Monday, May 05, 2008

Brenda Bellringer course

On the 30th of April Nina, Roma, Caterina and I went to a rally with our horses at the pony club grounds in Stratford. It was sort of a private rally but with only four people in the group not lots of people. On the first day it was pouring down with rain and since Roma and Caterina’s horses were at our friends place mum dropped Nina and I of first since we only have a double horse float. We were standing there in the rain for ages until Bev the person who ran the whole day said that we could put them in the barn.
We walked them over to the barn then we could not find a gate to get in or something. So we just stood there until this man came over. He found a way to get our horses in and then we stayed there until mum came with the other two and there ponies. A couple of minutes before mum came the man left and when mum came Nina and I tried to get our horses out the way the man did Shadow my horse got caught up on the wire and pulled and pulled. Since Nina was standing on the wire when Shadow went over Nina fell flat on her bum and then it was all dirty!!!!!
Once Shadow had got herself out of the wire both the horses were snorting and they were really scared. The same man came over to help us and so did Bev (the lady who ran the whole day.) when they got to the barn where we were they said to go and get ready while they fix the wire and make it look all tidy again!!!!!!! When we were leading them over to mum the horses where still snorting and they were really hyper!!!!!!!! I thought it was good until we actually started to work Shadow started to buck when I was on her but I was lucky not to fall of!!!! I was lucky not to fall of because we were in the sand arena and it was all wet but Shadow did not care!!!
On the first day there were two other kids that we knew with there horses that learnt with us but on the second day there was just the Polettis!!! Mum thought that the second day was better because the other girls were not there. (Mum also thought that they were rude because the kept on talking back!) on the frist day we learnt how to trot on the right diagonal witch was really hard because she asked us if we were or not but if we said yes and we were wrong she said NO and we had to sit one beet but I usually sat either 2 or 3 but I got there in the end.
After both the days we were really tired and so were the ponies but the quickly ate up the hard food that we gave them then we put them in the paddock and I think that they were happy then!

Monday, April 14, 2008

Tuesday 15th April

On Monday the 14th of April the year 8s went to the youth leadership conference. They were really excited but when they left it was all really quiet. (I think that they were the loudest in the school!) and then when we got home Nina rang up and she left a message because we went to town but on the message she said something about poor Johnny the crab he died so mum chucked him out so we thought that was pretty weird! Since mum was gone and we went to town to get some food but we also got DVDs and mum does not usually let us watch them on school nights but dad let us. Today they are coming home and I think that the school will be loud again but that will be ok.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Mackbeth

On Sunday Eila, Collin, Nina and I went to a Shakespeare play in Hawera. The play was called Macbeth and I was cool even though it was really hard to understand. I think it was hard to understand because they said it all in Shakespeare language! It started at 8:00 and when we got back into the car it was about 10:30 so when we got home it was 11:30 and Nina and I slept just about the whole way. I think that Macbeth was the 2nd play that I had gone to see. Eila said that it was written in a modern way so that it was easier to understand even though I still could not understand it. My favourite part of the play was when someone was knocking on the door and the Porter was going on and on about the knocking on the door witch was pretty funny! It was pretty obvious that he was drunk!

Sunday, April 06, 2008

My Last Horse Show On Sunny

Yesterday Nina, Roma, Caterina and I went to a horse show and I went on my horse Sunny and for dressage I came 1st against Nina, Roma and another girl I know called Sarah. For show jumping I refused once but then cleared the rest of the jumps and for cross country I got clear and on the last jump I caught up with Delilah and Nina because Delilah would not go over it because ‘it was to scary’ for her but luckily Sunny did not mind but once Sunny had jumped it Delilah followed her. Since we picked up Brooke on the way she got to have a couple of jumps when we had finished the show (even though I said a couple of jumps it was actually the whole round of the cross country!!!
Once we had really tried the horses out we had a sandwich and then loaded the Penny and Sunny up and Te Waiata and Delilah went with a friend of ours. Then we went home.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

