The Amazing Race

Sitting in the marque with my group, the Respectables, I was eagerly waiting for Mr Barks to walk in and to tell us what The Amazing Race is going to be about. This activity was one of my favourite during the days of camp. I was sure that every body else loved it too.

Mr Barks explained that there were going to be 3 tasks for us to complete. “You will have to work hard as a team to earn points along the way,” he said. That got me thinking.

Our first instruction was to gather into groups of five. Mr Barks showed us one of his slingshot, that he had made. It looked pretty neat. I wondered how he made it for a while until he showed us the equipment that he had used. That's when I started thinking. There was Rubber that stretches, Sticky tape and newspaper to make the ball, and also a little bit of strong string too. And of course there was a couple of branches that had a Y shape. Some of them were perfect, the others were not that straight.

We all had to put it together. To earn points we had to be tidy. I was with Tina, Hossanah, and Athena. They were VERY tidy, and they worked together too.

We were the first to finish. So that meant that we could start shooting. David was first. HE got us all 10 point. Then he got more and more. i think he got the most out of our group.

After we've scored about fifty points that's when the rest of the other groups came. First was a group of boys. As soon as they stretched it Is fell apart. I tried not to laugh. But since they did, I had too. We all cracked up like nothing. So that meant they had to go back into the Marque, to fix it.

Hue-loata was the best aimer out of all. She was the only one who aimed straight and got us all 100 points. I couldn't aim straight like her. Whenever I aim straight, it wont listen. It would just fall down, or do directly the wrong way. It was even worse when it was windy.

Apart from that. Most of the time I had alot of fun.

A little Fairy Tale

“That house there gives me the creeps,” Siueli shivered, as he pointed to our neighbours across the street. “Ohh cheer up,” Funaki, my little sister said. It dosen’t look that bad.”

My brother ans sister had just come home from school and were standing, talking in the front porch. "

"Hey!"

Funaki exclaimed. "Mum said that when we get home she's gonna have a surprise for both of us."

"Right," Siueli replied. But Mums suprises are mostly bad, and a little weird too.

“ Welcome” I said as I opened the door to let them in. I'd been listening to them and stood beside the door giggling. They didn't even have a little smile on there face, already I knew they didn't want to even hear about the big surprise. They stared at me for a little while."Don't you want to see your surprise". " What do you think it's gonna be"? " Ok then, I'll tell you" . Mum told me she's gonna be taking you two down to Manukau". " Is that all Funaki replied, as she turned around ton hang up her bag. " No that's not all" I replied. "You both are gonna be taking Ballet lessons".

"Oh" tell Mum I'm gonna be down at my friends house. Funaki Quickly walked out the door, before I could say which friend.

This term, the whole of room 20 had been working on Leaving A positive. This is my little animation showing how w ecould follow it.

The Worriors Down at the Pools

“ Ahhh, The woriors are here” I shouted, as I ran towards the end of our space, that we were aloud on. We screamed and shouted with Joy.

As we were still cheering Manu’vatuvai Jumped into the pools. With a huge bomb, and some splashes too. I couldn’t stand not cheering for him. Every body else was, so that didn't stop me from doing the same.

Some people had to hop out of the pools. They got over excited, that they went past the boundary that we weren't aloud to be at. “ Some of them were tricky enough to throw there bands over. Then they could use that to go closer to where the worriers were.

Ben Carson

Ben was born in Detroit Michigan. His mother, Sonya, dropped out of school, when she was still in 3rd grade, and was married when she was only 13. Unfortunantilly when Ben was only 8 his parents got divorced. This made life diffiult because she was left to raise her boys by herself.
She even worked 2 or 3 jobs at a time just to provide for them.

The two boys struggled with theirr school work. In the 5th grade Carson was at the bottom of his class. His class mates called him dummy. As soon as Sonya saw both of their results she was determined to change their lives around.

Their Mum stopped them from watching tv, and she also made some rules.The worse one was, no playibg outside until they had finished doing their homework. Sonnya also made them both read two books every week. Not just that, they had to write a report about it too. Unfortunantly Sonya didn’t know some words that they had written because she didn’t reach the level that they were at in school.

After a few weeks Carson was sitting at his desk waiting for the teacher to come in. As soon as he walked through the door he held a rock up and said, “Does anybody know what this rock is called?” Ben looked around, nobody put thier hands up. So he had to. Every body stared at him as he had put his hands up. “ Ohh Benjaman do you really know the awnser?” the teacher said. “ Yes I do,” Ben replied, “Is it obsinion?” He had reconized that rock from a book he had read. Everybody went quiet. “ Yes Benjimim” .

That’s when he realized that he wasn’t a dummy. So he started to impress his class mates. Within a year Ben went from the bottom of the class to the top of the class. Insted of his class mates calling him dummy they woud be like “ Ben how do we do this equation?”. He started to become a little bit arrogant and if someone did that, he would tell them to sit near his feet.

After all is hard work, he became a famous neurosurgeon.

Down at the Beach

“ Woohoo” I yelled as I jumped onto the nice soft sand that was lying beneath some shells. That made The Pt England reserve look as good as new. Looking from the sand onto the new building makes me just wanna stay there for the rest of the evenning we spent there. In my head it said “ Why would you wanna sit there, instead of enjoy the sun with your friends” . That voice made me think deeper.

I walked around the beach untill it was announced that it was time for the year one’s and two’s to start swimming. So when Mr Jacobson said “ Alrighty, now to begin our swimming may all the year ones and two’s, who would like to swim please come down to the beach, and enjoy that time with the teachrers and you friends”.

As soon as he said that all the little kids rushed down from the field onto the beach. SOme of them even started to splash the teachers, who were there to supervise them. They dived , they swam, they did all sorts of things, under the water.

I watched them for a little while untill I got boared, so I went over to the left of the beach. There, it had two sorts of clay, that we play with. As I got there Zion was allready diggy up. So I towards her holding some dry clay on both my hands, and said “ Is this the type of clay we use”? Zion rep;ied with a no, and she also gave me some of hers saying “ Even though this is the hardest clay to get, It’s the best”.

I dug and dug untill I had two hanfulls of good clay. My nails had dirt all over them. Inside, around. So I had to stop digging. Or I’ll have to spend about five minutes softing up the clay and double that time washing both my hands and my nails.

As I finished washing my hands I sat on the sand, and strated to make aheart shampe with my name on the top of it. I put some shells on it too, but as soon as Miss Muliamaseali’i asked Mrs Nua “Are we were aloud to take it with us to school”. Mrs Nua replied saying “ Ohh were not suposed to, but we can take a picture of it, because were only aloud to take our memory.

I had a great time down at the beach. Can't wait to go there next time.