Overall Thoughts of Passion Projects

The Passion Project I chose was Science Discovery. There were many other choices but I got that one. In my group, there was me, Caleb, Greg and Jack we had decided on making a Lego gun that shoots rubber bands and shoots them fast.

While doing this I learned how to make a trigger mechanism and how it works. The way that it works it you would pull the trigger then it would rotate all the gears thee the rubber band would get launched forward.

The part I enjoyed was making the gun because it was easy but also challenging. 

Something that I disliked was having to put the gun back together after it broke.

Next, I did something like this I would choose something different because I don't want to make another Lego gun or something like that.

Overall I thought that it was a fun experience because it was my first time doing something like that and I enjoyed doing it. 

EOTC Week

For 4 days the year 8's went on our EOTC week. While we were doing the EOTC we did many different activities but because of the rain, we didn't do our first day. On Monday we were supposed to go to omaka scout camp and do some water activities but we didn't.

For Tuesday We went to Rehua Marae in Christchurch all we did there was listen to people talking about the history of the Marae and some other things that have happened. It was really interesting for me because I had never been to a Marae before and it was helpful learning some of the meanings of carvings on the walls.

On Wednesday we went to Adrenaline Forest and Spencer Park. I really liked adrenaline forest because I like climbing trees and having to do the obstacles to finish the different stages.

Adrenalin Forest

Trip To Adrenaline Forest

When we went to adrenalin one of the CARR values that I showed was resilience by completing the courses that I started and not going back down. While I was doing the different zip lines I got worried about something breaking but then I remembered that no matter what I wasn't going to fall off because I was all ways connected to something.

My Favorite part of it would have to be completing the course because you feel so relieved once you're on the ground and you feel a sense of achievement in your self for maybe overcoming a fear that you had.

A challenge that I had was doing the zip lines because I was worried about the zip line falling off or not being able to make it across I was also a little bit scared on the bridges because most of them were narrow

Something that I accomplished was doing the bridges because they were very wobbly and sometimes you had to do it with the wind pushing you side to side.

Overall I think that it was a fun trip and I would definitely go there again but if I did I would probably do more.

Favourite Memory In Year 8

My Favourite memory in year 8 would have to be making the hokey pokey. The reason I liked making that is that we got to eat it as well and we learned how it turns into the hokey pokey. When Caleb and I made our hokey pokey it took us forever to get it ready or to the boiling point so that we could add the baking powder which would make it expand into a big lump of golden and crunchy hokey pokey. Overall I think that the flavor was sort of bitter because it tasted burnt.

Writing about a music video

In this writing below I was writing in 1st person of a girl in the music video Happier By Marshmello and Bastille. The task we were set was to write in 1st person of the dog or human.

I was having a very hectic birthday, everyone was running around and shouting then, the cake came out and then right when I went to blow it out my friend ran over and blew the candles out so I couldn't. I slowly began to feel a tear drip down my face until my uncle walked over with a box in his hands then I opened it and there was a yellow bow. I was still sad because it was only a bow. He came back with really cute fluffy labrador then as my uncle was giving the dog to me it started licking my face when I felt a lot happier that day. My uncle took a picture of me and my pet we also put my height on the door frame with the dog's height too. As time went on we got toys and a bed for him.

When I was 15 years old we had our heights put on the door frame, later that day I had football training at school everyone was being chosen beside me then I got put into a team. When I got home I started playing with my ball with my dog. The next day we had our team photo taken and I was supposed to be in the middle holding the ball then my team pushed me out, then the guy that was taking the photo told me to smile, and I did but then everyone started laughing at my braces so then I went home and laid down on the couch. My dog was scratching at the dog so I let him in then he could tell that I was sad about my braces and I put my hand over my mouth when he tried to pull my hand away

Overall I liked doing this because we got to write about something different.

Re-make of 3 Little pigs

A remake of the three little wolfs

This Is what I have done so far for my story. the part that I did today was the explanation, the story is about the little wolfs and the crab.

Title: 3 little wolfs. The wolfs are the Pigs and the wolf is a Crab. Wolf 1: Gary. Wolf 2: Clark Wolf 3: Mr. Money. Crab: Mr. Crabs

Orientation: Welcome to my story of the three little wolfs and also a crab. Read on to find out what happens to them In a forest just outside the city. Their names were Gary, Clark and Mr. Money the Crabs name was Mr. Crabs. The strongest house was made out of brick and belonged to Mr. Money. The 2nd weakest house was made out of wood planks and belonged to Clark. The weakest house was made out of sticks and belonged to Gary, and Mr. Crabs lived in an apartment On a very sunny day, the three wolves were all chilling outside when all of the sudden they heard tapping that was getting closer… then from out of nowhere, they saw a huge crab that would have weighed about 100+ kg. This crab was one that everyone feared, even the wolves...

Problem: Mr.Crabs is going to try to pull their house apart and make the pigs homeless but while he was trying to do this he couldn't get in their houses because they had defenses. The first pig called  Gary didn't have strong defenses the only defense he had was a cannon and when the wolf came the cannon didn't work so then the wolf went on.

Explanation: The reason Mr. r was doing this is that he had a really rough childhood and he couldn't stand other people being happy and he thought it was unfair that other people can be happy but not him he was also very hungry for some wolf meat.

Capital of Malaysia

Today for cyber smart we had to do a blog post about the capital city of one country. The city that I have chosen is Malaysia. For Malaysia, the capital city is Kaula Lumpur we had to answer 5 questions about the city here are the answers to the five questions

Q 1. The capital of Malaysia is called Kaula Lumpur
Q 2. The population is 27.1 million people
Q 3. Kaula Lumpur 22 degrees Celsius
Q 4. The capital city (Kaula Lumpur) is located on the east side
Q 5. The official language spoken in Kaula Lumpur is Malay but you could also hear other languages like Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, and Tamil.