Rā Haka Day
Last Friday 21.5.21 was Rā Haka day and pink shirt day!
Sadly I didn't go to school on Friday but I would have enjoyed doing the Kowai ra with my friends if I went. I would have enjoyed doing the games on the courts. All of my friends were dressed up so I would have liked to dress up with them and take funny photos.
I feel like I wouldn't be confident but i'd try my best.
Yesterday (Tuesday 31.3.21) We had a Science Roadshow in Ōtaki College hall.
Once we got to the hall all of the year 7 and year 8 classes were sitting down facing two girls in front of their desk. once everyone was there Two girls named Jess and Mary.
Jess and Mary had a slideshow which had a recap of what we did with them, Jess and Mary made multiple explosions,
I found out you could pop a balloon using just orange skins! and that you could make a mini tornado made out of fire
after the first show with Jess and Mary we got to walked around freely to have a look at the other cool science stuff that was set up
My favourite thing was the scents( where you have to smell something and guess which fruit it was)
and the Curtain, for the curtain you had to go inside and sit on the stool inside, the girl would turn it on and it'd spin fast, on the outside it was pink and the inside and had and white strips.
The strips would cause it to look blurry. but when it stopped your eyesight was normal again
Once our time was over we went and sat back down, this time there was another girl, her name is Steph, Mary had gone but Jess was still there
They asked for a volunteer and a boy named Jayden put his hand up first so he went up to help
He put this weird jelly thing in a clear liquid(i don't think it was water) then he picked it up and it was long and skinny.
The second time he did it, it was in a different liquid but it was still clear, he put the Jelly stuff in and tried to pick it up but he couldn't
After that we left
Today at Otaki College a very special Event was held. The Ceremony was for special people that died. Whaea Destine, Whaea Maha and Oj led the Karanga/Powhiri, a Karanga is a welcoming call.
Mr Fraser led the service for the ceremony, Some of the Official quests were, Captain Lewis Robinson - New Zealand Merchant Navy Association, Captain Roger blake - New Zealand Shipping Company, Captain Tony Date - Durham Association, Commodore Melissa Ross RNZN - Deputy Cheif of Navy
Later on Wreaths were laid here is two special people that laid wreaths, Ms Christine Papps representing Mayor of Kapiti Coast District for the citizens of Kapiti
And Mr Rawiri Rikihana representing Ngā hapū o Ōtaki on behalf of Ngā hapū o Ōtaki.
I enjoyed the Ceremony because it was for very special people that took their time to come to O.C college
Today on the 26th of February two year 13's came to our class, Their names are Jayda and Oriwa.
They took us outside so we all stood in a circle-ish shape. it had to be a boy next to a girl and a boy next to the girl, so on. We had to say our name and what we were looking forward to in the weekend, then we played bang. Bang is a game where you call out someones name and then quickly crouch down the people beside you have to point their fingers and say bang the person who says bang first wins and the other sits down.
After that we played Bull-rush. After those games we went back inside for the next period and Jayda and Oriwa left.
Up in the clouds
Hi i’m a cloud worker! Don’t know what that is? I’ll tell you, a cloud worker moves clouds and places them in different places and shapes. I’m Andrew, I have jet black short hair and blue eyes. In order to be a cloud worker you have to not be afraid of heights
The building all the cloud workers live in is really tall. Strangely all the clouds disappeared, “wheres the clouds?” I asked Alec my work partner “don’t know- u-uhh where are they?” I climbed back down the railing and opened the door to the building.
I headed down the hall to see the sign “William’s office” on the door standing in front of me, William is my boss. I lifted my hand to the door and gently tapped, obviously forgetting his hearing is bad. I tapped harder “Yes? Come in!” I grabbed the door handle and twisted it open.
“Hello William!” I closed the door behind me. “What brings you here Andrew?” he asked “all the clouds are gone” I explained, he spun his chair around and looked out his window “oh wow!” he spun his chair back to look at me “have a day off and we’ll sort out this problem” he started taking notes.
I decided to go to the park and get ice cream. The day was bright and so was the night, I thought to myself “had some other business taken the clouds away?” suddenly everything went black.
I opened my eyes to see my hands tied up and my legs, I was sitting in a chair. I looked around to see the other cloud workers tied up too, but they were all knocked out. Whispered to the worker next to me hoping for them to wake up and they did!
"Hey wake up the person next to you and tell them to wake up the person next to them". That way everyone would be awake. A couple minutes later we were all planing on how to get out when a man walked in, he was wearing all black and a hood so you couldn’t see his face. I looked around to find William but he wasn’t there.
“What do you want with us!” some of the workers called “I want you guys to work for me, and William but a lot harder than you work right now” his voice was deep.“But what do you mean by you AND William!?” my eyes moved toward the door behind the man in black..William walked in, “hello guys! How are ya?” must of been sarcastic.
A few minutes later William and the man in black left out of the building but none of us knew how much time we had to try escape. I looked around for cameras, we were in luck their were none. I started wiggling my hands to see if the ropes would come loose. My hands are quite small so the ropes came off easy, I reached down to the ropes on my legs and untied them.
Once everyone was untied we started looking for ways to get out. There was a window on the back wall. It was like a jail sell, the window had metal bars and would take a few people to break the bars. I asked for strong people to help me while the other looked for different ways to escape. It took about 20 minutes to get the bars off and it took 4 people to help.
I started helping people get out the window when the door behind us swung open, everybody was out except me. “Well well well..” William walked toward me “please.. Let me go!” I yelled at him, he started walking towards me again “here I’ll help you out..” he started lifting me up to the window “bye Andrew!” I jumped out the window to see everyone waiting for me.
We went back to the building and stayed there for the rest of our lives
