Last week in the year 7 and 8 block we had 3 very inspirational people come in and give 3 very inspirational speeches. Those men's names were. Andrew Patterson, Louis 'Latty' Gordon and Marcus Winter (AKA The Sand Man)
Andrew spoke out first. Andrew is a friend of Mr Burt. He kicked off his speech by starting of with a little bit about how many people he "owns" Well I bet you're wondering, "He owns people!" Well yes, kind of. Andrew says that he finds people and asks them about their career's their hobbies and what inspires them things like that. He told us that he had recently gone through his book that he keeps all of his people's names in and records about them. He then said that he had 2.000 people in his book! Can you believe that! He has just been going through his life talking to people and helping them get higher in life, and then BOOM! 2.000 people for one man right there. Anyway, enough with BOOM BAM WHAT! Stuff back to the important stuff.
The next speaker was Marcus Winter, he is also known as the Sand Man. If you don't really know why he's called the Sand Man? Then watch this video and you may just realize why he has the name the Sand Man. Oh and I need you to watch the video before you read the rest of this post. Click here to watch Marcus Winter doing his magic! .... Well if you have just watched the video I may continue. As Marcus was uttering away to us he then mentioned about when he first started his career. I listened very closely to the next part.
He told us that he started busking with his Sand art at Otara Markets. People would just stop and stare at him while he worked. Brushing sand side to side, up and down on his board. Then Andrew came into the picture. Andrew came across Marcus at a Otara Market, or on Queen Street ( not to sure? ) Then Andrew took Marcus under his wing and took him under his wing to get him other places with his Art.
After Marcus had finished his speech the it was time for Louis's speech. However this speech was just about what he does for a living. He told us that he had once made an app for basketball games. He explained to us how it works but, not to sound mean or anything but... I wasn't really intrigued by what he was talking about. I'm not a really big sports fan so yeah. But I did listen to what he was saying I didn't zone out or anything.
Now we come to the end. We then sang Wairua Tapu. Which is one of our Himene's. After all I really enjoyed all of the speeches. They made me realize that if you stick your dreams you should just keep on believing in yourself.
The next speaker was Marcus Winter, he is also known as the Sand Man. If you don't really know why he's called the Sand Man? Then watch this video and you may just realize why he has the name the Sand Man. Oh and I need you to watch the video before you read the rest of this post. Click here to watch Marcus Winter doing his magic! .... Well if you have just watched the video I may continue. As Marcus was uttering away to us he then mentioned about when he first started his career. I listened very closely to the next part.
He told us that he started busking with his Sand art at Otara Markets. People would just stop and stare at him while he worked. Brushing sand side to side, up and down on his board. Then Andrew came into the picture. Andrew came across Marcus at a Otara Market, or on Queen Street ( not to sure? ) Then Andrew took Marcus under his wing and took him under his wing to get him other places with his Art.
After Marcus had finished his speech the it was time for Louis's speech. However this speech was just about what he does for a living. He told us that he had once made an app for basketball games. He explained to us how it works but, not to sound mean or anything but... I wasn't really intrigued by what he was talking about. I'm not a really big sports fan so yeah. But I did listen to what he was saying I didn't zone out or anything.
Now we come to the end. We then sang Wairua Tapu. Which is one of our Himene's. After all I really enjoyed all of the speeches. They made me realize that if you stick your dreams you should just keep on believing in yourself.
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