Prospective Student

The boy was determined to get to the top of the towering mountain to find the dojo. Suddenly as he was climbing the vertical rocks one of his hands struggled to get to the next and slipped.”

Oh no this is the end” he thought in his head. He was petrified. He stretched his other hand and gripped strongly to the ledge above and heaved himself up. As he was nervously waiting to catch his breath he noticed that he was at the top.

The boy was determined to get to the top of the towering mountain to find the dojo. Suddenly as he was climbing the vertical rocks one of his hands struggled to get to the next and slipped.” Oh no this is the end” he thought in his head.

He was petrified. He stretched his other hand and gripped strongly to the ledge above and heaved himself up. As he was nervously waiting to catch his breath he noticed that he was at the top.

“THANK GOD theres the dojo” he shouted. He hiked up the icy path one step at a time wiping his sweat. “This is my time”.

Rosa Parks

Ms Rosa Parks had just finished a hard day’s work and is on the bus way home. As normal on Montgomery Alabama busers. black in the back and white in the front. If a white person enters the bus and they are  no seats a black person would have to give they seat up.

A white man walks into the bus and waits for  Ms Rosa to move. Ms Rosa does not give up her seat. The white man tells the bus driver and the bus driver waves to the police. The police enters the bus and arrested Ms Rosa. Ms Rosa goes to jail for only five days.

As people saw and heard what happens they started protesting because she got arrested for just not giving up her seat.They chose to boycott using the bus. They started walking. Taxi drivers changed black people 10c and white people 45c but they lost their jobs. Black people started they own taxi company by using their own cars. The protest went on for a year and the local civil right were finally changed by new legislation from the president.

Rainbow Warrior Bombing

One dark night in July 1985 2 suspicious men motored around Mechanics bay on a zodiac.It was odd these two men were wearing scuba diving gear in the middle of the night. Through the mist they targeted towards Marsden Wharf. Meanwhile as Greenpeace’s ship Rainbow Warrior was anchored at Marsden Wharf, a  party was being celebrated, the director of the anti-nuclear movement’s 29th birthday. The two unknown men slipped down through the water unnoticed. They swam under the Rainbow Warrior  and attached two limpet bomb to the bottom of the boat stealthily.

Suddenly a tragic blast exploded through the walls of the Rainbow Warrior. “Abandon ship Abandon ship,” said Pete Willox in a loud voice. They all escaped except photographer Fernando Pereira, he ran back to the ship after the first explosion to claim his things. Water was thundering through the hallways hitting everything in it’s way. As every second went past the more water came tumbling in. The Rainbow Warrior sunk and no sight of Fernando Pereira was found until they retrieved his body later on.

The two suspicious men were actually working with 11 undercover spies for the French government. After the bombing  New Zealand police tracked and arrested two of the spies Dominique Prieur and  Alain Mafart who ended up getting sentenced to ten years in jail.  

But only stayed in jail for 2 years. Unfortunately the French Government gave New Zealand 13m dollars, and said if they don’t give they spies back they will boycott using New Zealand products. That meant losing thousands and thousands of dollars. `  

The French spies blew up the Rainbow Warrior because they were trying to stop them from protesting against the nuclear testing in French Polynesia. This was causing negative impacts like death, radiation poisoning, health problems like birth deformities and cancer.

This was the only New Zealand terrorist attack.

BasketBall

Every Thursdays from the starting of term 3 Room 19 went to basketball training.“Yes we're going to basketball” I said to my friend Silas next door to me when we were walking.

As I saw the basketball court I was just about to run down to our teacher and hug but didn't really want to.

We went to practice bouncing,handling and how to do awesome tricks. Every time we go to basketball we practice jump stop. One of my favourite things to do at basketball was a game called King Of The Count. To play King Of The Court you have to start in a small circle and try backhand the other person ball out of the circle.

The first week we had basketball I was so surprised when Mrs Lagitupu took us to the court to play basketball. I was happy. The first thing we did was play a warm up game. We play octopus, as I was zooming down the court I notices that  everyone was in but four of my classmates. I got tag first out of them but it was a cool game.

As we were leaving basketball we said a good thank you to our basketball teacher and went back to class. “Today was great” I said  can’t wait for next week.

Movie Reflection

Neo, Calvin and I made a movie about what we loved. Our movie was so awesome because we had very good graphics and it was interesting. When I was watching it I felt like jumping off my seat and do those things. We could have done more on our background. I reckon that we should have had more music so it was entertaining.

Our Movie

1980's And 2013

          1980’s EventsIn 1980’s, the Americans boycotted (Protest ) the Moscow Olympics because of what happen in December 27th 1979. In 1979, Russia invaded Afghanistan. They invaded because they wanted more land and power.

Music in 2013

Over the last 2 decades of years, music has change a lot from the 1970’s of disco and the 1980’s of the jackson 5. Since then the music today has got its own style to it. Have you noticed that every song we listen to today either have Rap, Pop, R&B, Hip Hop or Techno in it.

We even have new styles like Dubstep, (It is an electronic song with lots of bass and beats) .

top 3 songs of 2013 so far.

1. Radioactive (by Imagine dragons)

2. get lucky (by Daft punk ft Pharrell Williams

3. Treasure (by Bruno Mars)

Prospective Student

The boy was determined to get to the top of the towering mountain to find the dojo. Suddenly as he was climbing the vertical rocks one of his hands struggled to get to the next and slipped.” Oh no this is the end” he thought in his head. He was petrified. He stretched his other hand and gripped strongly to the ledge above and heaved himself up. As he was nervously waiting to catch his breath he noticed that he was at the top.

“THANK GOD there's the dojo” he shouted. He hiked up the icy path one step at a time wiping his sweat. “This is my time”