Week 1 Term 2

Bonjour everyone!

The first day back at school was really fun because everyone met with all friends again. On Monday, there was no assembly instead we had a powhiri to welcome the teacher who will be reliving for a teacher while she is on maternity leave and the new Japanese teacher. I also had WIMS Basketball Trials. I think I did well and have a chance to get in, but the girls that trialed were really good as well.

On Tuesday, we had a special visitor his name was Mike King. He had to sessions one in the morning and one in the afternoon our class was in the afternoon because we had tech arts. I also met the Japanese teacher properly while we were at wood. I made a lot of progress on my truck even though I made really big mistakes! One was that I glued the two sides of my truck to the bottom but instead of gluing them facing the same way I glued them facing opposite ways. The others I can't remember because they weren't as big of mistakes. In the afternoon, it was our turn to listen to Mike King. He talked about his battle with depression,  addiction and his life. It all started with not liking the way that he looked and just wanting to be liked as a kid. One day his only friend Nigel came up with a really bad joke, but he made the joke funny. Other people heard a the joke and they finally accepted him. He was finally accepted to the popular but after a while, they got tired of his jokes and started telling him to pick on other people for their own amusement. By the age of 13, he was an acholic and by 17 years old he was a drug addict. He was a drug addict and an acholic until the age of 45. At 45 years of age, he started counseling. A couple years later he started talking to kids and adults.

On Wednesday, I trialed for Belmont netball it was very difficult because of I didn't know many people's names. I felt really stressed because there was the netball trials AND Jump Jam leaders trials. Luckily I got to trial the next day.

On Thursday, Emma and I both trialed for jump jam at the same time. Mrs Bayley said it was a slightly easier audition because we auditioned during fun jump jam which is always run on a Thursday. I also found out that I had been called back to trial again for Belmont netball it was really exciting.

On Friday, Emma was bugging me to look at the notice board and I wasn't sure why? Turns out she was annoying me because I had been called back to audition again for Jump Jam leaders. I trialed again for WIMS Basketball after lunch, and then for Belmont netball before the bell rang.

Anyway, that was my week very busy and I was really tired after all the trialing. Netball on Saturday was very tiring as I did a lot of running around and so did the rest of the team and to make it worse it was really hot. We lost by 10 but we were versing year 10's and at one stage in the game we were actually winning.

Au revoir everybody!