Hamanatua Stream

On Tuesday my class walked up some guy's farm to see the start of Hamanatua Stream.  At the start of the farm, there was a gate and I put my hand on it then ZAP! I got electrocuted, it wasn't that bad though because I had been shocked heaps of times before.  

When we just started walking there was a bunch of Horse and Cow poo mixed with mud.  After the 100 years of trying to get through the mud, we found a stream that we either had to walk through or jump over.  I decided to jump over it and so did most of us.  

After a very long time we got to the first picnic spot I was so hungry, so when we could eat I ate most of my lunch because I thought we were going to turn back after that, but it was only half way.  When she told us that my heart dropped because I was already tired.

When we carried on walking it wasn't even that bad because we ate.  We kept on walking and it was mucky as on the ground from the rain.  When we arrived at the lunch spot I didn't eat anything because I had poo all over my hands.  Then we walked back.

Jean Batten day

 On Tuesday our class (MLH) booked the hall for the day to do Jean Batten inquiry.  If you don't know who Jean Batten is, she is the first woman to fly from New Zealand to England.

In the hall we did lots of code cracking kind of like a treasure hunt.  Our first clue was very hard because I had never done something like that before.  Luckily my group has so they could help me with it.  It was very confusing but I got it overtime.

Our second clue was fun because we had to team up with a group and sit opposite of eachother and make letters with our arms.  After that we made sure we got the right words by calling them out.  Then we called out random word and you had to write down the first letter of the word and it starts to make words.

When we finished all of the clues we made two different type of paper plane the Gull and the Moth paper planes and the teachers set up challenges to see what plane is better.  I got paper to make the moth and the plane we made was the same as my poppas paper planes that he makes, so I made mine real fast compared to the rest of my group.

The first challenge was to see whos plane could go furthest.  I wasn't quite sure who won that but I know somebodys plane went real far.  Our second challenge was to try get your plane through a hula hoop, nobody got through it but someone hit it.  The last challenge was to try hit a bullseye on a sheet from across the room.  When I first tried, I thought it was impossible, but then archie almost hit it and I thought otherwise.  When It was my turn again I threw my plane knowing it wouldn't hit, but then it swerved and hit the middle of the bullseye

Lockdown

Me and Oska were chilling in the spa in Queenstown.  It got cold over time so we went back in to our hotel and our parents told us that there is a lockdown! We were left confused.  We thought COVID had ceased to exist. We were very annoyed because our snowboard trip got cut a whole five days. That's half the total trip!

We got lucky with a flight back to Gisborne. If we hadn't got on that flight, we would've got stuck in Queenstown for a really long time. With nothing to do, and stuck with our siblings all day long!

At least once we got back from Queenstown, it was the weekend, so I didn't have a google meet straight away.  When the weekend ended, I had a google meet at 9.30am on the Monday Morning.  Since I was used to sleeping in, I was a bit late for the meet.  On our google meet, I realised that online class isn't even that bad because it's pretty much half an hour of school and the work ended up being pretty easy.