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I sat down in front of the whole school, my stomach filled with butterflies. Soon I would get my Tu Kaha badge. But first my video had to be shown. The video about how I want to be remembered. I hate videoing myself. I hate videos of me been shown in front of anyone, and now three hundred people are going to watch it.  The butterflies turned to lead as my video was shown. It was over soon enough, and then it was someone else's turn to be embarrassed.  The videos were over, and we shook hands with him our 2017 teachers and received our badges. I held mine in my hand, suddenly I felt pain… The badge pin part was spiking into my hand.  As soon as the pain was over, I felt strong and proud, and when I put my badge on today, I feel like I am a leader, ready to take on any challenge.  Tu Kaha, stand tall. When you are feeling like a small person, always falling over, don't stay down! Stand tall, ready for the next challenge. Lead people towards success, and don't ...

It's not going to be warm. But I'll do it. Maybe. I know I'll just get up to my waist, get out and roll around in warm sand, go back and wash it of, and so on until I get warm enough to stay in. By then maybe we'll be getting out! There's no point, but it's fun.  I only like swimming at the beach if I'm not at the beach. Which makes no sense, but anyway, the point is, I'm not going to enjoy the salty swim.  I shuffle up to the waves of ice and hesitate slightly before stepping forward... It's so warm! This was my opinion of the Frankley beach day. It was really warm, for the beach, but there weren't really any waves.😞

My shop is a sweet shop. I never get hungry. Inside the shop is sweets in every colour of the rainbow, and a few colours that aren’t. There is also a small ice-cream factory at the back of the store, in which you can create your own flavours! On the side of the shop is a lolly factory that makes every sweet ever in existence. Lemon juice, strawberry sauce and vanilla essence get creamed together into a soft,chewy lolly that has low sugar. Squished blueberries, cream and milk. Raspberries, vanilla ice cream and cinnamon. I love taste testing! From the outside, the shop looks normal: discounts covering every inch of the windows and lots of customers streaming in. But inside the shop, everything seems better. It’s probably the smells of millions, no BILLIONS, of sweets being mixed together, and lifting everyone’s tension. As soon as you walk out of the store, you miss it so much you want to go back in. But then you look at the time, go back home, and dream about my amazing, f...

Gabrielle and I have been finding out about past earthquakes that are above six on Richter Scale. Here is some information that we found on THE BIGGEST EARTHQUAKE EVER RECORDED IN NZ: 23 January 1855 in Wairarapa This was the BIGGEST earthquake ever recorded in NZ, at a magnitude of 8.3 this earthquake was at 9.00pm, and only killed 5-9 people. It was 33 km deep.

I’m writing a story about twins named Jade and Spring. They live in Kaikoura and then the earthquake hits. The get moved to a fairytale school in Australia. Here is a little bit of the story: We all woke up and everything was normalish. Except half of Kaikoura was damaged or completely munted. All the roads to Kaikoura a blocked, and lots of schools are closed. Spring’s happy, she never gets good grades anyway. A month passes and mum and dad pull us into their room. They say, “You know how the living room ceiling is damaged,” they said. “We don’t have any money to fix it, and we have to fix it, so we are going to have to send you two to a boarding school in Australia” I sighed, Spring swore, and we both headed of to our rooms to start packing. This chapter is written from Jade’s point of view. Spring and Jade take turns at narrating the chapters. The full story is coming soon! ☺