Spotlight on the arts

Today is spotlight on the arts! BEEEP! It is gonna be really scary!!!

Spotlight on the arts

Wahoo! Spotlight on the arts is only a week away! I will be involved with the arts show, and I will be doing:

• Kapa Haka
• Jump Jam
• Ukelele

Hope you will see me! :)

Wheels day

Today was wheels day.  We did it before Morning tea. It was really fun! Everyone had to bring something to school, that included wheels but if you didn't have a wheel then I did not matter.

Term 4 Goals

Next term we will be doing a lot of stuff, like:
Spotlight on the arts
And other stuff
My goal is to achieve them: e.g: Do well in spotlight in the arts
My other goals are to listen and behave myself

Term 3 reflection

Term 3 has been cool. We did lots of cool stuff like:
Speeches
Class Treats
Cross Country
They were all cool. I wish I could turn the time back!!!

Speeches

Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!! I do not like speeches. But I did pesevere, abnd did it. My speech waws on the rugby world cup. I told the class some info about it, and other stuff.

RWC

Yes! RWC has finally started! I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, (Or waiting x30). I am hoping that the All Blacks, will win the Webb Allis/Allice (Don't know how to spell it.)cup!!!
YEAH!!!

Writing a procedural writing

Yesterday we started to do some procedural writing. Once we've finished, we had to do it on the computer. Well I don't!!! That's beacuse I drew some pictures in my book, and gave it some stuff that I like, that I can't do on the computer. So all I have to do, is cut it out of my writing book!!! :)

Vardon Mortal Kombat

Cricket

Today, we went out to practise cricket with this guy called Mitchel from NZ cricket. First we played a game called snowball tag, which is pretty much ball tiggy, just the more people tagged, the more people are in. Then we played a game which was really fun. What you had to do, was throw the ball up in the air, then see how many times you can clap and then catch the ball. After we played a game where there were some batters, and there were some fielders. The batters had to whack 2 balls of a thing in the ground, and the fielders would try and get the balls and put them back on the things. In that time, the batter had to run too a certain palce, and back, to see how many times he/she could run. And guess what? My team won!!!

Spelling

Today, the class had to do spelling... except me!!! That's because I am to good at spelling. And just listening to Mrs W I can tell I know the words!!!

Tsunami

Wairarapa earthquake tsunamis, 1855
On 23 January 1855, a magnitude 8.1–8.2 earthquake, the most powerful to strike New Zealand since European settlement, shook the lower North Island. It generated not one, but several types of tsunami.

During the earthquake, the entire region west of the Wairarapa fault lurched abruptly north-east. Like soup in a bowl that is jostled, the water of Wellington Harbour slopped onto the adjacent land. The next movement of water occurred because the entire Wellington region had tilted – the eastern side of the harbour was now about 80 centimetres higher than the western side. The harbour waters ponderously moved off downhill, towards central Wellington. Houses and shops were flooded along Lambton Quay, which at that time was along the shore.
The greatest tsunami, however, was generated in Cook Strait. The Rimutaka Range rose as much as 6 metres, and part of the floor of the strait was probably uplifted. The tsunami destroyed sheds more than 8 metres above the sea at Te Kopi, on the southern Wairarapa coast. It moved along the strait and up the Kapiti coast – stranding fish as far north as Ōtaki – and spread across to the South Island.
Many turns of the tide
The sloop Pandora was anchored in Wellington Harbour at the time of the 1855 earthquake. Her commander, Byron Drury, reported: ‘For eight hours subsequent to the first and great shock, the tide approached and receded from the shore every 20 minutes, rising from eight to ten feet and receding four feet lower than at spring tides. One ship, I heard, was aground at her anchorage four times.
About 20 minutes after the earthquake, tsunami waves surged into Wellington Harbour through its narrow entrance, then for many hours bounced repeatedly back and forth, reflected off the harbour sides. Water also flooded into Lyall Bay from Cook Strait and Evans Bay from Wellington Harbour, putting the low isthmus between them (the site of Wellington Airport) under nearly a metre of water.

Falling bombs???

Falling bombs?
This is Paul De Rungs in 2006. In June 1942, when an earthquake struck, he was seven years old and living in an orphanage, the Anglican Boys’ Home, in Lower Hutt.

Contributed by Paul De Rungs of Auckland.

