Almost There!

It's almost there, on Thursday we will be both doing a full blown dress rehearsal and performance. Everything is coming along nicely and we have most of the costumes done and dusted. Within the next few days before the performance we'll be doing rehearsals in the auditorium every chance we have. Today we got to have a practice in the actual auditorium where we 

will be performing. I feel 

like something I have to work 

on is knowing my ques and 

getting them perfect.

Practice, Practice And More Practice

Today we started off the by having to change into our PE gear, because we would be doing some dancing and it would be easier to move around. We started with our warm ups, including an 8 count warm up, some vocal warm ups and more. On Thursday we were given our roles, I am Simba's understudy and I am also Ed (The Dumb Hyena) I share this role with another person so we both say those lines, we also got to sing the first three songs from Lion King Circle Of Life, I Just Can't Wait To Be King and Hakuna Matata,
we also got to read through the script as our roles. We have been looking at make up looks for our certain characters, I haven't been able to find a make up look I like, but, I'm sure I will find one eventually.

Hakuna Matata, What Wonderful Phrase!!

Today we learnt a small portion of dance from Hakuna Matata and we had a read of the script, some people took the part of certain characters, although, the teachers said that this didn't mean we immediately got that role and we were just taking this role temporarily. Learning the dance was really fun, for the dance we went in a pair with another person, my partner and I were asked to perform for a video with another pair, so people could learn the dance at home.

French Arts

The French have many wonderful inclusions with their music and dance, it being so romanticised with all sorts of folk-like song and dances too. There are many types of songs with revolutionary tunes and rhythms including songs like Dernière Danse and Le Sens de la Vie yet there are so many traditional songs that are just as lovable like Musette and Bransle.
  

Le Sens de la Vie

Dernière Danse

Festival Of Fun

Today I learnt a little of the Afrikaans 
pronunciation from Circle Of Life myself and we also learnt some new vocal warm ups. We also got to spend some short time with a tutor with two others to audition to have a solo in the musical. In the end I would like to either be Simba or Ed, but, i'd really be happy with any role I get.

Musical Theater - Festival Of The Arts

This year for Festival Of The Arts I have been chosen for Musical Theatre, much like last year, except this year instead of Annie we will be doing The Lion King Musical. This year over 30 people have been chosen for musical theatre.

Today we did some warm ups and games to work on our acting, vocals and dancing. Including games like tequila, and activities like doing a short part of one of the songs. 

I know much like last year that the choreography will be a challenge, 

and there will be a lot of opportunities for everyone. 

My Painting

This is the painting I made in art class.

When I started drawing I didn't think about what I was doing and just drew, so I didn't really have a character it's just a random painting.

I chose the colours because I believe they all work well together.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #5

"65 years, it been quite a while hasn’t it" Tracy's voice was the only thing I could hear. “Where exactly did we land?” “Tracy, what is that? Tracy I told you not to eat food we can’t identify as clean.” “IT’S FOOD, I’M HUN-” “CLOse your mouth.” I look around at the swamp around me, raised sea levels, intense heat, looks like climate change got the best of the place. I look to see the remains of a statue, I creep towards the remains of a multicoloured giraffe. “I know where we are.” Good job New Zealand, you’ve done well.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #2

This was a day to remember, I was walking down the street, IN PURE DAYLIGHT, when all of a sudden these random people come out OF THIN AIR. I pretended not to notice as they started looking around, as if they lost something. That was when a glint caught my eye. I picked the item up when the people from before saw the object they came towards me, I handed it to them and like it was simple as moving a finger they vanished, I decided not to talk about it, thinking I might go crazy questioning it.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #3

I listened, I was to stay in my room like always, it was a specialty, my cushion was becoming uncomfortable and the people playing the violin in the room next to me were almost as annoying as that one sibling who always took your things. I sighed and stood up and walked from my scarlet room to my balcony, humming a soft tune as I watered my pride and joy plant, I smiled knowing it would one day outgrow the current pot it was being held in. I sighed and fell asleep at the balcony, looking at the golden sunset.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #4

“Sis, this isn’t normal. We have to report this to the police!”

“They’ll hear us over the phone think we’re crazy.”

“I know, maybe, we could show it to someone else, and get them to report it!”

“What and ruin their lives too?”

I couldn’t stand them, my siblings were crazy and I hated it.

I needed to leave.

The windows wide open.

“Connie what, don’t you dare.”

I felt the grass underneath my feet as I ran, straight into something cold, I fall back onto the ground and look up towards the creatures face, with fangs dripping with red.

100 Word Challenge 2017 #1

Dragons, they were common of the Isle of Mófǎ, it was extremely uncommon to find them outside of this natural paradise, it was composed of many islands but some dragons lived in different places. Some dragons swam through Glistening Waters, some slept in the Fluffy Clouds, some lived in the Black Caves littering the islands, some lived in the Volcano's placed around the Land Of Fire, some lived in the Lightning Struck land, others lived in Natures Forest living among the trees, and lastly others lived in the Plains Of Drought, a dry land with nothing but dirt and mountains.

Quail Island

On the 25th October the Year 8's and Year 7's from Whanau class took a trip to Quail Island, Quail Island is South East of Christchurch. Māori knew Quail Island as Ōtamahua, the ‘place to gather sea-bird eggs’. The first European known to have set foot on Ōtamahua, was Captain William Mein Smith of the schooner Deborah in 1842. Mein Smith named the island after the now extinct native quail which were present in large numbers. Ōtamahua was acquired by the Crown from the Ngai Tahu in 1850. It was originally bought from the Crown by the three Ward brothers in 1850. It was farmed for a brief period before the tragic death of the two elder brothers, by drowning, in the following year. Over much of this time the island also functioned as a human and animal quarantine station from 1875 to 1931. In 1987, the management of the island was transferred to the Department of Ōtamahua / Quail Island has two sheltered beaches and it is used frequently during the spring and summer months as a popular site for picnics, swimming and boating. It has good visitor facilities, with water supplied from Lyttelton and a system of tracks that traverse the island. Although Ōtamahua / Quail Island lacked wooded cover at the time of the European arrival, it would have supported forest a few centuries earlier. Remnants of such forest occur today on nearby Manson's Point Peninsula. It is likely that the island's original woodlands were cleared by early Polynesian settlers for agriculture and strategic purposes. The vegetation is assumed to have been a dry, coastal broadleaf-podocarp forest that is now rare. A small fragment of this forest type is found at North West Bay in Okains Bay. Other small areas of similar forest occur between Waipara and Conway Rivers and north of the Clarence River mouth, in North Canterbury and Southern Marlborough. A few kanuka (Kunzea ericoides) plants near the west end of Ōtamahua / Quail Island hint at a former much more extensive cover of this species.

Prior to the start of the ecological restoration project in 1998, the southern and eastern sides of the island were largely dominated by plantations of introduced shelter and amenity trees such as pines, cypresses, oaks and sycamores and some weedy introduced shrubs. The plateau was formerly divided into fields that grew crops such as wheat and potatoes, and was dominated by exotic grasses. On the drier, northern aspects native grasses were more common and some native shrubby patches occurred in gullies. On the southern aspects were several large areas where native bracken fern and small-leaved native shrubs and flax were recolonising the grassland but only a few individual native tree species of natural origin, other than kanuka, were present on the island (cabbage tree, Cordyline australis; ngaio, Myoporum laetum; broadleaf, Griselinia littoralis) and rare mahoe (Melicytus ramiflorus). However, there was good growth and some regeneration of areas of native trees and shrubs planted in 1982 by the Department of Lands and Survey. The evident vegetation patterns strongly suggested that Ōtamahua / Quail Island retained an environment suitable for growth of indigenous woodland. 

Before Europeans arrived at Quail Island Maori would use the island as a source of food as the island was unsuited to live on. Mainly to gather seabirds eggs, giving it the name Ōtamahua meaning 'the place to gather seabirds eggs'.

The Culture Of Theater

Performing arts - mime, .

Mime - 

Creating illusions through the use of the body.

Basic skills of a mime - 

1. Isolation of body parts
2. Pulling faces
3. Eye-hand co-ordination
4. Showing the weight of objects
5. Showing length
6. Maintaining the illusion

Masked play

Fitness Circuit

For PE we had to do as much as we could of each task in under thirty seconds, here is a fitness circuit that is suited to my abilities.

• Stride Jumps

41 

• Push ups

15

• Curl ups

12

• Burpees

15

• Tuck jumps

34

Kaitiakitanga

I could contribute to Kaitiakitanga by buying cruelty free products, and items that do not include palm oil. I could also contribute by picking up my rubbish. I'll also contribute by being more careful with the environment around me.

Gymnastics

I don't particularly gymnastics because it is challenging because I can't do most of the tasks. Today in gymnastics I was able to do a forwards roll and a backwards rolls once or twice, we also tried to jump over a cone while a high up beam it was a bit scary but I've been able to try and that's what really matters to me.

Today in art we made a colour wheel and had to mix paints, I'm now going move onto my drawings to continue them.

Sport

Unfortunately I was not able to participate in sports due to a injury I had been recovering from, I went down to Wycola Park to watch my other teammates play against another team within Hornby High, my team lost 2-3, but, it was a shortened game due to the fact other teams wanted to play too.

Also I was unable to get photos due to the Ipad not sending them properly and bugging out.

In art we are learning to draw superheroes, I have drawn Cat Woman and Storm. I want to add colour and I have even done Cat Woman's outfit myself.

Community Project

Rainbow Youth

Supports queer and gender diverse through uncomfortable or difficult situations


Canterbury District Health Board

Offers help lines to help with mental and emotional  problems

Health Point

Has eight different services including a Disabled Persons Assembly and a Women's Refuge

Women's Refuge

Offers help to women who need help, there are all different things it may help with.

