I was over at my friends house their name is Isabelle and Abigail. Anyway, they talked me into going outside in my swimsuit and playing in the rain with them. Bad idea. It was freezing cold and pouring. What they didn’t mention was that there was mud involved. We all started drawing mud pictures on our legs and back. Then the mud fight started there was mud flying here and there and everywhere! It was definitely a sight worth seeing.

Then to clean ourselves off we jumped in puddles and went to the lake and jumped in them it was freezing cold! We dunked our faces in the water, well I didn’t but they did I was way to chicken. We splashed water on each other and cracked ourselves up. Isabelle left early to get into the warm shower but Abigail and I stayed behind to have some more fun. We were heading back to the house and then noticed our jackets were still muddy so we got to another part of the lake and dunked them in but we were too high up so we had to get back in the water to clean them.

At that point we both decided we had to put our heads under water for 5 seconds and I did it. It felt like I was in Antarctica. As we walked back people stared at us like we were aliens from Mars. When we got back we were instantly in Hawaii.

This is a story I wrote in first grade words about the best part of Chinese new year. I hope you like it.

On Chinese New Year I had a fun time watching the fireworks. Then one night it was our turn to light the fireworks. Our friends came to our house for some yummy dinner.Everyone bought in something to eat. My dad made baked potatoes, they were super good. When it was dark we went outside with our friends to set the fireworks off. My Dad had a huge box of fireworks.

I gave sparkly wands to the kids. And we put the big box of fireworks on the road 123 Bang! The fireworks  went up in the air. Red, blue, yellow, green all the colors of the rainbow.

It was super beautiful. I can’t wait for next year.

To pick just one, I don’t Know how to do it, there were so many! Well since I have to I’m going to think back to the Hoi an Pacific Hotel.

I walked into the games room and there he was playing pool. I walked over to the treadmill and started it up. As I was walking I turned around and said, “How old are you?” “11″He replied, “You?” “10″ I said. I slowly walked over to the table.”Where are you from?” I asked him. “New Zealand.” He said back. “How about you?” “Oh I’m from Australia” I replied. “I hate Australians, well in sports I do.” He said. “So do I, and I’m Australian!” I said. “They are terrible at rugby! I’d go for the all blacks over the wallabies any day.” “Do you want to play pool?” He asked me. “Sure” I replied. We set it up again. and of course I won but he completely disagrees. He says this game we didn’t play correctly so it was free for all. “What’s your name?”  I asked him. “Jack” He said “Whats yours?” “Hannah.” I replied.

And I think that was the highlight of my holiday.

I wrote half of this poem in class and finished it at home. Then I read it to my dad and he said to log on to his computer and start typing this up so I hope you like this poem just as much as he did.

The meaning of life

Meaning of life

nobody knows

why were we invented?

what were we made for?

for slaves, to be rich, to be poor?

was the meaning of life just for us to spend it?

or to save it?

to have it wasted by being imprisoned?

to have it spent right

to have fun

to get to live your dream

or is it just something that you’d rather have

then being just nothing?

who made life? No one was there to invent it

Why are we walking on earth?

Well instead of wasting time asking these silly questions

shouldn’t we be living life while we have it?

This morning in the car my family and I started having bets and we were acting like we were on a game show. I wasn’t very good and my sister wasn’t either.

Try these tongue twisters 5 times fast! Your tongue will really twist!

“Red leather, yellow leather”

“Red lollie yellow lollie”

“How much wood would a  wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood”

“She sells sea shells by the sea shore”

Try these, improvise and make up your own!

“When elephants fight, its the grass that suffers.”

kikuyu proverb

This is like me because when my friends fight its me that suffers.Because they want to take sides with me.

I read a great book called TEN by Shamini Flint.
It is about a girl, Maya, who loves soccer but never played it because her grandmother doesn’t believe girls should play soccer.
At her school you’re not allowed to play soccer in P.E. but she started a small soccer team so she was able to play soccer at school at recess. She went into a big competition with other schools and the best player got to go to England and watch a champion soccer player play in the finals.
I met the author who lives in Malaysia when I went to a festival in Shanghai about writing so I will put a photo of her and me on here when I am home on my mum’s computer.

There are so many things that people don’t think about that are under migration. Here are a few interesting facts.

Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Australia have the highest percent of foreign born. In case you didn’t know foreign born’s meaning is born overseas. Eastern Australia, Chile, and India are the top three countries known for Environmental Migrations. Just a little catch on fact you might wonder why Eastern Australia is up there its there because of desertification that means the desert is moving in so the people move out.

Most of the time people seek asylum they go the U.S.A and they might come from Sudan. There are a lot of other country’s of asylum and origin but these are just two.One last thing, Internally displaced, now that’s a pretty big word but what does it mean? It means moving within your country to somewhere else. And 2 country’s with the most internally displaced people are both in Afirica, they are Congo, and Sudan.

I hope you learned a bit more about migration.

Bye, Bye!

Man, this years Halloween was super fun. The fifth grade had a special surprise for the rest of the school. The wizard of OZ theme! It was super cool. All the students who wanted to participate could either be a flying monkey or a munchkin I chose to be a munchkin. All the munchkins got fake lollipops that were ginormous! It looked so cool. The Halloween parade was a highlight but the star of the show was… the Halloween party! It was really fun because there were four stations and my favorites were the snack station and the dance station. We just had a unit on nutrition so the snack station was healthy. We had healthy cupcakes and the secret ingredients were pumpkin and yoghurt. They tasted just like any other cupcake. I also liked the dance station because 1 I love dancing and 2 we got to learn the actual dance moves from the music video THRILLER!

After school was even better because we went trick or treating and I didn’t stay in my compound. I went to Willowbrook for a street party with Abby. Afterwards we went trick or treating in Willowbrook. They had the best candy ever! After that we went to green court at 7pm and raided the last of it, only 4 houses were still open so it was not as much fun but we still got a lot of candy and it was truly THE BEST HALLOWEEN (so far.)