‘Uninerested’ as Hamish describes class. And yes I do agree with him a majority of our class arent interested in blogs much now. To try and fix this, Our teacher has givin us a challenge, to write the most interesting blog post over these holidays, YES ITS HOLIDAYS YEAH. Between our class if we make the most interesting there will be a prize. So I have desided that I might try it but have come up with many queries. This was my comment on the post, who’s the judge? because I would like to piont out that what is ‘interesting’ can come with different meanings! The definitions can change depending on who is judging. Yes, Hamish we should have a prize. O and hamish I would like to point out that our class menbers must have very interesting lives, as they probably never have enough time to look at the blogs. Though that would be comparing them to me since I have nothing better to do than look at blogs and so on. Though I still dont know wether I’ll do this comp. as I will probably be in bed most of the holidays as I REFUSE to get out of bed.

When I first installed photo-story onto my computor I was fiddling around learning how to work it. this is what I made:
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for term 3 inquiry we had a topic of power. This is my presentation of my inquiry:

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Okay so of course my blog is one of the best! And so since it so great and the english work is good, okay I know I am boasting and might be exadurating but still!, any way since it is so wonderful you’re, please!, going to comment on this post!

What am I on about? well my friend, Hamish, has put a thing on about a compition. The way the compition works, from what I understand, is that we put a post tittled as ‘best blog’ which I have, and then explain about the compition as I am trying to do and am hoping I am doing okay! Then we have to visit a whole heap of blogs and comment to try and get people other than parents to comment in this post. Each comment in the post means I gain a point so the point of the compition is to gain as many points as possible from now till I dont know when. But if I have visited your blog or maybe you just to have found mine I would be very apreciative if you were to comment on this post and any others!

Please!

Goalie and full backs, bored as bored and yet glad as glad. Running forward the goalies stick is taken and a forward performed by the heavily padded body. Looking in our team mates eyes, we see the twinkle of fulfilment. As we we perform our rituals of hand shakes, though, in the opposition’s eyes we don’t see any glints just the hollow gaze of defeat.

I think that popularity does because it means everyone likes you, everyone wants something from you or has expectations for you to meet. When it is like this they’d most likily feel you do have to live up to those expectations. Okay so it may not cost them in money exactly but it means that they may have to give up other things that they enjoy in order to accomplish what is of them. Aloneness on the other hand you dont have the expectations of others, only your own and they will most likily be those of something that you enjoy, there for you wont ne paying anything you dont want to to live those expectations.

The Cheetah

Cheetahs are large wild cats named ‘cheetah’ after the Hindi meaning of ‘spotted one’. Cheetahs have lived on the earth for over one million years, the many fossils found have proved this. Scientists believe that, ten thousand years ago in the Ice Age the cheetahs were almost extinct bar maybe one female and a few closely related males. From those few cheetahs alive the cheetahs we now know have been breed from, that explaining why all cheetahs are so alike. Unfortunately since they are lacking genetic diversity, they are extremely venerable to disease.

Cheetah’s main colour is a yellow gold or reddish brown and full black, evenly spaced, spots cover the whole of their body. Black lines run from the inner corner of their eyes down to the corners of their mouth. The tall and lean body of the cheetah is specially designed for speed, it has a very muscular build with long skinny legs. The different sexes are very similar, though the males have a more evident wiry mane along their shoulders.

Living in Africa and Southwest Asia deserts, savannah, scrub, bush and open woodlands they have adapted many different habitats. As they are carnivores and stalk their prey during the day, their diet consists of impala, springbok, gazelles, kob, warthogs, kudu and black buck. Cheetahs can last up to four days without food or water and if need be they will eat melons for water! When the cheetahs stalk their prey they will not start chasing them until they are only about thirty metres away, hiding behind tall grassers and bushes, though the chase will only last about twenty seconds. Luckily they are built for speed and are the fastest mammal, unfortunately,  most of their attempts of catching their meals are unsuccessful.

In the wild they will live for about twelve to fourteen years, the males and females live separate and will only meet together for mating. Gestation takes about ninety to ninety-eight days and the female will birth two to eight cubs, though sadly the cub  mortality is only seventy-five percent! After about one and a half years the cubs will leave the mothers, the girls leaving to live alone and the males too going to live alone or in a coalition. Female cheetahs live alone except when they are accompanied by their cubs. Males too live alone though often live in a coalition of two to four other males. They will live with these males for life after finding them at the age of about two years, usually these males being brothers. Males will often prefer living in coalitions as it is easier to hunt with more than one.

Cheetahs are not boring animals as they chirp, purr, yelp, hum, hiss, growl and their yelp will carry two kilometres! And of course like all cats, the cubs are playful! They will ambush, wrestle and chase each other.

For about five thousand years now, cheetah have been kept and breed in captivity. Cheetahs do not breed very well in captivity, despite the fact that the do not breed quickly any way in the wild. That is one of the main reasons why they have such a shortage of their species. Oddly cheetahs live longer in the wild as they only live for eight to twelve years where as in the wild they live from about twelve to fourteen years! Though cheetahs aren’t kept in many places as they need large spaces to be kept in and they by no means like crowds of people.

THE WORLDS FASTEST INDIAN

The worlds Fastest Indian is a movie that was made in 2006. This movie has been awarded the winner of seven from AIR NEW ZEALAND SCREEN AWARDS 2006 including best film.

Bert Munro (Anthony Hopkins) is a high-spirited New Zealander from Invercargill, who for about forty years had been working on making a motorcycle, The Indian, go as fast as it possibly can. After many of those years his dream began, to create a new world speed record on his Indian at the speed week in America. Many years later in the early 1960’s he finally had his motorcycle ready and soon had the money, unfortunately he had an attack and was diagnosed with a heart problem. He ignored that though and still went to America where he was faced with a few problems along the way to Bonneville Salt Flats. Finally though he arrives and then finds that 1) He was meant to have registered months before he got there, 2) He was too old, and 3) His bike didn’t meet any of the safety expectations when it was inspected. Miraculously he eventually raced and created a new world record of speed and soon went on to set more in his later years.

This film was really odd, not the story line but because the first time I watched it was a really great New Zealand movie. Well I’m not saying that it wasn’t a great movie the other times but the second time I watched it I realised that they don’t present the Americans as good people, the majority of them at least! Sadly when I watched it again

I then noticed that they don’t really put across the message that us kiwi’s are the best people either, so I eventually settled that maybe it wasn’t too raciest as they presented both races as being unpleasant in many but different ways.

The Worlds Fastest Indian to was an awesome film despite the racism as it was incredibly inspiring to young and old in many ways. Mainly the message it puts across is that if you follow your dreams you can fulfil them, that’s the obvious one but I saw many others. When Bert was in America for example, a man was pretending to be a woman, well wanted to be a woman and I thought that was basically showing not to judge people by their differences as Bert didn’t when he found out that she was a he. Another is that when they weren’t going to let him run at the speed week they bent the rules that one time and the man that they bent the rules for, (Bert Munro) made a new world record and went on to make many more, so I thought that maybe bending the rules can be good, the rule book isn’t always the thing to follow.

So I thought that this was a very brilliant movie and highly recommend it for all ages as it’s inspiring and it’s a true story of what someone did.

 This is maybe a quote that is said in the movie that I thought was quite cool, ‘If you don’t go where you want to go, when you get there you’ll find that you’ve gone’