back in possession. I hear the big aluminum wheels hop out of the planes wings and getting ready to land.

I see the beautiful lights of Auckland and the sky tower it looked stunning from the view of the window. I see the runway in the distance and every second coming towards it. The plane lands smoothly on the runway of Auckland international Airport. We arrive in the domestic terminal of Auckland Airport and wait in the parking area and wait for a taxi to pick us up to go to the hotel.

The taxi drives us off to Manakau to the Mercure hotel and sleep to get ready for the next day.  

My Learning Achievements this year #3

This Year in our class Gri11 2.0 we've all learned a lot of things and today I won't to share my learning achievements I've had throughout the year. In the first term of school we all were introduced to a new modern way of learning. At the start of the year I needed support on my reading and all the workshops that my teachers have been on the subject shared reading or reading has really made me push my reading skills and achieving the bits reading i've been struggling with.

Term 1 we had a P.A.T reading test. A P.A.T test is a website called nzcer online where there are many different tests like maths test reading tests and many more other tests. We start our 45 minutes on the test. Throughout the test I was struggling with the questions and words they included and I couldn't seem answer them. At end of test I was pretty disappointed of my reading test and that I didn't give it an honest effort.

Now it's term 4 and it's almost the end of the year, and also that next year we're going to middle school so I have to give my best effort in the reading test. "It's the big moment now," I say, "it's the reading test, give every thing you've got use every skill of reading your teachers have taught you, remember to be yourself, to think hard and go hard," I repeat. We start our P.A.T test and the 45 minutes are underway once again. In the reading test I use every skill that I got taught this year and use them in the reading test successfully for the questions. Our teacher spits out the word times out and as soon the test was done I was so proud of how much I had improved from at the beginning of the year and I want to thank it to my teachers.

Open Mic 2016 #2

On the 19th of October 2016 I went to the Central Baptist Church for Open Mic. Open Mic is where every month you sing at the Central Baptist Church and a the end of the year you win scholarships like Open Mic scholarships and Performing Art scholarships.

This year for the 4th round of Open Mic I sung Dancing on My Own By Calum Scott. I decided the song because it suits my voice and that I would be confident to sing it on stage. Throughout the week I did practices with Miss Gordon before 8:00 in the morning or at Lunch times.

Today it's the big day it's a Tuesday Evening and it's my time to shine. After 2 singers from Open Mic it was my turn to take the stage and take it away. I was so nervous that the butterflies in my stomach were twitching every nanosecond. I start my First verse For my song and right after the first verse I get right into the song and sing at my hardest. After the song I was so stoked of my song while the audience were surprised of how good my singing was.

After 8:00 in the evening we have a ride straight to jump right into bed and getting ready for another big day ahead of me.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtGlvnbVun4

The Holiday that becomes a Nightmare #1

This story is based on true events

Mike was an ordinary eleven year old boy. His favourite game was soccer - he was always No.1 in his team.

On the 17th of July 2001, it was Mike's 12th birthday. On his birthday, when he bounced out of bed he knew something was different, because he didn’t see any presents in the living room or in his bedroom.

For a minute Mike was anxious. He didn’t know why there were no presents?

“SURPRISE Mike!” yelled his Mum Angela.

Mike replied in surprise, “why are there no presents mum? It’s not normal.”

“Well” said Angela, “this year there will be no presents”

Mike’s jaw suddenly dropped to the ground with disappointment.

“Drumroll please………………..We’re Going to Los Angeles!”

Mike started saying “ We’re going to Los Angeles!

We’re going to Los Angeles!

Mike asked his mother, “what day is the flight!” “ on September the 11th 2001. What's the flight number said mike, the flight number is flight 11” said Angela.

         2 months later

Mike bounces out of bed like jumping off a trampoline.

He takes his shower gets dressed and he and his family is off to Los Angeles.

They arrive at washington dulles international airport to take their flight to Los Angeles.

Mike’s heart beats so fast like a jumbo jet zooming through at full speed without a single trace.

