Next year ...

Its pretty hard to believe that there's only 3 more weeks until I'm completely finished at St Benedict's.
I've been here for almost 8 years ( my whole school life) and to be honest I am ready for the change
actually I am and I'm not, next year I'm going to wellington girls college and its huuuuuggggggeeeee compared to st bens, so I'm nervous I'm gonna get lost or something.
I'm also excited to be able to make lots more new friends. At wgc there are heaps of netball teams too and I want to do well in the trails and get into a good one. Maybe I might find a new sport I like, there are just so many opportunitys.

Book week stuff

Last week was really busy
First we had a visit from Kate De Goldi, a new zealand author that we have been learning about lately. It was actually really interesting hearing about the her family and how she became interested in writing. She talked to us about her books and a new book she was writing. Also she read out a few of her stories she wrote as a child at school which I really enjoyed to see how far she has came.

Secondly we had the book character parade. Us house captains had to run it and we printed out certificates and presented them to the best dressed students. Every class came out and sat on the courts and there was a pathway down the middle where each class walked down and showed off their costumes. Some of the costumes people came up with were so funny and creative.

At the very end of the day we had a book quiz for the whole school. Well by the whole school I mean 2 people chosen from each year from each house. It went really well and it was interesting to see how much our houses knew. Everyone did so well.

Books I liked when I was younger

I just asked my mum what kind of books I liked to read and she told me that one of my favourite books at age 4 was called My Dad.

I remember this book vaguely i think its about a kid who is saying his dad is a superhero and a role model to him and I remember something about things about animals fathers and whatever I can't really remember sorry.

Last year we had to do a blog post exactly like this and I'm pretty sure I did it about pooh bear and friends and apparently I like that when I was 5 and I like it because it evolved animals.

Sorry this was so bad  :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

AFL

last week the school started learning AFL. Our class does it on a Thursday morning with room 10.
When it was our turn to go down Catherine came in and took us for a house captain meeting, so Eva, James and I happened to miss half of the session.






But when we did come down they were teaching the class how to kick the ball. Some of the catchphrases I remember are laces away from faces and something about flicking the mud off your toe. At the end of the session we had to try and focus on kicking the balls straight/ aim them at your teachers.


PS: if this blog post has a million typos that's because the computer wouldn't stop messing up and being annoying as

CHERUB

My favourite book series is definitely CHERUB
I love it so much
I've been reading them for a while now and I am now up to book ten

The books are by Robert Muchamore and I love them because they have a bit of everything: violence, romance, guns and blood and that kinda stuff.
its about kids who don't have any parents but they are all really smart and get recruited into CHERUB and they are trained and become these super agent secret spy kids and go on mission and whatever.

But anyway its just like so great okay so read it

ideal future job :)

I haven't figured out what I want to be when I'm older and its really not a priority for me at the moment. But if I had to think of something on the spot I would probably want a job to do with animals or sports, because those are both things that I love. Maybe taking care of animals at the SPCA but I don't want to be there to rescue them because it will probably make me cry. Or a PE teacher or a sports doctor/ physio therapist.

At college for the sports doctor thing I would probably take PE/ extension PE and biotech ( idk that's what miss Bolger said)
And for a taking care of animals I don't really know what you would take
Outside you could easily get a job at an animal shelter or something and help out
I seriously seriously dont even know okayyyyY3ur7g347c64c xbnhbxce

What do u think could be a good job for me ?!

In the holidays..

the past two weeks have been really busy and we did quite a lot so I don't know if I'm supposed to write every single thing we did or just a few things. Anyway...

Saturday 26th September: Swimming, tumbling
Sunday 27th September: Went into town shopping with Amelia and her friend Lucy
Monday 28th September:  walk up colonial knob with Tyler and Joel Florance, car got broken into and mums handbag stolen..
Tuesday 29th September: Went to Nairnville with Ashling, Nayeli & Mollie, almost broke my nose. Also went to the physio for my back
Wednesday 30th September: Went to Nairnville again with my sister but didn't get hurt this time
Thursday 1st September: Big air holiday progamme with Mercedes + Porirua pool
Friday 2nd September: Relaxed because was sore from Holiday prrogramme
Saturday 3rd September: Went to grandpas place in Otaki with Lucy Singer (friend)
Sunday 4th September: Drove to waimarama beach with Lucy and sisters ( Harry, Harry's friend and dad went to Taupo then Waimarama)

Monday 5th September: Went to Ocean Spa (pool in Hawkes bay) and Mister D's (Donut place!)
Tuesday 6th September: Had to take Lucy into town to drop her off for a basketball tournament. A friend from Seatoun arrived (Bianca Moon)
Wednesday 7th September: Was at beach all day because it was 29 degrees!
Thursday 8th September: Weather was really bad, Went into Havelock North and watched Pan
Friday 9th September: Jaimees birthday. Went to Masterton
Saturday 10th September: Mums IronMaori duathlon (run, bike, run)
Sunday 11th September: Came back from Masterton went into town with Imogen, Kelsey and Mercedes went to the beach, got Starbucks and a huge Icecream!

