Surprising yourself in athletics

Last week our school hosted our athletics, I personally love doing athletics although I'm not very good at it. When we did our athletics it started pouring with rain, I love the rain so I didn't mind getting wet and cold. 

The girls started with sprints and long distance, I came second in both my heats and I came sixth overall. We then went off to do our field events, I was really excited for them because they all didn't involve much running. In long jump I was jumping as far as I could and on my second jump i slid and landed on my bum. I was really surprised that I got 3.35 metres on my second because I fell over. In all my other events I tried my best but didn't do anything magnificent in them.

Overall I came second in the long jump and I'm pretty happy I did. I am really excited for zones and I can't wait to get better at long jump and practice.  

What's you best event in athletics??

Singing infront of thousands

My whole life I have had a passion of singing and music. Last week I was lucky enough to participate in the Lions Christchurch schools music festival. At the start of the year I auditioned to be a part of the senior special choir within the music festival, practising for my audition was very hard but i the end it was worth it.

I had a lot of fun in the senior choir and I made so many friends, I have been in this group for 3 years and I have enjoyed every bit of it. This year I was given the chance of being a compere, I took the offer up and auditioned for the part. I was chosen to be a compere, this was an amazing opportunity as I was representing my school and myself. The music festival was over 3 days, I went to all those days and each night I had an amazing time. 

I have loved being apart of the music festival and the opportunities I was given. I am looking forward to what music and singing will grant me in the future. 

Whats your passion and what do you love??

Try different food and you will be renewed

Different food from different cultures can be a challenge to try. Today the year 7/8 students brought food based on a specific country, today we brought the food in and had a shared lunch. 

The foods I tried were very yummy but hard to guess which country it was from. Although it was a struggle to get the food ready for today, we all did it in the end and I really enjoyed eating the food. Today was a very great experience and I would definitely like to do it again sometime in the term. 

Today was only the start of our Project Based Learning (PBL). 'How do we successfully design, build, market and sell a product, that meets the needs of our cultural diverse community'. By answering this question we will be having a school market on the 4th of December this term. 

I am really excited for the end result of this project!! 

Have you ever done something like this within your school or another group???

 

Swimming in the deep blue pool

For the past two weeks my school has been participating in swimming lessons. I really enjoyed practicing my swimming and learning more about how to swim and what swim you should use in different situations. 

My group practiced our diving and our roly poly's in the water. It was really cool to learn more about swimming and to get better if I'm ever in an difficult situation.

In the last three days we all did swim safety, I really enjoyed doing this because we were able to use a boat and life jackets. It was really cool to have the simulation in the pool. " Our boat had sunken, we were there in the ocean with no life jackets. We had to tread water for about 3 minutes while the instructors were throwing us life jackets. Then we had to get everyone onto the boat, but there wasn't enough room and life jackets. So the people who didn't fit had to hold onto the people on the boat." I really got into this simulation and I had a lot of fun participating in it.

Swimming lessons were very tiring and I am glad but sad that it is over. By the end of the two weeks I was exhausted, I am thankful for the instructors who taught us.

Have you done swimming lessons before??