Gregory’s Blog

Hi again,

This term I will be playing trumpet again for the opening of the new Tech Arts block, bigger than last time and for a festival that my school is competing in. My school will be competing against many different schools. My school has done well in this competition in previous years. I will be having more school practices this week leading up to these two events. I can play a lot of different songs on the trumpet and I’m proud of how well I have done this year.

In the holidays I had my 12th birthday. I had three of my friends over and went to McDonalds and the movies. We went to see an awesome movie called Hancock, I recommend it. I also had a Birthday with my family on a different day. I got mainly money  ($290 which I’ve spent most of already) but still some presents. I had a great few days of my birthday and I can’t wait until next year!

Bye for now, Gregory

Hi again,

Last weekend I played in a squash tournament called the North Island age groups. It was held in Auckland at the Henderson and Titirangi squash courts. Me and my family stayed in a hotel called Lincoln Green. My first game was at Henderson against a J1. I’m an F grader so I should have won but I hadn’t played squash recently so I kept on hitting the ball into the tin while playing my drop shots and I constantly got bad calls from the referees. The game score was 3/0 to the other boy. I had a bye so I had no more games that day. My second game was against a J4 at Titirangi and I won easily 3/0. The next day I had either one or two games depending on my result. My game was at Henderson and was against one of the boys who refereed my first game so I was determined to win. It was a close game and I won 3/1 in the end. My final game was against an F grader like me. It was another close game but I had improved so much since my first game, I won 3/1. I was very pleased with how I played in this tournament and pleased that I won the plate. My prize was a squash ball and a head band.

Bye for now, Gregory.

Hi Again,

Last weekend my family went to Mokau and stayed 1 night. We stayed in a small yellow cabin that had 2 bunk beds. We had a good time at the beach but it was too cold to go for a swim. We enjoyed walking on the beach and looking for stones and shells. Me and my family also had fun climbing up a steep hill and sliding back down. The weather was fine until the last day while we were enjoying being on the beach before we left.

This weekend I played in a squash tournament in Otorohanga. I was the first seed and played a boy called Henry and won easily 9 – 0, 9 – 1, 9 – 5. I lost my second game in five against a boy called Montell who I’ve played before and won in five, so it was a really close game. I won my last game in four 9 – 7, 6 – 9, 9 – 5 and 9 – 0 in the fourth against a boy called Sean. In the end I came runner up and my prize was a fifty dollar note. I had a great time playing my games in this tournament. Next week I will be playing in another tournament. My games will be harder because I’ll be in the top division.

Bye for now,

Gregory

 Hi again, it’s me back from my holidays, i’ll tell you a bit about them.

The soccer season is starting back up for me now and my team has had our first game last Saturday. I’m a striker in my team and scored 1 goal in that game helping us to win  6-2 .  The half time score was 3-2 to my team but our oranges at half time gave us plenty of energy for my team to create loads of opportunities to score goals.

I went to a soccer, school holiday program for 3 days from 9am-3pm. I had a great time learning new skills and getting back into soccer. I really enjoyed the mini 5 aside world cup. My team was Argentina. We came 3rd out of 6 teams. I had a great time there.

My family went to Rotorua for some of the holidays. We stayed at a nice hotel for 1 night which I enjoyed apart from the fact the beds were very uncomfortable and I barely got any sleep. We went on the Gondola and enjoyed a great view of the lake. We also went on the Luge . The luge is similar to a mini race car that you drive that doesn’t have a roof. It was great fun racing down the hill and around sharp corners.

Bye for now,

Gregory