Ladies and gentlemen, this is New Zealand 85
One, two, three, four, five
Everybody in the car so come on let’s ride
To Steward Island around the corner,
The boys say they want some fish and chips
From Franz Josef Glacier
I must stay deep ´cause talk is a cheap
I like Napier, Dunedin, Gibson, and Bluff
And as I continue you know they’re getting´ tough
So what can I do I really beg you my Bulls
To me Hawks Bay´´ it’s just like Taupo
Anything fly it’s all good let me dump it
Please set in the trumpetA little bit of Cooks Strait in my life
A little bit of Westport by my side
A little bit of Wellsford is all I need
A little bit of Hanmer is what I see
A little bit of Wairoa in the sun
A little bit of Lower Hut all night long
A little bit of Whakatane here I am
A little bit of Wellington makes me you’re man
New Zealand 85
Dive up and down and travel all around
Drive to Paraparaumu and Hunterville
Take one step North and one South One to the West and one to the East
Make your way to Hokianga Harbour
And if it looks like this then you doing it right
A little bit of Hastings in my life
A little bit of Tokoroa by my side
A little bit of Rakaia is all I need
A little bit of Haast is what I see
A little bit of Te kaha in the sun
A little bit of Twizel all night long
A little bit of Masterton here I am
A little bit of Wanganui makes me you´re man
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Good Or not.
Is it good beauty?
Beauty is Sold to you
Here are some comments i found
Tasha: Hi. I'm a 14 year old girl with a low self-esteem. After seeing the advert i couldn't believe how much i could relate to it. There's so much pressure to be beautiful and skinny. I have been bullied many times (and still am) for being ugly and smart so i think what doves doing is really great:)
Guest: hey.i know this self esteem site is about how you feel about how you look but i have problems with whats on the inside.i think im a good looking girl but i dont think i have a personality that anyone will want to know.i hvae no problems with how i look but,stupid as its sounds, i dont think im a person worth knowing.i dont feel i have an impact on anyones life and my confidence in myself is rock bottom.do i sound stupid?
Daniela Hooper: It is rare, in our world to see that real beauty is in fact the real thing, and what we should be proud of at all times. As a normal girl, I have always been influenced by the media, magazines, and theyre potrays of what beauty is. The truth is, thats how beauty sells.What beauty is, is something that they dont know about. Something that lies within every women, every soul. It is the fact that you can be beautiful, by being yourself. Love youself, your inner self and with that comes outside beauty as well. That is what I can see when I watch the DOVE ads, and that is the truth.THANK you for realizing.
_-Sammy-_: When I saw the advert I was shocked how it was like meAll my life I thought I was fat and ugly and people told me that.After seeing the advert I realised that there is beauty in me and I should ignore what everyone else says.My Boyfriend said "See even they say your beautiful!"Aww bless Him Sammy
Beauty is Sold to you
Here are some comments i found
Tasha: Hi. I'm a 14 year old girl with a low self-esteem. After seeing the advert i couldn't believe how much i could relate to it. There's so much pressure to be beautiful and skinny. I have been bullied many times (and still am) for being ugly and smart so i think what doves doing is really great:)
Guest: hey.i know this self esteem site is about how you feel about how you look but i have problems with whats on the inside.i think im a good looking girl but i dont think i have a personality that anyone will want to know.i hvae no problems with how i look but,stupid as its sounds, i dont think im a person worth knowing.i dont feel i have an impact on anyones life and my confidence in myself is rock bottom.do i sound stupid?
Daniela Hooper: It is rare, in our world to see that real beauty is in fact the real thing, and what we should be proud of at all times. As a normal girl, I have always been influenced by the media, magazines, and theyre potrays of what beauty is. The truth is, thats how beauty sells.What beauty is, is something that they dont know about. Something that lies within every women, every soul. It is the fact that you can be beautiful, by being yourself. Love youself, your inner self and with that comes outside beauty as well. That is what I can see when I watch the DOVE ads, and that is the truth.THANK you for realizing.
