Springboks For The Win!🏉

On Saturday the Springboks *aka South Africa* won the Rugby World Cup over England. The full-time score was 32 - 12. A lot of people went to the game while some stayed home and watched from the television. 

Flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit was named World Player of the Year, Rassie Erasmus was named as Coach of the Year and the Springboks were named Team of the Year.

Local Elections!

Regions in New Zealand have completed their Local Body Elections for 2019. During these elections, regions in New Zealand vote for who they want as their mayor, city councillors, and district health boards.

Wellingtons mayoral race was good with Andy Forster beating incumbent Justin Lester. While Phil Goff remained mayor of Auckland beating John Tamihere. 

As a surprise 19 year old Fisher Wang was elected into the Rotorua Lakes Council making him the youngest ever voted into local government in NZ

A Penguin Travelled From NZ To Australia!

A fiorland penguin was found tired and struggling to walk amongst the rocks on Kennett River in west Melbourne on July 10. It was taken to the zoo to get some test results by marine experts. It'll be fed and taken care of until it is able to go back home to NZ.

The penguin travelled 2,500km in total from NZ to Australia! It's surprising because penguins can't fly but their actually one of the fastest swimmers on the planet! 

A Rail From Hamilton To Auckland?

In Hamilton funding has given that city a new rail service from Hamilton to Auckland. This new service is going to take place in Hamilton next year. It will cost around $92 million from funding to pay for the railing.

The transport minister Phil Twyford is saying that more and more people are travelling between these two cities so whats better than to make a rail. I think it's a great idea to make this train rail!

Christchurch Is The Friendliest City In NZ?

In New Zealand some travellers come around to look at our fine cities but what really caught their eye was Christchurch. They think Christchurch is the most friendliest because the people who live in Christchurch have a positive and friendly attitude.

When it comes to the worlds friendliest city Vancouver already took the title. I've been to Christchurch and I agree that people their have a friendly attitude. 

Our Last Cooking Session😭

Cooking With Diego
This week at tech we made Mince Gravy with Potato Salad. Here are the instructions on how to make it.

Step 1: Boil your potato until it's cooked.
Step 2: Fry your mince and onion together.
Step 3: Add one cup of bisto, flour and water together to form a gravy.
Step 4: Add vegetables to a bowl and boil it on the stove.
Step 5: When your mince and your potato's are cooked place them on the table.
Step 6: Add some mayo into the potato salad and then mix.
Step 7: Mix your vegetables into your mince.
Step 8: Place your potato salad onto your plate.
Step 9: Place your mince onto the other half of the plate.

The New Wellington Sculpture

A new sculpture has been shown to all of New Zealand and it's known as "Quasi" The sculpture is of a hand with a face on it, it's a five metre tall sculpture created by Ronnie van Hout. It's a tough sculpture because it's balancing on two fingers and is probably the weight of 10 men. 

I personally think the hand is kind of creepy for me because when I look at the face I imagine it falling on me, even though I don't live in Wellington. I wonder what the people who live in Wellington think about the sculpture. 

Guns Stolen From A Police Car🚓

Last night a bunch of guns were stolen from a police car in Gore. When the policemen were chasing the car on foot the criminals ran to the police car and started driving off. As the criminals were in the police car they also stole a bag of weapons from the car.

I think the policemen shouldn't of left their vehicle. They should've kept chasing the criminals in their vehicle instead of running on foot. 

Butter Chickenn!

Cooking With Diego!
Today Diego and I made a delicious dish almost everyone knows and it's called butter chicken. These are the steps on how to make this dish.

Step 1: Dice half an onion and a slice of chicken.
Step 2: Add oil to your frying pan and add your onion.
Step 3: Once your onion is soft add your chicken into the frying pan.
Step 4: Add your butter chicken sauce, cream and brown sugar to the frying pan.
Step 5: Cook all of your ingredients together until it bubbles.
Step 6: Wait for about 10-15 minutes until its all cooked.
Step 7: Put rice on a plate and serve your food!

Stepping Into The Future...

In New Zealand The Warehouse decided to create New Zealand's first ever online shopping mall. A lot of people who now know about this are very excited to have our first online shopping mall. The new website that we are looking forward to costs $12 million New Zealand dollars to build which is a lot.

I think its a good idea that The Warehouse decided to put up an online shop because sometimes people are very tired to go and pick up their own shopping and actually buy the shopping. There are 9% of New Zealanders who buy online, 14% in America, 18% in UK and more than 20% in China.

Mince Wrap!🍗

Cooking With Lilly!
This week Lilly and I were cooking a mince wrap with the most delicious pastry I've ever tasted. If you want to know how to make it here are the steps.

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 20 degrees.
Step 2: Dice half an onion and mince.
Step 3: Pour some oil into your frying pan, then add your onion and mince in.
Step 4: Once you see that the mince is cook and your onion is brown add a sauce flavouring.
Step 5: Leave someone to watch the frying pan while you grab two pieces of puff pastry.
Step 6: Cut your puff pastry piece into four squares.
Step 7: Equally, divide your mince into four pieces.
Step 8: Add your mince onto four pieces of your puff pastry.
Step 9: Place your other four pieces of puff pastry onto the other four pieces.
Step 10: Use a fork to gently press down the edges of the puff pastry.
Step 11: Put your finished products onto a metal baking tray then place it into your oven.
Step 12: Wait 15 - 20 minutes for your food to bake. You can take it out when it has risen and is golden brown on the side.

