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=__Penpal Letter__ = This is my penpal letter that we did in term 2. We choose a school from a country and I chose Athena Middle School (which is in greece).

Yasmin Lim Somerville Intermediate School Room 17 39 Somerville Road Whitford 2014 Auckland New Zealand

May 2011

Dear: Student

Subject: Pen pal Request

Hello, my name is Yasmin Lim, I’m 12 yrs. old, a girl and I’m a student a Somerville Intermediate School. I am writing this letter for a boy or girl pen pal request and someone who is the same age as me.

I have very dark brown hair that almost looks black and my eyes are also brown. My Mother is kiwi (from New Zealand) and my Farther is Malaysian (from Malaysia). I also have an older brother and sister which makes me the youngest. I have a cat who I’ve had since I was about 3 yrs. old and her name is Fairy. Fairy is turning 9 this year and she is not like other cats as she doesn’t have a tail!

One of my favourite things that I like to do is DANCE! I have been doing dance since I was about 4 yrs. old so I have been doing it for a very long time. The style of dance I do is ballet and I have my pointe shoes this year. I also really enjoy cooking and I have some good and not so good moments. My favourite food is sushi and I really want to learn how to make it so I can eat it all the time. I spend most of my time either on the computer or doing homework but I mostly play on my Nintendo DS. My favourite T.V show is Glee! My favourite singer is Katy Perry and Bruno Mars. I have never missed an episode of Glee and I even have a Glee jumper. I have lots of favourite animals. My favourite land animals are elephants and giraffe. My favourite Sea animal is a sea otter.

Here are somethings I dislike... spiders, ugly bugs, horror movies, people who over play songs, pickles and homework (sometimes). There is one thing in the world that I love the most which is.... SNOOPY!! The cute dog from peanuts (the comics) and I am obsessed! I’ve been collecting little snoopy figures and each one is dressed differently and I now have a total of 52! I also enjoy collecting hats and bags.

New Zealand is a beautiful country and I love it here, so I would love to hear about you and your life GOODBYE!!!

Yours sincerely

Yasmin Lim = = =__My Slice of Life__ =

__Conquering My Fears __
= = "BA, BOOM, BO, BOOM", i nervously looked up at the open hatch above me "one more step to the top" i thought to myself.

I took a deep breath and went up to the top of the abseiling wall, a cool, summers, breeze blew through my hair as I look over the edge of the massive wall anxiously. I then sat down, waiting for my turn as my heart started to relax like a sun slowly setting."Next" said the instructor, i got up feeling confident, "CLICK", she clicked the ropes onto my harness i then started to walk backwards of the wall slow as a snail. I reached the edge of the wall and i could faintly hear people yelling "you can do it Yasmin, don't look down".

I then took my time walking down the wall hoping I wouldn't slip and my hands and back started to ache. As I walked down the wall further. Soon I started to bounce down the wall and i wasn't as scared anymore.

"WHAT A RELIEF" I THOUGHT TO MYSELF WHEN I REACHED THE BOTTOM OF THE WALL. A taste of victory filled my mouth with joy. The thrill was over i conquered my fear of the abseiling wall!!!

=__My Speech 2011, Ghost__ =


 * (Ghostbusters theme song-intro)**

Anyway did you ever wonder who spilt the milk or who knocked the book off the shelf, you ask everyone but they all say “I didn’t do it” and you suspect one person... but did you ever suspect... a GHOST!? I don’t think so!

Yes, you guessed it today I’m talking to you about ghosts. Haunting? Yes, Scary? to me... totally. Why, well have you ever been laying in bed and the house creaks, you think you can hear foot steps walking up and down hallway or when you get goosebumps when you hear the door screech like a spooky mansion, Because I know i have. But fact or fiction, did someone just make it all up when creating a horror film or are they really real?

So, do any of you believe ghosts? Did you know there is a group of people called the GHNZ, which stand for ghost hunters and obviously New Zealand. The GHNZ specialize in hunting ghosts and paranormal activity. It was found by Dave Clipsom in 2006, as ghost hunting was found in early 2005. The GHNZ originally did paranormal investigations which where hunting, and the would look at paranormal activity if anything like that was reported. Unlike the movies when they hired people to do a job like this the GHNZ never charged people for the work they did. Also they organization was completely self funded by Dave Clipson.

Everyone as heard of Casper right? I mean seriously a friendly ghost? Is there even such a thing, come on aren’t ghost suppose to be spooky, scary or creepy. So Casper, the non scary ghost was created by Seymour Reit and Joe Orido in the middle of the 1930’s to portray as a friendly, caring ghost towards adults and children. And then there was the Ghostly Trio also known as Fatso, Fusso and Lazo. These nasty 3 ghosts were Casper's uncles, who teased him... a lot, as Casper had a kind, generous personality.

And, well why are we scared of ghosts if we don’t know if there real or not. I mean have ghosts really earned the reputation of being harmful to humans? Some people or even ghosts inspectors run like scared little rabbits when they hear or see something unexpected. Because say your at home alone, at night and your house is known as the haunted house. I bet then you would be scared. But I’m sure a ghost wouldn’t come out from a book shelf and haunt you.

So, there are actually people who hunt ghosts, But real ghosts? I mean come on do you think there is such a thing and as I said before fact or fiction, did someone just make them up or are they real?