_-Sammy-_: When I saw the advert I was shocked how it was like meAll my life I thought I was fat and ugly and people told me that.After seeing the advert I realised that there is beauty in me and I should ignore what everyone else says.My Boyfriend said "See even they say your beautiful!"Aww bless Him Sammy
Beauty
How do you define "beauty"? Double eyelids? Almond-shaped eyes? Wrinkle-free complexion? Different people have different yardsticks for measuring "beauty". In this website, a group of researchers went about studying the faces of the people around before coming up with a prototype of a face that is "attractive" and another prototype of a face that is "unattractive". So how do they look like? What are the features that defines a "pretty face"? Well, the answer according to them is below.(Although I am talking about females, this picture is posted for those who are interested in the results of the study for males)Do you agree with them? You can navigate around their website if you want to know more about their research project.According to a study commissioned by Dove, most Asian women are content with their looks with the exception of Japan where more than half of them are not satisfied with how they look.Which feature do you think plays a great impact on defining how "beautiful" you are? For Singaporean women, it's the face and shape of eyes.Other interesting finds:
Fewer Than 3% of Women Call Themselves “Beautiful”
Singapore Women Near Bottom on Compliments (95 days on average since they were told they were beautiful)
There appears to be a strong relationship between happiness in other aspects of one's life, such as family and friends, and feeling beautiful.
What if you don't have any of those features listed in the "attractive face" picture? Are you still satisfied with your looks? You can visit Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty and find that there are millions of girls out there who share the same sentiment as you. If you are feeling generous, you can even donate to The Dove Self-Esteem Fund. The fund aims to teach and show girls a wider definition of "beauty". Here's a commercial on bodily characteristics that girls are concerned about.
Fewer Than 3% of Women Call Themselves “Beautiful”
Singapore Women Near Bottom on Compliments (95 days on average since they were told they were beautiful)
There appears to be a strong relationship between happiness in other aspects of one's life, such as family and friends, and feeling beautiful.
What if you don't have any of those features listed in the "attractive face" picture? Are you still satisfied with your looks? You can visit Dove's Campaign For Real Beauty and find that there are millions of girls out there who share the same sentiment as you. If you are feeling generous, you can even donate to The Dove Self-Esteem Fund. The fund aims to teach and show girls a wider definition of "beauty". Here's a commercial on bodily characteristics that girls are concerned about.
Butter
When the fabricated food folks and apologists for the corporate farm realized that they couldn't block America's growing interest in diet and nutrition, a movement that would ultimately put an end to America's biggest and most monopolistic industries, they infiltrated the movement and put a few sinister twists on information going out to the public. Item number one in the disinformation campaign was the assertion that naturally saturated fats from animal sources are the root cause of the current heart disease and cancer plague. Butter bore the brunt of the attack, and was accused of terrible crimes. The Diet Dictocrats told us that it was better to switch to polyunsaturated margarine and most Americans did. Butter all but disappeared from our tables, shunned as a miscreant.
This would come as a surprise to many people around the globe who have valued butter for its life-sustaining properties for millennia. When Dr. Weston Price studied native diets in the 1930's he found that butter was a staple in the diets of many supremely healthy peoples.1 Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter. Arab groups also put a high value on butter, especially deep yellow-orange butter from livestock feeding on green grass in the spring and fall. American folk wisdom recognized that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and thin, with "pinched" faces.2
Does butter cause disease? On the contrary, butter protects us against many diseases.
Butter & Heart Disease
Heart disease was rare in America at the turn of the century. Between 1920 and 1960, the incidence of heart disease rose precipitously to become America's number one killer. During the same period butter consumption plummeted from eighteen pounds per person per year to four. It doesn't take a Ph.D. in statistics to conclude that butter is not a cause. Actually butter contains many nutrients that protect us from heart disease. First among these is vitamin A which is needed for the health of the thyroid and adrenal glands, both of which play a role in maintaining the proper functioning of the heart and cardiovascular system. Abnormalities of the heart and larger blood vessels occur in babies born to vitamin A deficient mothers. Butter is America's best and most easily absorbed source of vitamin A.
