ANZAC Day

In World War One over 37 million people were sent to fight, 20 million were wounded and around 16 million people were killed. On Christmas Day France, Britain, Germany and Russia all stopped fighting to show respect. Nurses were also sent over to help the soldiers that were wounded. The soldiers loved ones send them mail but lots of it got sent back into the sack. In New Zealand we celebrate WWI and WWII with ANZAC Day, it is on the 25 of April it is on that day because that's when the NZ soldiers landed in Gallipoli. Anzac day is to show that we care and respect about the people who fought for us back then. This year is 100 years since they landed in Gallipoli. We celebrate it by having a dawn parade. The war was directly blamed by the victors Kaiser's Germany,  it was Germany that started the war.

Whetu Camp

This Year for camp Whetu went to Totara Springs there were lots of different activities like flying fox, crate stacking, water-slide, eeling and lots lots more. The thing that I really enjoyed most was probably having the experience of going on camp at Totara Springs. I had never been there before so it was a great place for me to have fun and explore. One night we went on the Burma Trail and I was the first one to go on it and all we had to do was hold on to the rope and walk By the time I was at the 5th tree something had already grabbed my foot flung something in my face and made really creepy noises. I had a blast there and I just enjoyed it so much by doing it with my teachers, my friends and class.