This is the updated version of the Alien invasion video my friends and I made. I really hope you like it! We made it so we can practise using different camera angles.
Friday, 23 August 2019
Friday, 16 August 2019
Alien invasion!
This is the Alien invasion my friends and I made. I really hope you like it! We made it so we can practise using different camera angles.
Friday, 7 June 2019
Why everybody should have a pet.
Pets are amazing. You don’t believe me? Well, there must be a reason that so many kids have “a pet” written in bold at the top of there Christmas wish list. In my opinion, everybody should have a pet.
You may be thinking, that some people don’t have either the room or the time for one. But, there are so many different types that you can get, at least one will be perfect for you. If you’re fortunate enough to live in a house with a backyard, you can already get a dog, cat, bird, you name it. If you own a lot of land with fenced-off grass, why don’t you get a horse? Or even a donkey! You may be thinking, what if I don’t have any land at all? What if I live in a small apartment that doesn’t allow dogs or cats or anything that makes much of a noise five stories above the ground? Just get a little pet, like a mouse or a rat. If you are part of a large percentage of people, you will be absolutely disgusted by this idea. But why? What is really that bad about rats? They’ve got tiny little claws and tiny little teeth, sure. But so do humans, and chances are, you don’t mind being around people so much. Besides, you get a pet, and you may just be making their like so much better as well.
Not only are pets great, but they are also great for you. Owning a pet may be just what you need to get up and go for a run at the park. A breath of fresh air and a bit of exercise is good for anybody. That’s not the only reason pets are so good for you. They can also unknowingly teach you things that humans can’t. They teach you loyalty and how to stick with something. Pets also teach you how to look after something. Once people know that you can be trusted to look after an animal, they’ll know you can be trusted.
Pets are marvellous things that everyone should have, and when you get a pet, you gain a companion as well. If you are lonely, you know what you need; a pet. They’re friends that stick with you, that will love you forever. Honestly, sometimes they can be better than having a human friend. Pets can never say the wrong thing so they are automatically masters at emotional support. Besides, it’s far too easy to make a person annoyed compared to a dog. You forget to feed your pet one morning and they’re still your best friend by the time you get home from work. You forget one slightly important thing in the supermarket and suddenly your flatmate doesn’t speak to you for a week. There are so many reasons that pets can be more kind than humans. Anyway, you can argue with your cat, your dog, your mouse, your horse and unless your really unlucky, you will most likely win any arguments with them. Not that there will be much as (added bonus) pets don’t talk back.
Just imagine what it will be like to have such a caring and compassionate friend that sticks by your side to the end of the world that will continue to help you when you need it most and never gives up on you or let you down. What you are imagining is a pet.
You may be thinking, that some people don’t have either the room or the time for one. But, there are so many different types that you can get, at least one will be perfect for you. If you’re fortunate enough to live in a house with a backyard, you can already get a dog, cat, bird, you name it. If you own a lot of land with fenced-off grass, why don’t you get a horse? Or even a donkey! You may be thinking, what if I don’t have any land at all? What if I live in a small apartment that doesn’t allow dogs or cats or anything that makes much of a noise five stories above the ground? Just get a little pet, like a mouse or a rat. If you are part of a large percentage of people, you will be absolutely disgusted by this idea. But why? What is really that bad about rats? They’ve got tiny little claws and tiny little teeth, sure. But so do humans, and chances are, you don’t mind being around people so much. Besides, you get a pet, and you may just be making their like so much better as well.
Not only are pets great, but they are also great for you. Owning a pet may be just what you need to get up and go for a run at the park. A breath of fresh air and a bit of exercise is good for anybody. That’s not the only reason pets are so good for you. They can also unknowingly teach you things that humans can’t. They teach you loyalty and how to stick with something. Pets also teach you how to look after something. Once people know that you can be trusted to look after an animal, they’ll know you can be trusted.
Pets are marvellous things that everyone should have, and when you get a pet, you gain a companion as well. If you are lonely, you know what you need; a pet. They’re friends that stick with you, that will love you forever. Honestly, sometimes they can be better than having a human friend. Pets can never say the wrong thing so they are automatically masters at emotional support. Besides, it’s far too easy to make a person annoyed compared to a dog. You forget to feed your pet one morning and they’re still your best friend by the time you get home from work. You forget one slightly important thing in the supermarket and suddenly your flatmate doesn’t speak to you for a week. There are so many reasons that pets can be more kind than humans. Anyway, you can argue with your cat, your dog, your mouse, your horse and unless your really unlucky, you will most likely win any arguments with them. Not that there will be much as (added bonus) pets don’t talk back.
Just imagine what it will be like to have such a caring and compassionate friend that sticks by your side to the end of the world that will continue to help you when you need it most and never gives up on you or let you down. What you are imagining is a pet.
