The Sportsfest!

By the title of this post you would have probably guessed that this weeks post is going to be about the Wellington Regional Sportsfest that the year 7s and 8s attended.

The sport that I chose to play for the day was netball. I had to play for the netball team that I don't normally play with for the day as they had a few people missing. Anyway we got to the courts and started to practice as our game wasn't for another hour. We had to play five 20 minute games in total, unfortunately we lost 4 and only won one game. The other teams were extremely competitive and practically all of them were much taller and bulkier ( Is bulkier even a word?) Some of the teams we played had really bad sportsmanship and were really rude. One time I had a really big partner, she shot for the goal and missed and I jumped for the rebounds. As my hands grasped the ball the large girl rammed into my back causing me to fall forward, she then tousled with me for the ball as I was still holding onto it. Luckily she was called for obstruction and I got the ball (served her right!)

I think the sportsfest was a new experience for me as I had to adapt quickly to play with a team that have been practicing together for a while. I did enjoy myself but at some times I got the feeling that certain people didn't want me on the team and didn't really respect that I was the one that had stepped forward to help them out.

Altogether I think the sportsfest was a bit up and down but it was a good experience for me.

I hope you enjoyed this weeks blog post about the sportsfest!

New Flag!

Recently there has been a lot of talk and debate about changing the NZ flag. So this blog post is about my opinions on changing our countries flag.


Right lets get started, I strongly think that this flag business is a big waste of time and money. Here are some reasons why I don't think the flag should be changed.

• The flag is not going to attract tourists, People don't visit countries based on what their flag looks like.
• 26 million dollars is going into this project and there is a chance that they won't even change the flag.
• We have to think of all our brave New Zealanders that have passed on for instance the ANZACs. Would they really want that flag that the fought under thrown away?
• When Valerie Adams won the gold medal for shotput at the Olympics she proudly held the NZ flag. Those proud moments would begin to seem old and forgotten just because it was the old flag 

Ok, now for some reasons why the flag should be changed.

• Um, I guess some of the new flags have pretty colours?
• ???
• ???
• ???

That's basically the only reason I could think of! I really don't think that there should be a new flag.

So if the flag is going to be changed here are some of the designs I hope would win.

I like the whole concept of the long white cloud idea with this one.




I like this one as it is pretty similar to our current flag but the designer has incorporated some cool Maori designs into it.






I like this one as it has one of the most iconic NZ symbols -the fern on it.






My last choice is this one. I like it as it has a silver fern and the southern cross.



If I had to choose one of the four it would have to be the 1st one! I guess this is the end of the blog post, I hope you all enjoyed reading about my opinions on the flag change.

Art!

This weeks blog post is going to be about.... Art!




My favourite art style I like do is drawing/sketching. Some of the things I like to draw are animals, hairstyles, eyeballs and dancers. I'm not the sort of person who likes to draw all the cutesy-pie kittens and puppies. I like to draw animals like a leopard stalking his prey or an enraged rhino.
 For some reason I like drawing peoples hair and eyes, I think I like drawing these things as someone's eyes and hair sort of expresses who they are and what their personality is like. For instance I  could easily tell whether a girl is a tomboy or a girly girl depending on their hair and eyes.




 My last favourite thing that I like to draw is dancers. I only really started liking to draw dancers last year when I went to the British Art Gallery in London and I saw some paintings by an artist called Edgar  Degas. Degas mainly painted ballet dancers. I loved how he could capture the movement and intensity of the dancer in his paintings. Degas would make a dancer do leaps over and over again for hours to capture that moment of when the dancers flexibility and  poise is at their highest. He also showed the determination and pain on the dancers face to show that ballet isn't just a bunch of girls hopping around in tutus you actually have to go through a lot of pain and be very determined if you want to become any good. Anyway so I had a go at drawing dancers myself and now I love to draw them.


Something that I need to work on in art is probably shading. I think that for the art exhibition we could do more 3-D art. Altogether I think that art is very interesting and that if you don't enjoy doing art you should give it another go.


So that's this weeks blog post about Art!

                                                                                       This is some artwork I recently did.

A Very Special Dinner Party!

I am really excited about this weeks blog post as the topic is.... if you could invite two people to a dinner party (one fictional, one real) who would they be?


The fictional character is a really hard choice. I have a list of about 30 characters who I would love to choose but I think I would have to go with Newt.
Newt is my absolute favourite character from one of my favourite books/movies The Maze Runner. Newt is really kind and gentle but can be really fierce and sassy when he needs to. S
ome questions that I would ask Newt would probably be-









What was your least favourite part about living in the|Glade?








Do you know that you have thousands of fans?








Um, have you read the Death Cure (third book in the series) page 250?








The last question would be pretty awkward if he didn't know what happened. I would probably start crying hysterically if  I had to explain what happens to him.


The next person that I would invite to the dinner party would be Elizabeth Banks. Elizabeth Banks plays my favourite character Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games. I think that Elizabeth Banks is a great actress as she can put on really good accents. In reality she has a really strong American accent but for the movie she puts on a really posh high pitched accent. Effie is a really over the top person and I think that Elizabeth Banks did a great job playing her. A few questions I would ask her would be.


How long did it take to transform you into Effie?






Was playing Effie an enjoyable experience?






Do you happen to have spare tickets to the premiere of the next movie?






I would love to go to the official premiere with all the actors and actresses. Anyway I think I would have quite an interesting Dinner party with Newt and Elizabeth! I hope you enjoyed reading this weeks post!