Film Festival Review

My recommendation is 'One Direction' by Tamaki College, simply because the planning and setting of the film was well structured and a specific scene that had different generations of ages going through it with the ongoing amazing music behind it was persuasive to watch.

Cultural Festival

The Cultural Festival has been held at Saint Patrick's School for many years, this year, in 2012, it was held once again in the Saint Patrick's Parish hall. With six groups to perform, the maori group was up first, and as our school stood up to sing the National Anthem, one of the girls in the group stood, focused, awaiting for her cue of the music to start. When it did, her voice filled the entire venue, inside and out and with that amusing introduction, the crowd stood simultaneously and sang in a slight awkward tone to the lyrics of our country's national anthem. Afterwards, the Kapa Haka group went into their national dance for their woman, the poi. With beautiful singing and swift movements of hands, the girls in the group onstage were exactly the definition of perfection, literally. Then from the peaceful tune of the girls singing, the boys, from my perspective, that had suddenly transmitted into men that very night, belted out with loud movements, and commands from their leader in the language that all native's of Aotearoa once used when all was in harmony with the discovery of the first ever tangata whenua. Not being able to watch the whole performance was a little disappointing however outside of the hall everyone was still able to hear what was going on inside and all were eager to claim seats of their own. Overall, the maori group was one of the best groups to step foot on the stage that night, with a lot of practise that brought meaning to their performance. Everything about it was amazingly stunning and made the whole audience want more from every member of the group.

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Olympic Flag

The Olympic Flag is a flag that is the official sign of the Olympic Games. The five rings that are  on  the flag’s white background representing peace and purity, are in fact, representative of a ring for each main continent, and every continent that has to offer willing competitors in the Olympic Games.

However, many other historians and ancient greeks see the rings on the flag (which are blue, black, red, yellow and green) as representatives of the ancient Greek tales, and myths where the Olympics originated from. Legend tells that there were five siblings, three girls, and two boys, each of them were born and raised on a mountain (Mount Olympiad) and were trained and brought up with essential and basic skills to survive in the troublesome world that had been waiting for them along their life journeys. But the main and most known view of the rings are related to the continental fact, another factor of the rings is that each colour in the flag is in (at least) every nations flag that is competing,

The flag is hoisted up the pole at every Olympic Games every four years, and isn’t taken down until the games come to an end, handing it over to the leader of the next country, or venue that is hosting the next Olympic Games.

Through history, millions of flags have been taken up, down and have been shown off to the world, but every four years, one flag is able to unite every single person standing and who exists in this world, and that flag, is the grand Olympic Flag.

Under Southern Skies

New Zealand's Flag

New Zealand’s national flag has been through many revolutions, but only one of them, has been able to be the substantial emblem of our country’s pride for now, and hopefully strive to be, for many years to come.

The flag that is certified consists of four stars (the southern cross) and a union jack. New Zealand was colonised by representatives of the Queen, and our connection with England is shown through this Union Jack. Aotearoa’s flag is blue which represents the oceans around it, and the beauty of all natural H2O’s around our land. Red, and white are outlined around the stars, and union jack, with Saint George’s cross, the patron saint of England, and two diagonal lines that indicate the two additional countries that are a part of the United Kingdom, Wales, and Scotland.  Now going onto historic interactions, the flag was originally supposed to be for the marine army, in which was verified, but when they had hit land, the country suddenly decided, (through the controversy, arguments, and debates) that this flag was fit enough to be displayed to the world and many more to represent New Zealand. The treaty of Waitangi was one of many agreements that was said to be created for the decision of the nation's flag, and it was signed by both the Maori, and European leaders, so that they would come to terms of raising up a flag, optimistically with assurance of what they wanted our flag to reflect unto our country.

Unity is one of the many attributes every country strives for, and from what our country has gone through, we have actually achieved what we had been going for, to unite with countries and keep our world as it is, but additional peace of ours into it. Aotearoa know, whenever we are down in trouble, or other attackers are hunting down on us, other paired countries will always have our backs.


We are united under the southern cross, because basically, all of these four precious stars are stars that each and every country is able to see in the night skies, and it helps every single person that is compiled or involved within southern countries in the southern hemisphere.

Personal Profile

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Hi, my name is Luisa, and I am currently finishing off my last year as a year 8 student at the school of Saint Patrick's. Learning and discovering new and relevant explorations is one of the many things I have an interest in, and a variety of hobbies that I have include, reading, writing and sleeping. My intention on what I want to achieve now, and in the nearby future requires hard work, and intelligence, and at the moment, I am striving for more than I am capable of. I like carrots, and pussycats.

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