Day 2 Of The Amazing Riverside Camp

Waking time was at 7:00am!! Much too early for me! But I had to suck it up and get ready for fitness which Ata and I were running. Everyone had to line up in their teams in the Rimu room before heading for the gym where we were setting up fitness. Fitness was quick and before we knew it we had to head back to our cabins and say our morning prayers with our leaders. Afterwards it was breakfast time and then duties. My team was assigned to clean the chapel. While Haare and I did that, the rest of our team cleaned our cabin. We received $50 for having a tidy room, and for having a new awesome chant! We had a couple more minutes to spare so we decided to brush our teeth and get changed and ready for the rest of the day.

Our first activity was a water involved activity this ran on till lunch. It was so fun! They launched water balloons towards all of us and we had to try and catch at least one for some points/money. Then we played another awesome game and our final wet game was the mummy game. One person in our team had to be wrapped up with toilet paper. Every other team had to try and wet each other’s mummies with wet sponges, buckets of water, and heaps of other utensils until the last standing mummy with the most toilet paper still wrapped on to them was standing. I was the mummy for my team. It was disastrous! The toilet paper wasn’t wrapping onto me instead it kept soaking into me.  It was a difficult game but I had a heap of fun anyway! After all the fun and wet games it was afternoon tea time and free time as well. We got to choose whether we wanted to take a shower or dry off and play. Shoal and I took a shower.

Once free time was over everyone had to line up in the Rimu room. It was dinner time and I was starving! The meal was scrumptious and so was dessert. After a filling dinner it was concert practice time which took just about 40 minutes then another session of Devotional with Beni and Mr Burt.

My highlight of the day came last. We played spotlight mixed with capture the flag in a way after devotional and supper. It was a game that involved running around the whole campus just to get to Jarred who was on the other side without being spotted by a flashlight from the leaders. But if you were caught they would take your life which was a glow stick bracelet and you would have to retreat back to the beginning and retrieve a new one. Lucky for me I made it to Jarred just before the siren went for time up. We all headed back to the Rimu room to tally up which team had the most players get to the end. My team fortunately had 5 members reach the end. Even Talita made it! And she was even in a wheel chair, but nothing could stop her. My team the EADivas had the most members reach the end as well as another boys group.

After tallying everything up, it was once again time for TTB as well as night prayers. (toilet, teeth, bed) Day 2 passed and I was still having a magnificent time! But I was fairly tired, and I needed to get some rest and gain more energy for the next day.

To Be Continued .....

Day 1 of the Amazing Riverside Camp

Riverside camp has to be the highlight of my last year at Pt England School so far! It was awesome! The activities, the concert night, the Devotionals, the disco, the FOOD! Everything was amazing. It was a 5 day camp during the first week of the holidays that 80 riverside members were limited to attend. And lucky for me I was one of them. On Monday morning at 8:30am everyone had to meet in the school car-park with all the things we needed ready and packed in our bags. This was my first year of attending a riverside camp and I was super ecstatic! All my friends were going and I knew that it was definitely going to be an awesome camp! Shoal and Ash were leaders for one of the 4 girl groups there were, Brooklyn and Vivienne were leaders for another, and I was lucky enough to be leading a group with Huelo-Ata! Once everyone had arrived a prayer was said, then the entire luggage was loaded. We said our final farewells to our parents before heading off, and then we all hopped aboard the buses. One was for the girls, the other for the boys. 

We were now on our way to Willow Park which was where we would be staying for the next 5 days. Once we arrived we all loaded our bags and were told to sit in the Rimu room, which was our meeting room. Right next to the dining room and the lounge, this was where our luggage awaited us while we got told our groups. My team was called out first; in my team we had Talita, Ana, Adriel, Rowana, Sarah, Ata and I. Our amazing leaders were Tamara as our Cadet Leader, and Haare as our head leader. Once our group was called out we all had to make our way into the dining room and pick a table to sit on. One by one each other group started flowing through. When finally the last group was seated, Mrs Hamilton then instructed us to what we were supposed to do next. We had to make up a team name. EADivas was my teams chosen name.  Once that was done we had to grab our bags and head for our cabins. My team had to be shifted 3 times before finally settling into our final chosen cabin.

Every team had to make their beds and tidy up their room and make a chant, before heading down to play our first activity. My groups chant was short and sharp. It was “2UP *clap, clap* DIVAS.” Each team had to present their chants before we played our first activity. My teams chant had to be the best! Anyway this was an orientation course that Mrs Hamilton had sorted out. It was pretty fun. After the orientation course was Lunch. Then we went down to the beach and had a whole heap of other fun activities lined up for us. One was the city challenge. We had to try and make a mini city out of sand. It was so fun! When night came we had dinner first then it was concert practice and then Devotional with Beni. Devotional was cool, it was every morning and evening, we learnt a lot about Daniel and God. After Devotional we had supper which was an epic hunt to find Crunchie bars! They were all scattered around the fields outside. It was awesome! My team ended up finding quite a few! More than enough in fact, so we shared ours with the boy team that didn’t exactly get enough. After the awesome scavenger hunt for crunchies it was TTB. (toilet, teeth, bed) The first day was already over and I had a lot of fun already!

