Kiwi Can Jam 2019😎

 On Friday afternoon me and some of the Ruapotaka students travelled in the bus with Glen Brae school to get to the Manakau Vodafone Center to show case our performance. There were about 14 schools coming to show and entertain audience with their performance they've been practicing in the last 14 weeks.

For our group we have showed cased a skit based on Avengers coming to save the people with the cookie jar, a girls dance and a group dance for last. For me what our group attended I think we did our best even though we mucked up we still tried. It was solid watching other schools perform as well they did a really good job.

Hearing from our principle, Mrs Hamilton: we did a great job from watching through the sides.

That will be a night to remember 😋

Netball 2019

Yesterday my Netball team and I went to the AMI Courts to compete against other schools. Our team did the best to make our school proud. We lost 3, drew 1 and won 2 games out of the whole 6 games we played. We were a little bit unlucky by coming 13th out of 20 but we did good.  For me I was happy to leave school from doing work to have fun out there. My favourite part of the day was eating junk food and representing our school.

Well done team!

Scary Newss

A US woman is terrified of spiders and one has been in her ear. She had noticed that she had a sore ear and went to the doctors to find out what was sore about it. She got the doctors to try and pull the spider out of her ear. If that highly venomous brown recluse spider had bitten her then it would've caused itching, muscle pain, nausea, headaches and sweating. She has said that from now on she's going to sleep with earplugs.

It is important to take responsibility of your own body especially when a spider comes visiting.

LAST COOKING SESSION!

Today my partner and I made Mince Gravy with Potato Salad.

If you would like to try make it here are the ingredients you need and the steps to make it...

Ingredients-
- Potato
- Mince
- Onion
- Gravy (Bisto & flour)

Steps
- Boil the potato until its cooked.
- Fry the mince and onion until it's cooked.
-When the oil is bubbling in the pan add the gravy (Bisto & flour) and mix.
- When you finish mixing the mince and the gravy together add the veges in and mix.
- After you keep mixing pour out the water that's in the potato pot then get some mayo add it on the potato and mix.
- When that's done and dusted serve your mince with potato salad.
-Enjoy:)

Butter Chicken

Today at tech my partner and I made Butter Chicken.

If you would like to try to make some for yourself then here are the ingredients and the steps to make it.

Ingredients-
- Chicken
-Onion
- Butter chicken sauce+Spices+Cream

Steps-
- Dice the onion and chicken.
- Fry it until it's cooked.
- When it's cooked add butter chicken sauce, spices and cream.
- Stir for 10 mins and serve with rice on a plate.
-Enjoy

Kayaking !

Today we were lucky to have another opportunity to go to Wero Whitewater Park.

Today's lesson was all about kayaking. When we arrived there we all had to get dressed and then the tutor had to explain how to kayak and use a paddle before we hopped in our own boat. When I was in my boat I felt comfortable and I was ready to go out there to have a lot of fun in the water paddling, getting splashed and falling off the boat.

Today was really fun and I mean really fun, especially getting wet out there and bumping into each others boats. I have experienced and learnt a lot of things (beside kayaking).

I just want to thank the sponsor once again for giving us a second chance to be there.
I hope to go there again if you would allow us.

Mince Wrap

Today at tech my buddy and I made Mince Wrap.

If you would like to try and make it here are the ingredients to get and the steps to make,

Ingredients-

 - Onion

- Mince

- Pastry Sheets

- Flour

- Water

Steps- 

- Dice the onion and fry it with mince until its cooked.

-  Add 2 Tbsp of flour and 1/2 c of water.

- Stir for 5 mins and take it off the stove.

- Cut 1 whole piece of pastry into 4 equal parts.

- Fill up the pastry that you've cut into 4 with mince.

- Close the pastry with another 4 pieces of pastry on top of the bottom one.

- After get a fork and seal the edges.

- And bake it for 20 mins.

- After 20 mins take the baking tn out and let it cool for 5 mins.

- Get a plate and present your Mine Wrap you've made.