I don't know what time it was, but possibly in the early hours of the morning, eight of us boys in the dormitory were awakened by a very loud rumbling which was quite terrifying. All the more so because at that time there was a very real threat of a Japanese invasion. My first thought was that a huge squadron of Japanese bombers was flying directly overhead. These thoughts were further intensified when there was a very violent shaking which seemed to last several minutes. I thought these were explosions from falling bombs and we could get hit very soon.
The matron and her staff came around with torches, and did her best to calm us and explain that we were suffering an earthquake. I remember that after the first major jolt there were several others which followed, but not as severe as the first one.


When we got up in the morning and walked to our local school, the Eastern Hutt School, there were scenes of chaos all about us. Chimneys had toppled, shop windows had exploded outwards onto the street, and window displays were in complete disarray. The Self Help grocery shop seemed to suffer the worst damage. Power lines were down and there were cracks in the pavements and on the road.



We used to return back to the orphanage for lunch before returning to school. I think that it may have been a day or two after the major quake that we suffered another smaller one. I was walking back to the home for lunch with my best friend Tommy Dale, when another quake struck. We were at that moment right outside the Self Help grocery, its windows now boarded up. I was terrified and started crying, as did my mate Tommy. We clutched each other for support while the shaking continued. As soon as it stopped, we ran crying all the way back to the home. This is an experience that I will never forget. Some months after the quake a lot of the damage was still evident.

Photos of the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake

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What A disaster!!!

The 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake

The 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake



In 1931, New Zealand’s deadliest earthquake devastated the cities of Napier and Hastings. At least 256 people died in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake – 161 in Napier, 93 in Hastings, and 2 in Wairoa. Many thousands more required medical treatment.




256 or 258?

The official death toll of the Hawke's Bay earthquake is 256. But there are 258 names on the memorial, and this unofficial number is likely to be correct.

On Tuesday morning, 3 February 1931, at 10.47 a.m., the ground in the Hawke’s Bay region heaved sharply upward and swayed. A deceptive half-minute pause was followed by a downward motion and violent shaking and rocking. In all, the quake spanned two and a half minutes.



Fatalities

As buildings began to disintegrate, many people fled outdoors into a lethal rain of chunks from ornate facades, parapets and cornices. Buildings swayed violently, and their walls bulged and collapsed into the streets in avalanches of brick and masonry that crushed vehicles and people. Roofs caved in on buildings that had large open internal areas, such as churches, libraries and theatres. In some buildings the internal floors pulled free of the swaying walls, collapsing inward in a jumble of girders, wood and plaster.



In Napier, the recently built Nurses’ Home collapsed, killing clerical staff and off-duty nurses who were sleeping. In Hastings at least 50 people were in Roach’s department store when it collapsed; 17 died and many were seriously injured. The entire front of the five-storey Grand Hotel in Hastings crumbled into Heretaunga Street, claiming eight lives. Fifteen died at the Park Island Old Men’s Home near Taradale, but a 91-year-old man was pulled alive from the rubble three days later.

The Tangiwai and Ruapehu disaster

The Tangiwai and Ruapehu disaster



Poised for disaster


Mt Ruapehu erupted in 1945, but by the end of the year the excitement was over. The crater, about 300 metres deep, slowly refilled with water. The mountain did not seem dangerous, and it was no longer being monitored. By 1953, however, Crater Lake was 8 metres higher than its level before 1945. Few realised that the water was now held in by an unstable mass of ice and volcanic rubble and ash.



The lahar

At 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve 1953, the debris at the outlet of Crater Lake collapsed. About 340,000 cubic metres of water poured into the head of the Whangaehu River and swept down the valley, picking up sand, silt and boulders as it went. Soon after 10 p.m. this volcanic mud flow, known as a lahar, smashed into the main trunk railway bridge at Tangiwai. The concrete piers were knocked out and the bridge partially collapsed.



Driving through the darkness, Cyril Ellis stopped when he saw that the bridge ahead was under water, even though there had been no rain. Realising that a train was approaching the nearby rail bridge, he ran along the track towards it, waving a torch to flag it down. It was the passenger express from Wellington, packed with 285 people heading to Auckland for the holidays.



