Ava @ Oruaiti school

  Dear Diary Today I had the worst day of my life.  I am writing this in a hurry. It is 1975 time 2.30am the dawn raids are starting to be more recent. This morning we were the next target. It was petrifying to wake up to police breaking down our door, as I was trying to defend myself. It was horrifying not knowing if I was going to make it to the next day, as I was trying to get my mind together the police were screaming swear words followed by unruly sentences. They knocked over our suitcases, we were planning to fly home a couple hours later it was the closest flight we could take to our pass expiry date, we were getting pushed over as I was trying to find my family, I was so confused because I had a neighbor who was European and she has stayed almost a month over her pass expiry date but she did not get attacked.   As I was rushing past the hall a police officer pinned me to the wall. There was hate in his eyes but a little bit of guilt as mine was pure fear. I was ...

  Tech Today we had tech. I went on the bus, not that excited. I am in the sewing class and the teacher is quite strict and mean.  We have tech every second week on Monday we go to Kaitaia Intermediate ,  I finished the sides, top, bottom of my apron and then I started on the strap. Last fortnight I learnt how to use the sewing machine and sew my armholes for my apron.  In term 1 I did technology. It was ok. We learnt how to airdrop and put a picture of ourself in front of an image from Google. I put myself in front of a picture of groot from Marvel. We also drew a picture of a Taniwha and we were allowed to take it home. In term 2 we did woodwork. It was my favorite so far, we made desks and we are going to paint them for pet day art. We only had a couple of sessions with him so we had to do it really fast but I completed it.  I am the most excited for term 4. We have baking because we can eat it after and that is the last group for tech this year but we do it ...