Greymouth's Darkest Days

Last Friday a sad thing happened in GreyMouth. 29 Miners were trapped under Ground. It has been a sad week for the families of those who had lost their loved ones. I watched the news to see if there had been any updates on the GreyMouth miners.

It was sad to see the CEO on the news telling the bad new to the families of the 29 miners that they couldn't go down to rescue their bodies immediately due to the heavy gas levels in the mine. Otherwise, if they go, they might have caused another explosion.

There have been 4 explosions so far, The Prime Minister is taking it very seriously. It is now being called one of Grey mouths darkest days


The sad thing was that the youngest miner was only 17 years old and it was his first day on the job when the disaster occurred. He was'nt suppose to work on that day, but he asked his boss.

It was good to see the Queen and Australia and other countries showing their condolences. Again, I feel really sorry for the families of the 29 miners.

I would like to thank this website http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10689557 for the photo-which is a photo of one of the robots that was helping with the situation. I'd also like to Thank Sela for editing this piece of writing.http://pesselap.blogspot.com/

Athletics

Throw off. I was so nervous because I had to battle against Gabrielle for 2nd place. My shot put throw went further then Gabrielle’s throw, which meant that I came 2nd and Gabrielle came 3rd. It was very fortunate for me but unfortunate for my cousin Sela, who was in 3rd place but got knocked out because Gabrielle was now in 3rd place.

For you guys that don’t know what Athletics Day is, its an annual event that happens at our school on our school field. There are a bunch of event/activities like Shot-put, Discus, High Jump, Sprints and our newest event-Javelin. After high jump was sprints, then after sprints was discus. I hadn't come any place in discus in the previous Athletics Days, so I was determined to come a place in at least 1 event. I founbd out that if you go last, you've got a more successful chance of coming a place in something. Thats exactly what I did in discus and what do you know, I came 1st!! But again I knocked my cousin Sela out of 3rd place (again!)

At the end of it all, I was pretty proud of myself as I came 1st in Discus and 2nd in Shotput!! I also made it into the Eastern Zone Athletics which will be held next week on Wednesday at Lloyds Elsmore Park!! I can't wait.

Netbook day!

Finally! we have our lap tops. One of our task was to take a photo from our laptop and upload it to our blogs. Here is a photo of Shaniah and I, taking a photo from my laptop.
I would like to thank everyone for making this happen, and letting us use these for learning. Learning is fun now using this. It is cool being the first school in New Zealand to use this for learning.

Point England's FIRST TIME EVER Swimming Pool

Today some Room 20 students got to have a swim in a portable pool. It was fun to get a chance to learn some of the saftey rules. We were all excitied to get into the pool , because it was a very hot day. But when we got into the pool we were all shivering most of us was cold. But through out the session we were all warm. I really enjoyed swimming in our pool.

Cant wait till next time!

My Trip to Australia

During the last month I have been away at Australia for a funeral. I went with my mum and we stayed with her family at Sydney. The next day we went to the chapel to see the body, it was kind of scary sitting next to a dead body! Even though it was a sad time everybody just laughed and talked about the good times they had with the person (who just died.)

That night we had a failotu which is like a prayer service, the body wasn’t there because it was getting prepared for the funeral. There were lots of relatives that I didn’t know but the failotu was a good time to get to know my mother’s side. After that we went over to my aunty’s house to get the food ready for the apo ( The night before the burial service and everybody has to stay up all night.)

After we finished packing the food, we went into the church. Because it was a funeral we were supposed to wear black. I sort of panicked because I was wearing purple but luckily my mum bought some black clothes. There were family and friends, and his daughter told us a very touching speech filled with the good and sad times of her dad.


When the funeral was finished everybody was crying especially the wife. There was also a priest who was there and he blessed the coffin. It was sad that my uncle had past away but it was also a happy time because I got to see some of my relatives that I had never seen before!!