My Opinion About Lockdown 2021

For me lockdown has been a bit stressful for me because as a student you have to do online learning and do google meetings with our class, and you can’t go anywhere. It has also been good because I get to spend more time with myself and my dad and I get to help him around the house. I get to do art and crafts, learn how to do different things and go outside and play on my trampoline. I also miss my friends and hanging out with them and playing volleyball. It's boring staying inside the house all day (other than going for walks and bike rides) and I wish I could just go back to school and do P.E. and my sports tournaments.

Lisa Carrington

Last week we had to write a draft blogpost about Lisa Carrington. We had to answer questions on a doc. Lisa Carrington was on the news because she won gold in the 500m Rowing. Lisa Carrington is from New Zealand. Lisa Carrington was born in Tauranga In the North Island. The province city she grew up in is the Bay of Plenty. Lisa Carrington's iwi is Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou. The satellite town she grew up in was Whakatane in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Lisa attended Whakatane High School. She attended Massey University, which is located in Palmerston North. Her Olympic event is Rowing. She has successfully competed in Rio, Japan, London, Beijing, and Hungary. Her partner in Rowing is Cailin Regal. She has achieved 5 gold medals and 1 bronze. Beef and Lamb NZ and Southern Cross Health Society. The Club she attends is the Eastern Bay Canoe Racing Club.

NZ Olympic Athletes

For the last couple of weeks, we have been making slides about NZ Olympic Athletes that competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Me and Aaron worked on this together we had to do 5 different athletes and since we worked together we had to do ten in total. My favourite part of this was doing the slides with Aaron because we can help each other when we got stuck. I enjoyed this because we got to get creative with our slides and choose different people from NZ competing for NZ in the 2020 Olympics.

Impasto Painting

Today I have to answer some questions about impasto painting. Over the past few weeks, our art class has been doing impasto painting. Impasto painting is one of the easiest painting techniques you can do. You can easily express your emotions, make abstract and can do many more things with impasto. Impasto means a painting using a palette knife, a thick paintbrush to apply thick strokes of paint onto your canvas, but it mainly means painting with a thick layer of paint. You can express emotions by doing impasto painting you can do this by using warm and cool colours or by painting what makes you happy or sad. Van Gough was one of the first people to use the impasto painting technique because he did use a thick paintbrush or a palette knife but he used his fingers to create the starry night. 

Fiji Wins Gold Again!

Today for Hurumanu we had to do an activity about the Fijian Rugby Sevens winning against New Zealand for the Olympics. I was excited about this work because I knew a lot about Fiji because I'm from there. We had to read about Fiji winning against New Zealand and add missing parts to the task that was set for us. My favourite part about this was getting to do stuff about my culture because I know a lot about it. I enjoyed doing this a lot because I got to help others do this after. My thoughts on this was everyone who supported Fiji was proud, and the Fiji team try their hardest to help people in Fiji because of covid, because covid is really bad there. I am very proud.

Read all about the Fiji Rugby Sevens winning gold at the Olympic Games, then Blog a report about the game using your own words.

Olympic Gold was won by the Fiji Rugby Sevens team in Tokyo last evening (9:00-9:30).

The game was against New Zealand who ended up winning Silver Medals.

Fiji’s captain is Jerry Tuwai He said this win was very special because they had to go into lockdown after Easter.

They have not seen their family since. 

They spent most of that time shut up in a hostel in Suva , training in a gym they built in a garage.

When they were on their way to Japan the Fijian team got stuck on a cargo plane Along with some crates full of frozen fish.

These experiences helped them form a very tight group of people which makes for a great experience.

Here are some images of the winners.

Winter Learning Journey Activity 11

Today I'm doing another blog post about the Winter Learning Journey. The task is to explain how to play a well-known sport from your country. My country is well known for rugby. The Fijian rugby union is an international rugby team. To be honest, I don't know how to play rugby, so I'm only going to explain a few rules. One rule I know is you are not allowed to pass the ball forwards to a team member, in other words, you can only pass it backward. There are 8 forwards (hookers, prop, second row, flanker, and number eight) and 7 backs (scrum-half, fly-half, inside center, outside center, wingers, and a full back). A try is worth 5 points, a conversion is worth 2 points, a penalty kick is worth 3 points and a drop goal is worth 3 points. 

Winter Learning Journey Activity 1

The girl in the video I watched is Sadako Sasaki, I think she is in heaven because she had died when she was in the hospital. Sadako got there because a piece of origami paper flew down to her, so she made a paper crane and she got on and flew away. At the start of the video she is feeling sad, I can tell that because she is crying. A paper crane is something traditional in Japan, it represents good luck, people make 1000 paper cranes because it's true if you make 1000 cranes you get a lucky wish. 

Here is a video on how to make a paper crane: