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Tuesday 30 August 2016

Science Intensive

Yesterday, after returning from presenting at the Aotea Centre (I think),  I was sent to another class to start some Science work. After arriving, we were told to sit down and follow the instructions that the Teacher was giving us. What we had to was get a plastic plate, pour milk in that plate and then add food coloring. After doing that you have to get a earbud and dab it in a bit of dish washing liquid. Then, dab that earbud, with the dish washing liquid side down, into the place where the food coloring is and BOOM! Color everywhere. My friends and I then tried to get get the liquid out of the plate into a bowl rather than taking it outside and the result was us spilling it on the table, which we cleaned up right away.

This is just a bit of what I learnt. I want to leave the rest for later

Monday 29 August 2016

Siva Tau (Toa Samoa)

Here is the Samoan cultures Siva Tau, also known as the Samoan Haka.

Here is the lyrics all the words of it so you can practise and perform yourself. We are also performing on Thursday for our Culture Festival

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Le Manu Samoa e ua malo ona fai o le faiva
Le Manu Samoa e ua malo ona fai o le faiva
The Manu Samoa, may you succeed in your mission
The Manu Samoa, may you succeed in your mission
"Le Manu Samoa lenei ua ou sau"
The Manu Samoa here we have come
Leai se isi Manu oi le atu laulau
There is no other Manu (team) anywhere
Ua ou sau nei ma le mea atoa
Here I come completely prepared
O lou malosi ua atoatoa
My strength is at its peak
Ia e faatafa ma e soso ese
Make way and move aside
Leaga o lenei manu e uiga ese
Because this Manu is unique
Le Manu Samoa
The Manu Samoa
Le Manu Samoa
The Manu Samoa
Le Manu Samoa e o mai I Samoa
The Manu Samoa reigns from Samoa
Le Manu!
The Manu!

Going to Google's Presentation

Waking up early is not my thing, so when I was told to wake up by 7:15 I was rolling around in bed trying to go to sleep as fast as possible. I woke up at 7:15 and jumped out of bed, sped around the house cleaning myself up and trying to get ready as fast as possible. When I finished getting ready I calmed down and sat down, waiting for my ride to come. But you know what happened, she hadn't come so my Mother called a taxi which I had to ride to where I was going to be picked up. When I arrived I was worried that they had already left, but luckily I saw the others that were going with me, so I jumped out of the taxi and rushed to them.

I got there in time so I just sat back and relaxed. After riding for a while I started getting nervous for my performance, so we spent the rest of the ride in silence. After arriving at the presentation place we got prompted on what to do and where to sit. We then started to pull out our netbooks and then tried to connect to the Wi-fi - which wasn't successful for me. Next, the event started and we had to go and present - I'm not bragging but I think the other ambassadors and I did good.

After presenting, we went to the back and sat down and started to blog, at that time I was half finished with this blog post. After another presentation from Mrs Dorothy Burt, we had Break time. In which, I was able to get  a fruit cup, burger and glass bottle of water.
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I also took a picture with a Teacher from there
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After break time, we received a gift back form google which inside had a google cardboard, A google pen, a google note pad and instructions.After that we headed back to school while singing songs and discussing.

Friday 26 August 2016

Manaiakalani Hui

Right now, I am at the 5th Annual Manaiakalani Hui. Sitting next to me are other school ambassadors, eagerly talking to each with teachers in front of us also talking with each other. This event is quite an eye opener as all these teachers debate and discuss their opinions on children learning.

Wednesday 24 August 2016

Duffy Show

Today, we had the chance to watch a show performed by Duffy. We were able to watch  them and able to learn a lot including how lucky we are, being able to go to school, read, write and calculate. The duffy show showed us many different things in a hilarious fashion. I hope I will be able to see a show like it in college.

Monday 22 August 2016

The Haka

Today, we were tasked with doing the Haka. Now, I know, that may not seem that challenging but we also needed to do a Samoan and Tongan haka's. Sadly we only got to the Samoan and Maori Haka's. Doing this required practice because  most of us were embarrassed. We will be presenting this in our cultural festival at school ;)