Athletis 2016

I sprinted my foot off as I was told to go. I primed myself ready to jump into a pit of sawdust but then I realised I was jumping of the wrong the wrong foot so I quickly switched feet but it was too late. I didn't have enough power in my jump. I barely made it past the 3 mark but I was in shock. A few minuets later... I was back at the front of the line again and I hurled myself towards the pit with all my might. I jumped but I just didn't feel right and basically the same place as before. That was depressing but I hope I will have better luck next year.

The World Of Wonders

On Wednesday the16th GRi11 children are hosting a cultural festival aimed at teaching and indulging kids into new cultures such as Indian, German, Italian, etc. We have been planning this since last Thursday so we did not have much time to twiddle our thumbs. I personally have been working on the food so let me explain what I have done in the next paragraph.


So first off we had to plan/argue about which foods we were making so we split up into food groups. Half of which broke apart and joined other groups. I also made a Kahoot© just to make sure people were not just eating the food and learned something as well. I am having to make traditional ginger bread men before tomorrow so I am freaking out because I might not get it done.


I have to cut this post short because I have a lot of work to get done by tomorrow and again if you are relatively interested in gaming check out THIS blog here which is focused entirely on gaming tutorials and updates. In the next paragraph there will be the recipe I am following pasted there

•  150g Western Star Chef’s Choice Unsalted butter, cubed
•  1/2 cup (125ml) golden syrup
•  1/2 cup (110g) firmly packed brown sugar
•  1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
•  3 cups (450g) plain flour
•  1 tablespoon ground ginger
•  1 teaspoon ground cinnamo
•  1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
•  1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
•  1/2 teaspoon baking powder
•  1 egg, lightly whisked
•  Writing fudge and rainbow choc chips, to decorate

1. Step 1
   Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 2 large oven trays with baking paper.
2. Step 2
   Place butter, golden syrup and sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, for 3 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil. Remove from heat. Add bicarbonate of soda and stir to combine. Transfer to a large heatproof bowl. Set aside to cool.
3. Step 3
   Sift flour, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and baking powder over butter mixture. Add the egg and stir until combined. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead until smooth. Divide dough into two portions. Shape each portion into a disc and cover with plastic wrap. Place in the fridge for 45 minutes or until firm.
4. Step 4
   Roll one portion between 2 sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick. Using a 6-7cm Christmas pastry cutters, cut shapes from dough, re-rolling scraps. Place on the lined trays, 3cm apart to allow for spreading. Repeat with remaining gingerbread portion.
5. Step 5
   Bake in preheated oven, 1 tray at a time, for 8 minutes or until just firm to touch. Remove from oven and set aside on trays for 5 minutes to cool before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Decorate gingerbread using writing fudge and rainbow choc chips, if desired.

THIS IS SPARTA!!!

Hi I'm here to share some facts about Sparta with you so lets skip the intro and hop right in (This is day 1 of the 7 post challenge where it is my homework to do a blog post each day for 7 days).

What is Sparta?

Sparta is an ancient Greek society that has a statue of Ares the war god chained in the heart of Sparta so the spirit of war never left it's inhabitant's. Their symbol was a giant red a for Ares which they put on all their flags, shields and chest plates.

Their battle formations

The Spartans loved their spears so they had at least 3 lines of them at the front. Next in line there were around 7 lines of swordsmen that would break from the group to start a massacre. Then they would have 2 rows of archers. You might wonder why they only have 2 rows and that is because they thought archers were cowards and were weak however they are part of what turns the tide of battle. Also they brought like 5 priests with them for good luck.

All this info and more can be found on wiki and many more websites.

What I have been doing.

So I have not been posting for a while and I took it upon myself to catch you up to speed. I have so much more writing I would like to share with the world and have even created my own (as in not owned by my school) entirely based on teaching people some neat tips on video games. *Cough* *Cough* check it out at here *Cough* *Cough* (yes i'm a shameless plug and I admit it). I just can't keep up with my school work and this blog so I didn't post for a while. Whelp enjoy a neat piece of writing formed from the (fake) hieroglyphics that make up my name.

