Cadets

Yesterday I went to my hobby which is Cadets Corps. It is on every Monday. I got my uniform and beret. The top is a million sizes too big so that is why I look fat. 

At cadets we learn about a lot of stuff, yesterday we had lessons on oral presentations and the other basic cadets had a test of stuff they learnt over the year but because I'm new I didn't have to do it, so I had half a period free (I was called out before we went in to sort out my uniform). The week before we learnt how to march with a parade gun(wooden) and about our wellbeing. 

At the end of each Monday we have a talk where all the Sargents and Officers tell us what is coming up, like this weekend we have a shoot at burnham military camp and next Monday we are going to the roxx climbing centre. 

I think I will carry on next year because I want to get into the skills team.

My (and Mum's) horses

These are my (and my Mum's) horses. The little mini (called Minnie) is the family's but was bought for me, the second pic is Kelly she is my pony that I got two years ago for my Birthday and Christmas present. The bottem one is Annabelle she's Mum's and we got her three-four years ago with Minnie.

And then at the very bottem is Penny. She's my turkey. We've got way more because she had babies.

This is Minnie. My miniature pony.

This is Kelly. My Welsh pony.

This is Annabelle. Mum's Standardbred.

This is Penny. My turkey.

My dogs!

These are my dogs. Happy is the black one and Logan is the blonde/ golden one.

Clubs

On Friday afternoons at Loburn school the year 1-8's are having a clubs day. We have done this because as we are not training for x-country anymore we have a big chunk of our day that we would not have anything to do. The teachers and some parents are running the clubs and are doing a very good job so far. Thank you parents for coming in and teaching us some new skills when you could be sitting in a comfy seat with a cup of coffee and reading a book, especially in winter!

I have chosen band/choir as my club because I like to play the guitar and sing along to songs on the radio. In the band part of the group we have smaller groups as we have multiple drummers, pianists and guitarists! In my small band there is Me, Haylley, Brooklyn, Benj and Rys. (I think!!!) and the song that we are doing is "One Call Away" by Charlie Puth.

I enjoyed being able to move freely and just relax. I also found it interesting that there were so many people that weren't doing anything and watching other people or people teaching other people and some of the boys were playing with the microphones and doing some terrible singing!!! Our teacher that is in charge is Mrs Steele. She is also doing Choir, so the first 15-30 minutes she will be with the Choir and help us practice songs and then the kids that are in Choir and band will go to the Mt Thomas room to practice their songs and Mrs Steele will help us with our songs.

My goal is to learn and play three different songs and be able to change between chords fluently and quickly!

Cross-country

" Run, Run, Run!!!" I can hear my mum screaming as the clapper goes off. I run as hard as I can to try to get in front but holly and holly are beating me. We run around the bottom field at the Ashley/Loburn domain and run around another little field just off of the big one. I'm to busy thinking about my breathing that I don't see holly and holly disappear! Then I get to another corner and the marshal tells me to turn right, I turn and see both Hollys running up a steepish hill just about up the top. When I get to the top I kept  running ( I made a bet with holly that if I didn't stop and walk for the whole track she would give me $5 ). Soon I was at the first corner of the top track. Then I looked up at the holly that was in front and she was way way way in front, I could tell that I was slowing down by t I kept on running . When I was at the second corner I looked up at how far the holly had gotten and was horrified to find that we had to run around the whole field not just to the end and back. At the third corner I was starting to get really heavy breathing and my legs weren't going as fast as they should be. It was like they were lagging really badly. So I said goodbye to holly's $5 and started to walk. Soon piper passed me so I started to jog but just before the forth corner I had to walk but started to run as the down hill part was getting closer and closer. In the time that I was walking Emma and Brooklyn had both passed me. Soon the down hill part was here and I was practically flying down. I caught up to Brooklyn who was in front of me but had to slow down as the adrenaline of going down hill and not being able to keep up with my feet had worn off. I was puffing really hard and I had a really bad stitch. I ran around the bottom field and in to the forest. I started to walk because I was getting my breath back but when I tried to run again I would just about trip over so I walked just about the whole way but jogged when Anna and Derrin caught up. When I got out of the forest I started to jog and I got quite a way way away from Anna and Derrin. Then I did a final lap of the bottom field and went to the finish line. The corner before the finish line I passed Miss Kennedy and she took a couple of photos and told me to keep running. Then I was running towards the finish line and finishing. I got 6th so I went to tri-schools at theMoffat's farm. 

New Zealanders At War

In team East we are a little behind and we are just finishing World War 1 presentations. We have been making these presentations for about three weeks now. When we started me and Emma were working by our selves (not together) but in the end we decided to combine our slides and make an even better one!

Here is the slides that me and Emma made. We have also attached a video to help explain the story more clearly. I hope you enjoy!!! :-)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10HD5z3d68EXTpjwnSUsoHESDdHDgGBAk4JxLws_eUK8/edit#slide=id.p

I found this awesome quotey neaklace thing on thing link!!!