Roma's Diary

2008-09-03T15:27:00.000-07:00

Today is my birthday and I am 10 I have gotten 2 things for it but I will be getting more too. After school I will get them I got one from Sylivia she gave my a smelly wash and when mum came down with lunch she brought one with her it was a toilet bag it’s cool. It isn’t going to be as bad as I thought it would be. I was wrong.

birthday

2008-09-02T15:35:00.000-07:00

tomorrow it is my birthday I am turning 10 years old and I have nothing to get no one has gotten me any thing. And it is only going to be a family one . Anyway I will be fine. I have a rep game and 5:30 that night so I can’t get any friends and I have to open my stuff at night and I will not be at home in the morning.

First time with rep team

2008-08-17T14:57:00.000-07:00

On Friday last week I had my first rep team game we lost 1 to 5 we got the first goal.
Then on Sunday I had my first practice and it was really fun. I am really looking forward to all the hockey but there is one thing that I am not looking forward to is that we have to wear skirts and I don’t like skirts. I had that hockey break up and it was meant to be at 11 but I was at 20 to 12. That whole time dad was watching the rugby.

He came back and at the end.

A To Z Of Cows

2008-08-17T14:43:00.000-07:00

A=Angeln
B=Beefmaster
C=Caucasian
D=Devon
E=English Longhorn
F=Fighting Bull
G=Gir
H=Horro
I=Irish Moiled
j=Jamaica Black
K=Kerry
L=Lithuanian Red
M=Murray Grey
N=N'dama
O=Ongole
P=Polish Red
Q=Qinchuan
R=Red Poll
S=Simbrah
T=Texon
U=Ukrainian Whitehead
V=Vestland Red Polled
W=White Park
X=Xinjiang Brown
Y=Yanbian
Z=-

A To Z Of Goats

2008-08-13T15:00:00.000-07:00

A=Australian Goat
B=Brown Shorthair Goat
C=Canindé
D=Dutch Landrace
E=Erzgebirge
F=Finnish Landrace
G=Golden Guernsey
H=Haimen
I=Irish Goat
J=Jining Grey
K=Kiko
L=Loashan
M=Murcia-Granada
N=Nachi
O=Oberhasli
P=Peacock Goat
Q=Qinshan
R=Russian White
S=Swedish Landrace
T=Tauernsheck
U=Uzbek Black
V=Valais Blackneck
W=Valais Blackneck
X=Xuhai
Y=Yemen Mountain
Z=Zhongwei

A to Z of horses

2008-08-12T14:58:00.000-07:00

Arabian
Bhotia pony
Clydesdale
Dutch Draft
Exmoor Pony
Fell Pony
Golden American Saddle
Haflinger
Irish Draught
Jutland
Kerry Bog Pony
Lipizzaner
Miniature
New Forest Pony
Orlov Trotter
Palomino
Quarter Horse
Rocky Mountain Horse
Standard bred
Thoroughbred
Ukrainian Saddle
Vladimir Heavy Draft
Welsh Pony and Cob
Xilingol
Yakut
Zhemaichu

2008-07-29T14:49:00.000-07:00

I can’t wait till Sunday because I am going to see what team I am going to get in to a team but really hope it is the A team because I have more games. I am going to have lots of fun when I go to my tournament yes yes yes.

2008-07-27T14:57:00.001-07:00

On Saturday I had to get up and get ready to go to hockey. When we got there they were going to start in the second half I got a goal and no one alas got one so we won 1 nil then we had to wait till 12 that was senior and I played half a game and we lost 6 nil and I had trails and I got in and I have another trail on Sunday and I really want to get into the A team but I will get into one hope I will if I do there is a one day 3 games in Palmerston North and a 4 day lots of games in Napier. Fun Fun Fun.

