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Tattoo Designs

My extension class had a set task to make two symbols. The first one, representing your nationality. Your second one representing yourself and your favourite things to do.

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The first symbol I have drawn, is the “Teuila” Samoans national flower. Also, in the background, there is the New Zealand Flag. These symbols represent my culture. Because I am half samoan.

The New Zealand flag also represents my culture. Because I am also half New Zealander. One of the most favourite things I like about NZ is that, Theres not that much natural disasters.

The Second symbol I have drawn is a soccer ball, representing my hobby. In the soccer ball, are four turtles. Because the turtle symbol, means family and family members. Which means, I will have four turtles. My Mum, Dad, Sister and I. My Mum and Dad are the adult turtles, and my sister and I are the smaller turtles.

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Fire Pit Cooking

All last week we arrived at camp, doing 5 huge activities. But my favorite would have to be Fire Pit Cooking. I will be showing you a step by step tutorial on how to start your fire. Also how to cook eggs in an orange!

(How to get your fire started)

Step 1: Grab your dry pinewood for the base of the fire.

Step 2: Grab some newspaper.

Step 3: Light your fire with a match.

Step 4: Roast the marshmallows!

Just be sure to replenish pinewood to keep the fire going.

(Egg in a Orange)

Step 1. Grab an orange.

Step 2. Half the orange.

Step 3. Scoop out the orange half

Step 4. Put the egg into the orange.

Step 5. Wrap tin foil and put gently into the fire

Wait around 5 minutes and unwrap and there should be a nice egg in an orange.

Celtic Knot

Back at school and we already have a set task. Simply to draw a pattern, and contribute to the Tangle.

The tangle is called the “Celtic Knot” when there has no beginning or end. Everyone made their own pattern. The knot’s meaning is to bring people together. The knot is woven together, under and over to create the Celtic knot.

I  have made a pattern filled with all different colors and designs. My pattern has meaning to it because I have Samoan designs all over it, Because i’m Samoan.

When that tangle is done, I think that it will look amazing because the different patterns people have made, it would look very colorful.

When I finished my pattern I felt accomplished, because I have contributed to the class.

Warfare In The Future

In the year 2048, all technology will have changed, Including biological warfare. People are making Bioweapons to spread diseases across people, animals and plants.

One of the most powerful weapons that are being made are, properly invisible camouflage. Yes, I did say invisible camouflage, Called Quantum Stealth and made of MetaFlex. But my favorite would have to be, high-powered liquid laser beams, mostly for defensive uses only.

Another part of Biological Warfare is disease. One of the scariest diseases would have to Ebola. It could be genetically enhanced to not show symptoms for over 72 hours. Slowly killing you when you don’t even have a chance to stop it.

               

Avatar for "Panuba

We had a set task to make an avatar to represent what house I am in. I'm in the Tainui house and our main colour is Blue. The avatar I've created is my main hobby which is playing Minecraft. I have made two swords that have crossed over each other because my favourite weapon in Minecraft is the diamond sword.

I think that I would set myself at a level 3 because I am very capable of managing myself in terms of sitting where ever I would like outside the classroom.

Future Focus Learning

This week we had to put hexagons together and show how they can relate to each other showing future focus learning.
 

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Elections

It's that time of the year again! Elections are a huge part of New Zealand because it decides which party is going to run as New Zealand's Government in the future. There are seven parties all together in New Zealand. But mainly only  two stand out. National, with their leader John Key, Labour, with their leader David Cunliffe.

Votes will only count only at certain places and at certain times. You will vote by ticking your party that you would like to become future government.

If National win, they will get more education for children, mainly for Disabled children. They've also made a promise to invest in making more houses for families. Addition to that, National will Invest One Hundred million dollars over ten years to improve freshwater qualities in our waterways.

Labour on the other hand, will get $16.25 minimum wage. They will also be hiring 2,000 teachers, investing over 100 million dollars towards new classrooms. Finally Labour will provide every student, from years 5-13 will all receive a portable digital device, for schoolwork.

If I had to vote, even though Im to young. I would vote for labour, because labour has more polices than the other parties and Labour has more opportunities in line for me.

Heal The World

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Heal The World Reflection

This week us, year 8 boys had the opportunity to make a MTV to show a message about bullying. We had to choose a about 5 songs all created by the extraordinary Michael Jackson. We choose Heal The World because it was really intriguing.

The other main part of this task was about self management. We had to manage ourselves to get this finished by a set time and that was Monday. We had four days to complete this and we accomplished it.

I think that our group were really good at managing ourselves because we got finished at the deadline. Something we could do better is to figure out a song faster, rather than spending a couple days debating about it. Maybe I could contribute more in acting.

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Storyline's Reflection

Leaving in a bus we headed towards The Vodafone Events Centre to attend the Storyline's Tour starring four of the most unique authors in New Zealand. The names you might recognise, Catherine Mayo, Paula Green, Jill MacGregor and Juliette Mclver. They had different ways to write and engage the audience.

