Sophie's Blog!!! :)

Hi it’s me Sophie. Sorry I haven’t written for a while but my class is doing wikispaces now so heres the link if anyone wants to see it!   http://studentwork-tai3.wikispaces.com    I might add the part 2 of Random Story when I’m in a writing mood! Bye for now. Sophie

“Rise and shine, Sunny, its a beautiful day for your first day at Honey-Rose Intermediate!” said Mum. “I don’t wanna go!!!” Sunny moaned, pulling the duvet back over her head. Sunny hated school and since she had to start a new school, the 4th one this year, she was sure she would hate it even more. “Sunny,” said mum putting on her stern voice,”You know this is a great opportunity to have a fresh start, turn over a new leaf.” “Just like the fresh start that we had last time we moved.” Sunny grizzled, getting up, she knew it would end in, yet another fight. She pulled on the uniform, a green and white checked skirt and a white top, gross.  She brushed her hair and went to re-dye it. In the bathroom she brushed her teeth then went to get the red hair dye, it was gone. “Mum where’s my hair dye?” she shouted down to her mother. Her mother came up the stairs, “Sunny, you don’t need hair dye, I threw it out, new start remember.” “Aaaarg!” Sunny groaned, she looked in the mirror, her hair was an ugly shade of pink her least favourite colour, ‘no way’ sunny thought. She would just have to put up with it until she could buy some more dye. Once she had some breakfast she said “Mum, you can’t make me do this.” “Just go.” her mum sighed. Sunny sulked out the door and walked round the block 4 times, just so she could be late. At the school office she signed in, went through the necessary details then went to room 5b.

The class all turn to look at her, the newbie with pink hair, she glared at them. “Welcome to Honey-Rose, you must be Sandy!” said the teacher with a big, fake grin. ”It’s Sunny” Sunny corrected. “Yes it is lovely sunny weather, isn’t it Sandy?” her teacher smiled. “My name is Sunny.” Sunny corrected the teacher, again. “Oh I’m ever so sorry, San.. Sunny. I’m Ms de-Hoppy.”the teacher said, showing her to her desk. “This is where you’ll sit, next to Billy, he can show you around, wont you Billy.” The nerdy boy with big glasses and buck teeth, who apparently was Billy, turned to her with a big smile, great, Sunny thought sarcastically. “Hi, would you like to be my friend?” Billy the nerd asked her. Great, thought Sunny, just great.

My holidays were pretty average, but my favourite part was when me, my mum, my brother and my nan went to Auckland to see my relatives and for my brother’s birthday. When we got to Auckland we went straight to see the new Harry Potter movie (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) which was cool. Then we went to where we were staying, my auntie Jude and uncle Tony’s house. They have three schnauzer (kind of dog with a furry mouth) who are really cute, Clancy (the oldest), Molly (the youngest and most energetic) and Kruger (Molly’s dad, the middle one). The next day we woke up early and went to go ten pin bowling with my aunties and my cousin. We were first to get so we got sorted and then my auntie Vicki and cousin Kendall got there my auntie said that there was a someone outside from a radio station. We went outside and saw a guy from The Edge, my brother said ‘do you have anything free to give us?’ and so we played this dice game where if you said evens and you rolled an even number, or odd and you rolled an odd then got a prize. Kendall went first and didn’t get anything, then Greg (my bro went) no luck, then it was my turn, I said even, Irolled a 2. I won a free Creme magazine (yay)! We played 2 games of ten pin bowling and Greg won the first and then I won the second. I had a really good time in Auckland seeing my relatives again and ten pin bowling. Also in the holidays I saw Ice Age 3 with my friend Lizzy.

If you have read some of the other posts about the kittens that I had been looking after, you will probably know that my kitten is called Dora and she is the most adventurous kitten I have ever met! She is around 4 and 1/2 months YOUNG and she soooo lives up her name, (she was named after Dora the explorer)! If something, for example: a finger, a string, or for that matter nearly anything that is hanging or getting in her way, she will bite it and try to kill it. I just dropped a pen on the floor and she instantly comes and is curious about it. We have recently been leaving her outside for the night, but she usually tries to find a way in. We also have another cat who is an adult, older than me in human years, and when Dora first joined the family, he was not happy, not at all! But now he has grown to like her company and she even gets the old fella up on his legs chasing her around like there’s no tomorrow! Dora has had many adventures, but her most adventurous one was when it was late at night and we were going to put her in her bedroom for the night but we couldn’t find her. We walked all the way up our street , calling her name, and we suddenly heard her bell (it’s really loud, you could hear it a mile away!) by one of the neighbours’ houses. We called and called but we couldn’t get her to come. So we went round the back of our granny flat and called under the hedge, suddenly out came Dora!!! There you are, we said, we’ve been looking for you all around. Dora is the best kitten ever and she is sooooo fun and now I can’t imagine what it would be like without her! Love you Dora!!!!

