A place I want to go to

If you like adventures or if you just want to take it chill; lay on the beach, and take a relaxing swim, New Zealand is the perfect place for you.

I would like to go to New Zealand. I’ve never been there before and it would be cool to visit the place. I want to go there because it says that it has a very beautiful nature, and that’s a reason why many movies are recorded in there. It would be interesting to see which food they’re eating and what kind of animals that lives there. It would also be amazing to have been on the other side of the world.

New Zealand can be compared with for an example Chile, both of them has very varied climates. New Zealand is an island with green hills, snowy mountains, steaming volcanoes, beautiful lochs and pure white beaches with palm trees. It says that within an hour you can visit desert, rainforest and seaside, something that is difficult to do in other countries or islands. You can do that in New Zealand because New Zealand is relatively near the south polar. Farthest down it is cold, and there you can do winter activities like downhill skiing, but you can also go bungee jumping and jetboating in the city Queenstown. In the north it is warmer and there you can visit Bay of Islands which is a very beautiful archipelago. There are also many thermal springs in the north, especially in the city Rotorua.

New Zealand has only been populated in 1000 years but the nature has already taken damage of our emissions. If we continue to emitting more greenhouse gases the beautiful nature will be destroyed.

I really want to go to New Zealand and I hope I can do that someday.

Differences between "Rex" and "The story of Gelert"

Both stories are about a dog and its owner, and a little baby. The dogs are both strong and faithful and they are being told to guard the house. In the end of the story the owner thinks that the dog has killed their daughter/son. In the story “Rex” the baby is a girl and in “The story of Gelert” the baby is a boy. Rex’s owner is a farmer, named Mr. Soames, and Gelert’s owner, Llewelyn, is a prince. It feels like “The story of Gelert” is written in older times than the story “Rex”. I thought about, for an example, when Rex picked baby Anne up by her nappy and nappies didn’t exist back in the days. Mr. Soames has a wife and Llewelyn’s wife is dead, so when Mr. Soames come home he’s with his wife while Gelert sees the “tragedy” alone. In “Rex”, when he has to guard the house, they say they’re going to the market while in “The story of Gelert” the owner is going to go out hunting. It’s more modern in the story of “Rex”.

The story “Rex” is told by Rex, the dog’s, perspective and in “The story of Gelert” it’s told by Llewelyn, the owner’s, perspective. In “Rex” you know what the dog is doing and what he thinks. It gives you a little more instinct of what happened when he fought the wolf and so on. In “The story of Gelert”, in the end, you only know that it is a dog, a wolf, and a lot of blood; you don’t know exactly what happened. When you know all what happened in “Rex” you don’t think Rex has done something.  In “The story of Gelert”, when you read it at first, you may actually think that Gelert has killed the baby. But then, Rex also looks guiltier when it’s only him and blood, while in “The story of Gelert” it’s a dead wolf besides Gelert, and then, it’s quite obvious what happened.

Something I don’t understand is that; when Rex hears the wolf outside, why does he go out and fight the wolf? That’s a stupid action. He should have stayed inside; the wolf wouldn’t has come in to the house. I don’t know how it was with Gelert, if the wolf came in to the house or if he went out and fought the wolf, just like Rex did, and then dragged him in.

The baby in “Rex” started to laugh before Mr. Soames had pushed the trigger while in “The story of Gelert” the baby didn’t do anything so Llewelyn just killed the dog, because he thought he’d killed his son. That’s sad, Gelert only wanted to do the right thing and then he gets killed. I feel so sorry for him. I think the message with the stories is that you shouldn’t leave babies alone with your dog; even if your dog is faithful, and also that you should think before you do something. Like, before you decide to kill your dog.