skiing 2014

As we drive up the windy track of forest I can just see a faint glimps of the Mountain ahead! After I weave my way through the crowded rental place I find my way out to the cold Mushey Mountain. The sun shimmers onto the cold wet blanket of snow down beneath. Click .... Click as my ski's bind into the hard ski buckles. The White glossy powder slush's around as my ski's glide down the mountain. The wind travelles behind you nudging you as you fly down the tall mountain. My long ski's follow my lead as I parallel ski down. I was practicing doing wide s turns down the hill to help slow me down. Charlotte and I hop straight onto the chairlift. It feels like you are floating when it takes you away up high. We jump of in a rush and push our way over to our lesson!

Lorde Essay

Ella Yellich-O Conner (AKA) Lorde was born on November the 7th 1996 in Takapuna. She was raised in The big city Auckland. She was brought up in a family of 6 with 2 sisters and 1 brother. She is now 17 she started singing in earlier years. Her mother was a poet and they had heaps of books and Lorde said, "Poetry has always been a big thing for me, arguably more so then music" but it didn't stop there. She made her poetry useful for other things and she won her Annual School Talent Contest at the age of 12. She sang a rock song by Ritchie Blackmore!  Her performance was then sent to Record Producers. They were amazed at what talent the young girl had and decided that they would love to work with her. She is a very inspiring person because she is young and talented. Lorde has inspired me because I am trying to do the same thing I am in shows and writing my own songs, but I don't live in a family of 6!!

When she writes her songs she trys to put meaning into them.
She loves to inspire others with her songs. Her main goal in her songs is to tell people to believe in themselves! I love her song 'Tennis court'. When you listen to it you would think it is just a song with wacky lyrics but really it is telling you a message!She writes songs about things that can inspire people.Her song Tennis Court was released on the 8th of June. Her song was played during the BBC sport coverage of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships - Women singles final!  In her song 'Team' she included what she lived like as a child
"We live in cities you'll never see on screen
Not very pretty but we sure know how to run free
Livin' in ruins of the palace within my dreams
And you know we're on each other's team"
Lorde is inspiring to me because she started music at such a young age and kept at it. With her hard work ethic she has won 19 awards and been nominated for 56!! She was awarded song of the year for her song, 'Royals', and also Best Vocal Performance, These awards she got in 2014.
Lorde has inspired young children to follow their dreams and that your age doesn't matter. If you want to be a successful singer you need to be hard working and be able to handle what ever challenges rise ahead of you! Lorde writes her own songs. Of course she has a team that could help her but she prefers to write them herself to show that she is really Lorde!

 In her song 'Royals', she is telling everybody that they should be proud of who they are and not to try be anybody else.  Lorde likes to describe herself as naturally her. Lorde says that she is sick of women covering themselves with make up. Lorde likes to wear nothing but her own skin. When she does preform she wears not much; only black lipstick and eyeliner to show that that is who she likes to be!
Lorde had a hard time with people bullying her online about her being true to herself. People were saying that she was ugly with her pimples. But Lorde stood strong for what she believed in and she knew it couldn't last forever. But also she had lots of people who were proud of her and were congratulating her for believing in herself!
What she believes is that she doesn't like to cover up the real Lorde.  Lorde being herself can inspire many, I am one of many, because it is very good to be true to yourself and Lorde knows that she can set an example for others! I am going to try follow in her foot steps and be who I want to be because anyone can be anything or anyone they want to be.

Netball season

This Year Apiti, Colyton and Bunnythorpe combined to put in an intermediary grade Netball team.
This was a great experience to meet and play with other year 7&8 students. An example of this was at one of our games we all learnt how to play as a team and use everybody skills and because of that we won 28-6.
I found it a useful way to show my netball skills and meet new people. I thought that we all settled to each other as a team very well. Everyone had their own skills and everyone learnt to play the same game. It was great to try a variety of different positions!
We started being down there and still working on team play to being way up there and reading the game properly. My favourite position to play was GD because my height came into good use there. It took us a couple of weeks to develop strategies but when we did we were on fire. It was great to try a different mixed team!