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The Life of a Chinese immigrants when they lived of the west coast

Life as a chinese immigrant in the 1860s,

Last week my class went on a trip to shantytown, and learnt about the Chinese immigrants when they lived on the West Coast mining gold.

The Chinese men came to NZ - the West Coast to mine for gold, to get money for their poor villages back in China. Lots of the time the Chinese elders said that they had received letters saying that you have now got a wife and you have to make sure that you find and collect more gold to look after her. If you didn’t get much after that the elders would say that you now have a baby and you have to find even more gold to make sure they have enough money for a house and food.

The Europeans hated the Chinese and didn’t treat them very well. The Europeans found it funny when they stoned them by throwing rocks at them. The Chinese believed in this religious saying that if you have a long plait you will go to heaven and if you don’t you will go to hell. Because of that the Europeans snuck up behind the Chinese, grabbed their plait and chopped it off!

The Europeans were so desperate to find gold that they raced through the rivers so fast that they missed half of the gold. But the Chinese went slow and found most of the gold that had been left behind by the Europeans.

The Chinese didn’t live in a very good environment because they had to live in a old cold cave in the dark. On the good side someone would go to the closest town or village and buy some necessities like food and candles.

In the end the Chinese didn’t have A very good life because the Europeans we're racist about them and only I can imagine how it would feel to be the Chinese in the 1860s gold rush.

Horror Writing

We have been working on descriptive writing. Mrs Dellaway shared a spooky video with us to give us inspiration.

Here is my paragraph below.

The Devilish Angel

The last thing I saw was my alarm clock flashing 12:07 before she pushed her long rotting nails through my chest, her other hand muffling my screams. I sat bolt upright, relieved it was only a dream, but as I saw my alarm clock it read 12:06 and I heard my closet door creak open. Soon enough the clock struck 12:07 and the door opened almost completely and standing there was a shadowy figure almost like an angel but with a devilish and heartless smile. She glared at me with cold, snake like eyes putting a shiver down my spine and shadowing me with fear and horror....

Growing Healthy Bodies

Growing Healthy Bodies

This week for topic we have been learning about growing healthy bodies. Today we had a special visit from a Nurse called Ann, she came in and talked about how to have a healthy body and what we should drink and what not to drink.

Do we know what is actually in bottles of fizzy and unhealthy drinks?

• After You have drank a whole bottle of Coke you have to run a full marathon to burn off the sugar and acid.
• There is 5 mugs of coffee in v
• If you drink 3 bottles of coke you're basically drinking 48 teaspoons of sugar

here is a picture of the order of the healthy drinks to the unhealthy drinks

How much sugar in these drinks?

1. Lift + ( 59 grams of sugar) = 14.7 teaspoons of sugar
2. V8 Veggie juice ( 27 grams of sugar) = 6.7 teaspoons of sugar
3. Pump flavoured water ( 17 grams of sugar)= 4.25 teaspoons of sugar
4. V pure ( 29.2 grams of sugar) = 7.2 teaspoons of sugar
5. V energy drink ( 53 grams of sugar) = 13.25 teaspoons of sugar
6. Sprite ( 25 grams of sugar ) = 6.2 teaspoons of sugar     
7. Coke ( 63 grams of sugar) = 16 teaspoons of sugar

Here is a picture of my healthy and unhealthy sheet. My colour is red ( obviously )