Where am I...

I am in a place where water flows
In the place where most people go
In this place some things explode
I know this place, I've been here before
Im searching for something thats white no more
All the mess is gone right now, I'm out of this place just like Im in a race
Where was I?

TOLITE

The Holidays

Last holidays went fast there were some good moments and some bad moments, one of the best things that happened was I went on a snow boarding camp with Coast Kids to Mt Ruapehu for 1 week.

On the first day we took a 5 hour van ride all the way to Turoa on the other side of Whakapapa, The trip was long and hard but about half way we stopped for BK so that was pretty cool. When we had finally arrived at the lodge it was around 4:30pm so most of us were pretty tired and didn't really want to do apart from sit down and look at the snow reports for the day until we were sent to our bunks by the leaders.

The next day we got up real early so we could hire gear from the place next door all I had to hire was the boots and board for the day. We set of around 6:00am, apparently so we could get a good park but I didn't really mind walk.

Book Review 2

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports is the third book in the Maximum ride series by Jame Patterson. It was released in the UK and the US on May 29, 2007. The series is set in modern times, and centers around the 'flock', a group of human-avian hybrids on the run from the scientists who created them.

In this book Max and her flock are faced with the task of saving the world from a massive company called Itex, and it's leader known as the Director. Itex's plan is to cut the world's population in half, by killing every one with a weakness or problem. As the story goes on, the scientists replace the Erasers (wolf/human hybrids) that are sent to hunt the flock with robotic ones called Flyboys that are stronger, faster but a lot more stupid.  

 I really enjoyed this book because I liked how James Patterson had added so much detail about the characters and how they would feel in a situation. I think this made the book a lot better than it would've been if he hadn't done that because it gave a touch of personalty towards the characters. Another thing I liked was how some of the main characters were bird kids, cause I think that being able to fly would be awesome cause you wouldn't have to pay for airplanes you could just fly over there instead. 

If I were to choose another book to read I would look to get the first in this series so that way I can find out the whole story as I haven't read any other of the books in the series, which I think is a big mistake. 

Book Review 1

How to train your dragon

A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons

Imagine a time of Dragon and Vikings, some dragons bigger than mountains some smaller than your fingernail, and when men were men and women were sort of men and even some little babies had chest hair. This How to train your Dragon book  really makes you feel like you're there, with the descriptive language and awesome characters. The book I’ve read is the sixth in the series, and was first published in Great Britain by Hodder children’s books, and all of the books are written and illustrated by Cressida Cowell.

Have you ever come across a book that however hard you try you can’t put it down? This is one of those books, as you follow the continuing story of Hiccup and his dragon Toothless. The more you read the more you want to find out what is going to happen next and will Hiccup complete his quest. Well this is one of these books

In this adventure Hiccups Dragon Toothless has burnt Hiccups tribes most valuable possession the “How to train your dragon” book(that Only has has three words “Yell at it”). His tribe the hairy Hooligans chief (Hiccups Father), made a bet with the Chief of the Bog-Burglars that they were just as good or better at everything than Bog-Burglars, and to prove this they had a competition. The Hooligans had lost most of the competitions and there was only one left, it was the burglary one.  Hiccups father Stoick was going to show the Bog-Burglars chief Big-Boobied Beartha the “How to Train your dragon” book to prove that the Hooligans are just as good as the Bog-Burglars at burglary.

Books are despised by vikings, they are seen as a threat to barbarian culture. Because they were banned they were locked up in the great Meathead Public Library, guarded by the Hairy Scary Librarian and his dreadful army of Meathead Warriors and Driller Dragons.  So scary was this Librarian that stealing a book from the library had become a challenge to the bravest viking warriors and very few could say they had succeeded in the attempt. This was how the Hooligan tribe had got the “How to train your Dragon” book.

Here is the problem Hiccup has to help his father as he does not want him to be sad, but the only other copy of the book is in the Meathead Public Library which is not so public as the Meathead tribe guards it day and night with there huge dragon by their side. This is where Hiccup is stuck, he can not do this on his own, he needs the help of his friends Fishlegs and Camicazi.

If you want to find out if Hiccup completes his quest, gets the book, doesn't disappoint his father and survives all the dragons along the way, you will need to read this book.  Hopefully you will enjoy reading this adventure of Hiccups as much as I did.

The Production

Yesterday on the 04-07-13 me and about another 449 other kids from all over the school went to see the school production A Most Triumph Tale. Some of the people in my house had some main acts so I knew some of the actors and they weren't just strangers, well some of them. I turned out to be a great show with a bunch of surprises that lept onto the stage and made you think "Is he supposed to be doing that?" or "Is this part of the show?". So I would say all together the show had some errors but I loved it and would go again.

Persuasion To Start a Sport

One of the awesome sports I do is soccer. I have played it ever since I was five and I continue to love the game. If you are looking for a sport to play I would suggest this one because its a team sport so you can meet new people in your team and in the teams you verse and no matter what position you play in its very important because in the end all of the positions in the team are important to being the best team possible.

Jokes

1. Boy: (Calls 911) Help me 911
911: what the problem sir
Boy: Girls are fighting over me
911: So whats the problem?
Boy: the ugly one is winning

Homework Challenge

A3. Decide on one or more ways to save energy or recycle at home: show and action plan for at lease 5 weeks over 2 terms

I designed a plan to save energy by: 1. Looking at all the items in the house that use electricity, 2. Looking at the list and finding which ones didn't need to be turned on all the time like the heated towel rail, the TV, lights and computers, 3. Using my plan over a four week period to every day turn off all the items on my list and taking daily meter readings to monitor our power usage.

I started my plan by taking daily readings of our power meter for a week without turning any thing off or making any changes, this was to give me an idea on how much power we normally use. I then for the next four weeks put in place stage 3 on my plan. Over all we did make savings except for the last couple of days in week four, this was because my Mum had to use the dryer which dosen't happen often. An other thing was that we had a power bill come in that was for the period when I had been turning every thing off and Mum said it was the cheapest power bill we had received in years, a saving of about 40 dollars.

Here is a summary of our daily power usage below.