Flax

Ida

Chapter

I was getting frustrated with my husband. I

wanted to get away from Mr Piggy but I

knew that it wouldn’t be easy. If I leave I

wouldn't have much money and Mr Piggy

could beat and force me to stay. I thought

that if I let the children go then he might

stop what he’s doing.

I also thought that if I tried to burn everything down Piggy wouldn’t have

any choice but to leave me.

After I let the kids go Piggy was mad at me

and wanted to get rid of me in the most

gruesome way possible. In my head I was

thinking that I had to get away. I waited in my

room until night and tried to leave but Mr Piggy

had locked my door and put metal bars over the

windows. I then remembered that I had dug an

emergency tunnel incase of an emergency.

I climbed down the ladder into a little tunnel

about 6 feet high. 

I made my way through the wet gloomy

tunnel. I eventually made it to the end and

went up the ladder that led into one of the

barns. I got into my car and drove off as

fast as I could. I think Piggy heard my car

and might have tried to follow me but it was

dark and he couldn't find me.

A few years later Mrs Piggy had changed

her name and married a nice man and

forgot about Piggy Bacon and lived happily

ever after.

What happens in the book

When Mr Piggy left, Mrs Piggy was nicer to

the kids and didn’t make them do as much

work. 

When a spider stung me Mrs Piggy would

sit next to me and comfort me.

After Wes died Mrs Piggy wouldn't

speak as much and be more solemn.

She wouldn’t play music anymore.

Ida became angry and tried to burn

the building down.

Ida wanted to let us go but Mr Piggy

wouldn’t allow it. Ida unlocked the door to let them escape.

Ida gave me my lucky key that Mr

Piggy threw away.

Paralympics

 At this year's Paralympics we won 12 medals and 6 of them were gold. Sophie Pascoe won most of them. At the last Paralympics we won 21 at Reo.

Holly Robinson is the only West Coast athlete competing. She took her first gold in javelin. Her first phone call was to her grandmother who lives in Hokitika. They were both crying with happiness.

Paralympics

 At the Olympics there were temporary rooms to accommodate 11,656 athletes. The beds were made out of cardboard so they could recycle them. The beds could hold up to 200kg.

They are going to sell the rooms the athletes slept in after the Olympics.

Paralympics

Real life compared to Running Wild

 In the book Running Wild written by Michael Morpurgo the main character Will experiences poaching. Will and his elephant Oona ran away from a tsunami and got lost in the jungle. Will got kidnapped by poachers and put into a cage where he then escaped.  

Poaching is where someone kills an animal for the expensive parts to sell illegally. Elephants are poached for the ivory in their tusks because it can be worth a substantial amount of money. A single pound of ivory can be worth around $1,500 and tusks can weigh around 250 pounds which would cost about $375,000.

In the book Running Wild they are poaching for orangutans and tigers.

Orangutans are worth about $217.60 And tiger skins are worth $124,000 and a stuffed tiger is worth $700,000. Those prices are phenomenal for an animal. 

For example the elephant tusks are worth about 375,00 dollars and a mini yacht goes from $300,000 to $5,000,000. You could buy 9 Teslas from two elephant tusks. 

Poaching is a serious problem because lots of animal species are going extinct. The governments are trying to stop poaching but there are so many places to poach it’s really hard. 

There are 30,000 species of animals that have gone extinct due to poaching. There are around 300 species that go extinct every year around the world.

In New Zealand there are animals that are getting poached such as geckos, exotic parrots, tuatara and native species. If you are caught poaching in New Zealand you can go to jail for two years or pay a  $100,000 fine. 

There are people who are paid to stop poaching. In some countries there are rangers and in New Zealand DOC would report you to the police. 

Poachers in New Zealand have to battle through wet weather, raging rivers and lack of food being up in the bush for long periods of time. 

In nearly every country you go to there would be poachers poaching animals that are valuable. 

Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals. The term poaching has also been used to refer to the harvesting of wild plant species.

There are problems that poachers have to face like rangers. Poachers have to deal with harsh conditions, not much money and the animals don't just stand there asking to be captured. If you shoot an elephant there is a chance that it could crage at you, killing you.  If you were hunting tigers there could be other tigers that could attack you. If you were hunting crocodiles there could be other crocodiles that could attack you.

One of the animals that is extinct mostly due to poaching is the Tasmanian tiger. The Tasmanian tiger was last sighted in 1930. There have been people who say they saw a Tasmanian tiger but the doubt’s on that they didn’t.

If the human race keeps on killing all the animals there won't be many animals left and the ecosystem could be destroyed. When their habitats are destroyed poachers could try and catch them.

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