Braeden

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How the king cobra got his hood.

One fine morning cobra spied a smaller desert snake. Yummy thought the cannibal, I’ll have you as my breakfast. As he poised himself ready to attack the desert snake started cracking up laughing for desert snake thought how ridiculous. Cobra recoiled sadly and asked “What are you laughing at?” “Your Not Scary at all! you basically look like me except for those horrible looking light brown scales! You’re a joke.” Slowly the King Cobra slipped away unseen and hid in his basket for the rest of the day. After a good nights sleep he consulted with his charmer. The man said with a heartfelt voice. “I have just the thing”. He reached into his bag and pulled out two pieces of cardboard cut perfectly into a semi-circle shape and a pottle of super glue. He reached over the very long snake and glued it carefully, one on each side of his head. He slithered out of the village and into the wide open desert showing off his hood and scaring all of the animals around him. And from then on he was known as the KING of the desert.

The Hydro Slide When I was seven years old my friend Tim and I went to Moana pool for a swim and a Hydro Slide. Interestingly his mum bought us both a hydro slide pass without asking if we wanted to go. My experience was limited. I had only ever been on it once when I was 5. Lets just say it was a bad experience. Dad said he would catch me at the bottom. I believed him. I didn’t even think about that he was in his clothes and you land in the pool at the bottom. I hit that pool and went straight under drinking in lots of water. I wasn’t happy!

So back to when I was seven and I had to go on the hydro slide, because it would be rude not to. So I was now determined to try it. My best buddy would help me.

Shaking with fear, but trying to look brave, I walked up the ramp. I reached the top unsure about it. I sat in the top of the hydro slide ready to go when Tim came up behind me and pushed me. There I was going about a zillion miles per hour holding my breath. Splash I hit the water. I turned around to yell to Tim with a smile a mile wide, “Do you want to do that again!”

I didn’t know what I had been missing out on.


 * = The Power Of Peace = ||
 * ** Braeden ** ** McIntyre ** || My diptych is about the sad story of Parihaka, how the government were forcing Te Whiti his villagers to give up their land and move away from their home.

In first part of my diptych the sword represents death and the word ‘Forever’ means that death will go on forever. In the other part of my diptych the pictures mean love and peace and the word ‘Never’ means that that can never happen again. ||