Exotic Paradise

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Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to my learning this Term: I have taken part in William pike this term/year and have learnt many new things from it. I took part in the chess tournament pushing and challenging myself to go against harder opponents to build my confidence

Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to my environment this Term: I have participated and contributed to my environment this term by cleaning up rubbish while i go surfing. I take care of my equipment and other peoples equipment . i also try eliminating plastic from my day to day life whenever i can whether it is not buying things in plastic  or refusing to take straws from mcdonalds.

Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to my family this Term: I have helped out by carrying bottles and bags filled with basketballs  for both my parents basketball games. I also reffed their games which helped them out when they didn't have a ref. I also do jobs around the house like doing the dishes disposing of compost/rubbish/recycling ETC. I occasionally make tea

Ways in which I have participated  in and contributed to the local community this Term: I have contributed by taking part in the local special Olympics and referring local basketball games. I also took part in the teacher strike but i can't remember if that was this term. I took part in our school gala by buying things that contribute to my school community. I take part in kapa haka which also contributes

Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to the global world this Term: I have posted stuff on my blog that contributes. I contributed at the special Olympics tournament. By helping them out with their different activities

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Sun-dance Surf Break

Running down soft maroon coloured sand.
Lucid sun rising slowly over the horizon.
I jump over sharp obsidian rocks, mussels piercing my skin.
Light blue water reflecting the almost blinding sun into my eyes.
I paddle further out to sea,
arms thrashing to fight the push of the waves,
trying to take me back to shore.
I paddle past the break.
Relief floods my tired body.

I sit and watch the sun rising
higher and higher into the sky like a lost kite.
I see a swell growing in the distance.
It comes closer and closer,
like gigantic turtles rushing towards me.

I paddle
the lip of the wave lifts me up
towards soaring gulls above me.
I turn
slicing the roaring, thundering rush of water
filled with immense power
beneath me.
I pull off the wave
getting small air
as I soar over the top of its large body.
I paddle back out towards the break.
My mates are running down the beach behind me.
Today is gonna be a good day.

Miko Ginivan-Barrow

The Nowhere Land

Guided Text: “The Nowhere Land Where Children On The Move
Are Someone Else's Problem”
by Sarah Crowe - U.N.I.C.E.F

Pre-read discussion

What is a Peugeot 404?

What is the difference between a migrant, a refugee and an asylum seeker?

A refugee is someone who has fled their country in search for a safer place to live.
They are usually people who have left due to war and fighting or because of
unfair rights.
Lots of refugees are children without parents who travel alone until they get
sent to refugee camps
“concentration camps”. Or get picked up by human traffickers or people
smugglers who ship them off to different countries in big shipping containers.
Lots of refugees die while in the containers due to lack of oxygen,
lack of food and dehydration.

An Asylum Seeker is a Refugee who has traveled over a course of time
to an large defined area where the government has sent the Army Or
the United Nation Troops to set up a camp and a medium sized Safety Asylum.
The Refugees are rather put into the 1st class safe Asylum or are in the
Refugee camp.

A migrant is someone who chooses to move to a different country not
because they want to for a whole lot of different. Reasons maybe like
economical reasons, maybe they are low on water and food.

Where is Niger? Niger is located in West Africa, bordering

Chad, Nigeria and Libya.Where is the Sahara? How big is the
Sahara compared to New Zealand? The Sahara is roughly
thirty times bigger than New Zealand.

Define:

Wasteland -

ghetto,

milling about,

Turmeric-coloured,

elusive Eldorado,

throngs,

smuggler,

daunting,

clampdown,

frontier,

bearing the brunt,

from pillar to post,

Guinean,

gesticulating tirade,

impoverished,

ironically,

threadbare,

a motley bag,

dynamics,

transiting through,

traumatized,

undetected,

gangly,

flip flops,

lucrative,

GPS,

glitch,

philosophers,

grim,

Read the text to yourself and make notes/highlight/bullet point as you read.
You are looking for the main idea in this article. Be ready to discuss your notes.

I think the author has written this text to raise awareness towards
children refugees from over the world with no home.
These children have been returned to niger.
A place where most of them aren't from and now they have to travel across the
Saharan desert.
The author in this text is biased when she says
“nothing could be further from the gates of paradise than this
scorching unearthly wasteland and
“stranded with dashed hopes and un for filed dreams.”
“onto a bone dry open plane with a few thread bare tents”.
These are all signs of byasim towards the refugees.
The author is making it sound a lot worse than it possibly could be.
She is making it sound like they are living in unbearable conditions
and would do anything for a chance of freedom including walking
across the Saharan desert with no food or water and nothing to
protect their feet from the scorching hot deadly sea of sand.
Of course this is all quite possibly true but you would have to be there to know.
The author is making it sound very bad (Which it is)
To make the reader sympathies for the refugees.
The key points in this text are:

Nothing could be further from the gates of paradise than this scorching,
unearthly wasteland stretching out as far as the eye can see and beyond.

Arrivals into Italy from January to early June this year were down by two
thirds compared to the same period last year when 60,000 crossed over
from North Africa.

Since November last year, more than 8000
West Africans, including 2000 children, have been returned to Niger from
Algeria, with another 900 refugees and asylum seekers from
East Africa transferred from Libya awaiting cumbersome and
slow resettlement processes.

According to Unicef estimates some 120 children drowned at sea
between January and May. At least there are coastguards at sea.
No one patrols the vast and deadly sea of sand.