current events

In England they are trialling roads that can charge electric cars as they drive along them .
They are hoping that having these roads will increase the use of electric cars . Electric cars can not travel very far without having to charge so if they drive on these roads they will not have to stop and charge. The cars that will be using the road will need to be fitted with wireless technology and special equipment will be installed under the roads. The equipment under the road will create the voltage the car needs to charge .

My top tips for 2016 students

Current events

Nestle has created a golden treat for Japan , a golden Kit Kat!
These bars have a thin gold layer that has a bitter chocolate taste and they are called golden sublime. There will only be 500 of these special edition gold bars in Japan and it is 24$ (nz) per finger!
I think I will be sticking to regular Kit Kats but some lucky people will be having a golden covered treat .

Who inspires me

One person who inspires me is Sir Ray Avery . He invented the life pod , an incubator that has the power to save the life of many babies . Millions of babies die each year because they do not have access to neonatal care and these babies are usually born in poor hospitals that can not afford incubators. The poor hospitals that can finally afford one usually buy one and a small part will break down and no one knows how to fix it so it is shoved into the corner and no one can use it . Ray designed one that is much cheaper and is portable and it even has backup power just in case it main power source breaks down . But what really inspires me is that he is doing to be kind , not because he wants money but because he wants to help .

Video

I found this video of some Christmas lights on a house which are synchronised to music such as Christmas  songs and dubstep .

Current Events

One man thinks he has a solution to Auckland housing problems by designing floating homes .
Twenty floating homes are planned for Auckland's Fairway Bay Marina and they are going to be 35 square metres with a kitchen , living space , laundry and a bedroom . they are planning to start building these houses in 2016 and the floating base will be similar to marina pontoons .

Current Events

To all those people out there that are left handed here are some interesting facts about left handed people

1.  Left handed people are usually more independent because they have to adapt to a world full of right handers . 
2. Left handers use the right side of their brain the most 
3. Between 5 to 10 % of the worlds population is left handed . 
4. Left handers make especially good baseball players , tennis players , swimmers and boxers .
5. Almost 40% of the worlds best tennis players are left handed .
6.  From the last 7 US presidents 4 of them have been left handed including Barack Obama
7. Studies prove that left handed university graduates become 26% richer than right handers .
8.  Left handed people are a little bit more prone to allergies and asthma than right handers .
9.  Research shows that left handers process emotions differently and tend to get more angry faster than right handers .
10.  August 13th is international left handers day.

I woke up in a bright white room I sat up and looked around there was nothing but a door and the stretcher I was lying on I tried to get out of the bed but I was to numb and I just crumbled to the ground so I used the bed to help me up . I shuffled along the edge of the bed to the door and I tried to open it but it was locked I looked around for another way out and I saw a small camera up near the ceiling so I shuffled over to it to have a look at it but then I hear the door being unlocked so I spun around and I saw two big men in black suits and one smaller man wedged in between ( who was obviously the important one ) , he wore a navy blue suit and had a red tie , he had dark skin and very short black hair . “ I see you’re awake” he said , he had a deep voice and looked a little scary .

“ Wh-wh-who are y-you” I said a little frightened.

The man's face softened , “You don’t need to worry , we won’t hurt you”.

“ I said, who are are you” I repeated a little more stronger .

“ Listen kid , come with me I have to explain who we are and where we are but first let’s go 
somewhere else"

WELCOME , PLEASE TYPE IN PASSWORD TO ENTER.

Suddenly a small dimmed light came on and it lit up a small Ipad embedded into the wall which displayed a small keyboard and the small text box for the password to be typed into and just below the text box were the words

You have three chances before the building goes into full lockdown.

I was never going to be able to guess the password especially without knowing who made it .

We had been learning about passwords in cyber safety and we talked about the most common passwords and why your password should be different from the rest .

I guess I could try one of the most common passwords that we talked about.

tap, tap, Tap, WRONG

damn it , it was wrong now I had two chances left so I tried another password

tap, tap, Tap, WRONG

wrong again! I was never going to get it right . I guess I could try one more time

tappity tap tap , WRONG

EEEEEEE OOOOOOO EEEEEEEE OOOOOOOO EEEEEEEE

A siren began sounding as I heard shouting from behind the door

FULL LOCKDOWN , FULL LOCKDOWN , FULL LOCKDOWN

Then some people busted through the door wearing black suits and dark glasses and they picked me up and took me through the door , The bright white lights  blinded me and I couldn’t see a thing so I kicked and shouted but they were too strong they placed me on a stretcher and I felt a prick in my arm and right away the world plunged into blackness .

