Reflection - Market Day

On the 26th of November, we had a market day. Over the past few weeks, we have been planning a stall for our Business studies assessment. It was held between T-block and R-block from 12:20 to 2.

The 3 things that went well was our planning, our sales, and our advertisements. Our plan was well organised. We managed to make sure that we were prepared for market day. We managed to get sponsored by New World, The Warehouse and Countdown. Our plan was detailed, giving us information on what we would need to buy and how much it would cost. We sent out a survey to calculate how many people would buy our churros and doughnuts, and for what costs. Something else that went well was our advertising. We hung up many posters around the school where people walk past more often. We also sent out emails to remind everyone about the market day, and to check out our stall. The third thing that went well was our sales and our tactics. We had two people out at stall serving people while one person cooking the Churros and Doughnuts. This allowed us to constantly refill our product as well were selling out fast during lunch.

The 3 things that didn't go so well was our chocolate fountain, our doughnut maker, and the batter for our doughnuts. The chocolate fountain that we bought from The Warehouse did not work. The chocolate sauce was not flowing as what we hoped. Our doughnut maker from The Warehouse also didn't work. The doughnuts turned into stale disks that didn't taste good. Also, the batter for the doughnuts when but in the deep fryer split. The mixture was too liquidy.

If I could change anything if we did this again I would bring mixing bowls, more containers/trays to hold our products, and not buying any chocolate fountains.

The Treaty was a Scam

There were two treaties. The English version, and the Maori version. Both were similar but yet not the same. They created four copies and took it round

Article 1

For the English version, the main point from article 1 was that the British would have complete control over the people and land.
In the Maori version in article 1, the main point was that the British had complete control over the land, but the Maori chiefs still had control of their tribes.
In the Maori version they believed that the English would have control over the lands but they Maori chiefs could still control their people/tribe. Whereas in the English version they had complete control over the people and land. This could cause conflict because they agreed to the Maori version, not the British version.
The Maori were not happy that they had no control over their people.

Article 2

For the English version, it guaranteed the Maori's possession of their land, properties, fisheries. And that the Maori could only sell their land to the British.
The Maori version guaranteed that the Maori would have full control of their lands, villages, culture, and language. And that they have to first offer the land to the British if the British crown did not agree with the price the Maori could then it could then be sold to someone else.

The British promised the Maori control of their land and properties. But the Maori version stated that they would have possession of their culture, language and properties.
Since the British went by the English version, the Maori had no control or possession of their culture or language. And the Maori thought that they could sell to other people if they offered the land to the crown first, but of course, that was not stated in the English version.

Article 3

In the English version, the main point was that the Maori have the same rights as British subjects.
In the Maori version, the main point was that the British would protect Maori and that the Maori would have the same rights as British subjects.
The Maori thought that the British would protect Maori, but as stated in the English version of the treaty it was not stated.
The Maori were given their rights but not protection.

An Ideal World

An ideal world in my mind would be no violence and abuse. A world with no violence would mean no wars. To make this a reality is to wipe the whole human race and program robots to be non-violent.

The Treaty of Waitangi

Why was the Treaty needed?

Link to my Essay

The Powhatan Treaty

I have researched the Powhatan Treaty in 1646. We were looking at the different treaties that the Europeans made with other cultures. 

Maori and European population changes in Nz between 1836-1901

For social studies, we had to transfer the information in the table and put it into a graph.

What does the graph tell us?

The graph shows the increase and decrease of the Maori and European population. By 1859-1901 there is a rapid increase in the European population. Whereas the Maori population slowly declines throughout the years.

Why do you think the numbers of Maori change?

When the Europeans came to New Zealand the Maori traded their flax for muskets. Since the Maoris were always fighting over land or revenge, the musket made it more efficient to kill off their enemies. This caused more deaths, causing a decrease in the Maori population.

Why do you think the numbers of Europeans changed?

The Europeans found New Zealand great for killing whales, as well as trading with the Maori. In England it was cramped, unsafe, poverty, disease, and no jobs leaving people unemployed. New Zealand provided land, jobs, resources, and space, which attracted people to New Zealand.

Spaghetti Bolognese

In our groups, we were instructed to make Spaghetti Bolognese. The Spaghetti was simple. We only needed to boil water in water and put our spirals pasta in. Our team during the exercise worked quite well. Jimmy's job was getting the sauce. Jakita gathered the onion and garlic and chopped them. Nidhi gathered the pasta. And I got the pot and boiled the water on the stove, as well as doing the dishes. While it was cooking we prepared our sauce. We cut some garlic and onion and added it to the pan. Once the onion and garlic were slightly brown we added the pre-made sauce and let it saute. Once the pasta was finished we poured in the water and pasta into the drainer. Once the sauce was ready, we put out the bowls and evenly put the pasta in the four bowls. We then put in the sauce and sprinkled the meal over with grated cheese.

Hidden - Creative story

Hidden

Chapter l
In construction

I snuggle closer to the mouldy blood-stained corner. I curl up in a ball to keep myself warm. The
ragged clothing that I was given was now covered in dirt and blood. My raw wounds still throbbing from
the mornings beating. My cell was so small, it was about the size of a broom cupboard, the only
furniture in the room was a worn yoga mat that I used to sleep on.

Over the sound of my chattering teeth, I could hear the footsteps of someone coming towards the door.
The silver collar on my neck felt as if it was getting tighter as if a snake was strangling me. The footstep
came closer, then they stopped. Everything was quiet, my shivering and chattering teeth stopped.
My whole body was frozen, frightened like a child in the dark. Not again. The thoughts going through my
mind made me shiver. I can't do this again, I don’t think I could survive this time.

These past months have been hectic. I still blame myself for what happened. But for now, let’s go back
and start from the beginning.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! “Oh for goodness sake!,” I turned over and threw the alarm clock across the
room.

“lève ton cul” Get your ass up, the sound of my sister’s voice echoed within my room.

“garde tes chevaux” hold your horses, I yell back.

I moaned with exhaustion and hoisted myself out of bed. I pulled off my poke dotted duvet and wrapped
it around my body. Thud! “Merde!” I panicked and looked down the side of my bed. “Sorry croissant,”
I apologised as I looked down as the small white cat. She looked up at me in annoyance. I picked her up
and placed her on my bed. I trudged towards my dresser to grab my uniform. I glanced at my reflection
in the mirror hanging above my dresser. My brown hair sat on end like a porcupine. I searched the to of
my spruce dresser, moving little nick nacks and letters. Right at the back, I found my hairbrush. I tugged
the hairbrush through my hair trying to get through the birds’ nest. After several minutes later I placed
the hairbrush back in the rubble of paper. I pulled open one of my many draws, the draw was full of
black, green and blue clothing. But what stood out was my bright white and navy blue uniform. I put it on,
but I couldn’t help but notice that the socks were itchy. Great, an uncomfortable uniform just what I need
right now. The collar on my white button-up shirt was stiff and itchy, my navy blue skirt made me
anxious. 

“It’s not that bad” my sister Lea stood there leaned against my doorway. 

I turned around and looked in the mirror. “It’s not that bad” I mocked. I swing my bag over my shoulders.
My bag was black and had white stars covered over the fabric. My bag was full and weighed over 3kgs.
The multiple books in my bag made it heavy. I trudge through the house and grabbed an apple in the
kitchen. My sister followed. She stood in the doorway of the front door and lifted her hand. Her brown
eyes began to glow a light blue, her once messy brown hair began unknot and position itself into a
ponytail. She rested her hand by her side and gave me a smirk.

 “Show off,” I said as I pushed past her. 

She snapped her fingers and her bag float through the lounge into her hands. “Okay I’m ready now,” Lea
said. She glanced at the door, and again her eyes glew blue, the door made a clicking sound. Lea smiled
and walked off. She stopped and looked back “Are you coming Elyse”

“I’m coming,” I said as I galloped towards her.

Our house was on private property. Basically the middle of the forest. There were no roads, no hiking
paths, just a thick forest. Which was nice because we didn’t need to worry about the government finding
of our powers.

The beliefs of Maori

How do stories and myths play in society?
They help us understand the culture and religion of others.

What similarities are there between the Europeans and the Maori's stories?
They both believed in a higher power, god/gods and art.

Why would the difference between Maori beliefs and English beliefs cause conflict?
The two different cultures have different values and morales and different ways of worship. They both believed in different gods and praised the gods very differently from each other.

This is the Maori god that I have chosen to do a poster on.

Japan

Something that I learnt was how much time they put into making their lunches. They have bento boxes filled with food. They would take at least 10 minutes packing their lunches, whereas we just put a load of different snacks and a sandwich in our lunch box in a matter of five minutes.

They also have tea ceremonies, where they sit on the ground and drink green tea out of little fancy teacups that don't have handles.

How do Japanese foods and presentation compare to NZ?

In Japan, they like to be neat and tidy with their foods. When they have it cooked a set on a plate it looks like a piece of art. New Zealand doesn't put too much effort in the presentation.

Questions for the readers:

What tea do they commonly drink during tea ceremonies?

Souvlaki

For this lesson we make souvlakis.

We used a variety of vegetables like diced tomato, lettuce, fresh oregano, finely chopped red onion and grated carrot. We were given many sauces to choose from, we had the yoghurt sauce (greek yoghurt, parsley, cucumber and freshly chopped mint), barbecue relish and sauce, sweet chilli sauce and other toppings. We added shredded beef schnitzel. The ingredients we used were freshly chopped.

Tasks were evenly spread through the group. One person was gathering ingredients, while one person was chopping the veggies, and another cooking the schnitzel. One of the challenges I faced was cooking the beef in the frying pan since the oil was spitting at me and another person in my group. It was difficult trying to not get burnt.

The outcome of my souvlaki looked and tasted fresh and tasty. It's such an easy and delicious meal to make.

Here is the closest photo I could find that looked like what we made.

Cooking Pizza

For this practical we made pizza. I found I was quite interesting making the base out of only 3 ingredients.

Something that I found that our group did well at was communicating and working together to get everything done in time.
Something we didn't do well was the base of the pizza. I found that it was overmixed (by me).
The outcome looked crispy. Although the base was like a pikelet.

The toppings I had on my pizza were tomato, tomato paste, pepper, onion, ham, pineapple, and other toppings that I can't remember.

Here is the outcome of my pizza:

Driving with cell-phones speech reflection

My presentation was about the dangers of taking call and writing/reading texts. The part of my speech that I am proud of is how much I had written about my topic. Something I found that I had trouble with was actually researching my topic. I found it difficult trying to find something to talk about and actually sticking to it. Something I would work on for next time is giving myself more time to practice my speech. 

Painting Cave Art in our Classroom

In the stone age, homo sapiens made art like what you see above. Telling stories with the art they created on the cave walls. they created art by using their own hands, sticks, rocks and other things. We used black paint to draw these paintings on the walls of our classroom. In the stone age, they didn't have paint, so they used mud and sand. You would find art like this in museums and caves.

This is a photo of the art that I had done.

 (unfinished painting)

The story in the art is two people cooking a rabbit about a fire.

COMING SOON (Finished Painting)

Fish 'n' Chips YAY!

For our second practical we made fish n chips.

Like the last practical task were given out evenly in the group. It was quite difficult keeping up with the other groups since a person in our group was not present. What I found we did well as a group was time management, apart from having to hurry to put the fish in the oven. When it comes to cooking you can add your own twist to the recipe without worrying about ruining everything. I found that the only trouble we had in our group was keeping everything clean and tidy, making sure we had room for things to go on the cooking bench. 

Our product turned out quite well. The fish was cooked through and the chips were a little crispy. The only thing I would change when making this again would be to add more lemon.

Making SUSHI

For cooking, we made vegetarian sushi!

This took us about 30-40 minutes to make it. Since our rice was cooked before class started, we saved at least 10 minutes. The sushi we made consisted of rice, seaweed, pepper, cucumber, carrot, avocado, capsicum, celery, and wasabi (optional). There are a lot of techniques needed to make sushi such as slices the veggies into little thin strips to rolling the sushi in the bamboo sheet roll thingy. Something we could improve was our time management, as well as keeping our ingredients more organised. Something we did well as a group was collecting all of our ingredients and setting everything out. The outcome of the sushi was quite good. The only thing I didn't like about the sushi was that there were not enough veggies in the sushi, I feel like we should have added soy sauce to our sushi. Otherwise, the sushi was tasty and filling. 

10Hh screen time results

Results from the weekend screen time experiment

Each person in our class was asked to record the amount of time they used looking at screens during the weekend. 

This graph shows us how much time we spend in front of screens from 3pm Friday to 9am Monday. The recommended use of screens is 2 hours per day. The average amount of time used by this class is about 15-20hrs. This shows us how addicted we have gotten to our devices.

 Devices used

From these results, it gives us an understanding of what devices are used the most. From the chart, we see that phones are the most common device used during the weekend. Phones are small and light, making it easier to access and carry around. 

Timetable Of the history of devices 

Jam Drops

Jam Drops

-Week 3

In Home Ec, we did our first practical for semester 2. Our recipe was to make Jam Drops.

Tasks were given out to each member of our group. Everyone had their own specific tasks in which they needed to get done. We had to have the exact accurate measurements of each ingredient. From least semester I had seen that we actually got quicker at getting everything done on time, whereas before my group had trouble getting everything finished on time.

Our product turned out soft and tasty. Since we ate them a little while after they came out of the oven they were still soft and warm. I personally prefer eating biscuits when they are warm. I believe that our jam drops needed a little bit more jam in the middle. 

Our next step would be making sure that we are faster at getting everything finished. As well as making more accurate measurements.

Should Euthanasia be legal in NZ - Persuasive writing

Should Euthanasia be Legal in NZ?

Should euthanasia be allowed to be used on humans? If I had a severe medical condition

with unbearable symptoms, I wouldn't want to be kept alive against my own will. People with

incurable conditions should be able to die in dignity, not in pain, they should not be kept suffering

against their own will, they should be able to choose when they die. 

Sadly there are many people who are diagnosed with incurable conditions such as leukaemia,

Alzheimer's, Aids and others. Some people live their lives suffering until they eventually die from

their illness. Euthanasia would stop these people from suffering from unbearable symptoms and pain.

In New Zealand a survey in 2014-2015 of 15,822 people, 66 per cent supported euthanasia as a legal

means of ending the lives of people with painful, incurable diseases. We should be able to die without

suffering.

Euthanasia should, of course, be only an option to people who are suffering from incurable illnesses.

Euthanasia would give people the option to end their suffering. When healing is no longer possible,

and the patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician’s role should shift from healing

to relieving suffering in the patient’s wishes. It must be a choice for both patient and physician to go on

with Euthanasia. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, The Netherlands,

Switzerland, and in six US states (California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Vermont and Washington

State). I believe that New Zealand should be one of these countries. 

We are able to make our own choices of what we do in life, from who we marry to what kind of work

we do. I think when it comes to the end of one’s life, whether you have an incurable condition or whether

you’re elderly, you should be able to choose what happens to you. We should be able to make our own

decisions for our own bodies. Around the work, 0.2% to 4.6% of all deaths are reported as euthanasia

or physician-assisted suicide where they are legal.

People should be able to make their own decisions even if it means making a decision to die. For those who are suffering from painful symptoms should not be kept alive against their will. Euthanasia is legal in six countries, should New Zealand be one of them?

Careers Research

In social studies, we are studying careers. We have been given out random jobs and have been told to investigate them. We are also learning about budgeting.

The job that I got is a Truck driver.