School life in Malawi by sapphire and mya

Intro: This week we are comparing our lives with a girl named Omar. She is a primary student who lives in Malawi. We recently watched her video about her life., and her school life at Mwaya.

I think we have differnt school lives, because she wakes up at 6:00 to walk to school. We wake up at 7:00 am and some people go to school at 8:00 or 8:30. She walks 6 kilometers to school on the rocky dusty ground with no shoes., we drive to school.

At her school students are 12-16 years old , everyone has an exam at the end of the year. If they fail they stay at the school until they pass it , If they pass it they move to secondary school. They have 2 breaks at 8:40 and 10:40 each for 10 minutes.

Some girls stay home to learn how to cook and farm from their mothers, that means they don't have time to study for exams. Its not just the girls its most of the children. They fail because they help their families

Omar's life at home is really frustrating because her mother and father died when she was young.She and her brother and sisters has to sleep on the floor while the grampa sleeps on the only bed because he sick.Omar has to do chores she walks to the well and collects water for her family that is used for bathing,cooking and cleaning

Some students go to the school at night time to study for the exam. When its 9:00 they stop studying and sleep at the school. 

Similarities:

We have comfortable shoes unlike Omar she has bare feet and has to walk on a rocky dusty road . She has to clean her school every time she gets there.

we have the contrast things as Omar here in NZ that we both clean and do chores. But her chores are more difficult than ours. some students study at school unlike people in NZ they can just study at home because they have time.

Similarly to Omar we both sing our own national anthem and we study. We also have chores to do everyday. We also do exams when were in college.

I heard a whisper

“Okay the party is ready, but we need some music” sapphire says to herself, while she was thinking her lights turned off. There was a soft whisper in the kitchen. “you are going to die” “Whos there!” shouted sapphire. Step by step she walked to the kitchen then grabbed her kitchen knife and waved it in the air. Suddenly the power turned on and everything went back to normal.

Two days later.

She was all rolled up in bed, too scared to go anywhere. But she was thinking “Was that all in my head?” “yeah it must of been fake!” she says. Sapphire gets out of bed and does her usual morning routine, she walked slowly to the kitchen. A shiver went down her spine. “Its all in my head” sapphire says while shutting her eyes. She takes a peak. “phew nothings there” she says happily.

Sapphire comes home from work and jumps on her couch. She closed her eyes for a bit then her t.v started turning on and off, she was freaking out. She ran to the door but the door wouldn't open. ”You are going to die” whispers the ghost. “AAAHHHHH” Sapphire screams with horror. Everything started flying in the air, all of her water taps turned on and her lights were going crazy yet no-one heard her scream.

One hour later…

She was lieing of the floor crying with fright. “will it come true?” sapphire says softly. Later on the police came and investigated. “Miss are you alright” a police man says “does it look like i'm all right?!” answers sapphire with rage. “where were you an hour ago!?!!?” Sapphire shouts “We were investigating some donuts at dunkin donuts” the policeman said. After all her anger she calmed down and sipped some water” And she suddenly forgot everything!

One day later sapphire was having a great time after what happen and everything went back to normal… FOR NOW :]

My first day at point england school.

My first day at point england school was a disaster! I was expecting it to go well then… Well I suppose you have to keep on reading to find out what happened..

So on a Thursday I was getting ready to go to school, I was really excited because I thought it would be just like kindergarten. I was walking with my mum to room 4 I saw kids writing in their books, suddenly my mum looked at her watch. OOPS! Looks like I was late! I was sent to a table with my friends from kindergarten and I was talking for the whole time for writing.

So you might be wondering “since when was talking was a disaster?!” Well you have to wait to find out what the disaster is! Ok so i was talking and talking and then things were getting over hand. I was running around the classroom and I was screaming and shouting. Then other kids started running, and then suddenly… I got sent to Mrs jarman's  office. Luckily I didn't know where her office was so i was sent back to room 4, that was the most awkward 2 hours of my life… :)

Lorde

Lorde aka Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor is new zealand singer and songwriter. Her song royals was the number 1 hit on the top charts of USA,she even passed Miley Cyrus wrecking ball and Katy Perrys Roar! Oh and did I mention shes 17? Well she just turned 17 last week, her first album was when she was 16. So she went a long way in 1 year! My favourite song is “The love club” From her album The love club.

She has her own unique style, she has a wicked personality and she has amazing hair. I should get some tips! She is my most favorite kiwi singer and i would love to go to a concert of hers. :]

My groups storyboard

Rainbow warrior bombing

It was a really peaceful night on July 10th 1985. the greenpeace crew were having a party on their yacht, the rainbow warrior. While they were enjoying themselves little did they know there were two french spies in scuba gear in the ocean. They were attaching two limpet bombs under the yacht. When they successfully planted the bombs on, they fled off stealthily.

BOOM! Went the bomb, blowing pete willcox off his chair with ultimate force. He investigated the basement, there was water oozing in the yacht causing it to sink. “ABANDON SHIP ABANDON SHIP!” Pete willcox yelled. Everyone escaped except for one man, Fernando Pereira. Unfortunately he died minutes later.

Luckily the president arrested the two french spies for ten years.
When the french government found out he demanded the nz president to bring the spies back to france, or they won't buy anymore dairy products from nz . So nz gave the men to the government to put them in a french jail. But they only let them in jail for two years.

T,M,S I have a dream.

Hook: Standing amongst the huge crowd I could sense hope. In 1963 August 28th Martin Luther King (aka MLK) made his speech to try and unite all of us together, and try to make it equal for the black and white people of the United States Of America.
DESCRIBING- All black people were there to support each other and make a change people were trying to make the country a better place for all people. Martin luther king tried to make equal rights for everybody so that all the states could come together and make one safe and happy country.

EFFECTING US- If we were black kids it will affect us in so many ways such as, being slaves for white people and they don’t pay you. using the public toilets when you need to go to the toilet, using different water fountains, segregated and many things that black people can’t do.

The white people demand all black people to sit at the back of the bus. White people get 10x more funding than the black peoples school.