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athletics

On the 30 of October 2013 Te Pahu school had their athletics day. Athletics is were Te Pahu school students all compete in 6 different events such as long jump,high jump,sprints,shot put,discus and hurdles we would do 2 events then stop for morning tea then do two more and stop for lunch. There were american hot dogs meat ball subs jucies popcorn and a few drinks for sale. Once lunch was over we did our final two events then after that we had our sprints relay were we go into our school competing groups and work out whoes best. The placings were paterangi first tirohunga second rueaphane third and tahuanue fourth.

energy

This term room 7 have been learning about energy. We started of learning with having a blog post were we put what we know and what we don't then Mr Maquand will look at the areas we need to improve on then we did it. Along with learning we did some fun experiments such as we would tie a spoon or fork to a string then tie the string to our fingers then we would put our fingers in our ear then we would hit our metal desk to prove that sound travels better threw solids and liquids than air. We are only a little way threw energy so have only really learnt the basics so when we go to high school we don't go there knowing knowing nothing. Well that's the end thanks for reading and remember don't stop reading my post thanks.

clearing and planting day

    

On the 19th of October room7 had their clearing and planting day were we sent out letters asking for money or trees to plant so we can help our mt pirongia. We were also joined by a fellow school pirongia to help with the planting all this took place nere the pirongia lodge so if you want to see what we did all you need to do is ask to see the outdoor class room

ag day

 On Wednesday 16th of October Te Pahu school had their Ag day. Ag day is were Te Pahu schools students get to do a calf lamb or goat there are other activity's such as alternative challenges but were just going to talk about the animals. For the animals there are three different challenges such as for lambs call and follow rearing and leading for calves the was leading rearing and beef and dairy type and for goats there was most obvious and few other activity's that i won't bore you with. The reason why we have Ag day is to get the students a idea of agriculture and by the looks of it had fun and here are a few pics to give you a idea of what it was like.

Room7 snow trip

On the 6th of September Room7  had there snow trip. We all had to wake up at 5.00 am to get to get ready and we had to be at school before 6.00 am. When everyone arrived at school we got into our transport groups and left to mountain. It was a long trip and when finally got there it was a great felling. We were skiing on the whakapapa side of the mountain. When we got up the mountain it was windy so we quikly hired our gear and went up the mountain. Most people stayed down the bottom slope of happy valley but some went up the mountain and skiied.

market day

On Friday we had our schools market day were we made fake money and would get a loan and sell stuff that we made. Some groups went for a food licences which most didn't get it but some did. On the day of market day every one was nerves because you have to make more or the same gongs the you loaned out and if you can't pay back your loan you are on rubbish duty. Our group made 220 gongs profit so we weren't on rubbish duty luckily.

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Last term we had winter tournament which is a tournament were you verse other schools and this is us at training versing the little team which we beat like 60-0. On the day of the real tournament we were the shortest team there and had two girls so by the looks of it we wearn't going to win and we didn't we came 2 to last which is beater.

Scorcio Espana (spain)

We stayed at Granny ad Bruce's apartment in Les Palmerres, about 20 minutes drive south of Valencia in Spain. It was hot hot hot over 33 degrees out side at times all you felt like doing is jumping into the sea and swimming but when you were stuck in the apartment doing nothing it made the feeling worse because there were some killing tempartures like 40 degrees at 1.00 pm somedays. The sea is realy warm and when we came out of the sea there is a ice-cream shop right there so its great to come up to a nice cold ice-cream.When we went into valencia for a walk around town we walked by the bull ring were they were just cleaning it all up ready for next bull fight.We also went to terra mitica which is a theme park in spain. We found that as you got inland more it became more hotter like in madrid which is almost in the middle of spain from what i saw it was boiling you coudn't sit in the sun for long but they did have great swimming pools to cool you off on a nice hot day which is fantastic.



