30 Day Book Challenge

Today we had a session in the second block where we did a form of  "Secret Santa" with books.

Where Miss Downard wrapped up 23 books one for each student making the cover non-visible only writing key words from the story on the wrapping so we couldn't judge it by its cover and used the random name picker to let us pick from the books one at a time, however you were also allowed to steal but only once because you either steal or pick from the piles of books in the centre of the mat. Once it got to me I chose a book with the word "Distopian" - "save the future" and "girl main lead"
but this book got stolen off me by maya so I had to pick a book of the floor and ended up with Perks of being a wallflower that I am so far enjoying!

Athletes make millions per their regular salary, it is estimated LeBron James makes more than president Obama, my argument is about those athletes who make so much money and if they DO deserve it, I think they deserve every cent but some think this is an outrage to our society.

Just think these athletes, basketball players for example, don't just get picked, these athletes work so hard to get where they are now and are considered best of the best. Some people don't think its fair but personally I think everyone has to work hard to get where they want to be, so those people who say its an outrage to have such high paid athletes don't understand what heights these athletes went to for these jobs.

Athletes=
Lebron James: basketball
ranked the 3rd highest paid athlete this particular sportsman gets paid $72.3 million a year and gets $53 million dollars in endorsements and every time he gets paid (salary) its $17.9 million dollars.
Even though these athletes gain a lot of money, they also have charities that they would donate a certain amount of money to every time hey get paid of yearly
LeBron James charity is The lebron James family foundation, where he pays to educate kids in need of help and helps in loads of other ways.

Floyd Mayweather: boxing

Floyd Mayweather is The best paid athlete in the world, with a total yearly pay of $105 million american dollars, this athlete has been unbeaten in his boxing career for years now and is a world class boxer, you would not be able to win a fight against this particular athlete.

These two athletes may get a lot of money compared to the 100th highest paid athlete but even he gets $17.6  million dollars a year.

I believe these athletes work very hard to get where they are now, as i said earlier in the text these people are the best of the best and worked very hard to get where they are now, so I believe these athletes deserve every little bit.

Cotton-mouth moccasins.

These animals are not something you would want to come across at any time, they are a venomous, long and thick snake, with a triangular head to see all threats.

-The average length of these reptiles can reach up to 40 inches long but one has been believed to have grown up to 2-1/2 meters long. 

-Cotton mouths are mostly active at night and sleep in the day, you could say they were nocturnal.

- The diet of these snakes is cold and warm blooded animals including other snakes

- The life span of these animals is unknown

Kodu 

Kodu is a new coding application
this may be fun for some....Some
how ever I was somewhat annoyed with the app, at the start but its still a bit fun when you get to know how to move the Kodu and also use the actual app...
I would recommend this app to someone who has the patience 

Devon

Day 1 =

This was the day of the looong bus trip down to new Plymouth. We arrived at school at 7:30 and did the roll and made our way to the bus in the pouring rain, hauled all our gear into the bottom of the bus then got our seats... after 5 hours of music, lollies and little half an hour stops on the way, what seemed like an eternity we arrived at Devon intermediate tired and but still eager to meet our billets and host families.

Nervous and happy sach and I met savithi our billet, she was a year seven and played hockey like me.

We went to her house and put down our bags and got to know her.

Day 2:

Happy and ready for a full game day ahead, we get ready and head off to school a bag over our shoulders and sports gear at the ready. We arrive at Devon intermediate and get another bus to the boys high hockey turf, the first 25 minutes of the hockey game was not too challenging and at the end of the game we had smiles the length of faces with the end result 9-0.

we came back to school happy but once we found out that lost the trophy by 1 POINT we were devastated but knowing that we did our best we had our heads held high a headed off to the pools.

later that night we had the disco which was ended with a fire-truck and lots of smoke so we were sent home for a good night sleep...

Day 3:

today was a sad day, we were all sad about leaving but happy to not have school the next day. This time on the way home we stopped at the big apple restaurant got lunch and stacked up on lollies for the trip home.

then the bus arrives at mokoia intermediate and the Devon experience was over

holidays!On the last holidays me and my family went on a roadtrip down to the south island. We drove down to wellington stayed there one night then caught the ferry the nexy morning, then once we arrived in picton we started the long drive down to Hanmer. On the way we stopped at blenheim, kaikoura and Ohau stream where the baby seals swim at the waterfall.
When we finally got to hanmer, we drove to the holiday park and found our cabin and slept there for one night and the next morning we went to hanmer springs where we rode on the superbowl,the black hole and another hydroslide.
The super bowl was like a hyrdoslide but it opened up into a big drain hole. You shoot out of the slide on an inflaitable chair and go round and round until u circle down the drain at the bottom. Then the black hole was the first hydroslide Ive ever been on with arrows that light up on the roof of the hydroslide.
that same day we made that trip to hanma springs park we also drove down to castle hill and got some rest for the full out skiing we had the next day!