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Rafting the Arnold river reflection
On the 15th of May, us 13 year 8s went rafting on the Arnold River. It was amazing! The water was freezing and fast-flowing (not to mention dirty) as it had rained a lot beforehand, but this turned out to be a good thing.
I was in the middle of the raft with Natasha next to me, Xavier and Jeordie in front and Jasper as the steering wheel at the bank. It was smooth at first, but soon we were hanging on for dear life (at least I was). I still remember the first time we went over a rock. Somebody called a warning, and naturally, we headed right towards it. I was quite surprised when we landed and didn’t have our bodies underwater. I really got a shock when Natasha next to me said, “don’t worry, no more rapids”. One second later, I heard somebody yell “RAPIDS!”. Despite turning completely around and shaking violently, we stayed on without getting stuck. Another raft was not so lucky. The managed to wedge themselves on top of a giant boulder.
We saw many things while rafting, including a dead cow. Unfortunately, not everyone saw it, but the one that didn’t, got the privilege of unknowingly swimming with it instead. I definitely found it challenging and I was very scared at first, but by the end, I found that I was sad to see the end of the day.
Monday, 11 March 2019
My self-portrait
My Self-Portrait
Everybody in our class made a self-portrait. First, we took a photo of ourself and put it on a google drawing. We then used the polyline tool to outline parts of our face, for example, our hair, face, lips and ears. We would then colour them in and delete the photo (leaving the shapes we made with the polyline) and then put a picture in the background. This is mine.
Everybody in our class made a self-portrait. First, we took a photo of ourself and put it on a google drawing. We then used the polyline tool to outline parts of our face, for example, our hair, face, lips and ears. We would then colour them in and delete the photo (leaving the shapes we made with the polyline) and then put a picture in the background. This is mine.
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Grey District Athletics recount!!!
This week on Wednesday I, along with about half of the senior area in our school went to the Grey District Athletics. When we got there on the bus, we got in line in our age groups. I made it in for 80 and 100m sprints, 1200m run, high jump and relay. First, we had the 1200m run. I came second out of the year seven girls! I was so lucky that straight after that we had our first break though most of the other runners had to go straight to their things! If there was one thing that annoyed me the most, it would be that in the high jump, I was on my third and last try and I really thought that I could do it. I was about to jump when I slid on the sandy fake grass. Other than that, it was a great day!
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
S.S.S
Everybody knows that full-on gamers are common and it is not good for you, but do people really know how bad it is? Gaming addiction has actually become known as a small mental health problem. That is pretty bad seeing as it is most likely going to get worse. And it seems even worse when you think of all the starving children in the world that probably haven’t even heard of pocket money when some people are blowing their $10 a week for 10 weeks just to get more addicted! I know someone who wasted $20 on fortnite in a day. But of course, it is not just the money that is an issue. A short time ago, a 9-year-old girl got sent into rehab because of her addiction to fortnite! She was playing for 10 hours a day without taking a break! Just imagine it. Video games are becoming more addictive. People hear of a game, watch it for hours on youtube and eventually get the game, play it day and night and become super lazy. And to think that some people actually get pay heaps more money to play video games and record themselves on youtube than hard working people, who have bought their own house and are doing things for a reason.
And this is why I think gaming addiction is a real and a bad thing.
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Everybody at least knows someone that smokes, and you may think that it is just a normal thing, but it may become a thing of the past. Smoke-free New Zealand may be just around the corner. A.K.A 2025. I hope that people are right about this, because it may just stop a lot of harmful things happening to you and your family. I have listed some of the main things below;
If you do not smoke and you tell your kids that smoking is bad, though if you do smoke and you tell your kids not to smoke, they will probably not listen. And to make matters worse, if they see cigarettes, they might steal one or two, they might get addicted and you will be known as a bad parent.
Around about 500 people in New Zealand die thanks to second-hand smoke.
You will save a lot of money on cigarettes and you can use that money to buy things that you actually need, or if you don’t need it, you can donate it. Think about it, if nobody smokes, lots of people will have more money.
Lung cancer, unhealthy teeth, heart disease and persistent coughing are just some of the many symptoms you could get just by smoking. Do you really want this to happen?
I think that smoking is completely and utterly stupid as you will not gain anything from it other that ugly teeth, smelly hair (true) and a whole lot of other things. Why would you want to waste money on becoming unhealthy?
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People, of course, have different feelings about the upcoming EV revolution (electric vehicle revolution). Lots of gas station owners and workers are annoyed as they think they might go out of business because soon they will not be selling gas anymore, though that is most likely not true because since they also sell food and other useful stuff, so when people go to charge up their electric vehicles, they will probably by some food and stuff there instead of wasting gas (sorry, electricity). Another thing they could do is charge a dollar or two to charge their cars. Besides, even if some gas/electricity stores do lose some money, it goes towards the greater good. Gas pollution is not very good for the environment and if everybody has an electric car, it could greatly reduce the speed that global warming is coming. Right now, there are 97 rapid-charging stations, one is in Greymouth and 30 more are in construction, so there are a total of 127. New Zealand nearly has a rapid-charging station every 75km. In 2016, the Government had another goal to have 64,000 electric vehicles on the road in New Zealand by 2021.
