Dear  diary

I just woke up on the boat to the screams of the families that have lost their children to sickness and hunger. Smelling the cold salty water of the sea and the odours from different people that are on the boat. The only thing that is keeping me warm is my dads body as he hugged me tightly. I felt his warmth and love. 

After a few more excruciatingly painful nights full of horror and sadness we got off the death-filled boat. We found a cosy place on the street to beg people for some spare change. It was freezing out there but once again my dad kept me warm and safe. When we finished hopelessly begging we went for a walk. While we walked I saw a store selling baked goods. All I could do was stare in awe as I sadly watched families walk in and out with food while my stomach rumbled in hunger. My dad heard my stomach and looked down at the ground with a shameful and disappointed look knowing he couldn’t satisfy my deep hunger.

We walked down a creepy street, my dads bright yellow umbrella keeping us from getting wet. Instead of walking in the middle of the road we moved to the footpath slowing down in front of a two story building. My dad walked me up the stairs at the top of the stairs. My dad got down on one knee and kissed my forehead with a sad and hopeless look on his face. He picked up his umbrella and walked back down the stairs walking away without me. With loneliness in my heart, I knocked on the door waiting for someone to open it.

 Happily skipping through the snow covered town, I can’t help but hear my

footsteps crunching against the icy cold ground. As I skip I notice missing children posters on the wall yet don’t pay much attention to them. In the distance I see a blackboard in the middle of a wall across from a shop. I slide towards the board feeling intrigued. I see so many names written on the board. Right in front of me there is a blank space that looks like it has been reserved just for me. Looking down I see a ledge with a piece of broken chalk.

Using the broken piece of chalk I write my name. I hear a mechanical sound behind me. Turning around I see a doll inside a shop. I walk across the street to closely inspect the doll. noticing the doll is wearing the exact same clothes as me. The second I turn away and the doll disappears.

 I move to see where the doll has disappeared and it appears further inside the shop. I find the door and make an attempt to open it. I reach the cold icy ground and make a snowball and throw it at the door. Unfortunately it doesn’t go as planned. Sadly walking away I hear the door slowly creek open. Feeling excited I walked into the store.

To my surprise I see many dolls staring into my soul. It creeps me out, looking around for the doll. Spot it on a table in the middle of the room. While I walk towards the  table I stumble upon a doll riding an old tricycle in a black suit. I pick up the doll that I stumbled on and put it upright. It starts to pedal furiously towards the door before it closes. Trying not to forget why I was there I look around the room for the doll but it disappeared again. I look around and find it on top of a shelf. I climb on top of the velvet couch to grab my doll. I reach towards it, taking off my mitten so it doesn’t slip out of my cold fingers. I grab the doll and suddenly I am transferred into another dimension. Opening my eyes I see I’m stuck inside the doll. I hear the sound of my eyes clicking not knowing how to get out. 

A Baleen whale is one of the biggest species of whales in the world. It is a type of rorqual whale. One reason why they are the biggest whales in the world is because of their large baleen’s which assist them to sieve and filter what they choose to eat. They have a special way of eating called lunge feeding. 

What is lunge feeding? 

Lunge feeding is an evolved way of eating among whales but the rorqual whales have taken this to the extreme by being able to drop it’s lower jaw ninety degrees which allows them to eat half a ton of krill fish and swallow eighty thousand liters of water.

This picture I made for my reading represents what an emergency alarm is meant to look like on our phones and it had to include where to go, the natural disaster and where its going to take place.

‘s going to take place.

This is part of our reading in Rm 8 where we try and recreate a famous prisoner  of war camp  from world war two.

I Am The Way, The Truth And The Life

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6

Last week, on Holy Thursday, as a class, we did a re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross in front of the entire school. Each and everyone in room 8 played a crucial role in making the play special.

My role was Pontius Pilate. As Pilate I had a decision to make, let Jesus walk or follow the crowd. I made the choice to follow the crowd. The crowd decided to crucify Jesus.

As I swiped Jesus to the left giving the sign to the soldiers to  prepare to walk him up to Golgotha to meet his death I felt a hint of regret but I knew what had to be done.

As Jesus was walking up to hill Golgotha I was feeling guilty. I knew he was a good man and he had done nothing wrong. 

Stations of the Cross made me appreciate the death of Jesus and his love for us.

By Andreaus

On Tuesday The 12th of March, I spent the day at the Akarana Yacht Club at Okahu Bay sailing with the New Navigators This was thankfully sponsored by St John’s Rotary

We had four instructors Nico, Lola, Hattie and Jake. The organizer of the program was Kim and she helped the instructors with some stuff and she was watching us have fun.

We had two boats we could sail on; Quests and Optimists.

The Quest  could hold up to four people including  one  instructor. There were two Quests and each Quest had one instructor on board each boat. We also had the opportunity to control the big boat which was the Quests. The instructors on each boat were Nico, Lola.

Then there were the optimists. We had the opportunity to sail by ourselves or in pairs but I was lucky enough to be able to sail by myself there only able to hold two people. 

After we had a turn sailing we got a chance to go and try to tie knots with our other instructor Jake. He first showed us how to tie a reef knot and a figure eight knot. After that Jake challenged us to tie a reef knot with our feet and we all passed the challenge.

When we finished our time with jake we had lunch time and we played touch on the grass in front of the restaurant that was there while we played people that were there smiled and  cheered for each team as we played, after lunch we got a opportunity to swim  which is something that they don’t really do because they don’t have time after the sailing while we were swimming we all were laughing because people kept swallowing the sea water accidentally cause they were too  short to stay above sea level the thing i enjoyed the most was the nice cold water this was my experience sailing with the New Navigators.

By Andreaus

For lent I want to give up devices because I want to spend more time with my family and because  lately I’ve been watching TV and playing games a lot. I haven’t been  doing much lately  but playing games so I want to take a break from devices and read more books so next time I do a test I can get better results on my next math test.