Hope House

Is a faith-based organisation that operates under the Hornby
Presbyterian Community Church and runs big and small community projects, it also runs many other things


RAINBOW YOUTH

This is a Social Service that can help with all types of issues and accepts donations, it helps the gender diverse and queer. Within the service there is a counselling office that can help people with these issues.

• LGBTIQ issues
• Self-harm and self-injury
• Depression/Anxiety
• Anger Management
• Grief and loss
• Bullying (including cyber bullying)
• Family dynamics (parenting through separation, blended families, new additions, relocations, immigration)
• Young people with special needs (Autistic spectrum, gifted, learning difficulties, problematic behaviour)
• Abuse and trauma (including sexual abuse and PTSD)

Here are some of the different groups inside of Rainbow Youth

Generation Queer (GQ) is RY’s peer-support group for under 18 year olds, who identify as queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, takatāpui, fa’afafine, questioning or curious. 

Queer4Shore (Q4S) is RY’s North Shore peer-support group for those under the age of 27 year old, who identify as queer, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, takatāpui, fa’afafine, questioning or curious.

Abandon all hope ye who enter here and prepare yourself for a treacherous journey. You will be guided on quests to explore dungeons, slay beasts, conquer empires and save the young Prince/Princess in distress. This is the official RainbowYOUTH D&D group

QWest is RY’s peer-support group that is run in Henderson.  QWest provides a relaxed social environment for queer and trans* youth.

ArtistRY is an Auckland-based RainbowYOUTH group. They are a group for anyone who loves to create art of all types, to share passion, enthusiasm, skills and ideas in all creative artistic fields all while providing a respectful and relaxed environment where any identity is supported and affirmed.

B&E #3

3/7/17
We are learning about running a profitable business, maintaining a budget, working collaboratively and to advertise.

I believe that we are all working together well and collaboratively because so far there has been no large arguments about what we are making and/or how to sell it, we have agreed on most things, and when we didn't it was sorted peacefully with no further argument.

When it comes to the business itself, everything has been finished except the products themselves which are being done the night before to preserve freshness. We have handed out over twenty business cards and hope to hand out more.

Our next step is to participate in the actual market day as we have finished everything that we can currently do. We hope to make a profit of twenty dollars or more.

B&E #2

26/6/17
We reconsidered a few days ago and decided our products will be chocolate chip cookies, milkshakes and gummy shapes. So far the only things left to do are the ads, business cards and actually making the product itself.

Next time we hope to finish as many business cards as we can and make the posters. We also have to make the products, Kristy is going to do so at home the night before to help preserve the freshness.

B&E #1

20/6/17
Today we decided our products, we are going to make chocolate chip cookies, milkshakes and sherbet. We have also completed most of our groceries and some of our letter to Mrs Elley.

Next time we hope to finish the groceries and continue the letter, we also hope to start some hand made logos made by Nishnit.

Graduate Profile

I have achieved these two from the graduate profile;

I listen to peoples ideas and opinions
I believe this because i'm often quiet when discussing things, with and without people I know around.
My evidence is the fact that even with my closest friends I can be extremely quiet, and because of that I don't talk and often listen to others opinions and ideas but can't voice my own, that or they don't listen and continue their current conversation.

And

I can use digital devices creatively
I believe this because I have done multiple activities involving the use of google drawings and other websites that help with my learning.
My evidence is my google drawing called OC it shows my usage of the different ways to draw using the app with inspiration from different images.

I need to work on these two from the graduate profile;

I can give useful feedback to others
I believe this because I put others feelings before what I actually believe.
I want my first step to be to stop putting others feelings before the truth of how things are.

And

I can successfully work with others
I believe that I need to improve this because I only work with my friends and not with others.
I feel like my first step would be to slowly work with others that I haven't worked with before.

Mini Golf... Science???

For kete we had to do some science on forces.

So Mrs Gibson had the brilliant idea of a mini golf course

Don't worry I'm confused too.

Really Mrs Gibson why???

We are in the process of planning and here is what Kristy and I came up with.

I think that getting all the measurements was really difficult and it took REALLY long,
I think that placing everything down was the easiest as I already had all the ideas in my head that I would suggest to Kristy.

Our next steps are to start making the course and somehow making the tunnel with a giant tube. Emphasis on GIANT.

My Performance

The first performance of Music, a nerve racking experience.

I had worked with my friends, Kayne and Kristie, at first tried to wright a song from scratch, but it didn't work out so we changed it, in the end we did a originally written mash up of 

Shape of you (by Ed Sheeran)

Say you won't let go (by James Arthur)

Kayne made a beat using a app on his phone, Kristie played the guitar to Shape of you, And I sang the song.

I felt like keeping up with the guitar was one of the problems I had while making the song and singing it at times.

I think I was happy with everything in the song and the performance and I may have changed a few of the lyrics but other than that I was happy with it.

Week Three of Festival Of The Arts

Next Tuesday being the last