Homework

Ship sinks in 10 mins

Good morning Rm 17. Today I am going to speak to you about the sinking of a fishing vessel, the Oyang 70.

On Wednesday, 18 August at 4:37am a mayday call was received from the ship. It was 750km off the coast of Dunedin and was thought to be pulling in fishing gear when it capsized.

A nearby vessel was quickly on the scene and managed to pick up 45 of the crew members which had made it into life rafts from the sinking ship. Unfortunately, six crew members died. Three bodies were recovered from the area where the ship went down and another three, including the ship’s captain, have not been found yet. It is presumed that they have drowned.

The survivor’s were then brought back to Lyttelton on the rescue ship. They were mainly Filipino and Chinese men and would have returned to their home countries by now.

An investigation into the accident is currently underway, but this may take up to 5 months to complete.

Homework

HOT ICE

You will need:

-sodium acetate

-water

-saucepan

1. Dissolve sodium acetate in near boiling water. Do this until no more goes into the liquid

2. Stir constantly

3. When dissolved pour into glass

4. Cool in fridge

5. Make sure undissolved chemical stays in pan

6. pour into tray

7. touch it

“Hot Ice” Explanation:

There is no chemical reaction. The “hot ice” process is just re-crystallisation that happens to be exothermic. Exothermic means that energy is produced, in this situation the energy produced is heat. This trick works because sodium acetate is made up of tiny crystals

The boiling solution of sodium acetate becomes supersaturated which means that it contains more of the dissolved crystals than it normally could. (This is because we boiled the water)

When you touch the surface of the clear solution it begins to crystallise and you've made what appears to be hot ice! This is because the crystallised sodium acetate looks like ice and, since the crystallization process is exothermic, it feels warm to the touch.

Homework

My Australian Adventure

On the 30th of July I went on holiday to see my Dad in Brisbane Australia, but I didn’t realise how adventurous my holiday was going to be!!!!

A couple of hours into my flight on Air New Zealand, the pilot spoke on the loud speaker and told us that Brisbane Airport was closed because of Fog and we weren’t going to be able to land, so we would fly to Sydney instead!!!

I thought, “oh my goodness – I just want to go to Brisbane”, at the same time I thought it was pretty cool we were going to go to Sydney!!!!

As we were coming into land into Sydney, I saw the Sydney Opera House and Sydney looked huge!!!

I was travelling as an unaccompanied minor.

When we landed in Sydney, I was taken to an unaccompanied minor room and waited for several hours, with another boy, who was travelling as an unaccompanied minor to Brisbane as well, until we got on a Qantas flight and flew to Brisbane.

It was a very long day, Mum had woken me up at 3:30 in the morning, to go to Christchurch airport, and I finally landed in Brisbane at 2:30 in the afternoon, local time, which was 4:30 in the afternoon, Christchurch time.

It was just the beginning of an exciting holiday though, I went to Dreamworld twice, the movies and lots and lots of Thai!!!

It’s nice to be home, but I can’t wait for my next adventure!!!