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anything – they just like the sound that whispers make and want Miss Davis to see that they are being good quiet little children which is kind of dumb coz they would be more quiet if they weren’t even whispering but just drawing their family trees instead that’s what I reckon. So I started my tree and drew a big thick trunk first that looked like two kind of crooked lines coming from the bottom of my paper until I joined them at the top and then I started drawing the green bit of the tree – all the leaves and that – in kind of a big cloud shape on top of the trunk so it filled most of the top of my paper. Alana was sitting beside me and she said what’s that pointing to the cloud shape and I said it’s the green bit of the tree but you can’t tell yet coz it’s only my plan, it’s going to be green once I’ve finished and she goes oh I thought it was the sky and that was a cloud and then her and that dumb Melanie started laughing. So I looked over at Melanie’s and she had some stars and a moon on her page, so I said what’s that and pointed and she said it’s the moon you idiot and I said well it looks like a toenail so hahaha, hehehe – coz it really did, it looked like a clipped off toenail – and then she was quiet, good job. Next I drew the bark on my tree coz the bark is like the skin of the tree so you can’t leave it plain you have to show all the things on it, all the marks from people ripping bits off or trying to write their name on. So I did those and then lots of circles on mine, heaps of circles inside other circles or oval shapes inside oval shapes going out and out and out coz I remember once we looked at what the wood from a tree looks like inside and it’s heaps of circles and Miss Davis said those bits there are knots pointing at the dark bits that looked a bit like finger prints so I drew the knots and the circles on the outside of my tree coz you wouldn’t be able to see them otherwise. When I finished that, I started on the main bit – on the people in my family – and I put their faces in the tree. I had a look around at what other people were drawing and they had rulers out and were ruling lines to show who was married to who and who the kids are and all of that, and had stick men for people and names underneath but I decided to draw just the faces of my family instead, and so I did my uncles. First I drew Uncle Tom coz he is the oldest uncle and I drew him with a cowboy hat on coz that’s what people call him, Uncle Tom the Cowboy, but I don’t know why coz he doesn’t even wear a hat like the real cowboys from the movies. Next to him I drew Uncle Fred. He is one of my oldest uncles and he has silver hair and a beard like a wizard, so I think he might be magic but I’m not sure coz when I asked him if he was last time he just laughed and I saw he had a missing tooth on the bottom. Then I drew Uncle Hāmi, the uncle I’m named after. Uncle Hāmi is funny coz he calls my sister Kirsty the wrong thing, he says Curtsy, and everyone always laughs coz my sister starts crying coz that’s not her proper name. Then I drew Uncle Chris, who is my quietest uncle. He is the one always playing guitar but never singing with everyone else. And after that I drew Uncle Joe and Uncle Bill beside each other and exactly the same shape and exactly the same size coz they are twins and got born together. Then I drew Uncle Toki, who I was thinking would be one of the hardest to draw coz his hair is white – the same colour as the paper – I thought I would have to leave his hair blank but then he would look bald and it wouldn’t be right so then I just drew the outline of it and decided to leave it like that. Next was Uncle Piripi, who fought in the wars in other countries and said people would climb the pyramids – those high triangles in the desert – and fall off, and then Uncle John who