The door ( Part 3 )

My footsteps echoed as I slowly tiptoed down the hallway . The corridor had little torches on the wall every couple of metres . Suddenly I stopped , I thought I heard something, I paused and looked around .Voices , I was sure of it . Or maybe not, maybe I was just hearing things. For a moment I thought about turning back but if I went back I would never be able to get back up to the ledge I fell from so I kept walking , I had to . I just kept walking , the hallway felt like it never ended , there wasn’t even a light at the end . I felt like giving up . . . BANG! . I ran right into a wall . I got Back On my feet and put my hands in front of me and sure enough it was a door , I felt around for the handle but I couldn’t find it? . I was sure it was a door because I could see the little fringes of light around the edges , I was ready to give up so I leaned on the wall to think about how to get out then suddenly a voice came from some sort of speaker .

WELCOME , PLEASE TYPE IN PASSWORD TO ENTER.

Currents Events

A woman in Auckland was grossed out after she brought a big mac at McDonalds and unwrapped it to find it already had a bite in it . She posted a photo on facebook and explained what happened, then she went to the manager to make a complaint and she got told that it was impossible and that she must have taken the bite . Then the CCTV footage was checked and it turns out that another customer brought the burger and took a bite and didn't like it so it got returned and then somehow it got sold again and McDonalds apologised for it .

Current events

After Quinn Duane was heartbroken when her partner called of their wedding but she wasn't going to let all that planning and money go to waste and after all she had organised food for 120 People so she turned her wedding reception into a feast for the homeless at the hotel they were going to stay at . Quinn was to upset to turn up but she was glad she could turn a bad situation into a good one .

Art Evaluation

For Term three we did zentangle art and it had to be something to do with yourself so I did waves because I like going to the beach . Once I did the outline I started with the patterns , it was really hard to find enough patterns to fill in the whole thing but eventually I did and then I had to go over the pencil in sharpie. After I did that it got photocopied and I had to colour in the copied one it took me awhile to figure out what colours to do where but I did some bits red, orange and yellow and some bits are light blue and dark blue and then all the other bis are purple and pink .Next time I would spread the colours out a bit more instead of doing certain colours in certain parts
This is what it looks like .

Current events

Reg Foggerdy got lost in the Australian outback and survived for six whole days without water  by eating ants to keep him going. Police found him on Tuesday sitting under a tree 15 kilometres from where he got lost . When police found him he was dehydrated and disorientated and was only wearing a T shirt , cap , shorts and jandals and endured heats up to 37 degrees Celsius .

Current Events

This little dog phoebe is lucky to have a friend like Tillie after she fell into a water tank and Tillie stayed with her until they were noticed and they were rescued after a week , they were both cold and hungry but unharmed and were returned to their owner .

The door ( part 2 )

I stepped in . I never should of. It was an instinct.

There was pure blackness all around me.

Then there was a slam I looked behind me , the door had swung shut, I tried to open it but it was stuck, more or less I was stuck . What had I done. I had just trapped myself in an unknown place with no idea how to get out , right I knew that I couldn’t use the door so I had to find another way out of this place so I walked around the pitch black space with my hands out so I didn’t bump into anything.

I kept on walking around until I took a step and the ground disappeared from beneath my feet and I was falling. I couldn’t do anything to stop myself , I was helpless and I was still falling while preparing myself for landing. THUMP! , I hit the ground hard , I sat up a little dazed and looked around it was still dark but I saw a small glowing light in the distance  but there was more than one small light

it looked sort of like a hallway so I got to my feet and began to creep down the long corridor .

Current events

This new song has been produced for two good reasons . One of the reasons is to fund raise for finding a cure to battens disease , To find a cure they need 10 million dollars so they got some kids together to get ideas from them about what could be in the video . The second reason for the video was to back our boys in black by making them a support song , so they took the kids ideas and made one big song .
Check it out .

Science

Today my Impact group put together our compost bags . We made two bags with different things in them to see how they both turn out . We are going to shake them a couple times a week for 4 to 6 weeks .  We are going to weigh them every now and then but since it is a hot compost I think they are going to get lighter .

My Writing ( The door Part one )

The Door

This was it . I walked up to the door , should I open it or not? . I had no idea what was behind it but  had a million thoughts about what was behind that door, but first let me let me tell you a bit about this door.

So sometimes when I go for a walk I see this door, it makes me think . It makes me wonder.

I have opened many doors but none of them ever made me think that hard.

Most of the time I walk past I bet it opens up a portal to another dimension or a portal to another planet or maybe behind that door is a witch's lair or a kingdom from a fairytale or even candyland!

But there is something about this door that makes me think so hard. It makes me feel like there is something so very magical behind this door but something about it scares me and something about it stops me from opening it .

But anyway,

I was standing there my hands were trembling as I slowly reached out to open the door.

I got a tingly feeling in my fingertips as I touched the door handle, I had to open it now -  there was no going back . I gripped the handle firmly , it let out a low groan as I pulled it down.

The door slowly swung open.

Current Events

A family in New Jersey was surprised to find a group of bear cubs swimming in their pool .
There was six bears , one mother and five cubs , the family called the police to report the bears but the police couldn't do anything about it so they had to wait for the bears to go on their own .