Week 2 Term 2

Bonjour!

This week has been quite fun!

On Monday we had assembly, but I got my second Honesty and Excellence band!  I only need six more signature till my silver badge!!  How exciting.  I hope I can be the first person to get it, but it doesn't matter if I'm not because I'm just really exciting that I've almost got my silver badge!  In second block we had a session of Lacrosse and it was really fun.  It was my first time playing the sport and I really enjoyed it.  I enjoyed so much in fact, that I joined a college team!  We had our first practice on Thursday and it was lots of fun.  Some of them are quite experienced and others only started on Thursday, like me!  Here are some photos of our Lacrosse session at school:

 For this exercise we had to flip the stick in front of our face with the ball in it, to learn how to control it and keep it from other players in a games.

  For this exercise we had to do what we were doing in the previous exercise except we had to run with the ball around cones.











Once we reach the end of the cones we had to shoot a goal.  We could shoot however we wanted.  We could do a normal over the shoulder pass, we could do an under the leg shot.  Practically anything we wanted.

Big thank you to Dean, our instructor, who made it a really fun session.  We all really enjoyed it and I think it inspired most of the students to maybe play next year at college, or later in the year in Term 4.




On Friday we had our first session of Japanese with the new teacher, Etsuko.  She is really friendly, and we learnt quite a lot about Japan for our first lesson.  She is a teacher in Japan and she teaches students our age, about 12.  Etsuko doesn't speak much English so we had to speak slowly so she'd understand us.  She gave us a booklet about Japan, and it had lots of pictures of different places.  It even had some pictures of her class room.  We saw some pictures of the little year one students, with the older students helping them.  All the year one students were wearing bright yellow bucket hats, and we weren't sure why, so we asked Etsuko.  She said that the year one student wore those hats because sometimes they cause trouble, they could walk onto the road ad not be seen by a car and get run over.  So the yellow hats are a pretty good idea.  Etsuko gave us a piece of paper with our booklets, and told us to write down anything we wanted to learn about Japan.  It was a really fun session, I can't wait till next Friday to do it again!  Special thanks to Etsuko for making it lots of fun.

Au Revoir!