Terrific T-ball

 Kia ora, in Te Ngahere Whaea Kc came and taught us how to play T-ball. T-ball is a sport that is similar to softball, there are only three differences between T-ball and softball they are, in T-ball, no one bowls, everyone gets a turn at batting and there’s a much softer ball. Instead of bowling, the ball is sitting on a pole and a person grabs the bat then hits the ball. It doesn’t matter if you hit the pole because as soon as the ball moves, you have to run and the fielders have to get you out. To get someone out, one of the fielders has to get the ball and place the ball on the base that the runner is running to. When I was fielding I stayed on third base. The end score was 8-11 to the other team but we didn’t get to finish our match. I found batting really difficult, but I enjoyed the game a lot. Have you ever played T-ball before, if so, what’s your favourite position?

Bay of Islands Orientation

 Kia ora, the year eights from Paihia School and Karetu School went to Bay of Islands College for an orientation day. The reason there was an orientation day was so that the year eights could experience what high school was like. At the beginning of the day we all sat in the library and the year nine dean, Mr Smith,  we had a talk and read out the weekly notices. After that we all walked to the woodwork classroom and we made an object that was made for hanging bags and(or) coats. Once we had finished woodwork class, it was interval. During interval I went to the gym to check it out, it was jam packed when I walked in but I stayed in there anyway. The bell rang for second period rang so all the year eights and the year nine guides made their way to the quad (the quad was an area where people could sit down and play handball and a few other things). The reason we made our way to the quad was because Mr Smith told us to meet him there after the interval. Unfortunately, this ended up in us getting in a bit of trouble because he had to do something and the principal told us off for not being in class. After awhile, the guides led us to the the Whare so that we could do Te Reo classes. They did a mihi and we sung a few waiata and then we played a game. Basically we had these sticks and the teacher would say either Maui or something else. If she said Maui, we had to let go of our sticks and pick up the person to our left’s stick. If she said the other word we would go to the right and pick up the person to our right’s stick. If we didn’t pick the stick up before it hit the ground, we were out. After Maori it was Social Studies. Social Studies was my favourite subject that we did because we were basically doing geography. There were degrees and then there was longitudes and latitudes. It would say N°40 and there would be a clue with a country’s beginning letter and we’d have to find that certain country. It was a really fun lesson. We then headed to the science classroom. We had to wait awhile because the teacher wasn’t there yet. We all got told off because we were being too loud while there was a test going on. Eventually the science teacher came and we experimented with Bunsen Burners. The teacher explained a little bit about them and then we had to leave because there were two classes jammed into one period. We left  for PE in the gym. For PE they taught us the basics of Volleyball. We had a bit of a competition on which group could keep the ball up for the longest (my team kept it up for the shortest). When PE had finished it was interval, we were very lucky that the orientation day was on a Wednesday because every Wednesday there is free lunch. There were two more periods after interval, in that time, there was a man who gave a bit of a speech about army training and how you could join a group. He had a presentation to go with his speech as well. After the speech it was the final period. Karetu and Paihia School split up, Paihia School did Art while Karetu School did Music. That was the end of the day. Do you have a favourite subject, if so, what is it?

Parasailing

 Kia ora, one week ago I went parasailing. It was quite fun because I like big heights. The boat departed at 3:30 pm and we had to put on these weird things but they helped to attach us to the parasail and kept us from falling. At first I was nervous but then the parasail was gliding quite slowly so it wasn’t too bad, until the wire that attached the parasail to the boat started shaking. I thought the wire was going to snap but luckily it didn’t. There was a really nice view and I could see over Russell and I could see some other nice sights. It looked like it was about to rain but fortunately it was sunny. I enjoyed going parasailing. Have you ever gone parasailing?