Democracy System in NZ

In New Zealand we have a democratic system of Government, this mean that people who are NZ citizen, 18+ years old are be able to vote for who will represent them in government. This happens every 3 years and we are able to vote for who will represent us. In NZ we have a house of representatives, it contains at least 120 seats for 120 MP (member of parliament) they would make important decision for our country. 

I'm grateful to live in a democratic country because we have the freedom to choose who can govern our country.

Donova Janse Story of Migration

 This is my model I made explains Donova Janse journey from South Africa to New Zealand. It's explaining his Push reasons and his pull reasons. He had a rough life in South Africa, so he decide to move from his place of origin to a country of destination. He didn't like the way he was getting treated in his country. He was going through challenging obstacles. He had a choice of career being a Rugby player for Springbok or being a teacher. He didn't have a chance to become one of those, so he decided to come to New Zealand to begin a good life. 

The mid year of last year he came to Auckland, New Zealand. He brang his son with him for 6 months. He wanted to bring his whole family to New Zealand but it was to much obstacle to bring them into New Zealand. After his migration he had sad news that his father has passed away. Donova was sad and he had no choice but to stay in NZ. His son went back to Africa and Donova was sad that he was gone, Donovan is the only one in New Zealand out of his family. 

He's having a good life as a teacher at Tamaki Primary, he just wants his family with him so he can be more happier.

English - Te Reo (Cities in NZ)

Auckland, is based around 2 large harbours, is a major city in the north of New Zealand’s North Island. In the centre, the iconic Sky Tower has views of Viaduct Harbour, which is full of super yachts and lined with bars and cafes. Auckland Domain, the city’s oldest park, is based around an extinct volcano and home to the formal Winter gardens.

New Zealand History!!

Links

NZ names

NZ discovered

NZ Flags

Abel Tasman facts

James Cook Facts

WLJ- Day 7 (Final): Keep NZ Beautiful

7. #Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Dawn breaks on Day #7 – the final day of your Great Kiwi Road Trip. You wake up early, ready to make the long trek back to Auckland. Along the way, Curious Kiwi stops at two beautiful places, Taupo and Rotorua, for you to get out and walk around.

Activity 1: While in Taupo, you go for a walk around the lake and you notice pieces of rubbish floating in the water. You also notice that there is rubbish on the footpath. As you know, it is really important to put rubbish in the bin and keep New Zealand clean and beautiful for generations to come.

http://www.kiwidaydreaming.com/p/new-zealand-maps.html

With that in mind, it is time think about what you can do to keep New Zealand beautiful. Use your imagination and come up with three things that you could do to make your neighbourhood more beautiful. Post your list on your blog ☺

• If you put your rubbish in your pocket and when you run it drops out of your pocket, if you know your rubbish drop just pick it up because it’s not your property and your reliability to drop your own rubbish on the ground.
• If you know that someone drop their rubbish just asked them politely to pick up their rubbish and they will pick it up straight away.
• Last of all, if you see rubbish on the ground just pick it up even though if it not yours, still pick it up because you want your community to be clean.

Activity 2: After you have finished up in Taupo, it is time to hop back in the car and head for Rotorua – a town where will have the chance for some much needed rest and relaxation. In fact, you will visit the Tarawera Bush Pool – a geothermal hot pool that is located in the middle of a forest. The warm water in the pool comes from underneath the ground. After a few hours in the pool you feel really relaxed.

On your blog, post a picture of yourself doing something relaxing. I find reading really relaxing. Here is a picture of me reading one of my favourite books!

After a long soak in the natural hot pools, it is time to get back home. Your family and friends can’t wait to see you and they can’t wait to hear all about your adventures. Take a moment to think about what you have seen and done over the past week.

As you can see I’m just playing the PS4 because I haven’t been on the Play Station for months so I think I should just go on the Playstation and just enjoy my day. I like playing around on the Playstation but because it’s just sitting in my room and I wanted to play on it.

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Bonus Activity: On your blog, post a video or write a description about your week. What have you learned? What did you like about the trip? What didn’t you like? Was there anything that surprised you?