2008-07-27T14:57:00.000-07:00

my hockey trail

2008-07-23T14:53:00.000-07:00

In the holidays I got up on Saturday and so did everyone else to go to sport but most of it was off because it was raining but mine and Connie’s sport was on. I had hockey trails and Connie had taranaki netball practise I had mine from 12 to 2 but it was really 12 till ¼ to 1 so not very long. First everyone had to go for a run and the first 11 cross the line at the end are the fastest in the team I was one of them. Then we had to line up and do a drill and the rest of the team had to spilt up into 2 groups and do drills as well then after abut 15 minutes all the groups went around a bit to the next drill. After we had done all of the drills we had a five minute brake then our name’s got called and we had to go out and tell the coach what we play on Saturday’s and he writ them down. Then we played a game the fastest kids against the non fastest ones it was nil all then he said come in and told us all that all of us had another trail on Sunday or Saturday. Then we all went up to the TET and I had my lunch then waited for about 10 minutes more for dad then he came and said that he was sorry that he was late and then we gave us some money and told us to get him a coffee and some chips he also said that we could get a drink then we left and went to get some DVD’s and then we went to the place where had to go for Connie’s netball but it was not there it was at the netball courts by the TET and dad got really angry and he stayed in the car and I went out and watched her do her thing. At the end of it we played a game and my team won it 6 to 5 then we got back in to the car and went home.

mum's hoilday

2008-06-24T14:48:00.000-07:00

On the 19th of June mum went to see her own mum in Christchurch and she had a lot of fun there. She was away for 4 days form Thursday to Monday and she said that most of her days where shopping. When she got home she brought a big suitcase home with all of our goodies init. When she had got all of her things in we went crazy getting the goodies out that had our name on it and got the staff out that was in the parcels. Mum said that she took a long time to rape all of them and it was all a waste of time. I got 2 head bans, a pear of sport pants they where Caberbury pants and a nice hat to go to town in and all of the others got lots of other staff too. I love mum !!!!!!

your day at Nana and Grandads house then sport!!!!!

2008-06-18T14:45:00.000-07:00

On Friday after school we went into town because mum and dad had to go to a dinner in New Plymouth and we went in two cars mum and dads. Nina and I went with dad and Connie and Caterina went with mum. We meet at the TET and we dropped off dad’s car and we all went in mum’s car and we went to New Plymouth and we dropped off mum at the place that they were eating then dad took us to your Nana and Grandads place to eat dad stayed for about 20 minters then went back to the place where mum was have her meeting and where they were going to eat and we stayed at nana and grandads place and we had dinner there. In the morning we got up and had to get all ready to go to sport. My hockey was at 9:00 so we had to get up at 7:00 and we had breakfast there then went to Stratford to play our sport. It was fun playing hockey we won 1 nil and Angus got the goal and he got player of the day. Every one thought that he got player of the day because he got the goal but I got the goal the week before and didn’t get player of the day a other boy in the teem got it but he didn’t play every good that day he was Revlon as I said he didn’t play every well. After hockey we went sight to the rugby and that was at Toko and so we had all to watch that for most of the game and she never has to watch mine and so dose Nina and Connie and they never watch mine NEVER and if they do it is only about 5 minters and I have to watch all of there’s it is so dumb I hate it and there netball and rugby is so boring. O well back to the point about having to watch Caterinas rugby then when it was all over mum and caterina and I all went home and dad went to the netball with Nina and Connie and had to go back to Stratford they were going to play against a year nine team and they beet them 47 to 5 the year nine team got 5 goals and the year eight team got 47!!!!!!! Then they came home and it was all good at home

2008-06-10T15:06:00.001-07:00

Trialling for taranaki under 11’s hockey team

On Saturday we woke up and we got all ready to go to sport and I got all ready to go to hockey. I have said that I am going to play all my hockey and have to netball or some times if I play no hockey I will play all my netball. But I am going to play my hockey and that is it. So back to Saturday we got there and I was very early because no one else was there from my team so I waited for about 5 minters later tow of my team mates came. Then where was all of my team all there just like that. So then our team went out on to the turf to play our game. In the first half we all thought that it was going to be a nil all game so then in the second half in the first 5 minters we got a goal and it was a very good goal too because I got it!!! So then it was a 1 to nil game about 15 minters later it was full time and it was 1 to nil so we won the game. After that when Mum, Nina, Connie and I where just going to go out when my coach came past and we had a talk to her and she asked if I wanted her to put my name down tow trial for the under 11’s taranaki team because I have enough telnet to play in the team. I am so exited to be trialling for it is going to be so fun.

