The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan

As I ride on my donkey I see a wounded man lying on the hard, hot ground. It must be burning his back. As people walk along they look at him. I get off my donkey and go to him. The sun becomes brighter and hotter. I see that his clothes have been teared into pieces. His blood, the colour of fire, and salty sweat drip down his face. He looks at me and just stares. I lift his head and he lies on me. The trees sway from side to side whispering to me. I pour oil and wine to heal his wounds. I carry him onto my donkey and ride away.

My Book Review - GUTS: Gary Paulsen

                                                             
                                                              GUTS
The Title of my chosen book is GUTS written by Gary Paulsen.
This took place around Nature. This book is based on a true story behind the hatchet and Brian's books. Brian is the starring character and an outdoor freak.

Brian is tough and bold, he likes to stay outdoors most of the time and hunt down animals. Brian describes how he makes his bows and arrows and take those who reads this book into a hunting trip showing the nature part along with his hilarious mishaps and mistakes. He shares his memories about how he gets attacked by a mosquito and how he met a moose with sense of humor.

 This book is a must read because there is a lot of violent and inspiring parts that will just make you want to feel emotional. I enjoyed reading this book because it had a lot of scary, violent parts. It felt special to me because it inspired me to not give up on stuff I haven’t tried.

 I'd say this book is suitable for ages 12 years old and over because it may be terrifying for the younger ages.

10 things I know to be true!!!!!!!

1. My life is my message
2. Your parents are the reasons why you are living on EARTH
3. We were born to be real not PERFECT
4. God/Mary/Jesus/Joseph
5. Heaven is our kingdom
6. I won’t have a TRUE friend next year, but I will still have FRIENDS
7. I am AMAZING
8. Hakuna Matata, It means no worries for the rest of your days
9. Water is yuck
10. Food can be gross at times like cauliflower

Liggins Institute

       Liggins Institute

On Wednesday the 1st of September,  the whole of room 7 and our teacher Miss Goodier jumped on the bus and went to Liggins Institute. We went to the Liggins Institute and we met Chander to learn more about a healthy life and what affects our life around us. We also talked about diet, why because when the scientist tested the rat not long ago, it gave birth to 6 pups. The mother rat was not eating at a healthy diet, so the 6 pups became large (FAT) when they were growing. The test they did was a fair test. These fat pups lost blood pressure when they were growing up.

New Zealand Hauora was about heart disease, that causes death. Every 90 minute a Nzer dies from coronary heart disease because these people have been eating a bad diet. These deaths a preventable. A 12-14 year old has about 4 litres of blood. At Liggins Institute we did activities which was fun. My favorite activity was the end of the day QUIZ. ( I only got 5 right). The biking activity was quite tiring because we had to relax first and then we had to paddle as fast as we can, I nearly lost my breath.

Structure of the Catholic Church

Structure of the Catholic Church

Catholic Social Teaching Principals

Catholic Social Teaching Principles

Palm oil

     Palm Oil

Palm oil is from the roots of certain plants especially the west African oil palm. The environmental and social impacts is causing forest conversion, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, air pollution, soil and water pollution and climate change. Palm oil is found in some food and household products. Palm oil is a consumption of vegetable oil from the mesocarp. You will find palm oil mostly in Indonesia.

Orangutans are one of the endangered species because, people are feeding them food that has palm oil and because other people are burning down trees which means that Orangutans have no Habitat. These Orangutans have been feeding on Palm oil. In Sumatra there are less than 6,600 Orangutans but in Borneo there are less than 54, 000 Orangutans. It is that Sumatran Orangutans may be the first to be extinct. Orangutans need these forests for food, water and shelter. In the forests people could leave aluminum that  are actively toxic to any plant not agriculture to the soil. Slash and burn agriculture (cutting down the jungle, burning the plants, then planting things on the ashes) works for a little while.

We all need to focus on what we need to do about the Orangutans and those animals who are endangered. We need to protect their habitats and their future of growing up to a adult.