My holiday

Today I am blogging about what I did in the holidays and how they went. It was kinda boring and fun at the same time. W had to make a collage of photos about what we did in the holidays and we had to write a story with 350+ words. Here is my work.

My holiday was interesting, some parts were fun, some parts were boring but I really enjoyed sleeping in and staying up late at night because I never ever get to do that on a school night. On the first Saturday of my holiday I had volleyball practice at 12:00-3:00. I got ready and packed everything I needed but it wasn't much just my shoes and phone. My sister came along to watch  (But between us I really didn't want her to come) for obvious reasons such as embarrassment, annoyance and much more. The drive took 15 minutes however it felt so long. When I arrived 5 people had already arrived but two more people had yet to be seen. We started practicing our bumping and did a game called pepper. It's basically bumping then setting and then spiking and you keep repeating that process until the ball hits the ground. At last the remaining two people arrived and we started doing real training. We practice spiking, serving, setting, blocking and bumping all within the 3 hour time limit we had. When we had 20 minutes left of practice left we decided to have a game. It was 4 on 4 but it was a game of fun and a game to practice what we had learned today. Once the training had ended my legs were aching and I could barely walk, I sat down for a bit and waited for my brother to pick me up and as usual he was late. “  I’m not surprised there “ I said with a sarcastic tone. 10 minutes later he finally picked me up and we heard home. It was my aunt's last day in New Zealand before she went home so we had a family dinner for her. The next day she departed from my house and she went to Auckland to abored her flight so she could go home. I then went back to sleep and it was miraculous because I had a great dream. On the second to last day of my holiday we headed out to Whangarei to find a ball dress for my sister, unfortunately we didn't find anything but we went to McDonalds for dinner and it was great. So my holiday was interesting and full of surprising things.

End of migration blog

 This term we have been learning about migration and the different terms of migration. We did things like riverbed, kupe, push and pull factors migration within my whanau and refugee simulator. Migration is all about moving, moving to a different city or country. No matter where you move or go, migration is always involved. A lot of people who migrate become refugees or democrats and times get hard for them. Place can be described as many things such as a: home or somewhere you move. A place is somewhere you feel safe, something that feels like home. A place can be a good and bad thing but only you can make it feel special. Change is something everyone goes through,if it's to do with your mental state, physical state or spiritual well being. Change can be you moving and  having to adapt to the new changes that this new place has. Migration is a key word within this concept because without migration you can't change or move or even go to new places. Place is somewhere you go or end up moving to when migrating. Change, change is the different things you do when you find new land or make new rules. Migration can be within me because I had to move schools and adapt to the new changes in this school had and all the different subjects I had to take. The topic also relates to the interactions I had with others and their experience they had when moving to this school. It challenged me by thinking about how migrating works and how it affects others and their way of thinking. It made me think about all the times people told me about their stories and how they've moved. By knowing the different words within migrating and how they help my thinking. It supports my learning by identifying if anyone else has gone through changes and if they've migrated. I can also help others know if they have migrated or not. My overall view on this topic was good. I can now reason with people now and they will understand where I’m coming from when I tell them about my story. So I think this topic was very good and I’d definitely do it again.

Balaclava story

We read this story about balaclavas and how a boy stole a balaclava and he felt guilty for stealing it. His mum ended up buying him a balaclava but he didn't know how to tell the boy that he stole his balaclava. So he didn't and the boy thought he had put the balaclava in his jacket but he didn't he put it in Norbets jacket. So we had to find key words in the story and make a word art. So here is mine

Own push and pull

 Today I am reflecting on my own push and pull factor that we have been doing throughout the week. It's about situations that people have in life that make them move to a different country, town etc. Like if there's a war or conflict between countries then people might have to migrate or if they're getting kicked out of their house they'll have to find a new one but might have intervening obstacles. Intervening obstacles are things that stop them from moving like they might not have enough money or they'll miss their family and friends too much. So that's what it's about. I have learnt what a pull and push factor is and how they work when you are migrating or moving.A pull factor is something that's making them want to go to a different country and making them wanting to move and a push factor is something that's making them move, so if there was a war you have to move or if you get kicked out of your house you have to move.Thats what a  push factor is. An intervening object is something stopping them from moving, so if you didn't have enough money that would be an intervening object. This is also like the other push, pull and intervening obstacles thing we did. We had to read stories about people and write down the answers which were the push and pull things. But this time we had to write down our own story for our characters. It gives me a proper understanding on what refugees or anyone have to go through in life. And it helps me to understand what a push and pull factor is and what intervening objects are. This helps change the future of how you see things. It helps to change because we get to see how people do things when they migrate. They have things that make them want to go and things that make them go and then you have intervening objects that stop them in their tracks. So it changes the way you look at things and how they work. The topic was really fun. I really enjoyed it because I got to make up my own characters. My favourite was the time tracker because he had the ability to time travel.