Badminton

Every Thursday room 14 go to the hall to have P.E. We get to play Badminton with a pro. She teaches how to hit and serve the shuttle properly.

We had to learn how to keep the shuttle airborne first. "Oh no!" I thought. I didn't think I was going to be good at this. Doing this meant learning how to hit it properly. We practised how to serve and how to hit it with our partner, trying to keep and volley of hits. It was tricky to aim so our hits went all over the place. I served one more time with a rapid hit, luckily my partner hit it. “Yes!” I yelled! But then, she hit it sideways! I stretched out my arm and reached towards the shuttle but. "NO!!!" I yelled I missed. But then...

“What was that” I said with a shock. Lorene ( our coach) had blown her whistle. That meant it was time to do something different. She said it was time for a game! For this game we all needed a racket and then had to stand in a long queue. I call this game Hit, Run and Pass. The aim of the game was to be quick when it was your turn and hit the shuttle. Lorene would stand a few lines away from us and hit shuttles constantly, we had to hit, run to the end of the queue and then pass it to the last person without a racket. If you missed the shuttle then your racket got relinquished and then you had to keep the rhythm going. “Keep hitting it”, I said to myself.

The next game was sort of like Badminton Volley Ball. We had 2 nets so the girls got 1 net and the boys got 1 net. We stood in a line and whoever didn’t hit it when it was on their side of the court or went for it but didn’t get it, you were out and the next person went and took your spot. Finally it was my turn. I jumped into Raeleen’s spot and served the shuttle over the net and right in front of Mele. “She fiercely hit it back but then Chloe missed it just by a little bit! I served it again and guess what I missed the shuttle! I was out. Next in, me out. You just had to keep going and going until the time was up. I think me and Tyla probably stayed in the game the longest!

I had fun playing these games and practising new skills. It was really fun! I hope to go again!

20 Hour Famine : Part 2, Game Night

When me and Tyla arrived we rushed quickly off to the library. That's where everyone was. We put our bags down and waited until Ms Tele'a came. She soon arrived.

"Ok, you guys are going to go in the ICT room" she said. We were waiting for a girl from the World Vision. While we waited we had to visit the World Vision site or post a blog post. We walked quietly down to the ICT room and found us a computer. We had to be in pairs. I wasn't in one, so I got the whole computer to myself, for a while. Suddenly Gloria came. We were now partners. I wrote a post. Soon everyone was huddling around Litia and Vivvienne's computer. "I wonder what their doing?" I said to Gloria. "Let's have a look" she replied. We walked over to their computer and had a look. They were playing on a website where you would take a photo and then edit it to make it look all funny. Their's was hillarious! A few minutes after that the lady came. When she arrived we got into 3 groups. Then we walked to the hall.

There she gave us our village names. Next she told us what our health and all that stuff. Our health came second out of 3. Soon it was time to play our games.

First was a course. We had to jump over a bread carton then crawl under some chairs the stand carefully on a chair while spinning then turn back, walk over the chairs and then jump. That was the first game.

The second game was a hunting one. We had to run around the hall loooking for rice. It was FUN! In each team one person had to be the mother while the rest of us seeked rice. No one managed to fill the whole cup. I mean it wasn't that big.

Finally the last game was a team game. We all had to work together. Each team got 3 feet with questions on them. The challenge was to be the first team to get over to the other side of the hall. for this challenge we did pretty good. I can't remeber who won though. The trick was 2 people per trip. In the end we did it.

Soon it was time to go back to the library. There we watched some little clips about who we are doing this for. After that it was time for the lady to leave. After she left we watched Hook. When it finished it was time for bed.

"Time to wake up!" yelled Mrs Tele'a. It was time to pack up and get all our stuff together. Once we did that we headed out to the breeze to wait for our parents. I had FUN!!!