Massive earthquake hits Iran.

The country Iran has been hit by their biggest earthquake in 40 years. The earthquake was a 7.8 magnitude and near the south-east city of Khash. 40 people were killed and up to 1000 mud homes were destroyed and damaged and 5 people were killed in pakistan. Offices evacuated in Abu Dhabi and tall buildings in the Indian capital Delhi swayed side to side, but did not fall down. The Iranian Red Crescent aid was sending 20 search and rescue teams with 3 helicopters.

My opinan
I think that it is a very big earth quake, and they are lucky to have not had more people die.

Argument over world's smallest park.

Two countries, Britain and America are arguing over who has the world's smallest park. One in Portland Oregon has a concrete platter that is approximately 0.6 meters in diameter, with some soil and plants, The Guinness Book Of Records says that that park is the smallest. In england, they have a park that is 4.5 meters by 9 meters, but there point that they are arguing is whether Americas park is even a park at all.

My Opinion
I think that America's "park" is not a park at all, it only has a few plants and some soil. Where as Britain park is 4.5 meters by 9 meters. I also think that that is a stupid point to argue about.

Dog eats $500 of real money

A US man had left his dog Sundance alone in his car and he ate $500 in cash. Wayne (The owner) had gone to a restaurant for his dinner and Sundance decided it was his dinner time too. The owner collected the pieces of the five $100 bills out of the dogs droppings and sent them to the US Treasure Department and Wayne hopes that they will replace the pieces of money for the lost $500 but Wayne has been told that the process of changing the money could take up to 2 years.

My opinion
I think that it is quite funny that his dog ate $500 but also I feel sorry for Wayne because he has lost that much money and it will take 2 years to get it back.

Plane craches off runway in Bali

At Bali airport on the Lion Airline a plane crashed into the see after it ran short of the runway at the airport and plunged into the sea. There were one hundred and one passengers on the plane and seven crew members, everyone survived but people say that others were injured. The plane was trying to land at Denpasar's Ngurah Rai international airport and photographs on an Indonesia television shows that the plane had split in half just below the wings. The Lion airline is banned from the European and US airspace due to safety concerns.

My opinan
I think that everyone is very lucky to have survived also I think that it is very lucky that there were not many more people on the plane.

MasterChef: A rude ending to Dana's dream

23 year old Dana Leaming thinks it is a bit rude how she gets into the MasterChef competition to cook in the MasterChef kitchen then gets booted out because she gets eliminated, she said that her first overseas trip is snatched out of her hand and she has to go back home again. Dana said it is like a group of kids getting invited to go into a big candy store but then they would say "We are joking" and rub it in their faces.

Homework

Amount

We think that 30-45 minutes every weeknight is a reasonable expectation for homework. Per week that equals approximately 2.5 hours per week of homework.

2 terms = 20 weeks. Every homework task should take you 5 hours to do.

Quality

You need to work on each homework task for at least 2.5 to 5 hours. It should like it was done by a year 8 student. The product you make (if relevant) should look good quality.

Blog Post

- must be at least 2 paragraphs

- has to be punctuated correctly, spell checked and no errors

- you must include which category and task number in your post title so Miss C can sign you off.

Tokoroa house goes up in flames.

In Tokoroa in a street called Dalmeny Street a house went up in flames at 6:40 pm yesterday. The fire killed one person and leaving another man fighting for his life in Waikato Hospital last night, he has serious burns and had to have light surgery. A neighbor heard the bang and ran outside to see 100 meters away there was a house alight. Police are investigating what caused the fire from this morning on.

My opinion
I think that it is very tragic that one person died and one badly injured, I also wonder what caused the fire.

Balloon man floats for 8km

Yesterday Matt Silver-Vallance from South Africa has floated 8 kilometers into the air using 200 helium-filled balloons. Matt Silver-Vallance was raising money to help build a children's hospital in the city Johannesburg in South Africa. When he landed he said that he could not wait to get back on his feet on solid ground.

Opinion: I think that he is a very brave man, and kind for raising money for a children's hospital.