Friday, August 27, 2010

Maritime Museum

On Tuesday 27th of July Room 15,14, and 18 went to the Martime Museum on our tour with Salty Sam, a gruff and grumpy old captain. He bellowed orders as he took us on a guided  tour. We saw miniature ships and great big ships.

On the second part of the tour we went in a replica of an immigrant ship ‘s cabin, to see what it would have been like for immigrants coming to New Zealand in an Immigrant ship.There were
bunks in the immigrant cabin and there was one spot which smelt. Kobe, Darius and Gabriel were
sitting in it. Yuck!

Our 2nd slot was called Aramoana and our guide was Judy. She took us to watch a movie
about Polynesians  coming to New Zealand. The movie was in a circular room that had
three massive screens and hard wooden forms .Mrs Squires snuck in through the just
in time before the movie started.

Cross Country

Watching the senior races for the cross country I felt stink because I couldn't run. I have been
home sick this week but came today because if I stayed home people would think I am wagging school. A lot of kids were happy for the cross country because most of them were not in school clothes but were in their house colors.

When the second bell went we lined up out side to go to the Cross Country start over by the Court. The whole school was there. Kids got into their age group like 5,6,7,8,9 10,11,12, age. It was like little mice running all over the place.

Bigfoot Adventures

I was feeling great when I saw people from the Bigfoot adventure. We went to see them
in the middle block.They were talking all about bike safety. We were listening attentively to Tony telling us about bike safety precautions.
So once we had learnt about how we knew that our bike was in good working order we put on our helmets ready to ride. Our helmet was carefully adjusted until it was tight and snug.

As I was racing around the obstacle course,that had ramps and cones, I pushed myselfover the limit making me crash. As I jumped over the ramp really fast, going crazy, my wheel slipped and I crashed to the ground. I got back up, jumped on the bike and finish the course.

Bigfoot Adventures was lots of fun. I hope they come back again.