Week 7 Term 1

Salut everybody!

This was another amazing week at TAI!

On Monday, we had another assembly and the Makahari Students went horse riding and shopping. On Tuesday, we had tech arts this was really fun. I finished my bag and started stitching a mouse I didn't finish my mouse as I only had one day to do it. The Makahari students were at school.

The Japanese students went to Rotorua on Wednesday they left early and came back at five! Luckily I had netball practise till five as well. I had another lesson of french it was really fun and found out how to say goodbye and words that are used in a class room. On Thursday, the Makahari students were at Te Awamutu Intermediate for half of the day and at 1:30 they went to Pekerau school to see what a primary school looks like in N.Z.

 Friday was very busy. Iforgot my shoes for tech and needed them for netball (fridaysport) and basketball practise after school. Lukey enough my friend Emma let me borow her shoes for basketball and tech and netball wasn't on. The Japanese students were at school.

On Saturday, I had junior farmer competion and my team name was Frozen. This isnt school related, but two people from my class were in the team that won the competion.

Watch for my next blog on Friday-Sunday next week.

Au revior!           

Week 6 Term 1

Bonjour everybody!
This week is the best week ever even know we have done so much maths, it was great!

 On Tuesday at tech arts I changed my design on my bag from "Dance is life, life is netball" to "Y?". I am thinking about giving my bag to Mai as a going away gift as she will be there the day that I finish it. I learnt how to sew a side seam on a bag and it is not very hard I thought it was going to be very difficult but it was so easy. We also had our boating safety course on Tuesday as well. We were put into 3 teams. We were the first group to go to the boat. We had to get into the boat without tipping so we had to keep the boat balanced by going one at a time, I was one of the last people on because I was scared I was going to tip the boat. another activity we did was how to rescue someone when you are on the boat and another person in the water we had to through a bag with rope inside for the other person to grab onto and we would have to pull the person in. The last activity was a group safety exercise. We were told about some different tools like a flare witch you use when you see a boat and you are stranded some where. Another was personal radio that contacted the states if you needed help. We had to form lines and swim together as group. Also we were told how to keep warm if in the water, cover your chest. On Wednesday Room 3 had Jump Jam it was really fun as always, but I learnt no new songs. Before that I had a French lesson, I learnt how to say " Hello, I am Emily, and you ". I also learnt how to spell my name in French and and the French alphabet.

On Thursday I was so excited about meeting my Japanese student for 2016! I have been waiting for a Japanese student for exactly four years. My brother Jamal hosted two when he was at Intermediate there names were Shogo and Yuki. My Japanese student's name is Mai she is funny, kind and enthusiastic towards New Zealand's culture. We also did school singing which was really fun because we sung my favourite song ''Sorry"! On Friday I had tech arts again except this time Mai was there and she enjoyed herself. There were many laughs at tech arts that day, but we still got heaps finished, yet still so much to go!  

Au revoir

Week 5 Term 1

This week I learnt so much and enjoyed this week more than any other! This week we had our first student assembly, it was hilarious. My friend Sam showed everyone how to apply make-up in 10 seconds and Cheng-Yu showed us all how to talk to computers. For tech arts this week we started to design our bags, my design is very complicated so it may change. We were told what was needed and the step by step process to make the bag. We have done alot of maths this week, we learnt about things like expanding and simplifying, what and how to use powers or index notation. I also learnt what some different words were for example quotient, this word means to divide. I went to a Jump Jam leader day on Tuesday this week, we did the song Ice Ice Baby again and learnt a new song called Jai Ho. On Friday we got forms about what Japanese student we will be having. I have a girl named Mai, her hobbies include; listing to music, animation and playing game. She looks very pretty in the picture that is on the sheet of paper, sent from Japan. Also on Friday we had Inter house swimming sports. Unfortunately I had cut my foot the day before and was unable to swim more than one race as my foot was stinging from the chlorine in the water. I also had a French lesson with Mrs Shaw. I learnt how to say Hello, Hi and Good evening. I am really enjoying my time at Te Awamutu Intermediate. Bye!