Ciao (hello) Italia

 

Auf weidersein (goodbye) to Salzburg and Golly and Sonjas apartment.  Uncle Daniel (Golly) hired a big eight seater van, which only just fitted us all in.   

 We drove for about five hours without stopping and got to Riva del sol on the beautiful Lake Garda. The ice-cream in Italy is delicious.  I ordered, apple, strawberry and berry. 

 We swam in the lake which was warm, there was a net which we joked was for sharks but it was to keep the windsurfers away from the swimmers. We drove along a road which went through stone tunnels and was on one of the James Bond movies.
After being cooked in the hot van, we got to Bergamo and managed to find the train station even though the signs are in Italian. We met up with another cousin Kevin Prendergast.  He is a pilot and lives nearby so he showed us up to the old city which is thousands of years old.  We had pizza for dinner.  I like the NZ ones better as they don't do spagetti ones in Italy.  We also had big langostinis (prawn things) and we ate some of Sonjas mussels which were nice.    
It was late when we got to Gaimaica house - all our nights seemed to be late.
The house was made out of really nice stone and had marble tiles on the floor.
The food in italy was not my first choice apart from the icecream. The ham  (proscuito) looked really fake and was greasy.  The cheese was in everthing and was melting and overdone. One dish that looked really nice was a stew that Aunty Sonja ordered.  Granny was disgusted because it was made of donkey. The hot chocolates we ordered were stiff and were more like a chocolate pudding.  Not what we expected but Sonja had warned us.  I was really missing NZ ham, hot chocolates and vegemite.
We went to a great sports shop called Decathlon.  I tried out the scooters, then got granny and Estelle to have a go.
We met Kevin in Arona and he took us to Largo (lake) Maggiore where movie stars hang out.  We found a sort of a beach and went for a swim.  Estelle and I played on a mooring buoy.
The lake had a few castles and was a place where Napoleon stayed with his woman friend.     

Action packed Austria (Österreich)

 In Austria we are staying at uncle Daniel (nickname golly for his golly wog hair) and aunty sonja and cousins lily and tom. We are using there apartment in Salzburg and have been doing action packed things like on monday we went to Obertrumer lake and went swimming. There was a climbing iceberg it was hard because when we got to the top golly would push us down. On Tuesday we went hiking up in the mountains it was hard going because of the altitude. When we got there we had lunch which was lots and lots of cheese after that me and Estelle (My sister) sprinted down the hill at a million miles an hour. Then that night we went to old town just down the street and walked around looking at the shops and got lost because of mums bad directions. On Wednesday we went to another lake and went swimming the water was really clear and warm. It was hard to think that the lake we went to in winter people go ice skating on it. Then tonight we went rock climbing but we didn't climb many times.
  Then we went to a food restaurant for dinner (beer garden) it was nice.We will be going on the gondola tonight up a steep rock face.

 In London at Stanstead Airport we got picked up by my mums first cousin Phill and drove to his big house.  The next day  we went into the city on the underground train.  We got off at Vauxhall station, where we had to walk along and meet up with Pauline, a distant cousin.  She took us up to her apartment which is next to the river Thames.  From there we could see Big Ben, the London eye, and the castle of London.  Estelle liked the huge rocking horse that was at Christies auction house across the road.  When we left the apartment we went for lunch at Wagamamas a noodle place.  We took the double decker bus for a while to Buckingham palace.  We saw some guards patrolling the area, there were two on horses.  They have to stand there for two hours at a time.  St James park has a big lake with lots of birds.  There were flamingos there but apparently the fox killed them all.
In the National Gallery were lots of famous paintings.  We saw more paintings in the portrait gallery.  One of them that won first prize was not as good as other ones.
At 4 o‘clock we said goodbye to Pauline and hello to Kimmy, Mum‘s friend.  Estelle and I watched superman at a place in piccadilly square.  We walked through interesting places on the way back to the tube.  There was a man wrapped in chains trying to get out at covent garden.
We got the tube home without getting lost.  What a long day that was.

