The opinion of a man affected by Eugenie Sage

I am very annoyed cause the conversation minister banned me and my mates from mining on their land only because we're knocking down trees. Were leaving the land better than when we arrived cause we plant the grass back and plant saplings for trees!!
How long till I get another job? Another thousand years is what I say. I have to say that I'm only good at mining and mining is what I do!
I was at the bridge opening, the Taramakau one to be exact! But I wasn't happy, I was angry, and I and a few thousand people protested against Eugenie Sage closing our mines! GRR! Even one news came and took some clips of our outrage. If she runs with the decision hundreds upon hundreds of jobs will be lost and then some people may have to leave when they grow up because of the lack of opportunities!!
I want to march up to Eugenie Sage and give a piece of my mind!! In my opinion, she's crazy! Yeah, we’re probably making wildlife run away but they’re not dead. And if your gonna go crazy about that then cage some up and breed them in a zoo! And if you not going to let that happen then move us to a different location otherwise your going to lose money when we quit!! The time has come to take action and keep our jobs!! We need some medicine for the Eugenie Sage Affect!

asTTle: Writing to Persuade

asTTle: Writing to Persuade. Topic: your opinion on fighting

“Bleep bloop blorp, GAME OVER The Axe Murderer won the #12 round do you want to play another round of Super Smash Bros?” the Tv screams at me I put my controller down the walk away. Today I am telling you, yes, I mean you… wait, don’t you believe me? Well… you're reading so I am guessing you're Intrigued, I am going to tell you what I think of fighting why It can be wrong and when it’s sometimes okay like defending yourself.

If you're trying to get a candy bar or something and then the shopkeeper accuses you of stealing and you have a go at him or her, that’s not necessary. I think you should just talk to him to ask why he thought you were stealing, you could just be going to the front of the shop to look at something else and you were going to come back to pay. It’s best not to start a fight in these situations. You can just talk.

Here is a scene where you can use self-defence like you find a robber getting away with, let's say some money, then you can tackle him and keep him from running away until the police come. Or maybe you're trying to protect someone you love, like you sibling, from a bear or someone who is a MANIAC TRYING TO KILL YOU!!! Sometimes your gut feeling could just save YOU. Wait you don’t believe me... well, don’t make me come out of the screen and come scream at you, cause I can TOTALLY do that… not. Back to the point self-defence is able to save you and anyone in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD, I wish I could write bigger, (sad face).

But also fighting can be bad, and I am not talking about play fighting, I mean real fighting. If you kill someone fighting them you’re going to be sent to jail, unless you have a good lawyer. The consequences can be really harsh sometimes. But I mean play fightings ok, just make some rules up and you should be fine, as long as the person you are play fighting with is as weak or as strong as you are.

So if you agree with me fighting can be bad and well, good. Hope you learned something or you might have already known all this stuff. Have a good day and don’t die (cheeky smile). “Bleep bloop blorp, GAME OVER the head slayer won the #34 round.” roars the tv “ARGGHHH I can never win” I scream again.

By Bridget

HUNTING ARGUMENT

Hunting isn’t a nice sport to play. In fact I don’t even call it a sport, I call it a game of slaughter. When you go hunting you are trying to kill an animal, And if you don’t clean the animal, you shot, it will start stinking and other animals have to suffer the horrible death, and stench. I think you should be the one who cleans the animal up!

Hunting is bad for the environment & endangered species. Sometime inexperienced hunter mistake a species that is ok to hunt with a endangered species. An example of this in NZ is the takahe, which are endangered, being mistaken for pukeko and accidentally murdered.

Trophy hunting is also a big problem.Trophy hunting is when you go to places like Africa and hunt big game animals  like, lions , tigers , giraffes and elephants, ete.

This is a problem because soon the endangered species could become extinct! An example of this is the white Rhino, it was hunted to almost extinction by trophy hunters  who just wanted tuskes for ivey. This is why hunting has a negative impact for many living things.

You may not think this, but when you go through the bush you might  stand on a native plant. When you go out you don’t look down to see what you are treading on, that means the plants can be driven to extinction and will die out. If you make a path to a hunting area, and cut down a native tree, then you are destroying the bush. If you do that in the wrong place, like a national park, you can be fined for it.

Hunting has some good things about it too. First of all you can get free meat and if you're trained it takes only minutes to find an animal. The hormones in the animal change to frightened when they can see you clearly, this means the meat at the supermarket has those hormones. While when you kill the animal without it seeing you, means the meat is fine. So therefore hunting is cheaper then the meat at the supermarket you buy.

Hunting keeps the population of lots of animal down. Lots of animals breed quickly and cause destruction to our natural environment. This will affect native animals that need the food the pests take for themselves. For example the humble stoat, he will sneak away into native bird borrows and take the eggs for himself like a kiwi’s, he can also climb up trees so he can catch his prey. Goats keep the prickles down but can take a native plant for a

different plant and eat it, and animals in the wild can eat our native plants too, they could wipe out the native plants. So even if it is sad to kill an animal, the hunters keep pests populations down.

A thing to think about is do you want to hunt? It is a decision every hunter has thought about, think carefully. The last thing you want is to make a wrong turn in your life and take the wrong path. I know I don’t want to hunt and kill the poor animals, they deserve to live and so do you. What I mean by that is some hunters kill their partner by accident or the hunter is so focused on the animal they nearly walk off a cliff. So why hunt, why take this risk of your life? Some say it is for fun, some say it is good exercise, yes that is true but think…   do poor animals like elephants need to be killed just for the tusks? I don’t think they have to die, this is why I am standing up and saying animals have a right to LIVE!

The Arthur's pass camp

            Arthur's pass camp

“Gah, no, don’t, please…” when I sit up, the room came into focus. It was the day of the almighty Arthur’s Pass camp!

I scorched my toast and spread some honey onto it of course I ate it, I didn’t mind if it was a bit burnt. When I arrived at school my friends were already there, Everyone's bags were on the floor, so I hung mine up and wandered into the classroom just as the bus turned up, it was a crazy fiasco. Everyone ran outside like a wild tornado when Mr M gave us the heads up… we chucked our bags onto the bus and climbed in, It was about a 1 hour 30 minute trip toArthur's pass.

When we got to Arthur’s Pass everyone got out and carried a couple of bags on to the front porch. We went in took our boots off and stood there, gobsmacked dumbfounded even.

The room was sooooooo big! When I was on the bus I thought it would be small and like the place we went to last time, but instead it is big and roomy, there were big long wood tables and two doors to the kitchen. So we sat down had  morning tea, then Logan, the owner of the lodge, came in to greet us.

After that we went out for orienteering, my group was Rhea, Mark, Sonny, Sahara’s Dad, Carolyn and Dayna. We were looking for white posts with words engraved in them, we came last by 5 minutes though it was still fun!

Next we came back for lunch after lunch we went to the bunk rooms and sorted our stuff out. The bunks were 3 high so of course I was going for top bunk, though Rhea got it, she climbed up and then couldn't get down luckily her mum was on camp and got her down. That meant I got the top bunk!! >;-) , So I chucked my sleeping bag up and went back to the lounge / dining room.

We the went for a hike up devil's punchbowl, and believe me there were a lot of steps we played a couple of  games then went up. When we were going up Logan stopped a couple of times to show us a dung plant and mosses. When we got to the top they split us into two groups I was in the first group and we went up to see the waterfall, the other group stayed and learnt how to play a new game, then we switched around. Kitchin group one was taken back in a van to prepare dinner, and I was in it. That night we had nachos and for dessert we had chocolate cake and fruit, I think the fruit was nicer than the cake because the cake was BURNT…

In the morning we woke to a  big thick blanket of snow. We all ran to the window in the lounge. White white and more white was all we could see - except for the trees - Some ran outside but didn’t get far, for Mr M stopped them. After breakfast we were allowed to go outside, but the boys blew it and kept throwing snowballs at people's faces then Mr M banned snowball throwing. We had a snowman building competition our team came second.

After that we went for a walk in two groups, One group stayed at the lodge and had  lunch the other went for the walk with Logan. The trees were still covered in snow we tried to throw snowballs at each other though Logan caught us, then he made up a game that you are allowed to shake the trees or throw a snowball at it to try get snow on someone. I got a few people but got a lot of snow on myself.

That night we had spaghetti bolognese and for pudding we had apple crumble though I missed out on it because Dad had to take me home, the road wasn't opened till 5.00pm from the snow. I also missed out on camp concert, the bonus was I didn’t have to pack up on Friday.

That was the end of my camp and I enjoyed it!! Thanks for reading.. Hope you enjoyed!!!!  \[~.~]/ ← smiley face

Global warming save the world

The white bread recipie

White Bread

“This delicious bread is best served hot with a bit of butter. It is very simple to make in just 10  steps!This bread can be served with soup,and is just a fraction of the cost then your normal supermarket bread.”

Health Star Rating

Ingredients

• Two Teaspoons of yeast
• Two cups warm water
• Two cups of flour
• Two teaspoons of regular salt
• Four to five cups of flour
• Oil

Tools

• A bowl
• A teaspoon
• A metric cup
• A wooden spoon (to stir with)
• A wet towel
• A bread pan
• An oven

Recipe to make the bread in ten easy steps

                    Method

Step 1. First, put your yeast in the bowl, to activate the yeast you need to put the warm Water in.

Step 2. If the yeast doesn’t froth up start all over again

Ten minutes later…

Remember if the bowl does not have a scummy foam on the top you have to start all over again

Step 3. Put the salt in your bowl then put two cups of flour ( half of the flour ) in it.

Step 4. Give it a good stir then add one cup of flour and stir it again, then add another cup of flour in, and stir, add the last cup of flour in, then stir really well.

Tip: If it gets tougher to turn with the spoon that’s good

You can get your hands in there, remember they need to be clean.

Step 5. Push down on the mixture when it is drier and knead it a bit. Pick it up and knead it in the air to get air into it too. Bring it over the bowl and give it a test to see if it holds together (hold it in mid air by the top) if half of it drops in the bowl, knead it a bit more till it seems a bit more stiff.

Step 6. Lay it down on the bench and get rid of the leftover flour in the bowl ( or get another bowl if you are ok with more dishes ) then add a bit of cooking oil in.

Step 7.  Put the ball in the bowl and flip it over so both sides get oil on them. Then put the damp towel over it and let

it stay like that for an hour .

Step 8. When you come back lift the towel off, the ball should BE bigger otherwise you need to start again.After that, you literally punch it down  then pick it up and mess with it a bit.

Step 9. Put a little bit of oil in your bread pan rub it around then put the ball in it, the ball should just fill the pan. Leave it for an hour and put the damp towel on.

An hour later...

Step 10!! Almost done lift the towel off again should have risen quite a bit, now it is ready to go in the oven. Set the oven to 400c let it heat up and then leave the bread in there for 30m or until it looks nice and brown. When bread comes out it should have a nice brown tan (though if it is like a brick start again)now you can cut it up and...

         ENJOY!!!