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Hello my name Is Kaitlyn Bews. I am thirteen years old and I live in Cromwell, but board at Tolcarne in Dunedin. Mum and Dad (Jane and Geoff) half own a vineyard with Aunty Thea and Uncle Steve. My sisters called Danielle, she board's at Tolcarne too. She's in year 12 at the moment and she want's to be a vet when she leave's school. I have two labradors, Oakley and Bounty. Dad takes them out to our vineyard, where they run around chasing rabbit's. The vineyard is called Wooing Tree. I also have two fish, Opshop and Hot Chocolate. I use to go to Cromwell College in year seven and eight. Cromwell college was OK, but I prefer St Hilda's alot more. My favourite subject at school is either PE or Art because it isn't to stressfull. My favourite sport is Snowboarding. I go up most weekend's. I like to go snowboarding with Dad and I also like to go with my friend Kristal. She's in Canada at the moment snowboarding with her family. Kristal and I race down the mountain together. Dad shows me how to do the rail's but now he doesn't do them he thinks he's to old (by the way he's not that old). I wish to be a snowboard instructor when Im older, or something to do with snowboarding, and also go to Switzerland and Canada for snowboarding. In Summer I Waterski, Kneeboard, Wakeboard and Biscuit. I also play basketball and Volleyball, which is fun. I use to play netball. I went Bungy Jumping at AJ Hackett Bungy in Queenstown. I Bungy Jumped at the end of 2007. It was super scary, as scary as friends telling spooky stories while camping out I the forest. My best memory I can remember was when me and my family went on a holiday to Cairns in Australia, in 2004. It was a land of Paradise. We sailed across the ocean on a ship until we got to a Island called Great Barrier Reef Island. First thing I remember was seeing all the fascinating fish in the water. They were all different colours. I shouted “Mum and Dad can we please, please, please go snorkeling now?” as excited as a little girl waiting in the line for a ride on a pony. When we were snorkeling I saw Starfish, Jellyfish, Tropical fish. When I was about to get out I saw a sting-ray so I swam as fast as I could to get out of the sea because I was scared. Snorkeling was so amazing, and I will never forget Cairns. I was born in Wellington, but then we moved to England then back to Wellington, then to England, then Switzerland. And now we moved back to New Zealand Cromwell at the end of 2004. Iv'e travelled all over the world. The places I remember going to was Thailand, Australia, Hawiie, Switzerland, England, Spain, Singapore and more but can't remember all of them because I was little. In Switzerland I use to go to a french speaking school. I lived in Switzerland for 3 years. We used to start school at 8am and finish at 4pm. And on Wednesday we finished school at 12 and had the afternoon off. We use to go home at lunch and had 2 hour lunchtimes. When I'm older I hope to go back to Switzerland and England to see all my old friends, and to see how much It's changed. I've been living my life to the full. My life has been very exciting. Traveling, sports, friends, and family are the best part of my life. Letter to Governor Grey Dear Governor Grey 11/5/1860
 * Description of Myself**

I am writing to you because I am concerned about the impact of New Zealand and the negative effect it may be having. Immigrants are taking over towns, cutting down trees, building houses that take up most of the land and the population is increasing rapidly. We also don't want New Zealand to end up over populated with no scenery.

I am concerned about the number of native trees being cut down to build houses and farms on because the immigrants couldn't find the land to build on. Their plan is to cut down 320000 hectares of native bush. For instance in native trees lived native birds like Kiwis, and if they cut down the trees then they would destroy their habitats. Also because when tourist's come there wouldn't be any native forest to sight see. This is important because when New Zealand becomes more populated and crowded New Zealand will start looking like England; dirty and houses too close together.

My second concern is that Maori are losing too much land and have lost control of New Zealand. Immigrants are controlling Maori by giving them bad jobs and building towns. For instance they are making them stop their lifestyle chores for new hardworking jobs, like building houses, cutting down trees, doctors and more. This is important information because Maori are sick of Immigrants controlling them when they came to New Zealand before everyone else, and they are happy with what they were doing before this.

Thirdly, I am concerned about the health of Maori. They are getting bad diseases. Dunedin is on a par with the unhealthiest English towns. One of the diseases they get is scarlet fever. The death rate is 79.1 per 10000 was almost nine times the London average at this time. Wellington is also dangerously dirty. For example, In Christchurch 49 people have died from a disease called Typhoid. Please keep the population down and keep the native trees so the atmosphere isn't polluted.

My conclusion is that we don't want New Zealand to end up like England, polluted and crowded. So if you sop cutting down the native trees, Being unfair to the Maori and building houses close to each other, Then we may never have to end up like that. If people build more farms instead of houses then there will be more food. That is all I hope for you to do.

Your sincerely,

Kaitlyn Bews   //**My Old Person Story**// 20/5/10

Arnold Rodge was a wise old man. With wrinkles all over his face and hair all over his arms and legs. He has big round glasses that look like Harry Potter glasses. His hair is grey, but half fallen out. He is also quite fat. He was an Old English bloke. He lived in England before he moved. Arnold's parents died when he was 3 in a severe house fire. Arnold lived with his Aunty Amber for 20 years. His school years were very hard for him. He got teased because he was poor and his clothes were ripped and baggy. He decided he needed a change so he left his Aunty at the age of 23 to move to New Zealand. He moved to New Zealand because he heard a rumor going around that gold mining was becoming very popular in Clyde. He became quite rich, because he found lots of gold. After 7 years of gold mining he met a girl called Rosemary, that he was very fond on. They did almost everything together. Walks on the beach to romantic dinners out. After three years together they got married. Arnold was very happy, he never got lonely anymore. His last 10 years were probably the best years of his life. He succeeded in everything. In 1965 they had their first son together named Arthur. He was a delight to there life. When Arthur grew up he started to work with Arnold gold mining in Clyde. But one horrific day Arthur was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The cliff fell and crushed Arthur. Arnold suffered from depression for a year after that. He had to get counseling for awhile. Arnold and Rosemary Rodge built a house, because they were expecting twin girls and wanted a big house for them to grow up in. They lived in Clyde. 7 months after living in there new house their baby girls were born. They named them Victoria and Julia Rodge. Arthur and Rosemary taught them well. They went to Clyde Primary then they went to Dunstan High School, Arthur had to drive them to Alexandra every morning before he went of to work. Alexandra was about a 7 minute drive from there house. When Victoria and Julia were 11 they started helping out on the chores. Like gardening, cooking and cleaning. When they grew up Victoria became a Nurse and Julia became a Accountant. Both of his daughters got married. Which made him very thrilled. When Arnold was 61 Victoria one of the twins, had a son named Patrick. Arthur was now a grandpa. He didn't really like the fact that he gets called grandpa. He said it made him feel old, he hated being called old. Arnold use to babysit his grandson Patrick, while Victoria was at work. Arnold use to bake Patrick food, take him for walks, play with him and teach him what to do and what not to do. He loved to spoil his grandson. After a joyful ten years Arthur was diagnosed with skin cancer. Rosemary was very upset. Everything turned into a bombshell. The doctors told Arthur that he only had 3 years to live and to live life to the full. So that's what Arthur did. He refused to have chemotherapy, he didn't want to go through the pain. He quit his job and his Daughter Julia came to live with Rosemary and Arthur. To look after Arthur while Rosemary was at work. 3 years and 2 months after he was diagnosed Arthur died. Arthur had a good, happy, long life. He lived life to the full and succeeded in most things.