Backbencher

Viewing The Press over a three day period was way better then viewing the news for MN. The front page article for the past couple of days was about a man that had died in a helicopter accident right outside his home. He just had got the helicopter from the shop where it had maintenance performed on it, and turns out something went wrong. The two people that were working on the helicopter were actually sentenced today for manslaughter and charged roughly $35,000 in fines. That fine seems to be a lot smaller than one that you would receive in America.

Another big story for the North Canterbury area is that there is a possible snow and hail storm coming. There were already storms that came through that brought a lot of hail, sleet, and snow. This was funny to read because I never actually thought that they got snow there. It kind of reminds me that it’s not all sun and fun down there.

The last article that I was looking at was one that rather threw me for a loop. The title was cancer takes toll on Maori, Pacific Islanders, it’s insane after a semester of this class I’m turning in the girl who seeks out these articles on national levels because I understand who the people are. The story told that the Maori women are twice as likely as European NZ to die of cancer, and that the European women are twice as likely to live longer with cancer then to just die. They wrote,” Cervical and uterine cancer in women, and stomach and testicular cancers in men being in the top five most common cancers in Maori, but not in non-Maori populations," she said.”

It’s a little scary to see an article like that, but I guess I have read enough about people doing research on cancer rates differing between Native American’s and the rest of the population. It’s just weird you don’t hear this on the world news at night in America like we here about things happening in Europe.