Community service.

I HAVE DONE 24 HOURS!
WOO HOO!
IT IS DONE!

I have finished the 20 hours of community service that we had to complete by the end of the year.  I spent two or three afternoons a week at Little Ones Preschool helping out with the children.  It was very handy for me as then I just had to ride my bike home as I usually do from school.

I enjoyed spending time with the little kids and even though I have completed my 20 hours I will still continue with some more hours but now the pressure is off and I don't have to worry about it any more. I will just keep on plugging away at it and then maybe, I'll get 30 hours done?!

Martial Arts.

I do Martial arts for my hobby.
I started doing martial arts because of last year, when the year 7 and 8 girls did the self defence 6 week long course and I really enjoyed that.  So for my hobby, I decided to do martial arts and I really enjoy it and I now have a new friend called Casey, she is an orange belt, level 3.
I'm a white belt at the moment, but the next grading is in August and so then I will hopefully pass and become a yellow belt.

I really enjoy doing my martial arts, so maybe I'll continue in high-school.

Clubs

On Friday the 27th, we started clubs.

My club is Green Team.

I chose this club because I like stuff to do with the environment.  Mrs Allaway is the teacher who runs the Green Team and I really like her as a teacher.

On the first club day, Nannet, who is Lachy's grandma, was in Piawaka.  I got chosen to go with her and so did James J and Sophie P. 

We made some mice.

I thought that these would be for the scarecrow, but no, we got to keep them! 

They were so cute when we finished them!  Dad said it looked reilistic that night.

I enjoyed the company of the younger kids and Nannet.  

Also the friendly atmosphere was nice, and in general, nice people and activities, sad that I will miss next week's club afternoon because Year 8's are doing the WPCA High-Ropes day. :(

My goal for the next 4 weeks of clubs is to create some environmentally awesome creations. And enjoy what I make and put loads of effort into my work!

ANZAC presentation.

Do you want to know more about the Anzac's? Have a look at this awesome video! :)
This video covers: what the soldiers ate, the trenches, what they had to deal with and their daily life.

This is the screen castify of my ANZAC presentation. It is the screen-cast so make the sound is on, it is quite loud anyway so you should be fine.

It took me awhile to make so I hope that you learn something new! :)

X-country.

It was Thursday the 18th.

Today was X-country.  I was to run 3km.
My goal was to not walk or stop,
I achieved that goal, and none of the boys passed me!

As soon as we got down to the domain, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of butterflies playing rugby in my stomach.
As the day went on, those butterflies turned into pigeons playing sky rugby in my stomach.  Finally, it was 2:35pm, time for me to race.  The year 8 girls lined up at the starting line, ready, set, GO!  The clappers are the worst part of the race, being so loud and scarily close to your ears. They were off, haring away like there were being chased by wolves. I, on the other hand just gently jogged down the track like a hunter waiting for its prey to trier itself out.It turned quite hot while I was running, and that made me quite hot and tired even more.
While I was running, this thought kept on coming back up to the surface of my brain; you never have to do again. Just keep running!  You never have to run this step again, or this step, or this one!
And it was nice to see mum and dad when I ran past the corner they were standing at. :)  I finished my run with a sprint to the end and I'd come 8th.  Second to last, but that doesn't matter.  It was over! Finally, no more running! Well, at least until term four, then we do athletics. :(
The track I had to run was like this; around the bottom, up the top, going up to the top is where I passed Haylley and stayed in front of her until the end, she came 9th,
down into the forest, around the bottom and around the bottom again without the extra paddock.
I didn't enjoy having to do X-country, I never do!
But, at least I NEVER have to do it again!
At least, I don't think so...

Awesome songs.

Here some awesome songs for you to listen too!

Running man challenge.

Here are some videos of the running man challenge in action. Hope you like them!

ANZAC

In school we are learning about the wars.  here are some videos that are very informative.

have a look at this, WW1
WW2

Akaroa.

AKAROA

On the 23/2/16 after school, Dad, Keira and myself went to Akaroa.  What a coincidence; it being a French settlement and at school we're learning about the Treaty of Waitangi.

Mum had gone up to Akaroa a day before with her parents so we would get to see them when we got up to Akaroa.  It took forever!


We had a barbeque that night for tea, it was delicious. Then we all went to bed.
The next morning, I got out of bed at 9:20am, I was that tired.
Today was Keira's birthday.  She turned 10!  Mum and Dad wouldn't let Keira open her presents until I woke up.  They ended up waking me up.  We all went to Bullyhayes for lunch.
Before tea, Dad, Keira and I went fishing.  I caught my first fish!  Well, technically I foul hooked it, I got it near the tail.  WOO HOO!!!!!  :)   After me, Dad caught one, he foul hooked it too, got it near the gills.
That same night, we had fish and chips for tea.  After tea I went down to the wharf.  It was high tide and part of the wharf was under water.  I wanted to have a swim.
10 min later Dad came down to Keira and I at the wharf, 5 min later, we saw a sting ray- oh. Within the next 15 min, I saw another 2 sting rays, no swimming today! :(

You DO NOT, see that every day.  :)

The next day, we had brunch at Bullyhayes, Keira and I had pancakes, they were HUGE!!!!!!  DELICIOUS!!!! :)
After lunch, we all got in the cars and went home.

