100 Word Challenge 2017 #5

"65 years, it been quite a while hasn’t it" Tracy's voice was the only thing I could hear. “Where exactly did we land?” “Tracy, what is that? Tracy I told you not to eat food we can’t identify as clean.” “IT’S FOOD, I’M HUN-” “CLOse your mouth.” I look around at the swamp around me, raised sea levels, intense heat, looks like climate change got the best of the place. I look to see the remains of a statue, I creep towards the remains of a multicoloured giraffe. “I know where we are.” Good job New Zealand, you’ve done well.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #2

This was a day to remember, I was walking down the street, IN PURE DAYLIGHT, when all of a sudden these random people come out OF THIN AIR. I pretended not to notice as they started looking around, as if they lost something. That was when a glint caught my eye. I picked the item up when the people from before saw the object they came towards me, I handed it to them and like it was simple as moving a finger they vanished, I decided not to talk about it, thinking I might go crazy questioning it.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #3

I listened, I was to stay in my room like always, it was a specialty, my cushion was becoming uncomfortable and the people playing the violin in the room next to me were almost as annoying as that one sibling who always took your things. I sighed and stood up and walked from my scarlet room to my balcony, humming a soft tune as I watered my pride and joy plant, I smiled knowing it would one day outgrow the current pot it was being held in. I sighed and fell asleep at the balcony, looking at the golden sunset.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #4

“Sis, this isn’t normal. We have to report this to the police!”

“They’ll hear us over the phone think we’re crazy.”

“I know, maybe, we could show it to someone else, and get them to report it!”

“What and ruin their lives too?”

I couldn’t stand them, my siblings were crazy and I hated it.

I needed to leave.

The windows wide open.

“Connie what, don’t you dare.”

I felt the grass underneath my feet as I ran, straight into something cold, I fall back onto the ground and look up towards the creatures face, with fangs dripping with red.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #1

Dragons, they were common of the Isle of Mófǎ, it was extremely uncommon to find them outside of this natural paradise, it was composed of many islands but some dragons lived in different places. Some dragons swam through Glistening Waters, some slept in the Fluffy Clouds, some lived in the Black Caves littering the islands, some lived in the Volcano's placed around the Land Of Fire, some lived in the Lightning Struck land, others lived in Natures Forest living among the trees, and lastly others lived in the Plains Of Drought, a dry land with nothing but dirt and mountains.

Quail Island

On the 25th October the Year 8's and Year 7's from Whanau class took a trip to Quail Island, Quail Island is South East of Christchurch. Māori knew Quail Island as Ōtamahua, the ‘place to gather sea-bird eggs’. The first European known to have set foot on Ōtamahua, was Captain William Mein Smith of the schooner Deborah in 1842. Mein Smith named the island after the now extinct native quail which were present in large numbers. Ōtamahua was acquired by the Crown from the Ngai Tahu in 1850. It was originally bought from the Crown by the three Ward brothers in 1850. It was farmed for a brief period before the tragic death of the two elder brothers, by drowning, in the following year. Over much of this time the island also functioned as a human and animal quarantine station from 1875 to 1931. In 1987, the management of the island was transferred to the Department of Ōtamahua / Quail Island has two sheltered beaches and it is used frequently during the spring and summer months as a popular site for picnics, swimming and boating. It has good visitor facilities, with water supplied from Lyttelton and a system of tracks that traverse the island. Although Ōtamahua / Quail Island lacked wooded cover at the time of the European arrival, it would have supported forest a few centuries earlier. Remnants of such forest occur today on nearby Manson's Point Peninsula. It is likely that the island's original woodlands were cleared by early Polynesian settlers for agriculture and strategic purposes. The vegetation is assumed to have been a dry, coastal broadleaf-podocarp forest that is now rare. A small fragment of this forest type is found at North West Bay in Okains Bay. Other small areas of similar forest occur between Waipara and Conway Rivers and north of the Clarence River mouth, in North Canterbury and Southern Marlborough. A few kanuka (Kunzea ericoides) plants near the west end of Ōtamahua / Quail Island hint at a former much more extensive cover of this species.

Prior to the start of the ecological restoration project in 1998, the southern and eastern sides of the island were largely dominated by plantations of introduced shelter and amenity trees such as pines, cypresses, oaks and sycamores and some weedy introduced shrubs. The plateau was formerly divided into fields that grew crops such as wheat and potatoes, and was dominated by exotic grasses. On the drier, northern aspects native grasses were more common and some native shrubby patches occurred in gullies. On the southern aspects were several large areas where native bracken fern and small-leaved native shrubs and flax were recolonising the grassland but only a few individual native tree species of natural origin, other than kanuka, were present on the island (cabbage tree, Cordyline australis; ngaio, Myoporum laetum; broadleaf, Griselinia littoralis) and rare mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus). However, there was good growth and some regeneration of areas of native trees and shrubs planted in 1982 by the Department of Lands and Survey. The evident vegetation patterns strongly suggested that Ōtamahua / Quail Island retained an environment suitable for growth of indigenous woodland. 

Before Europeans arrived at Quail Island Maori would use the island as a source of food as the island was unsuited to live on. Mainly to gather seabirds eggs, giving it the name Ōtamahua meaning 'the place to gather seabirds eggs'.

The Culture Of Theater

Performing arts - mime, .

Mime - 

Creating illusions through the use of the body.

Basic skills of a mime - 

1. Isolation of body parts
2. Pulling faces
3. Eye-hand co-ordination
4. Showing the weight of objects
5. Showing length
6. Maintaining the illusion

Masked play