You know the thing I mean- the seabirds and penguins that get covered with oil on the beaches by ships breaking on rocks and leaking oil out of their tanks. Not to mention the birds that get hurt by storms or winds.
It starts to get tiring after a while, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, birds get injured by some natural cause.
Of course once you get to this stage the occasional bird lands in your area with something like a broken wing or the odd plastic around its neck, but one thing I've learnt, birds can be soooo unpredictable.
Which brings me back into time, a nice sunny day in Atheltown which is in the middle of the country. My grandfather was the teacher and headmaster at the school there. He and my grandma lived in the old school house and their two sons that went to the school.
One day while teaching the students, my father I'll call him Chris spotted a bird that had crash landed on the grounds. Everyone pushed and shoved to get a look at this bird which turned out it was a mutton bird that had been blowen off the coast and it had a broken wing, grandad dave called managed to heal it well enough so it could fly. When it was well enough everyone climbed up a high hill and went to a bluff then shoved the bird off the 100 meter high cliff and watched as it tumbled towards the ground.
Every one thought the bird would go SPLAT!!!! But instead, two or three meters off the ground, in swift movement ,it swooped up and away from the school.
What happened you ask? Well it flew away towards the sea and it was never seen again, but on the other hand grandad Dave found it quite funny and burst out laughing while the rest of the school looked shocked, but that's another story.
The next day everybody who witnessed this strange sight new one thing for sure, birds are unpredictable.
How am I going?
What am I learning?
What are my next steps?
I am learning to use idioms and more bright sparks and also to use onomatopoeia and personification.
I am going well because I have used many language features which help to build an image or evoke emotion but I didn't know how to use them.
My next steps are to use more language features to evoke emotion in a connected way.
I think my reflection is multistructual.