Firstly we had the 2 amazing authors that were most engaging, Catherine Mayo followed up by Juliette Mclver. Catherine is a more my type of writer because she writes about Ancient Greece and medieval days, and thats what I like. Juliette Mclver is a children's author. She writes more for little kids but she also hooked us in with her Rhymes.

Next was Jill MacGregor and Paula Green. Paula was a Poet and she loved anything to do with Poems and Rhymes, Jill on the other hand, was a School Journalist who wrote all about what she did in the Islands.

Storylines Tour

On Thursday, the 28th of August 2014. The extension class will be going to the Vodafone event centre to attend the Storyline's Tour. There will be four amazing authors, Their names are Catherine Mayo, Juliette Mclver, Jill Macgregor and Paula Green. They will be sharing their amazing stories with us. One author I will be looking forward to is Catherine Mayo because she is all about medieval times and war.

Paula Green was born in the west coast of Auckland. She is a children's author and she was the 2008 judge of the New Zealand post Secondary school poetry Competition.

Catherine was born in Auckland and she was in a band called Gentle Annie. Her musical instrument is the violin.

Juliette Mclver was born in Wellington and she has studied at Victoria University and she has a degree in Linguistics. She is a english teacher and has a diploma in English.

Jill Macgregor was born in Dunedin and she lives in Kapiti coast where she is a school teacher, she was a teacher in Tonga in the 1990's. From then she has travelled nearly all around the Islands.

Questions I would ask Catherine Mayo:

•    When did you start performing music. 
•     What would you do if you didn't get this Opportunity 

Astria Part 2

I have been continuing with my partner Jacob. We have nearly completed Astria Countdown to Impact. We just need to find 2 more clues and then we will choose the Solar Sail to destroy the incoming asteroid to save the planet. We are so close to toasting that asteroid.

Ecstasy

Class 1 have been learning all about drugs. Some drugs are legal and then there are some drugs that are ILLEGAL, drugs can have all different effects and can possibly kill if taken the wrong way.

Ecstasy, also known as XDC and MDMA, is a party drug that is very dangerous and can kill just by taking one. Ecstasy is illegal in many countries and states because it can be very unpredictable . XDC is meant to cause euphoria , meaning extreme happiness. It is to be taken by putting it under your tongue. Ecstasy is disguised as logos and brands such as Toyota, and even a smiley face.

Astria

The whole extension class tested out this game called Astria, Countdown to Impact. Astria is a literacy game to help improve reading skills. You only have 99 days to save the planet from an asteroid. The groups were split into A and B groups. I partnered up with Jacob.

The most difficult part of the game for me was figuring out the key code.

The part I found easy was unscrambling the jumbled words, because the words were not scrambled up good enough. We completed over half the game I think.

Taonga

We have been learning about Mascots. Mascots have a ability to bring good luck to a special event such as the Commonwealth games or the Olympics. This story is going to tell you all about my mascots background.

A mascot is a symbolic figure to an Organisation, it can also bring good luck to the Games.

The 2014 commonwealth games mascot was Shera from India, her name comes from the word Sher, meaning tiger.

This years mascot for the Commonwealth games is Clyde. A purple headed thistle. A thistle is the national plant in Scotland. When they are fully bloomed the top of the plant becomes purple.

The mascot clyde, the thistle, was designed

by A twelve year old Cumbernauld school pupil Beth Gilmour. Beth was amazed when she won the nationwide competition for designing Mascots for the commonwealth.

Clyde was chosen because the judges were impressed with the drawing and it relates to the commonwealth games because its in scotland.

My mascots name is Taonga and he brings good luck to the commonwealth games. He is a native symbol to New Zealand and the Commonwealth games. His favorite fruit is feijoa and when he eats a feijoa he gets super powers and becomes a super athlete. This is my Mascot (Below)

Sam Webster

Sam Webster. A professional sprint cyclist who recently won 3 medals in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Webster is 23 years of age.

Webster competed in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth games. He raced through to bronze, Competing for silver, then finally entered the finals for gold. Sadly he did not come out with the expectations he expected.

But this year he came out with the expectations that he DID want. He won 1 gold in team sprints, and 1 gold in an individual race. Webster finished second just behind Australian Matthew Glaetzer, just by half a tire. But Sam is alright with the position that he came out with.

Sams friend, Simon van Velthooven, qualified for the 1000m team sprint race. The final result was winning a bronze medal with his team.

Derek Jamie Forbes

DJ Forbes, also known as Derek Jamie Forbes. Is competing in the commonwealth games for 2014. He is currently the captain of the Rugby Sevens team. Who are also competing in the games. Forbes position is a loose flanker, Derek has also played in IRB. Unfortunately I do not know when they have there first game.