Cross Country

Tauranga Intermediate school cross country is an event that was taken on Monday 24th of June 2013 where kids specified on age and engender will run together to fight for first place.
The race is a big part towards winning the spirit trophy as say you came 76th your number is a value of 76 and the house that has the lowest number wins.

The highlight of the day was being able to run with one of my friends that has the same speed as me and sprinting at the end to try and stay infront of someone that was coming from behind.

First was the year seven girls then the year seven boys, but our school could not wait until everyone came back so the year seven boys went whilst some of the girls were still running. Then year eight girls then last of all that included me year eight boy's.

My final position was 103rd which was a slight disappointment as last year I got 74th but at least I tried to get a noble position for my liking.

Extinct Animal

Spinosaurus 

The Spinosaurus was found in the now North Africa with a average length of 12.6-18 meters. This giant surpod was one of the biggest carnivores between the Cretaceous period living only 112- 97 million years ago. The species of dinosaurs extinction was from the k-t extinction when a meteorite 180km wide came into Earth atmosphere then came plummeting towards the ground when it hit Earth it set off earthquakes, volcanos erupting and the sky covered in a think black smoke disabling plants growth then killing the herbisaurs then starving the carnivores. The reason the spinosaurus got its name was because of its extremely large spine that comes out of its back which could be use to cool itself down.

Graveyard Vist

On Friday 31st May, room 42 had an unusual visit to 17th ave cemetery. We went there to do our new statistics sample, there was many different options that we could do Kodi and I chose to see how many people had died of an unnatural death. We soon figured that the only people that had told you were killed in action aka soldiers. Miss campbell our teacher then told us to see what percentage of the cemetery where killed in each decade. Before our trip back to school we had to was our hands because of a maori tradition to was the tapu off you to become noa.

My Weekend

To the start of weekend the A hockey team had the first game that mattered towards winning. It started off as a team talk about our positions and I was annoyed to find that I was not going to be on for the start. Then we did our normal routine of exercises and stretches which came with heavy puffs, now time for turf warmup in a system from passing firmly to another person then they pass to another then to the last one and they hit the ball at the goal. Then our coach said that one of the players thats usually on the opposite side to the position left fullback would not be coming until last half. Which I was relieved to eventually go on turf. First half of the game came a lot of defending.

My Weekend

During the weekend I tried out for the hockey reps that was held all Sunday 16th June. The boys reps trials for U13 was held from 1pm-3pm. First we were split into four teams according to our numbers then had to do a twelve minute run around the hockey field which by estimate was 300m and I did eight point five laps which came to a total of 2.55km. Then our groups were split into doing pushing and hitting, mini games, stick work and dribbling. The group I was in had to do pushing and hitting I tried my best to make all my pushes firm and accurate aswel as my hits but at the end I was called back to do another hit which could be bad or good?

After my last hit we were moved to mini games and were put into positions that we played usually, the game went slowly for me at the start of the game as all the ball time was held on the right side of the field. Evidently one of the players in my team got told off for hogging the ball in such a short period of time and the ball was then evenly split all across the field of only 150m perimeter.

We were then moved again to go to dribbling and stick work when the previous game was sitting at 3-2 to us. We were ran through the drill then we got to do the drill without being timed in which I took my time, then we were to do it the fastest as we could go and by estimate I think I did it in about 1minute and 30 seconds. Whilst I was waiting I was trying out a newly accomplished trick, the reverse hit. Hitting the boundary softly aswel teaching the other boys how to do it by putting out your right leg and swinging at the ball at a diagonally down then leveling out when near the ball.  

Idiom

My idiom found: All bark and no bite

What it means: The saying means that someone can threaten you but will not do anything. As a dog does when you walk past I may look threatening by the bark but does not bite.

When can you use this idiom?: When someone is shouting at you but they can practically do nothing as they like said "before All bark and no bite."

Someone Different/Special

My Uncle Lammy

He has a small rough beard and hands stained of hard labour and is always cheerful by smiling at you even he though looks sad. He was named lammy because he was the youngest of the bunch and smallest. Although I dont know his real name but been told a few times. When I ask why he is like he is and my siblings they tell me that he liked the opposite sex and tried to commit suicide. When he talks he mumbles in a low unsatisfied tone but nice as if its accompanying. Always willing to help and never complains is what he does.

Charging Laptops At School

Well as you may not know Rimu students are not allowed to charge their laptops at school and this blog post is to give you the negatives and positives.

• What are the negatives of Rimu students charging their laptops at school?

Well the bill for charging the laptops for 6 hours and for 200 days a year comes to  a bill of $6450 in which case could be a good or bad.

People could trip with the numerous cords all around the classroom and fall over them or pull the laptop  with him/her.

• What are 2 of the suggestions for solving the problem?

We could charge our laptops during lunch as most computers would die around then and people wont get entangled with them.

We could have a charging station at the back of the classroom where only the people that have their laptop dead or dying could charge their laptop.

10 I Dont Knows

1. I wonder why humans have such a vien thought that he are the smartest animals on earth, chimpanzees  have smarter ideas then that of young children. How to get a pingpong ball out of a small tube and beside them they have a stick and a jug of water and guess what the chimpanzee got the ball out of the tube by pouring the water down the tube. The children were still there poking sticks down to try get it out.

1.Answer: N/A

2. I wonder how the universe has such a complex system as we have a sun and the sun spins around with a gravitational pull make every planet Mercury, Venus, Earth Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and last of all Pluto one of the newest discovered planets to our solar system spin around the sun and with other millions if not billions of different solar system.

2. Answer: N/A

3. I wonder how and why in the Arctic when you mine down say about 200m in the ice the next week the end of hole will not be reachable as the ice moves and will close part of it off. Some Arctic stations have been know to move 150 meters.

3. Answer: The magnetic north pole moves in loops at about 50 miles per day and the magnetic pole moves in about 25 miles per year. The pole has move about 685 miles in the last 150 years. The poles can switch and the last time they switched 780,000 years ago and has happened about 400 times in the last 330 million years.

4. I wonder how glass over hundreds or thousands of years would become uneven and make out a liquid like happening.

4. Answer Glass flows but it does not take hundreds or thousands of years but millions of years for you to be able to see any noticeable change. The room temperature is about 0.01poises and at that temperature it would take as said before millions of years. But behind my previous theory years ago glass makers could not make a perfectly flat piece of glass pain so they put the bigger end on the bottom so people thought it had turned to liquid then refroze.