Machu Picchu

We arrive, after a long jagged winding bus journey up a steep and thin road, at our Peruvian destination. The ruins one of the 7 wonders of the world. The ancient race, the Incas, inhabited the city. We were standing next to Machu Picchu; the old city of the Incas. The biggest of its kind. We hired a guide to show us round the site of so many peoples heritage. Using his intelligence we soon discovered that the Incas had been great inventors ... like how they built under water pipes so that their water couldn't be poisoned. But they were even greater builders with every rock in the city shaped perfectly so they could fit into the ones surrounding them. The security guards were everywhere but that didn't darken the mood. People were milling around taking pictures of the amazing bit of history. Llamas inhabited the upper slopes nibbling at the grass that pokes through the rocks. They were tame and you could pet them but it was a dangerous journey up the ridges. The amount of rocks opened my eyes to the sheer enormity of the perils that the workers must have faced. We wandered around looking at the temples and imagining the magnitude of the time and resources that they must have poured into the city.

personal experience writing

sometimes you notice people who are begging or are homeless but that doesnt mean they are bad people it just means that they have fallen upon hard times most of them dont want your sympathy they just want you to realisise that not all people are as fortunate as you are and that there are people who are going to bed hungry and that there are people who are being attacked by various dieses like maleria and hepotitis just because they dont have money to get imunisations luckily organisations like unicef have been founded

The vengeance.

I wake up to the sound of nothing as my ears were still ringing. The kindly doctors smile aperered over my grim face.
"You've had a bad concussion, your memory will come back soon". and it did although somewhat hazy.
My face hardens as I remember English red coats opening fire on defenseless patrtriants and suvilans, amung them my familie, my wife and son. I ask the doctor, "My famalie? They the . Her voice breaks.
"They didn't make it". "Are you sure where are the bodies?"
"Over there" she points a lon finger,
Go check. I didn't want to but I had to have proof. I arrive, open the door, and walk stiffly inside.
I wonder through the rows and after what had seemed like an eternity, I saw there bodies. I came, I nealt down, I cried. Moist tears cascade down my cheeks and onto there lifeless bodies. I arise and stumble back to the doctor, and say loud enough for the neighboring tents to hear. "I swear in front of all of you, that red coats will fear my name tremble in there boots as I walk past cause my name and blade means death for all red coats and all though who follow there way.

The round delicacy that is pizza ... the cheesy smell wafts on the wind and floats up your nostrils. Cheese covered in tonnes of meat is slopped on to a well made dough by precision drilled crew. Placed even millimetres to the  wrong side would cause havoc to the eyes. The taste is like a symphony to your taste buds as it slides down your throat.

To make the best pizza you need a nice homemade base smothered in bbq sauce and topped with chopped saveloy, bacon, ham, salami, lamb, beef mince, more salami! This is then topped with cheese and even more bbq sauce sprayed over the top.

Served with a nice cold drink of chocolate milk or L & P sour ... you just can’t beat it! It is the singular best food or meal in the world (GO ITALIANS!)

The best type of bought pizza is Dominos meat lovers ... but of course even that doesn't remotely compare with a homemade meat lovers!

The origins of pizza were from Italy with the thin crusted pizza. Over time the crust has evolved into a fat cheese infested piece of dough.

This is a bit of background about pizza, a type of flatbread from wikipedia, ‘The origins of pizza’

“Foods similar to pizza have been made since the neolithic age. Records of people adding other ingredients to bread to make it more flavorful can be found throughout ancient history.

In 16th century Naples a Galette flatbread was referred to as a pizza.  Known as the dish for poor people, it was sold in the street and was not considered a kitchen recipe for a long time. This was later replaced by oil, tomatoes (after Europeans came into contact with the Americas) or fish. In 1843, Alexandre Dumas, pèredescribed the diversity of pizza toppings. An often recounted story holds that on 11 June 1889, to honour the Queen consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, the Neapolitan pizza maker Raffaele Esposito created the "Pizza Margherita", a pizza garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil, to represent the national colours of Italy as on the Italian flag.”

