Hospital Trip

Having asthma is a pain, you alway's have to take inhalers morining and night to prevent It from happing, and you need to carry a blue inhaler for instant relif if you get asthma during the day.

On a dark night, i asked dad to take me with im to the city to drop my cousin off at work, and he said yes, so we started to drive and when we finally reached the brightly lit city we stopped outside my cousin's work place and when she got out we drove off.

We stopped outside the mall to have something to eat, then we romed around thecity looking at shops. I started to feel a bit weezy and at that point I knew I had asthma.

  When we finally finished at the city we walked to the car and headed for home, I felt worried because I knew I ran out of inhalers, I hoped it would eaze up by the time we reached home but it did'nt.

At home it felt like my throught was closing in, I knew I could'nt stop it so I told my parents and then dad took me to the hospital.

  I was breathless when we arrived at the hospital we sighned in and we had to wait what semed like forever for a docer to come and see me, and when the docter finally camer, she took us to her office and asked me a few qustions and she then took me and dad to a room with a strange machine.

The docter gave me a mask to put around my mouth and then she swiched on the weird looking machine and it helped me breath.

I then got a blue inhaler and I finally got to go home and get some rest, I was so sleepy and by the time I got home It was one o'clock In the morning. I went to my bed and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

Matariki Panels

 
Do you know what Matariki is?  Do you celebrate it? Well in room 13 we definitely do!  Matariki is a cluster of seven stars that rises at the end of may or start of June. Matariki is the Maori new  year and it is to remember those who died in the last year, and it is about new beginnings.

In room 13 we made matariki panels. A matariki panel is a long board split into three sections, the first section, our design had to base around new growth, our second section had to be about you and what is important to us, our last section had to b e about matariki.

To make our panel's we first painted them black with Indian ink, then we had to put masking tape on them, i thought that was the longest bit. We then drew our designs on top of the masking tape, then using a crafting  knife we cut out our designs. Next we painted them and my favourite bit was riping the masking tape off when they dried I peeled them of with Ruby.

My first section is two  purple korus with a new growth symbol in the middle. For my middle section I have two korus to represent my parents and the five little korus on one of them is to represent the children in my family. Finally the last section has seven stars to show the stars of matariki.

I have really enjoyed doing these panels and learning more on on matariki, if I did it again I would be more careful with my cutting.