Part 2 Of Entering A New Country

About two movies later the pilot said “ Ladies and gentlemen we are about to land on behalf of the air new zealand crew we hope you have enjoyed your flight”. When we got out of the plane we were thinking so since we're in Hong Kong how do we get out of here!!

While walking around tring to find an exit sign or something we saw the outside and cars that looked like taxis, so we walked out and a man said so we are we heading to? My Mum said “ Prince Hotel in the city”. The man showed us to the taxi and told the driver where we were going. In the taxi was a T.V I tried playing with it and then it burst out with a song in Cantonese.

After that interesting drive to the city we made it to the hotel. I was sure we were going to crash because the drive kept on yawning and doing that noise were you put one finger in your ear and you wiggle it and you're also tring to cough something up,  man I hate that. I was so glad when we arrived. The hotel was so beautiful and my mum upgraded our room and added breakfast to it.

We got our key to our room and me and my sister ran to the elevator pressed the level that our room was on. As soon as we got on the 15th floor me and my sister ran to find the room. Mum opened the door and it was so........ beautiful even if it was just a little small. Straight away we went to sleep. But sooner or later we had to wake up, and when we did it was morning.

My Mihi

Room 21 had a task. The task was to make a Mihi of them selves. Here is mine. I hope you enjoy it.

Part 1 Entering A New Country

One day in the school holidays my mother surprised me and my sister. She said “we will be going to Hong Kong”. We were in Rarotonga at that time but we were heading back to New Zealand.

We spent one night in Auckland and the next day we were out like flies. Rushing and speeding out of here trying to go to the airport. When we arrived we all said bye to our papa who dropped us off. In the airport we had to go fast because we were running late.

Luckily we made it in time for everyone to board. My mum said that “It would be a long flight and I would like you to have a little sleep” I said “okay”. I watched a lot of movies, maybe even six. But I still needed to go to sleep so I did.

During my very uncomfortable sleep I was awakened by the sound of the co pilot saying “hello ladies and gentlemen, this is your co pilot speaking, dinner will be served soon”. After that not so very yummy meal, the co pilot finally said we will be landing soon.

 

Seeing The Warriors

 On the last day of camp we went to Swimarama and had some special visitors. It was the Warriors!! We all cheered them on and said"2012 winners". It was the best last day of camp ever. Go the Warriors!  

Camp Concert

It was an intense night when some of teachers were getting ready in the hall for the camp concert. All the kids were lining up anxiously in the hall. They waited for Mr Barks the MC to call out the first of the groups names to go and perform their team dance.

A couple of teams passed and there was only approximately 3 more to go. It all went quiet when Mr barks picked up the microphone and started to tell us who was up next. It was the........ “Respectables!”  I rushed up the stairs like I was nervous, and don’t get me wrong I was, but I felt fine when the music started and my friends and I laughed.

Time flew by fast and soon it was time to announce the winners. 6th place was the Respect Squad. In fifth place was the incredible Respectablez (my team). After that it was time to go to bed. I was really tired and yawning like crazy.

I had fun watching the other teams with their dances, some were funny and some were okay. But they were all great.

Decorating Cupcakes

 

Mr Barks was wandering around in the big marquee. He told my friends and I that if we wanted to, we could go to room 12 and be taught how to decorate cupcakes, with Mrs George, Mrs Barks and Mrs Walters. And so we did.

When we arrived in room 12 we had to sanitise up to our elbows(well that’s what they said). After that we split up into groups of four and sat on one of the chairs. At the tables were cupcakes ready for us to ice. Mrs George was teaching us how to use fondant (icing).

First we used butter cream for the glue so that he fondant sticks. We had to put white icing as the background and started to use colours for at the top. Mrs George gave us leaf cutters and flower cutters to make shapes.

We started straight away because we were eager and so the fondant wouldn’t dry up before we were done. I took ages to decorate one of my cupcakes but when I was finished and took a bite of my cupcake and thought, wow this is delicious.

So then we went back out side and said thank you to all the teachers who helped us decorate these cupcakes. I really liked doing that activity. Even if it was a one time thing.

Picnic Day

On a very sunny day, Point England went down to the reserve to have our picnic. When we got there the teachers were laying out the tarpaulin to put our bags on also to sit and eat. After the tarpaulins were layed down everybody went scattering around the field going from place to place.

The first activity that popped in my mind was Volleyball. Even though I’m not so good at hitting the ball back over the net to the opposing team. I joined in any way. Surprisingly I wasn’t so bad after all. And I really liked it! When the first game finished I was tired and started to walk towards the beach.

“Wow!” I said, the beach has really been improved there was a deck a hand made rock in the middle of the water which was called a groyne. And it looked really really clean. Then an announcement was called out. By Mr Burt he said ”All team one and two who wants to go swimming meet the parents and teachers down at the beach with your togs on”. Approximately one minute later heaps of little children raced down the stairs excitedly and jumped into the freezing water.

I saw that some of the kids had really funny expressions on. It made me laugh. I saw one of my friends making clay bombs and clay pots and bowls. So I joined in with her. It was hard trying to find clay, but after a while of searching we found some and made clay pots.

Time has gone past and I was ready to eat and go to sleep. And I did. Well not the sleep part but I did ate. My friend Rita gave me some of her chips and I gave her some of my Chocolate Fingers. I was so relaxed sitting under the tree with some of my friends listening to people tring to play the guitar. But I was interrupted with the sound of Mr Burt's voice again telling all the Point England children that we will be leaving in five minutes.

“Gosh time has gone really fast” I said. “And we don't want to wast it” then Chante my friend pulled me up and asked “so what do you want to do now before we go.”Volleyball” I replied. We played one little game of volleyball and line up because it was time to go.

As we walked back to our classes we played on our netbooks and then the bell rang to go home. When I got home I went strait to sleep. The Picnic was really cool and I wish I could do it again and not wait tell next year. Even though I was really exhausted and Dehydrated. It was really fun.