Speech

Kia ora everyone, 

Welcome back to my blog. Over the past few weeks, we've been working on making a speech.

We can pick different categories, such as places/countries, famous person, disasters and etc. Then we have to research some information about that categories that we picked. It has to be 3 paragraphs long. Then we have to be in a group of three. We have to share our speech and read it in front of them while recording ourselves.

We spent an hour to research more facts about the topic that we chooses. 

The topic I was researching about is "Cave Creek disaster". The cave creek disaster made me so curious about what happened back then. So then I research more facts about the cave creek disasters and found out some information. 

Here is the research I found: 

Cave Creek Disaster - 1995

I’m going to talk about what happened to the cave creek back then

There were a group of students who came to the crave creek for a field trip, to study the limestone formations and the caves. They were split into 2 groups, there are larger and smaller groups. The larger group has 18 students with the punakaiki officer, they came to the platform first. At 11:25 am, 18 students moved to the platform, but the platform suddenly fell 40 meters onto the borders taking the students with it.  It was all a mess, there were some officers trying to rescue/save the victims (Students). They also called a helicopter to rescue them. 5:30 pm, 14 bodies have been lifted up by the helicopter. 13 students died and 1 field officer, 5 students survived and were injured from the tragedy. They have to pay the families victim with the total of $2.6 million. After those incidents, they’ve closed the place. In 1998, 3 years had passed after the incident, it was open again to the public. They made some changes in the place after what happened back then, making sure that it wouldn’t happen ever again.

A survivor named Smith, had been  recovering from the incidents. One day, there was another class trip in Cave creek, they warned Smith about it, but instead of refusing it, she agreed. But now when she was up there, everything started flooding back. She loves going on outdoor family adventures, such as camping and more. But after the incidents on Cave creek, everything changed. She said, the joy that she had back then was all gone. That time, she was swollen out of depression, full of anger and anxiety. She was traumatic that time. She has a name about what she is feeling, and it’s called “Survivor guilt”. A survivor's guilt is when a person asks themselves why they survived and why others didn’t, or they might feel guilty for failing to do something that could have saved someone else’s life. 

She exclaimed “I couldn’t even bear to be in that town”. It made her realize about her strengths and her weaknesses. She changed when she gave birth to her son. They heard that the platform isn’t well designed by someone who isn’t that experienced. The police started investigating, a staff member has been in charge of keeping the doc where the report is in. Unfortunately, the single copy of the report went missing and they couldn’t remember who the staff was. 

Here's the link of a video of me reading about my research:

Link

That's all for today. I hope you enjoy, have a great day, bye.