Black Lives Matter Protest

"I don't want to stop peaceful protest any more than I want to stop large funerals and tangihanga & weddings being able to come back, but none of the rules we have are there without a reason, they're there to protect people's health," - Jacinda Adern. I think Jacinda Adern’s statement that she had released on TVNZ1's Breakfast this morning, was her way of understanding all the hurt & frustrations everyone had been going through ever since George Floyd’s death had occurred yet she was worried about the breeches made regarding the Pandemic.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“The breaching of Alert Level 2 rules at the protests should have resulted in prosecution for the organizers.” - Winston Peters. Winston Peters’s statement had been very short yet he did make his point that he thinks the organizers of the protest should be charged with criminal charges, yet he never stated if he was against the whole protest or not.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I understand the reasoning of why people had protested but I do think they did breach the restrictions that were given & they did put a lot of people in harm’s way involving the Pandemic. I think the person or group of people who had planned this protest could have thought more about the situation the whole of New Zealand has just come out of (Lockdown) but I do have an understanding of their emotions regarding the deaths of many African Americans due to racism. I agree with Winston Peters statement, I do think the group or person who had planned this protest should be charged due to the dangers of 100+ gatherings & breeches of the Pandemic.

Samoan Language Week Activity!

Happy Samoan Language Week!

Today my social-science teacher had given us activity where we assigned to use Prepare, Travel & Gift but also translate these words into Samoan. Here's my paragraph I have written, Hope you enjoy!

My family & I had planned a trip to the beach as a family day out. The beach we were specifically traveling (Malaga) to was a few hours outside of Auckland. We had prepared (Tapena) the food a few hours before we had actually arrived at the beach so we were able to set up the barbeque & cook right away! We had also prepared (Tapena) the night before so we didn’t have to worry about what we were taking to the beach such as, clothes, towels, tents. Etc. The gift (Oso) I personally got out of this whole experience was the memories we all had made as a family, was a big gift to me as I value time with family.

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 2

Today in our online session for social studies, Ms. Robertson had assigned us a task to describe our whole "Lockdown Holiday" experience! So here it is..


My two week lockdown holiday has overall been interesting, I think this whole ‘lockdown holiday’ has been a different experince than usual considering the fact that the whole of New Zealand is on lockdown & is practising social distancing. I am not necessarily enjoying this whole lockdown holiday but I do understand the whole reasoning for this entire lockdown & I do appreaciate what the givernment has done to protect our nation & their effort to try & prevent the coronavirus from spreading.

Made In Taiwan - Storyboard

Chain Tag

                                                              ~ Chain Tag ~

Chain tag was one of the first ABL activities by class experienced. The aim of Chain Tag was to link arms with your team mates & tag everybody else that are left on the court. I feel as if the activity was to introduce us to each other & bring us more closer & just get use to each other in general.

Adventure Base-Learning

~ Adventure Base-Learning ~

Over the past 6 weeks, we have had 8 practical sessions & 4 theory sessions. Adventure Base Learning has been a fun influence on our PE sessions. I hope to do ABL in the future & it was really nice playing each game that the ABL influenced on our PE sessions.

Mat Volleyball

~ Mat Volleyball ~
Last week Friday my class & I had our last A.B.L (Adventure Based-Learning) with Mr. Cunard. The activity we played was "Mat Volleyball" the aim of the game was for two teams to have a mat each & each person in the two teams had to bounce the ball off from the mat over the line & over to the next teams mat. Basically this game is exactly identical to Volleyball the only difference is your not able to touch the ball with your hands but, with the mat your team was given.