Oh yeah the points at camp were money! It was fake money but it was only given to your team for specific reasons. For instance $2 was given if your whole team was sitting up. $100 was given to your cabin if you slept quietly through the night and another if you were quiet while awaking. 

To Be Continued ........

The Burj Khalifa Tower Project D.L.O

Shoal, Viv, Rita from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This terms project for everyone was to make a Digital Learning Object around an event that had happened in the history of time that changed the world. My group and I which consisted of Vivienne and Shoal chose to research around The Burj Khalifa Tower, and find out some more info on it. After gathering enough information to be able to make a start on our DLO on this very subject, we started to make a storyboard of how it would go.

The purpose of why we chose this subject was basically because not many people know what this tower is. It's the tallest man-made structure in the world! And people ought to know that. 

We planned that we would make a paper mache looking replica of the tower, and film the process of it. Then we would time-lapse the recording of the making of it, and record a whole paragraph of info about it to go in the background. But that idea didn’t exactly come through. Instead we decided to use decently hard cardboard, and roll them up into tube then stick them all together. Each rolled up cardboard would be different levels, and it would all stick together to become basically The Burj Khalifa Tower. Afterwards we would paint it, and along with that film us painting it. Then again time laps that.

Overall I thought that we could have done way better than to what we had in the end. I reckon that if we had more time, or other wise managed our time properly, we could have had an excellent movie. But all of us were pretty much caught up with the production, so our movie for us had to be rated a 7/10!

The positive side to our project was that we did get it done with a 2 hour extension, and we also did get to work together with friends. Our idea was also a positive, it was original, and I really liked it. The making of the skyscraper took a lot of the time, but it was all worth it. It came out look almost like it. Well not really.

Did you know that the Burj Khalifa tower is the tallest man-made structure in the world. As it stands at 829.8m high no other tower can be built higher. You would think that the tallest tower in the world would be built in America right, well you’re wrong.  The Burj Khalifa tower is built in United Arab Emirates in Dubai, and has been there ever since 2009 when it was finally finished, after 5 years of work.

So in conclusion, I reckon that my group actually did decently well for a group that barely had any time to spare for free time. In the end things were pretty good, not perfect, but good enough for me to like it.

Week 8 Term 3

It's almost the end of Term 3. Just one more week to go. I can't believe that in an estimated 20 more weeks I will start my first day of college. Unbelievable. Well next week is the school production, and I'm trying to get involved with it as much as possible. I'm an actor, and a dancer, and it's pretty hard to memorise 4 different sets of dances.

In the production, my dance crew Insanity is performing in it! It's basically our first amateur dance gig. I can't wait for the production, it's going to be super awesome! And plus both of my close friends are the main actresses in the production. Even twice as good.

I also can't wait for the first week of the holidays!! It'll be camp time. Our riverside club is going to be going on a camp to Willow Park for 1 whole week, that's one whole week away from the family! Awesome haha.

This term has definitely gone by super fast, and that's pretty harsh. I just don't want to leave Pt England School, but a caterpillars chrysalis has to open and turn into a butterfly, quite similar to me.

My Adoring Family

The 1st of September is Fathers day, and also a day to remember for my family and I. About exactly 11 years ago, my family and I first stepped in to New Zealand fresh from Samoa. My grandparents bought my family to New Zealand to help us as kids find a better future for us.

I am very grateful to them for doing so. They have blessed and helped my family abundantly, and have definitely given us brighter and better futures then to what we could of had back in the islands. Through the past 11 years of my life living in New Zealand it has been a great challenge. I have learnt so many things, and have made so many new friends. I am very glad that I came to New Zealand, and I will forever be grateful to my grandparents. The past 11 years have went by so quickly, I didn't even notice it was already 11 years. I've learnt so much from Pt England School, and I am very grateful.

Creative Strand Reflection

This week in the creative strand was fun. I was in the art class and I started with my printing. I learnt that it is pretty hard and complicated to get it done. It was fun working together with my friends as they helped me most of the time. Sadly Miss Tito was hardly here during the week so I found things a lot harder than the week before last week when I was the creative strand also.

I think that working in this class has given me more tips and skills to develop in art.

Self Explaining Roads (SER) Movie

This is a short movie informing you of the outcome Brooklyn and I had before, during, and after our survey was sent out.