Joshua Iosefo at Pt England!

Joshua Iosefo, who was an average New Zealand teenager who did an amazing job expressing polynesians and talking about stereotypes came to our school. If you don’t know already, he wrote an amazing poem which being a prefect he recited it to his school, Mt Roskill Grammar.

This inspiring teenager, opened up minds of many New Zealand kids and young adults. As him and his family came to Pt England today, the year 7 & 8’s welcomed them by doing a mihi, karakia and a waiata. Which he thought was pretty neat.

He said a few words about himself then started to recite his poem to us live. It was an amazing privilege to have him talk to our yr 7 and 8’s. Hopefully his words of wisdom that he has given us today will encourage us in life and also guide us to the right path to achieving our goals.

Exhilarating All Blacks Fans!

My sister spoke into my ear “Hurry up and get ready, we’re going town, and I know you want to come, so don’t say no!”.  It had been minutes since she had said that. As we got to town we met up with some of my sisters friends. Getting there was pretty hard since everything was packed like a colony of bees. You turn to the right and see people dressed up and supporting the All Blacks you turn to the left and see supporters of the France team, there weren’t many. Well to be honest, there were mostly All Black fans, so the France supporters were NOTHING compared to the All Blacks fans.

As the sun set, town got more packed. People started drinking and smoking more and more. Everybody was walking in all directions. There was only about 1 hour left till the Rugby World Cup and everybody started sitting down on the streets to get ready and to watch the RWC.

The game was only 10 minutes away to the start and everybody gathers together to watch it. All the players were shown on screen and everybody started screaming and shouting there heads off. My ears felt like they were about to explode any second. Luckily they didn't.

40 minutes up and the score was 5 - 0 and the leading team was the All Blacks. Everybody stands up, takes a stretch, then sits back down. My ears were going to explode any minute again. The game had started again, and all that cheering started again. Was I going to survive through a heap of that?

The tension started building up. The France team was catching up to the all Blacks and there was a possibility that they could win against New Zealand. “No way, this can’t happen” I repeated in my mind several times. The score was 8 - 7 and still in the leading position was the All Blacks.

People start the countdown until the end of the Final game. As soon as the referee said 80 minutes up, everybody starts screaming and hugging. Throwing bottles of bear on the ground, there was glass smothered over the roads. Richie McCaw proudly held the Webb Ellis Cup for New Zealand and now I’m proud to say  “I’m a All Blacks supporter / fan”.   

Rugby World Cup Prediction

Today, New Zealand will verse Japan in the Rugby World Cup. I think that New Zealand will win because from the last game the All Blacks played which was New Zealand verse Tonga. I think the All Blacks will win. The score in the previous game was 41 - 10. I am not sure because on the other hand there is also a chance for Japan to win.

Our Place, Our Team Presentation

This is a presentation that I have made in a group. My group consisted of 4 people which are Selena, Sylvia, Thora and Me. Our presentation was about Our Place and Our Team. We had to inform people that are coming to NZ for the Rugby World Cup (RWC) and people that are coming to New Zealand, what it is like and some cool places that you should see. I hope you enjoy reading my presentation.

Tornado in NZ (Auckland)

A tragedy struck yesterday. What do you think happened? A Earthquake, Did a Volcano erupt?, Well it was nothing like that, it was actually a tornado. It was a huge one and damaged severe buildings.

This devastating twister hit Albany, North Shore approximately at 3pm. It was a calamity with widespread events, it also managed to kill a lot of innocent citizens of Auckland. This mean beast was such an disaster to all these people out there in this city.

The power of this tornado uplifted cars and trucks off the ground. Beasts like these have such effective power as if it was like a jet-engine descending.

Thanks to thins link for letting me use this image.

Polynesians to NZ

Polynesians were the first people to populate New Zealand over 1000 years ago.

These people came by canoe from East Polynesia. Their canoes that they brought to

Aotearoa were made from Wooden Planks. Some of these wooden waka had an

outrigger or it wad double hulled.

In the canoes these were trained Navigators who steered the bout in the right direction

using:

1. The stars at night.

2. The swells in the sea.

They also kept a lookout for signs that land was near, for example, they looked for

birds that were feeding in the sea. Not all of these brave sailors made it to

New Zealand.

Thank you ( http://www.timedesign.de/ship/liki_tiki.jpg ) for letting me use this

amazing photo which, helped me a lot.

New Zealand History

In this movie I have drawn a animation and it is going to show what Maori people did before Captain James Cookcameto New Zealand. I have been working so hard to finish this movie and finally I have got it on my blog. In this movie some of the things that will be happening will be that some men are going to be putting some Kumara into the ground they had just plowed. I hope you enjoy my movie and will show you how people lived before. Thank You