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Thursday 26 November 2015

Athletics

                            Athletics
For some it can be scary, for some it can be exciting! For me it was just wanting to get it over and done with. I’m not a big fan of Athletics. But this year that totally changed.

Last Friday was our school’s annual athletics day. Everybody gathering in the court wearing the house colours blue, red, green and yellow, gave such a great vibe for the rest of the day.

To start off the house captains came up to the front to encourage everyone and to announce what the new house names were.
(Old names to new names)
  • Te Arawa - Te Aurere - Red
  • Matatua - Hokulea - Green
  • Takitimu - Hikianalia - Yellow
  • Tainui - Hinemoana - Blue

My house is red. I’m not to sure if it was a competition and houses win. But either way everyone gave everything a go and we all won.

At my last school we didn’t have as many activities then there are here. Some of the activities that we had this year were.

  • High jump
  • Sprints
  • Long jump
  • Softball throw
  • Relay
  • Skipping
  • Small relay
  • Javelin
  • Tug of war
  • Hurdles

I had a blast with all of these activities. The only one that got me a bit shaky, was the sprints. But as soon as Mr Burt slammed shut that clapper. I was off.

Ok I was the last one. But I was so glad that I gave it a go and I didn't have a break down.

At the end of the day I was exhausted! I just wanted to go back home have a shower and go to sleep. But once I got home that’s exactly what I did.




(Last Friday was not Athletics. This was a piece of work in my drive from like 2 weeks ago)

My poem about Jonah Lomu


Wednesday 25 November 2015

Thinkboard Week 7

Rhyming poems

Google Expedition Expectation

Hmm what could anyone expect from looking at a piece of cardboard with eye holes? Not much? Well actually a whole other world! Yesterday morning the year 7's had a Google Expedition. There were 2 men who came in with mini cardboard boxes that look like glasses for us all to have a look at. 

Group 1 had the chance to go in the street first to have a look. From all of their cheerful laughing and screaming you could tell they were having a blast looking around in a different world. 

My group will be going in next... I THOUGHT! But no my group was the last group to play around with the Google Cardboard.

Earlier on this year the extension group had the chance to go to Hobsinville Primary School to try out gadgets from heaps of different schools. So I already had the opportunity to test it out. I already knew what to expect. But this time it was a whole other experience, around the WORLD!

Arriving in the street acting pretty calm, because I already knew what to expect. (Whisper voice) When really on the inside I was bouncing around like a kangaroo. My heart was smiling and my stomach was tickling. I managed to keep a straight face.

Filled with joy I took a seat on the floor, eager to get my hands on one of those Google Cardboards.

This experience was completely different to the experience that I had at Hobsinville. All we did there was go on roller coasters and go through animated jungles. But this time the jungles weren't animated. Does that give you a hint of what we may have done? If you don't, I'll tell you. This time we traveled... All around the world!

First destination, the Borneo rainforest standing next the one and only David Attenborough. Well ok he wasn't moving or talking to us but it was pretty amazing being able to see him up close in... Picture.

Other amazing destinations that we experienced were.
- Dubai: The Burj Khalifa: 143rd floor of the tallest building in the world.
- France: Palace of Versailles. The Hall of Mirrors. Louis Xlll bedroom
-Rome: Pantheon, built by Roman Emperor 188AD, it was a temple that was used to worship different gods.  It became a Christian place of worship.

All I was thinking through out the tour is that. Hmm this would be good if you couldn't afford to go anywhere on holiday. Other things that I was thinking about was how much would just the card board cost. Probably a bit of money, or maybe not. I was just wondering because the card board had proper lenses.

After all of that travelling it was time to put the Google Cardboard away. Giving the men that brought in the Google Cardboard a big thank you. I walked away with a big smile on my face and a pounding headache that affected me for the rest of the day. Google Cardboard... You should check it out!

Image result for google cardboard

Wednesday 4 November 2015

A time with friends


An action packed day awaited. It was around a year ago at Megazone in Sylvia Park. My best friend Kate had her birthday party, and invited a few of her friends from class, which were my friends as well so there was no awkwardness going on. Lasertag, dodgems and the laser web were activities that we had the opportunity to do.

I was the first one to arrive. I felt kind of weird that I wasn’t even the birthday girl and I was the first one there. Standing near the timezone holding baby blue coloured box with a large sign saying happy birthday was pretty weird. Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb. I felt as if people were staring at me, I discreetly looked down on my shirt to see if I had spilt anything on it.

My Aunty grinned. I leaned onto her shoulder and frowned. Then I was SHAVED!

“Alexis, over here!” It was Rebecca. She was another girl in my class. She leaped over towards me like a frog, and asked where Kate was. In a sarcastic voice I said, Oh yeah she’s here, hence the reason why I’m standing in the doorway with my present waiting in the cold. She gave me a confused look she looked at the present and giggled.

My Aunty gave me money to buy tokens to play some games. Rebecca and I were going hard out on a motorbike game until a nerd walked up to us and ask if he could go next... Wait a minute, I looked over at him it was DOMINIC! He was another one of my good friends. We told him that Kate wasn’t there yet and he laughed. We continue playing games as more guests come. But no Kate!
She finally arrives, a few hugs and chats then we get straight to it.

Our first stop was the dodgems, speeding around that track was awesome fun. Dominic was in the front of all the girls, and since he was the only boy there… We decided to chase him! Twisting swerving around the barriers we keep on crashing into him. His cart stops working we laughed but kept ramming into him.

We finish the dodgems and move straight into lasertag. It was fun but not as fun as making Dominic scream by ramming into him.

Puffed out we all pushed each other up the ramp to go back to the party room for a piece of mouth watering chocolate cake. Everyone could tell that the chocolate used in the cake was the Whittaker's Dairy Milk. Creamy goodness.

With chocolate all over her mouth and hands Kate’s mum puts all of the presents on the table in front of her. Her face lights up. Like a fox she ripped apart the wrapping paper, it went flying everywhere.
Each box came with a card.

Now I think this was the funniest thing that happened all day. All three of us burst out in laughter. She opens my present, and at that same time Dominic Jamie and I said “Oh you’re opening my present” With a confused look on all our faces we laugh. That’s when we find out that all three of us got her the exact same card, from the exact same shop! Smiles and giggles come from all around the room, giggles even come from Dominic.

Our last activity is the laser web I was tired so I stayed in the party room with Dominic. We thought we’d be kind friends for a change and tidy up the room for Kate and her parents. We did a pretty spectacular job with the cleaning.

Once everyone has come back from the laser web we started packing our things to get ready to go home. As always my mum was the first parent there right on time. Note, that was not a good thing.

But after all I enjoyed the day and Kate also said she loved my present that I got her. It was the best present that she got. Those were her words not mine. I bought her a monster high doll. She loved it.

I hugged her goodbye and danced my way out the door. As soon as I toke that step out the door I started blabbing on to my mum about the amazing day I had. Now I think I’m going to have my birthday at Megazone because I had such a fabulous time!