- And Enjoy

Chicken Wrapper

On Wednesday at tech my partner Storm and I made a Chicken Wrapper.

If you would like to try and make it here are the ingredients to get and the steps to make it.

Ingredients- 

- tortilla

- Lettuce

- tomatoes

- Chicken

- Mayo

Steps-

- Dice lettuce + Tomatoes

- Get the tortilla and add mayo, cheese. chicken, tomatoes, lettuce

- Roll it up, present it on your plate and

Enjoy :)

Tamaki Estuary

Yesterday the whole school and 3 special guests from the zoo went to see the Tamaki Estuary River.

Us year 8 and year 7 students had to partner up with someone to help collect rubbish that has been found. My partner was Ray Ray. We had found and collected a lot of rubbish and had fun walking around and admiring the view.

The main reason we went to the Tamaki Estuary was to experience and help make the sea healthy by collecting up rubbish. Us students from Ruapotaka School didn't want to make the sea unhealthy and didn't want our sea creatures suffering and dying from the filthiness.

It is important to keep our environment safe and clean not dirty.

Football Tournament ⚽

Yesterday we had a football tournament at Pt England Reserve. This year there was a year 7&8 girls team competing with the other girls from other schools. Liza and I were strikers and the rest were attackers and defenders. I had fun kicking the ball around and trying to get a goal for our team but especially eating 🤣.

I just want to thank my teammates for trying hard to make our team and our school happy. You girls did a really good job.

Manaiakalani Film Festival !

3 weeks ago some of my whole school went to Sylvia Park to watch some of the Manaiakalani films that were made by other schools. We watched, Pt England, Tamaki College, Panmure Bridge and Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Puau Te Moananui A Kiwa. I really enjoyed watching them because some of them were Karaokes and some of them were funny. 😂😊

Poetry Recital

Two weeks ago, was Poetry Recital, the 5 students from my room that were performing was Jessica, Tupouseini, Tyron, Leanah and Saluselo. 

They were actually good, they spoke clearly and loudly, they stood up still, they had good expression and they were looking at the audience so it looked like they are communicating with each other. I actually thought they were the best out of the school but everyone else tried their best.

Kahurangi Show

On the first of August, on Wednesday there was a show called Kahurangi. It was fun and boring at the same time. 

My favourite part was when they were telling stories and trying to be funny, when the girls were doing the poi dance. 

I really enjoyed the show but, I hope we have those kind of shows again!

Powhiri

Last week Thursday we had a Powhiri with the whole school, it was quiet and exciting, we also sang some songs that were in Maori. Some teachers did a speech about their own personality and more. The most funny bit to me is that all the teachers and the principle had to hongi, but that day was pretty fun for me.

Hip Hop 2018

On Tuesday, Room 12 were with Jess, our Hip Hop dance teacher. I was so excited we were doing hip hop because it is one of my favourite things to do.

We were doing some really difficult stretches but at least I was warm. After that we were all warmed up, we had to learn some new moves to the song Lean and Dab by ILoveMemphis. At first it was really hard but when I kept on practising, it started to get easier.

I really enjoyed our session with Jess and I hope we stay with her longer.

About Me 🥰

Hello and welcome back to 2018, it has been a long time since I've posted on my blog. I am going to talk about me being at school in 2018.

When school started I just found out that I'm a year 7 intermediate student, which makes me a senior at school. Before I started back to school, I thought to myself that a year 7 would be more harder, but it is quite easy. I also got along with two new students at school which was Storm and Robin. Also another thing at school is sometimes the year 7s and me get disconcerted because sometimes we don't listen, but it's alright because the year 8 students can help us get through with it.  My favourite thing about being in Room12 is  to play with my friends and do sports, but the worst thing in 2018 I don't like to do is work everyday.

 Another thing I like to do in 2018 is tournaments so I don't have to work at school. When I come to school I always feel awful because I get growled at by teachers mostly,  and from my teacher sometimes. I hope this year in 2018 I earn a good report and receive a better mark.