Summer Learning Journey 2017-2018 Day 1 Activity 2

 Lord of the Rings
It cost 300 Million Dollars to produce the Lord of the Rings movies. Instead of producing movies, I would spend it on:

• I would buy my own Island and name it Willopolis, population - unknown as I would invite all of my family and friends and those who need shelter.  It would be interesting to see who would come with me!
• Next a mansion to go on Willopolis but also I would make sure that everyone on the island had somewhere to live and a job to do as well as being well fed.
• A garage for all my fast cars - McLaren P1 and Tesla Model S
• With all this money you might start not to exercise so I would make sure that people had bikes to stay fit, like an Intense Tracer and the Santa Cruz V10.
• I would also have available a tennis court, a rugby pitch, a cricket ground all to be able to be used.
• I would then save what I have left and donate it to the sport teams that I sponser eg. Crusaders, Canterbury Rugby and Blaketown Rugby team (my rugby team now!)

Summer Learning Journey Activity 2 Day 5

Flying cars
Today's question was, your family is deciding on a new car and you have just learnt to drive. So...

If I'm not reading about rugby, I'm reading about cars, so I know quite a lot about this topic which is why I have detoured my thought to this.

This is a life sized Tonka version of my favorite toy car, the Toyota Hilux.  It was made for the 80th birthday of Toyota and the 70th birthday for Tonka.  I would choose this because it is built to take a hammering, which is good when you live on the West Coast! Another thing is that it has a huge engine providing lots of horsepower and torque. It has a 6mm thick bash plate underneath so nothing will hurt its ginormous engine which produces 174 horsepower and 420 Nm torque. To match it, it has 35 inch diameter wheels which has a lift kit, this can lift you 150mm higher. This is the ultimate truck and I know that my dad would really enjoy driving this truck when we are 4wd into remote rivers.  I don't think that my mum would enjoy it as it is too big for her!  I would definitely drive this!

Summer Learning Journey 2017-2018 Day 5 Activity 1

Your Future Self.
In this activity we had to take a moment to look at our future self. 

After I finish High School I would like to go to university and do media studies as I would like to get into Sports Commentary. Then later on work for companies such as Sky TV doing rugby and cricket commentary. Later on I would like to travel overseas and be a broadcaster for sports events such as the Olympics, Rugby World Cup and everything in between!

Summer Learning Journey 2017-2018 Day 4 Activity 2- Country Calender

Country Calendar
I absolutely love Country Calendar. Every Sunday at 7 pm, with no fail my brother and I watch country calendar! It is definitely one of my favourite TV shows!
The question is, what do I think is interesting and challenging about farming?

The interesting things are:

• The size of machinery has changed. Tractors, ploughs etc are now bigger and more powerful
• Working with animals is interesting because most people work with people.
• The technology has changed farming a lot, to farmers it has made it easier. For example the dog collar. Farmers use this technology to control their dogs on the farm. On their phone will be an app which connects to a chip in the dogs body which allows you to control your dog.

The challenging things are:

• That you may feel isolated as many farms are a good couple of kilometers out of towns/cities. 
• The size of farms can make it difficult to manage
• Each day your job changes. For example, you could milk the cows on one day and the next day you could be planting crops.
• That the weather changes. You could be baking in the sun planting. the next day it could be raining really heavy. 

Another question was, when you are older would you like to be a farmer. My answer is, yep, certainly. My farm would be a sheep farm. I have my own sheep who had lambs this year! We have 1 Ram, 4 Ewes and each of these ewes had 1 lamb each. So this is good practice for when I am older.

Summer Learning Journey 2017-2018 Day 3 Activity 2- Migration

Migration.
This activity is Day 3 of Week 4 and is activity 2. This activity involves migration. Migration, for example means: You migrate from a different country (say Germany) then if you want to, you can migrate to any country of the world. Although you can't migrate to the country you already live in!

My home town is Greymouth, on the West Coast. 

It rains quite a bit! So if you were coming here even during summer, make sure you bring a raincoat!

The best thing about my town is that there are a lot of bike tracks for people to enjoy, just like me!

If you were thinking of coming to Greymouth, you have to visit:

• A farm
• Go to one of our beaches
• And get wet!

Also in Greymouth there is a lot of places to go from as inland as the Otira Viaduct to the beautiful seaside coast as far north as Karamea and as far south as Haast.

Summer Learning Journey 2017-2018. Day 2, Activity 2

Day 2, Activity 2.

This activity involves your sporting heroes. Mine was really hard I have so many. These are my many sporting heroes.

• Tim Bateman
• Richie Mo'unga
• Reiko Ioane
• Colin De Grandhomme
• Rafeal Nadal

But my real sporting hero is Ardie Savea. Here are my reasons why he is my sporting hero.

He plays my favourite sport, Rugby!

He is the same position as me so I learn a lot from him from breakdown skills to effective tackling. 

He is a regular Hurricanes starting forward for the Hurricanes, All Blacks & the Wellington Lions. 

Ardie has 50 Hurricanes points, 20 All Blacks points & 80 Provincial points.

Summer Learning Journey 2017-2018 Day 2, Activity 1

Day 2, Activity 1.
Today we had to right down 3 facts that we didn't know about Richie McCaw. These are mine.

• He made his provincial debut in 2000 for Canterbury against North Harbour. Where 17 years later he had 34 Canterbury caps.
• Richie made his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders back in 2001, against the Hurricanes. He managed to get 110 caps for the Crusaders.
• Richie made his All Blacks debut on the 17 of November 2001 vs Ireland at Dublin. His All Blacks cap tally hit 148 before he retired from rugby in 2015.
• He has 135 test points with 27 tries over 14 years of playing for the All Blacks.