I hope that they reach this goal, and then a few years after that manage to double it.
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In my opinion, predator-free New Zealand by 2050 may not work, and if it does, they may have to be quite inhumane. What I mean by this, is that traps will not get rid of all of the pests like stoats, rats and others, so they will have to use other means seeing that though one stoat and one rat will get trapped, heaps more will be born. Once they realize this, they would use means like 1080. 1080 is a terrible way to kill as it can actually kill some animals that we are trying to protect. It is also possible that dogs will eat it and they will die a horrible and painful death. What did the cute doggies ever do to you? At least 65 dogs have been poisoned before thanks to 1080. And even if the dog doesn’t eat the 1080 directly, what kind of dog doesn’t sniff at a body of a dead possum? 1080 is a second-handling poison which means that if a possum dies of 1080 and another animal eats it, that animal dies as well. What if a deer eats some and hasn’t died yet and a human eats it? That’s not good. And what happens to the domesticated and trained rats? The only options that I can think of is to kill all the pet rats and that would be downright heartless, make it illegal to own a rat (what about the people that already own them?), or they could let them live and if they did manage to kill all of the other pests, the domesticated ones will spread like rats (literally).
All in all, I don’t think it would be very nice or easy to get to predator-free 2050.
And this is why I think gaming addiction is a real and a bad thing.
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Everybody at least knows someone that smokes, and you may think that it is just a normal thing, but it may become a thing of the past. Smoke-free New Zealand may be just around the corner. A.K.A 2025. I hope that people are right about this, because it may just stop a lot of harmful things happening to you and your family. I have listed some of the main things below;
If you do not smoke and you tell your kids that smoking is bad, though if you do smoke and you tell your kids not to smoke, they will probably not listen. And to make matters worse, if they see cigarettes, they might steal one or two, they might get addicted and you will be known as a bad parent.
Around about 500 people in New Zealand die thanks to second-hand smoke.
You will save a lot of money on cigarettes and you can use that money to buy things that you actually need, or if you don’t need it, you can donate it. Think about it, if nobody smokes, lots of people will have more money.
Lung cancer, unhealthy teeth, heart disease and persistent coughing are just some of the many symptoms you could get just by smoking. Do you really want this to happen?
I think that smoking is completely and utterly stupid as you will not gain anything from it other that ugly teeth, smelly hair (true) and a whole lot of other things. Why would you want to waste money on becoming unhealthy?
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People, of course, have different feelings about the upcoming EV revolution (electric vehicle revolution). Lots of gas station owners and workers are annoyed as they think they might go out of business because soon they will not be selling gas anymore, though that is most likely not true because since they also sell food and other useful stuff, so when people go to charge up their electric vehicles, they will probably by some food and stuff there instead of wasting gas (sorry, electricity). Another thing they could do is charge a dollar or two to charge their cars. Besides, even if some gas/electricity stores do lose some money, it goes towards the greater good. Gas pollution is not very good for the environment and if everybody has an electric car, it could greatly reduce the speed that global warming is coming. Right now, there are 97 rapid-charging stations, one is in Greymouth and 30 more are in construction, so there are a total of 127. New Zealand nearly has a rapid-charging station every 75km. In 2016, the Government had another goal to have 64,000 electric vehicles on the road in New Zealand by 2021.
I hope that they reach this goal, and then a few years after that manage to double it.
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In my opinion, predator-free New Zealand by 2050 may not work, and if it does, they may have to be quite inhumane. What I mean by this, is that traps will not get rid of all of the pests like stoats, rats and others, so they will have to use other means seeing that though one stoat and one rat will get trapped, heaps more will be born. Once they realize this, they would use means like 1080. 1080 is a terrible way to kill as it can actually kill some animals that we are trying to protect. It is also possible that dogs will eat it and they will die a horrible and painful death. What did the cute doggies ever do to you? At least 65 dogs have been poisoned before thanks to 1080. And even if the dog doesn’t eat the 1080 directly, what kind of dog doesn’t sniff at a body of a dead possum? 1080 is a second-handling poison which means that if a possum dies of 1080 and another animal eats it, that animal dies as well. What if a deer eats some and hasn’t died yet and a human eats it? That’s not good. And what happens to the domesticated and trained rats? The only options that I can think of is to kill all the pet rats and that would be downright heartless, make it illegal to own a rat (what about the people that already own them?), or they could let them live and if they did manage to kill all of the other pests, the domesticated ones will spread like rats (literally).
All in all, I don’t think it would be very nice or easy to get to predator-free 2050.
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