Yachting reflection

In week 7 of term three Nga Rakou were lucky enough to go optimist yachting. I have been yachting before so I was pretty confident. On the first day of yachting I was paired up with Brodie. It was a test for me to see if I could sail a yacht and help and teach Brodie at the same time. Brodie was a good partner and became a great sailor in no time. I think that I did a pretty good job on teaching Brodie because he got a little bit stressed when we tipped a little and I calmed him down and told him just to slide forward a bit. On Tuesday I was sick so I didn’t get to go yachting I was really gutted. One time Liam and I went togethe. I learnt that Liam was a great partner and we both got involved heaps. At first I was a little bit scared of capsizing but when me and Liam went really fast around a corner I fell out of the boat and I learnt that it wasn’t that bad and it felt good that I knew that it was ok. After that I wanted to try new things on the yacht and it made yachting even funner. When we got to capsize our yachts I helped some people capsize because they were feeling a bit nervous. When I went with Rogan we communicated really well with each other. One thing I need to work on is to be a bit more confident in myself and my abilities and remember to focus on doing my job as well as helping my partner. Overall Yachting was really fun and a great experience!

Thank you teachers.

Caving at camp Kaitawa

                                           Caving at camp Kaitawa

Thump I land on the ground after jumping of the rocks at the start of the cave. This part of the cave was very roomy and looked lovely except for one big drop near the edge! It was pretty scary. There was a lot of leaves and not much rocks. Then the cave got  smaller and became a tight fight. I came upon two rocks jamed together. Martin told us that we had to squeeze through the rocks to the other side. I watched the others go through and then it was my turn so I wriggled my way through and popped out the other side.

I had to climb up onto some rocks and swing my feet over to another rock. There was grit on the rocks and it was rubbing against my hands and dust was getting in my eyes. Miss Hill told me to put my hands on the bar that went around the edge of a humongous drop. I shone my torch done the drop and couldn’t see the bottom. That made me more nervous. My feet shuffled along and I moved my hands across on the bar. I launched myself onto another rock where my dad was waiting. My dad helped me get past some slippery places then he sent me down to tony.

Tony helped my climb on top of the rocks and slide down the other side. When I landed I nearly slipped over because there was some slippery mud or bat poo I wasn’t quite sure. There wasn’t much to look at I looked down and I could barely see my shoes because they were covered in so much mud but I could see Grant in the light of my torch.  I walked over to Grant who was standing in the middle of bat poo that looked exactly like mud. It stunk horrible! The smell got worse and worse when you got further into it. My feet were getting stuck in the poo and trust me it wasn’t that nice. There was also leafs mixed in with the poo. Trudging my way through the mud I saw a ladder. Craig told me to climb the ladder up to Miss Garland.

I shot up the ladder and walked back to where everyone was. We got a lollipop to eat well we waited for everyone else to finish. Caving was a lot of fun and for me was probably the best thing about camp and camp was awesome as well. It was the best camp ever.

Protect they environment

Today we had a visitor her name was Sarah. Sarah is from the Hastings district council. She talked
to us about protecting they environment. The environment is buildings,schools,nature,people,ocean and much more.  There are lots of rules there's some for signing,how tall
buildings can be and also noise. In residential areas buildings can be 10 metres tall. Signs have to
be big and easy to read and understand. For noise you cant boy race or you cant build a house next  to the motorway because the people that live there will have to much noise around them.Rules are
made by her and part of her work they come up with rules and check if the public like them. So
Sarah taught us all of that.   

Buddy swimming

1. I felt proud of myself when I was the first one finished with our green screening.
2. Matt and Henry have been a big help to my in my first week there good helpers when I was doing my learning buddy photo.
3.  The easiest thing so far has been turning my computer on it is simple.
4. I was exited on my second day because I new that being in a computer class is fun.
5. I have found going on the Internet at school every day is a bit different but better.