What Culture Does Not Celebrate Christmas

A culture/religion that does not celebrate in Christmas is Hinduism.

Hinduism is considered one of the oldest religions in the world dating back since the 3rd millennium B.C

Hindus celebrate Uthsava, Utsava or Utsav as a festival of celebration or any joyous occasion.

Pongal is a celebration of harvesting and  rice for new years. this event happens in the middle of January every year and marks the beginning of the sun journey.

The festival of kites also known as Vasant Panchami is held on the fifth day of magha marking the start of spring holi season.

Third World Countries

• What is a third world country?

A third world country is a country considered not as wealthy or not as well off. After the cold war II the countries from all around the world split into two groups the NATO group and the Communist Bloc. But there was a group of countries that didn't join any group and those countries are considered a third world countries.

North Korea:

North Korea is lead by Kim Jong Un, is one of the third world countries and today very few people are allowed to go there as its sealed off from the rest of the world. North Korea is considered a very un-pleasant place to be and everyone who lives there is very patriotic. They think that everyone outside of North Korea is bad and everyone is against them.

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A Rose by any other name

What does it mean?

The meaning is the name is just something they are called by and has nothing of great value and they cant be judged by it. So you cant judge people by their name its what they are that you have the right to.

Where was it used?

It was by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) in part II and scene II. A Rose by any other name was used in the play Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet is standing on a balcony and Romeo is hiding beneath. She was discussing to herself that the name of Romeos last had nothing of importance and value to who he was.

Background information:

Romeo thought to see juliet dead and commits suicide, but juliet was asleep and wakes up to find him dead. And again juliet commits suicide herself leaving both dead.

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Where did I come from?

The logs come from all around New Zealand and can be imported from other countries, which C3 (a logging company) has been doing for 50 years. C3 sort through 23million logs per year and produce 300,000 tonnes of wood chips per year as well. C3 mainly gather pine wood and each and every one will be recorded.

Some background information:

C3 started its well known company in Tauranga and its first overseas export was to china with 158 tonnes of logs. With tauranga having its own logging ground it earns 14% profit of all money made in Tauranga. Before the Europeans came to Nz it was 80% forestry and when you order a tree you must plant 3 more to repopulate what you have taken.

Where are they taking me?

Once logs have been gathered they will go through to other countries needing or be turned into planks to build houses and other buildings. They will go in and be cut up into wood chips as fertilizer or paper/cardboard or chip wood

Curling

What is curling?
Curling is a sport that originated in scotland but can not be told how it came. It is based on sliding a stone along ice and getting it as close to the center ring as possible. The idea as told before is to try get as close to the center ring as possible and on the other team is to try stop them by using tactics and skills. To play you need a curling broom, flat soled shoes, a loose shirt and mostly not needed as given to you but a curling stone.

Some History
Curling was first introduced to New Zealand by scottish immigrants in the 1860's and Thomas Callender was the first New Zealander to play, he was also known as "The father of NZ Curling." Also Thomas was the first man in NZ to make a club for curling From then on curling became a big hit and was very well known to gold miners as they would play in the winter time, still getting more and more popular through the 1920's, then came to a big halt during the second world war.

About Curling

Review a Book, a movie or a game

What must be included in a review:

• The plot but not the ending
• The name of the book, game or movie
• Author/director/illustrator/producer
• Who the movie, book or game is designed for
• Your own overall opinion about it
• Give the main character

Born at Midnight

Born at midnight is a fantasy novel in which a girl has been having night terrors and her counsellor has persuaded her mother for her to go to Shadow Falls C amp. She notices from the minute she walked onto the bus, these people were odd. Kylie the main character is a 16 year old girl going through supposedly the worst time of her life as her nana died, her boyfriend dumped her, she has a stalker dude and her parents are getting a divorce.

Author C.C. Hunter wrote the series of Born at midnight, with 6 books and Born at Midnight being the first. Published on March 29, 2011. By St. Martin's Griffin. This book was targeted for female teens, with the book having dramatic feelings and describes what they are like and also talking about 'Hot guys' and how they feel when they touch her.

Overall for a girl related book I would give this a 9 out of 10 as it engaged me, a boy and cant wait to read the whole series starting with the next book 'Awake at Dawn.' My favorite part of the book was probably when her ghost/stalker dude talks to her and helps her with a situation about a lion.

TBC Visit

Today on the 28th November we Tauranga Intermediate year eights went to Tauranga Boys College. When we got there, there was all the year nine boys ready to give us a compulsory haka. After that Mr Mangan the Principle of TBC addressed us then let Miss Elms say who were in what class and what teacher they needed to follow. My Teachers name was Mr H and with my name called came Joshua (my friend,) Flynn and Damian (In my class.) We then walked to a classroom to find that we were in the top ninety for academic scores and would have a lot more harder work then before as well as higher expectations. Going back to gym (where we first meet altogether) we had morning tea and watched clips on the projector. Again heading outside we went to the theater where we were told that we were in the accelerate class (our teacher that we had was not supposed to tell us before) Going through to class again we grabbed our stuff and went back to the gym where we left.