ESSAY

I disagree that it is better living in the country because even though you get much fitter, fresh air, less pollution and we have more room to play sport, you can’t meet as many friends in the country as you can in the city or town. I think that the worst thing about living in the country is travelling to get to work and stuff like that. But you don’t have to travel as long if you live in the city or town.
Doing sport is hard for the people who live in the country because they have to travel further to get to everything and also you can’t play all the sports that you want to because it costs so much money for the petrol. Also it is so long to drive even though it is easier to get into a team.
The shops would get more money because people who live in the country have to save up so they get a lot of food. But if everybody thought that the country was better than the city the diaries and stuff would not get as many costumers and not very much money so they would all go out of business
I think that parents that live on the farm think that living in the country is way better then the city because on the farm there is cheaper meat, they can grow their own vegetables and they would also get to spend more time with their family because they are always at home. But then again if they are not getting enough money on the farm they would have to came to town every day to go to work and guess how much money they would spend on petrol!
I think that town schools are better because there are more friends to choose out of and there are school trips just about every year. There is the right amount of people to play different games at lunch. At most town schools there are dentists just over the road from the school so once the kids are done at the dentist they can just come back to school instead of travelling to the dentist every month or so.
Travelling is a problem for people who are living in the country because they have to travel further but if you live in the town then they can just walk down to the shop to get a few things and you would not have to use as much petrol as well.
As you have read in my Essay it is better living in the town because it does not cost as much and you can do as much sport as you want and don’t have to travel a long way to get to things and places.

Monday, March 31, 2008

OUR NEXT ODE

In the 6th of April Nina, Roma, Caterina and I are all going to a One day event. Caterina is going in the lead rein class and Nina Roma and I are going in the off lead rein class and there is no one else competing so Nina Roma and I are all competing against each other. So that means that we will all get a ribbon in my class because there is a 1st ,2nd and 3rd placing and there are only 3 people in our class. I don’t really no how Caterina will go because there are 5 more lead reiners and her horse had just gone to a big games day so she is really, really fit!!! (Caterina does not even want to ride her first because her horse is really fast so she might run out of the arena again like she did at her last show!)
This morning mum said that there was only going to be like 10 people there altogether because it is only a local One Day event and there is only going to be Eltham and Central Makahu Pony club there is well.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Monday 31st March

Yesterday my parents where so happy because it was raining we hardly did any thing because since it was raining and we have cough. But in the morning mum, Roma and I went to go and see if there were any possums in the traps. When we had finished we got 15 so since me and Roma helped mum we got $1 each possum so altogether we got $15 each. Since the track we went up was slippery mum was sliding on the bike down the hill, the bike was sliding towards the bank on the side of the track Roma had to get of and walk down the hill because other wise she would get a smoshed leg!!!
I got of any way because then Roma would not have to walk down the hill by her self!! When we were on the way down we were skidding down the hill and Roma just about fell over!!!!
When we got home dad was cooking lunch and Nina was playing on the computer and Caterina was watching. What Nina was playing was a online game called www.miniclip.com . when lunch was ready I quickly ate what was on my plate and then went over to the computer and I played the same game as Nina. Then when we had nothing to do we went to do some baking and then gave our horses their hard food and then cleaned up the house, had dinner and then went to bed.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

ESSAY

THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY SPORT IN THE WORLD…

I absolutely disagree with this statement lots of kids will be unhealthy. The kids will get board, lazy, fat and so unfit, even though their parents won’t have to get up early in the morning.
Not being allowed to play sport it would affect coaches because they would not get any money and would not be able to meet any new children.
It would affect the children the most by not getting strong and they would get uncoordinated because they would not get to play any thing new.
Even though people who don’t like playing sport would be happy but would not develop any new skills and would get absolutely unhealthy, unfit and they would also get very weak. Kids who love sport also would not be able to develop any skills when they are older.
Parents would not have to pay any money so they would be happy! But what about their kids? They would get fat and would not have anything to do.
As you have read in my essay that if there is no sport then the kids will get so unhealthy, I have explained who would get affected if there was no sport in the world. It is really important that we have sport so everybody can be healthier and much happier!!

