George

It’s summer and the lizards are sun bathing while the snakes slither out of the way. Me and my old friend George are on our motorbike driving to summer hill. Summer hill is a trek on George Mountain. George, my friend, is a croc wrestler so if we run into any crocs he can wrestle it for us. I met George at croc camp. I was his stunt double. I had to jump into the croc infested water and he would jump in and save me. Now for me I am an exterminator so I will be good with snakes.

So back to the story. We hit the brakes and skidded into the car park. We parked our bikes and got ready to start hiking. We had a look at the map.

“We are here at the car park and the beach is a two day hike”.

We started to climb up the steep hills. They were sandy with rocks and grasses dotted all over the hills. The higher we got the steeper the hills became. We came to a cliff. We found the climbing rope. We had to put on bite proof gloves and boots incase there were snakes and scorpions in the crevices.

I started to climb up the cliff. About half way up I was stung by a scorpion but the bite proof gloves saved me.

Finally I got to the top. George jumped into the harness and started to climb up the cliff. When he got to the top , we looked around. There were two trails that both led to the hut. One triail went through the bush and jungle and the other was more sand and cliffs. We sat down and had some to eat and drink. We decided to take the bush track. It was 2 pm and we had one hour to get to the hut .

We got up and set off. It was about half past 2 when we came to a creek.

It was the end of the wet season so the creek had turned into a swamp. We looked through our bags and found a machete each. We cut down some long bamboo and tied them together to make a bridge. George went first. He made it over. I started to cross but ...

Splash ... Crash ... Smash ... The croc had tried to attack me.

The bridge broke and I went flailing into the water. As I swam to shore George jumped in and wrestled the croc. We both came out of the water panting. We put on some new clothes, I thanked George and we set off again still feeling exhausted.

When we got to the hut we made a plan. We had two hours until it got dark. I went to catch two fish and George set up the hut. I went down to the pond and caught two big tiger fish. When I got back George had set up the bunks, got the firewood and a log to sit on.The fire was going and the billy was cracking over it. We poured some coffee into some cups and skewered the fish and put it over the fire. We sat and talked for a while, then went to bed knowing we had big challenge ahead of us.

I got up early and got the fire going and caught two catfish. We had breakfast and off again.

When we got to the river we put on our helmets and wetsuits. We got in the kayaks and paddled away.

We paddled through some slow brown water.

Just before we came to a corner the water got faster and faster. We turned the corner. There were.rapids for as far as the eye could see.

We swerved and dived off mini and water falls. For six hours we were in the rapids. Finally we came to some flat water but the noise was even louder. Then it hit me. There was a waterfall!

I froze with fear. George saw I wasn’t moving. He dived into the water and paddled my kayak to shore.

I thanked George and we set off down Summer hill creek.

We got to the hut and did the same thing. II caught two BIG trout .

We had dinner and went to sleep. At 3 o’clock in the morning George woke me up. The door was open and a pig had got in.

George jumped off the bunk bed and did a belly flop on the pig. He grabbed the pig by the back legs and hauled it outside. He came back inside.

We got dressed. With the pig on the fire and smoke sailing into the air we got ready to start the day. We ate the pig and we set off.

Soon we came to a sugarcane field. About half way through the sugarcane George started to scream. He had been bitten by a king brown snake.

I called the emergency helicopter. In 10 minutes it arrived and took as to a hospital.

I didn’t see George for two weeks.

He came back limping with a peg leg. He had been scarred for life but said he couldn’t wait for the next adventure!

By Dylan

Jonah Lomu

Let me tell you a little abut my inspiration ... Jonah Lomu

In 1975 Jonah was born. He later lived with his aunt and uncle in Tonga. In 1988 Jonah started attending Wesley College and was about to embark on a remarkable life. I find it interesting that he had to move from New Zealand to Tonga. He came back to New Zealand to go to secondary school and to play rugby.