The train reaches the bridge

The driver saw him and applied the brakes, but the train’s momentum carried it out onto the bridge. The engine and first carriage nosedived, landing against the opposite bank. Four more carriages plunged into the river, floating in the torrent briefly before sinking. Another four carriages remained on the track, but one of them dangled over the river. Ellis and guard William Inglis attempted to help people off, but the coupling snapped and the carriage toppled into the river. Rolling several times, it came to rest on its side, with water flowing through it. Ellis knocked out several windows and hoisted people outside as passenger John Holman lifted fellow travellers out to him. In all, 26 people escaped, huddled on the carriage for over an hour until the torrent subsided. The men then formed a human chain in waist-deep water, helping everyone reach the bank safely.



On the other side of the flooded road bridge, Arthur Bell and his wife had also seen the train crash into the river. Mrs Bell went for help, while Arthur assisted 15 people from the carriage that had hit the riverbank.

New Zealand flood

New Zealand number 1 hazard

Floods are the most frequent and costly natural disasters in New Zealand – between 1920 and 1983, the country experienced 935 damaging floods. The Insurance Council of New Zealand calculated that industry payments for flood damage between 1976 and 2004 averaged $17 million per year in 2004 dollars. But this covers just part of the actual cost – for example, government expenditure on civil defence responses during flood emergencies alone averages about $15 million per year over the same period.



Early floods

Floods have cost an uncounted number of lives. Māori history tells of a pre-European flood in the Tūtaekurī area of Hawke’s Bay in which a party of 50 men, women and children were drowned by the rising of two streams. The early European settlers failed to realise the intensity of rainfall in New Zealand and how rapidly rivers could rise. The broad gravel-bed rivers were particularly deceptive: although usually shallow enough to wade across, in flood their currents become powerful. By 1870, just a few decades after European settlers first arrived, rivers had been responsible for 1,115 recorded drownings. Drowning became known as ‘the New Zealand death’.



A god’s revenge

Māori legend includes a story of a great flood. Tāwhaki, god of thunder and lightning, was almost murdered by his brothers-in-law. When he had recovered, Tāwhaki took his warriors and their families, and built a fortified village on top of a mountain. Then he called to his ancestors – the gods – for revenge, and they let the floods of heaven descend. The earth was overwhelmed by the waters and the entire population perished. This was known as Te hurihanga i Mataaho (the overwhelming of Mataaho – one of the places that were destroyed).

Causes

Most floods occur when water from intense or persistent rain, and sometimes from melting snow, enters rivers, streams and lakes, causing them to overflow. In New Zealand, the heaviest rain commonly accompanies tropical cyclones, depressions and frontal systems. Tropical cyclones, such as the storm of 28 January 1936 (considered New Zealand’s worst storm in the 20th century) and Cyclone Bola in 1988, have caused major floods, but such storms reach New Zealand only infrequently.



Much more common is flooding caused by the heavy rain that may accompany depressions and frontal systems moving over the country. New Zealand’s rugged topography often enhances the effects of these weather systems, as moist air forced up and over mountainous terrain condenses to produce additional precipitation. As a result, the western side of the Southern Alps is one of the wettest places in the world, with over 10 metres of rainfall per year in places.

Christchurch earthquake

The 2011 Christchurch earthquake

Aftershocks map

Liquefaction demonstrated

Earthquake damage

Flickr exhibition: earthquake damage in Christchurch, February 2011

Christchurch city after the quake

Shaking in the Press Building

On Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12.51 p.m. Christchurch was badly damaged by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. As many as 182 people were killed and several thousand injured. The earthquake epicentre was near Lyttelton, just 10 kilometres south-east of Christchurch’s central business district. The earthquake occurred more than five months after the 4 September 2010 earthquake, but is considered to be an aftershock of the earlier quake.

Casualties and damage

The earthquake occurred during lunch time, when many people were on the city streets. More than 110 fatalities were from the collapse of two multi-storey office buildings – the Canterbury Television and Pyne Gould Corporation buildings. Falling bricks and masonry on Manchester Street and Cashel Mall killed 11 people, and six died in two city buses crushed by crumbling walls. Rock cliffs behind houses collapsed in the Sumner and Redcliffs area, and boulders tumbled from the Port Hills summits, with five people killed by falling rocks.

