For the past couple of weeks we have been making a peace of creative writing. I was working on improving my gramer and in the sample below I think I have improve, quite a bit. I enjoyed writing this because it just takes my mind off everything and my head disappears into its on little world. The next thing that I want to work on is my punctuation. 

Here is the sample text – 

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling droopy and under the weather, well I didn’t feel myself. I grabbed some headache medicine and a tall glass of ice cold water, I put the pill on my tongue and swallowed it down. I layed down in bed and stayed awake for ages and I couldn’t get back to sleep                                                                                                “Why me?” I said to myself, I got back out of bed a sat on the bean bag on the balcony, I hoped that fresh air would help “Hey, you alright?” I heard Val from behind me                                                                                                                            “Oh, uhmm, yeah fine” I was clearly not fine cause I was laying on the bean bag with my head drooped over the back of it.                                                                                                                                                                                                             “How did  you know I was out her” I looked at her confused                                                                                                             “I have ears you know, It’s not like I can hear you clanging around” She looked at me quite blankly, she looked at me, shrugged and walked off back to bed, I think I should do that too. So I stood up and closed the door behind me and walked back into my bedroom to continue my sleep. As the sunlight flooded my room, my eyes turned light, I knew that I had to wake up eventually.                                                                                                                                                        “Breakfast, Breakfast, what to have?” I said to myself, I grabbed some cereal out from the cupboard and a bowl, poured it in with some milk and sat on the couch eating my breakfast                                                                                                 “Save any for me?” Val said, letting a small chuckle. I heard footsteps outside the door followed by a knock.            “Who could that be?”  I walked up to the door and opened the door to see Mrs. Fallpawn, our principal.                   “Good morning, I have something to say to Valerie Kinsman” I let her in standing to the side, she told me to go into my room and shut the door, and I did exactly that. I waited for ages and ages until finally I heard the front door shut and Val opening my door with a red face and her eyes welling up.                                                                                                         “I got suspended” She crashed on my bed and I sat next to her trying my best to comfort her but while doing that I started to cry too.                                                                                                                                                                                     “B-But?” She said, Val looked up at me, a blank look on her face.                                                                                           “How long are you suspended for?” I asked, trying not to break down on the spot.                                                             “For two months” when she said that I just couldn’t hold it in anymore, I broke down and flopped on my bed making a big wet patch. Slowly but surely I got better and helped her pack up her stuff, I gave her a massive hug and then she walked off down the hall and down the stairs until I couldn’t see her. I wondered what to do with myself, Valerie was my best friend and now she’s gone it just feels sucky, but I have to get over it cause it’s only 2 months till I can see her again. I stood up and decided to change my sheets cause I dont really want to sleep on wet sheets tonight. I looked at my watch to see how much time I have until class started when I realised that I had missed class! I wasn’t really bothered because I was busy with my friend and helping her to pack. I made up my bed and washed Vals sheets. I wondered                                                                                                                                                                                              “Why did Val get suspended?” I looked down at the washing machine that was spewing out suds                            “Definitely needa get that fixed”. I wonder what to have for lunch, I looked through the cupboards and found some cup noodles on one of the shelves, I grabbed it out and swiped off the dust, let’s hope this isn’t expired. I looked at the top and peeled back the seal. When I opened the top I found some mold that was building up on the dry noodles.            “Yep, definitely expired” I put it in the bin and immediately took the bag out, tied it and left it in the hall, hoping that someone would pick it up and take it away                                                                                                                                  “That’s my lunch gone”.  I sat down on the couch with my head in my hands thinking about what I could do for the rest of the day, nothing came to mind so I just sat there, minding my own business, until Chile bumps into my leg and plops him bowl in front of me.                                                                                                                                                                  “Welp, guess I’m feeding my dog” I sighed, I grabbed his food and put it on his plate, then I poured some fresh water into his bowl. Pretty much sat on the couch for the rest of the day. When night came, I hopped into my bed and fell asleep, feeling awful, but hopefully I don’t feel worse in the morning.

This was a fun week, and I really did enjoy it. First up the highlight for this week, it was probably the flash mob this morning, it was super fun and I really enjoyed it and there were so many juniors screaming and I got someone who hissed at me, wasn’t sure why tho. Now the challenge, I would probably say getting everyone in time for the flash mob and we only got one proper rehearsal for it, and that was, well, interesting. I really enjoyed this week beausce we also got our icy sliceys which was tasty. Im looking foward to next week.

For the past few of weeks on Mondays and Tuesdays (not today tho), we have been doing Girls Self Defence, and now that we have finished I look back and realize that it has made quite an impact on my life. When I first started Self defence I thought it was just so I could get out of class time. Now that we have finished, I wish it could have kept going because I really enjoyed the learning and all of the different defenses that we could use if we were in dangerous situations. Throughout the session we lernt how to Kick, Punch, Strangle and get someone off you. Our self defence teacher was Linda and she was very good at teaching us all of these strikes and moves. I think this course was useful because now I’m very confident that I can defend myself in diffrent types of situations. I reckon my favourite move was when someone stood in front of you and you flicked their hands off and punched either their nose or stomach. I enjoyed it and I wish that I could do it again and again.

This week was a normal one to say the least. One highlight for this week was tech beacause I got to design a maori pa in Minecraft with Abby,Daisy, Pip and Tygah-leah, I really liked our design, we all had designated areas to work on, Abby and me were on the fence, Tygah and Daisy were doing the trenches, Pip and Eliza were on the food storage. Also another highlight was Action stations because I made a beautiful braclet.One challenge, well there wasn’t any challenge from this week. Overall this week was a good week, but I am looking forward to see what next week brings.

For the past few weeks we have been doing Drama and Theatre sports. Every session we started off with a game, and then we went in to our plays. I was with Dasiy, Pip, Malaya and Zita, I found our play was very interesting and fun. I really enjoyed this action stations. I look forward to the next round of actions.

Today, the year 8’s had to do a leadership thingi and we had to make a spreadsheet full of different school values. Me, Daisy and Malaya made that spreadsheet and we found it the most common school values out of all of them.

This week was a normal week nothing interesting really happened, its kinda hard to pick what would be my highlight cause everything is the same as always. I’d say that my highlight would be doing my mahi a tahi cause I get to write a story, I really like writing stories. There wasn’t really a challange either so, overall I would probably  say that next week might be a little more interesting than this one.

This week is week 2/3 and I feel like these weeks have been going so fast but I guess that’s the fun of it. Waitangi weekend was alright cause I didn’t really do anything, I just sat around doing nothing the whole time. We did some camp prep this morning, just sorting out tents and food groups.

The hilight this week was starting tech. Im in group 8C with Eliza, Abby, Daisy & Pip, doing digi tech with Ms. Gorman. She seems kind and sweet but try not to get on her bad side. We had to do a game that involved code, like computer code.

Anyway the 2nd/3rd week was a full week, not a short one like last week. I enjoyed this week and looking forward to next week.

For the past few days we have been making a idiom poem, and the idiom I chose was ( I acually chose 2 but I’m only gonna use one ) ‘Time is money’. The meaning of my poem is about the time humans have to spend and why we should cherish it. I believe that the poem has a big impact on the reader and I hope it makes them think. Here is the poem I have wrote –