Butter contains lecithin, a substance that assists in the proper assimilation and metabolism of cholesterol and other fat constituents.
Butter also contains a number of anti-oxidants that protect against the kind of free radical damage that weakens the arteries. Vitamin A and vitamin E found in butter both play a strong anti-oxidant role. Butter is a very rich source of selenium, a vital anti-oxidant--containing more per gram than herring or wheat germ.
Butter is also a good dietary source cholesterol. What?? Cholesterol an anti-oxidant?? Yes indeed, cholesterol is a potent anti-oxidant that is flooded into the blood when we take in too many harmful free-radicals--usually from damaged and rancid fats in margarine and highly processed vegetable oils. A Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using margarine.
Butter & Cancer
In the 1940's research indicated that increased fat intake caused cancer. The abandonment of butter accelerated; margarine--formerly a poor man's food-- was accepted by the well-to-do. But there was a small problem with the way this research was presented to the public. The popular press neglected to stress that fact that the "saturated" fats used in these experiments were not naturally saturated fats but partially hydrogenated or hardened fats--the kind found mostly in margarine but not in butter. Researchers stated--they may have even believed it--that there was no difference between naturally saturated fats in butter and artificially hardened fats in margarine and shortening. So butter was tarred with the black brush of the fabricated fats, and in such a way that the villains got passed off as heroes.
Actually many of the saturated fats in butter have strong anti-cancer properties. Butter is rich in short and medium chain fatty acid chains that have strong anti-tumor effects. Butter also contains conjugated linoleic acid which gives excellent protection against cancer.
Vitamin A and the anti-oxidants in butter--vitamin E, selenium and cholesterol--protect against cancer as well as heart disease.
Butter & the Immune System
Vitamin A found in butter is essential to a healthy immune system; short and medium chain fatty acids also have immune system strengthening properties. But hydrogenated fats and an excess of long chain fatty acids found in polyunsaturated oils and many butter substitutes both have a deleterious effect on the immune system.
Butter & Arthritis
The Wulzen or "anti-stiffness" factor is a nutrient unique to butter. Dutch researcher Wulzen found that it protects against calcification of the joints--degenerative arthritis--as well as hardening of the arteries, cataracts and calcification of the pineal gland. Unfortunately this vital substance is destroyed during pasteurization. Calves fed pasteurized milk or skim milk develop joint stiffness and do not thrive. Their symptoms are reversed when raw butterfat is added to the diet.
Butter & Osteoporosis
Vitamins A and D in butter are essential to the proper absorption of calcium and hence necessary for strong bones and teeth. The plague of osteoporosis in milk-drinking western nations may be due to the fact that most people choose skim milk over whole, thinking it is good for them. Butter also has anti-cariogenic effects, that is, it protects against tooth decay.
Butter & the Thyroid Gland
Butter is a good source of iodine, in highly absorbable form. Butter consumption prevents goiter in mountainous areas where seafood is not available. In addition, vitamin A in butter is essential for proper functioning of the thyroid gland.
Butter & Gastrointestinal Health
Butterfat contains glycospingolipids, a special category of fatty acids that protect against gastro-intestinal infection, especially in the very young and the elderly. For this reason, children who drink skim milk have diarrhea at rates three to five times greater than children who drink whole milk. Cholesterol in butterfat promotes health of the intestinal wall and protects against cancer of the colon. Short and medium chain fatty acids protect against pathogens and have strong anti-fungal effects. Butter thus has an important role to play in the treatment of candida overgrowth.
Butter & Weight Gain
The notion that butter causes weight gain is a sad misconception. The short and medium chain fatty acids in butter are not stored in the adipose tissue, but are used for quick energy. Fat tissue in humans is composed mainly of longer chain fatty acids. These come from olive oil and polyunsaturated oils as well as from refined carbohydrates. Because butter is rich in nutrients, it confers a feeling of satisfaction when consumed. Can it be that consumption of margarine and other butter substitutes results in cravings and bingeing because these highly fabricated products don't give the body what it needs?.
