THE SAILING TRIP

Sailing Experience

It was an early friday morning when we left for our sailing trip at Roto Kohatu Reserve on Lake Rua and it was a lot of fun. When we walked out to the buses there was an old bus and then there was a double decker bus but I went on the normal bus and the seats were so uncomfortable.When we got there we were put into three groups and I was split up from all of my friends like always. After that the showed us how to put the boat together and then we had morning tea. Once morning tea was over I was in a group of three sharing the same boat but there could only be one person on the boat at once and there was only one boat on the water at a time and there was no wind so they had to drag us and there was about 8 groups of three. But after everyone had a turn they put all the boats on the water and the wind got up and both of my team members got bored of it so I got to have lots of turns. Also after a while there was huge gusts of wind and everyone's boat was tipping over but not mine I still remember the lucky number 29. After sailing we went for a swim and did some more sailing and then got changed and then I sprinted towards the double Decker bus and I was lucky enough to get on the top of the double Decker bus with Paige. After all it was a lot of fun and the most challenging part was trying to control the boat in the huge gusts of wind.

Journey Through The Time

For four weeks  I am Going to be doing the summer learning journey about the history of New Zealand. This weeks activity's are about the begging. Today is the first day of my journey.

Activity one

For this activity we had to read a text called  Maui and the giant fish then we had to write three interesting facts about Maui and add what other stories we have heard about Maui. For this task I found it easy to find a couple of facts but found it challenging to find a third one.

Interesting facts about Maui

1. I learnt that Maui had always wanted to go fishing with his older brothers.
2. I learnt that Maui wove his fishing line from flax.
3. I learnt that Maui used his blood as bait.

Activity two 

For this activity we had to think that we were sailing thousands of miles on one of the wakas on our way to New Zealand and your writing a letter to one of your friends telling them about our voyage to New Zealand. And also telling them how you feel about moving to a different country. For this activity I found it easy to imagine what it would be like crossing the wild sea but I found it hard to imagine what it would be like leaving home and moving to a different country.


     Dear Emily

     Wow it has been an amazing journey across the sea but I am very tired and  I wish I was back                  home. it is very scary out here the waka has nearly flip a couple of times when we are court up in the storms. I am also very existed but really nervous about going to a different country what if  there are creatures that kill you in the night? I hope you write to me soon.

     From Lucy 



Bonus activity

For this activity we had to watch a video about people racing in wakas as a sport called Waka Ama  and our task was to decide if we would want compete in a Waka Ama one day. For me it was hard to decide if I wanted too or not. But it was really easy to back up my answer either way.


For me it would have to be a no because I would hate it out in a lake, river ,thing going so fast when it could easily tip over in a second. Also it would get so tiring paddling as hard as you can. But on the other hand it would be fun and a great experience.