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My favourite place is my home in Invercargill. My family is always there and I get the best home cooking. I have a room to myself which is layed out how I want it to be. In Invercargill there is a swimming pool, stadium and a water tower, there is also alot of other great facilities. My home is opposite Queens park which is the biggest park in Invercargill.  It is a quiet area with lots of native birds that hang around the trees .

This is the Southland muesem lit up at night. The Museum is the only pyramid shaped Museum in New Zealand. This is also a cultural feature to Invercargill. Queens Park In Queens Park there is farm animals, birds, rabbits, wallabies and so many more animals. There is lots of different playgrounds in the park. Some for young people and some for older. The Cafe` is a popular place to get a milkshake, ice blocks and coffees as well as hot chips. One of my favourite places in the park is the animal park. There is Wallabies, Pigs, rabbits, Deer and alot more. The Ducks are also a major part of the park, the bird avairy is also real cool. You can see birds sleeping and having fun with other birds. This is the Band Rotanda in Queens Park. This is used for Carols in the park and lots of other concerts or performances that come to Queens Park. Some people like to take there lunch and sit under the Rotanda and eat. Invercargill Rose Gardens. There is so many different types of roses in these gardens. Each rose has its own name, some of the roses are named after famous people who have lived in Invercargill. Some of the roses are extremely old. Some of the roses mean alot to people as they will be named after a special person to them.

Oreti Beach Oreti Beach is a common beach for Southlanders. The water is absoulutly freezing but that puts no body off swimming there. Lots of people take a picnic lunch and eat it there, it will end up being a sand sandwich though as it is can get quite windy. The Southland Life saving club uses the beach to practise their skills. The beach doesn't normally get rips as there are no rocks surrounding the beach. The beach doesn't normally have lulls it is just on coming waves all the time. The sand is really soft and feels nice on your feet. Sliding dow the sand dunes is one of my favourite activities to do at the beach.

Historical The Invercargill Flood

The Invercargill flood happened on Thursday 26 January 1984. The weather was predicted heavy rain over the next 18 hours. At that time it was already raining and by the afternoon it was still raining and it was gradually getting heavier. By 9 00 pm the amount of rain that fallen that day had caused some surface flooding in the streets. By 4am friday morning the flooding was so severe that a state of emergency was called by the Mayor of Inveracrgill. Invercargill airport was flooded with water up to 3m deep. Over 5000 people were forced to leave their homes and go to the evacuation centre. No human lives were lost but there were huge lives lost in live stock and damage to buildings.

Me Myself and I Hi I'm Alice. I love to bake Banana Cakes, Biscuits and a delicious Apple Sponge.I love Card making, scrap booking and and designing photo albums are my favourite. I love to play the piano in my own time. Another of my activities that I enjoy is Speech. I was nominated for a scholarship, I won it out of New Zealand. My favourite sports are Tennis and Hockey. I live in Invercargill. I live with my mum, dad and my younger brother Thomas. I also have a cat named polly. St John's Girls was my previous school. I attended the school since I was 5 (year 1). I remember the school assemblies each morning sitting next to my friends and smiling at the house captains (my friends) on stage. Morning Tea Break was a snack then a slow turtle walk to our next class. At lunch time the tennis courts were a cloud of blue ,with our uniforms, with all of the year 8s sitting together turning into our animals for our game Zoo. Next it would be about the news then what we were going to be doing next year. Everyone always wanted to know about 'Boarding School' so off I would go on my daily speech about 'Boarding School'. I really miss St John's and my friends from home. Our annual game of Zoo and the T urtle walk back to class talking about what we would do in the weekend. At the end of the day we would say goodbye then wave goodbye. Then we would see eachother again at our afterschool activities.

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