Melvin and Tevita - Weightlifter

As the crowd was going wild Mckenzie had a smile of joy and muscles of confident.
The Weightlifter Precious Mckenzie was a athletic ability that was  first recognised at the age of 11. 




He had a Catholic mission with father Franklin and coached and trained him in gymnastics.
Mckenzie went back to his mother in Pietermaritzburg at the age 17. Precious also worked at a nearby shoe factory.







In 1958 he won the national Bantamweight weightlifting title. But for some reason he wasn’t chosen for the olympic games because his skin colour. Precious started training  and competing other countries.

Brown Brother

Joshua Iosefo, a perfect at Mt Roskill Grammar, had to deliver a speech to the school. Instead of a speech he wrote a poem titled “Brown Brother” Rashad post in an youtube where it care to the attention to campbell live, who presented on national television.

This poem was about people that believe in stereotypes. Joshua tells the school to don’t be afraid to change or don’t listen to stereotypes like limiting yourself. Joshua said  not a change in skin tone or colour, but a change for one brown brother to another.

I felt really surprised because his poem is really good and nice. He talks about interesting stuff like skin tone stereotypes and more. We really appreciate his poem because it’s cool and fantastic. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7kbakbqKr0

Art Alive

Vincent Van Gogh

 

Vincent Van Gough cut off his left earlobe on the 24th of December in 1888 because he had a argument with one of his friends.  Vincent Van Gough used a razor a (very sharp knife) to cut off his ear. 

All blacks vs Ireland

On Saturday night it was All Blacks Vs Ireland in the Waikato stadium.  The All Blacks had got the first try and his name was Kane. The All Blacks won 60 nil.
And Here is a video to watch enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_IJtVmUThY

Tevita - old lady smoking

The hot swealtering Nigerian sun was shining down on Tevita and I as we were going to get some water for the kids. We were on the side of the dusty street  there was a old lady who looked despaired. She was smoking Melvin looked at her and she already had piercing eyes on us. She looked weird and Tevita felt sorry for her.

We went up to her and said are you alright then she begged for moneny. She looked really worried about her kids we said if you want help and she said I want money.She was quite wrinkly and she looked kinda drastic. The clothes she was wearing was half way ripping and her shoes was really ugly. 

  

Tevita Kiwi kick

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As we walked over to the courts I could see the "flags flapping heavily and the leaves falling off the trees". My body was shivering and my teeth were chattering my hands were numb so I rubbed them fast so they could be warm!. We met Sam and Anita which were the coaches they were teaching us how to play Kiwi Kick? We were at the courts they teach us some skills of Kiwi kick like drop punt high pass and chest pass that was some of the skills that they taught us. It was cool that we were going to Kiwi kick for another year. My favorite skill in Kiwi kick is the high pass because you get to jump and catch the ball.

(The 2nd day) we were learning how to do the drop punt and the hand pass. We had to get in groups of 2 to try out our skills. The first skill was the hand pass it was pretty easy but I kept on hitting the ball at the wrong way! We played this other game that we have to roll the ball under our legs and if you get through you will get a point and I always get it through my partner’s leg.



(The 3rd day) we were playing games for the whole time. The first game we were playing was over the bridge we were only allowed to use drop punt and hand pass? The game was about the first one to get the ball on the ground gets a point.  And if do a little kick you do not get a point. That was the best time at Kiwi Kick the end