The Matchbox Diaries

Hands and legs bumping into mine irritates me. Snores and yawns fill my head with anger. The odour of sweat flying around does not help at all, why can’t the boat just arrive already is it that complicated?

My patience is running out, along with my energy. This is unfair! Why can’t I go home already. The only thing I have is a empty matchbox. I can probably put a button in there or maybe my olive stone. Hey! Maybe this empty matchbox might have a use after all.

Adults War and Children Die

For reading we looked into the continuous war between Israel and Gaza. The poem “Adults War & Children Die” has a deep meaning to it. It tells us about ongoing destruction and children dying because of the Adults going to war. We do not know the writer of the poem but the poem was shared by Tomo Roberts.

The Google Draw underneath the poem is about a famous street artist named “Banksy”.  He has done lots of art pieces with deep meanings, one of his paintings is relevant to today. 2 young innocent kids behind barbed wires and being held hostage because of their differences just like Israel and Palestine today.

Ballet in a Box

Have you ever wanted to experience a live ballet performance once or twice in your life? Well The whole of St Patricks did and Guess what? It was free. When we sat down we were all bored, very bored. While we were waiting a group of kids gathered around and played “So Maka Lo”. Next thing you know, the whole of saint pats joined in!

The sound of kids singing very joyfully and loudly distracted me from noticing the doors opening. The light around me faded away as I was walking inside the theatre, the big and spacious theatre. As the workers assigned every schools seats, the lights suddenly went off. Instead of everyone simmering down when the curtains were pulled back, everyone started cheering and clapping with excitement. The 1st performance was about classical ballet, 2nd performance was contemporary ballet most of us recognised the dance since we did it too. The demonstration between classical ballet and contemporary ballet was amusing but my favourite performance was “The story of Ma Hina”.

The story of Ma Hina teaches us how to treat the evniroment around us properly. It’s also about romance. I really enjoyed watching a ballet show for the first time in my life! Which performance did you enjoy the most?

 

Emily/My Web Diagram

We each did our own Emily web design. We included the people we have met so far on Emily’s journey. Rating them one by one but in Emily’s view. Example the people that Emily finds important is right next to her which is the 1st web. The ones Emily love is close to her, 2nd web. People Emily dislikes are far away from her in the 3rd web.

Once we were done with Emily’s web, we designed our own web and rated the special people in our lives.