Lucy's dissection at school

2008-06-09T19:15:00.000-07:00

Lucy’s dissection

On Friday my day dad came to school to do a dissection for as because we are doing a thing for topic and he showed us all the joints and the insides of the lamb. We all called it Lucy the lamb. We all got to look at the inside all that wanted to Kelly and Maddy didn’t want to look. Kelly said that she wasn’t good with blood and Maddy had good shoes on and she didn’t want to get them all coved with blood and dirt. So the rest of us all look. It was about 10 minters later we got to put gloves on and got to hold the heart and dad showed us all about it then he got the liver and the lung and he had a bucket of water and he cut off a little bit of lung and a little bit of liver and took them both over the water and said that the liver sinks and the lung floats because it get air in it so that it doesn’t sink. Then he got out the tummy and the all the intestines and we got out the small intestine and we took it down the farm an till it could go no more and then Rhys ran down the farm and he counted how many meters it was he got 14 meters that is long. Dad said that ours is about 30 meters!!!!!! Then we look at the big intestine and it is really fat. Dad cut off the head a showed us the tongue and the hard and soft pellet and then he showed us all the teeth. They don’t have teeth in the middle only at the front and the back. The back teeth are black and really hard and the front ones are not so hard. Then he cut out the eye and a hole lot of eye juice came out and got dad on the jacket it was funny. He got a sharp thing and took out some of this jelly staff that helps us see out of our eye and it looked cool. Then he showed us a really cool colour it was like the colour of a rainbow it was so cool. Then when we were all finished we opened the offal hole and got Lucy and put her down it along with all her insides. Then we all said thanks to dad and then back inside the school and dad went home.

TROUBEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-04T14:55:00.000-07:00

My hockey is at 9:00 AND MY NETBALL IT AT 9:30 I AM IN BIG TROUBLE!!!! Mum thinks that I should play all of my hockey then play a little bit of netball and I think that I should play half of hockey and my full game of netball no wait that won’t work because in need to play most of my hockey and same of my netball I don’t know what to about it. I need to have the netball a little bit later so that I can play all of my hockey and all of my netball as well. It is not good that I have netball at 9:30 and hockey at 9:00.

Queen's birthday NO SPORT FOR ME!!!

2008-06-03T14:51:00.000-07:00

On the 31st on May Saturday I had no hockey or no netball because hockey there was none because it was queen’s birthday weekend and netball we didn’t even have a draw. So Nina Connie and Caterina went with dad to rugby in toko and Nina and Connie went to netball in Stratford. Caterina lost her rugby 5 to 2 and Nina and Connie won there netball 21 to 20 it was so close. Mum stared home with me and most of the day I was on the computer on Runescape it was cool and mum was on the farm so I got to go on for about 5 hours and she didn’t care very much. When ever one got home they were all angry at me because I was in the computer the whole day but I had done some tiding up so mum thought that was good. That night we went out for dinner to the Hopkirk place to watch the rugby. MORE OF RUGBY!!

i am going to play to sports now netball and hockey

2008-05-29T15:21:00.000-07:00

I am going to play netball as well as hockey. So now I will be really tided after hockey first then be even more tided after netball but that’s ok. I am going to play hockey for an hour then I am going to go and play netball for I don’t know really I think that’s it’s ¾ of an hour so that’s all together is an hour and forty five minters and with only a little break in-between it all. But that’s all ok with me because I chooses to do all of it and I want to do it all to. So now I am going to play both sports on the same day I will have to not get all tided and wired because we might lose. I have no idea what position I am going to play in netball but I am mostly always centre forward and I have to do a lot of running it what place and I have to do lots of running. So now I am playing two sports and I like doing that.

