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Tuesday, 17 November 2015

High Ropes course - Mackenzie


                                        High Ropes course

The high ropes course helped with our teamwork by making us trust the people in our teams get you up safely and let us down slowly. It also helped our teamwork by working together to pull someone up,particularly if that person was scared of heights.It  also helped with our fear of hights if we had one by making us pull our own ropes to release us on the swing.

My favourite activity was the huge giant's ladder because it was very challenging and you had to think about a good strategy to make it to the top.When you finally got to the top it felt like I was on top of the world, but it was also a great feeling when your feet hit the ground and you could carry your own weight.One thing that could have been improved was our listening because  sometimes we got a little off task.




H I G H R O P E S - Bea


H I G H  R O P E S //

reflection:

The High Ropes Course was a well needed trip for room 6 and i'm glad that i saw teamwork going into keeping the individual safe on the giant's ladder and swing, plus the co-operation and determination in the leadership games that Nicole and Jackie set out for us. It was amazing to gain the leadership skills we lost last term in short amount of time and mingle with the people who we usually don't talk to.

activity:

My favourite activity was the giant swing where everyone had to help and pull the person who was in the ladder, go up as high as the clouds in the sky. It required a lot of trust for the people who had to pull and pull their weight. It also required a lot of courage for the person up in the sky to pull the rope so they can dangle and swing. It was my favourite because when you're up there swinging on the rope, you get to feel the wind rushing and the world beneath your feet, it reminds you how small you are compared to the world and the galaxy.

improve:

One thing we could improve on was our ability to give the everything our best shot.

Labour weekend - Alex


Labour weekend
On monday i was playing mw3 at my house when my cousin came over. They gave me a late birthday present because they live in timaru so they only come in the weekends or holidays.

They watched play and i gave the a turn on mw3 .After a while we got bored we went outside and played handball most of the time i won but once or twice.It was tea time we had pizza  

It was fun having them around and i got good chocolate i hope they come around again

 

A recount about my long weekend. - Sofia.


A recount about my long weekend.

