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Athletics 2020

 

In 13th of November 2020 we had a very fun event, we call this Athletics day. it is the day where 4 teams compete for the best winning house, the teams were, Tobruk, Tripoli, Benghazi, Alamein. The point of the game is to get the most points for your team by playing field events such as shot put, discus, high jump, long jump and  standing jump. Aach team has a gazebo to stay on so people don't get sun burned.   

For the first game I did, was Shot Put the rules of this game is to places the shot by your shoulders and your not allowed to throw only push, whoever gets the farthest push wins the game and gets to represent their school. The next game I played was Standing Jump, the rules of standing jump is to jump where you were standing and no double movements. For the third game I played was discus, a tip for discus is to throw it at the right time and ahold it from the front. the  fourth game I played was long jump, long jump is a simple game all you need to do is run and try jump your farthest but you have to jump before the line but if you don't you get disqualified. The last game I played was high jump, for high jump you just have to jump over the pole then land on the soft mat, but the only technique you could do was scissors. after all of that then we had morning tea.

After morning tea we moved on too...RACING, first it was juniors first it goes to 5 year old boys/girls then to 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, there are a 50 meter race then 75 meter race then 100 meter race and a 400 meter race but that is only for the older people. But then in the end Alamein won then Benghazi then Tobruk then Tripoli

refugee summary

 Joseph:

Joseph is a refugee boy who lived in Germany, who wanted to leave to go to Cuba. he is jewish born in 1926, who has a friend called Klaus, sisters named Ruth, mom named Rachel and a dad named Auron. His dad was sent to a concentration camp. When his dad got let go from the camp he returned skinny and very spooked,they took a train to berlin to hamburg and shipped to Cuba. while they were in the boat  dad jumped out and got sent to prison(Cuba) and during that ship an old man died at the sea  and made a burial in the ocean. “Flashback” when he was still back in Cuba Joseph had a bar mitzvah which means that he turned 13 and he is a man now that can take care of his sister. When they got to Cuba they had to stay in the boat for weeks because they were not sure if they were allowed in. At the end Joseph sacrificed himself for her 4 year old sister and they were sent to concentration.

Isabel:

Isabel is one of the characters in refuge her dad tried to escape from Cuba and go to Florida because Syria had a civil war so they wanted to get away. They lived in a pink cinder block house, their money is called pesos. Then the dad tried before with him and other people, when they tried to escape the grandma drowned. The neighbour Ivan was Isabel's friend. Ivan’s dad was building a boat so they wanted to join them and help them. Isabel had a trumpet and a cat, Isabel went to buy some gas but she had no money so she traded her trumpet and her cat for some gas. On the boat was Lito, her grandpa, her mum who was pregnant, Ivan, luis he is a cop, luis’s girlfriend and seora castillo. But then he got caught by the police so the police shot at them, when they shot it hit the boat and it made holes so they covered it up with their sock. There were some problems like a hurricane and a cargo ship came and made a big wave and pushed them back. They landed at the wrong place and the tourist saw that the mum was pregnant and threw chips,water and pills. So they went off again on the way there Ivan and Isabel was pedalling and then a shark ate Ivan and Isabel jumped back in the boat and Luis shot the shark then more sharks came because of the blood. But then the sharks just left so they carried on then when they got there a coast guard saw them but if the coast guard catches them they will get sent back but if they make it they got to stay, that is called wet foot and dry foot but the coast guard was going to catch them but then Lito sacrificed himself by jumping out the boat and getting caught by the coast guard so they can make before they got to the land the baby was born and they named it after the grandma that drowned.

Mahmoud:

Mahmoud is a 12 year old boy who lived in a small destroyed city in Aleppo, a small town in Syria. Mamoud was Muslim boy and and prayed five times a day he also lived in a apartment with his family. One day his apartment got hit by a missile and they wanted to move into a new house that was far away from all the war and destruction, so they decided that they wanted to go to Germany. Mamoud’s friend got killed from a falling bomb from the sky, which left Mahmoud sad and it was made clear that Mamoud’s teacher didn’t like him. One day him and his family packed up to go to Germany but during their travels they were arrested. Mamoud and his family were put into jail in Austria for illegally crossing the border but were released roughly after a year. When the family were released then carried on in their travels eventually landing in Germany. Based on the story Mamoud and his family were living with an old elderly lady.