By Zahn

camp 2014

The round delicacy that is pizza ... the cheesy smell wafts on the wind and floats up your nostrils. Cheese covered in tonnes of meat is slopped on to a well made dough by precision drilled crew. Placed even millimetres to the  wrong side would cause havoc to the eyes. The taste is like a symphony to your taste buds as it slides down your throat.

To make the best pizza you need a nice homemade base smothered in bbq sauce and topped with chopped saveloy, bacon, ham, salami, lamb, beef mince, more salami! This is then topped with cheese and even more bbq sauce sprayed over the top.

Served with a nice cold drink of chocolate milk or L & P sour ... you just can’t beat it! It is the singular best food or meal in the world (GO ITALIANS!)

The best type of bought pizza is Dominos meat lovers ... but of course even that doesn't remotely compare with a homemade meat lovers!

The origins of pizza were from Italy with the thin crusted pizza. Over time the crust has evolved into a fat cheese infested piece of dough.

This is a bit of background about pizza, a type of flatbread from wikipedia, ‘The origins of pizza’

“Foods similar to pizza have been made since the neolithic age. Records of people adding other ingredients to bread to make it more flavorful can be found throughout ancient history.

In 16th century Naples a Galette flatbread was referred to as a pizza.  Known as the dish for poor people, it was sold in the street and was not considered a kitchen recipe for a long time. This was later replaced by oil, tomatoes (after Europeans came into contact with the Americas) or fish. In 1843, Alexandre Dumas, pèredescribed the diversity of pizza toppings. An often recounted story holds that on 11 June 1889, to honour the Queen consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy, the Neapolitan pizza maker Raffaele Esposito created the "Pizza Margherita", a pizza garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil, to represent the national colours of Italy as on the Italian flag.”

By Zahn

Keith Elliot

Born in Apiti

25 April, 1916

To a farming family

Awarded the Victoria cross

At the outbreak of the Second World War

He applied for a Position in the NZ Military Forces

But was rejected due to the vile state of his teeth

Later he tried again

And filled a position in the 22nd battalion 

Under the command of Lt Col Lesley Andrews VC

Courageous, Loyal, sense of camaraderie

A tough New Zealander through and through

Never giving up

Dawn of 15 July, 1942

The battalion to which Platoon Commander belonged

Was attacked by on three flanks by tanks determined to see them anialated

Under Impending tank fire

 The tanks were a steady stream of bats in the distance,

Machine gun stuttering in the in the distance

And shell fire pounding into the sand, sand flying as feet skid overhead

Sergeant Elliot led the platoon he was commanding

to the relative safety of a ridge 300 yards away

Sustaining a chest wound

Crimson stain spreading across the front of his khaki army issue jacket breathing laboured but determined to see the German treat vangisqed back where they came from

Here he reformed his men

Hot sand moving under foot

Flanked on three sides

Only one way to go without being hammered by the enemies

The odds are overwhelming the enemy senses victory

The only way through this is though the enemy

Against overwhelming odds Elliot and seven comrades rush over 500m

Armed only with rifles and bayonets fixed enabling them as spears

 any moment could be their last with a speed brought on by desperation and charge head first into the heavily defended mgp slashing, hacking and bashing Elliot in the lead leaving felled men in their wake

 Up close and personal vicious hand to Han combat within two feet of them

His men rush at them

Capturing four tortoise shell like heavy machine gun posts

And an anti tank gun

 Steady streams of Bullets whiz zing through the air

A strong smell of smoke from the bomb  cloud the nostrils raining from above

What inspires me is how he never gave up and kept on going right to the end his loyalness

To his comrades how he thought these men are my responsibility they will not get killed on my watch how his selflessness and bravery was committed without a second thought and saved tonnes of lives in the process

Awarded the Victoria Cross

The highest and most prestigious award for gallantry

Keith Elliot

Of Apiti

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