jones cup

2008-05-14T14:33:00.001-07:00

On the 14th of may 2008 the school went to Jones Cup practice and when we got there we put our bags down and went to shoot hops and then about 20 minters later we got called to came to the teacher then we got sent to placers the boys got sent to the bottom field and the girls got sent to the top courts I had a lot of fun. First of all we did some stretchers then we did lots and lots and lots and lots of game then we played a netball game I didn’t have a very good team but all wall. We lost all of our games at about 2:50 pm our intermediate team and joinour team went and got our uniform and the seniors played a game and got there positions and then we had to go back home.

my horsey hoilday with nana and grandad

2008-05-08T15:25:00.000-07:00

On the 27th of April our nana and granddad come out for lunch and Caterina and I went with them home to there place When we go there we took our bags out of the car a put them in our room that we were sleeping in then went upstairs and granddad asked as if we wanted a can of coke and we said yes pleas So we got one then I asked if we could watch TV and he was waiting for as to say that and he said yeas we could watch it so we did.

We had macaroni cheese for dinner and ice cream and peaches for pudding it was nice. We watched a movie called the wrinkles in time it got boring to we let nana and grandad watch it instead of as watch that dome thing we watched the news and that was ok with as. After that we watched close up then we all went to bed.

In the morning I got up at about 7:45 and granddad was already up and making there tea and I was too late to make them because I am meant to make them. After that at about 12:00 we went in to waiter to find a red vest for pony club on Thursday and it was Tuesday and we only fond one and it was mine it would be to big for Caterina and we still fond none it three shops but o well then we came home did some stuff then went to bed o and we had dinner then went to bed. In the morning I got up at 7:00 and made the cup of tea and they got it in bed we did nothing all day expert me and Caterina played on the computer all day and at about 2:00 we went to 4 square to get some lollies so we got lots of them to keep as not hungry and they were nice we had dinner then went to bed. In the morning it was Thursday I made them a cup of tea then went back to bed. In about another half an hour granddad came in a said to get up he would more like as to be on the computer instead because it was pony club day so we hurry got up the had breakfast then got all of our stuff in the car we didn’t have to go till 10:00 so we played on the computer till we had to go. When we left we stop in Inglewood diary to get our lunch Caterina, granddad and I all got a pie and granddad got nana a sandwich and Caterina and I both got a drunk of pipes it was nice we got in they car J then we went to the Stratford pony club grounds and ate our lunch while waiting for mum when she came we hurry got all the stuff out of the car then the horse too. After that Mum Caterina and I went to get our horses from Annie’s place because we have only got a 2 horse float and we had to drop our horses off there a day before the day came when we got there we put the horses in the horses float then we to the grounds got the horses out and saddled them up and went to go warm them up. About 10 minters later we had to go in to the arena to have our lesson when we had done our turn we went out then got the horses unsaddled then took 2 horses back to Annie’s place then mum came back then we put our horses on the float then went back too. We got all of the stuff out of the car then put our horses in the paddock then went in side 2 girls where they called meg and Lucy we stayed there that night w did the same thing the next day then we stayed there that night too the next morning we went home with 2 horses then the next day we come back for the last lot of horse and then it was school time the next day.

term one hightlights

2008-04-17T18:10:00.000-07:00

We did a lot of things this term like how to do PMIs and the body. I liked the PMIs because it helped me with my writing for speeches and my descriptive writing too. It will be very helpful for when I do my next speech or when I do more discursive writing is wall.
Geometry was fun at sometimes but hard at some too. We had to do volume, perimeter, measuring angles, area and drawing circles for our Mathematics time at school it as a little bit had having to use the protractor for measurer angles and the compass for drawing the circles (which I wasn’t very good at).we also did lot of basis facts test I have got really fast at it.