And yeah thats my life

Favorite pieces of artwork lately

On Thursday we had the art exhibition! It was so amazing and I was so proud of all the work we had achieved. It was great to see how talented our school is.
I think it was a really great experience also seeing all the finished products. It was stressful though!
Also getting lots of paint over every piece of clothing I wore to school. My favourite class rooms were probably room 10 and room 7.









The best work I did was defiantly my own art which I shared with Mercedes. It was kind of a last minute thing but we ended up putting so much effort into it and it turned out amazing! I was so proud.

My favourite art from another class was room 12's X wing and room 7's whale! Also the gallery wall if that counts.

Limericks!

The best poem I have written would have to be those limericks ( probably because I'm really bad at writing poems and all of the rest don't make any sense). I like them because they are funny and it was really fun hearing everyone else's poems.
my first one is:
There once was a girl called Abby
who had a best friend called Tabby
She won the lottery
Learnt how to make pottery
But pottery made her crabby

the second one is:
There once was a boy from Nepal
Who liked to play football
but one day he fell
lost many brain cells
and his left eyeball

the last one doesn't make sense but oh well

50th blog post and my favourite artist

Zooplankton

Perspective Painting

HEy HEY this is my 50th blog post!! Wow that's a lot of blog post!

So today we have to write about an  artist we like. The artist I have chosen I know very well and goes by the name of Tyler Florance. He is 13 years old and goes to St Benedicts school. Another one of his hobbies (apart from art) is swimming. The pictures shown here are only few of his masterpieces. And these are also (my opinion) probably not his best compared to what I have seen. I like his pieces of artwork because he puts lots of effort and detail into everything he does.

If I had to choose another artsit I would do Edith Collier. She is my Grandfathers Auntie and she painted in New Zealand. She was born in March 28, 1885 in Whanganui and died December 12, 1964 also in Whanganui. I like her pieces of artwork because they represent New Zealand and the way she has painted it it looks kind of swirly and it makes me feel relaxed.

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   Don't know what this is called

This is called Grazing Sheep

SPORTSFEST before + after

BEFORE THE DAY

For sports fest I am playing Netball with my whole netball team minus Siena plus Charlotte. I'm looking forward to seeing how Charlotte gets on with our team and how she plays because we have been supposed to be doing practices but SOME PEOPLE decide they don't want to do them and don't want to waste their morning tea and whenever we do practice the boys and lots of other people want to join in. Also I'm nervous because 1: we have to switch around positions and I'm only ever good at defense and 2: we don't have an umpire organised for our team yet and Mum and I are freaking out !!!

AFTER THE DAY

I think it could have been better if we had our whole team (Catherine+ Siena) but yeah. We lost 4 games and won 1 but it was good to here that the dodgeball team had a great day- winning 4 out of 5 games! I think it would have been better if Catherine and Charlotte wasn't sick ! and if we communicated as a team and adapted to the teams ability's.
If I did it next year I would bring a bigger drink bottle and make the water cold.

The new flag is bad

I think it's a bad idea to change the flag even though it looks exactly like australias flag but I think we should just keep it as it is because the anzacs fought at world war 1 and 2 under that flag and it will change everything. But if we did have to change it, these are my personal favourites. I like them because they symbloize New Zealand and Maori culture well. The also have the New Zealand National colours like black red and blue.

I was the first person out of the whole intermediate to do a blog post of the week haha yay

art activities lately

The last art activity we did as a class

 was those ancient Aztec masks.

I enjoyed doing them but I didn't at

the same time because it was really

messy and time consuming and I don't

like collaging.

I would like to improve my sketching.

Our class has heaps of good ideas for the

art exhibit but some of them are so good

that they might be too over the top and won't

 be able to achieve.

inviting characters to dinner:)

hmmm if I could invite one real life person and a fictional character for dinner I would invite I would defiantly invite Dylan O' Brien like duh of course and for a fictional character and Eeyore the Donkey from Winnie the pooh.

3 Questions for Eeyore

• What's your favourite food and why
• What do you like to do I your spare time
• Do you accidentally stand on your tail often  

3 Questions for Dylan O'Brien

• WHY DID U BETRAY TERESA UGH
• How close have you become with the cast of the maze runner/ scorch trails
• Are you single?

Grandparents

My grandparents are great! and I appreciate them so much. They support me in everything I do and are always willing to tell me stories of when my siblings and cousins were little and silly stories of my parents when they were young.

Since our cousins only live down the road and our grandparents (mums side) only live in otaki they always come and visit us. They usually stay at our cousins house because they have a loft ( another house thingy which people stay in). Also when they come down we get together and have afternoon tea or dinner together.

