Big Day Out!

Wow! The end of term is only like two weeks away! And everyone knows that at the end of the last term the big day out comes around. My favorite big day out was quite a few years ago when we went to h20 extreme. I know some people will disagree with me saying "but it was too crowded", or " oh but the lines for the slides got to long". I really enjoyed this big day out even though I did not get a go on the slides.
I would like for us to go to h20 again but I doubt that it will happen.
So where do you think the big day out will be this year Grace?
I honestly don't know.
Up until last year I always thought that we were going to go to some nature reserve or bird sanctuary place, but last year Mrs Taylor surprised us with bowling and sports, so I'm not really sure where it will be this year. For one thing I know it's not swimming (sadface:(   ) so I have a feeling that it will be at some sort of outdoor park.

 So much has happened  this year so I'm going to talk about one of my favorite events from this year.

The cake decorating competition was probably one of my favorite things this year. Sylvia and I decided to create a Hansel and Gretel cake. We saw a picture of how to make a house out of cake on the internet and I totally underestimated how difficult it would be. Cutting out the house wasn't that hard but when we covered it in icing it kind of looked like a demented soft toy. It was only till we decorated it that it actually started to resemble a house. I was really proud of our finished cake, despite the mishaps along the way it actually turned out looking really awesome.

I hope you enjoyed my post!

Where do you think the big day out will be?

Eek! College!

Actually I'm looking forward to college quite a lot! Next year I will be going to Wellington Girls and by the sounds of the things that I have heard it sounds pretty cool.
Here's some questions about college that I'm going to answer.

What are some things that you are going to try/achieve next year?
For me the big thing is to make some new friends! Sure I'll still hang out with my friends from St Bens but I think having some new friends will be fun. There's about 280 other new year 9s starting with me so I'm sure that at least a few of them will be my new friends. I would also like to try and do different activity's that I have never tried before. I am taking many new and exciting subjects and I would also like to try volleyball.

What are some things that you look forward to?
This may sound kind of pathetic but I'm actually kind of looking forward to riding the bus to and from school by myself, I not even sure why this is something that I'm looking forward too :) . I am also looking forward to all the new subjects that I am taking, some of the ones that are going to be very new to me will be media studies and animation and programming.

What do you think will be challenging?
The school is huge. I  think that finding my way around all the different classrooms will be quite challenging for the first few days, but over time I think I will adjust. I guess that the whole idea of having to change my normal routine and schedule will be a bit challenging but as I mentioned before I think i will just get used to it overtime.

Hope you enjoyed reading about what I think of college next year!

What are your expectations for college/year 8?

Book Week!

Most of you probably know that last week was book week! For this weeks post I'm going to tell you about my top 3 favorite things from book week.

1. Book character day and the book quiz
For book character day Catherine and I arranged to dress up as bunches of grapes from the very hungry caterpillar. It was quite difficult but also very fun having a whole lot of balloons attached to me. Unfortunately we had two tests on Friday so I had to tackle the difficult task of taking my bunch of grapes off a few times so that I would be able to sit down.
Another one of  my highlights was the book quiz! So for the past couple of weeks the rest of the House Captains and I had been organising the book quiz and it was great to see it all come together. I was very very happy to find out that Brigidine had won all the year group quiz's. Unfortunately we received a complaint  from *cough cough Ngatoto* that we had 3 year 8s and only 1 year 7 on our team, sadly we were disqualified  from that particular competition. Personally I didn't think that it was a very fair decision  considering that Catherine and I were never told about that rule but I guess that the decision has been made and we can't really do much about it now.

2. Kate De Goldi visit.
Another highlight from book week was when Kate De Goldi came to visit. Kate De Goldi is a very well known New Zealand author and it was very interesting to hear about her view on being an author. She talked bout where she got her ideas and told us lots of interesting stories about her life as an author. She seemed to be really enthusiastic about what she does and I really enjoyed this area if book week.

3. The last area of book week that I really enjoyed was the golden tickets!
Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to get one but I did try. I thought it was funny how some people spent their whole lunchtime constantly refreshing the blog to see if another clue was  up. Then of course there was the huge stampede as soon as the next clue was up! It was really fun to try work out the clues for the golden tickets and to have a go at finding them.

So that was my view on book week, I hope you all enjoyed it as well!

See y'all next week :)

Books I liked when I was younger!

When I was younger I had HEAPS of picture books. I liked lots of them but I clearly remember that one of my favorites was "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae. Giraffes can't dance was about a Giraffe named Gerald who (you can probably guess by the title) can't dance. Anyway Gerald has always longed to dance but his legs are too long and skinny and he just can't get it quite right. Gerald starts to dance in front of the other animals but ends up making a fool of himself and getting very embarrassed. Gerald wanders off into the jungle and meets a little cricket who does believe in him. He teaches Gerald that everyone should dance to their own beat. Gerald goes back to the other animals and they realise that giraffes can dance.
I loved this book so much that we even bought the audio book so when I was younger we used to listen to the story whenever we were in the car.

Thank for reading this post!

What was your favorite book when you were younger?

AFL?

So last week we had our first Australian football- AFL lesson.
I've never been that good at sports that include kicking a ball, when I kick a ball it always seems to roll like two metres in the complete wrong direction ( don't judge.) So I told myself to just go yolo in this AFL lesson.
So basically that's what I did. When we had to all kick the ball forward, everybodys ball flew gracefully in the right in the right direction. Mine however shot straight up into the air , and I thought this was pretty impressive considering when I usually kick a ball it goes nowhere. Just as I  turned around my ball fell straight fast my face (I'm not kidding it literally skimmed my nose). That was the highlight of the lesson for me.

Some things that we learned at AFL were-
1. Laces away from faces.
2.Crosses up and down
3.Toes pointed when kicking the ball.

AFL is very different to any other sports that I have played before as there are some super weird kicking and throwing techniques. I think that it will be interesting to see how I go will go with the rest of the lessons.

See y'all next week