desiree ryan

today a lady from the hamilton city council came into our class. she talked to us about what her job is and what she does in her job, how we could promote hamilton and some of the bad points of hamilton and how we could improve it!
some of the bad points we thought were......
all the shops on the river side were facing away from the river therefore people wouldnt see and use the river as much as we should even though it is one of hamiltons main icons.
we are polluting, making dirty, and wrecking the waikato river by dumping rubbish into, spitting in it and dumping chemicals and nasty things into the river. we should try and stop people doing that because by people doing that people then thing the river is disgusting and don't swim in it, walk by it, enjoy the view of the river etc etc.
there are to many gangs hanging around the river and threatening to 'bash' people. a litrle 8 year old kid came up and said to my teacher Mr Woody "you wanna bash"? thats what little kids will do if they see big kids doing gang stuff.
then we talked about how we could promote the positive things about Hamilton and how to fix the negative things.
we said we could promote the hamilton river by maybe having gondala rides going down and up the river so people could have a cool view of it. but if we did mdo that we wouldn't make an exact copy of the ones in rotorua like we did with the fountain but we would make our own original halmiltonian ones that we would be recognised for.
we could also have submarine rides going under the waikato river kind of like an underwater waipa delta.
and lastly of all we should improve and spice up the waipa delta to make it more modern! i think that more people would go on it if it was flasher, better food, more safe for oldies (grandma and grampa's) and a little bit more entertainment instead of having to entertain yourself.
to fix the graffeti we also came up with the idea to choose a huge ugly brick wall like I mean massive and let creative and sensible graffeti be on that wall. I suggested we made the wintec wall, that huge wall thats by garden place, we made that the graffeti wall!
what do you guys think hamilton needs to improve on, how could we promote something and some bad things that people do in hamilton eg- graffeti, tagging, making gangs and threatening to 'bash'. please comment