Week 8 and Week 9

It turns out that there is a xylophone player for this year. I'm so glad I'm not by my self. She seems really good she told me that she plays piano and she used to play the drums. Also in band we are learning even more cool songs! We're playing Some Nights and Surfin' USA.

Today the school had the third sports event for this year, I did outdoor bowls. I hope Mangapiko wins this time because we don't win enough. My team won three out of four of our games which I think is very good and one of my friends won four out of four of her games. This afternoon there is a disco on at school and I'm really exited! I'm going to be wearing a blue t-shirt and blue shorts, a blue scarf, blue earmuffs, blue earings, a blue necklace and I'm going to chalk my hair blue, so I'm pretty much going all out.

Week 7

This week, in jazz band, we learned a new song called Hound Dog and Mr Stanbridge did a very good impression of the singer. I also listened to the junior band for a bit and they are really good, unfortunately there wasn't a xylophonist there so I'm going to be playing all by my self this year unless the xylophonist wasn't there.

On Friday my class had our first science lesson for the year. We drew diagrams and did some little taste tests to find out what was sweet, salty, sour, bitter, bland or spicy. They made me feel really sick and I nearly puked, so Mrs Tyson told me to go and get a drink of water luckily it was almost lunch so I could eat something, that took away the bad taste in my mouth.

Week 6

This week the Japanese students came to New Zealand and I got a girl called Maho. I think that she has all ready had a heap of fun because she seems really happy. So far we have gone and played cricket, tennis and we have gone to the Hamilton music festival.

On Friday my friends and I all played a game of fish but them because there were Japanese students playing around 20 people started to play so we just threw the ball around, it was really fun.

Week 5

This week we  had swimming sports. I came 1st in one event, it was doggy paddle. In most of the other races I came about 5th. The only bad thing that day was that we weren't allowed to have lunch swimming. I normally do flips and races with my friends so I was really looking forward to lunch.

Also Mika the Japanese teacher is going back to Japan on Saturday, it's really sad for me because she stayed at my house basically the whole time she was here. I think what I will miss most is the sushi that she made because it was really nice and she put in a heap of things I hadn't tried before in them like egg made into a egg stick and cucumber. She introduced to me a lot of interesting flavors and ingredients that I might be able to use to make delicious food one day.