 

McLean, Donald

1820–1877

Administrator, runholder, politician, provincial superintendent

By Alan Ward

Biography

Donald McLean

Donald McLean was a Scottish Highlander, born on 25 October 1820, the third son of Margaret McColl and her husband, John McLean, at Kilmaluag on Tiree, one of the Inner Hebrides. John McLean was a tacksman, holding a large lease from the Duke of Argyll, probably with sub-tenants of his own. The young Donald was born into gentry not peasant life, with a nurse and a tutor. But Argyll subdivided his estate and John McLean was dispossessed. From the age of about 11 Donald was educated by his mother's brother, the Reverend Donald McColl, for the Presbyterian ministry. Donald studied history, literature and divinity until 1838 when he sailed for New South Wales, accompanying relatives who had government connections. After a brief attempt at squatting near Bathurst, he took employment with the Sydney merchants Abercrombie and Company, the position carrying a modest salary and a house.
This firm sent him to the Auckland area, New Zealand, in 1840. He stayed on, cutting timber and managing a schooner on the Waihou River and the Firth of Thames for the trader John McLeod. Here he acquired a good knowledge of Maori, perhaps helped by his being already bilingual in Gaelic and English. In March 1844, through the influence of Andrew Sinclair, colonial secretary and a Scot, he was appointed to the Protectorate of Aborigines. Posted as sub-protector in Taranaki, McLean had to mediate in a diverse range of conflicts between Maori and settler, notably those caused by the damaging of Maori cultivations by settlers' stock. He had to calm the Taranaki tribes, angered by the land claims commissioner's recognition of the New Zealand Company's crude purchase of Taranaki land. At the meeting he convened for Governor Robert FitzRoy he would first have heard the vehement opposition of Wiremu Kingi Te Rangitake to the sale of land at Waitara. But McLean had also begun to develop a rapport with Taranaki settler families angered by FitzRoy's refusal to confirm the commissioner's award.
McLean acquired standing among Maori for his knowledge of their language and his respect for rank and protocol. He was also industrious and accessible, putting aside social engagements if Maori callers wanted his attention. He enjoyed bush travel, comparing the wild valleys and streams with those of Scotland and extolling the pleasures of a tent camp after a hard ride – the encircling fires and the songs and storytelling of his companions, Maori and settler.

My perseverance goals

1. My first perseverance goal is to learn knew songs.
2. My second pereverance goal is to train for cross country (Without walking).
3. My third pereverance goal is to to learn knew strageties for my maths.
4. My last pereverance goal is to learn how to control a pen when I use my pen since I have had my pen licence.

I hope you can help me achieve these goals!!!
Chayse:)

Maths

Today we had Mrs Chia. In the morning, after we had finished our inference writing, we had to do maths. During this time, most oof the hexagons had already started. But I had just started. And by the time I had finished, They were only up to the 2nd-to-last Q!!! I had zoomed past the rest!!!

Cross Country

Yesterday, we did cross country training, and it was really triring!!! Oh! I never want to train again. I was so tired, I couldn't do another lap! So I'm going to tell you how tired I was:

1. Half way round first lap: Good
2. Sprinting lane: Tired
3. Next Lap: Walking
4. 1/4 of the way: Still Walking
5. 1/2 of the way:Jogging
6. Finish: Breath all taken

Now do you believe me that I was tired???!!! You probably suggested now that I am not a good long distance cross country runner!!!

Space

How a black hole is created:

1. Red giant
2. Supernova
3. Black hole

Healthy eating with Project Energise

What fun we had last week and yesterday. Project energise came to talk to us about:

• Breakfasts
• Sugar
• Fat
• Drinks
• Nutrition
• Caffeine
• Fibre

On the first week, we talked about drinks. First we had to say what our favourite drink was. Mine was: Apple juice.
Second, we had to think which one of the following drinks:

1. E2
2. V
3. Coke (Can)
4. Coke (Bottle)
5. Just Juice
6. Powerade
7. Milk Water
8. Raro

Had the least and most sugar. The order is (First=most Last=Least)

 

1. E2
2. Coke (Bottle
3. And I've forgotten... (3 to 6)
4. Forgotten
5. Forgotten
6. Raro
7. Milk
8. Water

Then we had to guess how much sugar was in it.


The next week: was breakfasts

We were all first given a carton of breakfasts each. Then we had to guess were would they go for:
Everyday
Sometimes
Not the right choice!

