(What is courage What is bravery?)
We have had our speeches now and It was quite nerve-racking for most of us.
Our topic was "What is courage, What is Bravery?". It didn't take me that long to write my speech this year maybe it's because I'm older so my writing skills as levelled up?
I hope you like my speech!
What is Courage/Bravery?
By: Isabella
Introduction, Non Sensible way example:
Hi, My name is Isabella and what I’m talking about today is What is Courage, What is Bravery? Let’s First talk about non-sensible Courage/Bravery and then the sensible ways. These statements in your opinion could be different or you could disagree to agree with me. What's a non-sensible way to show bravery? In my imagination, I straight away think of someone who wants to show how they are brave or face their fears, but not in a safe sensible way. Imagine what might happen next? Maybe they try to Bungee jump without a cord (Whisper: Can you see the problem here) -Pause- That was just an example I thought off the top of my head, But I’m sure you could think of some examples yourself.
Sensible ways example:
Moving onto the sensible way of showing Courage/bravery. Here’s an example from my own life. Have you ever heard of skyline Rotorua? In Rotorua? And after the big Zipline, there is a platform where you choose to go down the stairs or go down with an almost bungee jump backwards experience? Well, I wanted to face my fears! I was the first and youngest person to do it in my family and there were 4 of us. But proving I could do it my mum than jumped then my sister and then auntie. But it was a brave step for me, Just imagine being connected to a cord walking on a thin plank Backwards Not even facing forwards! And just jumping off. Well before I did that I learnt how to get to the ground safely, of course, I wouldn't do that If I didn’t know, that would be too risky.
Conclusion, Why do people Face their fears or have courage?:
What would it feel like to have nobody facing their fears or having courage? Well, I know a way to get you in a feel without people not facing their fears. In your mind Imagine a dark room it might feel like a tight dark box, well it’s because nobody invented lights yet because they did not face their fears! Just like with nearly every overly used appliance. Nothing has been made. Courage helps you to stand out, do things you never thought you could do and probably lots more you can think of. But everything has its downs, with using courage you can get butterflies you can faint you can get sick just from Facing your fears in a way that can seem really scary but harmless, just like saying this speech it’s hard to get up in front of people and speak, and don’t forget to write the actual thing.
Ending, Rapping it up:
That now sadly concludes my speech I hope you learned something and I hope you have had a good day. I hope one day this speech can help me in public speaking in the future because a lot of the time people are missing that key feature. What would life be if we had
no courage to attempt anything? -Vincent Van Gogh.
Thank you for listening
Soon we are going to have our production, As we were rehearsing the Gisborne herald came and wanted some photos for early sneak peeks. Our production is on the 24th of September and many of us are excited. What people normally won't see is the time, effort and stress that we put into production, We only had about 2 months (I think) to start getting it together. You can see in the photos that some of us weren't in costumes, well that's because that same day some of us were still going to try our costumes.
This game is a Maori game which includes protecting and throwing. The aim for the people how to throw the ball is to throw a ball at the bin. The aim for the people who protect the bin is to make sure no balls hit the bin. I was not here on Friday but have played that game before when I was here for other Fridays. 
Today we went to a place called Wildlab. We were there to study a bird called Oi. While we were there we also learned about what they do. For our first activity, we climbed uphill for me and my friend it was quite challenging because we have Asthma so climbing hills are kinda hard. We got to the top and saw the lady in an Oi costume doing calls to us in a bird-ish language, we also had a look around the area and got told some stories. as I was going down I realized everyone was down except me and 2 other people. So to get a bit faster I slid down the hill on my bottom. Did you know Oi birds leave their mother at 3 months to then leave at sea for 7 years! Imagine 3 months young and all of a sudden go somewhere else without their mother. How do they survive at sea there is no fresh water? Well, they have the ability to get the salt water and turn into fresh water, That's amazing, right? well, also they can get through storms and quite a lot of natural disasters. We tried to experience what they have to go through when they come home. We had partners and one of us would be blindfolded and we got guided with words where to go, we had to go under a large camouflage sheet which was easy to get tangled up in, the go-to 3 poles one at a time and go around them once each while getting blasted with water from people shooting water guns to act like rain/storm. Then we had to try and put our hand in a net while it was moving to grab a plushie which was a squid because oi's eat squid After you got the plushie you have to hold on to it and bring it to the next blindfolded person. Remember we had to do all of that while blindfolded (To pretend its night) and follow you, partners, instructions. That was just one of our tasks. Our other task was to build a shelter in a rain forest for an egg (Normally the Oi's will dig out a hole underground but for time perpasices we made it above ground only using resources around us) Me and my team did not finish but you could still see what we were trying to do anyway, You should see how hard it got we had to snap sticks that were on the ground to make it how we wanted, Make a roof with sticks and even try and tie things with flax! after that challenge, we had to go back on the bus for a long ride back to school.
