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In The Navy

My Dad was in the navy!.he was 16 when he joined the navy.he sailed on two boats here are some of the places he sailed to 

.Auckland

.sydney

.USA 

.Brunei

.hong kong

.Thailand

and lots more.The ships he sailed on where H.M.N.Z.S Otago and H.M.N.Z.S Waikato.

Hasn't applied for his medal yet but he will soon. When my dad was in the navy he had to pull the pipes which had petrel for the ship in it over to where the petrel hole was.

                                Thats some information 

             of when my dad was in

             THE NAVY!

By Sam


My Granddad

My Granddad was born on October 24^th, 1918.  He was born 6 weeks early so he was really tiny.  Apparently he could fit in a milk jug.  He was in an orphanage by the time he was nine.

When he was 20 he lied about his age and went to war. The rules were that he had to be 21 to go to war without his parents permission. In 1941 he was captured by the Germans on the island of Crete in Europe.  He was taken to Stalag 8b, a prison camp in Lamsdorf in Poland, where he was forced to work in underground coal mines. 

He was a bit of a mischief maker; as often as possible he would wreck the mine so the Germans couldn’t get the coal out. The conditions in the prison weren’t great. He wasn’t given much food and he had to do a lot of work.  One day in the prison guard’s kitchen he smelt something nice.  It was a chicken cooking.  So when the guards weren’t looking he took his chance, stuffed the chicken in his pants and ran like the wind.  He would have loved to eat the whole chicken himself but he was very nice and shared it with about ten other fellow prisoners.

Before he got home to New Zealand he was forced with about 30,000 others to walk 20 – 40 km a day with temperatures as cold as -25 degrees Celsius. Lots of other people died along the way.  He was eventually rescued by the Americans who took him to England.

In 1945 when the war was over he returned to New Zealand weighing just 41kg.

By Abby

My Granddad and my Great Granddad’s War adventures.

In January 1941 my Granddad went to Fiji. He was in the peace-keeping forces, He went there to protect New Zealand and Australia from possible invading Japanese forces.

Luckily he did not face combat while he was there however some funny things did happen:

He went for a swim one day and was excited to find what he thought was an eel. He picked it up and held it up high showing the locals and shouting 'look - I've found an eel'

He was surprised at their response when the people screamed to throw it away!

It actually turned out to be a VERY poisonous sea snake!!

Sadly my Granddad had to come home before his tour was over as he contracted meningitis )o:

BUT luckily he did not die!!

Also my Great Granddad went to Gallipoli in 1915. It was a very famous battle fought between the Turks (of Turkey) and a New Zealand and Australian unit. The British had dropped our men off at what is now called ANZAC Cove. They weren’t meant to be dropped there and the Cove has a big cliff looking down on the beach, so lots of men died.

He was one of the lucky ones who made it home.  

By Amber Henderson.

Mermaids

In the year 1978 two boys were first on the scene. They wonder amongst the stranded whales. The oldest boy had a camera-phone. He videoed his brother standing on a whale. Midway through he turned around and videoed a pile of seaweed. He saw it had a tail like a manatee’s. The younger brother came off the whale and went to look at the seaweed as well .Suddenly a webbed hand shot out of the seaweed. They ran screaming. Five minutes later the Navy came and then they examined the seaweed. N.O.A. arrived shortly after the Navy did.  N.O.A. is a marine biologist group. Three people who worked for N.O.A. went to the scene. They found something strange. All the whales were bleeding through their ears. They cut off some tissue from the whales ears. All of the whale’s organs had collapsed. That was what they expected. But what they found was that they suffered some sort of trauma. So the three N.O.A. people did a sound test to see if the Navy was interfering with the sound in the sea. One month later the University of Cape Town found a body. This body was not a human’s body but something else. When the N.O.A. people got there they started to take the body (Well what was left of it) to the lab to be examined. They found out that it was a new creature. It had a large spleen which means it is able to dive deep in the water. A woman at N.O.A. tried to put the pelvis bones together. She looked at different arrangements. Finally it hit her. She arranged the bones to look like a hand. It worked. This creature has hands. After examining the body there were some bones left over. Suddenly one of the N.O.A. people remembered that he had found a stingray’s stinger in the face of a great white shark. Great white sharks don’t eat stingrays, so this was puzzling. He arranged the bones and the stinger to look like a spear. This creature uses spears to kill. After that the Navy took every piece of evidence that this creature existed. All that was left was the recording.

THE END    By Eden 

My Skylander

My mum woke me up.  I was still sleeping in my bed.  She stuck it in my hand, it felt like plastic, I opened my eyes a little.  It was Eye Brawl the death giant. 

I opened my eyes fully – “lets play” I said to Fergus and leapt out of bed.

My brother and I rushed downstairs and started playing.  He told me to drop in.

Eye Brawl has black armour.  His story is that he was just a flying eyeball and he met a headless giant in the underworld – they joined forces.  He has brass knuckles, his one eye shoots lasers.  He is one of the good giants. 

I was very excited to get him, I played with him all day and he has levelled up and gotten new upgrades.   It was a good day.

By Guy

Girl

Two Big Eyes

A Tiny Mouth

Flowing Hair

Just off from the south

She shines

Some type of light

Stands there glowing

On the darkest night

By Hannah