Spark Arena School Trip!

 On Monday the 17 of the 5th I was filled with exitment because we were going on a school trip! Soon after I arrived all the year sixes lined up got ready and marched off into the bus. I sat with my friend who was like a grouch of the bus he said "Don't do that!" "Stop it!" and stuff like that, I didn't really listen to him and carried on waving at people going by. When we arrived it looked >AMAZING< I really liked when we got in because I felt so alive also it had a weird vibe to it. I saw many things in there like a drum set, a trumpet sorta thing and a stage with all the microphones sound speakers and banners.

HappyPlace

Eventually I found out we were going to the happy place! :D Also when we got through the doors and went down the hall way what I saw was truely something to be grateful for. There was a giant... ball pit. Luckily I was one of the first to go jump in I WAS SO LUCKY! We got through some more doors to see a giant cookie we could put our faces through, An upside down room where we went on a hand stand a happy place sign where I leaned against and a few more. The last one was so cool because It was basicly a reverse vacuum cleaner and there was SO much confeti flying around the room! Some got in my face and it sort of tickled. After that we came to another room but it had cool merch like T-shirts, pants, bandana and alot of others. There was this other room but it was plain boring I mean it just had some clouds! We took a picture next to it though so it was ok. 

SoundsFun Exhibition

After that we tip toed like ninjas down the stairs. Well atleast some of us while the rest were stomping elephants. After that we came downstairs and got into groups and split up. I was in a group where we were supposed to play some weird instruments and grab a mouth piece. After that we had a competition about who could play the longest and loudest I didn't win though. Later the group and I came to the online music place, I didn't really get much of a turn on the ipads or drum and when it was my go my maths teacher STOLE MY TURN! I was mad and sad but a thing that cheered me up was my friends singing a weird made up song and baby shark.   

Van Gogh Exhibition

I was having a BLAST! But  it gets beter more in the blog. So we go into a dark room and all everyone can see is flashing lights from behind a wall. We look at a few paintings and speeches then the teachers took a picture of us next to a painting. Then we got up and went through a hallway and turned right. What we saw was truly breath taking, The pictures were giant and changing, moving, alive almost! We sat down on a space where a projector was playing its film while we were sitting, When it played it looked like we had a weird disease and here's a picture!

Lunch/Ending

Kindly they provided us lunch! In each packet there was an apple juice bottle, a sandwich an apple and a big bag of ready salted chips. Their so generous and I think everyone can agree. The person who organised this all was Brendon Hines the C.E.O of Spark arena. Anyway I think this experience was once in a lifetime. thanks for reading and go comment if you have time! Blog you later!

Student Led Toolkits 2021

 On the 20th of may a team and I went to Owairaka Primary, The team was made of Joise, Zara, Caleb, Cole, Mason and I headed over to the primary and caught up to the others. Then we walked for a bit arived at the gate and went inside the hall! It was way bigger then I imagined, Mr Margetts had a big speech and started pointing out where all the classrooms where. I had only went to one classroom and after that I practically knew where everything was.   

My first session was Minecraft coding, You have to go https://code.org/minecraft to play. First you select you code for exaple (spawn sheep) and drag it to you code, Then it will connect to your starting code then when you press start or run, After that it will do what ever you put in the code area like spawing a sheep. You have to complete challenges the game throws at you and over come them and once at the end you may play around, Spawn what ever and do stuff to your hearts content.  

Next I headed over to Animations with google slides, To make one open a google slides in your drive you can do that by pressing new, Then add a backround, a character and a story. Once you have your slide copy and paste a new one and move your character slightly then repeat this process until you have your story! But make sure its interesting.

Soon after my last break I hurried over to the presentation kahoot. First they talked about how to use it and blah blah blah but I already knew how to, I started making my kahoot until my chrome book died but then we had a kahoot I charged it and I won! Anyway how you play is there are two modes someone makes a kahoot and you play it or you make it and someone else plays it. You can also choose a kahoot to your liking because there are thousands of different kahoots all with different question! You have to answer the questions right to gain points whoever has the highest points wins. Heres a link and start creating!

About at 1:00 we came back into the hall and two people who were Fusion interns started talking about electronics, Games and stuff like that. I was really interesting in it because I've always liked technology. Maybe one day I'll be a full time Fusion worker. Thanks bloggers and go comment if you have time what you think also were you there? Adios!

Swimming

Hey bloggers! in the few past weeks we've been swimming! there were fun times and boring one's hope you like the blog see you at the end! 

Today was different I didn't notice it yet but there was a big difference.

I walked into the sponge bob yellow classroom and put all my stuff away like normal. But I turned my head and saw something on the board and it said... Bus at 12:30! I was overjoyed I could barely contain myself. unfortunately I had to wait until then and it was going to be hard very hard. Everyone was excited and talking about it SO much.

So after some boring stuff im not going to bore you with we got on the bus and started to move I WAS FREAKING OUT. I love going swimming at... Cameren Pools! We got there and waited.. and waited and waited finaly the intructers came out and started organising groups. Soon after we got in the pool and did a mushroom float and I leaned a vaulable lesson there.. I'm better off swimming then swimming with a boogie board. It kept getting water in my mouth because it sunk. For some reason im slower with it then without it! I felt like my one was rigged but hey atleast I got a swim out of it. 

There was this platform thing that we stood on and my hair got caught on one of the screws yesterday on the 13 of may and I almost drowned beacause I was out of breath. I hated that thing because it caught my hair, It felt weird and it didn't even give you a boost if you kicked off of it you would just kick it back and hit the person on the other side.

My favorite swimming style and the only two I would use when doing free style was dolphin dive and front stroke. With front stroke I could turn to my side to take a breath! and thats what I loved about it, How I couldn't run out of breath and when I did I could just turn to my side and breath again.

Hey you read it all! Thanks for reading a long boring story. Anyway I know what can cheer you up! A comment!!! Go comment what you liked think I could improve and a question but only if you have some time to spare it's optional! Also see you later in the next blog! Also heres a picture of my group hope you like it.