Gratatude project 7

This week I am grateful for being old enough to play paintball. On Sunday the 25th, or yesterday, we went out to a place called hinterland adventures, not too far from Hamilton, and we got to play with paintball guns for an hour or so. There were two courses we were allowed to go on, one was in this gully in the forest. There were lots of trees, barrels, walls and piles of broken bits of tree to hide behind. The other one was in an area which had much more walls, this course was called "The Speed ball Course. In this one, we had to try and capture the other team's flag (Which we also did in the gully) and there was this orange ball tied to a post, and I had to get to the post, which was fenced off so I was mostly safe, and I then had to lower to ball and untie it, then throw it into the enemy's side of the course, which meant that the other team lost 40 points when we captured their flag and the whistle was blown. I had loads of fun, and once I even got shot on the visor of my helmet with a paintball! After the game we went to Hell's Pizza for some munchies, and I even got to play a few rounds of pinball! I then got to play some SSX Tricky (a Playstation snowboarding game) with one of the paintball player's son, and that was when it all ended. It was one of the best days of my life, for I have never, and I mean never, played paintball before in my life. Hopefully I'll be able to go back, because now I want to get back out there again someday!

gratatude project 6

This week, I'm grateful for having a family, the picture on the left is a picture of my little brother, my Mum and my Dad at Raglan beach. I grateful for having them because there are kids out there who don't have families, and they have to end up living in little orphanages that can quite easily run out of money, and next thing the kids know they are starving, their clothes are all filthy, and they are extremely sick. So you could say that I'm one of the lucky ones!

gratatude poject 5

This week, I'm grateful for having cats. I've had them around me since I was a little kid, I was even there when they were born. They've been good friends, every night I leave the window open a bit, and they will come and go to sleep on my bed with me! They always cheer me up up when I've had a rough time, and even when their feeding time has come and gone, and I've given them a handful of cat biscuits each, they will still come yowling for more! I know that the end of their lives is getting nearer by the day, but I will just have to make every second of them being there count.

Gratatude project 4

This week, I am grateful for being old enough to do kid's electronics kits on my own. The photo opposite is a picture of a brush robot kit that I got for review. The motor on this thing causes the whole robot to vibrate, then it bounces up and down while the bristles bend, so it moves forward. I have also been able to do other kits on my own as well, like a kit that has a light bulb, electronic quiz, and an electromagnetic pulse generator. I hope more of these things keep coming!

grattude project 3

This week I am grateful for being home schooled, this way I am able to learn at my own pace. The reason I'm glad of this is that there are other kids out there who are stuck in a stuffy classroom, being told what to learn, how to learn and when to learn, but me and the other home schooled kids have more freedom, the picture opposite is literally my school, I have more opportunities to go out and do fun stuff, while other kids only get out of school on Field Trips, weekends and after school hours. God bless home schooling!

gratatude project two

This is week two, and this week I'm grateful for living in a town close to Auckland, a few days ago we went to butterfly creek, where we had a great time, I even got to go on this extreme climbing frame at a place next door to butterfly creek called "Rocket Ropes", I needed to wear a harness with a clip-on zip line trolley and two safety clips, the course was both fun and freaky. With us living about two hours away from Auckland, it means we can get there early in the morning and have almost a whole day doing fun stuff, plus there is also the fact that it saves petrol. Back in Palmerston North, however, we left early in the morning but got to Auckland after dark, there are definitely some advantages to living in Hamilton. I am so going back again when I'm older!

gratatude project

This week I'm grateful for being a reviewer, doing reviews is a great way to get cool stuff for free, in exchange for putting across your personal opinion on the product. Lots of books in my collection came from me doing reviews on them, I got to watch some cool new DVDs in exchange for a review, and now there's even an awesome 3D puzzle coming! This is also a way to practise my English skills, I started reviewing stuff since I was seven years old, and my reviews back then were basically one paragraph, but now that I'm 11, they have improved big time, people on Facebook have actually said that my reviews are very mature coming from someone my age, I am willing to keep this up until the day Kiwireviews closes down for good. Here is a photo showing some of the books I've reviewed in the past: