I was shown this video in the holidays and it blew me away how well this girl could sing so I have a link to it on my blog. She’s only 6 in this video were she auditions for Britains Got Talent. She came 2nd in the compition and she has been making albums since. I hope you like the video.
This term my goals are:
To spend more time practising my flute so next year I can have more chance at getting a distinction in exams.
To try and improve my attitude towards maths so I enjoy it more
To try get into a sport team at school to do this I will try my hardest at tryouts
To improve my french to do this I will practise more
Elephants are land mammals so they have live babies instead of eggs (warm blooded). There are three different species of Elephant. The African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian/Indian Elephant. The Elephant evolved from the species that perished during the ice age like the Woolly Mammoth. They are the largest land mammal a baby Elephant (calf) weighing 120 kgs approx. The largest Elephant recorded was a male Elephant shot in 1956 weighing 12,000 kgs and it’s height from shoulder to foot was 4.2 m. An average Elephant can live up to 70+ years in the wild and longer in captivity. In the Asian culture Elephants are a symbol of wisdom because of their memory and intelligence. A healthy Elephant has no natural predators but lions will take calves and weak individuals that are slower then the rest of the herd. Although they have no natural predators they are threatened by human poaching. The elephant population once reached the millions but now it stays in between the 470,000-690,000. It is now a protected specie worldwide.
Bob tried asking what the thing was but no one answered for a while. Then King Nathan told him in a whisper “It is one of the Devils followers, they are what we must stop.” Bob started to get nervous after this but Bob was curious about what it done “But why did it stop instead of attacking us?” Bob asked. The King replied shortly “The Hinky punks. We never found out how but they ward off unwanted creatures.” One of the smaller ducks waddled out past the rock to check that the coast was clear and they set off again.
When nightime came they ate fish and took turns at keeping watch at for unwanted visitors. In the morning Bob heard a noise outside the tent and so he woke Rex. Rex woke one of the smaller ducks and the small duck poked his head out. He came back in and told Rex something. Then Rex told Bob
“Wake the king and Lizzie. It’s a follower.” Bob first woke Lizzie and then the king. He told them what happened and the king went to talk to Rex, again in a series of quacks and a bit of English.
On Saturday around 4:30 we went to Hamilton. We (Mum, Dad, Emma, Me and 2 of Mums friends) went to a place called The Cook for dinner and then mad our way to the Riverlea Theatre where we waited a while then went into the actual theatre part. Me and my sister had seats A1 and A2 so we were front row while the adults were 3 rows behind us.
We were watching a play called Chicago. A girl named Roxie had committed a murder and was sent to jail. During her time there she meets a whole lot of other woman who had also committed murder. She got 5000 dollars to pay a lawyer to win her trial. (She does end up not guilty although she is). My favourite character was a Hungarian girl who had only learnt to say ‘not guilty’ in English. I also liked most of the costumes especially the white ones that had sequins and feathers. I enjoyed it and i would recommend it to people 10+.
Fast facts
Two slices of bread. Cheese
After everyone was ready Bob and the ducks set off. They travelled in carriages that were pulled by hinkypunks (small animals that feed on worms and dirt). The ride was bumpy and they travelled for days. Bob ended up losing track of time, but after about 2 weeks of travelling over bumpy road the carriages stopped onto smooth road than stopped. The creatures and the ducks looked around. Bob did to. He could see nothing though until King Nathan told him to listen. Bob then noticed a faint buzzing noise interrupted by a gun shot noise. The hinkypunks trundled on further towards the noise.
When they were close enough to see the source of the noise they carriges stopped. Bob stood up but a duck pulled him down. Flames suddenly licked the rock they were behind and it was flown aside. Behind the rock stood a big monster. It was red and it towered over the rock and the carriages. It had two horns and its teeth were like knives. It reared up and then it bowed and walked away. Bob was confused but he didn’t mind not being eaten.
Belmont is coming up and I decided to try out for the Belmont debating team. On the first session we discussed topics, how to/what is an argument and Mr. Kerr’s 4 point formula. He also set us homework.
Mr Kerr gave us each a piece of folded paper. Each piece had a different speech topic written on it. We each had to prepare a speech on the topic we were given for next weeks practise. I got euthanasia. Some other speech topics were smoking and the Olympics.
We had a week to do this. I found the topic quite hard but I found out stuff like:
1) Sometimes religious people believe that suffering and pain is positive because it increases compassion, character and wisdom.
2) Euthanasia is when a person is really sick and a relation/friend/doctor puts them ‘to sleep’ like animals.
3) In most countries euthanasia is illegal
I enjoyed doing this even though it was hard (I probably won’t like presenting it though).
Bob felt as though he was soaring upwards towards the sky. He landed with a thud on (what he thought was) a soft cushion. As he stood up he relised he was standing on a cloud. Bob started to understand what the last word meant. Heaven. So Rex was a duck from heaven. Bob couldn’t believe it. He was in heaven but he wasn’t dead.
Rex ran off towards a large house that Bob hadn’t noticed yet. It had brght red bricks and pots of flowers on the balconies. The orange tiled roof was covered with singing doves and eagles. A cat sat on a wall nearby with a mouse on its head. Rex led Bob into the house and though a large set of oak doors. More flowers sat in the doorway on a large cabinet. Bob walked in and kept following Rex to a door painted bright yellow. When Bob walked in, a perfume smell hit him. It took him a while to get used to but Bob knew Rex was in a hurry so he helped Rex to pack a small bag and followed him to a large dining area that was crammed with more ducks. Some of the ducks were huge and others could fit on Bobs pinky finger. Rex introduced some ducks to Bob. While Rex was introducing Bob to Chiefess Lizzie Bob noticed a sound and bangs coming from a nearby door. Wanting to investgate Bob sneaked away from Rex to open the door. But before he could get his hand on the doorknob Elizabeth Barthony (a judge duck) grabbed his arm. “You don’t want to go through there, Bob” she said. “Well if I can’t go through there,”said Bob “you can tell me.” “Fine,” began Elizabeth”through that door is something worse than death. Its worse than anything you could imagine. Bob, through that door is a place we call hell.” Bob started to inturupt but Elizabeth plouged on “A evil spirit called the Devil lives through there. He controls that world. You don’t want to go there once you die. Even ask King Nathen. He once went to hell for an important meeting with the Devil.” King Nathan was a good duck and so Bob knew that Elizabeth was telling the truth.
