Kaia @ Greymouth High School

Monday was a stressful day reason being is the school captains including me was away on a leadership camp and we were gone for the last two days of the week then Monday came and we thought that we weren't ready because we have been away I still had to finish my opening statement I only had about 1.30 minutes and it had to be around 2 and a half minutes and I hadn’t even started my closing statement but luckily the teacher gave us the whole morning block to finish and I managed to finish it. The debate, in general, was good I had Tess, Sophie and Eloise my team was awesome Tess had definitely won the crossfire at Daniel (Scream Off)  Sophie had a good Rebuttal and Eloise had a good Argument Statement. We must have been good at what we were doing because we WON!!!

Last week me dad and two of dad’s friends went to the roar and this year we got to go to Ryan’s Creek in Haast. We woke up at 5.00 in the morning and I said goodbye to mum and we got in the truck and left. By now we were in Franz Joseph's we went into Foursquare and I got a Sausage roll and dad got I pie. When we arrived in Haast then we went to where the helicopter was and we packed the helicopter and went up to Ryans Creek that was about a 20-minute flight. When we got to camp we set up everything. Then Dad and I went to go for an evening hunt and we crossed the river about 5 times and the river was really strong. Then about ten minutes later we saw a hind which is a female deer and dad shot it,It was shot but it walked off. We went to find it but we didn't then we saw another stag and we shot it and we went over to it and we cut out the stomach and then we had cut the eye fillets and the back stakes and went back to camp. Day 2 We woke up at 6.30 in the morning and then we...

As I start my speech, think about the last time you were called names, think about how you felt like you are the only one that gets bullied but in fact you are not alone. There are 2.7 million people that get bullied each year in New Zealand. Hi I'm Kaia and I’m going to tell you about bullying. Sometimes you might feel scared to come to school the next day. There are 160,000 students that have missed school on any given day in case of being       bullied again. 31% of students at primary school say that they have experienced bullying weekly. What is a bully? A bully is when you are constantly called names picked on, Telling people things that is not true about you. If you are going to a teacher and say i'm getting bullied double check that you are getting bullied because they might just being mean In my opinion I think that you are getting bullied if they are calling you names or whatever they are doing to you more than three times so if you go to a t...