In the recent Holidays our cousin from Hamilton (still my mums side) cae down to stay for a few days. Our grandparents came down too. We had a yummy dinner at our cousins house (that live down the road) and had a spa together (the cousins not parents). One of the Hamilton boys are 3 and his name is Thomas. He is really cute. He loves playing with the older boys and acting tough and strong its so funny.

holiday fun with friends

In the holidays I went ice skating with my friend from room 11 Charlotte.

When we arrived to the rink it was packed. But we were eager to get on the ice and bought our skates. Mum bought Charlotte and I some slide passes (there was a tubing slide which is made out of ice and you grab a tube thing and slide down it). 

The ice wasn't very slippery and made it very hard to skate but half way through our skating time they called us off the ice and drove this huge machine onto the ice which cleared off ice that was scraped off by the blades on the ice skates this made the ice slippery and easier to skate on.
The guys who worked there showed off while he was meant to be helping by doing all these cool tricks which looked amazing!!!!!

Nairnville sessions

this term we've been doing sports and gymnastics.
So far we've done rippa rugby and soccer and and then gymnastics rountines and stuff.
I kinda like the sports but I liked the Gymnastics better. I liked the air track the best. I love doing my flick flacks and backflips and other cool things. I haven't really learnt any new skills so far because I've been taught all of them before. I really like trying everything out though. I like balancing on whatever there is to balance on idk haha. I also liked swinging round the bar. But yeah I feel invloved in any group. I really enjoy the sessions and I don't think I need to get anything more out of it. I don't think they need to improve anything either...

German- Deutsch

Guten Tag!

In class we've been learing german every Thursday with Ms Rodgers. I've learnt heaps and I really enjoy it. We have learnt greetings, farewells, how to say you name and ask peoples names, number to 100, how to say how old you are and how to ask, how to ask how you are and replies and lots more. I might continue German in college because I really enojoy it and its fun. German could also be useful if someone goes travelling when they are older and they either visit germany or see some german family friends etc.

persevering

So on Saturday I had a swim meet which I was super nervous about because I entered myself into 800metres Freestyle. And I had never swam that long in a race before. It also didn't help that at tumbling 3 hours before I was practising my round off back-handspring backtuck and obviously at least on of them have to fail and I land on my middle finger which comes out as a purple bruise. So anyway that meet was held at the worst ever pool to swim backstroke in but thank goodness there was no backstroke; Coastlands Aqautic Centre (Kapiti). Previously I've done a few races there so I was quite familiar with the pool. You could choose to swim 400metres Freestyle, 1500 metres freestyle and 800.

It was time to race, the butterflies in my stomach were flipping and I didn't feel good. My googles also felt too tight on my head so I took them off and loosened them. They still didn't feel right but the whistle to get on the blocks had blown so I had to forget about it. The race had started. Oh no. My googles. They slipped a little bit off my head. "Thank god they actually stayed on!" I thought, but I had to do something about it. So as I pulled my hand out of the water to go into another stroke I grabbed my googles and pulled them down. Slowly it took a few more strokes for them to be back in place. Everything was going smoothly now and I was super happy I fixed my problem

Just as I thought nothing could get better I slipped on the opposite wall (it was really, really slippery!!!) and again and again! Oh no. But I got over it and finished the race with actually pretty good times which I was super surprised about.

I showed perseverance when I pulled my googles back into place and had to get my head back into the game and when I slipped I thought about it and how I could prevent it next time. Perseverance is probably easiest for me and the most challenging is maybe creativity because you have to think of a new and different way of dong something

awesomesauce books♥

Over the past few weeks I've read lots of books that I've really enjoyed. I found that I really like David Walliams, so I have read most of his books. The one that I most vividly remember and liked the most was the boy in the dress.

Its about a boy who wouldn't mind being a girl for a day or being put into a glamorous dress and being made up. Dennis (the main character) becomes good friends with a girl Lisa (who he has had a crush on for quite a while even though she is 2 years older than him) who invites him over to her house and thinks it would be "funny" to dress him up in a sparkly, sequined dress she recently made. She then coats his face with make up and puts him in high heels which makes him look very much like a girl. Lisa encourages him to go with her to the local shop and fools the shop owner - a good friend of Dennis's that "Denise" is a french exchange student who speaks very little English. After the shop owner is fooled Lisa wants Dennis to come to school as "Denise", which he does. But he tried to kick a football and reveals that he is a girl, the headmaster finds out and Dennis gets expelled.

If you want to find out what happens next, read the book! By tomorrow lunch time there will be a David Walliams display made by Grace, Olivia, Ethan and I and you can get it out and see for yourself.

What I liked aout this book is that sometimes you don't need to be afraid to express how you feel and that there is a happy ending (you will have to read it). I  would recommend it to ages 10+