There are lots of different kind’s of bones in your body like the cranium, the spinal column, the humerus, the radius, the ulna, the sternum, the clavicle, the scapula, the phalanges, the pelvis, the femur, the tibia, the fibula and the patella and that all of the bones in the body. It is really cool when we have to do work on it.

We went to Opunake beach for our Beach Ed and I liked it because I went for a big swim with my friends we did a lot of activates and at lunch and morning tea time we all went down a really big slide it was so fun I tried to climb up it but my shoes where too slippery.

We did a lot for art for after lunch. We had to do self portraits and we had to paint them too. Then we had to do shadows of thing and now we are doing links to things.

I hated athletics is annoying when Scott nearly beat me in 100m sprints and when I throw the discus and shot put wrong.

Reading is fun sometimes when we do novel contract and reading our novel is all and the rest of it is a little bit boring then the rest of the work I do.

I loved doing tennis coaching. It was so cool at the end of the day or the practise l got to get lollies so it made all of as feel better but we always got the heat of the day which wasn’t to good because we would get really hot and bothered and when we had finished we race up the get a drink of water. Then when we got back it is lunch time so we are lucky.

I love swimming too. I have gotten really fast at it and that is good so in swimming sports I win some races and that’s good. We can’t dive into our pool at school because it is to shallow.

It's Better Living In The Country

2008-04-06T16:10:00.003-07:00

This is so cool mum and dad have just brought a new farm and I got a horse and so did my sisters, about that let’s go for a ride down the farm. I think its better living in the country for the kids, the parents and the animals but travelling for sport is not so good. Those are the things that I am talking about in my essay.

Kid’s that live in the country get a lot more space to run around in because if their parent’s have big farm’s the kid’s can run all around. Because they can run all round they’ll be fitter and healthier, it’s more fun and they will spend less time watching TV or playing Playstation games. They would be a little bit safer too because there would be not as many cars around, and there are not as many people in the country. It is also safer in the country because we are not as close to bad people.
Sport is one big problem when you live in the country because you have to drive long way’s to get to where you want to go. When you live in the country you might be late for what ever you are doing. When you have sport in the morning you have to wake up earlier or you might miss your sport. You also have to pay for all petrol that you have used.
If your Parent’s live on a farm and it’s big they should get more money because when you have more farm stock units on the farm and you sell more lambs and calves, cows and sheep and you get more money. If your parents live on the farm there is not as many cars going past so it is quieter so they get to have to have a nice rest and maybe have a nice long sleep and if they had time even read a book.
Animal’s that live in the country get a bit of bad luck because if they don’t have a calf or a lamb some of them go to the works and get killed either for money or for meat. They can also live in a mob not just one cow or sheep like they just have in the town but in the town you sometimes only have about 1 or 2 paddocks.
You should agree with me. I have listed about as kids living in the country how we take longer to get to sport, parents sending the animals to the works and getting all of the money or meat and letting the parents have a rest. I’ve also written about the animals in the country too. I Hope that you liked my essay.

People Should Exercise

2008-03-26T15:38:00.000-07:00

Why are you puffing? You only ran 100m! That's easy!!!

I think that people should exercise so they are slim; you live longer, keep healthy and would be faster.

Overweight people should exercise. They would be losing weight because they would be running or walking but most of all they would be moving somewhere. They would also get healthier because they would be using their muscles. But the most important thing is that they would be looking slimmer and nicer.
People that work at gyms would get more money because more people would be coming in to get fit. They would train more people so that they got better at things.
Sports teams would have more people in the team because people would want to keep fit.
Doctors wouldn’t have to work as hard with overweight people because there would be none. They wouldn’t have to work as hard and still get the some amount of payment
Now that you have read my essay about getting fit you will agree that if people keep fit there will be no overweight people in the world.

my calf

2007-10-17T14:12:00.000-07:00

I got my calf and its name is Cocoa I named it that because it is brown. She is a really strong sucker and she is always hunger. I love her so much she is the best. She is not very good at leading so I’m probably going to get last which I don’t like. It is because she is the oldest calf that I have hade. Pet’s day is on the 27th of October and it’s on Saturday so only a week and a half stink. I have not got long to trine her

my calf

2007-09-19T15:10:00.000-07:00

MY CALF
I got my calf and its name is brown sugar I named it that because it is brown. She is a really strong sucker and she is always hunger. I love her so much she is the best.

last friday and saturday.

