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.

Whats the Drink for me?

WHAT’S THE DRINK FOR ME?  

What would you chose out of these drinks: coffee, tea, soft drink or water?  

For everyone in the world I think the fantastic idea is to choose plain water. It doesn’t have any sugar content. It re-hydrates the body after hard work and sport. It helps flush your kidneys and keep them healthy. Best of all it’s free!.

A cup of coffee is instantly unhealthy for kids because it concerns Caffeine. This can effect your mind. This type of drink is not for me.

The drink ‘Tea’ is sometimes comfortable for me to drink. But adding a lot of sugar to the ingredient makes it sweeter for me to taste so sometimes I have my ups and downs drinking this type of hot drink.

The drink ‘Soft Drink’ can be a sugary matter. it is formed from lemon and other ingredients. I only drink this kind of drink sometimes in the weekdays or when I'm thirsty.

So... The drink for me is nice, cold, Water or a plain ole Soft Drink.

Camp Reflection.

For 3 whole days us, year 7 & 8 students has been participated into activities that our teachers has prepared for us for our 2012 camp and one of our camp activities we’ve been invited to do was called ‘The Amazing Race’. One of our teachers, Mr Barks had produced the activity to our group, ‘Respect Squad’ of how to do it and what the rules are, once Mr Barks had told the instructions he then told us to split into 3-4 even groups. My group I was told to be in was with 5 girls including me. For the first part of the activity was to make a slingshot and shoot a paper ball at a bucket that has a sign of points in front of the bucket.

Running around everywhere through the medow field finding clues of what to bake was another part of our activity. Our group of five had splited up to find the clues so...the first clue our splited group of 3 we’ve found was a plain metal bucket by a tall tree. Once we've found that clue the next step was to run across from the field onto the ptengland reserve and that is where we have found the next step of the clue and that was a pile of wood rapped in a plastic bag. Finally the stage of this activity was done dissapointedly our group came back at the wrong time so we were instructed to run around the whole field getting all the laminated posters showing all the directions on it but once we've got back our clues was to bake a egg out of all the clues we've found. And so..that was the end of activity ‘Amazing Race’.

Netball Session.

As our class arrived to the netball courts we met a lady named ‘Liz’. She was our coach for the week. Once we got started she told us much more about herself then we got our legs going. What we did first was we had to exercise therefor was chest passing. chest passing was easily prepared. all we had to do was to mark the ball across our chest, then throw it to our partner across from us, then our partner would do the same thing.

After a while we were on for the game of netball! Once we started we were splited into two groups, Bibs. & No Bibs. The group i was put in was Bibs. Then we automatically started. Instead of us putting the ball in the hoop we instead were dropping it on to marked dots on each side of each 4 corners.  

When it started the other group ‘No bib’s’ had the first ball. What we were trying to do was to try not let the person that had the ball not to get a goal so we had to try and defend her waving our arms in the air.

As the game had finally finished it was time to go so we said ‘bye’ to Liz and ‘thank you for teaching us much more about netball’ What a wonderful day of netball.

The Treaty .

In our class, Room Nineteen, Us students have been studying a lot about The Treaty of Waitangi. What iv'e learnt so far was that the Europeans traded in there muskets for the Maoris Food, Also, The Europeans have been involved in Whaling and Sealing and that the signing finally was signed on the 6th February 1840 by William Hobson and the 34 Chiefs.

That was a lot of information about Waitangi Day and the signing.