Manaiakalani Film Festival!

In the Afternoon, The senior block had Manaiakalani Film Festival. Manaiakalani are movies that were made from different schools in this community. These schools put together an interesting project for the students that comes along to watch and to enjoy.

What I really enjoyed from these interesting movies was how a class from our school, gathered up a comedy film for schools to have a moment, and laugh.

It was a really great time to watch these movies and hope for the best that I could ever watch them again.

Thank you Britney for reading my work.

Drought!

Last week, It was a very unusual day for Miri. Once Miri got up, out of her bed, and had gotten ready for school. The first session of the day was writing an imaginative story. Miri was filled
with drought in the whether she was in. Apparently, Pete, a kind boy was sitting at the back her, also she would stay in Pete’s House once Miri’s Father would finish at a hard time at work.  It took her forever to come up with an imaginative story for Miri. It was home time and Miri’s teacher told her to take as many time as she’d like to come up with. Miri told her if it’s supposed to be fiction or fact? Her teacher replied with a simple sigh “ hm.. anything Miri” And of she went.

Later on, She thought of an interesting story that came from her imagination, Once she finished, She gave it to her teacher and had Aced the test.

Thank you to Vanila for reading my work.

Dangers Of Smoking

The dangers of smoking is that it causes diseases of your heart, lungs and brain. Smoking increases the chances of getting these diseases.

Smoking may cause lung cancer disease. The risk of developing lung cancer is the abnormal cells that appear in the lining of the main breathing tube which forms new cells and replaces the old cells.  Stroke may affect the brain. Smoking causes heart disease, this effects your heart and veins.

 Some say, if you smoke at a younger age you die earlier. You could die from;

• Lung cancer - Men developing lung cancer; 23 times more likely;
• Lung cancer - Chances of women developing lung cancer is 13 times more likely;
• Stroke - The possibility of having to get a stroke from smoking is 2 to 4 times.
• Heart Disease - 2 to 4 times more likely.

I think that this is an issue for many people's health, Now that you've read some of this information about smoking would you still start this deadly habit?

An Awesome Experience

Filling my body up with exhaustion this running was tiring. The distance so far had caught my eye and had made my legs impossible to move. Heading out towards the Pt England Reserve made me feel icky having to  my foot come pass that slimy, sticky, mud stuck to my shoes & up to my knees. As much as I wanted to walk the whole way I had a lot of support from the students on the side of me telling me to push myself into running.

Going through the Tamaki Area made me much more Nervous of seeing how slippery it was to run so I walked instead. Once we were near the finish line me & some of the friends I was with started hearing cheers for their house colours. Finally, I made it. It wasn't that big of a deal of who came 1st, 2nd or 3rd it was how we had much fun and being a sore loser.

After that, the students from Year 7 & 8 had seen some stunts on youtube that our teachers had shown in our street on the projector. It was really epic to see and we all had enjoyed it. What a fun, exotic Friday we all had.

Thanks to Dakota for checking my work.

Jesse Owens Inspires Me.

Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens is the one who inspires me by his achievement in the olympic games by winning four gold medals in the 100m sprint , the long jump, the 200m sprint and last but not least the 4x100m relay team.

Owens was the youngest out of ten children and was born in Oakville, Alabama. Firstly, His real name is James Cleveland. At the age of 9, His family moved to Cleveland, Ohio for better opportunities. When his new teacher wanted his name, he spoke his initials ‘ J.C ‘ short for James Cleveland. With a strong southern accent Owens had, The teacher thought he said ‘ Jesse ‘. The name took, and he was known as Jesse for the rest of his life.

Owens worked for two different jobs within his spare time by working in a shoe repair shop, delivering groceries and loading freight cars. During the period of time, Owens discovered he had a passion for running. Throughout his life, he spent a lot of time on his athletic career to the encouragement of Charles Riley, His junior high track coach at the school, Fairmount Junior High School. Charles Riley allowed him to practice before school instead.

Owens had died in Tucson, Arizona on the date, March 31st, 1980. Many supporters wouldn’t forget of his athletic success.


I want to be like Jesse Owens because he never gives up on anything and
practice, practice, practice makes perfect.

First ever plane Flew without using any fuel

In the Article I have read from the past couple of weeks was about a first ever plane without using any fuel flew from Switzerland and it happened to have landed in Morocco. What happened was that the flying wings were covered in solar panels which turns the sun rays into electricity and what makes the plane powered up. It had happened to have been tested by the plane Engineers.


It was a miracle having a first ever plane fly around for such a long time without using any fuel, Luckily it hadn't fall.

Van Gogh's Life Time

Vincent Van Gogh was born on the date 30th March 1853 , by a woman named Anna Cornelia Carbentus , Vincent wasn’t the only child. He had 5 siblings named Elisabeth, Anna & Wil which were his 3 sisters & had 2 brothers named Theo & Cor.

In his early life he spent the last couple of years with non attention on his art & artistic qualities from his brother, Theo, helping him to become a famous painter.

One of Vincent Van gogh’s Artistic Influences was Paul Gauguin another famous painter. They first met in Paris, on the date November 1887. Vincent Van gogh decided that he would set up an exhibit for the people who Van Gogh called the Impressionist of the Petit Boulevard. After Paul Gauguin saw the exhibit of Vincent Van Gogh he decided to trade in one of his arts, Van gogh’s 2 sunflowers.


As you can see, Vincent Van Gogh's life time was indeed stressing but had his work published by the time he needed it to be.


Thanks to Athena for helping me.