VTNZ Demanding For More Pay?

VTNZ are complaining because they want more pay. They are currently getting paid $22.50 an hour but the workers say its not the price they should get paid. Workers of VTNZ are speaking out saying the they love their job but at times it's risky and dangerous but the cars always come out perfectly!

They said they only want a fair increase, they have to deal with people who come out of jail and they sometimes get chased around the cars which ends up having the police involved.  I think they should get an increased pay after the way people are treating the workers!

Our Prime Minister On A Vogue Magazine

The Duchess Of Sussex was the special editor of the "Vogue Magazine". The reason why Jacinda Ardern is on the cover is because Meghan Markle chose 15 women who are trying to change their society. 

The Duchess of Sussex has been working on this magazine since January this year. Meghan Markle designed this magazine so that it can be the worlds most viewed magazine so it can make people choose to make an impact on the world.

Chicken Wrap🍗

Today our session at tech wasn't like the other ones because our school was late for tech. When we walked into cooking class every St Pius student had already finished making their wraps but luckily Lilly saved me and Konzay some.


Step 1: Dice your lettuce and tomato.
Step 2: Place your wrap on a chopping board.
Step 3: Spread mayo on the wrap.
Step 4: Sprinkle your chicken on the wrap.
Step 5: Sprinkle the rest of your ingredients on the wrap.
Step 6: Add some cheese on top.
Step 7: Wrap it up then cut it in half.
Step 8: Enjoy!

Jacinda Ardern Visits The Pacific!

Our prime minister Jacinda Ardern is visitng Samoa and the New Zealand territory of Tokelau. Jacinda Ardern is the second New Zealand prime minister to visit Tokelau ever since 2004 which was Helen Clark.

In Samoa she visited with the local leaders to talk about the New Zealand Governments Pacific Reset strategy. When she left Samoa and she went to Tokelau she visited the local leaders and discussed the same reason of what she talked about in Samoa.

Mini Quiches

Cooking with Lilly!
Today me and Lilly made mini quiches and these are the steps on how to make them.

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 180 degrees.
Step 2: Get your oil and pour it into one hole of the muffin tin.
Step 3: Grab your pastry brush and wipe the oil in all the holes.
Step 4: Cut pastry pieces into circles and place them into the muffin tins.
Step 5: Dice 4 slices of ham and sprinkle it over the pastry.
Step 6: Sprinkle the cheese strips over the pastry.
Step 7: Whisk 2 eggs and 1 cup of milk together to create the wet mixture.
Step 8: Pour your mixture into the muffin tins.
Step 9: Place your muffin tin into the oven.
Step 10: Wait 15-20 minutes for your quiches to rise.
Step 11: Enjoy!

NZ Loses Worlds Steepest Street Record!

Sadly Baldwin street in Dunedin has lost the title for the steepest street in the world. In Harlech, Wales the street Ffordd Pen Llech has one the title over NZ. Baldwin street has been the steepest street in the world for 32 years.

I think people who live on Baldwin street are kind of sad that their street isn't the steepest street in the world anymore. Hopefully in the future our street can win the title again.

CHOCOLATE MUFFINS!

Today (and maybe our last time) we made chocolate muffins, and my partner was Storm. Our chocolate muffins weren't cracked so that was a really good thing. This is the recipe if you want to make chocolate muffins at home.

Equipment:
Muffin Tin
Spatula
Measuring Cups
Measuring Spoons
Spoon
Small Bowl
2 Metal Bowls

Ingredients:
Milk
Yogurt (Optional)
Chocolate Chips
Self Rising Flour
Sugar
Vanilla Essence
Oil
1 Egg
Cocoa
Chocolate Sauce/Syrup

Method/Steps:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Add all the dry ingredients into one of the metal bowls.
3. Add all the wet ingredients into the other metal bowl.
4. Mix the ingredients separately before mixing them together.
5. Add the muffins into the muffin tray. Adding the muffins papers are optional.
6. Pour the muffin mix into the muffin tray.
7. Place the muffin tray into the oven.
8. Wait 7-10 minutes for the muffins to rise.
9. Take the muffins out of the oven.
10. Drizzle chocolate sauce over your muffins.
11. Enjoy!

Silver Ferns Victory Over Australia!

The Silver Ferns won the Netball World Championships over Australia 52 - 51. Silver ferns have now won five times in netball and hopefully can do it again in the future.

The captain of the Silver Ferns spoke these words after their victory over Australia, "It's all worth it when you have the belief nothing can stop you. I am so glad I came back, it feels so good. I can't believe we done it! It's not just for us, it's for everyone in New Zealand."

In the future I hope that some people from my class can go and play netball to represent our country and probably win another Netball World Championship title.

Tamaki Estuary!

Yesterday all classes had to experience fresh air at Tamaki Estuary which is at Dunkirk Rd, Panmure. Older classes got paired up with younger kids to pick up rubbish, there was a lot! A lot of kids found rubbish under the bushes, beneath rocks, behind the trees and next to the rocks.

My partner was Emeline who knew a lot about the environment that we were in. She explained to me that on Friday as they were coming to the same place she and her fellow classmates found cigarette packets next to rocks and milk cartons in the grass about to fall into the stream.

After walking a long way from one side of the estuary to the other we finally stopped to have lunch which was what we wanted after a long walk. I had learnt a lot about the environment and about how big of a difference there is between the Tamaki Estuary water and the water at Panmure Basin!