Butter for Growth & Development
Many factors in butter ensure optimal growth of children. Chief among them is vitamin A. Individuals who have been deprived of sufficient vitamin A during gestation tend to have narrow faces and skeletal structure, small palates and crowded teeth. Extreme vitamin A deprivation results in blindness, skeletal problems and other birth defects. Individuals receiving optimal vitamin A from the time of conception have broad handsome faces, strong straight teeth, and excellent bone structure. Vitamin A also plays an important role in the development of the sex characteristics. Calves fed butter substitutes sicken and die before reaching maturity.
This would come as a surprise to many people around the globe who have valued butter for its life-sustaining properties for millennia. When Dr. Weston Price studied native diets in the 1930's he found that butter was a staple in the diets of many supremely healthy peoples.1 Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter. Arab groups also put a high value on butter, especially deep yellow-orange butter from livestock feeding on green grass in the spring and fall. American folk wisdom recognized that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and thin, with "pinched" faces.2
Does butter cause disease? On the contrary, butter protects us against many diseases.
Butter & Heart Disease
Heart disease was rare in America at the turn of the century. Between 1920 and 1960, the incidence of heart disease rose precipitously to become America's number one killer. During the same period butter consumption plummeted from eighteen pounds per person per year to four. It doesn't take a Ph.D. in statistics to conclude that butter is not a cause. Actually butter contains many nutrients that protect us from heart disease. First among these is vitamin A which is needed for the health of the thyroid and adrenal glands, both of which play a role in maintaining the proper functioning of the heart and cardiovascular system. Abnormalities of the heart and larger blood vessels occur in babies born to vitamin A deficient mothers. Butter is America's best and most easily absorbed source of vitamin A.
Butter contains lecithin, a substance that assists in the proper assimilation and metabolism of cholesterol and other fat constituents.
Butter also contains a number of anti-oxidants that protect against the kind of free radical damage that weakens the arteries. Vitamin A and vitamin E found in butter both play a strong anti-oxidant role. Butter is a very rich source of selenium, a vital anti-oxidant--containing more per gram than herring or wheat germ.
Butter is also a good dietary source cholesterol. What?? Cholesterol an anti-oxidant?? Yes indeed, cholesterol is a potent anti-oxidant that is flooded into the blood when we take in too many harmful free-radicals--usually from damaged and rancid fats in margarine and highly processed vegetable oils. A Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using margarine.
Butter & Cancer
In the 1940's research indicated that increased fat intake caused cancer. The abandonment of butter accelerated; margarine--formerly a poor man's food-- was accepted by the well-to-do. But there was a small problem with the way this research was presented to the public. The popular press neglected to stress that fact that the "saturated" fats used in these experiments were not naturally saturated fats but partially hydrogenated or hardened fats--the kind found mostly in margarine but not in butter. Researchers stated--they may have even believed it--that there was no difference between naturally saturated fats in butter and artificially hardened fats in margarine and shortening. So butter was tarred with the black brush of the fabricated fats, and in such a way that the villains got passed off as heroes.
Actually many of the saturated fats in butter have strong anti-cancer properties. Butter is rich in short and medium chain fatty acid chains that have strong anti-tumor effects. Butter also contains conjugated linoleic acid which gives excellent protection against cancer.
Vitamin A and the anti-oxidants in butter--vitamin E, selenium and cholesterol--protect against cancer as well as heart disease.
Butter & the Immune System
Vitamin A found in butter is essential to a healthy immune system; short and medium chain fatty acids also have immune system strengthening properties. But hydrogenated fats and an excess of long chain fatty acids found in polyunsaturated oils and many butter substitutes both have a deleterious effect on the immune system.
Butter & Arthritis
The Wulzen or "anti-stiffness" factor is a nutrient unique to butter. Dutch researcher Wulzen found that it protects against calcification of the joints--degenerative arthritis--as well as hardening of the arteries, cataracts and calcification of the pineal gland. Unfortunately this vital substance is destroyed during pasteurization. Calves fed pasteurized milk or skim milk develop joint stiffness and do not thrive. Their symptoms are reversed when raw butterfat is added to the diet.
Butter & Osteoporosis
Vitamins A and D in butter are essential to the proper absorption of calcium and hence necessary for strong bones and teeth. The plague of osteoporosis in milk-drinking western nations may be due to the fact that most people choose skim milk over whole, thinking it is good for them. Butter also has anti-cariogenic effects, that is, it protects against tooth decay.
Butter & the Thyroid Gland
Butter is a good source of iodine, in highly absorbable form. Butter consumption prevents goiter in mountainous areas where seafood is not available. In addition, vitamin A in butter is essential for proper functioning of the thyroid gland.
Butter & Gastrointestinal Health
Butterfat contains glycospingolipids, a special category of fatty acids that protect against gastro-intestinal infection, especially in the very young and the elderly. For this reason, children who drink skim milk have diarrhea at rates three to five times greater than children who drink whole milk. Cholesterol in butterfat promotes health of the intestinal wall and protects against cancer of the colon. Short and medium chain fatty acids protect against pathogens and have strong anti-fungal effects. Butter thus has an important role to play in the treatment of candida overgrowth.
Butter & Weight Gain
The notion that butter causes weight gain is a sad misconception. The short and medium chain fatty acids in butter are not stored in the adipose tissue, but are used for quick energy. Fat tissue in humans is composed mainly of longer chain fatty acids. These come from olive oil and polyunsaturated oils as well as from refined carbohydrates. Because butter is rich in nutrients, it confers a feeling of satisfaction when consumed. Can it be that consumption of margarine and other butter substitutes results in cravings and bingeing because these highly fabricated products don't give the body what it needs?.
Butter for Growth & Development
Many factors in butter ensure optimal growth of children. Chief among them is vitamin A. Individuals who have been deprived of sufficient vitamin A during gestation tend to have narrow faces and skeletal structure, small palates and crowded teeth. Extreme vitamin A deprivation results in blindness, skeletal problems and other birth defects. Individuals receiving optimal vitamin A from the time of conception have broad handsome faces, strong straight teeth, and excellent bone structure. Vitamin A also plays an important role in the development of the sex characteristics. Calves fed butter substitutes sicken and die before reaching maturity.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Car/Marine
Bellissimo Choir
Whangaparaoa College choir Bellissimo is going to Hawaii march 2009. There are 20 people in the choir trying to get over there. Each member needs around $4,500 so we are busy fundraising now. Each member must come up with $2,000 themselves, then the whole choir is trying to get the rest it will be a lot of hard work.
June 21st Bellissimo is having a Car/Marine Fair going from 10am till 2pm, at Whangaparaoa College car park. It’s a chance to have a look around at boats or cars while your car gets washed by the choir. It’s a donation carwash and there will be a sausage sizzle on as well.
Its $10 per car space to place a booking call 0276369667, if you are wishing to sell are car or boat!.
Please come along!
Whangaparaoa College choir Bellissimo is going to Hawaii march 2009. There are 20 people in the choir trying to get over there. Each member needs around $4,500 so we are busy fundraising now. Each member must come up with $2,000 themselves, then the whole choir is trying to get the rest it will be a lot of hard work.
June 21st Bellissimo is having a Car/Marine Fair going from 10am till 2pm, at Whangaparaoa College car park. It’s a chance to have a look around at boats or cars while your car gets washed by the choir. It’s a donation carwash and there will be a sausage sizzle on as well.
Its $10 per car space to place a booking call 0276369667, if you are wishing to sell are car or boat!.
Please come along!
Chocolate!
Chocolate
You may wonder why I have decided to write about such a weird topic, but it is because I love it, and I’m eating some now (piggy).
