Milly’s School Blog

A Northland couple (Joseph and Bertha Erepeta) went out to a pub for dinner and had a meal of steak. After they had eaten Bertha went out for a smoke and came back to find her husband had disappeared. She thought he must have gone partying in another pub but later the next day he still wasn’t home so she called the police. Only to be told the next morning that he had been found in the men’s toilets dead. After the autopsy was carried out it is said they found a large piece of steak which he had choked on.

Now the first thing me and my mum had wonder was why hadn’t a cleaner found him or something it was two days later! Well our question was answered “The Bank Bar’s owner said usually the toilets were cleaned daily, but at the time in question staffing issues meant the bar had to stay closed on the day after Erepeta choked.” Said TVNZ.co.nz. But still my mum informed me that under OSH rules the toilets have to be cleaned at least four times in a twenty four hour period! Now even though the bar was closed it is revolting because bugs are always going around and could find them selves more homes in the toilets were it is not cleaned if they are left for ages! Disgusted? I definitely am and I hope the wife gets compensation!

Monkey or Man?

Thanks to Flickrstorm for this image and the uploader: Manl…

When reading an article on the MSN Herald News site this morning I came across an article about students taking revenge on teachers. It was about cases of students making a Bebo page (or something similar) under a teachers name and photograph. One teacher was shocked to find a page under his name and photo and the page contained ‘commentary questioning’ of his sexuality. Students are making these pages on the Internet and putting on doctored photos of their teachers. For example the teacher also found a online picture of him apparently standing in a field of Cannabis.

I think this is way out of hand. Because we all can be frustrated with teachers sometimes but there should be nothing like this happening to the teacher because it is wrongand they can get a bad reputation. Also teachers are people who we should respect they are the ones who teach us most things we know in life (besides our mums and dads). All those people in their life who have done well I can garantee most of them needed their teachers to get them where they are today so I think teachers need to be respected even if we don’t like them or we just can’t get along with them. Its like everybody else in this world needs to be respected no matter who they are and what they say or do.

Thanks to google images for this picture and the site is is really from… www.crucialminutiae.com.

Also to… http://msn.nzherald.co.nz for the information on this topic.

Little Xin Xin Ma is five years old and was recently kidnapped from outside the front of her own house. She was found in a house just around the corner from where she lives. After being locked in a wardrobe for five days being feed only rice and water once a day has left her traumatised and with memory loss. Her mother said she would not put pressure on her daughter to remember things. The only things she can remember are being taken from her home and being kept in a closest. Because of the poor amount of food she was given she has lost 3kgs and has now not really got an appetite for food. Xin Xin Ma has also been very much glued to her father not letting him out of her sight and she cries in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. She is to see a child psychologist soon to help her through this ordeal.

I think that this is really sad because the Herald were I got the information from said that she is no longer her bubbly cheerful self anymore. I think that there should be something done about people kidnapping children because it is wrong. I also think it is strange that the police wouldn’t search surrounding houses for her because she was only just around the corner. I can understand why this child feels scared of leaving her father’s side because what she has been through is in no way normal.

Thanks to the the online Herald for the information and picture of little Xin Xin Ma.

Over term two many students from schools all over Te Awamutu got together with Mrs Dyet to talk about how we could get a message through to teachers about how we think learning should be. We made an awesome video and fortunately it was seen by many people and a few of us got invited to the Waikato Uni to take part in giving a lecture and to show our video. If you would like to see our video you can see it on Mrs Dyet’s blog under a post called ‘We’ve got a message!’.

On the news tonight I heard about a little girl who had been taken into the custody of the courts so they could change her name. Believe it or not her first name is ‘Tullua who does the hula from Hawaii’. I think that it is a wise decision to change her name because you can’t even imagine how much she would get bullied and things like that. I don’t even know what her parents were thinking in the first place because that is very wrong to name your child with that name. Some other names the news mentioned that were also bad are

Violence (a name for a girl)

Fish and Chips (names for twins)

And Hitler.

All of those names are horrible and it would make it a very hard life for the child if they were named that. First of all it would be uneasy in the work force and secondly they probably would have a lack of confidence in the socialising part of life and again they will get severely bullied. Overall I think that is really sad that parents even think of these names as an option to call their kid let alone actually using the name. I think that if someone did call their child one of these names or a similar one then they should be ashamed because no matter what that child does in its life ahead their name is definitely going to affect them somehow unless it is changed.

I recently put on a post about a person who committed a series of crimes and I was asked what I think the answer would be to stop the problem of our big number of criminals. I think that it is getting worse every day and I’m not really sure if there is an answer to stopping the number of criminals getting bigger. First lets establish what types of criminals there are, I think there is the adult and younger child/teen. I think that it probably starts at a young age and it has something to do with their up bringing. But then thats what I think and I could be wrong but maybe if some children did have a better up bringing maybe they would be a better person? I really am not sure on this subject but it would be great to hear what you think.

So what do you think the answer to our growing criminal problem is?

(None of my ’I thinks’ are fact it is all my opinion and what I think about this subject.)

