Parts of the Guitar

Today for Music I will show you the parts of the Guitar.

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Commonwealth facts

                                 Commonwealth :

What is the Commonwealth? The Commonwealth is all the people that are ruled by the Queen.

Countries who are part of this? Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica.

Where in the world are these countries?

What do these countries have in common? They are all ruled by the Queen and Britain.

Here are some Interesting factoids :

Did you know if you're in the Commonwealth and you cause a world war you will get banned from the Commonwealth.  Because there have been certain countries like Nigeria,Zimbabwe, Pakistan twice and Fiji twice and I don't know why they let them in it again.  The Commonwealth games have only been held twice in New Zealand and there may not be a third time

Commonwealth games information

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Hydro Flames (Part 1)

2014, The year of the Hydro flames Tai & Zane go on an adventure of a lifetime to defeat the Wind Warriors.The Wind Warriors are 2 people that that have control of the wind and are super hard to defeat. And Hydro Flame has the power of The half-human child of an alien from a water-based civilisation, he has incredible powers! However, his heritage also means that he’s hated and feared both by humanity and the aliens who are now hunting him down!

The Hydro Flames biggest weakness is neutral turbo. No one has that in this galaxy and when we were made we didn’t know we had our powers until the wind warriors attacked us. The first time they attacked us we just noticed we had our powers so we were noobcakes. And when you are a noob at having powers you’re in trouble like a lot. Especially if you already have enemies like WIND WARRIORS  the WIND WARRIORS  beaten us several times but we've beaten the 214 times.

The WIND WARRIORS are bad at fighting and it gets annoying when they keep coming back. This time was different because they bought an army of 50 and all 50 were just like them but I think a bit more powerful. they broke through our door like it was nothing and came straight and surrounding us we couldn’t move the leaders yelled “don't move or i’ll attack” the Hydro flames stayed as still as a statue the Hydro Flames whispered to each other “attack on 3 1,2,3” they jumped at them yelling “AHHHHHHHH”.

We fought Wind Warriors off as long as we could  but there were too much for them. They were all so strong but we knew we could defeat  not defeat them they were too strong. We will be able to beat them with more training and exercise they would never beat us but with the new army we could have second thoughts. They kicked us in cells and locked us up but they made a big mistake were fire they put us in steel chains and cuffs and fire melts that easily so we were out easy peasy. One day they will be the one’s in cell’s and cuffs but today we will be a threat to the WIND WARRIORS but for now we train.

CSTZ Game Instructions

Instructions For Money Land:

Objects:

Be the first player to complete a whole round.

Setup:

Put the 2 decks of cards down on the center of the board. Pick a game piece to play with. Only have 4 people playing then you're ready to play.

Contents:

1 gameboard

4 plastic playing pieces

2 decks of 24 each

How to Play:

Youngest player goes first. Players take turns rolling dice. There must be 2 decks of cards in the center of the board 1 deck is bad 1 deck is good. A player must land on something like a Green Question mark to pick up a good card. When the player reads the card it should say something like you have won 1.000 dollars go up 5 spaces then the player that picked up a card has to put it under the deck of cards she or he got it from. The players turn continues 1 more time. If the next player lands on a question mark that is red they have to pick up a bad card it will say something like you have lost 100 dollars go to jail then you pay the bank and go to jail.

Winning:

The player who has spent all their money first.

Other things:

Land on a Gb2 Means to go back 2 spaces, Land on Gf5 then go forward 5 spaces Land on a Golden Money sign then you get $1.000 and get to roll one more time. Land on a green question mark then you pick up a special card, land on a red question mark then pay the bank 100 dollars and then pick up a Chance card. Every player starts with $2.000.  If you land on a buy a car then you can choose to buy it and go forward 4 more spaces. Land on JOB then  you have to miss your next turn because you have to work. There are also many things like buy a house and buy a ferrari you should buy it because the first person to spend their money will win.

Restart New Game:

Take everything of the board then take 20.000 dollars out of the bank and then put the game pieces back to the start. Shuffle the cards again and put them back. Then you're ready to start.




This Mr Bax told us to make our own board game so Collin,Stevenson,Zane and I made one and these are our Instructions.

Meeting Sam Tomkins

Last week my Mum and I met Sam Tomkins. He’s a 25 year old from England and is a Professional Rugby League player.  He spoke for an hour telling me and the Mount Wellington under 16’s about his story growing up and wanting to be a league player. So his story starts in Milton Keynes, age 7 Sam Tomkins wanted to be a Rugby League Player. He said he was not the best player out on the field and never made the rep teams.

He had two brothers one brother played with him in the Wigan Warriors and the other one plays professional league too.  In England Sam said that they finish school at 16 years old so he left school, and tried to get paid playing for Wigan development squad because he heard people were getting paid 10,000 pounds.  He went to the GM (General Manager) and asked if he could get paid to play too but the GM said “you can’t get paid but you can play for nothing” and he said he would play but he was a little down not getting paid.

Sam Tomkins found a job cutting grass which he didn’t make a lot of money.  Sam he had to bike from cutting grass to training and it took 30 minutes and by the time he got there he was already tired.  He only played 6 or 7 games in one season and then his team got into the semi finals they won it but at the end of the game there was a big fight and Sam Tomkins was standing there as water boy thinking to himself i'm gonna get a game in the end 6 people got banned and he got into the starting lineup.

He told us that he played the best he had ever played and the next year he went to the GM and said “can I be paid now” and was told “you can get 25 pounds for a win” it was still stink but it was better than nothing.  He did think about going to another club, but he really wanted to play for Wigan.

Through this year he didn’t get a lot of games again, disappointed being waterboy again, finally his moment came.  Thomas Leuluai, who played halfback was chosen to play for New Zealand in a Anzac test.  So Sam got a shot at playing as the number 7 for that weekends game.  He was so nervous, as they were playing the lowest team in the grade.  If they lost, that might be the end of his career.  His team had an amazing game and won 108 - 10.  He got 5 tries in that game and that was his debut, he said it was one of the best games of his life.  He was in the paper and had started to be notice by people as he walked around town with his mates.  Fans were asking for his signature, and he didn’t even have one.

At the age of 19 he was playing for Wigan top grade.  Through his career he had won 2 Grand Finals and 2 Challenge Cups Finals.  He enjoyed his time playing there, and even played in the English team.  Even playing for them he got in trouble when he gave the fingers to the Leeds fans during a try celebration.  He only did it cause the Leeds fans always booed him.  He was charged $10,000 pounds for that.  He said it was the best money he ever spent, but he was joking.

Coming to the Warriors was a massive move for him.  He did bring a mate with him, so he didn’t come alone.  He reckoned three more friends will be coming in October.  He was asked what sort of car did he want to own, he said an Aston Martin.  But at the moment he drives a Porsche and a Range Rover, not too bad!  He was asked about the coach change that the Warriors have, and he said it is much better now than it was with the first coach.  This coach is a lot harder and makes them do a lot of fitness if they drop the ball, especially Konrad Hurrell.

He seems to enjoy playing for the Warriors, and I think he has been doing well.  Sam said that trainings are really important and to listen and learn in that 1 hour we train.  He reckons he has picked up on different players ways of how they play.  It helps him with his game, where to run and who to be by.  He was prepared to train outside with the 16’s team, and said he would come back for a run when its not so wet.

I enjoyed that talk from Sam Tomkins, he was cool to listen to.  I did ask the question on which field he liked the most, Eden Park of Mount Smart.  He said Mount Smart is better because the crowd is closer and the atmosphere is awesome, and it gets him going.  Eden Park, fans are too far away.  

The club gave him a Mount Wellington League jersey as a thank you present.  He put it on and we all got to have a picture with him.  I also got my Warriors jersey signed, it was cool.  My Mum and I left when he did, and we got to see him drive away in his porsche, it looked awesome.

Titanic Animation

Move it Taimana from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

My Visual Mihi

This is my Visual Mihi, I did this to show what I stand for.  In the top left corner is NRL, this is my favourite sport in the world.  In the top right corner is a diamond. The diamond represents my name in Maori Taimana.  The bottom left corner represents half my nationality Niuean and the other corner is my other  nationality Maori/Pakeha. The person in the middle is me, to show you what I look like.