Letter

The Department Store

335-337 The Parade

Beachtown

Auckland 1111

ph: 09 889 8899

email: thedepartmentstore@email.com.nz

web: thedepartmentstore.com.nz

Greetings Mr Jack Sampson,

RE: Bad Customer Service

My sincere apologies about the actions that our staff member had performed we will take action and let the person know they were in the fault. We will also like to give you a voucher in addition for the bad experience and we wish to see you here again.

Thanks

Rebecca Smith

Manager - Footwear

The Department Store

English Questions

1. Where does Gran Torino take place? When? - Highland Park, Detroit, Michigan. 1972 
2. What is significant about this setting? Walt took part in the Korean war and had made an effort to civilise with Koreans. Walt had also made an effort to help change the youth.
3. What do you think is Walt’s motivation for mentoring Tao? - to make him a man and not a criminal 
4. How does Walt feel about Sue compared to her brother Tao, in the beginning? Why do you think he feels this way? Walt thinks that tao is slow and sue is all right kid
5. How does Walt feel about his own family? How is this different from the way his neighbours treat the idea of family? - He finds his Kids annoying and his Grandkids Disrespectful 
6. What are some customs which Walt’s neighbours have which surprise him? - that they killed that chicken thing and touching children's heads is bad
7. Have you ever experienced “culture shock” or been surprised by a cultural practice which is different from your own? What surprised you and why? I went to Auckland and they are rude up there, those pricks
8. What is the purpose of the priest character? How would the film be different if this character was not included in the story? - to be a dick and explain walt's relationship with his wife
9. How is Walt affected by his experiences by his experience at war? - He had killed a Korean boy that had surrendered to him during the war and that affected him during the rest of his lifetime because he killed an innocent citizen
10. What do you think is the director’s view of gang culture? How do you know? He finds that violence does not solve every problem but resorts to violence to show a true understanding of life and death. He wanted to show that that being violent is not the answer, therefore, he had made it so Walt sacrifices himself to end the violence that was brought to the Hmong people.
11. Why do you think the film is called Gran Torino? What is the significance of the title? - The Gran Torino is the car that Walt owns and gives to tao when he dies.
12. What is the role of religion in this film? Christianity because Walt offers his life to lose his sins in order to suppress the violence in his neighbourhood. His wife used to take him to church and he believed it would’ve been good if he did what his wife asked.

2019 Home Economics Level 1

8/2/19

Chicken chow mein

Small cabbage wedge

1 c of vegetables ( courgette, broccoli, cauliflower, beans, mushrooms)

1 carrot

1 small onion

1 chicken breast – shredded

1pkt instant noodles

1T cornflour

½t chicken stock powder

1T soy sauce

½ C water

Method

1. Make Sauce: in a small bowl stir together the cornflour, chicken stock powder, soy sauce, flavour sachet from instant noodles and water and leave to the side.
2. Wash and prepare the vegetables
1. Chop the onion
2. Cut the carrots into thick sticks
3. Break the cauliflower and broccoli into florets
4. Shred the cabbage
5. Slice Mushrooms/capsicums/courgettes
3. Cook then shred the cooked chicken with two forks
4. Heat oil in frypan or wok
5. Cook the onion for 2-3 minutes. Add the carrots and cook a further 2mins, then add the remaining vegetables and stir-fry for another 2min.
6. Add the shredded chicken, instant noodles and sauce and stir to combine.
7. Stir in another cup of hot water. Heat through until hot
8. Serve immediately

Personal Safety:

Wash my hands before and after touching raw meats during the practical.

Communicating with the team a lot more if food is burning.

Food Safety:

Making sure the food is cooked to the right temperature.

Checking if the food is cooked round the right temperature.

Trying samples of the food to see if the food is tasting right.

Hygiene:

Washing hands

Wiping down the benches

Cleaning the dishes properly

What improvements could be made next time?

More communication

Cleaning the dishes properly

Be more active

Digital World Reflection Blog

In the past 5 weeks in digital world we have been learning how to make a augmented reality sandbox. We have been researching how to make a layout for the sandbox and there are 3 groups working on projects in each group there are people assigned to different tasks. The digital group researches about the things you need to run a program to create the augmented reality sandbox. The program used is called linux and acts like a new setup of a software. The people in the digital part had to try and contact different companies and ask for white sand but only a few of them replied but they weren't giving the white sand away for free so a few people were sent to the beach to collect sand for this project and we had to clean it to make sure it was smooth sand so it could be projected onto. We have made tables to hold the sand and a bar above it to hold the kinect sensor and projector. There was only enough sand for 2 groups unfortunately but everyone is able to experience it still. There were problems with the software that we were using so we weren't able to set it up as soon as everything was done.
The good things that happened were the tables were successfully built and we could hang the projector and kinect sensor up without them falling off. We managed to get sand for the project aswell.
The bad things were that we did not have enough sand for every group. We couldnt troubleshoot the problem in time for the presentation day.

Here are some photos:

Class Essay Questions - English

English Persuasive Writing

Living on the coast is better than living in the mountains



Living on the coast would be better than living in the mountains because if there was a earthquake the mountain rubble could crash on to your house and destroy it but also if your living on the coast there could be a possibility of a flood happening and it would make your house collapse by the force of the water. In Christchurch its safer to live on the coast part because barley any floods happen and it wouldnt be safer to live in the mountains because alot of earthquakes happen. Living on the coast you could have heaps of opportunities to do with your family like go to the beach and go swimming or play volleyball or play with the sand. Living in the mountains you don´t have much stuff to do you could go mountain climbing and biking.

English Persuasive Writing

Summer Is The Best Season Of The Year

Summer is the best season because you can do more activities, it is when we take holidays, and because itś good for growing plants.  

Summer is the best season of the year because you have more opportunitesto do stuff like swimming in the hot weather or you could go out on a nice walk or even chill at the beach with some friends. In contrast, taking walks and swimming at the beach would be terrible in thw winter.

Summer is also good for students because they get 3 months of holidays to do whatever they want. They can go on vacation, they can play their consoles all night long and you can go to the beach everyday.

Summer is very good for growing plants because they would get alot of sun to grow and keep healthy. You can grow tomatos, lettuce, cucumber and watermelon.

Summer is by far the best season. This is because we can have more fun and do a lot more stuff, and we get a long break off school, we can grow heaps of plants.