Ihumatao

Ihumatao:

It was a very special day on Monday to be able to learn and understand the cause of protecting the land that we have and preserve it for future generations to learn from. We ( Year 11 & 12) were fortunate to visit Ihumatao and understand the daily lives of these many protectors who have given up time to able to protect and lobby for this land to be preserved. I was grateful enough to help out at the site and hope to come sometime soon( if I can). At the land, we met the protectors who were at the frontline and what led them to Ihumatao. We also got to met the leader of it all. Pania Newton. She helped tour us around the land letting us learn and understand the history of the land we stood on and also the stone walls which have been misplaced and used as borders for farming. Even though our tour came to an end. We helped and paint the boxes that are used for farming. It was a fun trip overall but a humbling experience to be able to experience for the first time life of a protector.

Social Studies: White Ribbon Day

Last week on Friday, my Social Studies class for Year 11 participated in a event wants to change and raise awareness to stop Family Violence. If you didn't know, New Zealand is currently holds the unfortunate ranking as Number 1 from OCED countries. Despite not being there, My class participated in the event and represented Tamaki College in a good way.However, I did my part by talking about what White Ribbon is by putting up posters but also talking to students about its cause.

Food Technology

As we are entering our end of year exams, we unfortunately in our final Cooking lesson for 2018( or specifically Year 10). For our final cooking lesson, we created a chocolate cake to end our second to last tech lesson for year 10. Here are the methods and ingredients.

Ingredients:
1C of Self Raising Flour
1C of Sugar
1/2C of Oil
1C of Milk
1 Egg
1/4 C of Cocoa
Methods:
Add all ingredients as listed above:
Combine all and mix well, scoop into the muffin tray
Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 15 minutes

Food Tech:

This week, we created nachos. As in; Nachos sauce while placing upon the nachos. To be fair, it was delicious. However its sad cause this is our last cooking session of the year before jump start.

Method:

1. Dice the onions   and fry until soft add the mince and fry until its cooked

2. Add baked beans, sauce, cheese, boil for 4 mins.

3.Serve on top of the corn chips.

Ingredients:

Onions

Mince

Baked beans

Sauce

Cheese

Corn Chips

Burgers

As part of Food Tech ( This may not be in order with the other blog post that will be posted today and tomorrow), we were tasked as an assessment to design a burger to our desire and create it to how you designed it ( So the methods, and ingredients is decided by the assessment)

Ingredients:
Beef mince( Hand-made patty)
Cheese
Lettuce
Tomato
Buns
Sweet Chilli Sauce
 

Food Tech

We are now in our final tech rotation of the year ( Obviously, this year has gone fast or I haven't posted in a minute), We  created Tuna salad. Now, it was fun creating it but eating it with onions is not really part of my appetite but neither less, it was fun eating it.

Career's Site!!!

If your interested in my future. Why don't you visit my Careers site? As it easily shows you my ideal career for when I leave Tamaki College. Careers Site

Accenture Trip

First official blogpost of 2018, so let's get right into it...

Today( Or the 7th of March whenever you are reading this), a group of Tamaki College students and teachers headed into the city to attend a special workshop led by the Accenture team. 

At first, I  was shocked by how caring everyone were but also how different everyone was. I was also intrigued because of Timoti( an employee at Accenture) because he was currently busy in Australia because of a conference, and he took time out of his day to dial in and video call us. 

I was stunned because of the technology used. I felt like I was at home during the entire trip. Reason being that everyone (The Accenture team and TC group) were engaged in the activities and also conversations. We played two games (which had their own level of difficulty), Counter hack and Code combat (I focused on Code Combat which to me, was an interesting game).

The main hub we stayed in for most of the time was the Atutahi and the VR area( Where we experimented with new stuff) was the Mclaren room. The Staff introduced an Idea of IT and what careers can be benefitting towards you. 

Overall, I would like to thank Karl, Mark, Dimple, Sid, Blea, Emma and Dan for a wonderful time.

My Multi-Level Game

So, Digitech has been fun. We have been embedding codes and creating a number of levels for our game which we used Scratch to display our wonderful codes.

Photosynthesis:

Since the beginning of jumpstart( Week 5), we've been learning about the web of life. From the C GREN cycle to the food chain, we have spent countless periods learning more about our life. Thankfully, I am grateful for my new class(10RTe is the best class) and also my Science teacher, Mr Stoddard for helping us out these 4 weeks on accomplishing a lot of tasks.