Family time!  :)

But, before we got home, we all went to:

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL!!!

We weren't allowed to take photos, but, believe me it was amazing!  I'm not going to describe it, because that would spoil the fun, but if you want, if you go to loburn school, come and ask me about it and I might tell you about some of it....

When we got home it was teeth and bed, we had had Subway on the way home. Finally a night that doesn't have cicadas buzzing in your ear, well, not IN your ear but out the window, you get what I mean.











This is Hoppy the seagull, he only has one foot.



Wellington

WELLINGTON!!!!

I am not going to tell you all about it on here because it would take to long but you can look through all the photos.  ENJOY!

her brother just died.  she's a red cross nurse.  These figures are larger than life, like 3 meatres tall.

You have to go to this, it's open till 2018, go while you can, I also recommend Weta workshops, so cool, that's where all of the hobbit stuff is from.

this, is a paper marie, it is acctuly used here in Te papa

Stanied glass window, looks so cool!!

COOL!!

 Beehive!!

Jade, this is at the Beehive, we went inside, no photos allowed.

WOW, so cool!!

Big umbrella, no rain.

Even the bins look cool in Wellington!!!

YUM!!

DRAGON, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, AAAAHHHHH!!!!!   :)

BAM, BAM. BAM!!!!

This guy was a healer, but he couldn't save everyone.

WHY, WHY, WHY, the flies are so annoying!!!

So sad, the soldiers would look after stray cats as best as they could.

BAM, BAM, BAM!!!

This is the REAL thing, it was used in Gallipoli.

people made the poppies and put them on this.  I made one too.

 WOW, yeah, its not the real one but, still, SO COOL!!!

 Spiral spuds, potato on a stick, YUM!!!

Western Australia, Perth.

AUSTRALIA

I went to Australia on the Saturday after school finished.  My family and I went there for 12 days.

It was lots of fun!  The weather was pretty good, we had some rainy days and some fine days but no super hot, can't do anything days.

NIGHT #1: We left Christchurch airport for our lunch time flight. The flight was about 6 and a bit hours long, I watched 3 movies: Pan, An Unexpected Journey and another one, I can't remember what it was called.  When we got to Perth, it was 5:30pm, in New Zealand, it would have been 10:30pm.

DAY #1: Today we went on Uncle Brett's boat, we went really fast and we saw loads of jellyfish, and as well going on the boat, Mum, Keira and I (Dad would be coming in 3 days time.) were trying to get used to the Australian timings, 4 hours earlier than you in NZ.

We had a night walk before dinner.

SELFIE!

ICE-CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uncle Brett's boat.

This is how the boats are stored - picked up on a forklift and put into a multi level rack

DAY #2: We all went to Perth Zoo today, it was so cool!

How did you get over here?

 I'm tired......

Photo bomb!

It was super fun at Perth Zoo, loads of animals, and the zoo keepers let the kangaroos roam free so we saw some of those. The koalas are so cute!  There's one spot just for orangutans, giant poles with little nests and platforms for them. And there are 2-3 of them on each pole.

Did you know: a baby echidna is called a puggle?

If you ever get the chance to go to Perth, go to the zoo.

DAY #3

Today we went to Adventure World, with Dad today, he'd arrived the night before.

When we got there, I went straight over to... THE ABYSS. (as shown above, this is the best roller coaster EVER!!!!!) It is 27 secs long and you go upside-down 4 times.  I loved going upside down, you almost fall out of your seat!

I went on the Abyss 7 times,  AWESOME!

I also went on:  on the Black Widow twice.

the Kraken (a massive waterslide) twice.  The buccaneer boat 4-5 times. And some other water slides!  I had an awesome day!

DAY #4

Today, I had a day in Perth city with my family.  We took the train from Freemantle.  We spent a lot of time in Kings Park which was really cool.  We went to a chocolate shop, I got a butterscotch and tiramisu chocolate.  We had fish and chips for tea at Cottesloe Beach and met an old friend of Mum's there who she used to work with in England before I was born.

DAY #5

Today we went to Margaret River! It took 3 hours to get there, with no music!  :(  We will have four nights at Gracetown near Margaret River.

DAY #6

Today we went to two beaches.  One of them had really sticky sand and it was hard to get it off your feet!  Mum and Dad had a wine tasting.

DAY #7

Today we went to the Jewel Cave!  We being: Mum, Dad, Keira, my cousin Jazz and I.