Monday, February 11, 2008

Wendesday 8th August

Yesterday we went to Toko School to play for the Hurl-stone shield.
We played against Midhurst and we won 30-13 and I played WA for the whole game. We were in front the whole game.
When we had finished the game we went to the car to get some food that we brought and then we brought it back over to the hall to do the speeches and to have our lunch.
Since Nina was the captain she had to do a speech and once Nina had finished me and Kelly were saying to each other that we did not want to be a captain so then we did not have to do a speech! After that day was finished we only had one game left against Kimata so we are lucky

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

the three day horse treak

The second favourite thing that I did in the holidays was go on a 3 day horse treak with mum and Nina, Roma and Caterina. It was really fun even though our bums were sore when we had finished and so were the horses’ legs!
On the first of the treak we started at the campgrounds in wanga with 13 people and us four were the youngest!
Since people were still saddling up we left but they caught up with us because we had to wait for them at the gate in a huge paddock.
It was soooo annoying because when it was lunch time we had to wait until Jack Curtis got off his horse and we had to wait until Jack did this and wait until Jack does thatL but also he was the organizing the treak. But it was not him who told us to do it was our MOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!When we got to where we were going to stay the night the old people talked and we had dinner, had a shower and then went to bed.
In the morning I didn’t want to wake up because I was sooooo tired but I had to get up anywayL.
Once we had all got up we had breakfast and then got or ponies tacked up. Half way through the treak Sunny my pony was not behaving and not standing still and always standing on my feet when I got off her so when mum came me and mum swapped ponies cause mum was borrowing and pony off Jack because her horse had a sore foot. Her name was Julie.
When I got on her there were lots of hills and Julie just flew up them and even passed Caterina’s fast little pony Penny and man Penny is like a race car when she wants to be!!!!!!
On the third day I just could not get up but I had to and that was when we went over Jacks old fram and it was like we were on the top of the world because we were up so high!! The third day I think would be the bet day of the treak!

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

2nd November 2006

Yesterday Miss Worthington came to school because Mr Chapman and Miss Lewis had to go to the other room to learn about things that they could teach us. Miss Worthington said that were going to learn about chocolate. We got to make all sorts of things like a chocolate rapper. We got to name our rapper and my one was called Pretty Pony.

25th October 2006

On the 20th October 2006 Sunny had a foal. It had really long legs with white on them. The same as Sunny it had a white blaze and it was a chestnut as well.
At first we did not know a name for it but Nina that she will find a name for it at school. When we got to school our whole school was playing Tennis and Nina was looking throw the dictionary and she found some Mâori words in it. She found a word called Poni Poni (it means pony) or Hoi Hoi (it means horse.) or maybe Aataahua witch means beautiful. I said that I really liked Ataahua so did Roma and Caterina and when we got home and told mum and dad and then they liked that is well so that is wheat we named her.
On the 25th of October I got up to go and see if I could go and pat Sunny and she would not try and hurt me. We took them in to the yards and then mum showed me what she did with sunny first… what she did was get the carrot stick and then told me I should go and gat a carrot out of the fridge for Sunny if she is going to be good and do what we want her to do. When I got back mum held the carrot out and then Sunny came up to mum and then ate the carrot. When Sunny was eating the carrot mum got the carrot stick and then rubbed her with the carrot stick and sunny started moving her nose because that was her itchy spot! Then mum asked me if I wanted a go and I said yes and then I did the same thing as mum and Sunny was as good.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

20th october 2006

Yesterday Nina got her calf.
She was a big calf with bright white and black spots. She has a necklace with her name on the piece of string and her name was Molly. Otherwise Nina could have chosen Doris but she thought Molly was nicer. When we got Molly she was 4 days old that means that they can be taken of their mother. Mostly dairy farmers do that because when you have beef cows you do not have to take the calf off their mothers.

going to the Drakes mum's house

On Saturday we went to a five netball games and we lost three games and won two by heaps. Once we had finished all of our games Fiona took lots of photos of our netball team. Koren and Claire’s nana and Gran dad came to watch Koren and Claire play because Koren is in our netball team. Once we had done thanking all the people and the coaches me and Claire and Angus went in to the Porsche with their grandad and we followed Koren and Nina and Fiona and their Nana. On the way home Nina and koren were sticking there hand out and waving at any random person so me and Claire copied them. When we had stopped at a red light me and Claire turned around and waved at the lady behind us and she kept on waving back at us and we were counting how much people waved back at us so we had about five people in our counting list. When we had got home we had something to eat and then Koren and Claire’s nana and grandad left we got UN packed and changed in to some nicer clothes that did not smell. Then we went down to the car and waited until Fiona had found her keys. Then we went to centre city and tried looking for some tight jeans for Claire but they were really expensive because Fiona had only given Claire, Koren and Angus $10 each but our dad gave us $20 each to spend. Once centre city had closed we waited for Fiona and Angus to come and pick us up and go to the warehouse and get some lollies to have while we watch the movies. When we had got out of the warehouse we went to the DVD shop to get some movies to watch. We got two one of them was called Flicka and the other one we got was called sisterhood and trust me that one was disgusting but we thought it would be a horror but it was disgusting. Flicka was a hose movie and it made me and Koren cry. That night we stayed up until 2.45 in the morning. When we got up in the morning we watched Charles angles1 and then we got dressed and went to go and get some tickets for a movie called the Sipsons. It was a really funny. Once we had done that we went to the shop with paintings in it and then we went to the book shop and then we went home and I was really tired!

