MANAIAKALANI FILM FESTIVAL

A Trip to the Cinema

“Yes, Yes, Yes! It was movie time. It was the Manaiakalani Film Festival!” Imagine your schoolmates and you together, watching movies. Imagine a whole heap of other schools watching the movies as well.

14^th of November 2012, what was so special about this date? Well if you want to find out then keep reading and find out for yourself.

Well as I said 14^th of November 2012......was the Manaiakalani Film Festival. 9:55 a.m. Our whole school had made three films for the Manaiakalani Film Festival. We had to attend this Festival to support our movies and cheer on for the other movies from several different schools. By 10 o’clock we were all seated in the hall getting ready to depart to Sylvia Park’s Cinema. As we entered the school vans we could already spot some headless chooks acting like little maniacs. I took the first van with four other boys and a lot of girls from my class. We took off in a hurry as if we were going to catch a flight.

As were arrived at our destination we were surrounded by a lot of parking lots. As we were looking at the amazing scenery, a bone chilling wind almost blew me off my feet. We took a picture at a weird looking blob of some kind, but I knew that is the life of art.

Waiting and waiting for several minutes which felt like a lifetime, a swarm of Tamaki Intermediate students were rushing up to us like rampaging bulls.

Meanwhile we were waiting for a wave of other different schools to scurry on so that we could get inside to the warmth of the theaters. Finally they were in, so we followed on into the horrifying maze of Sylvia Park. As other people were walking by, I almost got lost then I saw my teacher and ran to her like I was a little child in pain.

When we went to the escalators we saw that Glenbrae was already seated. When I hopped onto the escalators I could see my teacher Mrs Parker-Tofa from the corner of my eye.

We had to be seated in the cinema so I decided that I would go and sit near the teachers so I wouldn’t get into trouble. I could still feel the bone chilling wind blow onto my shirt as if I was a flag. As I went inside I could feel the temperature changing. I felt like I was in a completely different world.

It was dark and the only things in sight were students, students and even more students. I peaked over my shoulder and saw that Howard was following in behind me. Lucky I thought that I was not lost again. So Howard and I decided that we go and find Mrs Raj, we spotted her but we thought that she was one of the students from another school.

Then we went inside and saw a humongous screen! We travelled on foot to our seats and sat down. It looked like we were in a fancy hotel. When our movies came on I almost cried with tears of joy and I could feel the happiness around me. Our class movie to thank Mr. Horan was the best movie I guess.

By Siosaia Tukuafu

Net Book Evaluation

               NET BOOK EVALUATION

POSITIVES-

     I.        I found that it was really good for me as a student of Tamaki Intermediate to have my own net book to use for the year and pay it off as time goes pass

   II.        The good things about net books are making the inquiry easier for us to do in class

 III.        It makes it easier for us to find information for our work

 IV.        It is easy to carry to carry around

MINUS-

     I.        The things I found negative about net books were not being allowed to take home for homework

   II.        The Internet was not loading fast enough when we were using them

 III.         Sometimes there were some problems and difficulties with my net book

 IV.        Not enough time with the net book

INTERESTING-

     I.        The most interesting thing that I found with the net book was that we get to pay less for the net book because our school is closing down

 II.      We get to use the same ones in college

My Moment Of Excellence

               My Moment Of Excellence

Last year, in the last term, on the second to last day of school was the day I experienced  my moment of excellence.

All I could hear were people clapping, Mr Horan speaking and everyone waiting for Mr Horan to announce the Head Boy for Tamaki Intermediate 2012.

There I was, sitting there just staring into space. Jeffrey and I the nominated candidates were sitting there waiting for ages and ages for Mr. Horan to make the announcement.  Then suddenly Mr Horan said, "And the Head Boy for Tamaki Intermediate for 2012 is......"

Then I could hear some people whispering my name 'Saia, Saia, Saia.'
   
"........Siosaia Tukuafu!"  There was a thunderous applause!

I was so happy, and kind of shy when he said that we had to walk up on to the stage and sit on the comfortable chairs with the other dignitaries.

To me, nearly everyone was cheering as loud as they could . I was so happy because my Dad was there and he was really happy as well. I was happy because I got one of the most important jobs in the whole school.

I knew at that time that I would never forget that moment of success for me.

By Siosaia
Room 12

Tech at Hard Materials

Reflection:

At Hard Materials on Monday the 28th of May, we made our bases for our projects. We had to draw on a piece of paper what we to plan to make at hard materials. My project will reflect a fish jumping out of the water. I am excited about my project and I will try and complete it within the time frame given.

New Zealand Young Leaders Day 2012

Wow! what a day it was.We had an opportunity to go to the New  Zealand Young Leaders Day at the Telstra Clear Stadium in Manukau.

When every one of the Leaders came to school, Miss Waetford told my dad that he could drive us to the Telstra Clear Stadium, then he just started getting cheeky to Miss Waetford. He asked where we wanted to go and someone in the background said to Hamilton.

Just when it was 8 o'clock I told Isi that I was going to get some refill to write all the facts that I needed.So Isi and I went to Mr Furivai's class to get the refill and the camera so that we could take some pictures of the stadium and the speakers that were going to speak about being leaders.

As we got into the van we were all terrified of all the people that were going to be there.

We were off! We were terrified as we went into the motorway.

When we got there, we were amazed at all the people arriving. We had to go to the info desk so that we could get these bands to show that we are part of  a school.

The hosts were Matt Gibb and Whitney Tuitasi. The first speaker was Sam Johnson.He was the man or should I say young man that had helped to clean up Christchurch and the Japan Flood and Earthquake.

The second speaker was Dave Atkinson. He is the most funniest man on Earth.When he was 19 yrs old he went snowboarding with his friends and he wanted to fit in so that he can look cool so then he jumped a 40ft long jump and landed 20 ft over on his butt. He also told us that pooed his pants when he fell on his butt. Everybody started laughing as hard as they could.

The fourth speaker was Cam Calkoen. He is a disabled person but he still joins in the athletics and he sponsored and helped to build a Hospital for disabled people. He also told us that he was on his way to New York for the Athletics.

The next speaker was Dillion Boucher. He plays in the Auckland Pirates. He gave us a lot of advice to never give up and to keep training.

After Dillion Boucher spoke it was Annah Mac's turn to feed us with her advice. She told us that if you are a loner than you should throw yourself into everything. As she finished off her last sentence everyone wanted her to sing us a song. We got some footage of her singing but we don't know if it was a good footage.

It was a very fun day but the best thing about that day was coming back to school. We were really noisy and everyone was mocking each other in a good way. Isi and I caught Irasa staring at herself in the mirror and I shouted the mirror might break.