persuasive writing - Hazel

Oamaru 9400 Tuesday 18th august 2020 Dear Mum Dad, Ryan and Anna I am writing this letter, to tell you why I think you should let me and Ella build an underground tunnel leading from my house to hers. you may be wondering how this will work , but let me explain to you why it's an excellent idea! Sleepovers, no loud laughing, a break, quiet. Don't you think that sounds good? We will also fundraise and pay for it doing our favourite car washes! Firstly I often hear you guys complaining about how loud we laugh.Underground in the tunnel you won't be able to hear us. It will be so quiet. You also won't hear us going on about wanting to hangout and wanting to have sleepovers and what house it's going to be at. We can meet in the middle, have a bed there, and have sleepovers/hangout in there. It will save climbing over the fence! My rooms up high so I will have to walk out to the backyard. I'm thinking a door that sits on the ground in my backyard and when you open it up and there's stairs that lead to the middle. We will make it flat in the middle and a window up above the bed so we can watch the stars at night! So what are you going to get from this… well we will do the chores well you build it and all we need you to do is help us with a bit of the digging you could even teach us so we can do most of the work. We can do the decorating like painting and all that! It will be so much fun. In conclusion, I reckon we deserve something nice like this. We can share it with our siblings every now and again and even you and your friends. Ella also found that having a strong friendship makes you more happy so we could bond more and not be moody teenagers. wouldn't you like that? Yours sincerely Hazel

what is diabetes?

What is diabetes? Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your immune system attacks your pancreas and leaves little to no insulin or just enough to deal with some foods. Insulin is what breaks down all the sugar in the food you eat and keeps your blood sugar stable. Type 1 diabetics have little to no insulin Type 2 diabetics have enough depending on who they are. Type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are similar in ways but different in others. Type 1 diabetics will at the start have to inject 6-7 times a day and finger prick 8-9 times a day. Type 2 diabetics depending on who they are might have to inject once or twice a day they can even take pills, but what they do is just to keep their blood sugar stable. Where as type 1 diabetics have no insulin so they are trying to keep their blood sugar stable, but they are also sorting out all the sugar in their bodies to help them alive. With diabetes there are highs and lows that happen when there is too much insulin or too little. The high is when there is too little insulin so there is not enough to break down the sugar in your blood causing your blood sugar to rise. A low is when there is too much insulin in your blood causing your numbers to drop. When you are high you would need more insulin. When you are low you would need sugar that is fast acting. So things like lollies and juice and then back it up with a muesli bar. People without diabetes their blood glucose numbers should be 4-8 where as diabetics numbers can be 2-30 ish. If you have diabetes, there are different ways of controlling it. Firstly, You have to work out the carbs. There are different amounts of carbs in different foods. If you get things out of packets the carbs should be on the packet but when it comes to fruit and starchy food without carbs on the packet you need an app. I use carbs and cals but there are a few different ones that can be used too. Secondly, we have rapid calc. Rapid calc is a different app you put in your carbs finger prick and then it should tell you how much insulin you need. Then you get your insulin pen and wind up 2 units to make sure that the pen is working. Lastly you inject how much insulin it says you need and that is how type ones do it. Type twos have to just keep their blood sugar stable so they have to keep an eye on what they eat but again depending on who they are they might have to inject or take pills. The symptoms of diabetes are, thirst, peeing alot, tiredness, feeling hungry, blurry vision, cuts, bruises taking longer to heal, weight loss (type 1), tingling pain or numbness in hands and feet (type 2). 10% of people have type 1 diabetes and 90% have type 2. And that's diabetes. bye Hazel