My Life

My life has been humoring and pretty good so far. Today when I went back to the class room I saw and extremely big and fat duck. I told the others, and when some kid went up to it... KER-PLOP!
A green poop.
I have been doing a fair bit of basket ball as well . Last Sunday my team had a small tournament and we won both games. The next day I filled in for the Junior Reps team in the intermediate grade.
We beat prep, ending their winning streak by a 32-20 win.
The Giants played last night, winning their quarter final against the Southland Sharks. Their next game will be against the Waikato Pistons up in Waikato. If they win that, then they are back in Nelson for game 1 of the final series probably against the Wellington Saints. That will be pretty cool.
School is good, and I can't wait for the holidays.
Yay.
I also like this song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyfcOriVKBM

My Busy Weekend

I woke up on Saturday morning, got up at 6:30 am, had a shower, had breakfast and got ready for soccer. We were playing in Takaka and Lachie's mum was taking me over there. When we got there it was just the usual setup. Some stretches, a bit of jogging and ball-handling exercises and then the whistle blew to start the game. I play defence so I don't get any action unless the other team has the ball. It was quite a close game. We won 3-1 with Sam scoring a penalty and the other two scored by Arlo. After the game we went to the Wholemeal Cafe and had lunch. That night I went to my brother's friend's place for a sleep-over and we went to the Giants game and they won. On Sunday I had a very nice breakfast and we played the Risk board game which was cool. I went home very, very tired. Also this term we have been doing and finishing off alot of writing. There is an awesome pic of meh and Lacheh!

The Term 1 Findout Awards... WOOO HOOO!

At the end of each term room 7 has an occasion where we get to present our findouts in the "Room7 Findout Awards". Findouts are our homework that we have done over the term. You can either write on paper (hard copy) or you can design a power point presentation (digital). In the findout awards, you can enter two findouts from the amount you have done in that term. The maximum is two. One of them must be hard copy and on must be digital. Most people entered both categories but I only entered in the digital category. I was manning the computer and data projector with my good mate Kyle. We were streaming live from the "Room 7 web-cam of awesomeness". As the people presented their findouts I called the next presenters up. The judges (Tim, Lucy and Sabine) were writing and scribbling scores down. When it was my turn I just went up and did everything that I had practiced. My findout was on the "Peanuts" comic strip, written by Charles Schulz. The info was pretty good and I think it was a good piece of homework. I am a Peanuts fanatic and that's why I did my findout on it. After the rest of the people had done their findouts the judges called out the winners. I didn't believe it but I had won the Supreme Award and the Year 6 Digital Award. I won a box of Favourites and block of chocolate. I felt quite good.

The Cay

In our class we have been doing alot of work on one story- The Cay. It is a moving and thrilling story about a boy called Philip who lives on an island, that is being attacked by German U-boats. He and his mother try to leave for Miami, the ship that they leave on is shot and sank by a torpedo. Philip scrambles onto a life raft and ends up blind, floating out at sea with a black man that he doesn't even know. The way Philip was brought up by his mother, is horrible because she was racist so Philip was too, so he didn't trust the black man (called Timothy). They ended up on a little, unidentified island so they make shelter, and a water catch. Timothy knows that he is old and will get weaker and weaker, day by day so even though Philip is blind Timothy tries to train Philip to do things for himself more. Sure enough, one day on the Cay (hey that rhymes!) a huge storm came upon the Philip and Timothy, and Timothy dies protecting Philip. Philip is later on picked up by an old schooner, and is fixed up. Having surgery made his vision come back. Racism is wrong and this story tells you that.

KEWL CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Thursday we had our camp at Cable Bay. It was one of the most totally awesomeness awesome camps I've ever been on! When we got there we played on the trampoline that they had there, and then we were given a briefing of what to do. After that we started to set up the tents! We slept in David's tent and it was really simple when we set it up. ( well kind of simple.) When we had them all up we loaded them with luggage. That was cool and before I knew it, we had the tents up and we were on the way to paint balling. When we got there we had to put adult sized overalls on. Adult sized. Most of us also went on an awesome truck thing with seats on the back we went through the river, up a hill and at the arena. We got a cool briefing and we were given our weapons. We played capture the flag for two rounds of 20 mins and then headed back. Oh and the truck thing is called the troop mover . We went back to the beach where we had a BBQ. And then it rained on us. We had a good night's sleep and the next morning we headed up Peppin Island! On the way up Jonathan asked us to climb up a steep hill for good side-on camera shots. Then we kept going. On our first view of Delaware Bay, we drew a picture of it from black and white pastels. Then we got to telephone point and had a rest. We could see the trig so we moved fast. We did move fast up the ridge and then we made lunch at the trig. We had wraps with nice fillings and then we took the steep way down the hill which was fun. We got to a path and then me and my friends spent the whole way down talking about stuff. We could see the bottom and then before I knew it... We were there! On the way back in the cars I was tired but felt good. IT WAS A TOTALLY AWESOMENESS AWESOME CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CAMPIDDY CAMP CAMP CAMP!!!!!!!!

WOO HOO! We are going on camp to Cable Bay tomorrow! I am so excited and can't wait for PAINT BALLING! We are also going up Peppin Island and it looks like an awesome walk after we watched the camp video in 2006. We have already sorted tents and cars so I am so happy! All I have to do now is make some home baking and pack! I can't wait for camp, especially PAINT BALLING! It will be so cool for the BBQ too because we have 100 sausages heaps of other cool stuff. Camp will be sweet!

Totara Swimming Carnival

On the 2nd of March, 2010 the Totara syndicate had their swimming carnival! As I came up to all of my races I was really nervous . First I did Freestyle, then breastroke and then backstroke. I did the piggy back race, hold your breath event and then the relays. I was in the B team for room 7. We came 3rd and the A team came 2nd. I came 2nd in freestyle, 4th in breastroke and 3rd in backstroke. It was raining cold and fun!