It used to be that the chocolate you would eat was only dark chocolate, which I do not fancy much. Now days you can get a much wider range. There is milk chocolate, white chocolate, three wishes (Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate), Top deck (Milk chocolate, and White chocolate), there is mint chip, caramello, black forest, and fruit nut. There are also many more. My favourite type of chocolate is Lindor it’s so nice, but also expensive. I normally only eat Cadbury, they have a great range. I used to like black forest, but now I just like simple dairy milk chocolate
All the chocolate we eat comes from one rather special plant—the cacao (kah KOW) tree. These trees produce pods containing pulp-covered seeds. The seeds, once fermented and dried, are processed into chocolate.
A cacao pod contains about 30-50 almond-sized seeds—enough to make about seven milk chocolate candy bars!
Many candies and desserts contain chocolate. People often give chocolate as a gift on holidays such as Valentine's Day and Halloween
I think everyone should enjoy chocolate. A lot of effort is put into it.
You may wonder why I have decided to write about such a weird topic, but it is because I love it, and I’m eating some now (piggy).
It used to be that the chocolate you would eat was only dark chocolate, which I do not fancy much. Now days you can get a much wider range. There is milk chocolate, white chocolate, three wishes (Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate), Top deck (Milk chocolate, and White chocolate), there is mint chip, caramello, black forest, and fruit nut. There are also many more. My favourite type of chocolate is Lindor it’s so nice, but also expensive. I normally only eat Cadbury, they have a great range. I used to like black forest, but now I just like simple dairy milk chocolate
All the chocolate we eat comes from one rather special plant—the cacao (kah KOW) tree. These trees produce pods containing pulp-covered seeds. The seeds, once fermented and dried, are processed into chocolate.
A cacao pod contains about 30-50 almond-sized seeds—enough to make about seven milk chocolate candy bars!
Many candies and desserts contain chocolate. People often give chocolate as a gift on holidays such as Valentine's Day and Halloween
I think everyone should enjoy chocolate. A lot of effort is put into it.
Whangaparaoa in the future
Whangaparaoa in the future! Stephanie Thompson
Whangaparaoa has transformed from a lovely homely place, to one of devastation, no building before me stood strong. They are piles of rubble, chunks of metal and gigantic holes in the ground. Lampposts are strewn around; they lie limp like dead snakes. Wood and brick are scatted everywhere you look.
This is not the Whangaparaoa coast that I remember. As I walk slowly up the unsteady road, memories fly back to me. I ran up this road on hot sunny days to be home in time for my favourite TV program, and the smell of mum’s home cooking hitting me as I reach the front door. I snap back from my memories with a bang, I have almost walked into a gigantic ditch. Walking carefully around I look up toward a place I once new very well. My home. Gradually, I make my way up the unstable front steps. This was once the house I had lived in for most of my life, until the event which caused all this destruction and forced my family to leave. Tears begin to swell up in my eyes, this, is where I was once happy, when my life was good. Once again the memories flooded back, this time the memory is not a happy one.
10 years earlier…
Bang! I heard someone shot a little was off; who is it? I wonder where my family is. I crawled out from my hiding place underneath some old stairs; they would not hold up for much longer. I run out into the windy rain, white cold things landed on my bear skin I looked up in amazement, could it be? Yes, it was. White snow tumbled from the darkened sky. Never before had this happened. Wind twirled around me chilling me to the bone, the trees were like string blowing in the wind. This was not good, and it was only going to get worse. There was a Crash, I spun around and there flying toward me was a massive wave, I knew there was no way I could out run it. My heart pounded in my chest as I looked around. There was no one in sight. I sprinted toward the nearest house. I threw open the door and the wind slammed it shut just as I slipped in. I needed to find a secure place. I run into the basement. There huddled in the corner was a small boy about the age of three, tears streaming down his face. “Hey, are you okay?” I ask him kindly “where are your parents?” he did not answer. Knowing I had no time I ran down to him pulled him into my arms and hurried towards a secure looking corner. I cover him with my body, as the house starts to shake. I hit my head ageist the wall and become unconscious. It has all happened so fast, just a few days ago I was sitting and relaxing in the sun. News reports had said we were expecting bad weather but not this bad, it was snowing? It never snowed this far north. We had entered the end of the world. And all because of greedy people in our world that take advantage of what we have, ignoring all the signals, all the warnings. This is where we all end up. Without hope, we have no power or say in what we think I right, because we would be fighting with some of the most powerful people in the world.
