Volleyball Tournament 2k19

It's finally Thursday!! Today is the day we stay up and get ready to go to Palmerston North for a Church Volleyball Tournament. My sister and I were the only people from my family attending this tournament. We packed our things into mini suitcases for the whole weekend. Since we had to leave so early in the morning, my sister and I was thinking of doing all nighters the whole night so we can sleep on the way there.

The drive was about 8-9 hours to get to our destination. About two churches mixed up with our church. Otahuhu Sda church and Remuera sda church were the two churches that gathered together with our Glen Innes sda church. The next day we all had to meet at the Manukau petrol station across the Rainbow’s end. We all meet there at about 6:00am in the morning. We left at about 6:45 but we all had breakfast first and went to the toilet before we left.

We stopped at Huntly to pick up another two of our church members. We then kept driving and stopped in Matamata for a little pit stop and go to the toilet. 2 hours later we stopped in Taupo to have our lunch. People had different sorts of food such as Mcdonalds and Kfc. After everybody finished going toilet and having their lunch we then the whole way down to palmy (Palmerston North).

Another two hours later we finally arrived to our sleeping destination. Everybody looked so tired so we quickly packed our things into our rooms. We split into two rooms, One room for the boys and the other one for the girls. Some people were so exhausted so they went for a little nap and the rest of the people went shopping for our dinner. For dinner we have spaghetti bolognaise, it was so yummy and delicious. Before dinner we opened sabbath and introduced ourselves to everyone.

Tonight two boys from Otahuhu Sda church were on their way to Palmy. They left at 9:00pm and arrived at 4:00am in the morning. When we woke up the next day both of them got to sleep in because of the long drive. We had breakfast and got ready to go to church at Lac Sda school. When we went to church we saw different churches their as well and we got free bibles to use.

After church we had to get ready for the volleyball tournament. The volleyball tournament was held in Palmerston North Central Energy trust Arena Stadium. Their were about 53 different church currently attending in this amazing tournament. We saw different churches and got to mingle with other church as well. 

Then the next day we woke up at 9:00 and went straight to the volleyball tournament. This day was the semi finals. We took three hard working teams down to palmy. Their names were mixed up, Flight and Sugar n Spike. The captains came up with those very cool names. Sadly two of our volleyball teams didn’t make it to the semi finals but the did come 2nd. Our mix team came first and everybody was so happy.

On that night we didn't get to have lunch so we have a very big and yummy dinner since it was sadly the last night. On this night everybody got so close and it was a night where everybody got to know each other and play with each other. Some of us stayed up until 4:00 in the morning and played games the whole morning. This night was the best night of the weekend so far because we got to mingle with each other and people were having so much fun together.

The next day was sadly the last day:( But we made the most of it. We had to clean and make sure all our things were packed in our cars and loaded. Some people said some thank yous on behalf of their church. And it was time to leave palmy. We had about 4 pit stops and toilet breaks and safely got back to Auckland. We met at Manukau petrol station again.

This night everybody didn’t even want to leave because the weekend was so fun and they missed it so much. But sadly we all said our goodbyes and went home. Hopefully everybody had fun with each other and I really do hope we can do it again with the next Volleyball Tournament next year!!

Decimals!!

Lighthouse Moved!!

Today's current event was about a lighthouse in Denmark has been moved 70 meters inland due to coastal erosion. It was moved because it was suppose to be protect it from the sea.For 120 years, the Rubjerg Knude lighthouse has been perched on a sand dune on the northern Danish coast, but coastal erosion from North Sea winds threatened to topple it into the sea. Originally, the lighthouse stood 200m from the sea, but erosion has reduced that by 2m a year, leaving it only a few meters from the edge.

Now the 720-tonne structure has been saved, in an operation to lift it up and move it 70m inland “like skates on rails”. It only too a few hours to transport the lighthouse to its new position. The engineers had assumed the lighthouse weighed up to 1,000 tonnes but discovered as they lifted it on Tuesday that it was a mere 720 tonnes and therefore a little easier to move.

Current Events

Today’s current event was really shocking to hear because a big fire breaks out in the New Zealand Sky City. It went from level six to level seven.Large flames engulfed the top of the building just after 1 pm this afternoon – starting on the seventh floor before spreading to the sixth. The fire started in the roof cavity and it’s been difficult for firefighter’s to get inside the building and to the top. St John says one person has been admitted to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition. Sky City has evacuated its entire Auckland area, with people forced to leave the Sky Tower, casino, all Sky City hotels and restaurants and corporate offices. Hopefully the workers were safe during the fire,

Pollution

How does pollution damage the earth? Pollution is damaging the earth because of the amount of smoke and gas that goes into the air. Cars, Trucks and planes are the main course of why the air is polluted. People fart and smoke and all that gas goes into the air and it is polluted. Big factories are another reason why it is polluted because the amount of smoke they use it goes into the air. 

About 70,000 people die each year because of the pollution we do around the world.This all leads to Climate change. Things that make us go to different places such as planes, cars and different vehicles have been one of the reasons of air pollution. Every single day big trucks have been polluting the air a lot. 

Health is something else that is important because people need to know what goes into their bodies. When people are going to get groceries or shopping people look at the back of the box or the packet and see what is in it. People should always know what goes into their bodies.

Their is a huge issue going around the world. Three students are nearly dying because of the amount of air they breathe in and because of the air pollution that happens all the time. They breathe in smoke and other things that are bad to breathe in. Traffic is one of the main reasons why people breathe in bad air.

In December 2009 a treat to replace the Kyoto protocol will be drawn up in Copenhagen. New figures suggest that by the end of the century global sea level could rise as much as 1.5 meters. Coastal regions and low lying island will be flooded. Experts believe Tuvalu, an island in the south pacific, will be uninhabitable. 

Bad Society!!

Life has expectations we need to obey such as Respecting each others by treating people how you want to be treated and Respecting our environment by not littering. In New Zealand our community has been a very bad society with all the bad habits that has happened around our country.

Violence and abuse have been very well-known in our society. Kids have died because of the amount of abuse other adults have used against them. Couples have been broken up and they also get abused to get back together. Lots and lots of people have committed suicide because they either got broken up or one of their loved ones have passed away. Suicide is a very common one, people ended their lives because of the amount of hate and shame they get from the outside world.

In a society, it includes people, bad people and good people. A society is only a society when it has people. Bad societies include gangs. Gangs aren’t as common as you may think they are but it can cause so much damage towards the society. Gangs have harmed different people and different things. They are also one of the people that do graffiti in our environment. 

Current Events:)

Here is another Current event I found. French Researches have developed an artificial skin and putting it on phones.The amazing cover looks like skin and can even respond to the human touch. The skin can reportedly read your emotions – pressing hard might produce an angry emoji for example, while tapping it fast with all your fingers translates into laughter. You can also do pinches and other gestures on the back of the phone, without getting your screen dirty. The scientists used two layers of silicone to ensure it looked like skin. Small wires are placed between the layers to use as sensors. The next step the researchers are considering is to make it even more realistic by adding hair. People have really weird reactions to this because people wonder where they get their skin from.