In class we watched this video. It is about a lion called Christian. I thought the movie was very moving and It was the start of something greater. It showed that animals deserve their freedom.

After watching this video we were told to find something similar. I couldn't find anything good but this is what I came up with.

Damien Mander set himself a mission, a mission to prevent the poaching of the black rhino.
He has started up a foundation that provides free training in preventing poaching this foundation is called IAPF (International Anti-Poaching Foundation). He has been following through on this mission since 2009, but it is a tough job. The black rhino horn can be worth more than gold or cocaine on some black markets, from $30 - $130 per gram.
The high demand for the horn is because of the use of it in medicine, although the horn has not been proven to work the myth still stands strong.
A rhino is killed every 15 hours illegally. At this rate the Black Rhino will be extinct by 2031. The amount of rhinos that have died has been immense, over the last 50 years an estimated 997500 have died.
I think that this is really sad. Go IAPF!
RHINOS FOR THE WIN

Dear Willem,

How is ya? That is currently my favourite way to greet people. What is yours? My favourite word is sebum. Do you have a favourite word? Do they have donuts in the future? Did we fail school? If so please tell me why. If time machines are ever invented please warp back to this moment in time, 15th February 2013A.D 2:40 pm, in the 5-8 building. I want to know everything!!

At the moment I have 10 fingers, 10 toes, 1 face, 2 ears and 1 healthy-ish body. Does any of this change in the future? I want to be a good person in the future and I hope I am still  living up to that! How many people are on earth in your time? We have about 7,000,000,000 people at our present time. I would be curious to know. What job do you have? Do cars fly in the future, because when people say future hover cars always come to mind. Will you ever read this in twenty years because they will probably have a more advanced kind of "internet."
The best bit of being young is knowing that I have a long way to go with a lot of different possibilities ahead of me.

The answers to all these questions must be answered and more questions will come when you get here. If ever.

From,
        Will                                                      15/2/13                                                             2:21pm

Over this last week and a bit I have learnt that while the thumbs up in Autralia means good work it actually means the same as the middle finger in Iraq and Iran. Another example is the "okay" sign, here it means ok while in Venezuela and Turkey it means homosexual. So if you are ever in a different country or even hanging around people from a different culture please be aware of what body language means around those people.

Over the next couple of weeks I would like to learn about what other cultures do in terms of entertainment and traditions. What kind of dances they do (if any), do they do specific things to ward off evil? I don't know.That is what I want to learn about over the couple of weeks.