It was so cool!

Here is a list of all the kinds of cave rock formations we saw: straws, flowstone, cave-coral, helictites, stalactites, stalagmites, pendulites, columns, shawls and raftmites.

STUFF THAT'S COOL!

There was one shawl in the cave called the bacon rasher because of the tannins in the rock, and when you shone a light over it, it was see-through.

When all got to one platform, there was a red laser line showing where the water was once up to, when men first found the cave, they explored some of it in boats.

The deepest part that you can go to in the cave is 42m below the ground.

The straws looked so cool, here's a photo, not my own photo.

These are hollow and the water drips down through the center, the people who looked after the cave kept a record on one straw, it had grown 3 centimeters of a thousand years+

This is the bacon rasher.

this is the karri forest formation, the way the water dripped has caused the rock to form like this, cool eh?

You can't see this quite clearly but it shows all of the different formations in the cave.

These are stalactites, they stick tight to the roof.

Cape Leeuwin

After we'd been to the Jewel Cave we drove down to Cape Leeuwin and met Uncle Brett, Auntie Chelsea and Amelie.  Cape Leeuwin is where the Indian and the Southern oceans meet.

DAY #8

Today we went to the ANZAC dawn service in Margaret River.

It rained.  The whole time. So annoying.

It felt like a long time.  And guess what?

New Zealand got no mention except for our national anthem, and, because of the rain, the speakers made it all blotchy.  But he same thing happened during the Australian national anthem, so that made it fair.

After the long dawn service the weather got better and we had a lovely beach day.

After the beach, we went to a bird sanctuary. It was so cool, but I wished that the birds could have more space. But these birds had been hurt and were being rehabilitated.

This is Ivy the owl.

DAY #9

Today we all went back to Perth,  but guess what, when we were checking something nasty was found under the bath-mat, a.......    SCORPION!!! But Jazzy just put a cup on top of it, got a piece of paper,  slide that under the cup and took it out-side, flung the scorpion into a bush and walked back inside.    Lovely.

On the way back to Perth, we stopped at a reptile house.  There was a really big snake in one of the enclosures.  There was a nother snake that flicked its tail so realistic like a worm that birds would come down and SNAP, it would gobble them up, its head was right next to its tail but hidden in undergrowth.

This is me with a Simmons python around my neck, it is only when these guys get longer than 3 meters that they are considered dangerous.

Snake facts.

They can't see in colour.

If you don't move, they think you're a tree or bush and so won't attack.

Snakes don't have ears but can sense vibrations through the ground with an organ in the roof of their mouth called the Jacobson's organ.

DAY #10

Today was a home day for Keira and I.  Mum and Dad went on a day cruise up the Swan River and Jas and Amelie were back at school and Uncle Brett was at work so... Keira and I got to help Auntie Chelsea with her dogs.

Auntie Chelsea is a dog groomer, so she washes them and trims their coats.

We picked up the days dogs after kids had gone to school.  One of them was a fat chiwawa called Casey, and the other one was a poodle thing called Fletcher.

It was fun, especially when washing them, you cover them in shampoo and then wash them off them cover them in conditioner. Then you whas them and blowdry them, that part takes forever, especially on Fletcher because he had long fur.

It was a good day, I really enjoyed it!

DAY #11

AQWA!!!  Aquarium of Western Australia

This is the best aquarium you could possibly go to, if I explained the whole thing to would take forever so here are some photos for you instead!  :)

Postcard of AQWA

There are little holes in the wall with special fish in them

SHARK!!!!

Tunnel of awesomeness!

STINGRAY!

Can you spot Keira?

No, she is not inside the tank!

Here are some photos from the internet.

A little viewing widow

One of the mini tanks.

Puffer-fish!  The chefs that prepare the puffer fish delicacy in Japan have to train for two to three years before they go into the trade, and they have to eat the fish they prepared before they go!  There is a one in 10 chance that you will

be poisoned and die. The poison is in their stomach and can kill n 17 minutes.

DAY #12

Today Mum, Keira and I went to the local Freemantle markets. I got a jumper with a montage of Australia  on it, and Mum bought Keira and I an aboriginal message stone each.  They have a dragonfly on them, really pretty.

We all went to a pizza place for dinner that night.  Very good pizza, and the best ice-cream for pudding.  While eating ice-cream we played on one of those soccer boards called foozeball, me playing goalie, sometimes I scored a goal from my end of the pitch.

Then we flew back home that night, after 4 hours of waiting at the airport, I fell off my seat at one point for no reason at all. Our flight was at 11:55pm.

I had hardly any sleep, maybe, 1.5 hours out 5.5hrs.  When we got home, it was 10:30am.

We had to try and stay awake during the day to help get back in to time difference. Easier said than done, especially at six 'o' clock.

But, all and all, Australia was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!