I awoke to a small voice and little hand pushing me. “Wake up!” it said I opened my eyes and there was the little boy sitting there next to me. I sat up and looked around. Water, we were sitting in about 4 inches of it, and it was rising fast. I realise we have to get out or we will drown. I grab the boy and start to make my way up the stairs; it’s a tough battle because the stairs are like a waterfall, the wet salty water coming down fast, it’s hard to find out where to put my feet. I make it out. I carry the boy out of the house, wading though waist high water. We must find safety. I feel something brush against me, I look down to find a young girls body up turned floating past. I look away in horror. The boy sees it and hugs me tighter. The adrenalin rushes through my body, and I keep moving. Suddenly the ground underneath me begins to shake. A great crack begins to appear a little way off. They water around me begins to drain away. EARTHQUAKE! Someone yells. I lose my footing, and fall to the ground. Although I can still breathe the little boy cannot, and he slips from my arms. Terror runs through me, I must save him. He is pulled away by a current. “Help!” he cried in panic “help me please”. I trudge after him, but the water holds me firm, it does not wish me to save the boy. “Find something to hold onto!” I shout but he did not hear me for he has been pulled under water. I am pulled under the water after him. I would rather save his life then my own. I open my eyes to try see him, the salt water stings. There he is floating just a little way off. I reach out my arm, using every last gasp of air and the last of my strength I through myself forward. This water will not defeat me. My fingers grasp around his small delicate arms. He does not move. I pull him close, and kick off from the ground. Air fills my lungs as we break away from the waters grip. I pull him up onto the safe ground. His body hangs lifeless and limp. There is a smile upon his small innocent face, as if he was happy just a few minutes before death. Tears pore down my cheeks, and running off the end of my nose. How can god be real, if he is willing to sacrifice such a young boy?
Real life...
My heart pounds in my chest as if it’s a drum. Why had no one seen it coming? Why was it that so many people should die?
10 years ago from today that poor boy died, just like the millions of others, there was a mass disaster caused by global warming. Countries such as Mexico, and America where hit the worst, but we in Whangaparaoa where hit terribly.One million people died from New Zealand. The world was hit by a series of earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, and temperature change. On one was ready or prepared for such devastation. Now the saviours have been evacuated to Antarctica, though it has melted so much that there is not enough room for everyone to live there, we are forced to live in slum condition. Nowhere else is fit to live, and there is no technology or development our only recourses are the ones around us. It was a terrible even which caused over three quarters of the world population to die. The way that the world lives now it a horrible state. It could have been avoided, there were signs, warnings but no one took notice until it was far too late. May we regroup and rebuild. Mankind may be no more.
I stand up, although there is much more for me to see, I must get back to the boats, before I get stuck here forever. I walk with a heavy heart back to meet all the other saviours.
The end.
Whangaparaoa has transformed from a lovely homely place, to one of devastation, no building before me stood strong. They are piles of rubble, chunks of metal and gigantic holes in the ground. Lampposts are strewn around; they lie limp like dead snakes. Wood and brick are scatted everywhere you look.
This is not the Whangaparaoa coast that I remember. As I walk slowly up the unsteady road, memories fly back to me. I ran up this road on hot sunny days to be home in time for my favourite TV program, and the smell of mum’s home cooking hitting me as I reach the front door. I snap back from my memories with a bang, I have almost walked into a gigantic ditch. Walking carefully around I look up toward a place I once new very well. My home. Gradually, I make my way up the unstable front steps. This was once the house I had lived in for most of my life, until the event which caused all this destruction and forced my family to leave. Tears begin to swell up in my eyes, this, is where I was once happy, when my life was good. Once again the memories flooded back, this time the memory is not a happy one.