On Saturday I spent most of the morning cleaning up my room, however halfway through cleaning my room, Selinna, my sister, wanted to go the mall. Or so she told us. We got ready, went outside, got in the car and Mum reversed the car. Then we saw the garage opening and my sister's car was in there. She said "Ya coming." and Me and Celia both raced over to her car and she told us it was a 2 door toyota levin. It turns out that we weren't going the mall, instead we were going to sort out the insurance for the car. That took like 2 hours so I had a little sleep in the car.It was only a small car but somehow I managed to get comfortable and have a sleep. When they came back we woke up then they told us that we needed to go the mall, to the post shop, so Selinna could sort out her driver's licence. After that we went to go get a frozen coke from BK. We actually wanted a frozen sour blueberry but they didn't have it for some reason. We went home and I finished cleaning my room, when there was a knock on the door. It was my brother, Liam, who came to take Selinna for a drive. When they came back We had more fun. Liam was smashing his old laptop that didn't work anymore and then Selinna sat down with me and we made a facebook account. After that Liam went, we had tea and then we settled for bed.
The next day, Sunday it was the most exciting day. I had a little sleep in, but then I got up and made some pancakes. We also had bacon. So for my pancake I had: a pancake with bacon lying on top then drizzled with maple syrup and butter. After that I went and got ready but I just stayed home on my laptop, watching youtubers and going on messenger and facebook. So I just spent about 3 hours doing that. Then my mum called me out to do some chores before my friends arrived. So I just had to do the vacuuming and unload the dishwasher. It was nearly time, nearly 1:00. The first friends to arrive were Leilani and Selina. I was so happy that they came! The next friend was Michaela and then the last friend to arrive was Nelly. We all gathered together in my room and then I opened my presents. First present was Selina's. She handed me her present and said to me "I got you some smellies, cause you stink." Then we all laughed. But then she was like, "no just kidding" and gave me a hug. Next I opened Michaela's present. Her present was the best! A nice polar fleece blanket to cuddle up in and a "FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS" pillow. Typical Leilani, just bought me a box of chocolates that I ate all in that day, but of course I shared them. So after I opened all my presents, we just hang around, talking, on social media and just got some drinks and that. Then it was time to go! But I had to get changed because I wasn't going to play paintball wearing shorts. Any way, I did that and then we all went outside. I said to my friends that we should go in Liam's car, but Leilani and Nelly went with Celia. The car ride wasn't that fun cause when we got to the big hill, we told Liam to speed up but of course he had to break at the last. We ended up jumping any way. When we got to paintball, we were the first ones there, well us and Letetia's whole gang. Eventually, everyone turned up then we walked to the entrance and we got to choose teams. Me and Mum were captains and Mum was the green team and we were the blue camo team. I tried to choose all the good shooters but Mum stole some of them. Anyway, in my team was: Captain Sofia, Leilani, Michaela, Selina, Nelly, Brett, Kurtis and Liam. Anyway we got all dressed up with our protective gear and then we were able to go play 'The Ultimate Game: Paintball.' The aim of the first game was to try get the whistle from the opposing team's fort. A bit like capture the flag. So our plan of attack was that Me and Leilani, then Brett, Kurtis and Liam would go up and attack + try get the whistle. While Selina, Nelly, and Michaela stayed back and guarded the fort. Me and Leilani stayed together and Leilani shot quite a few people. When we got shot we had this little gather fort where we had to mark out where we got shot and what team we were on. Anyway I had to go there because I got shot in the face, but of course we had big masks on. Me, Michaela and Kurtis tried to get up to the other teams shelter before they got to ours. So we went up to there and they were all out of paintballs so it made it easier for us to get to there whistle. It turns out Liam was looking for there whistle but he didn't see it, well he should have seen it but uh-huh he didn't see it. So Kurtis got to the whistle before I did and blew it but he didn't blow it that loud cause people were still shooting. After everyone was settled we went back to the paintball
main entrance where we had a break while the paintball team was prepping for our second game. When the team was ready, we found our paintball guns and waited a little bit longer because people were using our field. After waiting about two minutes, the field was clear and we were allowed to settle in and sort out our 'plans of attack.' We were in the same teams and it was the same style as capture the flag but once we got shot we had to go back and touch our hut and wait five seconds before we could go back into the game. We started playing our second game of paintball and this was a real. I loved the second game as I got more involved and shot half a dozen times. I got shot by my friends, and family, but it was worth it. Our second game took about an hour to play our second game. When the excitement was all over we headed back to my place, and Me, Michaela and Selina drove back in Liam's car and it was so fun. We had the windows down and the music on full blast. Selina was hanging out the window then Liam was just randomly tooting along to the music. Then it came to the big hill in the road and we were yelling at Liam to speed up and he did. We went over the bump and we jumped up and we all lifted off the car seats. Hah it was so fun we couldn't stop laughing, but then when we went over the bump, Michaela let out a little scream and we all could not stop laughing. Heehee, when we got back to the house we went inside and just kinda chilled out and calmed down, afterwards we all went to the park. Of course Celia came so that turned the fun down abit. Well, it turned out that Celia went home about ten minutes after we arrived because she was to cold. Anyway, me and my friends had real cool fun. We had turns on one of those spinny things where you get all dizzy and your tummy starts to turn. Yeah well, all of us had a turn and Michaela got spun so much that when she got up she fell straight back on the ground. And then when it was my turn, I got spun really fast and then Selina started pulling my hair. Now when it was Selina's turn I had to yank her hair to get her back. After all the fun was over we decided to head back home. When we got to outside the house Selina pushed Michaela and then Michaela set off Liam's car alarm. It was funny. We all started laughing. Then when we got inside we had a little chill down on social media. I went into the lounge to kinda see how
everyone was going then I saw that Dean - my adopted dad, sort of -  was here. I gave him a little hug and Said thanks for coming and all that. Then he pointed over to my present and I took my present into my room and looked inside the bag. I could see that Dean had bought me a curling iron. It was a three barrel, two attachments, total curl wand. After I opened my present that's when dinner was ready. We all went into the kitchen and served our dinner. Me and my friends all sat outside to eat our dinner. We had a fun time, laughing and giggling. When we had finished our tea, we went back into my room and Selina wanted to curl my hair. We ended up using the double barrel curler so I would get a nice S shaped curl. Half way through curling my hair, we discovered that Leilani had to go. Selina was supposed to go with Lani but we said we could drop her off when we took Nelly home. Anyway, when Lani went it was just Me, Selina, Michaela and Nelly. Nelly and Michaela were playing around with my Nerf Secret Shot Bow and Arrow, so then I pulled out my real Bow and Arrow, and they tried to start playing with it, shooting the Arrows at the bed. After Selina finished curling my hair, we got called into the kitchen. I got three birthday cakes. They were actually cheesecakes. Three different cakes meant three different flavours. Strawberry, Chocolate and vanilla flavoured cheesecakes. Me and my friends also went outside again and ate our cakes but I decided it was too cold so I went back into my room. My friends followed me, but afterwards we just hung around on our devices, playing with the Bow and Arrow and of course who could forget Siri! dear old Siri, we had good times with her. We all decided to go to the park again but it turns out we took a slight detour. We went to the little stream down the road, but then we had to go back home cause we were only allowed an hour. When we got home it was time to take Selina and Nelly home. We took Nelly home first as she lived closer. We drove round to Selina's house next, and Me and Michaela got out of the car to say a big good-bye and thanks for coming. We drove back home because Michaela was staying the night. The next day, Monday we woke up to a cooked breakfast with Bacon, Hashbrown and Egg. Afterwards we got dressed, got ready but we ended up just staying home watching movies. We got hungry so we made our selves a salad salad sandwich then went in the lounge because we saw that the Princess Diaries was on so we watched that. But then Michaela had to go home. Oh… sad. We took her home but then mucked around a bit laughing and playing round. It was eventually time to say good-bye. We went the warehouse after we dropped Michaela off. I ended up buying some hairspray and heat protectant plus a bamboo brush and a couple of combs. We came home, had dinner then I sorted out my Hair things and it was time for bed.
that was my weekend over. I had a jolly jam packed weekend!

