My fitness goal is to run 3 lengths of the bike track without getting breathless or stopping. At present I can only run 2 laps and when I do that I feel like I will die.
This week was the second back in Tangaroa. To be honest, I was really tired from Waitangi weekend. It was harder for me to focus but I will try harder next week. We did a lot of camp prepping for Spencer Park next Tuesday- Wednesday.
The highlight of this week was being told that I would be on the student council. I am so grateful to be given this opportunity and will strive to make this school a better place for everyone.
The first lesson of Tech started up again. I am in 8C with four of my friends. I am doing Digi Tech with Ms Gorman and it seems really cool. We had to do a game to figure out coding. It was hard at first but after five minutes it was really fun.
I can’t wait to see what next week will bring.
8th of February 2015.
Kia ora. I’m about to go to school for the first time at Rawhiti School. I used to go to North New Brighton school but then it shut so it could create an even better one. I already know a few teachers as some of them were with me at North New Brighton. I walk into the last class called ” Tangaroa “. A girl with brown frizzy hair rushes up to me.
” Ko wai tō ingoa?” She asks.
” Ko Sarah taku ingoa ” I say with a smile.
This week was the first week back in Tangaroa. I was excited to come back to school so I could reconnect with my friends who I didn’t see during the holidays. I am really excited to see what this year has in store for me.
The biggest highlights this week was making my sign for the hikoi tomorrow and getting ready to submit my reasons to join the student council. I truly hope the leader will see that I would be a great asset to the council.
It was weird not seeing my friends who have gone to high school as they were an important part in my school life. It felt weird no longer waking up at noon. I also really need to get used to going to the year eight bag bays and shoe rack.
I am looking forward to see what week 2 will bring.
This term for Action Stations I chose to do Quiz night. We were given a bunch of questions with a theme and were given five minutes to solve it. My team ( Paige, Pip and I ) won by one point. We got 61/62 questions right. I really enjoyed working together as a team as we all work really well together. I am excited for next week!
Today for my passion project, I wanted to improve on my line dancing. Daisy, Abby and I were in the small breakout room and we did the line dances to Achy Breaky Heart, the Bunny Hop and Cowboy Up. Next time I think we will need to be in a bigger area because we kept on crashing into each other. My goal was to stay in time with the beat but I got out of time one and forgot where in the dance we were but I quickly remembered and joined back in.
I decided to take a break from learning Spanish so I have started learning Latin. Today I learnt that ” Puella sum” means ” I am a girl”, ” Ego sum ( your name )” means “I am ( your name)” and that ” Ego sum femina” means ” I am a woman”. Do you use Duolingo?
For Mahi-a-tahi I have started to learn Hawaiian. I learnt that ” Lei ” means “Garland”, “Hele” means ” go” and that ” ‘ai ” means ” Eat”. Do you use Duolingo?
For literacy we were given a fake article about the government wanting to change the school hours to 9-5. My partner Caily and I made a leaflet to do a ” drop”. We got feedback on our work and were advised to get rid of a paragraph since it was small, long and boring.
As one of our literacy tasks, we had to write about something and/or someone going missing. I chose to add a little humour to my story by putting people I know and changing their names. Reflecting back on writing this, I really enjoyed it but next time I will try to use more poetic language.
Flandrew Greenmond was walking down the road when his eye caught sight of a group of darkened figures lurking in the shadows. “ Who’s there? ” he called out, his voice trembling. Four amazing, incredible, intelligent, fantastic, terrific, spectacular creatures emerged from the shadows. “ You know what you did, ” a voice snarled, edged with a menacing tone. Flandrew knew who that voice belonged to, for he taught her everyday. “ Aily Stalker, what do you think you are doing? ” he yelled. Elizabeth, Nina, Aily and Zia chucked a sack over his head and tugged him into a van. All the amazing, incredible,intelligent,fantastic, terrific, spectacular girls laughed about how he could never make them do maths again. Flandrew Greenmond was never heard back.