He worked his way from a little 5 year old  playing on Saturday morning all the way to the All Blacks.
The first provincial side he played for was Counties Manakau. He started as a forward because of his size and weight but then he decided to try a game in the backs as a wing because he was a good sprinter and was very powerful. This is where he stayed.
Jonah Lomu played for three super 15 teams; the Hurricanes, Chiefs and the Blues.
In 1994 Jonah joined  the All Blacks. At 19 years old he was the youngest ever to do this.
I feel inspired by Jonah Lomu because he used the skills he developed as a little five year old to play rugby and stayed playing it for all of his years. I have started as a forward and have now moved to the wing as Jonah Lomu did.

Sadly he had a kidney disease which ended his  rugby career. In early 2005 he had a kidney transplant. Later that year he returned to the field. Even a half fit Jonah was hard to stop. Jonah played his come back game in Twickenham against Wales. Jonah returned to the filed playing for North Harbour.
He had all of these new challenges thrown at him and he kept on trying to return to rugby. He really likes rugby just like me.

rugby rport

It's Saturday morning time for rugby and excitement. Get out of bed it's 6.clock.Get your gear. Get dressed and get in the car. Time for breakfast on the run.

4 games 6 teams and only one winner. That's right it's the play offs. we came in as the best team of the season. One loss to west cost, Tyler and Johnny's team. We played in the play off's it was win,win,win,win to us to end the season as the best of the best. James played for the almighty feilding reps. One loss and one tie but we came out on top. The fielding reps had done it again for another year.

Rugby - vocab enrichment

It's Saturday ... time for a back breaking, skull crushing, leg smashing game of rugby. It was like lightening going through my veins. The gut game of rugby was finished.  

Dylan speech - Bear Gryll

If you believe, you can do anything and everything. Bear Gylls, the born survivor.
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On May the 16th 1998 ,Gylls achieved his childhood dream .He climbed to the summit of Mount Everest at only 23 years old. He was the youngest person to achieved this feat at the time.
Three years later, he led a team of five in a crossing of the north Atlantic. Gylls and his team traveled in a 11 meter long inflatable boat, through big waves and giant ice burgs, in a journey from Halifax to Scotland.
In 2005 Gylls led the first team ever to attempt to para motor over remote jungle and angel falls.
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How did achieve the skills to do this?
After leaving school Grylls joined the army. He hiked the Himalayan mountains. Eventually , gyills joined the Territorial Army and served as a SAS for three years. I think he liked the challenge of serving in the SAS for all of this time. While serving he learnt a lot of survival skills. He also learnt to be a good role model and to look at the positive. He learnt resilience. This is to be strong, to keep on trying and to solve problems. And even when you get knocked down you get up and try even harder. But in 1996, in Zambia, he suffered a free fall parachuting accident. He fell from 4,900m which partially crushed three vertebra. Grills came within a whisker away from been paralyzed for life. This ended his SAS career.
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 But once again he didn't give up. He went and used his skills to teach. He developed a TV show called man vs wild which gave him a new career.b He went and put him self in dangerous environments and used his skills to survive. The show has featured stunts including Grylls climbing, cliffs jumping from helicopters and eating bugs.
The show became very popular among young boys ... no ... all young people. It became so popular because it taught people how to survive in the wild if they get lost and gives people the belief that they CAN do anything.

bear Grylls ready for anything. He has dared him self to climb Everest. He dared him self to join the army. He dared him self to get lost in dangerous places to teach others.
When he believes he can do anything and everything. He is Bear Grylls; the born survivor.

Sport at Cheltenham

We buzzed with excitement as we went to Cheltenham School for the the commonwealth games. We played games that you can see in the commonwealth games for example we played shot put.I think it was good to mingle with others and have new competition.

                                   

Mr Mr sunny

He is a yellow oval with a big smile and reedy to help anyone in need . He's a bright ,happy  ,funny  flargie. and he does it in stile with a cool top hat   

Mr Mr sunny can never refuse a polite request because he doesn't want to put down his friends.exzampil Mr sunny can you help me find my needle in the hay stack .It is not a good quality because he could be asked to rob a bank.

Mr Mr sunny is always busy because he likes to make people happy.When he walks around a corner there are other people to help example .Mr sunny can you help me with my circus tricks.It is not a good quality because he will miss out on other things.

