Christmas#2

Well I decided to do another post, I am really bored and got some new ideas so....

This year for Christmas we are going to stay at home! But towards the end of the holidays my grandparents are coming from South Africa to visit us! It would be the second time they are coming and we are all really excited.

Well back to the topic, Christmas. Christmas Eve we will be going to midnight mass and then after that we open up presents from the family and then the next morning we open up our presents from "Santa". We have a big breakfast and then we are going to meet up with three other families and have a huge lunch!

In South Africa Christmas is really big, the beach and waterfront gets decorated in light and many houses decorate their house with lights too. Every year on the 16th of December my uncle would host a Christmas party for a couple orphanages in East London. The whole family and the kids would all go to his house and have a massive braai (BBQ) and swim; after that we would settle down play some games and then open presents from Santa and once it got dark we would go around the city on the search for lights. There would be this really nice guy who would let us into his house and look at all the decorations and his lights around the house. On Christmas Eve the whole family my close family of 48 would attend midnight mass, then after an hour or two of church and carols we would go to one of the family members house. We would all eat and open presents from the family, my older cousin and I would present the presents to the other family members. After that we would all go home and then the next day go to a different house for lunch. Everyone would bring heaps of food and then we would all eat and play for the rest of the day. I have many more memories about South Africa Christmas was really fun!

Seeing that this will be my last post Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR CHRISTMAS??

College

Next year I am going to college, I am going to St Mary's College, I am really excited to go next year and make new friends and playing new sports. The thing I am mostly worried about is getting lost. Otherwise I am kinda excited for college I have made a few friends already and cant wait to join the sports teams:D

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU WANT TO PLAY IN COLLEGE OR NEXT YEAR?

Thursday

For the reflection this week we had to write about our Tuesday, because it was Dino day/ inter zone athletics day. But Athletics was cancelled, so now we had to write about our Thursday.

Well yesterday (Thursday) was my college orientation day. The day began at 9.15, i got there early i met up with some St Brigids girls and we played king. I met the dean for next year, he was really nice! We started off with the opening prayer from the head girl and the leadership team.  We got split into 6 groups and told that we had to do the scholarship exam! We had to do a English and Maths one English first then a break for some morning tea.

After the tests we went down to the gym! We played a game of Bench Ball and our team won all four games! The next game we played was Fat Mat Racing! The game is sort of a relay race with these huge mats that you would usually use for landing in high jump. What you do is to run as fast as you can an dive onto the mat and push it as far as you can then the next pair in your team goes, then so on from one end of the court to the next! Our team won all the games,, there was this one time when we  went in three's the two other people went and then a started after them and they had already dived on the mat, I tried to dive but I over ran it and face planted into the ground!

We also did R.E and Science in Science we got to make some colours experiment with electricity and do an experiment. The first one i did was creating colours with these chemicals (i think) we made blue, orange, yellow and green and i made brown by mixing all the colours together! I the other thing we did was POP! and experiment with acid and fire ( i think) It was really fun because it made a popping sound!

The day was really really fun and I cant wait to go to college next year!

Have you tried Fat mat racing before?

Akinator and the Birthday Game:D

Ok, so most of you probably know of the game Akinator well if you don't it is so cool Here it is. The other thing that is kinds cool is the birthday game, mine was I kissed a ninja because I was drunk, I couldn't get the picture to be clear but you can search it up on the internet. Please comment what your one is because I would like to know :D

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NBA Christmas

This year the NBA has made a commercial for Christmas it is called Jingle hoops. Its is so cool, I saw it on the Crowd Goes Wild on Tuesday.

Enjoy!

Book Charater Week

So as you know last week was book character week. It was loads of fun I missed the parade at the start of the day because I had a orthodontist appointment, but when I got we did a book quiz all the houses chose 5 people from their house group Nicole and I chose Adam-YR4, Riley-YR5, Catherine-YR6, Samantha-YR7 and Stephanie YR-8. We came second-which earned us 300 points and we also lost by one point!

I went as a CHERUB Agent and so did Sam and Matt.C. We had a mission at lunch to find Daniel , he was supposed be auditioning for the talent quest but didn't turn up. During the Hunger Games we were in alliance and Aiden because he was James Bond. I made to the last two(Joe and I) But Joe won.

