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Another thing I heard last night was on close Up about bus routes having to change down South near Timaru because of the different schooling area. The story is this For ages kids have been catching there bus outside there driveway and getting a ride to school. This bus they hop on is called the Beaconsfield school bus and goes out every morning. Now there has been made a cut off area because Cammingtonschool doesn’t want the Beaconsfeild bus coming over to there area. So the children either have to be dropped off at school by their parents or go to Cominternschool. Close Up went over to there school and had a talk to Sandi Abel Beaconsfeild principal. She drew a diagram on the board and showed where the cut off points were. it cut off alot of the children from her school to go on the bus. Close Up then talked to Ben Lee the Cammington schools principal. He said that they have 27 children in there school and if they fall behind 25 they can only have one teacher and over 25 they can have two teachers. He also said that those two children matter alot and more children in there would be beneficial, but not in those words. Alot of other schools have already said that beaconsfeilds bus can go into their area to pick up kids and drop kids off, but Cammington school aren’t budging. I personally think this imature of Cammington because it is the parents dicision of where their children go to school and obviously they have chsenBeaconsfeild for whatever. So i thinkthat Cammmignton school should give upand let Beaconsfeilds bus go wherever it needs to go. what do you think
While I was watching the news last night there came up a thing about labour and National. It was said that John key the leader of the Nation party thought that Helen Clark s trying to hard to get votes for her party, well that’s the way I understood it. Helen Clark thought that John Key was wasting his time sending troops off to Iraq and calculated that 60 people have died, but in fact it was only 55 people that had died and if she had calculated properly I think there shouldn’t have been a huge debate over it. We all know that both leaders want to win, but it’s not what they do by helping people and sending people off. it’s that they want to do it for the country not the votes and criticism to each other. well that’s what I think and if I was allowed to vote I wouldn’t vote for any one who’s trying to win for themselves and not our country. What do you think?
On Wednesday the third of September. I toke the long trip up to Auckland for our Te Awamutu and Belmont’s annual sport exchange. It toke us about one and a half hours to get to mercer where we had lunch. Then about another one and a half hours until we got to Belmont Intermediate. On the way to Belmont Intermediate we went under a bridge and saw a person living under it everyone on the bus were excited and all stared until we couldn’t see him. Also on the way up we had the pleasure of Patrick, Deon, Aaron, Campbell and a few others singing. when we got there we put all our bags in a room up at their tech block then went down and lined up outside the hall. When we walked in we had the whole school singing and kind of dancing as we walked up the aisle. When we sat down we got a welcme in Maori from Belmont’s principal Mr Summerville, then Tyrone said something next one of their boys said smething and we then sang E Hara. I thought we were pretty loud as well. After they did soething elsethey then filled out and the billets came in to get us. My billet as called Hayley. We didn’t really talk much at school but at her house we did. When we got to Hayley’s house we had some afternoon tea. They had two Japanese people there that had lived there before the mum was called Hiromi and the son Hiroki. The father was back in Japan working and it was Huroki’s first time in New Zealand. We played out side nearly all afternoon and soon enough Hayley’s dad came home. His name was Andrew. After a while we went inside and played cadoo. At about 5:30 Hayley’s mum Adelle came home and then Hayley’s uncle and aunty came and also her nanna. For dinner we had fish and chips and watched Cadet Kally as we ate. After that all finnished we said goodbye to evreyone and went to bed. The next day we woke up and got ready for school we got to school by 8:30 and went to the hall. One of our teachers Mr Denise was shocked that there school started at 8:40 and had organised for the bus to take us to Ice skating to come at 9:20 so we had to wait a while. When the bus finally came we climbed aboard and left for the Ice skating rink. When we got there it was frezzing and silly me I hadfwore shorts. I fell over a total of 5 times when I was there and wasn’t the best at Ice skating. We were all relieved to get outside in the warmth and we piled back onto the bus again. Soon enough we were back at school and had lunch and got ready for sport. For basketball we had to play against boys because Mr denise had mucked up so we played mixed teams and the boys were a bit greedy. In the end of the whole competition we won 8 and a half to 6 and a half. After school my billets family let me take there camera and I toke photo’s of what I wanted in devonport. I toke alot of photo’s of the sky tower because I had never seen it bafore. We also went to a dairy and got a two and a half scoop Ice cram and went to there chocolate place and got to choose a chocolate my one was mint flavoured. Afer that we went up mount Vic and saw Piri on the way up and Patrick and deon at the top. Patrick and Deon were sliding down the side of mount Vic on cardboard and i had a couple of tries. For dinner we had Subway then got ready for the disco. The disco was fun and I had and I had an awesome time. After the disco we toke a bit more picturs of the sky tower in the dark and went up mount vic again{We couldn’t get up it though}. When we got home we had se chips and went to bed. In the mourning I gave my hosts a present and said thank you heaps. They gave me a disc with all my pictures on and a soccer ball. When I left everyone hugged me and said goodbye. We had to go to our billets class room. Then at 9:30 we went into their hall for a final assembly. They sit in their houses. They showed a film and both head students said a bit. Our head student Angus then went up and said a few things. They gave us a present then sang their school song. At the end end of the assembly we sang build me up buttercup. Then we had our morning and after that all grabbed our bags and climbedonto the bus. We stopped at mercer again to have lunch and swap buses. It was a long trip home and lots of people fell asleep. Finally we were back at school and everyone was happy to get off the bus mainly becausesomebody had farted and it stunk but also because we were finally home. Mum picked me up soon and I went home and fell asleep and sleep for ages. The End
Guess what? We came second in the Te Awamutu Netball centers C grade competition. We were up at half time to the TAS Spartans, but then they pulled through. In the end they won 24-19. It was the hardest game we had ever had and we tried our very best. I got lots of intercepts and played the hardest game I could. I had the hardest player on court as my GD but that didn’t matter. All that matter was that i had fun and I did. At the end of the game it was a bit stink that we lost, but we looked at the happy side. We had come second!! We waited there till prize giving. At prize giving we had to wait a while until we got to go up. Then it was called out” And for runners up in C grade TAI Soldiers” We were so happy. We got lovely smelling candles as a prize and were buzzing about it. After prize giving we all went home and Mum brought me and Michelle a frozen Coke it was the best day ever.
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