Christchurch Earthquake

At 4.35 am Saturday morning an earthquake struck Christchurch. The earthquake measured 7.1 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter was 10km below the earth.

There was extensive damage caused by the earthquake over a large area. The damage made buildings collapsed down. Houses got destroyed in the earthquake with 450 needed to be demolished.

It was a danger time during the earthquake caused lots of danger from the houses falling on cars. The dangerous thing was the glass shattering all around the ground and people’s T.V.s getting smashed. Luckily only 1 person died from the earthquake.

I felt like I was in the earthquake too but I wasn’t. When I watch the news I was thinking that I was the person that had died. Well luckily it was not me that had died.

Baby Shelley's Birthday

Yesterday was baby Shelley’s birthday. She was so exited that it was. As I was leaving school
she said to me that I could come to her birthday and blow out the candles with her. So as we were having her birthday her Nana and Papa came too. Before we ate we sang Happy Birthday to you. Then me and Shelley blew out the candles after we sang.

After that Shelley and her sisters and I played hide and seek. As Chelsea was counting we were all hiding in the same place. So when she said, "Ready or not here I come. “Where is Tauwhare?” we were all laughing and then she said I’m not playing now.

Then we had to go and eat. As we were eating we were laughing because we kept on playing funny games when we were not supposed to. Finally we had the yummy lovely cake with Vanilla ice-cream. At the end I went home.

Blackbeard

Blackbeard was a towering bad pirate who had twisted long hair and a braided beard.
He named his boat the Queen Anne’s Revenge. He was a pirate from 1716 to 1717 and he got killed on 1718. He terrorised the Caribbean seas by raiding ships stealing tobacco, dyes, sugar and gold.