I learned a lot on my trip, travelling around New Zealand and just visiting other areas which I haven’t heard about in a while. As I was travelling around New Zealand I like heaps of things over there, but here is my 3 best things in New Zealand.

1. KareKare waterfall, Karekare Waterfall is one of my bestest choice but it just nice and beautiful because you can just relax in the water and just listen to the birds.
2. Rangitoto, Rangitoto is a wonderful mountain, you can walk up to the top and just see the view that looks amazing. I think as I was experiencing more about Rangitoto, I just felt like going up onto Rangitoto
3. Tane Mahuta, known as a big Kauri tree I love it so much because it was just so massive it felt like I wanted to visit it.

I learned heaps about the Great Spotted Kiwi, I just like how we travelled around the world and just visit some places where I learn some new things about New Zealand.

To earn full points for this activity, you must talk about what you learned, what you liked and what you about your great kiwi road trip.

Bonus Activity: 12 points

Well, New Zealand truly is a stunning country, isn’t it? I think that we are so lucky to call it home! Let’s make sure that we do everything we can to keep the country safe and clean for future generations…

#Keep New Zealand beautiful!

WLJ 2017- Day 2, NZ by Land and Sea

Day #2: New Zealand by Land and Sea

After a short ride through Auckland it is time to start exploring the rest of the country. Today you are going to venture around the north island of New Zealand to look at active volcanoes, gorgeous beaches, windswept coastline and lush, green bush. As a group, you will start at Rangitoto, the largest volcano in New Zealand before driving west to Karekare, a stunning beach on the outskirts of Auckland. You will finish the day by driving north to visit Tane Mahuta, the oldest living kauri tree in New Zealand.

(1)Rangitoto: http://www.doc.govt.nz/rangitoto; (2) Karekare:  http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/beaches/88348522/nz-has-one-of-the-best-beaches-in-the-world-according-to-passport-magazine; (3) Tane Mahuta: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/328117/track-to-tane-mahuta-to-be-closed-for-tree%27s-protection

Activity 1: After a very busy day of sightseeing you and your group drive from Tane Mahuta to your hotel in Dargaville. When you arrive you decide to sit down and record your thoughts in your travel diary.

http://www.kiwidaydreaming.com/p/new-zealand-maps.html

Before you start writing, take a minute to read more about Rangitoto island, Karekare beach and Tane Mahuta.  On your blog, tell us which of the three places you most enjoyed visiting and why.  

Rangitoto Island summit walk is so cool because all I just wanna see is the view of Auckland. So when I make my way up the mountain all I can just see is the beautiful view of Auckland city.

I would just like to have a long walk on Rangitoto Island because I just wanna experience what would it be like living on the island and just wanting to see people having fun just like me.

Karekare waterfall sound so amazing I just wanna go on the waterfall and just enjoy the native forest and just hear the bird chirping along while I’m swimming.

Activity 2: As an island nation, New Zealand is completely surrounded by water. It is the perfect place for people who like to swim or to sail! While in Dargaville, recovering from your busy day of sightseeing, you notice a number sailboats going by. One of the boats is manned by a young German girl named Laura Dekker. At the age of fourteen she sailed around the world the entire world by herself. You can watch a short video clip about her adventures here: Laura Dekker sailing trip.   

Let’s imagine that you had the chance to interview Laura while in Dargaville. On your blog post five questions that you would ask her.

1. Who inspired you to sail
2. What is your goal for sailing
3. Who taught you to be a good young sailor
4. What would you rather do beside from sailing
5. Last of all, why did you choose sailing

Bonus Activity: When you finish your interview with Laura, you decide to keep on interviewing people. For this activity, your task is to conduct a real interview with an actual member of your family. Please ask them to think about their five (5) favourite things to do in the out-of-doors. They can be things that they enjoy doing on land or in the water. Post the list of outdoor activities on your blog.
Just like to go to unique events

Doing a very long walks

Just exploring new things around Auckland

Going to family events

Just like to be with the family

Bonus Activity: 10 points

WLJ 2017-Day 1: 100% pure NZ

Well, the time has now come! School’s out for the holidays and your tour of New Zealand is about to begin. I hope that you are ready and excited! Curious Kiwi certainly is – he can’t wait to start the Great Kiwi Road Trip! Before you all hit the road, let’s take a minute to review some key facts about New Zealand.

