Waimarino - A paddle

I slept in. Thats it, thats all to it. When one of my fellow paddles said (after I woke up) "OMG did you see that girl with the blonde hair fail or that boy with the black hair being a wuss and not going on the Tarzan Swing" I would reply with simple "No I did not". Well anyway I was rudely awakened by some other paddle. I was about to yell at them when a hand grabbed hold of me. I was jerked off the stand, I didn't mind though some people were rougher.

The girl put me in her kayak and was pushed off the dock. She paddled towards the boat on the left side of the river, she then started yelling at her friends and I suddenly realised how anti-warm the river actually was. She paddled fast and we soon rafted up, on her left side was a boy with brown hair and on her right side was a man with barley any hair at all. I must have fallen asleep again because I don't remember anything until she kneeled on her kayak then she started to stand. She looked around to make sure nobody was near her. She suddenly sat down and started paddling quite fast towards another one of her class mates, a girl. She bumped into the girls kayak the girl went over board and was thrown into the the chilly water. She cracked up laughing and she nearly fell of her kayak in the process, the girl that went over yelling "RACHEL". So I guess her name was Rachel.

When she next stood up of her kayak a different boy with brown hair raced towards her like a bullet, and at the last moment she spotted him and "tried" to sit back back. The key word here is tried, and he rammed into her full speed she fall overboard, and when she tried to get back up the kayak moved and it flipped over dragged me unwillingly with it. "COLD, COLD, COLD" I screamed in my head. Then the kayak and I were lifted onto another kayak and the procedure went about of getting the water out of the her kayak. The suddenly "Oh I got water in my kayak" was sounded and a quick "sorry" was replied.

We rafted up a couple more times then we headed back in and Rachel jumped out of her kayak. "Not again" I groaned in my head but she got back in her kayak but her friend that she had pushed out earlier wasn't so lucky so her friend held onto the back of the our kayak and the front of her kayak and we dragged her into the dock. All I could think about was hanging up in the stand and getting a good nights sleep.

Where Is the Deepest Place On Earth?

In the pacific ocean to the southeast of Japan, there is a very deep trench called the Mariana trench, and at the southern tip there is a small part called the Challenger Deep


With a measured depth of approximately 35,797 feet (10, 910.9 metres) below sea level, a journey to the bottom of the Challenger Deep is nearly seven miles (11.2654 kilometres), making it the deepest known place on Earth.


The Challenger Deep is named after a British Royal Navy ship called the HMS Challenger. The Challenger was the first ship to measure the depths of what is now known as the Challenger Deep.


The trench was measured by “sounding,” which involves dropping a very long line with a weight at the end into a body of water.


Only four descend to the challenger deep have ever been successful.

The first was in 1960 by a vessel called the Trieste. Trieste’s journey into the trench took almost five hours, while its return to the surface took three hours and 15 minutes.

The second was the in 1995 by an unmanned deep-sea robotic probe named Kaiko.

The third was took place in 2009, when the U.S. Navy sent the Nereus on an exploration. The Nereus is a hybrid remotely-operated vehicle, also known as an HROV.
The Nereus spent more than 10 hours at the bottom of the Challenger Deep, sending live video and data back to a ship at the surface.

The fourth and final was 2012 by solo-diver James Cameron in the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER.

Life Education

Before and after photo

Methamphetamine or P is potentially a very addictive drug. It belongs to a group of drugs known as 'Stimulants' and works by releasing high levels of the brain chemical dopamine, stimulating brain cells, enhancing mood and body movement.

In New Zealand it is most commonly known as P but other names include Meth, Speed, Pure, Crystal, Ice, Crystal Meth, Crank and Glass.

Methamphetamine can be snorted, smoked, injected or eaten.

The short term effects include increased alertness, paranoia, hallucinations, insomnia, loss of appetite and many more.

Long term effects can include fatal kidney and lung disorders, brain damage, depression, violent and aggressive behavior, lowered resistance to illness and weight loss.


The story of William who killed his daughter Coral.

They arrived at the South Featherston School about 8.17am. It was pouring with rain. Storm got out and ran inside but Coral refused.


Williams later told police she got cheeky to him and he "lost the plot". The police summary of evidence records that he "flew into a rage such as he had never before experienced".
From the driver's seat he reached into the back, half climbing over the seat to punch Coral repeatedly, holding her with one hand while hitting with the other.
He broke her jaw in two places, just below the right ear and on her chin. Her jawbone was protruding on the left-hand side of her face.
Her blood was everywhere, including all over his hands and her face. The autopsy concluded that the bleeding from her mouth would have been "torrential".
When Williams' rage abated, Coral was collapsed on the car floor unconscious. None of the other parents arriving with their children apparently noticed what had occurred.
In a panic Williams drove off, heading south away from town.

My Picture Book

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Wednesday Hockey Training

This Wednesday, we had hockey training. We started off with passes and hits, then we did a drill that makes you go around a defender instead of through. After that we spilt up into 2 groups. one group was doing PC practices and the other was playing a mini game. Then we joined together and did a whole heap of proper PC's. The Friday it the final and we are versing our boys for 1st and 2nd, anmd we are down to players but we are all confident we will win and if we don't its still a Tauranga Intermediate Team the is going to win.

Aims Games

Monday 
We played against Owera College at Bethlehem College and we won the game 3-0. The positions I played were Left Inner, Left Wing and Center Forward. The skills I needed to work on for that game was my backwards sweep, because instead of doing a backwards sweep I'm trying to run in a circle away from the player.

Tuesday
We played against St Margret's at the Blake Park Hockey Turf and we lost that game 0-2. The positions I played Left Inner, Left Wing and Center Forward. I need to work on my indian dribble and my control of the ball.

Wednesday 
We played against Palmerston North Intermediate at Blake park and we lost that game 2-1. The position I played were Left Wing. In this game we had a horrible ref, so when I scored a goal in the last 30 seconds. The ref called it as a 16, so that means it was a no goal so we lost that game.

Thursday 
We played against Kamo Intermediate at Blake Park we won that game 1-0. The positions I played were Left Wing and Center Forward. In this game we were aggressive and we all helped in defence and attack we stopped more than one of there chances at goal and we attack all together when trying to score a goal.

Friday
Friday was our finals and we were playing for 5th and 6th. We played against St Margret's again but sadly we lost that game 0-2. But we were all really proud that we got into top 10 and we got the same placing as last year.

Before all the game we did our chant. our chants goes like this

" You might be good at basket ball, you might be good at track
But when it comes to hockey you might as well step back
Say what, oh snap, you might as well step back
Tauranga on 3, 1, 2, 3 TAURANGA


Here are some photos

Wednesday Training

Today (3.9.14) we had after school training. Firstly we worked on Indian dribble. We worked on strokes, these are something that happens when the game is in a tie. The penalty stroke is taken by a single attacker in the circle, against the goalkeeper, from a spot 6.4 m from goal. The ball is played only once at goal by the attacker using a push, flick or scoop stroke. If the shot is saved, play is restarted with a 15 m hit to the defenders. When a goal is scored, play is restarted in the normal way. then we played a game red against blue. I was in the red team.