This year our school’s science fair was compulsoryfor all students. I had no idea what I was going to do so I asked for some help from our science teacher and I finally came up with this question: Does the density of wood affect the burning speed/time? Over this term we have been working hard on our science fairs making them as good as we could get them. The science fair was held in our gym this week (the last week of term two). I was confident that mine was good but I didn’t think I would get anywhere and to be honest I didn’t really want to get anywhere because I was not wanting to do science fair in the first place. But I sort of forgot that I didn’t want to do it and I just got it done and I am very happy with the result as I was a finalist in my division! So I think it goes to show  even a little bit of positive attitude goes a long way! (I can put on a picture for you of my finished product as soon as I figure out how to get a picture on because it is much more complicated than my last blog.)

Yesterday (Friday) was the last day of term two and I would like to say I have had a very fun (busy as well) term and can’t wait for school to start again(with an even busier term, ha ha)! I will try to put something on my blog each week of the holidays if I am not to busy.

These are my goals from back in term 1…

School: 

This term I would like to…

1. Be the best house captain I can be. I can do this by being positive and having faith in my house knowing that we can win everything if we try.

2. Write to my blog more often. I am going to try to start writing to my blog more often with more interesting posts.

3. Try my best in maths. I can do this by trying to work things out for myself and if it doesn’t work I will ask the teacher.

4. Write more descriptive and interesting pieces of writing. I can do this by checking my work over and over again and editing it where I think I can do better.

5. Try my hardest at french. I am going to listen carefully to the pronunciation of the french words and take my folder home and practise, practise, practise!

6. Do better than last year at swimming sports. I am going to keep practising my swimming leading up to swimming sports so I can do way better than last year as I have become a more confident swimmer.

Personal:

In my personal time I am going to…

1. Pass my green belt grading to become a blue stripe. I am going to practise hard and work out everyday for my grading so I can A pass.

Both:

At school and home I am going to… 

1. Do well in guitar. I can do this by practising everyday and trying my best in my lessons and having a go at the challenging pieces I am given.

I think that so far I have been the best house captain that I could be and I feel that I am achieving this goal more and more as the house events go by.

Yes! I have started to write to my blog often as I put on one post every week and I have not missed a week yet. Even if I only have a boring one about my week or weekend I still have put it on.

Maths has been a challenge for me as I have been put into the highest group for Algebra and I will admit I have struggled. I have looked at things for myself but then I have had to ask the teacher or someone else in my group. Although it has been an obstacle for my I still think I have done my best.

I think that I have improved in my writing with my sentence starters and my editing. Although my last piece of writing was not probably my best effort I still think that in other pieces I have gotten better.

French has been a really fun experience for me and I think that I have improved because I received a Principal’s Award after me and my classmate completed a little play in front of our class. I have gotten better because I have a great knowledge and I am developing I little accent. I also think that I have gotten better because I take two french classes and in the first year one I get to do some revision of what I learnt a while ago in second year one.

Swimming sports was a while age and I think I did well but probably not as good as last year but I don’t really think that It is my main Physical Education focus.

Well I did pass my grading to become a green belt, blue stripe but unfortunately I didn’t get an A pass. But I think I pushed myself to my limit and I was tired for just returning back from camp the previous day.

After taking up a job and between doing my school work I think I have had hardly anytime to practise my guitar but I think that I am improving as I do give it my all in my lessons.

Overall I think that I have succeeded in reaching my goals so far. I think that next time I set goals for myself I will have bigger and better ones and make sure that I reach them or do my best.

In her home somewhere on the way to Te Awamutu on Tuesday night a woman was putting her baby to sleep and she came out into her living room where she found a man who stole some of her stuff and the keys to her car which was in her garage then he drove off. Police later located the car and they started to pursue him but had to abandon it because of the high speeds the thief was reaching. They then spotted him again and resumed to follow him but he drove through a deer fence and through some paddocks and disappeared. Later on the police received a call saying that they had found the car crashed into a bank. Then unknown to the police the car thief then broke into a nearby farmhouse where he took a shower, prepared a meal, drank alcohol and watched some DVDs. When the farm house owners returned home they found their lights on and their house a mess. The thief was later found sitting in a car that the farm owners were selling in a paddock. He is a nineteen year old Tokoroa man and was arrested and appeared in court on Wednesday and was charged with various things related to the days events.

Firstly I think what this man did was really weird. Because it is one thing to steal a car and so on but to then brake into someones house and make yourself at home is just strange. I think that altogether he is an idiot for even going down that track and made it worse for himself by going to the farm house. Because I agree with the local news paper that was just cheeky and I think he was taking the mickey out of the situation he was in. I am glad that the police found him because we don’t need that sort of behaviour around that disrupts our day to day lives.

I hope that one day people like that will realise that there is no point in doing things like that because not only does it annoy others but they definitely will eventually get the consequences that they probably knew they would get. Also I was stunned when I found out that the criminal was only a nineteen year old. Because its sad to think our criminals are getting younger and younger. An example of that is not long ago a fourteen year old stole a motorbike and broke into a home where he found the owner asleep and freaked out so he repetativly stabbed him. But that’s not all he then stole another motorbike and drove away. I think its just stupid and maybe the worlds getting worse everyday?