What I've been doing at Home . . .

I've been mostly reading books, going through my huge shelf. But I've finished most of it all. I borrow books from the school library, but finish it quickly. So otherwise I would do tasks (homework). Once I've gone through that, I'll play guitar for awhile until it's dinner. And after dinner I would mostly be on my iPad mini.

What I Like About It . . .
Books. I like books because of how when you read it, you can imagine what they look like. But in movies and television, they just show you. Books are great instruments for education, they're the major and main thing you use for school.

Tasks. I only do it because we were asked to. If it was optional, I probably wouldn't accept the offer. Sometimes the tasks are worth doing, and sometimes it's just time consuming.

Playing guitar, or other instruments, is great thing to do to take your mind off things. I have lessons every Saturday, which means more homework.

What's your favourite book (series)?

Do you play any instruments?

Statistics

Improvements:

I had no idea on idea on pie graphs much, until after our assessments. I had trouble trying to include all the needed tips to make a perfect graph. I had learned this several times, but it is easily forgotten. 

Areas to Work On:

I'm confident with Statistics, and i think i don't need much improvements, due to my 100% score on our final test. 

What Helped me Achieve was . . .

Miss Bolger's work sheets that practised me with the unit. It was a big help reviewing over the graphs and averages, range, mode and median, which were common in the test. 

Statistics is a branch of maths that every job would include. Especially in business, calculating the profits and what not. So hopefully i will remember all of it.

OPC Camp - Finished

Last week was camp, it was fun, though I came back with several cuts and bruises. On the first day, we arrived at the Levin Adventure Park for lunch, then the Waiouru Army Museum and finally The Sir Edmund Hillary Out-Door Pursuits. We left at about half past ten and got to OPC at quarter to six. We settled down unpacking a bit then attended lunch at half past six. Dinner was nachos, corn and mixed vegetables and dessert was ice-cream and fruit salad. After we were showed a short presentation of what OPC's purpose was, which was to encourage people to experience the outdoors and co-operate with others. The reason it was named after Sir Edmund Hillary because after Hillary completed his climb up Mount Everest, he went home and found out about OPC. He supported them and so that's how OPC got named after Hillary. We went on with the rules and so on and returned to our cabins.

The next day we had a Local Day as the instructors called it. That meant that we'd do activities just around the compound of the camp. We had packed a day pack with all our needs for the day, including a hat, water bottle and sunscreen (etc.). First we did a Low Ropes course, which in fact was quite low, hovering a quarter of a metre above the ground. Then High Ropes which was as high as about thirty five metres. We just did two of the courses. The objective of one was to walk across a log which wobbled, the log was about five metres maybe. And the other one was to jump a gap of more than a metre to another platform. We then went on a flying fox which went over a river. Then we went urban caving, which kind of disgusted me at first then turned out to be fun. We crawled through a sewage pipe, but the water was just the excess of our drinking water and tap water, definitely not toilet water. It was maybe fifteen or twenty metres long. By the end you would feel like "I just did that . . . Wow . . ." feeling. As you can see we had a lot of fun.

We gained a lot of experience from our week, including how to abseil down a sheer fifty metre rock cliff face, rock climb up a thirty five metres and go caving. We also learned the value of co-operation, trust, teamwork, friendship, courage and most importantly resilience. These were essential, these values were crucial to live through that week. You had to pay attention because most activities are life and death. But we all lived and had fun with just cuts and bruises. I hope the Year 7's enjoyed E.O.T.C Week as well as we enjoyed OPC Camp.

Swimming Term 1

In Term 1, we have swimming lessons on Tuesday every week.. For Year 7's and 8's, there is swimming extensions. Meaning if your considerably well at swimming, you can skip lessons and water safety, and choose from kayaking, snorkelling and diving lessons. I chose to be in kayaking. I wanted to be in kayaking because I thought it would be fun, but my Dad said to just do diving, so it would help me in swimming sports competitions, but I already chose kayaking. It was worth it, since we might do kayaking when I go to camp (OPC). The first few lessons we practiced a safety routine when we capsized in our kayak and how to enter the pool with your life jacket. The instructors said to tuck your knees under the knee guards for balance, then delicately slide out, leaning forward, and tap three times on the kayak so the instructors know your safe. But if you can't get out, you continue tapping. After this we went on the bubble machine. At first I was baffled at what they said. I then understood that it was an exercise, so you could feel what river rapids were like. We were told to huddle up together, there were approximately about ten of us. Next they activated the machine. It was reasonably strong since I was sent back to the corners of the vast five metre pool. I looked around to see that we were scattered across the pool, with our life jackets. I was amused at how strong it was. We were then asked to rate the aggressiveness of the burst of water out of ten. The average score they rated was five, some eight. They told us it was not even over half of one! Everyone was amazed. After we could catch up to the people who had lessons and now was in free time. We had about five minutes until we actually changed. I spent a few minutes there, people telling about what they did, and how fun it was. That was my typical swimming day. But for a few weeks it was cancelled due to a swimming meet apparently. And plus OPC Camp. But swimming enjoyable as the past seven years.