Task Description:

Today, the Team Tui students embarked on a long journey to learn more about Mangroves and it’s importance in sustaining a healthy environment. We walked down to Tahuna Torea in the hopes of gaining some new information on our Topic for this term, Ecology; the environments around us and what lives in it.

We were put into groups of 4-5 and given a clipboard and paper with questions about the environment which helped us to observe our surroundings closely instead of playing around. However in the end, we still played around a bit but we were able to gain a lot of memories with our peers!

Although the walk was long and tiring, the happiness gained overpowers every other factor, and I was happy to not only learn more about mangroves and the environment, but that learning can be fun too when we join together as a team.

FUN FACT: Indonesia contains the largest Mangrove coverage, covering almost 26% of the Mangrove population.

Today, Room 13 celebrated ‘NOODLE DAY!’. Although noodle day is not an actually holiday that everyone celebrates, we definitely enjoyed our self-made day. We were allowed to bring any type of noodles we wanted to school and eat them as a class. I could tell from everybody’s faces that they were having a great time together, and I was overjoyed to be able to spend a moment laughing with everyone. Hopefully, we will be able to celebrate Noodle Day again in the near future.

DEAR DIARY

My Dearest Family,

I write to you from a place I never imagined. My journey here ended with a horror I can’t process – a comrade’s bullet in my leg, a stark reminder of war’s madness.

This morning, we buried Bernard Gosling, lost to his own despair. His note spoke of unbearable agony, echoing the disbelief that grips us all. My own pain, both physical and soul-deep, is immense.

It makes me question who the true enemy is here? They speak of targeting others, yet their hands seem turned inward. I hear whispers of cursed fate, clinging to false hopes of an end.

I try not to worry but I can’t help but do exactly that. The kindness offered – food, warmth, gentle words – feels hollow, smiles forced. Time, they say, waits for none, but here I feel trapped, awaiting an inevitable breaking point. Each day is held tight, perhaps the last. Fear of tomorrow mixes with a sense of unworthiness, my friends dead while I breathe, a fate I couldn’t prevent.

But please, my loves, do not let grief consume you. I am still fighting, striving to overcome the bombs, the gas, the haunting faces. If I don’t return, know that I tried with all I had.

I love you more than words can say. Remember, the fight ends only when you surrender.

Stay safe, my dearest family. Hold each other close.

With all my love, Your Sergeant, Zuri.

Saliva Sardine Soup (CAUTION: Very oily)

This recipe can keep your basement monster full and happy while you try to figure out how to escape before you become their next meal.

You will need the following ingredients:

• La Llorana’s Teddy Bear (Make sure to rip it apart, piece by piece before proceeding with the recipe)
• A Pig’s Ear
• A human voice box
• 1L of saliva (Hyena’s saliva can put your monster to sleep for 24 hours)
• Your lover’s heart (If you don’t have one…I think you should let the monster eat you instead, sad.)
• A sprinkle of leg hair
• 2 human souls
• 4 grams of black blood (Can only be found in the cemetery of forgotten)
• A human head (A singular hair has to be left / CAUTION: Only gingers allowed! Your monster is allergic to all others and will attack you)
• A dog tooth (The gums can be removed and fed as a snack to your monster, maybe it will spare your life)
• 2 Carolina Reapers (1 more could kill your monster, which is good but a dead monster’s body attracts more monsters…oops)
• 3 tins of Sardine’s
• Sprinkles :))

You will need the following equipment:

• A muddy bowl
• A worm bowl (A bowl made of worms)
• A witch’s wand
• 2 machetes (One for the recipe, the other for defense)
• A plastic bag
• A black rolling pin
• Two serving glasses
• Gloves

          ☆RECIPE☆

1. Firstly, you will put on your gloves for protection, then grab the teddy bear’s two stiff arms and shove them into both of the pig’s ears to block out the smell before you faint from its poisonous effect.
2. Secondly, you will put the ears and hands into the plastic bag and smash them with the rolling pin until they are reduced to small particles.
3. Thirdly, you will put the 1L of saliva into the muddy bowl, along with the dog’s tooth and your lover’s heart (the heart must still be beating for the recipe to proceed).
4. Then, with the bowl filled with your slimy components and your crushed seasoning on the side, you will now chop both of the Carolina Reapers and pour them into the bowl.
5. You will now mix the crushed seasoning with the components in the bowl until there is no seasoning left on the sides of the bowl or in the mixture.
6. You will now get your worm bowl and add the voice box inside, along with your two human souls. You will pump the voice box twice, for the first pump you will add one soul, and for the second pump, you will add the other. Adding the souls too quickly could lead to their ghosts haunting you forever, so use them with caution.
7. After all of that hard work, while you sit and take a break you will grab the head that you had taken and carve the inside with your machete until it is hollow.
8. You will now grab your second mixture and pour it into the head. Then grab your first mixture and pour it on top in a smooth layered manner.
9. Now you will pour the 2 grams of the black blood on top of the mixture, making sure nothing mixes but is layered nicely.
10. After you have separated the layers, you will open all 3 of your tins of sardines and layer them nicely on top in 3 corresponding lines.
11. Finally, you will grab the leg hair and the sprinkles and scatter them on top.
    The extra blood is to be poured into a cup as a drink, you can’t have it getting thirsty, can you? I heard it doesn’t mind red blood.

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