2007-08-21T19:10:00.000-07:00

Last Friday we did your jump off and we did lots of skipping and I can now do double dutch and lots of other thing s to and then we had some routine and we did some realty and normal skipping too. Then after that I went and did some baby sitting at my godmother because she had her grandchild’s there and we had to do the baby sitting and Connie was there is well. In the morning we got to go to our netball brake up at the TSB pools and I got a medal.

My family

2007-06-05T14:18:00.000-07:00

I have 3 more sisters and 1half bother. My mums name is Cynthia my dads name is Pattik I have a horse

My Horse Storm

2007-05-30T14:58:00.000-07:00

I have a horse and her name is Storm, She is an quarter horse. Her age is 27 and she is some times very grumpy. She likes to kick and bite.But she is very fast. I love her.

KIDS FOR KIDS

2007-05-23T18:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we went to the Kids for Kids concert with Suzanne Prentice. We had practice in the morning and the practice started at 9:00 and it finished at 12:15.

At night we went to the concert. We met Mr Chapman there and we went inside and went into the dressing room and lined up, then we went and got on stage.

My favourite song was the Ugly Bug Ball and I did not like Don’t Rubbish the Children and Edelweiss. I liked all of the night. So did Mum and Dad.

I think that it is a good idea to raise money for the poor children and the poor country. I am lucky that we live in a nice place, but I feel sorry for the children.

2007-05-17T18:28:00.001-07:00

Today we had technology at Makahu school and we made desks for our two computers.
In our group was Connie, Justin, Roma and Maddy. What we had to do was follow the intructions with no words and it was very hard.
Connie read out the numbers on the boards so we know witch ones went where. Since there were two teams we had to have a race and our team finished second but had the best score for building. Now they are in the classroom with the computers on them.

2007-05-03T15:58:00.000-07:00

On Monday when I woke up and got up and went and had my breakfast then all of us got ready to. Dad took us all to the bus stop.
When we got to Te Wera camp we got together and inside and had a talk about the rules and some other things to.
We did river study with a man from the regional council called Mr Archer. I thought that it was interesting and fun. Then we went back and had lunch.
After that we played a game called Predator and I was orange and I was a pig. You had to go up to the person and tag them and get their lives. At the end of the game I had 8 lives and at the start of the game I had 4 lives and I got 4more lives.
All of the little kids went and made bivvies with Bushman Bob and we got split up in to groups. The group that I was in went and did team building activities that were hard. The other group did archery then after about 50mintes we swapped over.
We did archery and the other team did team building activities for 50mintes then we got together and water for the little kids to come back with the teachers and then we got on the bus and went home.

On the next day we got up and got ready to go mum took us to the camp.
We went and had a talk about the bush for about 25mintesl. After that we went to the bush and made bivvies. We had 30mintes to make our bivvies. Bushman Bob did the water and Richter scale test and our one was NOT good.
We went to have a look at Bushman Bobs 1 man Bivvies for in the winter and in the summer. Bob showed us how to make bushman needles and bushman pegs.
We walked up this big hill and I saw that if you fell down the hill you would break something.
Then we walk more and Bob went to find a ponga for us to eat. We talked about snares then we went back to the camp and met the little kids there. Then Mum took as home. I liked going to Te Wera camp and so did Nina, Connie and Caterina.