Mike’s family heads Into the plane and a soon as they walked into the plane he saw some men holding 2 knives in his pocket and then mike said to himself “who are these people.” Mike remained calm.

Mike was on the plane watching a movie and as soon as he was going to pause the movie and ate , he heard a screeching noise.

Mike’s heart stopped, he saw 4 men with guns and knives! Mike was lost he thought it was the end of the world and his last minutes on earth.

He saw the 4 men screaming at the flight attendants to let them in the cockpit.

And the first thing that came to mike’s mind was hijackers he couldn’t believe it. He started to hold Angela’s hand tight, like him squeezing a lemon.

        45 minutes later

People are screaming on board praying to still be alive but in mike’s point of view it was the end of the world for him.

He starts looking out the window saying “Mum it’s New York! Why says Angela’s Mum. Because I can see the statue of liberty.”

Angela says “ Wait why are we here.” Angela after says “ why are we heading towards two Big towers.” “oh ow” said mike, we’re heading towards the those towers.

            2 minutes later

Mike suddenly faints and bangs his head to his screen and suddenly the plane crashes and collapses into the North tower of New York and which is known as the world trade center.

Why are responses are so diverse

This term so far we have been learning about Cultural Diversity we've been given range of tasks like shared reading on the Mongolian national festival, we've also been given photo's of people around the world and make connections and make statements of how it's different to our culture. Well today we've had been given this writing task to finish off for the week and we had to write on how our responses are so diverse. First there is a table of responses from people around the globe about there opinions and statements, Here it is.

What connections can you make to the reading? Read the responses below and write a paragraph explaining why you think the responses are so diverse.

In Singapore we celebrated Chinese New Year

I go and do horse riding

That we did archery at camp last year #2015 I am always wrestling my brother and making my own moves up.

It is kinda like Chinese New Year. The family gets together and the eldest person sits at the top of the table. We eat lots of yummy food and have lots of drinks. My mum and Dad work very hard. The Chinese culture also follows the Luna calendar like the Mongolian culture does.

The woman in this story is like my mum and my family every single day

in the first olympics women couldn't enter.

Cultural festival because there is heaps of activities.

It is like Chinese New Year because of all the activities and cooking and greeting.

none really

That Mongolia have national day like in France.

Once my mums friend was talking to a whole bunch of us at girls at girls rally. She told us some stories about some of her trips to different places. One of the stories she told was about a country where the women did all the work and the men don't do anything.

Some of it reminded me of celebrating Chinese New Year

We did archery at camp in 2015 My brother and i wrestle on the tramp

none to be honest

Some of those sports I am good at.

its like the olympics

Sumo wrestlers,my cousin is a horse rider,

there playing sport like i do but just difrent type of sport.

this is like christmas things like gift giving and all your family members coming to celabrate

Sumo wrestlers. I have watched hourse races and I have shot a arrow

sad

That the naadam festival is very important to there culture

That New Zealand do the sports what the the Naadam festival does

that i have done horse riding before

that we Celebrate new years day.

On New Years Eve we play games and have visitors

My Mum cleans the house and does chores and we have too help her.

My mum cooks and cleans all day

That a while ago women in New Zealand never competed in the olimpics.

I don't have a connection

sometimes i have to do chores

there is a game on the computer and it’s a resaling game and each level you complete you get called something new

They have a lot of events like our athletics day

The Naadam festival is linked to the greek olympics cause woman aren't allowed to participate.

I have done archery

It is like a mini Olympics

we kill sheep we clean the house and we greet people when they come to our house

Not much.

my aunty is a rider

The Naadam festival

Why are our responses so diverse?

Our responses are so diverse because we have different cultures and religions that’s why we are so diverse. Some of us have the same responses like if they’re in the same country or have the same culture. We are all different and none of us are the same or act the same each and one of us are different. Some of our cultures are diverse, some of them are the same like mongolia have the same national day as france and they’re both in July.