My Long Weekend - Kayla-Rose


My long weekend
In the weekend i went ice skating and made new friends there names were Molly,Rebecca and indie when i met them i fell over doing jumps the helped me up.
then when it was time to go i gave her my email address.when we left alpine ice and we went to the mall to do some shopping. when we got home i watched invisible sister and i also bought energy drinks and also 5 packets of popcorn and had a weekend in.

My weekend - Ammiejane


My Weekend

On my weekend me and family went to church on Sunday, and we went to  the mall and went to the movies. And we make some BBQ and samoa food philippines movies , on saturday we make some baking with my grandmother, and i talk to my  family at samoa and my sister, and my sister said to me and my sister Shalom their miss us to play with them.
                               
            

Monday, 12 October 2015

Kayla-Rose

                                                       

IN THE HOLIDAYS:):):)

in the holidays in the holidays I went to camp for the first week

I did not have fun because of the people  at camp krm.jpg
on the second week of the holidays i went shopping with my grandma and i brought this new shirt  from Valley Girl and i love the new shirt and was going to go to picton but i was to busy. :):):)

Selina

                                                        MY HOLIDAYS!!!!

During the holiday i spent the night at Caelin’s,the next day me and her family went up to hammner springs for 2 nights. We went out for a swim then we came back in and had some lunch,afterwards we went on our social media for a bit later on we had dinner and then we went to sleep.

The next day we went and had a walk around the park and ate some lunch, we went back to our cabins and packed our stuff and head back home.Once we got back home we went to the mall and done some shopping and got  some new clothes.When we got back home i packed up all my stuff ready to go home and once i got home i went straight to bed and watch wrestling all night.

The next five or six days i watched wrestling 24/7.

Then the next day i took a rest from wrestling and watched Straight outta Compton.

Written by: Selina:)

Kevin

My Holiday  

In the holidays  i didn’t really do much  But the things i did do were Fun.
The first week of the holidays  i went to my cousin's 5th birthday  couldn’t really play with them much… they were 3 to 6 years old so i just watched the rugby game, but from there i got picked up by my aunty and my brother and me stayed at there place for 3 days and went back home on the sunday.  

Now the second week was a bit more exciting  we stayed home for the first 2 days of the week  and then on wednesday  i went to work  with my dad and brother  but what i didn’t know is we were doing work for a drag race car  the car was bright red with orangey yellow flames
and had a motor the size of a baby elephant  and around the car was  posters, pictures and trophies it was like a man cave.

The last 4 days of my holiday were mainly training for softball,
relaxing and  just chilling out  before the start of my last term at St.Bernadette's school.

Bea

M Y   H O L I D A Y S //


Week 1 started off at the christchurch airport ready to go to Nationals in Auckland. After getting lost, the car engine failing and going around Auckland, we finally managed to arrive at a swanky hotel in Henderson with a view of the skyscrapers and boats of Central Auckland.

Tuesday to Wednesday was just the team training hard out ; sweat mixed in with hard work and talent. Thursday to Friday was me competing my routines and catching up with the old friends I left when I moved to Christchurch. Saturday to Sunday was watching all the other rhythmic gymnasts compete. It was heartbreaking to see how many amazing gymnasts were handed flowers after their last routine because time passed by and handed them adulthood. Sunday was also the time for the gala, dancing the night away with hula and pineapple costumes.

Monday was the time to go back to reality to my boring house that has no one in it and only devices to fill the endless amount of boredom. I did nothing productive nor writing-worthy; just laying in bed on social media shipping people, discovering new music and supporting LGBTQ rights #love wins <3 .