125,000 Dominoes - CDT 2010

This is a video about perserverance, using: 116 thousand dominoes. It shows perserverance, because the people must of used a lot of time, to make it. It also would be perplexing when it falls down. It would ruin it all!!!

Reading Bridge to Terabithia

No! It's the end of the term! Aaugghh!!! But I would just like to say, if this is my ,last photo of the term, then this will be my favourite:

As you can see, this is a photo of me reading bridge to Terabithia. If I can remember correctly, It was: CHAPTER 5, THE GIANT KILLERS

Reading Bridge to Terabithia

Hi! For probably the past week me and the shooting stars have been reading a book called: Bridge to Terabithia. It is a cool story, and we have been given questions and vocabulary for reading it. It is about, a boy called, Jesse, and his neighbours, daughter become friends, and together they have adventures in the forest of Terabithia.

Assembly Photo Peach

Our cool assembly on PhotoPeach

Decimals with Maia

This is a video of me solving a problem

Decimals with Maia

This is a video of me solving a problem

Decimals with Maia

For the past two days or so, now, me (Chayse) and Maia have been learning about:
Reversing, Place value, and Tidy numbers. Mrs Natuash told us to write a post about it, and give an example, and so on, so here it is:

Chapter One:
W.A.L.T
Reverse
When you reverse, you start from the lowest number (Which should usually be what you have to minus) , in the equation, and add up till you get to the nearest one. Then you have to add up to what you need to get highest number in the equation .Then you have to work up all that you have just used to add that made that number:
(e.g)
7.1-3.2=
3.2+0.8=4+3.1=7.1
Now work up what you used to make that:
0.8+3.1=3.9

Chapter Two

W.A.L.T.
Place Value
When you place value, you add the numbers by their sections. Then you add all their sections amount together, and that's you're answer: (The exact same thing with subtraction, just subtract!)


(e.g)
3.2+1.5=
3+2=5
0.2+0.5=0.7
5+0.7=5.7

Chapter 3
W.A.L.T
When you use tidy numbers you advance to the nearest one in both digit parts then you add them together. After that, you must remember this:
NOTICE:
You always add back what you took of, unless it was a subtraction question, you take off what you put on.

(e.g)3.7+2.5=
4+3=7
But, I added on, did I not?
7-1.3=5.7
The answer is:
5.7

Black Holes: Creation & Consumption of Galaxies.

Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs, Space and Time

This is a video about black holes and stuff.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie"

This is a video about the Tacoma Narrows bridge and how it collapsed!!!

Decimals with Maia

Today, me and Maia did some extreme Maths!!! We learnt stuff, that even as Mrs Natusch spoke, her brain was extending!!!

We are learning to:Learn the percent and equivalent fractions. It is really hard!!!

The Phu My Bridge - Saigon, Vietnam (2007- 2009) - Construction Time Lapse

Decimals

Last night, I had to do some maths with my parents. They gave me really hard decimal equations, that I had to answer. They were awesome again...
Chayse:)

bridges

For the past couple of days, Room 10, have been doing Geometry. So now, we are trying to create a bridge, and research stuff about our bridge, like the desighner and the forces and if it's unique and other cool stuff. My bridge, is a drawbridge. But, it's sortta like the one you think as a castle bridge, but, it's sortta different
Chayse:)

Decimals with Maia

Today, me and Maia, we were learning to:
Round with money:
E.G:
$23.56=
nearest dollar:
$24.00
nearest ten cents
$23.60

Jump jam

The middle syndicate boys are doing JJ every Wednesday(s)

Using the Deci Pipes

Today, Me and Maia, used the Deci Pipes. To use the Deci Pipes, you will start off with 'One Whole' pipe. Then you must put the ten tenths on it. Then you should see that you needed ten tenths, to make one whole. That's because: it gets ten times smaller. So speaking of that, you then need to get ten hundredths. And you need how many to make 1 tenth? 10. Because you know. It gets ten times... SMALLER!!! And you know the answer of the question above that I've written, 1 line above this line. TEN!!!
Then, obviously, you need ten thousandths to make one hundredth!

Question:
How many thousandths, dose it take to make one whole?
Question 2:
How many hundredths does it take to be equivalent with 30 thousandths?

