Friday Rafting

Last week Friday, Room 12 went on an exciting trip to Vector Wero Whitewater Park. It's a place where anyone can go to do some rafting or kayaking. By the looks on the students' faces we all had fun. On my raft were Kain, Tristan, Sione, Mario, Ethan (the tutor) and I.

I had a bad and very awesome time. The bad thing about the trip was putting on the wetsuit. It was like a mission to put it on, but eventually it slipped right on. After all I still had a good time. My favourite part about the trip was when we had the privilege of standing up while the raft goes down the river. It was awesome. I was sad when it was over though... I hope I get to go again another time.
                     

Tech

At Tech we were with Mr Thompson, I finally chose to make a CD holder to put all my games in it.

I have chosen this item because I needed something to use as a storage holder for my CD's, so that they won't get lost. It has 4 slots and has a bottom piece to hold the PS4. I have to make it strong so that if it drops then it won't break.

Next week I'm going to carry on sawing the wood and chizzling it. 

Plane Crash

Sadly in the weekend two pilots have died in a plane crash. It was confirmed that there were four extra parachutists on the plane and they jumped before the crash. The parachutists were lucky they did not stay any longer they could have been hurt or even died. 

The incident was caused because the two pilots did not see each other and were trying to land. When they were about to land the two planes went right into each other causing a huge explosion and pieces of the plane falling. 

I think that the parachutists were shocked when they heard that the plane they had jumped out of seconds ago, exploded.

Update From Rippa Rugby

For the last session, Coach Corey had a new activity for us. You had a chance to win a prize for your whole class. The prize was three rugby balls. To win the prize, the class has to pass to each other as quick as they could... but the class had to make two lines facing each other. Then we had to pass it in a zigzag formation to one another.

The class that won the prize was Rm9. They won by milliseconds! They had a time of 19.24 seconds and Rm10 had 19.38 seconds... so Rm9 was lucky. I was surprised that they won by milliseconds.

Rippa Rugby

Yesterday we had our last session for rippa rugby with coach Corey. It was sad knowing that whilst we were playing it was the last time playing with him. But, for the last session we played some new activities.

We played a game called "Over The River" and it's a fun game. There are two sides of the field with one team each. The aim of the game was to throw the ball across the river to the other side and try to get them out. If the ball touches the ground on the other side then the closest person to the ball is out, or if the ball falls in the river then the person throwing or kicking the ball is out.

I hope we get to see Coach Corey again and do some more rippa rugby with him.

First Tech Day With Sir Grundy

Yesterday all the Tech classes switched classes. My group moved to Mr Grundy's class.

For our first day with Mr Grundy, we learnt a lot of things about a wooden joint. A joint is two pieces of wood glued together strongly. Mr Grundy also wanted to present us with his train he made of pure wood. He had made an elephant to put it inside his little train. 

We also had the chance of making up a design for ourselves. My design is........

Come back next week to find out what it is. 

Teachers Go On Strike

Yesterday 50,000 teachers went to Auckland City to walk up Queen Street to protest for better pay and other conditions. Before they went marching up Queen Street some teachers had to organise where they were going to walk, so they can block up some roads so no drivers can go through.

Not only marching for a better pay, but the teachers were also protesting for more teachers. Reason being is because some teachers at Ruapotaka School has been saying that New Zealand needs more teachers. They are so worried because that because, if they are going to retire in the next few years then there will not be enough teachers to teach the children.

I think that if there will be no more teachers then there would be no more doctors, police, pilots and all other jobs. But, some people would think that being is a bad job, but what they don't know is that there would no other good jobs if there were no teachers to teach how to do that job.