The saddest day in my entire life :(

One day I woke up and thought it was going to be a nice day playing some games maybe a bike ride

but no, I was wrong.

I woke up as usual got dressed, had my breakfast but my parents had to tell me something very disappointing and upsetting. My Karate club has closed down forever! I was shocked, I was not prepared for that. Karate is my biggest hobby. I have been doing for 5 years (half my life). 

Even worse though........... I was 2 belts away from my black belt!!! (7 months). I felt like all that time, hundreds of hours had just gone to waste. My parents explained to me that it was not a waste.

I have still got loads of skills I have learnt over the years: Respect, self confidence and many more.

I had a goal in life, it was to reach my black belt and I am still going to achieve it. Even if I have to restart in a new club and go through another 5 years. I will reach my goal eventually.

Another way of saying it is: you're in a car, you need to get to your destination, you are on your way 

but you hit a road blockage that stopped you. you can go around the blockage but it will take longer. 

Are you going to go around the blockage or give up? Let me know in the comments or if you are in a similar situation let me know.

This is just a message to let you know that there are obstacles in life sometimes, but if you want something so badly don't give up.

Funny home baking

In my long weekend (4 days) I made some funny cupcakes with my mum. Here is a picture, what do you think?!

The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

  

The Sinking of the 

Rainbow Warrior

On 10th July 1985, the Greenpeace vessel called the Rainbow   Warrior was departing on another human rights protest by sailing out   to the Mururoa Atoll and to stop the French from detonating another   nuclear bomb in the Pacific Ocean. Greenpeace is often described   as the largest environmental organisation in the world with offices in 39 countries. However, the Rainbow Warrior was sunk at the port of   Auckland by French Secret Service (DGSE) agents before the ship could depart. 

The Rainbow Warrior sunk and killed 1 person: Fernando Pereira.

A portuguese photographer that drowned when the bomb exploded. The hole where the bomb went off was roughly the size of a car!

France’s point of view

France did not want to let New Zealand interfere with the nuclear testing going on in the Pacific ocean. A spy called Christine Cabon entered New Zealand and introduced herself to Greenpeace under the name of Frederique Bonlieu. She explained that she was very passionate about the environment and wanted to volunteer. Six weeks later Christine Cabon Departed and left New Zealand. Therefore, France got many ideas of what New Zealand was departing on the next protest and how France could sabotage it. Apparently nobody was meant to lose their life. The first mine was supposed to crumple the hull so the people on board would have enough time to get off before the second mine detonated. But instead, the first mine detonated and left a gigantic hole in the boat 7 minutes later the second mine went off and then 4 minutes after that the Rainbow Warrior sunk.

New Zealand point of view

New Zealand was very, very upset when they found out one of their allies had betrayed them. The skipper of the Rainbow Warrior called Peter Willox says he will always state the operation by France was murder. The people of New Zealand consider the bombing of the boat terrorism.

Remake of the Rainbow Warrior

I having a super fun bike ride

I have not gone out of my house for almost a week now so my mum suggested that we to go on a bike
ride. But before we went my brother had to pump up my tyres because it was only 25 PSI 

(pounds per square inch). Finally we set off.

Since I have not been out for a week I really noticed how beautiful the outside world is. I see that the leaves are green, red, orange, or yellow. I heard the birds chirping loudly and I smell the fresh gorgeous air. There were more cars than last week though even though we were not going down an alert level for another week. It feels like people seem to think that they are relaxing the rules a little bit.

I really miss being with my friends at school and I hope things turn back to normal now.

How soap works

        How does soap work?

Soap has been around for thousands of years. It is simply made out of an acid and a base. The acid is actually fatty acids. Combined with Triglycerides (a fat that is found inside your blood). Also the base is just Sodium hyperoxide. When these ingredients are mixed together and then the saponification reaction happens. Fatty acids separate from the Triglycerides and fuse to the hydroxide ions. Forming, soap.

When your washing practically anything with soap, it is doing a couple of things: First, it is decreasing the surface tension of the water. Second, it is binding to dirt, oil, bacteria etc. soap has a chain of connected oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen atoms.

One end of this chain is attracted to oils. And the other end is attracted to water. So when you are washing your hands, the lipophilic ends (attracted to oil ends) of the these chains picks up oils and grease adn when you rinse, the hydrophilic ends 

(attracted to water ends) of the molecules follow the water. That means you can wash your hand and the soap with not much dirt left.

   And that is how a bar of soap works.

What I have been doing in Isolation

Hello again. today I am going to tell you what I have been doing in isolation.

I have been quite bored recently in the lock down because
my parent's don't let me go out as much as I used too.

So what I have been doing for the last few weeks was:
1. Playing on my Keyboard and learning new songs.  (Entertainer)
2. Playing Computer games and watching YouTube.
3. Easter egg hunts in the house.
4. Playing with my cats.
5. Baking with my mum.
6. Playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
7. Playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in real life.
    (By getting into a wagon and my dad pushing
      it. I also steer with the handles).

That is about it. Thank you for looking at this blog post,
feel free to comment.

First blog post of the year

 

      Hello my name is Harry and I am 10 years old now and my favourite animal is cats Because I have three cats at home. They are five years old.
I got them when they were 2 months 
old in April. There names are: Alfie
Leo and Poppy. Alfie is mine. My 
favourite book is how to train your
dragon. (The third one). I do Karate on Mondays and Thursdays. I have been doing Karate for 4.5 years now 
and I am two belts away from my black belt. Thank you for looking at this post. Comment if you want to.