2006-09-21T16:43:00.000-07:00

Quatrain
Horses
Horses are eating,
Horses are thinking,
Horses are sleeping,
Horses are blinking.

Horses love to neigh,
Horses love steeple chasing,
Horses love people,
Horses love racing.

In a quatrain the second and fourth lines rhyme.

Tanka (Japanese Nature Poem)
Ferns
They live in the bush,
SSilver and gold, cool.
some stick out of the bush too.
Animals eat them,
Animals like to feed on them,

in the tanka poem you have to have 57575

Roma's Kite Story

2006-05-16T19:45:00.000-07:00

It was hard making our kites. It took three days to make a fish kite. I made my fish kite with Scott. We made a lot of other kites and we finished them all.
We made a fish kite and a big dragon kite and that took three people to fly it. We also made some other kites.
I made a plastic bag kite. My one didn't work. I think the spars were too heavy.
It was fun flying kites. I got to fly other people's kites too.

Rotorua

2006-05-03T16:58:00.000-07:00

I started packing up my clothes and a sleeping bag and a lot of other things on Sunday to take on our school camp. I had to stuff all my things in my bags. I brought $14 because there was a shop just down the path.
I got in the car and went to school. When I got to school I saw that there were two vans and two middle sized trailers parked by the hall. There were a lot of bags on the porch and there were green and white jackets there on the porch too. We all put on a jacket and then we all looked at the vans. One of the vans had a grey strip on the sliding door. We called that van Troy. The other van had a blue strip on its sliding door we called it Tracy. Soon we were on the road. The last thing we had to do was to pack our staff in to the trailers. There was heaps of staff to pack in to the trailer. Finally we all packed up our staff and put it into the trailer.
We were on the road. We travelled the way to Whangamonona. There a lot of corners and some people stared to get sick like me. So we had to stop a few times and had to swap seats. From Whangamonona we went to Taumarunui and had lunch at a playground and I went on the monkey bars. After that we carried on to Rotorua. On the way there we saw lots of pine trees and bush. It took seven hours with two big stops and some toilet stops. When we finally got to Rotorua we could smell the sulphur and we saw lots of fumaroles and Nina said “It should be called Bay of Stinky” but on a sign it said ‘Bay of Plenty’. At camp we unpacked all our stuff and we made our beds. We went into the cabin and sorted out where we were all going to sleep. We had to sleep with an adult and that was Robyn. For tea I had spaghetti bolognaise and it was delicious. Shane had boiled eggs with toast. After tea we had some pudding. The kind of ice cream was hokey pokey that was delicious too. We were tired from the long trip so we went to bed at eight o’clock.

On Tuesday we woke up and lay in our beds for five minutes and then we got dressed and made our bed. I went outside and played with the other kids outside. We kept on playing until it was breakfast time. We went to the dining room and had breakfast. We had cereal and toast and a drink of raro. Then we got to have free time. We went to up back to the cabins and played games. Then the fun began and we were off to the Buried Village. When we were there, there were lots of carvings standing around the building. They looked cool with red paint. Then we had to wait for Mr. Chapman to pay then we went into the museum. We had to get paired up. We got to go into the museum and look at all the cool stuff. There was heaps of stuff. There were broken bottles and plates and lots of valuable stuff. We watched a movie. It was about a man who was in the eruption and died. Then we got to go outside and we got a map so we knew what the places were called. There were lots of trees and there were broken up buildings. Then we got to go into the bush and look for white marks. The white marks meant that there was a broken up house under the ground. Then we saw Mr. Macrae’s hotel with wood lying everywhere. That was very cool. There were houses and a concrete bakery. There were lots of pathways around the place. There was this place where a house was standing up and you could go underground to see all the broken up bottles and plates. We spotted a stream with trout in it and we threw pebbles into the little stream and the trout came out of their homes. Then five minutes on we went down this pathway and it lead to something cool. Then when we got down to the bottom there was this waterfall five metres high. That’s very big. Then we made it back up to the café and waited for the others.
We went back to the camp and had a barbeque lunch. I had a bun with a meat patty it. That was very yum.
After lunch we went to Leisureworld. When we got there we saw that there was a huge building with three big Hydroslides. One hydro slide was black then the rest were red and blue. We were so exited that we were going to go swimming with out paying. When we got in to the shop and Mr Chapman paid we got dressed and went over the rules. Then we went to the top of the building I went down on the red one first. On my second go I went on the black one and I yelled so loud. Then we got dressed and went back to camp and got dressed in my good clothes to go to Pizza Hut. We got to Pizza Hut and went to have a tour. After the tour we had pizza. I had two pieces of pizza and some chips. Then we had some pudding, I had ice cream in a cone. When I was putting ice cream in my cone I wanted it to stop but it wouldn’t because I didn’t push the handle on the ice cream machine straight up. Then we went back to camp and we played a game with Miss Lewis. We played Grandpa’s Green Undies. It was a cool game. Then we all went to bed.

