Metamorphosis Explanation

Metamorphosis, a sort of life cycle certain animals and insects go through. This movie is about a caterpillar, one of the insects that go through these stages. This movie will show the main stages a caterpillar goes through as it goes through this process

Our First Net-Books Experience

Lots of rich, flash schools like St Cuthberts or St Kentigens have their parents pay for net-books and get it as part of their stationary, but luckily for us (The Tamaki Cluster) we've had some very generous donors who have happily donated us some money...

We got them yesterday at 2:00pm and had a little trial with them, but today we have had a real experience with the net-books. As part of the experience we had to take a photo of ourselves, I'm not a really keen goer at having my photo taken but it was part of the procedure.

Fiafia Night

We had practiced time and time again to get it nailed, now it had all lead up to the big night, our Fiafia night!! Like the Olympsifika (2008) we had cultural groups but this time there were a few more groups like the tech-tonic group, the hip hop group, a stomp group and even our own jump jam group.

I joined the Tongan group and we learnt the tau’olunga, a traditional Tongan dance. I had been taught a few years back how to do it, so I was pretty experienced.

On the night everybody was nervously waiting in their holding rooms. I was so nervous I couldn’t keep still, constantly thinking to myself, when are we going on? After a number of items past we finally were able to line up and we were off.

Walking through the crowded corridor was quite exciting but it also built up my nerves, it didn’t matter though because as soon as I got up on stage I was still nervous but I didn’t (really) show it. (It was cool because I got a few bucks but I gave it up to the school.)

The Fiafia night was a great way to express our cultural talent and see what talent the other cultures have, all in all it was an awesome experience!!

My Mum's Birthday

There are a lot of special days during the year like anniversaries, weddings and of course Birthdays!! Thats exactly what my family are celebrating because today is my mum's birthday!!

My mum loves to watch crime/mystery DVD's so that’s exactly what my older brother bought her. My sister and I made her a home-made birthday card and we decorated it with pictures and colours and things.

On the 16th of September morning my siblings and I woke up to wish my mum (who had already woken up) a Happy Birthday. We got out of bed, got ready and then decided who was going to give what. I was going to give my mum her present (the DVD's), my sister was going to give her the card and my brothers were just going to give a kiss and a hug.

The smile on my mum’s face just said it all, how happy she was to receive her presents. I think that birthdays are really important because they celebrate the day of your birth, I just can’t wait now until my birthday!!

MI Test

To see what were our strengths and what were our weaknesses we had to take an MI test. An MI test is when you have to answer some questions and at the end of the test a sort of pie graph will appear.

On this pie graph it will show 8 Smarts. Out of these 8 smarts it will show my strongest smarts which were- Intrapersonal (Myself Smart) Interpersonal (People Smart) and my weakest smarts which were- Visual/Spatial (Picture Smart) Linguistic (Word Smart).

From this I can now reflect on which of the smarts I need to improve on.

Graphics With Miss Ferguson

Every Thursday we split up into 3 groups and then walk down to our local college-Tamaki College. The reason for this is beause we have Tech classes there. The 3 tech classes we have are cooking, hard materials and graphics. The class I'm in right now is graphics.

Right now we are focusing on volcanoes and so what we are having to do is make a little design to share some information with people who don't know anything about volcanoes. The pictures you see are just a few design ideas for what we can make. I just hope that the finished product comes out as good as I've planned it to be!!

Holiday Update

On an average holiday basis I’d be lying in bed not doing anything because I would be too bored, but thanks to my cousins (who have come over from Tonga for a visit) I’m outside playing tag or playing hide and go seek with them at my grandma’s house.

During the holidays, my brother treated my sister, my cousin and I to a movie. We went and saw the last of the Shrek movies-Shrek Forever After. I would say that the movie was pretty good and funny!! My sister and cousin thought it was great but they still would have preferred the 3rd chapter of the Twilight series-Eclipse.

Despite all the playing and fun I’m having, I have to say that I kind of miss going to school 5 days a week and seeing my teacher and friends. I’m glad to say that next week school will be starting up in the third term of the year.

I’m quite excited about term 3 coming up because there are going to be a lot of exciting events happening-like the year 7 rugby girls team competing in their first Eastern Zone Tournament, we’re also putting together our first ever basketball team!! There’s also going to be a cultural festival event happening as well!! I’ve been given a hint that next term’s topic is going to be based on things from around the world (or something like that.)

I’ve got to say that these holiday’s have been quite alright and they weren’t the worst. But the holiday’s that I’m definitely looking forward to is the end of the year one, because then I might be going to Tonga!!

Thanks to http://art8amby.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/shrek-forever-after.jpg for the picture.