Activity 1:  Go to the Tourism New Zealand website and click on the ‘Facts - New Zealand People’ tab. Read about the people of New Zealand and then choose three interesting facts to post on your blog. The facts must be written in your own words. Do not simply copy and paste the facts from the website☺.

3 interesting facts

1. Many of these invention has been created in a backyard. Frozen meat, Hamilton Jet boat and the bungy jump is New Zealand's most famous Kiwi invention, and many others.

2. For the same reason people come and visit New Zealand is because people from New Zealand has developed a passion for the outdoors and some fun activities that makes the most of the spectacular landscape.

3. Rugby Football is the most popular sport in New Zealand, with the All blacks playing Rugby and winning 80% of the Rugby World Cup is really making NZ wanna play Rugby. Rugby is a popular sport in New Zealand.

Activity 2: Your tour of New Zealand is going to start right here in Auckland. Watch the Tourist video for Auckland to learn about the awesome things that you can see and do in the city. Once you’ve finished, choose your favourite five activities from the video and list them on your blog.  

5 of my favourite activities in the video

1. Firstly, “Mt Eden” mountain is so cool because you can see the beautiful view and especially the Museum because in the night the Museum turns into a colour of paradise.

2. The Elliott Stables is a wonderful coffee shop, I never been there before but it’s sound so yum I just wanna go and try out their coffee and while I’m at it I will ask one of the workers “If there is any cookies”.

3. The seafood across on Devenport sounds nice and it will taste nice to be honest.

4. The Museum is so interesting, having dinosaur bones, Maori things and more sound so amazing. Just looking at the video and looking at the new things they’ve putted in the Museum sounds like I want to go back to the Museum.

5. Last of all is the “Sky Tower”, the reason why I putted the Sky Tower last because they have a nice view from a top of the Sky Tower, you can see people bungee jumping of the Sky Tower and you can just explore around it.

Bonus Activity: Now it’s time to start your tour! Curious Kiwi decides to start by taking you on a short tour through downtown Auckland. You stop at the Sky Tower, the tallest building in all of New Zealand. When you look up, you see a huge New Zealand flag on the top of the tower. This flag was created back in 1902. That makes the New Zealand flag 115 years old!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_New_Zealand#/media/File:Flag_of_New_Zealand.svg

Last year, the Prime Minister of New Zealand suggested that we should replace the flag with a new, updated design. He invited everyone in New Zealand to come up with their own flag design and submit it.

For this activity, it is your turn to design a new flag. Use any drawing programme that you wish. I would recommend the Flag Designer website. It allows you to create a flag in three easy steps. When you are done, take a screenshot of your flag and post it on your blog. Here is an example:

Source: http://flag-designer.appspot.com

To earn full points you must describe the flag, in words, below the picture. Please tell us what is on the flag and what inspired your design.

My flag that I created.   

So I created myself a flag which looks like this, it has a crown on it. It’s on their because it has a little meaning behind the crown, the meaning is “It’s rules New Zealand and it’s shows people some love”, I added green because of the land and the land was firstly made out of grass so that why the green is there, and for the blue one is for the sky. It’s telling god to “Keep our land safe and keep New Zealand safe too. So this is my flag.

Bonus Activity= 8 points

NZ Herald news?

News, NZ herald

Man trying to break in the cockpit?

A man tried to break into the airline cockpit but there was FBI people walking around the plane while people was walking of the plane by row by row, the flight was from LA to Honolulu, Hawaii but when the plane landed some of the passenger sawed a man breaking into the cockpit so one of the passenger told the flight crew"Their is a man breaking into the cockpit". So the flight crew called the police and they told them about what was happening, There was 181 passengers on the plane and 6 crew members on the plane, the man got taken by the FBI and he was charged and blamed guilty of what happen on the airline,