Short Story

The day had been good I had gone fishing and had caught several well known nile tilapia and the temperature was sitting at a low 20. I had only just arrived to the muddy shore of my tent then ground rumbled beneath me, I had known it came from the tent. The curiosity was building up in me, then I got the curage to finally look and to my terror there was a 11 foot beast with teeth the size of tusks and light gray skin in the tent. It stood staring at me for what felt like hours before it moved to the dark side of my tent to continue into its cool shade, eating the entire tray of sponge gourd.

It took me a while to think how I could get this beast away then it hit me it enjoyed the gourd so why wont it come for that. I slowly made a quiet journey towards the tent knowing that the slightest sound could set this giant after me. I finally had made my way to the entrance and picked up a handful of gourd in my wet hands. The gourd had been trampled by this giant beast but hopefully it would eat it.

The giant turned lowly make its ways through the straw tent, the ground crushed under what seemed like a him. His jaws opened and I held out the gourd as far as my arms could reach, the pain was drawing my arm to lower but the fact that this beast needs to go kept it up. He came out this was my chance I threw the gourd over to the shore bank as though the beast did't like his food thrown around he didn't go for it. I stood there for while thinking what to do, then a baby hippo and a cow came swimming together. My heart sank below my ribs and the bull came out of the tent and slowly made its way to its young.

Heart Rate

Heart rate is how many beats per minute a pulse . The average heart rate for the following things are: New born baby 120-160, aged 1-12 months 80-140, 1-2 years 80-130, 2-6 years 75-120, child 7-12 years 75-110, 18+ 60-100. There are many places where you can check your pulse like under your ankle or on the side of your neck were the windpipe is. When you exercise your heart rate increases as more oxygen is needed in your mussels. To determine your max bpm you go for me 220 - your age and for women 226 - your age

Room 43 Visit

Yesterday on the 27th of May 2013 we (my group of 5) went to introduce ourselves to the new room 43 a satellite class as the last building the had was burnt down by an electrical fault caused by a conditioning system overheating. Bobby one of the satellite children gave us quick tour of the new classroom and showed what he does for the day. When we walked into the main room the other children were looking at how many planets there are and what planet do we live on. The satellite children share their room with one other person in the classroom that they get along with very well. There was one girl that was at the back of the classroom with a sign language teacher who was helping her learn the girl's name was Emma.

Weekend

Surprisingly on friday we played Aquinas but for the first time we played them we drew 1 all. But as soon as the game started they got a pc (Penalty corner) to us but then we regained ourselves and made friday one game that we will remember as we thrashed Aquinas eight-nil even know it was an easy game at the end it taught us a lot as we learnt new things. But I unfortunately had some pain during our hockey match as in my groin area there was a sharp pain and had to ask to come off but when it went away I went back on but to find it coming back so I had to take it a bit slow and jog instead of running. When I told my mum (as she's a nurse) and she just laughed at me.

Teenagers Statistics

New Zealands have the second highest rate of male suicides rate in the world and females have the third highest rate within the period of time from 2002-2004. The percentage of suicide rates for 100,000 is 27.6% in 2005 and the females rate for New Zealand 8.2%. All the results for the suicides have been aged 15-24. Alcohol is the most common drug in New Zealand an act was released in 1989 had restrictions of selling alcohol then another in 1999 lowering the legal age limit. The average age to start drinking in New Zealand 13.6 years, Maori are the most likely to start drinking under 15 as the parliament states.

A5 Rimu Tree Study

Rimu trees are native to New Zealand and in which live up to 300 years old. Rimu trees are easily seen in a forest as its leaves are long and look similar to seaweed. Their trunks are extremely straight and tower up to 50m tall and with a diameter 2m. A Rimu tree can be looking into a 800 to 900 years of age in which I would be bored to live that long not doing much. The Rimu tree is used especially for furniture and building the Maori may have used the rimu tree for long straight masts on there ships.

Major Science Discovery

John Dalton

The scientist born in 1766 named John Dalton was the discoverer of the atom. His theory was elements consisted of microscopic particles so called atoms. In it it states that an element was consisted of only one atom and all the atoms that make up the resource or element have the same mass, but the masses have a effect of the element which would change like iron and gold for the two have different masses. A compound a pure substance, to different elements bonded together to create it. Although compounds have a mixed ratio of atoms and each atom has its own characteristic weight. As well his theory includes chemical reactions involve the rearrangement of combinations of atoms.  

Famous Scientists

Erwin Schrodinger

Erwin Schrodinger lived for 74 years being born in 1887 and passing away in 1961 he died accompanied by his mistress. He was Australia starting off as a pioner, but even when his family hit financial disaster achievement was still possible. His interests were language ancient and modern, maths, physics and poetry. At the age of 27 he achieved the highest possible academic degree, representing a scholarship (This degree is called habilitation.) His papers explained how different energy states of atoms electrons could be described in via wave equations. His greatest achievement was the schrodinger equation contributed profoundly to the understanding of subatomic behavior. 

Science Experiment

Dose A Rubberband Shrink or Expand When Heated

A science experiment that I have done in the past would have to be one I did at this current intermediate school, we had an experiment that included a rubberband a lighter and a ruler. We first made a hypothesis on whether it would shrink or expand then Mr Marsh measured the rubberband then put a lighter not too far away from the rubberband but just far away to heat up the rubberband. After he had finish heating up the rubberband he measured the rubberband not twice but three times to get an accurate measurement on how long the rubberband was now. But Im not going to tell you what happened because I want to try it.

Camp

Camp Activity: high ropes, vertical playpen
I'm proud that I completed the vertical playpen as for my first try I didn't succeed with only getting to the second plank and having to hop down. But with my second try and some encouragement from my team plus mentoring by Miss Shepherd, I slowly made my way past the hardest obstacle. (A rope held on each end by a plank of wood and the middle dangling down.) Then climbed past the next obstacles and then the last I and pulled my body up through the tyre to finish.

Camp Activity: Clash of Camp, food eating
Believe it or not, eight different kids including me had to eat for the clash of the camp activity a dry wheat bix with tomato sauce and whipped cream for a solid and for the drink we drunk 3 raw eggs mustard some popcorn, jam, peanut butter, pumpkin, whipped cream and some hot chili sauce. Most of the kids that ate this puked including me but there where some able to hold it in and drink whatever it was.

Camp Activity: Paintball
The most rewarding thing would have to be paintball as you have the great bruises to show all you family that your tough and can take a hit from a paintball gun. Although paintball hurts its the most rewarding thing as that most people don't get the chance to play paintball as it costs a fair bit and takes a lot of guts to play something that you know hurts and have a great game of paintball.