Berlin

Hi again - it's Lena from Berlin - did you all have a nice holiday??? I miss you sometimes and Mrs Hansen too! We are having a fantastic time and so much is happening I would forget if I wasn't writing a diary.

It has been really hot 38 degrees and we spent 3 days at the Baltic Sea. Here in Berlin I watched Shrek 4 in 3D and my little brother Lucas went to Legoland. We also visited heaps of people and went shopping - it was nice and cool in the shop!

Tomorrow we go to where my great-grandmother comes from and then soon to Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary where I will meet up Keela Matthews from Mararoa School.

Hope you miss me too! Bye from Lena

Hi room 4 - I made it to Germany! It was a looong trip and I stayed up for almost 24 hrs and watched nice movies on the plane to Singapore. Then on the second flight I slept for ages! In Germany we had to catch another plane from Munich to Frankfurt but our suitcases missed the flight so we had to wait for them...then we picked up our new car which has fold down trays like in a plane! When we got to mums friends house we changed into our togs and jumped in the swimming pool because it is 30 degrees here! That was on Sunday and we also watched Germany beat England 4:1 in the soccer!!! There are 2 boys here and we made up flags of the remaining teams by drawing them on paper and hung them from the lounge room ceiling. Everybody is soccer mad here and lots of cars have German flags on them. Today I went to a theatre play with my friends school and to a castle in the afternoon. Tomorrow we will travel to mums cousins house and I will write again soon. I miss you all and hope you have a good holiday! Now I have to go catch a fish for dinner - bye from Lena

Thomas Duckshooting

On Sunday I went duckshooting with Ken, Patrick, Dad and Sam Carruthers. We left really early in the morning at twenty past five and went to a duckpond near Gore at our friend Toms house. They made us a yummy lunch with pizza and garlic bread. I shot 2 ducks and we got about 25 altogether. We took 2 dogs and they went into the pond to fetch the ducks for us. They were Baxter and Flint. It was a fun day.

Louise's Tap dancing

I went to Invercargill yesterday for my third tap competitions. I did four dances all day and I got a highly commended ribbon in each one. I started with my solo dance to 'Aint she sweet'. My song & dance was 'spoon full of sugar' out of Mary Poppins. I had good fun singing and dancing on stage. I used a pram and a doll for my props. I did an impromptu dance to a song from Camp Rock by the Jonas Brothers so that was cool. My last dance was for a Champion Trophy and sash. Because I have won a section before I could enter the championship. I was very excited when I won that one. There was lots of beautiful costumes and some really good dancers. I made a new friend called Bree. She was dressed like a bumble bee. I am at home this morning because I am very tired and had a sleep in. We got home very late last night.

Swimming Lessons

On Wednesday Courtney & Alicia went to swimming club to learn how to swim.
We learnt how to do schooling, push off from the wall (streamlining). The pool was nice and cold, the rain was coming down really hard onto the roof. We saw some friends from school. We are having a great time learning to increase our skills for swimming.

Floating and Sinking

This term we went to the Water Park to test our boats to see if they would float or sink.
We made our boats out of natural materials that were environmentally friendly. Some of the materials we used were sticks, leaves, feathers, pinecones and bark.
It was great fun because we all got to watch our boats float through pipe and most of them broke when they went down the waterfall.
We had a fantastic time spotting things were floating on Lake Te Anau on the way back to school.

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