Choie Sew Hoy was born in Guangdong Province in China in 1838. He was a well known Dunedin business leader and a community leader.  When Choie Sew Hoy was thirteen he went to the United States with some of his other family members to take part in the California gold rush. The group did amazing that when Choie Sew returned to China he was able to marry, he and his wife had four children. A few years later when there was gold in Australia he moved to Melbourne, he had learnt something while  he was gold mining in California. The people who had sold things made even more money than most miners so he decided to become a merchant. He opened a store near the wharves in Dunedin. He sold rice, peanut oil, and other goods that Chinese miners wanted. When the new miners arrived they would go to Choie Sew Hoys store. People who came from China to New Zealand experienced racism, Choie Sew often talked to reporters and wrote letters to the newspaper for Chinese to be treated fairly. People said that Choie Sew was as sharp as a razor because he was very quick to see opportunities to make his business more successful. For example Hakeke (Wood fungus) grows in the New Zealand Bush the same kind of fungus was a popular dish in China and he would pay people to collect and dry hakeke then sold it to the Chinese in Australia, the United States and China. Choie Sew and some other Chinese merchants hired ships to send goods back to China, when the ships returned they brought back Chinese goods for the merchants to sell in New Zealand. Choie Sew eventually became wealthy and he decided to put some of his own money into gold mining companies where miners had taken most of the gold that was easy to find. He set up companies that used machinery like dredges to take that gold, all of them were successful. He also wasn’t just a very successful  business he was friendly with the Chinese and Europeans and was also involved in organisation and community groups. Choie Sew gave money to hospitals, libraries and charity to those in need. He also gave advice and helped new arrivals in China. 

We should remember Choie Sew Hoy because he arrived in New Zealand as a young immigrant and was full of ideas. He worked really hard to become successful in business. He also became a leader in the community, he enjoyed helping others and especially cared for his family. Hundreds of his descendants live in New Zealand and all over the world.

We have not been writing in our books very much and we have been using our Chrombooks to be doing writing and everything. Mr Bell told us we were going to Lift A Line. What its all about is when you choose a random picture or someone chooses it for you (Mr Bell chooses the picture for us) and what you do is you write something about it or like your imagination, and when you have maybe have about 4 sentences or more, you choose you best sentence or  your favorite (Don’t choose the beginning because then it wont work) you underline which sentence you choose miss a line and write the sentence, then you can start writing from there, you can write your own. When Mr Bell first taught us this I wasn’t really interested I wanted to continue writing, I didn’t want to do it at all, but I went down to the mat. When he told us how to do it, and when I tried it, it was hard at first because I wasn’t much sure about it. It was going really well, when you do it more and more it becomes fun and more interesting, but sometimes it doesn’t go your way. We will be continuing this to improve our writing until the term ends. These were the photo we did (We didn’t do much because we had a reliever)

  Heres an example: In a tiny hut, where a middle aged woman lived, it was late at night ad all she heard was like something hitting each other though it wasn’t to loud. It was in the forest infront of a lake, she didn’t mind it at all, there are always random things happening in the forest. All her lights were opened, she was on the phone with her mother, her mother is overseas somewhere in Europe, her parents are wealthy but she had no idea what was going to happen. She put the phone down turned her night lamp on and turned off the lights, she was going to watch a movie tonight.

(Picked my favorite sentence) All her lights were opened, she was on the phone with her mother, her mother  is overseas somewhere in Europe, her parents are wealthy but she had no idea what was going to happen, she put the phone down turned her night lamp on and turned of the lights, she was going to watch a movie tonight.

She woke up in the sound of thunder, it was raining hard outside. She checked outside and he saw the rain. She woke up, sat up and looked around, her night lamp was still on. It was like when you have a jolt while your sleeping. She checked her phone  and no service so she just went back to sleep, it was the most uncomfortable sleep she has gone through. When she woke up it was gloomy it looked like it was in the afternoon so she checked the time and she could not see the time all it said was a white screen saying !ERROR! On the top it showed that it had a connection, then popped up saying go outside and visit your friends which was weird.

She had a chat with her friends but it was boring so she decided to head home and when she did her friends says “One more thing Good Luck” “Wait what are you talking about” “Oh nothing just giving you Good Luck” says her friend. She goes out with a weird suspicion ” What was that all about” She says “Its fine I’ll go to Wendy’s anyway” So off she drives while her friend gives her a sad face (Her friend feels bad about what’s going to happen) When she arrives home she goes in the house to eat. When shes done she checks her phone to see if its working because shes watching on the TV, and what do you know it still does not work  but it shows up a new message saying come outside but she doesn’t. And that’s all I got.