City of Ember

For the last term, we have been reading a book called City of Ember. It is about two kids who live in an underground city, and the whole city has no knowledge of what is above ground. The city was created to keep mankind safe from the nuclear war that was raging above the cave. I found the book very down to earth and in-depth, however, the movie was a whole different matter. It was one of those average movies with average teenage actors with an average budget. I lost interest about halfway through, however, the book kept me hooked in the whole way. Half the book was covered in the first 20 minutes of the movie. The thing that completely ruined the movie was some sort of mutated massive star-nose mole that eats people. For all the bookworms out there, I highly recommend the book, but not the movie.  

Rotorua Lakes High School Visit

On Wednesday the 11th of September Mokoia Intermediate School went to the local high school for the open day. I am applying for the excellerant  class so i had chemistry, physics, the gymnasium, cooking, mathematics and international languages.
Physics was my favourite one because we used a Van de Graaff generator (which is a machine that generates static electricity) and I learnt a lot about kinetic energy and centrifugal force.
My second favourite was surprisingly mathematics because the challenges made it fun. We had to solve algebra problems and mapping problems.
In chemistry, we burnt chemicals to use an identifying technique. They all let off different coloured flames.
 In the gymnasium, we played a game called pirates which was fun.
 In cooking, we made molds for chocolate and poured melted chocolate into them and made chocolates. International languages was pretty fun and we learnt a bit of French and Spanish. Overall I would rate the day a 9/10.

School Speeches

For the last few weeks the school has been working on speeches. they have to be 3-4 minutes for the year eights and 2-3 minutes for the year sevens. I did mine on why I am scared of cockroaches, and i progressed into the learning center finals, which were yesterday. It was intense sitting in a chair, listening to all the others but i was really looking forward to my turn. I did my speech and I made it into the school finals this Friday.

The Devon Intermediate Sports Exchange

On the 3rd of September, 2013, Devon Intermediate School came up from New Plymouth to the yearly Mokoia vs. Devon sports exchange battling for victory against Mokoia for the Richard Thomson trophy.
the sports played were rugby, girls and boys soccer, year 7 A netball, year 8 A and B netball and basketball. I took a billet which stayed for the 3 days. Mokoia won the exchange, 6-1. I played rugby, which was the sport that lost, but did improve from last year. When me and my billet went home we went to the park with my other friends billets and they all came for tea. We went to the disco afterwards which was fun, but the only downside of all this was waking up in the morning after! (picture of us warming up)

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