Ella West spending time with our School!

Hi everyone, yesterday was very exciting day for us because Ella West also known as the Austrilia author that visit our school to talk to all of the year 7/8 and also some year 9's student, and you know in her real life she was not known as Ella West because she her friend called her Karen Trebilcock. So yesterday she came to visit, so my friend Skyler had a go to go up to the stage to introduce Ella West.So at the assembly Ella West talk about her book which is called Night Vision and tell some interesting part of the text but she didn't tell what happen in the ending because she doesn't want to spoiled it and she want us to read it and understand it by our self,I also know that after the assembly we have a chance to hangout with Ella and asked her some question that we make on Friday afternoon, also the BH class decided to  make some question to ask Ella because their class also read the book Night Vision.

What she talk about:

In the Night Vision book she said that it was kinda based on a kid who has illness XP ( which also called Xeroderma Pigmentosum), she said that she get that idea when she watched the documentary about XP  disorder, well if you don't about this illness it's like you're not allowed to go outside and get hit by the sun or you'll get a malignant skin cancer which is very bad for you. So that's why the main character of the book was born with a condition that makes sunlight deadly for her. That's why the main character she only go outside at night and she would go out and walk through the pine trees, but she would take her Night Vision goggles and continue to walk and explore forest.

The Night Vision goggles she got that idea from the rescue helicopter drivers, she would use this to see at night, that's why using this night vision goggles is fun and easier to use because through the goggles it is seen as a very bright white light inside. Also why she had picked that illness for her character, it's because she want her character a bit isolated, and also XP means that you can't do some activities outside like what the other kids usually do also that's why they live in a farm cause there's no one and it's very peaceful.

The fun fact is that it was kinda based on her real life because her family lived in a farm and they also have some sheep, and also a dog named "Jim" and it was her first farm dog, she also said that her dog has two different colours eyes, one was blue and the other one was brown - I heard that if you have two different colours eyes you have Heterochromia.

Also her book "Night Vision" was translated to Italian word, and the book was called "L'arte Ingannevole gufo", the gufo means owl because she said that in the book there's a owl.

When she was writing a story she would try to write 1000 words each because her goal is to at least get 50,000 words in each book. Also I think one of her books has 50, 000 words and the other one only have 40,000 words.

She also talk about her first book called "Thieves", her book series and how bad the cover is. She also won some awards like "Louis Johnson New Writers'Bursary in 2006" and others. She also share the fact that she couldn't get to New Zealand top bookseller because her books was published in Australia even thought her book was set in New Zealand.

One of the student in our class ask her "If being an Author is her dream?", she said yes because she love reading books and writing. A student ask her if she had a backup career, and her answer was "Journalist", because she works at South land Times forming magazines.

She also tell that she was currently writing a book called "Sound of My Hearts", it was about a girl running and she can hear her heart beat beating fast. She didn't tell a lot  about her book, but she said that it will take 2 years to published.