Reading Log #6

Reading Log #6

Title: 'It was everywhere': Australian woman's body scan comes back stained with black

Author: Kate Aubusson

Text type: Article

Date finished: 22/09/17

This article is about a 53 year old woman who had just got a body scan and found out that she had stage four diffuse B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Meaning cancer. She didn't realize she had cancer until the scan showed the black marks all over her body scan. "It was everywhere. There was so much in there and I hadn't known I was sick." My mum's step brother died of cancer a few years ago and was fighting it for roughly 5 years. It is really sad to lose someone to something so dreadful.

Reading Log #5

Reading Log #5

Movie name: IT (2017)

Director: Andrés Muschietti

Genre: Horror

Date finished: 20/09/17

Seven young kids in Derry, Maine, faced their worst nightmare. An ancient shapeshifting evil creature emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children. Getting together over the horrifying summer, the friends had to get over their personal fears to battle the murderous, bloodthirsty clown known as Pennywise. At the end of the movie, they scared off Pennywise because they weren't scared of him anymore and that made Pennywise scared. In my own experiences, I've had to overcome my fears about a week ago when my Youth Group went to clip n climb, I was stuck on the pillars and I wouldn't get down off the pillars because I was afraid that the machine that was holding me up would break and I'd fall to my death. I eventually got rid of that fear and slid down the pole instead of jumping.

I can relate to Bill Denbrough. He has that character that cares about his friends and family and will put them all in danger just to save one person. His little brother Georgie went missing and he didn't know how he did until he found Pennywise. He tried everything to try and rescue his little brother and risked his friends life but in the end he couldn't rescue him. I find this really sad that Bill couldn't be with Georgie anymore and I have a similar situation. I have a little sister called Crystal, she's only four years old and I haven't seen her in two months. Me and her have that bond where if we don't see each other we feel lost. Mum messaged me saying that Crystal misses me but I can't go see her. I feel like this is similar to Bill and Georgie. At the end of the movie, Bill finds the paper boat he made for Georgie and breaks down crying because that is the day Georgie goes missing.. 

Reading log #4

Reading Log #4

Title: Five-year-old and two other Porirua children 'lucky to survive' after ingesting synthetic drug
Author: Jarrod Nicoll 

Text type: Article

Date finished: 21/09/17

This article is about three kids aged 5, 8 and 13. They had to go to hospital and were very lucky to survive because they ingested synthetic cannabis. "The children were not smoking it. We are still working through how it got in their bodies" says Detective Senior Sergeant Grant Ferguson. In my opinion, the kids found the synthetic drug at home and thought it was food and decided to eat it, meaning the parents are responsible for having use of a Class A drug inside their house for kids to find.

Drug use in New Zealand is starting to get out of hand. 'The Porirua sample contained a synthetic cannabanoid called 5F-ADB, which was linked to the unexplained overdose deaths of 10 people in Japan in 2014, Bell said.' Teenagers have been heard of doing Class A drugs like LSD and magic mushrooms. Things like this are really bad for a teenagers mental and physical health because they are still growing until late 20s. So by them taking drugs will make them less motivated to do anything in the long run.   

Reading log #3

Reading log #3 

Title: Doctor Who, Monstrous Missions

Author: Gary Russell and Jonathan Green

Text type: Novel

Date finished: 16/09/17

Doctor Who was an interesting novel. It gave that feeling that I was inside the novel talking about the experiences that were going on around me. The main character was called the Doctor and he was really weird, doing things out of the extraordinary. '"I'd hold onto something if I were you" the Doctor said, doing another manic circuit of the control console.' Is one of the lines in this novel that made the Doctor seem 'extraordinary' in a way where it made the novel interesting.

Doctor Who from my experience of reading the book made me want to keep reading it because it drew my attention by expressing things more than what a normal novel would. It made reading the book fun and brung a new sense of humour that I haven't read yet. '"That tree!" the Doctor said, pointing to the low-hanging branches of another cypress. "Get climbing!"' This is a quite funny because they are trying to hide from dinosaurs, and climbing up a low tree won't necessarily hide you from dinosaurs.