The Sprint

"Junior boys relay team lane 7". As everyone took their places I thought about how well we would do if we didn't give up or even not letting the fear of not succeeding overcome us. All the boys looked very agile and fit but I didn't make that let me down."Take your marks  Get set  GO! Everyone tries their best but we are amazingly coming first! "Go Reremoana" I hear people cheering in excitement from the sideline. As the pressure rises the intensity of the race increases while the race gets closer. Screams get louder and my turn is getting closer by a few meters. "Go go" shouts my team mate. I hold the batten firmly and get a pulse of energy flowing through my body. Wind passes my face like a cold winters breeze. The opponent catches up slightly and I give it all I got. Against all the counties teams we ended up placing 2nd. We celebrate our placing among ourselves then we hear that we have qualified for AUCKLAND CHAMPS!  

lakewood lodge flying fox 2012

Closing your eyes and putting your hands behind your back. Leaning backwards and putting all your weight on the harness. Opening your eyes with your heart racing and the wind in your eyes.The pain as you slam in to the pad at the end. Three simple steps, up, twist and down and your off and running to the back to the top where you will wait for your next turn. Now for the fun stuff. Go upside down and reach for the water. Or spin around six times and go.

This is only one of the many awesome things at lakewood lodge.

Camp at Lakewood Lodge.

This is not me but it is a picture of the 11metres climbing wall.

 Harness on and ready to go. My hands are shaking and my legs feel like jelly. I tell Abby that I was ready and she tugged on the rope. Hand-by-hand and foot-by-foot I made my way to the top. Half-way there I get stuck. I couldn't get all my weight on the small handhold. Then I started to panic and I gave up I told Abby that I wanted to go down but she told me to try again. I admit that I was really scared and I just couldn't hold on any longer. So Abby let me down and I went to sit down. I looked up at the huge wall and I breathed in and out slowly.

 Afterwards I told Abby that I wanted to go on again and she let me. I went on and on planning each foot and handhold with the help of my team calling out to me. Finally I got to the part where I got stuck before. I breathed in slowly and went for it."Believe in yourself!"yelled Abby. With that I made it to the top and for me it literally felt like a heavy burden was lifted off my back. Next stop kayaking!

Planes

Hi I'm Keanu and I'm here to tell you more about planes.            

Air New Zealand 777

Facts about planes
If you were to put a truck behind a 747 at take-off thrust, the truck would be blown to pieces almost half a km away.
A Boeing 747 stands at almost a 7 story building.
The Concorde, when flying at supersonic speeds, would heat its own fuselage to such an extent that you could fry an egg on its wing!  Aircrafts these days are highly computerized. So much that the pilot only has manual controls for about 3 minutes throughout the whole fight (Take off and landing)                                                      
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Interesting_facts_about_airplanes#ixzz26xDEJd1L 

DHL Boeing 757

I like both Boeing & Airbus but I like Boeing better, because the industry has created more aircraft and have just created Air New Zealand's new 787-900 dream liner. To walk through the 787 dream liner click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if96GDYVjJg&feature=endscreen Air New Zealand's new Boeing 787 touched down for the first time at Auckland international Airport at 9.45 Saturday morning, 12 November 2012. 

                              Boeing! 
 At the start of the year 2013 Boeing is releasing a new b-747-8. to see a 747-8 Documentary click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWwUTJM3jbA. The air flowing through a 767-400ER engine at takeoff power could Inflate the Goodyear BlimpIn seven seconds to see what a good year blimp is click here: http://newspaper.li/goodyear-blimp/ 
                                                         

                                                           
                                                                               Types of Aircraft

Singapore Airlines Airbus A380

                   B-737      A319  
                   B-747     A320 
                   B-757     A321   
                   B-767     A330
                   B-777     A340  
                   B-787    A350   
                   B-797    A380 

                                                         

Click Here to see a DHL 757 take off from Auckland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ8JLgK3YPg
Click Here to see a 777 Land: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic9Y0Iii96U&feature=endscreen
Click here to see a A380 land at Auckland in flight deck: http: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvSXUucyJo

Thanks for reading my post about Planes.

By Keanu.

my great camp experience

My camp experience was great.

I was really proud of myself because at the beginning of wall climbing I was quite scared that I was going to fall off and that I will drop a bit and then stop but then I learnt to trust everybody and then was the first person in my group to make it up the medium wall.

I also overcame another fear of horses and learnt to enjoy everything.

The reason why I had my first fear was because the first time I rid a horse was bare back riding and I sort of made a new fear of horse's teeth because they seem to like to chew at my arm so ended with a bruise and now have two teeth marks on my arm.

This is Honey puff who bite me though she was a really good horse to ride!

Here is a link to the lakewood lodge website. Enjoy :)

Keanu's Epic Weekend!

1 FLYING A CESSNA 175 TAIL NUMBER: ZK-XAT

   My Epic Weekend!!!  





Mary Poppins practically prefect in every way: Well Mary poppins was quite boring at the start but then it got so much better! Towards half time. There was lots of good songs and good dancing and action. And I liked a couple of songs they were pretty cool, the songs was 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' and 'a spoon full of sugar' those songs were pretty good. I thought that mary poppins was going to be not very good but it turned out to a great musical!       

2 MARY POPPINS THE MUSICAL

                                                                         

Flying: I got to the ardmore flying school, and meet the pilot his name is Mark he was so cool. Then he got some documents that i had to sign. Then we all went down to the aircraft and checked that it was safe to fly witch included checking all the rivets were there also checking the ailerons and elervators could easyly go up down and checking for any water in the fuel then me and Mark got a picture and then I taxied to the runway and it was really hard to taxi also the keep the aircraft straight! Then we waited for other aircraft to land but there was to much aircraft so air traffic control sad to an aircraft to go around for departures so then we lined up on the runway and I took off!!!! and we were off so then me and Mark banked right and headed to the Hauraki gulf and Mark let me fly the aircraft until landing we went through turns and then I went to line the aircraft up the runway and i flew it in to land! And that was the end of my Epic Flight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!                                                                                                                   

3 COLDPLAY CONCERT !!! AT MOUNT SMART


ColdPlay: Coldplay was the coollest concert i've ever been to! At the concert they had two bands before Coldplay the first band was two Americans singing and then some other band I cant remember their names.
Coldplay sung lots of song I won't name all of them but they sung. The sinentist, Pardise and Fix you at the end with fireworks coming out of the back of the stage it was so epic! And the stage was extended out so,were we were standing we were actualy quite close to the stage so that was really good. There was one time that I had to go to the toilet just before coldplay went on! Me and my brother had to smash through   20000 people to get to the toilets. It was hectic as but luckly we got back to were we were standing LOL!                                                                                                                                  

Here is fix you at the Coldplay Concert!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cKRkDtxofQ this vid is Epic!!

je vous remercie de le lire 

Thank you for reading :)   

     

Athletics Day

This was taken at our Counties Athletics day last Wednesday.

Good luck to our Athletes who are competing today.

Lakewood Lodge

During the past week Room 13, along with Room 11 and the Year 7s from Room 14 have attended an AMAZING camp at Lakewood Lodge in Rangiriri.

Here are some of the pictures from the week. Mrs Clarke has tonnes more so we're sure there'll be more on here in the coming weeks as we write about our experiences. Enjoy.