9th october 2006

My Holidays

On Monday dad just told us that Roma and Caterina were going to Wellington to visit our Aunty Kay and Uncle Walter.
That night Sharna rang and asked if Nina wanted to come and stay. So one Tuesday was all alone with Mum. Because dad had to take Roma and Caterina to Wellington.
So on Monday we were all alone. But something was weird because mum had lost her voice. So it sort of sounded like she was whispering really quietly.
When we were going to move three cattle because they had not had any calves yet.
That day I had to go to Sam’s place because mum had to do her bills.
In the afternoon we made popcorn but when we had put the popcorn in we thought it was all ready but we forgot to turn the switch on and it took us a while but then I found out what had happened!
When the popcorn had finished making we got the icing sugar and put it on the popcorn then we took it out side to eat it. (We ate it out side so then the icing sugar would not go all over the floor.
When we had got outside and started eating the popcorn since Mitchell had got first pick and what he did was get the popcorn with icing sugar on it and then he would lick the icing sugar off the popcorn and then he would put the popcorn back into the bowl. (That is why I did not have that much.)
Around 5:00pm mum came to pick me up but first she wanted talk with Sam and Will so I watched TV with Maddy and Mitchell.
When we got home we feed the calves and lambs and then when I got inside mum was just about finished making the dinner I started the movie up(because mum does not know how.) The movie we were going to watch was called Hildgo.
When we were watching the movie we had our dinner watching it and then after the movie we had to go to bed.
The next day dad came home in the night and Mr Chapman and Jenny and Hannah came for dinner. During dinner Sue Woodruff rang to say that Nina was not feeling to well so mum had to pick her up.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

20th september 2006

20th September 2006

Yesterday Nina got her calf.
She was a big calf with bright white and black spots. She has a necklace with her name on the piece of string and her name was Molly. Otherwise Nina could have chosen Doris but she thought Molly was nicer. When we got Molly she was 4 days old that means that they can be taken of their mother. Mostly dairy farmers do that because when you have beef cows you do not have to take the calf off their mothers.

7th september 2006

7th September 2006

On Sunday after lunch we rode our horses and ponies because we had to go mustering.
First, what we had to do was to get them in and brush them and pick out there hooves. We had to do that because if they had a stone in their foot it would be really, really sore. That would be really, really bad. Next we had to get the saddle blanket and saddle and put it on their back. Then we tightened the girth.
By the time we had got on, mum was ready to go is well so we went mustering.

If i could do anything in the holidays it would be...

