LABOUR DAY

 In New Zealand, we  all have a public holiday on the fourth Monday of October. Labour day celebrates when the eight hour working day and the 48 hour working week became the law in 1899, primarily because of carpenter Samuel Parnell refused to work more than eight hours a day. He encouraged other tradesmen also to work for only eight hours a day and in October 1840, a workers meeting passed a resolution supporting the idea. On Labour day, I went biking with my family from Kopu to a few Km past the Matatoki cheese barn and into a tunnel. On the way back we stopped at the cheese barn. The animals there were: A chicken with chicks, budgies, finches, a sheep, goats, llama, bunnies with babies, and a guinea pig with babies. The little goat got out of its paddock,(even though the goats are on a chain) and butted a little todler.  Then my brother walked up to it and touched these little bits hanging down from its chin and said, what are these? Then it butted him. Well, that is all I have to say about labour day.

On Friday the 14 of October my four workshops were: Funky corner bookmarks,Fun with flax, Flax weaving,and Fishing knot tying. F.F.F.F. (Funky, fun, flax,fishing) My favorite was funky corner bookmarks. I like them because they are really cute and mine have funny little faces. I learnt how to make: bookmarks that slot onto the corner of your book, woven bracelets out of flax,a flax flower, and how to tie fishing knots. In the funky corner book marks, I am pretty sure I muck up because they come apart unless I put something in the middle. In fun with flax I had to use a mussel shell to get the edges jagged.

My Holiday recount

My Holiday recount

In the holidays I stayed in Papamoa. I went to the air force museum and then we saw some awesome things. The thing that I liked the most was this awesome plane that had heaps of compartments. There was the gun room, the living quarters, the radio operator's room, which had a second level which was really just a seat with windows and millions of buttons. Then there is the cockpit which was pretty cool, and in the footwell, it kind of got real big and there was a table and chairs but the roof and walls were made of glass.