LAND AHOY!!!

On Tuesday 2nd of November we went to the museum to see the 'Land Ahoy' exhibit. I will tell you all about it. I thought it was quite cool but you might not! It started off like this, first we dressed up in old fashioned clothes. I wore a little fluffy hat, some frilly edge pants and a dress-like top that had frilly edges on the short sleeves. Then we got told about how 200 people got on a boat in England (London) to NZ to build a colony there. They had to put everything they needed in a trunk abou the size of my desk. The captain had these things; a map, a telescope and a compass. It took them 5 months to get there! The poor families had to go in one bed all together - imagine that! The only people who got to sleep by themselves were the rich people. Because they paid for it they got a bed to themselves, a small bookcase and some playing cards.

Guess what? We saw spew/vomit! It was disgusting!! Mr F took a picture of Ella, Katherines and I pretending to spew in to it. We also got to look through a real telescope from that actual boat. After that we tied reef knots with Mr F. Guess what foods they had to eat (not the rich people), rice, flour, porpoise heart (a dolphins heart) and they drank beer and wine. The poor people ate with rusty browny types of cuttlery while the rich people got to eat with china and crystal.

They took pine cones with them to grow pine trees and to make fires. They took apples to grow trees. We found out that the English are responsible for bringing stoats to NZ. It was really fun at the museum - I liked it!!

By Flora