Mr Mr Sunny is persistant if he tries something and doesnt get it right he will try and try again till he gets it right example even though he had to get to the shop to get flour for his cooking he helped people along the way and even though he heped people to be happy he wasnt happy because the shop was closed. this is a good quality because you will get lots of friends.


mr mr sunny is a very nice flargie





       

    

Crystal Clear Waters

Splish,splash,splosh. We ran into the crystal clear waters of Rarotonga. Fish,stingrays,moray eels,turtles and sharks ... beautiful but deadly. With vicious fangs and glorious stripes it slivers ... it slides ... Zooming along the rocky bottom. Over sandy hills and through the weed and under a rock to curl up for the night.

I swam back to the beach to go to a party.The food was delicious. From coconut milk in a coconut shell to crabs served hot after being boiled in a pot. It was a great night for everyone in the resort. It was an all night party; the best fun I've ever had. 

The next morning, after scoffing down a glass of coconut milk and a star fruit for breakfast, we headed to the market. Fish of all sorts, enough jewels to delight a king, fruit from the top of the volcano ... it was awesome.All the the way down lush coconut trees surrounded the beach. At the market I got a shark tooth necklace. Black string runs down to a sparkling tooth of a shark.

Then we went on a glass bottom boat. As we sped across the reef I could see the bottom through the glass. It was amazing. The colourful coral and the sandy plains all filled to the top with everything from the smallest plankton to the biggest shark. After that we snorkelled around some sandy plains near the beach off an island. It looked like the island had a clean water supply because there was a big pipe running from Rarotonga to the tiny island. We had a big lunch on the island. I went looking for coconut crabs with the driver of our boat. We went to some coconut trees near a big cliff with lots of cracks in it. Our driver climbed up the coconut tree and threw down twelve coconuts. We put them in the cracks and left to do some more snorkelling. I found a school of baby puffer fish being attacked by some fish called python fish. After that we went to check the coconuts in the cliff. 

Snap Snap 

“What was that," I said. I found a coconut crab. The boat driver cooked them for us. They tasted delicious. After this I went swimming with turtles. They had a lush green colour with dark stripes. It was an amazing experience. My trip to Rarotonga was exquisite.

Capital E

At capital E we made music. It was super fun to do. In my music I had drums, bass guitar,etc  guitar beat boxing and electric piano. It sounded as cool as a pro. My favourite part was when the beat went slow to fast as it sounded cool when it faded. I found making the music easy and exciting. Soon I looked around me to see that we all had a great beat going. I was sitting next to Lacey and Chloe. The headphones were comfortable sitting on my ears. I listened to their beat often and it sounded cool as. I needed to remember to not put too much music on otherwise it would sound crowded.  

After we had made our music we all gathered in the middle again to listen to everyones beats. My favourite beat was Hannah’s and Tyler’s ... and Mine!!! I enjoyed learning how to make music because I have always liked music. I hope we can go again.

If we go again next time I would like to make a longer more jazzier song.

I appreciated that Carl let us in his workshop to make better music using the proper equipment.

By Dylan

Tacodile supreme

One night I had a dream that tarko trees grow on the the top of Mount Kiermejoke. And that night an evil scientist put a super growth formula on them and the tacos fell off the tree. They mutated together and turned into tacodile supreme. That day I was playing with my lab kit when... poof. A portal formed and I got sucked in and swallowed by the dream portal. I landed in mount kilamongago.
Roar.
A great roar came from the jungle I looked through the trees... There it was tacodile supreme!  

27/02/2014 SHOW POEM

Gearing up …

Metal hooks, fishing line

Rods, reels

The ‘reel’ deal

The rocks and weed

Snagging the line

The tip of the rod bending over

The line speeding off the reel

Watching the white water

Waiting for the big fish

Behind the boat

Searching for little fish

Bait for big fish

Waiting for a bite  

From a boat

Watching dolphins

Frolicking in the wide deep ocean

Wondering if the fish are still there

Or scared away

By the majestic creatures of the sea

The extreme moment

When the fish takes lure

The rush to your rod

When the fish steals the bait

And races out to sea.  

Into the deep waters

Of the Tasman Sea

When the line goes tight

The cranking of each wind as you reel it in.

All the pressure pushed off you

When the fish comes ashore  

And who can forget …

The delicious pan fried fillets.