Today at 1:30pm our class had a badminton lesson. Our classes session had to be shorter than all the other classes. My friend Sarah does badminton lesson so I wanted to face her and see if I could bet her. Firstly we had to try get the ball as close to roof as possible without hitting it. We had to do that for about five minutes.  After a couple of minutes I got the hang of it and could just about hit the roof. He then made us get partners and hit over the net ten times. Obviously I picked Sarah we did some really high hits but I hardly could get my serves over the net. again he stopped us and we had to change game because we were running out of time. This time we had to get into groups of six except three people which went on the three courts. We played singles Patrick was the person to beat, we played for five minutes and Patrick ended up winning. The last activity we did was our whole class split into two teams and we played each other. I found it fun except Ryan was in front of me and he is really tall and when the ball came towards me he would hit it. I really enjoyed the lessons I am thinking about starting lessons on Wednesday’s.

Friday the 16th of may we had our final art lesson. For art we were making masks. Before we started to make our masks I had a picture in my head of what it was going to look like it looked something like this but a full head. 

Along the process it ended up a lot different and had no picture in my head. Now it was the last day of art and we had to finish, all I had to do is repaint the mask, put glitter along the top, repaint some of the back-round and stick a whole lot of feathers on. So I did everything quickly and all I had left was to put my feathers on. I asked my teacher for my feathers and she said their was only a blue and pink I could use. The bad news was that my mask was purple and grey. I went along with the flow and my friend and I put the feathers on. Their was another bad thing we had to use a hot glue gun and my friend and I are very clumsy so we burn’t ourselves lots and lots of time. I really like my mask because its crazy looking. You might think it ugly but to me its wacky and beautiful.

I woke up at about 8:20am and ran downstairs to get ready for netball even though my  game wasn’t till 2:00pm. Grabbing an up and go out of the fridge I sat down and watched T.V. After a Couple of hours I decided to get ready for netball. So I got changed, checked I had no jewellery on, cut my nails, brushed my teeth and brushed my hair when my sister said I had to go to town to help Andrew( her boyfriend) get a charm for his mum for mothers day.At quarter to one he had decided what one he wanted so he got it and we left for netball. When we got to netball it was only like one o’clock and my game wasn’t until two. I decided to watch my coach play netball but her game finished at ten past one so I couldn’t find anyone to talk to when I saw my cousin. We talked for like 20minutes when I saw most of my team was here. I went where all my team mates were and we started warming up. At two the buzzer went , it was our time to start playing netball. At the end of the first quarter we were wining 9-1. But they had a good second quarter and court up. After the third quarter we were losing 14-22. When the game finished we lost 21-26.

19/04/08

Bay of
Plenty magic took on the New South Wales Swifts. After the first quarter the Swifts were leading by one goal at half time the swifts were still leading by one it was the same after three quarters. Magic weren’t playing their best in the last quarter and the Swifts won the match 50-47. Magic didn’t play their best. This was the first lose for the Magic and I hope they play alot better next week.

When we arrived at the high ropes I went to pat the horses across the fence when I fell down a ditch.I got out and we had to go see our instructor. first up we started with some games and then it was time to do some trust exercises. We had to fall back into our partners hands and they would push us back up. Then we stood on some stable logs and fall backwards into every-ones arms, it was extremely scary. One other trust exercise I liked was being blind folded and going through an obstacle even though Sarah made me crash into a pole. After the trust exercises we had lunch and now it was time to go on the high ropes. Firstly we put on our harnesses and helmets. We then climbed up the post. The first high rope I went on was a three wired on which really wobbly. Secondly I went on a climbing one which twisted and turned the whole time which made it hard. Lastly I went on a tyre one which you had to swing from tyre to tyre.

Andy Roddick is a brilliant tennis player who is ranked number five in the world. At the moment he has the worlds fastest serving record which is 155mph wow that fast. He was born on august the 30th, 1982. Andy Roddick was born in America. His real name is Andrew Stephen and he is 6ft 2. He has won 13,725,841 U.S dollar. He has won 25 titles.

School goals:

I am going to improve my reading ability by reading bigger and more challenging books

I am going to improve my maths by asking for help if I don’t understand something

I am going to hand in ALL my work on time and put 110% in all of my work

I am going to improve my saxophone skills by practising four times a week every week

Personal goals:

To improve my tennis skills by practising four or more times a week for 30 minutes

Monday the 25Th of February, Their were swimming  heats. The winners then go to to the finals and the overall winners go to inter-intermediate swimming. I participated in 25metres breaststroke, 25metres backstroke, 50metres backstroke and the medley. The girls 50metres backstorke heat that I was in was the fastest heat.

This is my photostory about life round here.