When he runs up the gun the basically vertical stairs burn his legs and make him sweat like a pig. From the bottom when he looks up it looks like its never ending. He  heard nothing but the sound of silence as he painfully pushed himself to the top. When he got to the top he got a whiff of fresh air as he looked over the whole of Cobden. As he started running down he realised that it was so much easier than running up. He ran down to the bottom with ease and went home and got a feed.

This term has gone alright, I haven't been referred from english through the whole term. Work wise I probably could have done a little more but I ended getting most things done but all in the last minute. I was at 3's most of the time but as of lately I've been getting 4's, actually in most classes.

Commonwealth Games 2018

Men's Beach Volley Ball

Ben and Sam O'dea brothers from The Bay of Plenty are representing NZ in the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. They can't get gold but they done pretty good. They won most of their matches.

1st Game against Cyprus we won winning 2-1 innings
2nd Game against Mozambique we won winning 2-1 innings again
3rd Game NZ beat England 2-1
4th game NZ beat Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 in the Quarter Final
5th Game NZ lost to Canada 2-0 in the Semi Final

My Mihi.

Tēnā koutou.

Ko Connor au/ahau.

Nō Aramahanga.

Ko Karen tōku māmā.

Ko David tōku koro.

Ko Rosanne tōku kuia.

Tēnā koutou katoa.

Spooderman Save's the day.

Little Boy: Oh no i have to play rugby against the big boys.

Little Boys kick off and a big boy catches it. He starts running towards a little boy.

Little Boy: Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Spooderman: No need to fear spooderman is here.

Spooderman spear tackles the boy and raises his thumbs.

Spooderman: Boom shacka lacka.

Little boy: Thank you Spooderman.

Maori Tattoos, Then and Now

Back in the day the Maori would get a tattoo to tell a story since they didn't have pens and paper. They would use chisels to get deeper in the skin. The stories would usually be told on there face but the more personal stories would be tattooed small at the bottom of there spine.

Karakia

Tuia i runga

Bind above

Tuia i raro

Bind below

Tuia i whao

Bind without

Tuia i roto

Bind within

Tuia te here tangata

Bind together the people

Ka rongo te ao

Plan for the day

Ka rongo te po

By looking to the past

Tihei mauri ora!

Behold the sneeze of life