Wednesday
On Wednesday morning we had breakfast and went to the Rotorua Museum. It was a big building and when we went inside there were lots of pictures on the wall and lots of necklaces and bracelets. After Mr Chapman had a talk with the people who were there we got a tour guide that gave us a sticker so they knew that we were together. Then we got to walk around and he gave us a worksheet with lots of questions that we could answer. Then we got to split up into three groups. First I got to go up to the top of the building where we could see the view of the whole city. Then we went down to the basement and we had to put on some helmets and went into the basement. It was very hot in the basement so we went through it quick. Then we went to look at the baths
There were lots of baths and there was on that had been carefully taken out and left a big hole. Then we got to watch a movie and the three babies got very scared of the spirit of fire that the good guys killed and pushed into the ground. The movie was about the Tarawera eruption and all of the sets were moving. Nina kept on laughing when the sets were moving. Then we went and had lunch at the park.
When we went to Te Puia we went in a marae and saw Maori people dancing in a Maori. Then we learnt a bit more Maori. We went to some schools and then we went down a truck and then we stopped to look at the mud pools then we went down some more then we could see the geysers. We sat on some warm rocks that looked like seats. We couldn’t sit on the yellow bits because steam was coming out and it could burn you. On the way back to do some weaving we stopped to look at the geysers and one sprayed us with hot water. At the weaving shop a lady taught us how to weave flowers and roses from flax. When we got back to camp we put our togs on and went to the Waikite Hot Pools which were very warm but we couldn’t put our heads under. After the swim we went for a walk to the biggest hot spring in the world. Back at camp we had tea and played games and went to bed.

Thursday
On Thursday the first thing we did was the luge. I lost my ticket on the luge then Mr Chapman bought all of as some more tickets. We got four turns each. It was fun because I got to go two turns. I went at the same time as Claire and we were having a race and I won. It was fun. After that all of the school went to camp and had lunch. Then we went to get our togs and we went to the blue lake and we went on the biscuit. We all got 2 turns. I went with Callum and Justin on the biscuit. If you wanted to have a turn on the boat you could go on the boat. If you wanted to water ski you could. I went water skiing. When we had finished we went back to camp and played camp games. Then we went down for dinner. Then we went up and played more games. Then we went to bed.

Friday
We stared packing then went down for breakfast. We had eggs and toast for breakfast. Then we went up and got all our stuff in the trailer. Then we all got in. I got in the front then we stared driving out of Rotorua. When we got out of Rotorua we stared playing car cricket. We were the New Zealand team and we won. Then we played a question game and you have to ask someone a question and then they are not aloud to answer. They have to say a question back. Mr Chapman was against me and I got cheeky to him. He said that I was in big trouble but he was just tricking. Then we came back to school and went home.

Roma's Diary

2006-02-28T15:06:00.000-08:00

I am Roma and I go to Makahu School. I am 7 years old. I like riding my bike and playing lots of games with my sisters. At school I like doing fitness and maths.