I’ve seen this post on other people’s blogs and I thought I might as well try it out.( Not in any particular order)

(1) Go to a poor country somewhere and donate things to poor families. ( Since I did the 40 hour famine I have thought that this would be a really cool thing to do, life changing)

(2) Go up the Eiffel tower in Paris. (Either walk or go up the lift, depends)

(3) See the famous Mona Lisa painting in France. ( That would be sooooo cool)

(4) Paint a  painting that is nearly as big as me. ( Maybe just of heaps of colours and patterns)

(5) Bake a giant chocolate chip cookie. (like the size of an oven)

(6) Have a pet axolotl. ( Mexican walking fish, that would be awesome!) 

(7) Write a letter to the prime minister. (John Key, or whoever is prime minister when I choose to write the letter)

(8) Learn how to ski. (Then go to a snowy mountain and ski all the way down!)

(9) Learn how to ice-skate and roller-skate. ( I’ve never tried ice-skating but I hope to one day)

(10) Celebrate my 100th birthday! ( Now that, would be cool!)

These aren’t the only things I want to accomplish but I hope I can do as many exciting things in my life as possible.

Today I went to the Field Days at Mystery Creek because it is teacher only day at school.  We left around 10:30am dressed in our warm wet-whether clothes and set off for the  Field Days, this was the first (and probably last) Field Days I’ve been to. There were lots  of stalls that were like mini shops that were just selling stuff like farming equipment and things like that , but there were also heaps of people giving away free bags, pens, and things like that which had brand or business’s names on that were advertising their businesses. The Field Days was a good experience but I think it is more for farmers. I did get some cool things from there including a woolly hat, a scarf, some gloves ans some bags and pens advertising.

On Tuesday me and most of the TAI hockey team went to Hamilton at the hockey turf beside Innes Common to play in a 1 day hockey tournament against other intermediate hockey teams. We were in Pool 2 and so the other teams that we were against were Matamata, Tokaroa, Melville and Fairfeild and we lost all our games. We didn’t score any goals throughout the whole day but it was a really hot and tiring day for all of us and we all did our best even though it was hard. I play the position of right wing and it’s really fun. Our team has a really cool coach who teaches us rules and helps us to get better at hockey. Hockey is one of my favourite sports and I hope that I can get better at it and I’m going to practice lots so I can be a great hockey player and help my team to win  some games. We have a hockey game on Friday night and I hope that we will be able to put our losing streak  behind us and have a good game and hopefully win! Seya

 At the Zion Wildlife Park in Whangarei, New Zealand a zookeeper (Dalu Mncube) was attacked and mauled to death by a rare white tiger. This was a disaster at the lion park last week and about 10 people saw the man being attacked, about 8 of them were tourists! This was the second time this rare white tiger had attacked a staff member except last time the man wasn’t killed, just very badly injured. The tiger had to be put down because it killed someone. I don’t think they should have killed the tiger since it is endangered, I think they should have just put the tiger in isolation for a while. But since this is the second attack the tiger has made I understand why they had to put it down, so it wouldn’t happen again. If white tigers become extinct, it will be very sad since they are very amazing animals. I am very sad that the outcome of the attack was death and I hope the tiger was very ashamed of itself and sorry that it killed someone. I think the keepers that go into the tiger’s cages should be ready incase the tiger should attack. I also think that since this particular tiger had attacked someone before they shouldn’t have let the keepers be in the situation that the zookeeper Dalu Mncube was in. This New Zealand wildlife park is the park that the popular T.V series’ The Lion man’ was filmed at and Dalu Mncube had appeared on the show a few times. I hope that an incident like this never happens again and I hope the White tigers don’t become extinct if this does happen again.

The 40 hour famine is a World Vision thing where you can live like the people in less fortunate countries like having no food for 20 or 40 hours. Or not using technology for 40 hours and things like that. You get sponsored to do the famine and then the money that you raise goes to the  people in the poor countries. I did the 40 hour famine with my friend Hannah, we chose to do the one where we live like refugees for 20 hours in a cardboard box only eating rice, barley sugars and drinking water or Just Juice. ‘What do you want for breakfast ?’Hannah said, ‘rice, rice or RICE!’ It was hard for 3 main meals only having rice but we did it because people in the less fortunate countries would have to do it for there whole life not just 20 hours. I learned to be thankful for what we have here because in some countries they have near to nothing. I hope the money that I raised while doing the 40 hour famine will go to some less fortunate people to make there lives a bit easier because I’m sure that they deserve it for all they’ve been through.