Perspective on banning plastic bags

Today in Social studies, I read an article about Simon bridges 

thinking the banning of plastic bags is a big distraction and 

won't make any difference. 

I definitely agree that it is a big distraction plus a waste of time.

Supermarkets are already making a difference by putting a price

to buying plastic bags and by banning it won't make that much

of a difference. It also makes more issues for the prime minister

while she already has enough on her shoulders. 

It will have an impact for New Zealanders because they'd have 

to buy Recycles bags for when they go shopping and this is a 

big impact because plastic bags are what most stores use in New

Zealand on an everyday basis.  This applies to Jacinda because 

every problem with the banning of plastic bags, she would have 

to deal with it. Even when she has a baby who is only a couple 

months old. 

Survivor BLOG Reflections

 

Survivor BLOG Reflections

What problems did you face? 

• Wondering how we would survive
• Making peace with new survivors on the island
• Thinking about all the solutions for our problems and seeing which one was best
• How we were going to respond to the pirates

How did you solve problems? 

• Debating on what we thought was best to survive 

Who made the decisions?

• Everyone in the group

Was their one person who made most of the decisions? If so why?

• Yes, because with one person in charge of the decisions then it wouldn't be much harder for the group. Since everyone might disagree with one another. 

How did you decide on who would be the leader?

• We thought about who can care for our well-beings, is kind and thoughtful to others and who knows best about surviving on the island. 

Why did we complete this task?

• To discuss with one another about all the decisions and it gives an example about our next subject, which is to do with the government. For example, being on an island means caring for one another, communicating, finding ways to survive and making sure everyone is fed. While being a government also means caring for your people and seeing which decisions are best for the country. As you can see, they both have some kind of connection with each other. 

Migration Model

In this migration model, explains why people migrate.

People migrate for either push and pull reasons. Push

reasons are reasons that are pushing them out of their

country to migrate somewhere else. Pull reasons are

reasons that lure the person into that country for better.

In this migration model I have done, shows how much

migrants who travel from Tokelau to New Zealand. As

you can see, the arrow on top is more thicker than the

arrow down bottom.This is because people migrate to

New Zealand more times than people migrate to Tokelau.

This is a pull reason because people migrate to New

Zealand from Tokelau because its for better education

and for a better life. A push reason in this scenario would

be leaving your family behind . This is why push reasons

have a negative impact while pull reasons have a positive

one.

Chocolate muffins - Cooking class

Today in Cooking class, my partner Ana and I made chocolate muffins. I did the cooking and she did the cleaning. The ingredients we needed were 1 1/2 of self rising flour, 1/2 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of oil , 1 egg, 1/4 cup of cocoa, chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence. I added all these ingredients in one bowl and mixed it altogether. I then put it inside the muffin trays and placed it in the oven. It was set to 180 degrees and left in there for 15 minutes. When it was done we added some chocolate sauce as toppings. In the end, it was very very sweet because there was so much chocolate sauce on it. But as you can see there's no picture to show what we did, but I bet if we did then it would make your mouth watery. :)

Cooking Class - Omelette

Today in Cooking class me and my partner made omelettes. The ingredients we used were eggs,cheese,bacon,purple onion and capsicum. First we mixed the eggs then diced the bacon,onion and capsicum into small tiny pieces. We then put oil into our pans and waited for it be hot. We placed the egg into the pan and put the diced pieces onto one side of the egg. Then we flipped the other side of the egg onto the diced pieces and waited for it to be done. In the end we had a bit of sides with it including lettuce, bbq sauce and mayo. 

Ana + Kuraia 

Climate change

In this google drawing, I have drawn a mountain with icicles and ice

melting. Since the climate is changing and becoming more hotter ,

the north and south pole are liquefying making the sea level rise higher.

This becomes a negative impact on small islands as well as islands

that are only metres above the sea. This will mean that there will be

more climate refugees travelling to different countries. Climate refugees

are people who move from their main home because of the differences

happening to the weather, this includes tsunamis,pollution,sand storms

,hurricanes etc. The sea level rising is only one impact caused from

climate change,just imagine how many more changes will happen in

the next few years coming.

A trip to remote Tokelau

Returning back to tokelau , I noticed the changes happening
around the sea as well as what's happening above me. It was
always pouring so I’d spend most of my time lying down looking
at my study books ,wondering how proud my family would be of
me. But then I realised that if it’s bad out at sea then how bad
would it be on land, wondering if my family's ok. I easily get motion
sickness so with all the rocking on the boat, it didn’t help at all .
My favourite part on the trip was when it hit dusk, everyone would
receive a hot cup of Milo and it would always refresh me. As we
got closer to tokelau, I could see the small island from more than
10 yards away. As I observed the full island I look at all the changes
I’d have to adapt to since I was so used to living in a modern world
while I was studying. I noticed all the sea walls against houses and
palm trees as well as a crowd of people waving at us with joy. When
I got off the boat, I knew I was finally home.