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.

What if I was Prime Minister?

If I was the Prime Minister for a day( With my own party) this is what I'll do:
I think I would create a law which makes internet crimes( Like Privacy Invasion) will be stricter because if the victim is found to be doing explicit stuff or even worse, it could be used for more terrible crimes( Like Blackmail and etc...). I also want both opposition parties to be on totally opposite sides( And have a different Ideology). Also to combat Housing, I would want to have more construction workers come from abroad( And be treated with good humane conditions).

Wood Tech: last session...

For Term 2 and a minority of Term 3, we ( As in my class) have been working on our push-fit box. It has taken 3 periods a week for the last 11 school weeks. I would like to thank Mrs Ferguson for making sure we were doing the right things. I am really satisfied with my box. 

Social Studies: Stranded in the Island.

Today in Social Studies, We were working on Group exercises. Bruno, Mateaki, Jamaine and I were working on a "what if?" situation. We created the roles for all four of us. We were given jobs based on what we know. We were given 3 situations that would happen on our island. I found this task really fun yet hard at times because of miscommunication with each other. I hope we can improve in the future.

Migration:

This week, we have  been focusing on migration to New Zealand. We all picked a country from a raffle. The country I picked was Korea( Actually South and North Korea). We were giving 5 tasks( 1 extra task for extra of experts. 

Tokelau to New Zealand

Today in Social Studies, 9RMz has been focusing on migration( Mainly the migration of Tokelau). I've created a summary of a lesson I was given. I used six words to summarize my Tokelau work.   In the 20th Century, Tokelau considered education to be about building a traditional house. Their culture was different to its neighbors, the other countries had already westernized but Tokelau didn’t due to being so remote.However, New Zealand created opportunities for young Tokelauan people.  immigration was a smooth transition however, they couldn’t adapt to customs of New Zealand. Resettlement was easy for others Meanwhile for others found the transition hard due to the difference between their native and New Zealand’s Culture.

Digizens

In Health, we have been learning about Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying can happen anywhere around the world by "Keyboard Warriors". Keyboard Warriors are people who show no disregard towards to the feelings of people and will bully those people online meanwhile in the real world, won't interact with their victims being scared. I think there are Keyboard Warriors because they want to bring down the morality of innocent people. We can't stop this problem because anyone can become a warrior

Exams!

So, we had MYE ( Mid-Year Exams) last week and all the years have finished their exams( With effort).  I think the MYE as a whole sometimes was easy and hard( I think most exams was completable except Music because we never were allowed to do it). I personally feel like I was prepared for my exams because I spent an entire week staying back at school and studying ( In study classes and Study sessions). I think I did well in 4/5 of my exams because I had no confidence in keeping my composure and stressing out. What could have I did better was to don't be stressed about exams. I will try and not be stressed about being evaluated on my scores.