Holiday Highlight

Whether you’re a teacher or student, school always seems very busy and tiring. So when the holidays come, most people are excited. I, on the other hand, enjoy school and don’t really look forward to the school holidays.

Movies, shopping and sleep-overs fill some people’s holidays, but for others like me, holidays are filled with sleep, chores and even more sleep. However, during the holidays, I did go to the movies and saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2. I found the last chapter of the Harry Potter series quite exhilarating.

Going to the movies was pretty peachy keen, but another cool thing we did was go over to my grandma’s place to celebrate her birthday. We had a big feast and consumed most of it and sang happy birthday to her. We could tell by her facial expressions that she really enjoyed it ! We also enjoyed it.

The holidays weren’t as bad as I thought they were going to be, but the holidays I’m really looking forward to are the end of year ones, because when these holidays approach us, my family and I get ready for our annual trip to Tonga ! Unfortunately, this isn’t for another term so I have to wait for a pretty long time.

Term 2 Highlights

The holidays are nearing and the school term nearly over. I am quite sad that the term is ending because term 2 has been filled with some thrilling events and fascinating activities. Some of which were my job as being a barrister, being in the I AM Making Movies competition and playing rugby !

Being a barrister has given me some useful skills. Now, I know how to make a cappuccino, flat white, long black, short black, moccacino, and every kids favourite...hot chocolates ! These skills that I have developed will be very useful if, in the future, I want to become a professional barrister.

The I AM Making Movies competition was also a great experience. In this competition, we got to make our own movies. We based our movie on the history and heritage of New Zealand. It was an animation with a voice over. What was awesome about this competition, was that we won the award for “best creative storytelling” and we even won the “supreme” award ! Again, it was an awesome experience !

This term, has also been the start to our rugby season. So far, we have had about 3 games, against Bailey Road, St Josephs and Tamaki Intermediate. The total amount of the games we have won, are 1 ! Even though we haven’t won many games, we still have a chance because we have upcoming games against Viscount and Kedgley. Kedgley and Viscount are very good rugby teams, so we have to try extremely hard when we play against them !

Term 2 has had many fun things to do and join. I hope that term 3 can do the same !

My Holiday Highlight

We usually make an effort to go every year and every year is better then the last. The main thing we do when we go is swimming. This trip I’m talking about is our annual visit to our relatives in Tonga.

I’m not a great fan of the holidays because there’s not much to do, but its the total opposite when I’m in Tonga! There’s always something to do like go swimming, cooking the umu, taking truck rides around town and even more swimming!

Since we were in Tonga and going to the beach was pretty much a habit, we had to take sunscreen to protect ourselves from the sun’s (harmful) blazing rays! Even though we did put on sunscreen, everyone still managed to get a tan. Even I did, but it doesn’t really show.

We went to a few beach/beach resorts but my favourites were called Keleti and Oholei. The sights of their beaches were just awesome! The white sand & the clear blue water, I loved running through the sand and diving into the nice cold sea!!Unfortunately our visit only lasted 3 weeks and then we had to come back to New Zealand.

I didn’t want to come back because if we did then there would have been nothing to do. That’s what the 1st week back was like until Mrs Burt rang up and asked me to come down to school and help with the netbooks. But that’s another story.I really enjoyed my holiday, (except for the part when we came back from Tonga and I had nothing to do) but I was very eager to come back to school and learn, be the first Year 8’s at Pt England School but the best of all: See all my friends!! (Thats my friends and I in the photo.)

The Dunker!!

The teachers lead us down to the bottom field, us (the Year Seven's) not knowing what we were doing. This was supposed to be a surprise, and it was!! ROCK UP a group of people provided us with some interesting and awesome activities which included a log joust,an archery set and the best of all - a dunking tank!!


I was quietly trying to hide but unfortunately I got caught. As I was perched upon the wooden plank my hands began to sweat a little. My stomach was full of butterflies and as Ms Tito filmed me it made my butterflies worse!! "Ready, aim and fire" Geoff would yell out, as soon as he would say that little yellow balls would be aimed and then thrown at the black targets. Please someone just get me out already, I was saying to myself. Soon enough someone did, and it was kind of funny because the person who I had dunked got me dunked. It was an awesome experience and if they come back next year I'm certainly going to be first in line to be dunked!!!!