School logo

School logo:
Today we learnt what our school logo means. We learnt that all of the logo means something different each.
e.g:
The kete that Hotumauea is holding is filled with kumera. They represent the seeds of knowledge.
Chayse :)

Decimals with Maia

For the past few days, I have been doing decimals with Maia. We learnt how to expand the form of decimals:
e.g:
234.056=
200+30+4+0tenths+5hundredths+6thousandths

FUN!!!

Wall wisher

Geometry

Yesterday, Room 10, learnt about nets!
We learnt about that, Basketball, and Netball, and all that other junk, aren't the only ones that own nets, that Geometry has them too!
For example: a net is a pattern, that you use, to make a 3D shape.
See!
Chayse

Choir Rehearsal

Choir:
Yesterday, the Vardon School, choir, went to Founders theatre(For a rehearsal, ahhhhhh, I tricked you didn't I, you probably thought It was about: the performance again.), for a rehearsal.
We traveled there by car. When we got there there were already schools there as we were not the first there, so, ya see, we are not the only schools performing, and there were a lot of others. So we walked in, we met:
Jaden-Our host
Chris Monkey(From the funky monkeys)-our pianoist and conducter, and our action teacher!
and finally:
SUZANNE PRENTICE-The famous(well actually, very famous,)New Zealand singer
We were told to go up on stage, and taught some actions, then we were told to sing our hearts away!
We were awesome!

Choir Performance

Choir:
Last night:(10Th May 2011), Vardon School, and a lot of other school's too, went to founders theatre. The reason was clear. We were there because Suzanne Prentice was there. We were performing to a full house at founders. There were so many, I could only just see my parents! We sang quite a bit of songs, and heh, hay! I knew them all!(Well, almost them all.) It was the best night ever. During some songs, we had some simple actions. And during one song, out came a mascot:
A CAT!
Barely, anyone could sing, because it was soooooo, funny!
HA!HA!HA!
Then, during another song, Suzanne came out in a silly (x2) boy costume!
She then sang HELLO MOTHER, HELLO FATHER.
;">AWESOME 4 EVER!!!!!

GEOMETRY

Room 10 are leaning about: Geometry, and we learnt that, Geometry is a study of SHAPES: Like:
TRIANGLE
SQUARE
CIRCLE
and:
CUBE
TRIANGULAR PRISMON

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! The last day of school!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(At least it's only for term one. Phew!)But we get to have the best term 1 day ever!!! That's because, it's the last day of school, and so we get to make bread with Toby's mum, Ursi. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But still... once that's over, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

End of the term!!! AUGH!!!

Hi! Heh, umm, okay I admit it. It's not

Tricked

If anyone is reading this, you've just won... A MILLION DOLLARS!!! not really. I've tricked you!!!

Te Ra

This is a photo of room 10!!!

Hello!

Putting up Te-Ra

Today

Hello. Today, We have been learning about:Spelling,Reading,Writing and we did some singing[This morning] Right now, We are doing Reading. My group are reading a book called: The secret of Bunratty Castle In total there are:six groups Aliens Astronauts Comets Rockets Shooting Stars Space Scientists The story that my group are reading is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!!! Its about : Twelve year old Jennifer Chang, is spending the summer on Vashon Island with her family, and she has a strange feeling that beeing here is going to make it the most exciting adventure Ever!!!Then, when Jennifer meets Cass, the adventure comes true!

Flax

These are flax photos!

Camp

This video is about me talking about camp.

Hello

Hello. I'm back! I bet ya I haven't been on my blog for a long as time! Wow! By, the way, I was just going to tell you about camp last week. Well, for starters, it all started of with a notice. Then finally it was Camp sleepover. Oh, so freak-in Awesome. We were fed Morning tea, lunch, supper, and breakfast. We were also allowed to sleep in our tents with your mates/friends.

An hour before Dawn:
Friday 4Th of March

I wake up. It's incredibly dark. But so freak-in awesome! My friend(Devin) was snoring. (NO offense: and everyone who snores. Then, finally. he woke up. We started to talk. And talk. And talk. And talk. For probably:30minutes. Then we got caught. But we still talked. And got caught(again) But we still talked. And talked. And then the same man who told on us the other times said we were allowed to talk quietly. But, Instead, PILLOW FIGHT! We pretty much woke up our 2 next door neighbour.

Reading

This is my Outward Bound story.

Hello

Holy heck! Week has just flew by! school is awesome so far.

The Holidays

Wow those holidays were awesome! I had much fun!