(day 2)

(1)
I would like to see Tane Mahuta because the walk looks easy, and I can see something special at the end of the walk. I've never been to Northland so it would be cool to go there for the first time.

(2)

Football Ferns

Black Ferns

Silver Ferns

I don't really like any of them, but if I had to choose i'd choose the Football Ferns because the sleeves look more comfortable than the others.


(3)
This is stupid because in the deserts it doesn't rain 3 ml everyday, it hardly ever rains. I have a cactus at home, and I have to soak it every 2 weeks. But let's imagine.

There are 365 days in a year, so 365x3= 9195ml/year

Ice, Ice baby (actiivity 3)

Sigh,

I know I'm still on day one but I'm very lazy.

Happy Holidays

Hometown (activity 2)

Keelung (Taiwan) is my hometown, but I live in Greymouth. So I'm just going to do the task on  Keelung.

A special thing about Keelung is the harbour, which is very popular. It became one of the busiest in the world during the 60s and 70s. The fish market is also very successful. There is a museum near the harbour, which has information about the bay. I really like the museum, especially the model ship where you can pretend you are a salior on.

Top 3 Fun Facts

1. Just under a third of New Zealand is made of forest.
2. God Save the Queen and God Defend New Zealand are the two national anthems of New Zealand. (I didn't actually know this, I've never heard of God Save the Queen)

3. We don't have any snakes in New Zealand.

An extra one I wanted to add is that hamsters are illegal here! I was disappointed when I moved here because my mum said we could get a hamster, and we really like hamsters. 

Country studies

Today we started some country studies. We got to choose from 10 countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, England (United Kingdom), Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico,

South Africa & United Arab Emirates.

I obviously decided to do Japan because i'm kinda interested in Japan, plus my grandma is half Japanese, so i guess that makes me an eighth Japanese, which is not much but still.

I've only been there once but I don't even remember going since i was a baby and it was only for a wedding. One day i would like to go around Japan.

JAPANS' FLAG.

Here are some random facts about Japan I learnt!

I learnt that Japan is made of 6852 islands which is A LOT of islands.
Japan has over 50,000 people who are over the age of 100.
685 kids were rushed to hospitals in 1997 after an intense Pokemon episode that caused dizziness, vomiting and seizures.

Theres such a low birthrate in Japan that there are more adult diapers sold that baby diapers.

Raising The Flag

Yesterday, we did an activity called raising the flag. Everyone got into 9 groups of about 3-5. Mr. Wood gave us 10 minutes to plan our pole and flag. We got 5 metres of paper, some tape and string. We were not aloud to get other materials. Jessie, Megan Wyatt and I named our group Disqaulified.

Today, Mr. Wood decided that we would do it again. Great.

This time, nearly everyone did what Mr. Wood and Bree had done, but changed it a little. Ours did even worse than last time.

aluminum boats

This morning, Mr Wood gave us a task (whoa). In a group of three, we had to design and construct a 'boat' that will hold the most glass beads out of everyone. 

Jessie, Wyatt and I got into a group and started coming up with designs. In the end, we decided to use jessies design of a canoe looking boat. Of course, the end product looked NOTHING like what we had planned. Instead it looked like a stand-up taco shell! 

Everyone got to vote for the boat they thought would work best, then we put them into the water and add beads in. The most successful boat (ss brainboat) only had 1 vote but held 70 beads. Our group was second (hms taco) with 47 beads.

names, votes and scores

Everyone was then sent off to redesign, using either ss brainboat or hms taco as they're example (trying to make the designs work better i guess). 

Our first boats bottom was flat, like... an open cup?? so we changed that so the bottom was bowl like. 

The second go we only got 40, but that could've been because the beads were wet. 

It was lots of fun, and the first boats were the funniest.