Once upon a time there was a basket full of mouths out in the middle of a forest. There and then came a chick who carried the basket proudly home to it’s mother. The mother then proceeded to eat said basket. The chick was furious because the mother ate the mouths. The chick screamed and kicked a hole in their nest. It was so angry with it’s mother “you wrecked my mouths, now I have to get out of here!” and with that the chick scampered away into the unknown.

He eventually found himself on the streets of Glasgow and gathered an army of abandoned pets aiming at revenge and started a town where he lived like and as a king.

6 long years have passed but the chick never gave up… I king Quacksire shall besiege this nest of horror *king Quacksire stares intensely at his old nest which is empty*. SIEGE BREACH THE GATES! KILL THE MOTHER! *The nest is still empty which he just realised*. Oh… Dang… YAY THEY CEASE TO EXIST!(Celebration Time starts playing for some reason)... Ummm this nest has been empty for 2 years reminds a roaming cat. Ok I didn’t get told, SCOUTS WHY THE HECK HAVE YOU NOT BEEN SAYING THAT IT WAS EMPTY!!!!! Umm we found a typo in your flaw full scouting rules that allows us to just play poker and not scout at all and still get paid. Ohhhhhh I see that. News flash you suck. Worst part is he missed out on eating some mouths.

Then the chick grew restless that they didn’t get to kill his family so he later ordered his guards to kill him and all the civilians. The End… For now...

The king was forced into the universal plain called Limbo where he had his judgement… ...after king Quacksire’s judgement deciding if he goes to Elysium or the Infernal Regions he does in fact go to the Infernal Regions for pointlessly executing an entire civilization. After the stairway opens into a fiery hellish place he enters and after a few seconds he becomes unconscious…

2 Hours later he wakes in a jail cell, bound to a brown brick like substance by iron chains. A familiar voice gets his attention and booms “GET UP YOU LAZY DISAPPOINTMENT”! Mother? He thinks. “YEAH THATS ME YOU FAILURE, QUACKSIRE I AM YOUR MOTHER”! “And i’m here to make your life a pain in the *loud beeping inserted here*, that’s right i’m a prison guard! *Her spear catches fire and a meteorite falls from the sky breaking open the prison. “Damn it why did I do that”? The king makes a run for it and finds his old Army shackled to a whipping post (wait there ghosts how does that work)? Another meteorite falls breaking the army loose, they flee with their lives lagging a mile behind them. They create makeshift weapons out of scrap metal and ashen logs to then lay siege upon the prison with. They marched for about ten minutes because they got lost but they found their way there and initiated war.The battle raged on for hours but both sides never gave up! Fire spurted from the ground and makeshift arrows flew everywhere, hundreds of people consecutively falling but regaining balance. Eventually half of the prison army put down their guard for a bit leaving them open for a banishing spell. The army’s one mage started powering it up while the rest defended him, after a few seconds a blue sphere flew up in the air sucking all but one of the prison guards in. King Quacksire sprinted with all his might towards the one left swinging his morningstar going for a blow to the head but the soldier blocks with ease like it didn’t lose any energy! It swipes it’s spear and array of fire bursts forward knocking them all down. All but king Quacksire shrivel into dust and they both are suddenly standing in an open void. “Do you know who I am and why I am about to do this” a soft voice says? “No and no”.  “Well that’s your own fault” the soldier says again while it thrusts forward it’s spear obliterating the king and turning him into mouths...

My Calendar Art for 2016!!!!!

Just FYI there was only 1 photo of me not when I was blinking and that was a shot with everyone else in it so I could not change that outcome.

Anyway this is for a calendar art I was making for a calendar I created for school (well obviously).

No tree trouble

Well the world’s count of trees is lowering by the hour so what are we going to do about it.

Firstly there are only roughly two trillion and eight billion trees left it the world so get cracking on growing those trees and or recycling your paper.