10 years earlier…
Bang! I heard someone shot a little was off; who is it? I wonder where my family is. I crawled out from my hiding place underneath some old stairs; they would not hold up for much longer. I run out into the windy rain, white cold things landed on my bear skin I looked up in amazement, could it be? Yes, it was. White snow tumbled from the darkened sky. Never before had this happened. Wind twirled around me chilling me to the bone, the trees were like string blowing in the wind. This was not good, and it was only going to get worse. There was a Crash, I spun around and there flying toward me was a massive wave, I knew there was no way I could out run it. My heart pounded in my chest as I looked around. There was no one in sight. I sprinted toward the nearest house. I threw open the door and the wind slammed it shut just as I slipped in. I needed to find a secure place. I run into the basement. There huddled in the corner was a small boy about the age of three, tears streaming down his face. “Hey, are you okay?” I ask him kindly “where are your parents?” he did not answer. Knowing I had no time I ran down to him pulled him into my arms and hurried towards a secure looking corner. I cover him with my body, as the house starts to shake. I hit my head ageist the wall and become unconscious. It has all happened so fast, just a few days ago I was sitting and relaxing in the sun. News reports had said we were expecting bad weather but not this bad, it was snowing? It never snowed this far north. We had entered the end of the world. And all because of greedy people in our world that take advantage of what we have, ignoring all the signals, all the warnings. This is where we all end up. Without hope, we have no power or say in what we think I right, because we would be fighting with some of the most powerful people in the world.
I awoke to a small voice and little hand pushing me. “Wake up!” it said I opened my eyes and there was the little boy sitting there next to me. I sat up and looked around. Water, we were sitting in about 4 inches of it, and it was rising fast. I realise we have to get out or we will drown. I grab the boy and start to make my way up the stairs; it’s a tough battle because the stairs are like a waterfall, the wet salty water coming down fast, it’s hard to find out where to put my feet. I make it out. I carry the boy out of the house, wading though waist high water. We must find safety. I feel something brush against me, I look down to find a young girls body up turned floating past. I look away in horror. The boy sees it and hugs me tighter. The adrenalin rushes through my body, and I keep moving. Suddenly the ground underneath me begins to shake. A great crack begins to appear a little way off. They water around me begins to drain away. EARTHQUAKE! Someone yells. I lose my footing, and fall to the ground. Although I can still breathe the little boy cannot, and he slips from my arms. Terror runs through me, I must save him. He is pulled away by a current. “Help!” he cried in panic “help me please”. I trudge after him, but the water holds me firm, it does not wish me to save the boy. “Find something to hold onto!” I shout but he did not hear me for he has been pulled under water. I am pulled under the water after him. I would rather save his life then my own. I open my eyes to try see him, the salt water stings. There he is floating just a little way off. I reach out my arm, using every last gasp of air and the last of my strength I through myself forward. This water will not defeat me. My fingers grasp around his small delicate arms. He does not move. I pull him close, and kick off from the ground. Air fills my lungs as we break away from the waters grip. I pull him up onto the safe ground. His body hangs lifeless and limp. There is a smile upon his small innocent face, as if he was happy just a few minutes before death. Tears pore down my cheeks, and running off the end of my nose. How can god be real, if he is willing to sacrifice such a young boy?
Real life...
My heart pounds in my chest as if it’s a drum. Why had no one seen it coming? Why was it that so many people should die?
10 years ago from today that poor boy died, just like the millions of others, there was a mass disaster caused by global warming. Countries such as Mexico, and America where hit the worst, but we in Whangaparaoa where hit terribly.One million people died from New Zealand. The world was hit by a series of earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, and temperature change. On one was ready or prepared for such devastation. Now the saviours have been evacuated to Antarctica, though it has melted so much that there is not enough room for everyone to live there, we are forced to live in slum condition. Nowhere else is fit to live, and there is no technology or development our only recourses are the ones around us. It was a terrible even which caused over three quarters of the world population to die. The way that the world lives now it a horrible state. It could have been avoided, there were signs, warnings but no one took notice until it was far too late. May we regroup and rebuild. Mankind may be no more.
I stand up, although there is much more for me to see, I must get back to the boats, before I get stuck here forever. I walk with a heavy heart back to meet all the other saviours.
The end.
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