Muggle

Today for book week I  decided to be a muggle, from the Harry Potter series. I was going to be the Diary of the Wimpy Kid guy, but I didn't want to write. Otherwise tomorrow I am going to go as an CHERUB agent, but the shirt we bought hasn't arrived from the UK yet so I printed out a logo and pined it on, it doesn't look like the real thing but it better than nothing! Below are a family of famous muggles!
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE BOOK?
Guess what mine is....

 

Pippi Longstocking Ramoo

This week at school is book week. In class we have to act like an character. Today I dressed up like Pippi Longstocking, I have never worn my hair like that before. I was at bit worried about getting into trouble.

What are you going to go on book character?

Guy Fawkes Day

Well I love Guy Fawkes Day every year we go down to the harbour and watch the fireworks and a couple of years ago we went to our friends house we had dinner and watched the fireworks from their house.

I think Guy Fawkes day should be on Christmas Day. Christmas time is a time celebrate and many people celebrate it around the world. It also isn't so cold during Christmas so when you are watching the fireworks you wouldn't be freezing. They could also have a theme for the fireworks, they could have Santa and Christmas Trees! 

WHAT DAY WOULD YOU HAVE GUY FAWKES DAY ON?

Future Job

My future job would either be a football player or a hockey player; but I would also like to become a sports doctor.

I have had many different job interest but this job seems quite fun and I get to be involved in sports. At one stage in my life wanted to be a ballerina, zookeeper and a baker who owned a chain of bakeries.

If I was to become a sports doctor I would have to take these subjects in college

• Chemistry
• Biology
• Physics

I think it would be cool to become a Sports Doctor, I would get to see all the sports action and travel around the country/countries and one day I would love to be the doctor of my favourite football team Chelsea Fc

What are you going to be when you are older?

P.S please comment

Basket Ball

Tonight we played the Raroa Aces ( They are the best team in the league!) they have some really good players. Before our game Nicole and I got there early so we semi coached St Brigids; they were a player short and their coach never turned up. We also wanted to play in the next game our other St Bens team, we played and Nicole got a three in, I striped the ball form Lachlan and Matthew C and I double teamed him and got the ball of him a couple of times!


The next game was against the Aces they were eavesdropping on our game plan. The first time we played these guys was last year we lost 80-2 , last time we only lost by like 30 points, we were pretty close the whole game and only lost like 35-15.  I ended up knocking this guy over by standing on his foot and then he knocked his on the floor! Everyone played pretty good today and next time we play them we have to win!

Holidays and the Fair

Holidays

In the holidays I went ice skating it was really fun we spent an 1 hour and a half there and by 15 minutes I could ice skate properly! Catherine and I had a race a couple of times and I won easily. We also went up to New Plymouth and Wanganui  for a couple of days because my Dad had work up there.

Spring Fair

The Fair was yesterday it was a lot fun, I had to go to school at about 9.30 to help my mum put the curries in the right place and I also helped put up the balloons, which was really tricky in the wind. Luckily this year the sun was shining, it was nice to see the old St Bens students and catch up with them too. There were heaps of stalls there including pillow fighting which I won I beat Arthur, Matthew C and someone else I cant remember!  While was on the courts these guys threw water balloons on us one hit Nicole on the arm and one I kicked on the full! There was one game that frustrated me a lot was the Kelly Sports thing I won a lolly bag and a band I couldn't get the 3- pointer in our the half court shot. The fair this year was a great success!!

What was your favourite stall at the fair??

Art

This week and last we have been doing art in class our artist is Frida Kahlo. We have been painting the whole week and I have chosen my favourite piece of art the self portrait.

We first took a photo of ourselves and then we enlarged it and coloured it in and game ourselves a monobrows, we all chose a Frida Kahlo background that we wanted to replicate and then we had to paint it. I chose a picture were she was sitting on a chair and had a pink background.

I couldn't load the picture up sorry.

What do you think you would look like with a monobrow

My Obession

I have many obessions at the moment, I love the football team Chelsea, I love hockey and football and I am obssesd with the show the amazing race! 

Chelsea

Chelsea is a football team who compete in the Barclays English Premier League, my favourite players are Quan Mata, Ramires and Frank Lampard. I love watching their games and watching the highlights every Sunday with my Dad. At the  moment they arent playing till Next Sunday against Everton due to the international break. I love watching Chelsea because they pass the ball well as a team and have  a very good coach,  who is also quite funny Jose Mourinho 

Hockey and Football

On Saturdays I play hockey and Sunday football. 

