Day 2 WLJ : New Zealand

IALT: write about what I am doing for Day 2 on WLJ.

Day #2: New Zealand by Land and Sea

After a short ride through Auckland it is time to start exploring the rest of the country. Today you are going to venture around the north island of New Zealand to look at active volcanoes, gorgeous beaches, windswept coastline and lush, green bush. As a group, you will start at Rangitoto, the largest volcano in New Zealand before driving west to Karekare, a stunning beach on the outskirts of Auckland. You will finish the day by driving north to visit Tane Mahuta, the oldest living kauri tree in New Zealand.

Activity 1: After a very busy day of sightseeing you and your group drive from Tane Mahuta to your hotel in Dargaville. When you arrive you decide to sit down and record your thoughts in your travel diary.

Before you start writing, take a minute to read more about Rangitoto island, Karekare beach and Tane Mahuta.  On your blog, tell us which of the three places you most enjoyed visiting and why.  

(A). While I was visiting the 3 places Rangitoto Island, Karekare Beach and the Tane Mahuta tree walk 1 adventurous visit was my best and that was the Karekare beach walk because I've never been there and it was a good time to experience what I haven't experienced.

Activity 2: As an island nation, New Zealand is completely surrounded by water. It is the perfect place for people who like to swim or to sail! While in Dargaville, recovering from your busy day of sightseeing, you notice a number sailboats going by. One of the boats is manned by a young German girl named Laura Dekker. At the age of fourteen she sailed around the world the entire world by herself. You can watch a short video clip about her adventures here: Laura Dekker sailing trip.   

Let’s imagine that you had the chance to interview Laura while in Dargaville. On your blog post five questions that you would ask her.

1. Why did you want to become a Sailor?
2. Who are you inspired by?
3. Why did you sail past New Zealand?
4. What was your favorite country/city you been to and why?
5. How long did it take you to sail around the whole world.

There are my questions for Laura if I got to interview her in real life.

Bonus Activity: When you finish your interview with Laura, you decide to keep on interviewing people. For this activity, your task is to conduct a real interview with an actual member of your family. Please ask them to think about their five (5) favourite things to do in the out-of-doors. They can be things that they enjoy doing on land or in the water. Post the list of outdoor activities on your blog.

Today this activity was to interview 1 family member of my family and I chose my brother. The brother I chose was Saia and hes a a student that currently attends Auckland University. The 5 questions I prepared to ask him was,

• What is your favorite sport?:-: His favorite sport is Netball
• Why is netball your favorite sport?:-: I'm not sure I just really like playing the sport
• What position do you play in netball?:-: Goal Shoot,Goal Attack and more
• Do you have any up coming netball games? and Where?:-: My next game is in Tonga and I am playing for Tonga
• What netball team are you in?:-: The Tongan team.

Bonus Activity: 10 points

After this we had to go back to sleep for our next trip for tomorrow.

What I found challenging was asking my brother the questions because he was very busy and I couldn't really ask him. What I enjoyed was getting to know that a 16 year old sailed the whole world by herself. What m next step is to try think outside of the box for questions.

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