Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Friday, April 8, 2011

September Earthquake

It was 4.35am and I was fast asleep then all of a sudden my bed started shaking.I was still half asleep and then I realised it was a earthquake. I started screaming and then my dad picked me up and cared me to the door frame. when I got to the door frame,the earthquake had finished and I saw my mum at the door frame with my sister under her door frame. We all stood under the door frame for about an hour while still having aftershocks. My mum and dad went to get a torch and we stood for another 15 minutes still under the door frames with our touches. We all went into mum and dads room to sleep.when we woke up we went to have a look at the damage. were broken pieces of glass off mums vases that her gran gave her. we went to have a look in the in the the pantry and we couldn't even open the door because everything had fallen on the floor -what a mess with food broken crockery and it smelt. there was a shelf in the in the garage and it had buckets of paint and it fell on dads truck.luckily only one bucket opened but there were lots of dints on dads truck. Later on that Saturday Natalie my friend came around with her dad.her dad spread chicken manure on our paddocks in a big. Natalie and I were talking nonstop about the earthquake we still had no power and they said we were going to have another big aftershock so we packed up including our dogs and left for Ashburton to stay with our Nana.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tekon-tustle-toor

Today while I was slowly nevertheless carefully creeping up the steep rock about two metres away from the top of Jelly mountain, something pounced at me and all these thoughts suddenly rushed through my brainy head and, honestly, I thought I was going to die! the creature slowly eased away from me as I eased away from him, terrified. Meanwhile the strange mammal was smiling at me from ear to ear and thats when I realised it was not smiling at me, it was smiling at Maria's dairy which I happened to be holding at the time.

It must have thought I knew Maria because it suddenly did the strangest thing.I held out the diary thus it was in the creature's reach and it took the book by its mouth, put it on the ground, later that moment it came and amusingly fell asleep on my lap.

Thats when I realised the mammal was a Tekon-tustle-toor!The creature was not fierce,it was as calm a an enraged fish!
Therefore when you go to Jelly mountain,DO NOT kill, treasure, these endagered species. What exeptional animals we have got!

Alara