Waitangi Day

 Every year on the 6th of February, New Zealand celebrates a very important day known as… “Waitangi Day” This is the day that signifies a very crucial day of New Zealand’s history. 

On the 6th of February 1840, the treaty of waitangi was signed. This event took place in the Bay Of Islands, and consisted of over 500 Maori chiefs and 13 women that signed the treaty. Unfortunately there was a problem with the translation of the treaty. Henry Williams with the help of his son Edward. Could not translate the english side of the treaty  into Maori, creating a few words that had a different definition than what they were supposed to have. 

On the other hand the british were more than happy that the treaty was signed, as it was an important day for them as well. It was the day of ‘the declaration of british sovereignty’. This meant that Maori were safe from the pakeha taking over their land… But obviously it didn’t, as many years later we began to see the pakeha taking Maori land .

Which is why people have split opinions about celebrating the treaty of waitangi. For example, one person in particular, Paul Holmes has a whole article on the New Zealand Herald saying that Waitangi day is “repugnant”. Repugnant meaning a waste of time, and also he stated the waitangi day seems to bring out the rudeness in people, and also violence.

In contrast to why people shouldn't celebrate waitangi day. There are alot of people who see this day as an important day of New Zealand’s history. For example, it is a day to remember the declaration of the british sovereignty. This means that New Zealand is being protected by british, becoming a british colony, hence the union jack in the top left of the New Zealand flag.

But, despite everything that has been stated. I personally believe that waitangi day will always be an important day, because it helped New Zealand advance in the world, and because it means that, waitangi day was the day that New Zealand had protection.

Should we learn about waitangi day in school? Of course because as previously stated, it is a very crucial day to New Zealand.

Culture Identity

 Equality and equity are two different things. The difference from equality to equity is, giving everyone the same treatment despite what they actually require, and it works vice versa with the definition of equity.

Last Friday, Akomanga Kaihanga went on a journey in small groups to find places, and art pieces that represent culture identity or culture practices. This trip was really interesting, because one of the locations my group visited was the catholic cemetery. During our visit at the cemetery, we learned that catholic people believe they should keep the bodies of people who have passed away close. Because they think that they can be resurrected… 

Another place we visited was an old Maori house on Fenchurch. This house that we visited was a very important house to the residents, because that house has been through generations. 

In contrast to the previous locations, there were a few places that we visited that didn’t show culture identity, or culture practices. Like an empty street that had Zero representation of culture, it was really sad because I know that there are pacific islanders that stayed on those streets. 

But anyways, I believe that there are multiple ways to help the community embrace their culture, such as. Painting pictures, or taking photos of people in their culture clothing. Or the most simplest idea… Hanging up flags.

Gratitude

Over the course of a few weeks, our health class has

been focusing on gratitude and how it can benefit us in

multiple ways both mentally and spiritually.

It takes time to learn and master it, but it’s also easy and takes only 5-10 minutes to do, and it can make you happier and a better person. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen so you can write down what you are grateful for. This can help you if you’re feeling sad or stressed.

It also would help if you have a jar or a container so you can

put these pieces of paper inside them to reflect on each time

you feel sad, and if you can keep this up daily then you’ll master

gratitude in no time. The whole objective of this task is to keep our

minds calm and refreshed so we can be a happier person.

This helped me because I was able to write down what I was

grateful for: My Family, Being alive, and I was grateful for food.

After I had finished writing those things down I my shoulders felt lighter,

meaning I was in a better and happy mood.

SOS Homework

Lockdown. It’s really challenging for many reasons. But it has its positives.
One it’s really relaxing and enjoyable but also… Boring.
This lockdown is boring due to the fact that we can not be within a radius of
Two meters of another person when out in public or else we’ll probably
receive a fine.

During this lockdown we need to keep ourselves safe from COVID-19,
we can all do this by practicing social distancing. By doing this we can
assure that we have the lowest chances of catching the virus even if we
are out in public...

Even though we need to go and fetch the essentials we need to make
sure that we are using hand sanitizer in and out of the home. This is to
make sure that the germs on your hands get killed and cease to grow. 

Hey, if you’ve made it this far thanks for reading and please take this
“Lockdown” seriously, it’s not a joke. Thanks!!

Doncorn

Kia ora. I’m Poiva, and I am a part of an amazing project team called “Team Doncorns”.
The team members in the group are Maya, Mafi, Kingston,  Jaylim, Tata and I.

Our group is aiming to raise the awareness of domestic violence,
due to it tying in with drugs and alcohol.

We are hosting a family-friendly event at Maybury reserve called
“Maybury Royale”. There is going to be a barbeque for free so come along and grab a
feed, hang out with friends and also bring a bike because there is a bike repair shop
called “Bike Hub”.Moving aside from the free food and bikes, we hope to influence the
family that is heavily abusive and addicted to drugs and alcohol.
As of right now, I’m feeling anxious as to what the outcome will be and how it’ll look.
I hope it’s going to be a great, positive and amazing change to all families in G.I. 

Just last week we held the event and let me tell you. It. Was.
Amazing. We counted the total number of people that attended the event and
forgot the number but it was more than Thirty people don’t worry it wasn’t a Ten to
Fifteen people event. Although  I feel as if our project is working because people from
the previous week came back to enjoy the event, food and most importantly the day. 

Urgent Notice:

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID 19), the Maybury Royale will be postponed to a later date,
NOT CANCELED. We’ll get more information about when this Final event can commence.
Until we get confirmation from our advisors the event will be paused… 

Mental Math (2)

Again. This morning I did "Mental Math (2)" and in this task I had to answer the questions provided by this website. This website has a range of questions to offer. Before you say that I cheated the answer is "673". I found this task hard because I had sometines figure out division all the way in the hundereds. 

Thanks for reading if you want to give the game a try then click HERE. 

Khan Academy

This morning I did "Khan Academy" in this task I had to figure out which graph fits the most in the situation.

This task was easy because I knew what each graph does.