Aussie Rules

Its a pleasure to have Pt England taught how to play an Australian Sport called AFL Aussie Rules. Some AFL players has gave up there time to teach us Aussie Rules and other games that's similar to it.

Thursdays every week our class and room 17 goes after morning tea to AFL Aussie Rules. Megan and Alisa is the names of the girls that teaches us. My favourite highlight is playing baseball with them but in a different way. The baseball we were playing was the same rules but you had to bounce it between every base you run to, also instead of bating the tennis ball you had to kick the AFL ball to your target. First Megan took my class and Alisa took room 17 to tell the instructions to us. While Megan was telling us the instructions I was so happy because it sounded really fun. Finally instruction telling was finished and we got into groups of two, I was in number 1.

As I stood in the line I was nervous but when I watched Everybody else do it I gave it a try. When it was my turn I giggled hilariously and then kicked the ball. As soon as I kicked it I Sprinted to the other base while bouncing the ball but it was too late, the other team had cached it. Disappointed and happy at the same time because I had a go I sat down at the back of the line. Mr Somerville which is our teacher in room 16 told us it was a tie so we all cheered as we went back to say bye to Megan and Alisa. It was allot of fun but it was more interesting to me because it was the first time I'eve played AFL baseball in my life.

New Zealand is an Island country in the South West pacific ocean. It is joined together with 3 main islands called North Island, South Island and Stewart Island. The Maori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa, meaning The Land of the Long White Cloud. The main languages spoken in New Zealand are English, Te Reo Maori and New Zealand Sign Language. Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand with Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin as the other main centres. Wellington is famous because the prime minister, John Key, lives there and works in a very famous building named the Bee Hive.

Rugby World Cup Opening Ceromony

Wow the Rugby World Cup Ceremony was so amazing, It took a long time but it was worth it. The fantastic part was when the graphics and animations came up while the actors were acting. It was the first time I’ve ever watched a RWC in New Zealand that awesome before. There was a lucky boy that got to act in the first part of the ceremony which is about him versing against a massive team in rugby. This boy come from Christchurch and has always wanted to play for the Christchurch rugby team.

Soon after that he was even luckier because he got walk in the middle of the great names of rugby players in the past. Suddenly he saw a man behind a smokey entrance. I hoped it was a famous rugby player that played for the All Blacks but I knew I am wrong. Waiting desperately to see who it was I saw Jonah Lomu, I was right after all. Jonah Lomu is a famous rugby player because he is the only man that has scored more then anyone else. Everybody was screaming and shouting while taking photos and so was me.

Even though Tonga is tough the All blacks is smart and I knew that All Blacks is going to win but Tonga is going to try their best. I went for Tonga and I hoped Tonga was going to win.

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Life education caravan

As we excitedly lined up with our teacher, Lynn politely asked us to take off our shoes and put it under the caravan. We lined up from tallest to shortest so everyone can see clearly to what were learning about, I was the tallest. Finally Lynn invited us into her caravan to see Harold. Harold is a giraffe thats goes school at the Safari Zoo.


My favorite highlight was doing the banana solute dance. First you had to sing this and dance it. Banana Salute, peel banana peel peel banana peel banana peel peel banana slice banana slice slice banana banana slice banana slice slice banana mush banana mush mush banana mush banana mush mush banana eat banana eat eat banana eat banana eat eat banana go banana go go banana go banana go go banana and that is the banana solute dance.

My Holiday

Waking up early in the morning to start my holiday was fun. I couldn't wait to start going somewhere with my family, but at the same time I missed my friends and our teacher.

My mum called me to ask me if I wanted to go with her to get some snacks and drinks. I answered “yes” as I ran to the car. It was so cool because my mum said I can choose some things for my cousins. So as soon as We got to Pak'nsave I went to buy a box of cup cakes, some drinks and chips. The things that I got for me was muffins and two cakes for the whole family. After that my mum told me to put it into the trolley and wait for her at the counter. I wondered what she was going to get but I doubt it was for me. When she came back she had lots of things for my niece cause she loves her so much!

Tactile Dome

At our trip to Motat we went to the Tactile Dome, it is my favourite highlight as I crawled with my friends through the dark and scary course. There was a huge net right in front of me but I was too scared to climb it. Finally I got rid of my fear and climbed like an afraid little girl.

My second highlight was the mirror maze, as I survived getting lost from one-hundred mirrors. At first I thought it was easy, but it wasn't, my heart was pumping as I lost my way out. Finally I saw my class running around beside me so I followed them and found my way out!

Sadly it was time to go. We got our bags and lined up with our class near the exit gate. We all said a big thank you to Fraser, who was the person that helped us at Motat and the parents that helped us. Then we tiredly hopped in the bus.