At the moment I play hockey for WISC (Wellington Indidan Sports Club) we play at three venues every week either at Fraser Park in Avalon, National Hockey stadium in Newtown or at Elsdon in Porirua.  We play 11- aside on a full pitch and I play the positions of left inner, Centre Forward, Centre Half and back sometimes. But I mainly play as a inside which involves a lot of running with the ball and 

 Defending. Our team started the season really badly we lost of first game 7 or 8 nil. We are now getting way better and have been winning a few games we were on the bottom of the table and now we are coming 3rd out of 7 or 8 teams. 

On Sunday's I play Football for Onslow I play on in girls only league, we have been moved up a grade and now are playing college girls.  We had lost one game an lost a friendly too at the beginning of the season against Upper Hutt.  Our last game of the season we played our main rivals Upper Hutt and we beat them 2-1 I scored a goal and then I had to go in goal and let one in, sadly. But in the end we won.

The Amazing  Race

My final obsession is the amazing race, I love this show I love learning about countries and how they work and I also like reality tv. There is a New amazing race coming up on tuesday at 7.30pm on TV2, I saw the ads and they are coming to Christchurch!  I am now watching the amazing race 13 the season has just started and I have just started to enjoy it again. Now that I have not soccer on Sunday's I finally get to watch it.  My favourite bit so far has been watching teams fight and arguing to each other about smallest of things. My favourite team is Nick and Starr. 

Sorry about the really long post, it shows how obsessd I am.

Have  you watched the amazing race before?

 

Medieval Times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have just finished our topic for this term, during this term we have been making this medieval village on minecraft. I have been making the cottages with Anna and Nicole, we have added a toilet which is a cauldron and a trap door with a bucket of water in it, a little fenced off area around the cottage for the animals.

The cottages were meant for the peasants to live in and people, they are quite small though. I cant really show you guys any photos, but trust me it looks cool. I did this to late so I couldn't take any screenshots.

What village did you like best?

Science Fair

Today was the NIWA Science fair. I was one of the people who got to go and get judge by scientist and hopefully win some prizes and some money. There were 198 year 8 students and only one person can win.

We had to wait 2 hours for the judges, we had to stand by our projects and when they came we had to explain our project to them and what we did and if we did it again we what would we change. There heaps of really good science fairs some kids even brought laptops with power points on the project.

Lets hope someone from our school wins something

Medieval Times

This term we have been learning about the medieval times. We have learn t the the different types of jobs in a medieval village,like the blacksmith, the innkeeper, baker, master at arms, miner, priest and the tailor. We are also making a minecraft medieval village. Nicole, Anna and I are making all the cottages in the village, in our role play I am the innkeeper with Ben P.  I think the best way I have learn t about the medieval times is making the power points, the newspapers and watching the video.

Electives

Here at St Benedict's we do this thing called electives, students from the school get to participate in many different activities like, Sports, Master Chef, Science, Creative Computers, Extension Art, Technology, Jump jam and the Band.

At the moment I am in sports, we are learning a new sport called turbo touch. I already knew the basic rules because I did sports last year and sort of remembered them. Last week was tournament week my team won!!!

This year we are getting to do two electives, one in term one and the other in term two. Last term I was in Technology, we were we given new challenges every week for example, make a stretcher out of newspaper that can hold a 10kg bag of sand!


I really enjoy the electives programme and sadly this is my last year of doing seeing that I will be going to college next year.

Tech!!!!!!!!!!!!Tech!!!!!!!!!Tech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Tech!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This term at tech I am in sewing we are making messenger bags and today is our last day. I haven't really learnt any new skills because we have been using everything we know from last year, when we made our pillows. I am so excited to take my bag home to show off what did.

My favourite tech class was electronics we made car that could move backwards and forwards only. Last year we made this game which I have no idea what it is called but it was really fun to play and make. We also got to paint and make a plastic car which was really cool.

Medieval Times

This term and last term we have been learning about the medieval times. We have learnt things about the ranks of society,

KING
BARON
BISHOP
LORD/KNIGHT
NOBEL
PEASANTS/SERFS

But my favourite thing was making our castles, in our group we won a prize but I don't remember for what though!  I castle looked really good and today we broke it and through it out ( finally)
 
We also have watched a really cheesy movie about the merchants.