Gallipoli Letter

27th April 1918

Dear Dad

In Gallipoli it was very noise and people wounded. The terrible war is shocking me and the sniper was shooting in a hole hiding. We were carrying buckets up a hill and there's lots of flies. We are scared about our health because there are thousands of stinky flies around us. Some people was killed by the shells because the bad guys threw the shell and the shell exploded and the shell turned into little sharp pecses. People step on the prickly shell and they died. When it was night we digged a hole to sleep in and it was four feet deep so we slept in the hole. After the night we woke up and went to battle. It was hard to escape because it was narrow. I used the rifle to shoot our enemies.  

Love From Zoey

School photographs

Dear Photographs

I am writing to you to express my opinion about the way you take and arrange the class photographs.

I'm sure that you would keep the photographs the same. Keep the boys and girls at the top and the bottom.

Get the photographs all set up read to go and keep the size arrangement the same. The size of the photographs are perfect for it.

I like it the same because it pretty. I really feel that you should leave the background and the chair just like that. I like the background colour red.

I'm sure that most people think that keep it the same because it will take too long to do. All the photographs are organised and ready.

I'm absolutely certain that you should read my ideas most carefully. You may or may not agree with my opinions,but please do consider them.I look forward to hearing back from you.

Your sincerely,

Zoey Kuang

Whitebait Fritters

Haka poetry

How to lay a Hangi

Tangaroa and the Taniwha

On the dark, dreary night a crackle of lightning came out of the stormy sky. The wind was thunderous. The Maori had left Hawaiki in their wakas in search of a new land.

Suddenly from the murky depths rose an enormous Taniwha. The taniwha had ginormous eyes, sharp teeth and a long pointy tail. The monstrous taniwha devoured some of the wakas in one enormous gulp.

Hearing the sound of destruction brought Tangaroa to the surface to see what was happening. Tangaroa the god of the sea, was a giant, he had a moko around his massive face.Tangaroa had very long hair and he was the sea warrior. Tangaroa had huge muscles on his arms and a massive body. He was muscular and he had strong hands that held onto a taiaha.

Tangaroa was angry and red like a juicy apple. Tangaroa shouted loud as he held his taiaha “This is my sea”. Tangaroa again whacked angrily his razor sharp patu into the taniwha’s enormous flesh. The taniwha roared out in agony “Arghhh’’. The wretched taniwha squirted whero blood into the ocean. The ocean turned into a scarlet blood sea. The taniwha lay in three pieces.

From that day the warriors were safe in the water and tangaroa continued to look out for any other dangerous sea creatures. The three pieces of the taniwha turned into Aotearoa and the warriors went to their new, huge land. This was how Aotearoa was formed.

Patu