In the holidays if I could do one thing that was really, really cool and I did not do it these holidays, it would be…
Going to see our cousins in Australia because I only get to see then only once every couple of years. When I get there the whole family would be there to greet me. We would get my bags and then get into the car and then go to the swimming pools to get refreshed. We would stay there for about one hour. Once everybody had been refreshed we got changed back into our clothes and then got back into the car and then go back to there house for lunch because I was starved because I had nothing on the plane and only just a little pie before I left the new Plymouth airport.
When we got to there house they told me where to sleep and where the toilet was and all of that stuff and then we went to see the horses because I love horses and there whole family loves horses to. (by the way Uncle Duncan is a really, really good horse rider).
When we got there I saw the horses and even got to ride one. It was fun at the start but then when I wanted it to canter after a while it must have either got scared or excited and it bucked me of. ): and then they told me that the horse that bucked me off was the one that had not been ridden for a while and I did really well.
After that we went back home again and put some ice on my forehead because it was really sore when I had fallen off.
When my head got better we went to the swimming pools again because we all really wanted another swim. When we got to the pools we went on to the slides first and then we did lots of jumping in and diving and then we played just in the pool. We played tag and stuck in the pool! When we got board of those games we went to play in the waves and then we went to the spa because the pools place had every thing you could dream of when it came to water! (Even there was a current and a real strong one to.)
Once we got out of the pool and we got all dry and got out of our togs and into our clothes and then got back in to the car and went to Sydney. when we got to Sydney we first went to movie world and then we went to sea world and then we went to lots of other places that I can not remember.
It was about 5.00 when we got back home so when we got home we had fish and chips and then we watched a movie and then we had dessert and then we went to be. When I got into bed it was really comfy so I fell asleep real easy.
In the morning we got up at about 10.00 and we went to a horse trek. And I went on the horse that bucked me off yesterday. It was a one day trek so we only rode and stopped at this little spring and since we had to bring our own lunch we had lunch there and when we had finished we got back on our horses again and carried on with the trek. when we got home it was 7.00 and we went to a flash place for dinner and it was really nice. When we got home we went to bed we were all really tired.
In the morning we went to the air port to go and get Nina because she had just been to our half brother’s place. (I can not remember where he lives but it is a long way away from our house!)
When we got to the air port Nina was waiting for us for about 5min because the plane left a bit earlier then it was spouse to. Since Nina was tired she was a bit grumpy but she was happy to see our aunty and Uncle and our cousins. But she was especially happy to see me. (Well that was what I thought but I do not think she thought that.) Once we had picked up her bags we put them into the car and went home because Nina especially was waiting for riding and looking at the horses (of course!).
When we had got home we went straight to the horses but I had to wait until I had packed my bags because I was going to our half brother’s house the next day while Nina stayed at our cousins.
When I had got packed I went to the horses just in time to see Nina get bucked of the same horse that got me off! She was a bit disappointed that she got bucked off because when I had got there I pretended to say that when that horse tried to buck me of I stayed on.
The next day when I went to the airport the plane was cancelled so Nina and I just went home but she was a bit angry but missed her parents. So when Nina had stopped complaining we got on the plane and went home.

Monday, September 03, 2007

horse riding

On Friday after the speeches when we got home we did some baking and then we went to get our horses. My horse is called Sunny.
When we got our horses I did some work on her and then I got on bareback. I had to do some work on her she is a little bit green witch means the she is a little bit wild.
When Roma and Nina had got on their horses we did a little bit of jumping and then we went up our farm to go and do some more jumping over the logs.
When we were trotting around we saw lots of lambs crying out for their mothers but they could not find them but I think when we left to go home they got back with their mothers and shut the gobs.
When we got home we had to straight away give them a feed and brush them and go to the hopkirks for dinner. When we got there we had some dinner and then we watched a movie that none of us liked and then we watched a movie that we all liked and then we had pudding and went home and

Monday, August 27, 2007

Going to Koren and Claire's house

On Saturday we went to a five netball games and we lost three games and won two by heaps. Once we had finished all of our games Fiona took lots of photos of our netball team. Koren and Claire’s nana and Gran dad came to watch Koren and Claire play because Koren is in our netball team. Once we had done thanking all the people and the coaches me and Claire and Angus went in to the Porsche with their grandad and we followed Koren and Nina and Fiona and their Nana. On the way home Nina and koren were sticking there hand out and waving at any random person so me and Claire copied them. When we had stopped at a red light me and Claire turned around and waved at the lady behind us and she kept on waving back at us and we were counting how much people waved back at us so we had about five people in our counting list. When we had got home we had something to eat and then Koren and Claire’s nana and grandad left we got UN packed and changed in to some nicer clothes that did not smell. Then we went down to the car and waited until Fiona had found her keys. Then we went to centre city and tried looking for some tight jeans for Claire but they were really expensive because Fiona had only given Claire, Koren and Angus $10 each but our dad gave us $20 each to spend. Once centre city had closed we waited for Fiona and Angus to come and pick us up and go to the warehouse and get some lollies to have while we watch the movies. When we had got out of the warehouse we went to the DVD shop to get some movies to watch. We got two one of them was called Flicka and the other one we got was called sisterhood and trust me that one was disgusting but we thought it would be a horror but it was disgusting. Flicka was a hose movie and it made me and Koren cry. That night we stayed up until 2.45 in the morning. When we got up in the morning we watched Charles angles1 and then we got dressed and went to go and get some tickets for a movie called the sipsons. It was a really funny. Once we had done that we went to the shop with paintings in it and then we went to the book shop and then we went home and I was really tired!