Hieroglyphic Narrative

Once there was a boy called Twisted Flax Wick. He’s always been an ordinary boy like any other. He likes to do bush walks, because he’s got a bush walk, Right against his house. He also likes playing uno with his friends at Port Douglas. Twisted Flax Wick’s dad who is called (th) is a businessman that works in Cairns, north of Queensland in Australia.  

“Well” Says Twisted Flax Wick heavily pumped. Wouldn’t it be a great day to go for a bush walk in the Mossman Gorge. “Dad” Says Twisted Flax Wick. Could I please go to the Mossman Gorge right against our house!? “Sure” replies th. “ But I have to be back by noon okay son!” Repeats his dad .

Twisted Flax Wick vanishes inside the forest without a single trace. After he starts walking in the heavenly beautiful Mossman Gorge. He hears an odd sound and surprises him. He suddenly thought “what’s that” says Twisted Flax Wick. He starts to have a shiver running down his spine when he walks. He starts to twitch and his hands start to sweat. After a minute he realised that it was a turkey in front of him calling to another turkey from the other side of the forest.  “ For god sake” says Twisted Flax Wick “ that was nothing to be scared of, for god sake” he repeats. Later throughout the day Twisted Flax Wick is far from home and it seems to get dark for some reason, he asks himself, “ how could it be so dark at this time!?” Says Twisted Flax Wick. “ wait, where's my watch I forgot damn it this can’t be happening, NOOOOOOOO.” Huh, Sighs Twisted Flax Wick. My dad is going to kill me, why didn’t I bring my watch before, never mind, sighs Twisted Flax Wick once again. He stops walking, and turns back and follows the track back home. “ AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH” says  Twisted Flax Wick. It took Twisted Flax Wick hours to realise that he had broken his arm by tripping up from a big stone and colliding and face planting onto the ground. He starts walking back home with his arm rested on his stomach.

2 hours later    

“Oh my god I’ve been walking for ages now it’s been 3 hours.” He realised he was walking the wrong track since two hours. “Oh no this can’t be happening I can’t be lost in this rainforest.” says Twisted Flax Wick.

Six Months Later

Twisted Flax Wick has been in the forest for six months now and was lucky enough to have water and food, but now he’s ran out of food in his bag and he needs to find a way for survival.

He’s been walking around bushes slashing through the forest. It’s been hours now and lucky for him he found some Chicken breast in a basket with two reed leaf covered on the edges of the basket. He was also was lucky because right against the basket there was 5 bottles of water filled with 4.5 litres. Anyways Twisted Flax Wick had 7 water bottles when he had departed from home ages ago. Twisted Flax Wick Starting gobbling up the chicken breast in a matter of second, like a fussy eater that had a bon appetite. Seconds later Twisted Flax Wick wasn’t so lucky because there was a vulture that catched his basket and flew off vanishing in the sky without a single trace.

“Damn it” says Twisted Flax Wick. “I had a chance to eat some food cause I was suffering from starvation.”  “Huh” sighs Twisted Flax Wick. “ I just have wished rescuers could have found me, wait, there could be a manhunt at the moment, probably it’s me, I gotta sign S.O.S right now to anyone.  Twisted Flax Wick suddenly sees a helicopter flying across the trees and meanders off to another section.

Twisted Flax Wick sprints for his life, chasing the helicopter with his broken arm but suddenly he trips and collapses to the ground and face plants. He realised that he was in a mini lake with waves that meanders off to a waterfall. The other problem was that Twisted Flax Wick’s leg was broken which was a combo of injuries for him. “No” says Twisted Flax Wick “ not a combo of injuries it’s unfair, come on” he says. After a couple of minutes a rescue helicopter spots Twisted Flax Wick before he got rescued by the rescue helicopter.

He is safe back home with his dad th now. His father's tears collapses to the ground making a flood after the months of his poor sons adventures without help. Twisted Flax Wicks point of view was that it was a massacre after months lost in a rainforest in the middle of nowhere. His dad gave Twisted Flax Wick a bouquet of flowers including a reed leaf, for a memory.

The End