Yummy kumara

The bell rang, everybody ran back to their classes like we would usually do. Except it wasn't a usual day, it was Action day. Everybody in the school has an area to work on for Action day because we are  wanting to become a green gold enviro-school. Anway, our classes (MLH 1 & 2) responsibility is to weed the class gardens,  and we also have to harvest the kumara and pumpkins. But first, we had to think of reasons why growing your own food is better than buying it from the shop ( we came up with lots of reasons).

 At about 9.30 we got out to the gardens. The teacher spilt the class into little groups. I was in the kumara harvesting group, but after about fifteen minutes we had to swap over. I was quite disappointed because harvesting the kumara was really fun. Soon, everyone got bored of harvesting kumara and went to weed the other bit of the garden but me and Olly stayed. But after a while more people joined us. Shortly after, I went over and started weeding. The weeding was fun but very hard work. I was starting to get tired, then the teacher said "brain break". After brain break we were working with Kodi.

Kodi is pretty much just someone who goes around to schools and talks about enviro and stuff like that. With Kodi we learnt about sustainable communities,empowered students and lots of other thing along those lines. I really enjoyed working with Kodi. After morning tea we carried on with our weeding and harvesting kumara and pumpkins. Then, it was lunch.

After lunch, we went straight to the gardens and carried on with what we were doing before. Soon there no more kumara or pumpkins to be harvested, so everybody worked on the weeding. At about 2.50 we all packed up our stuff to go home, it had been such a fun day.

 I woke up in the morning,I wondered what day it was?It was Wednesday but it wasn't just an ordinary Wednesday It was the first day back at school this year. Then I got my lazy body out of my bed and got dressed.Once I was dressed I went to go and have my breakfast.My Mum was already up. Once I had eaten my breakfast of weetbix I went and did my other jobs to get ready. Soon we were in the car. When we got to school I got out of the car and said goodbye to my mum. Then I walked over to my new class room. My new classroom is moana learning hub. I was excited to be in a new class room with new teacher and kids.

When class started I was felling nervous. Every morning this year we had been going swimming and doing quick writes witch is a big change for me. My teachers names are koka Rozie (I had her last year) Koka Pip and koka Ngaire. 

In week 2 are whole school walked down to the Hamanatu steam because we were walking are pepeha. We also In week 2 walked up Mangaroa witch is in our pepeha as well.

It is now week 4 and we have a new task tracker for this year, we also have started to do blogs (I am doing one right now). Every friday we do lots of fun games and art and stuff like that ( Witch I love)

Surfing a perfect bank

 I got into my wet suit as quickly as possible. I grabbed my surfboard and ran down the beach, the surf was pumping at Loisels, a paradise up the coast. I started to paddle out. As I was paddling out, Archie got this really good wave and surfed it really well. I was soon out the back, most of my friends were out already. After about 2 mins of waiting, a good wave came though and I was in good position for it ...

I caught the wave, went along it for a little while and then did a nice cutback and then I did a big floater at the end. If your wondering what a floater is, that's okay because I'm going to tell you right now. A floater Is pretty much just going up to the wave and then coming back down. I paddled back out again only to find that the bank had gotten even better!

I caught my next wave pretty much straight as I got out the back, however it wasn't a very good one. I was getting really good waves all morning but then it got to high tide, so I went back in. But after A while I went back out again because it was more low tide by then. I was soon out the back, my first wave was a really good one and so were all of the others after that. 

I didn't go back in until about 2 o'clock. I was lucky that I didn't stay out for much longer because when I got back in I found out that we were leaving. I said goodbye to all of my friends and then we were off home. It had been such a fun weekend - bring on the next good swell!