Success to me?

I think I’ve been successful in helping out represent Tamaki College as a Year 9. From being the Manaiakalani Ambassador to also be a presenter at the Manaiakalani Film Festival. I felt successful because I had to chance to represent Tamaki as a Year 9 and have a chance to become confident with large crowds and also be able to socialize with other pupils of my cluster. Also, getting the chance to bond with other students from my school. For Social Studies( With Mrs. Gordon since we have started Jumpstart) we have started our Social Studies activities. We have begun with working with Business and what does success mean? It is going to be a really fun year in Social Studies.

Government

So, as part of the Social Studies Revision. We were researching about the government( Which had been researching since term 2). Since the elections have finally finished, it is a good time to reflect back.

My bubble about Social Studies so far

Today, for Social Studies we went back to term 1 and researched about our Sustainability unit we had completed. My group had decided to do focus on Rain Garden thanks to Promiseland.

Elections

So today, my heart was finally broken after finding out that National had lost( No worries, we have another election in 3 years). For Social Studies, we were understanding and figuring out what does this alliance will have in store for the next 3 years.
Drawing

Maths - Coordinates Project

For the first activity of the final term( For Maths at least), we have been learning and understanding how to use the coordinates system( Mainly the Y and X axis system). For this activity, we were tasked to find 4+ countries/places in the world that you want to travel to. After choosing your 4 countries, you are needed to research the travel( As in the distance between Point A and Point B but also how long it will take). After completing the other tasks for this activity, you must complete a summary of your journey.

My Beliefs

Dear New Kid(Don’t know your name yet)

I believe in Methodist practices because since I was a little kid, I was baptized as a Methodist. Methodist can be similar to Christians but I don’t understand how. We are considered to be a subclass of Christianity but we share different values then our other counterparts. We do accept Jesus as our god.However, we are not as ancient than our other religions because we were created just 300 years ago! Our religion was created during the century where USA was created.Hopefully, you can understand my religion and can accept it.

Your Sincere, Leo

Here is my last blog post of the Holidays. Hope you enjoyed

Bucket List

1. Create an private organisation that is structured around the will of their peers and make sure the set location city is protected in discrete.
   
2. Make sure that houses are built efficiently and swiftly( All up to regulations) to combat the housing crisis we are currently in at the moment.Also making it affordable for the less unfortunate but also first home buyers.
   

Provide donations to trust funds which focus on the student’s( Next generation of the world) way of learning, as in providing free  internet across countries and programs which allow intercontinental communications( You could use it for educational purposes as well).

4. Make myself an underground house because that would be so fun but also in case of an war.


5.Create a bill where learning your native language( Depending on what ethnicity you are) is a subject in primary/ Intermediate because there are a minority of people who do not understand their language when they enter Secondary school making it very hard to learn it.

6. Make sure the less fortunate have a place they can go to at night.

7. Create a city in the countryside which can be self-sufficient and provide jobs and houses.

8. Be able to find the cure to Lethal Diseases(Like Cancer and etc…).

9. Provide a surplus amount of computers for people to use.

10. Create artificial land to boost development.

My Neighbourhood

My neighborhood may not be the best on paper and from the description, but it doesn’t matter. The diversity of races and points of views is a key part of my neighborhood, The diversity range from which school you attend to your ideology about life in general. The magnificent mixture of people can never be displayed best at Point England BUT there is always the cons of a neighborhood. Our Culture as a community can sometimes cause trouble within our neighborhood.3 words that I could describe the place I call home: Diverse, Unique and Beautiful... So, I've been delaying this for a long time( Actually, just 5-6 days), but currently, there are some interesting topics to blog about thanks to Social Studies( So thankful for making my holidays fun😀). More to come.... Trust me this time

United Power(Social Studies)

While Term 3 was folding up, Mrs. Apelu instructed the entire class to join groups which would be similar to a Political Party. My Group(Bruno, Carlos, Jasmine, Pita, Andre and me) which we called United Power is somewhat similar to the TOP party but we want to unite people who have different beliefs and support opposite parties and unite them under one name. 

Meeting Tamaki's MP!!!

So, couple weeks back, Tamaki's National MP, Simon O'Connor was lecturing us about his life as a Politician but also his reasons for representing Tamaki. He explained his career as a priest before becoming the MP for Tamaki.After his lecture, A few students( Including me😀) presented their Sustainability poster boards explaining our problems with our school( During Term 1).