The Irish side of my family

One thing I noticed when I got to Ireland is that I have a lot of relatives here. My Granny Cathy went to New Zealand when she was 17 on a boat P&O Orient The Orsova a long time ago.  She had five children then moved back to Ireland in 1987 with her second husband Bruce.  We see Granny and Bruce a bit because they come to visit us in Te Pahu, but not many of the other cousins, aunties or uncles because New Zealand is a very long way from Ireland.  When it is day and summer here, it is night and winter in New Zealand. We  go to bed late here, it is still quite light even at 11 at night.
My uncle Michael is a musician and plays guitar at lots of different places.  Last night he played a few tunes at Mannions bar in Balla (pronounced Baal).  It has traditional Irish music.  I wasn't allowed to go because it was a late night and kids shouldn't go to pubs.  
Michael is married to Ana who is Spanish.  Their kids are my cousins Samuel and Ewan.
My Aunty Clodagh lives on the other side of Castlebar, she is married to Irish Colin and they have four girls; Shannon, Jasmine, Annelise and Meisha Bell.  Granny has two brothers and five sisters and they provide lots of cousins.
Granny took us for a walk over the old family land in Ballyglass yesterday.  The old stone cottage had fallen down but some of the barn was still standing. We picked wild strawberries when we walked back along the boreen (small road). We had to watch out for nettles as they sting.

Fishing at Achill

On Monday the 8-7-13 Grandpa Bruce,  Craig-my uncle, Estelle-my sister and Me went fishing off the coast in the Atlantic ocean in Bruce's boat.  We went out at a place called Achill.   It was a really hot day but the water was not that hot.  You would either catch lots of fish or you wouldn't catch any in different spots. We cheap fished by not using any bait, just a bit of coloured string dangling down over the hook, but it worked.   We caught coal fish and pollock.  Bruce also caught two little mackerel.  When we came in onto the beach, where the cousins were waiting for us we got out of the boat and started to swim after that we had a barbecue and picnic lunch.  We cooked up some of the fish and some of the nice irish sausages.

Gone Biking and Scootering

On our way to tokyo japan it seemed like endless torture because our seats became uncomfortable after an our or two the food was horrible and the movies and games became unbearable after 5 hours the only good was drinks by good i don't mean healthy. We stayed awake the whole which is almost 24. On our departure the food and movies became worse which is bad because from tokyo to frankfurt the trip is longer and i can't sleep on planes. On our let flight from frankfurt to dublin i thought it would the best trip every i fell asleep and mum said when i woke we were half an hour year
 right i slept for 15 minutes because half an hour the captain said 1 hour to destination i didn't like that because my ankle puffed till i could not see it i think it was because i wasn't moving because the next day after walking around a bit it was better. When we were used to the time zone we went around looking at irish ancient building i like here in Ireland worst bit but he is all right is my little cousin who is 5 he in the first couple of days woke me up real early because i wasn't used to the time zone he woke me up to go shoot some birds with his little plastic gun but a part from that it is good.

In term 1 we went to a science road show. One of the experiments was when you try to crack an egg with one hand it was impossible. I would have got if i kept trying because it had a small crack in it. After there were lots of things we could go and test. One there was a job detector and my one was a landscape architect.

swimming

Early in term one we had our swimming training this was just one of the photos of us. This photo was when we were practising for if we ever fell over board we also did a swimming practise were we swam in jeans and a jacket it was very hard to swim.

RM7 Camp

On camp we had a great time lots of fun the water pipe thing was hard to do it was a real team work event in one of the activetys it included eggs and my team mate chuked an egg at me they must have been rotten because it stunk but other than that it was pretty fun.

Pencil portrait

Last term we made portraits of our faces. We had to measure and check to make sure it is the right size. Mine was a bit big. We were learning to get good texture. The part I found the hardest would have been shaping the head and the eye. I can do better eyes now. Next time I will slow down and take my time a bit more to make it more accurate and more realistic.