Next on the agenda there are benefits of using alternatives to paper because there are created from resources do not lower the oxygen rates (unless you use agri-pulp in which case that is made from recycled paper).

And last but not least the wood you use to create paper has killed animal habitats. That's right, the paper you buy for $5 per 100 pages is killing millions of trees/animal homes.

You could say that paper is cheaper but I say we need to live rather that have luxury items being thrown left right and centre. You could also say that you cannot find alternatives to paper (such as kenaf, hemp bamboo agri-pulp, etc) but I propose you to try make your own. It’s not that hard, you can even learn how on this website.

Well I have to say trees are in danger so get ready to go on a planting spree and set a reminder to try find paper alternatives.

Quest For Time :)

Quest for time is a book about people who go back in time and fix fatal flaws empire's had

Chapter 1: Is that a sundial on your wrist?

Oh damn i’m late. Gary I will see to you that you will be fed to Donald Trump. He glances at his watch, he’s confused because it says it’s the year 753 bc. He looks away then back at his watch and it has grown into a fully sized sundial! He drops it and the needle shatters. He looks around and he is in Rome. “Huh”.” A green flash of light appears and here comes Gary. “Well well well he said”. “Look who ran into a wormhole”. “Well I can’t lie to you anymore Xavier, I work for a company that goes back in time to fix problems”. “Today I am here to set up more defences before rome falls”. “Oh”? “Well wanna help make defences”? “Sure Gary”. “Ok just don’t procrastinate”. Ten minutes later after the defence is set up… “Ok the barbarians are coming” Xavier whispered.

Chapter 2 will come soon :)

Venezuela at the olympics

Venezuela is a country is South America that has a population 31,580,713. It’s most popular tourist attraction is Angel Falls standing at 979 metres tall!

Now Venezuela has an interesting environmental issue being constant heat wave. It is a huge pain for everyone really because of the amount of fires this could cause. The heat wave exists because there are only 2 weather seasons hot and dry and hot and wet. At least this is not as bad anywhere else.

Now I have 3 interesting facts for you.

1. Did you know that Venezuela was named after Venice? Well it was. The discoverer saw native stilt houses in the lake and it reminded him of Venice.

    2. Did you know that because the government subsided in the oil industry Venezuela enjoy the world’s cheapest petrol (about $0.01 a litre)? Of course nobody will be bothered to use card so people just pay with the loose change in their car.

3. Venezuela is a multicultural and multiethnic country made up by immigrants that came from Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, the Middle East, Africa and descendants of various indigenous groups.

Now for some interesting facts about the olympics.

Medals won overall: 8 Bronze 2 Silver and 2 Gold.

Medals won in fencing: 1 Gold

Medals won in boxing: 2 Bronze 2 Silver 1 Gold

All the rest of the bronze medals were won in: Taekwondo, Athletics, Shooting, Swimming and WeightLifting

I personally respect Venezuela because they are in underdogs in the olympics and for that alone I would support pretty much anyone

My holiday haiku

A haiku is a poem that consists of 3 lines. Each line is allowed to have 5 syllables except the middle which has 7.

I'm In A Fairytale YAY!

As the curtains rise for Act 2 empowerment flows through the stage as the song starts. Our fluent and consistent movements crush our energy like a bug under an anvil. As the dance continues the audience start to think we are weirder and weirder by the minute.

As we end in a robot fashion a whole bunch of girls flood in and say how awesome we were! Afterwards the Town Crier announces the arrival of the following families; The Macaws, The Winters, The Kardashians and The Swifts! Also uhhh... uhhh.... oh Cinderella.

The after concert ball starts with some in-sync moves with the song There’s A Party Here Tonight playing. All this and more is in the play/fairytale 'Cinderella and Rockerfella'. This will be on at the Regent Theatre on Broadway on the 4th and 5th of July 2016 Palmerston North in New Zealand. So get your tickets while they're still available! (If you didn't guess I'm in it).