Day 3 Wk 2 Of Lock-Down

Last night me and my two sisters (one of them is my sister in law) stayed up making some apple crumble and chocolate brownies. It was so much fun, even when I made some mess on my clothing with the flour. We had to wait for a bit because my sister in law was writing what to do. The only reason why we did this was because my mum wanted me to learn how to make it. Just so that once my brother and his small family moves out I know how to make it and can do it myself. 

This was our end result. Oh yea, we even got a new dining table, because we're giving some of  our back up stuff to my brother and our old dining table. We've had it for 25 or more years, so this is our first time giving our table away. Luckily my mum got $150 from my brother for the table,  but then she  had to give $180 to buy the new table. With the brownies, we added some icing sugar to make it look better. Anyways, I'll just make a slide deck  about how to make these two (If I can remember).

Metric Conversions

For this we had to learn about metric conversions. We learnt how to convert different masses, lengths and capacity into different things. Length means how tall or long something is. It's basically  like measuring how tall you door is, or how tall someone is!! Then we watched a video about how to convert measurements from one scale measure to another. On slide 4 was just a slide to help us with the conversions. We also had a slide with examples of how to convert from largest to smallest. I found all the other slides quite easy, but sort of got a bit confused with the word problems. I have a few eye-sight problems so I asked my sister if she could read it to me, then I understood the questions.  As for the create task, I'll try and do it on Friday because i'm still very busy, so please don't mind if I post it a bit later. Well, I hope everyone is having a nice time during lock-down and I can't wait to go back to school!!

Day 2 Of Wk 2 Lock-Down

Hello everyone, I'm back with more updates from my lock-down. I found  out that we'll be going  back to school on Monday!! I'm looking forward to it, just because I get to see my friends again, but also because I can focus on my school work more. I'm working on learning how to make different foods with my sister in law and my mum. They were gossiping about me and laughing, so it must've been something weird that my mum made up, not to mention I also heard my name. Anyways, this was our dinner. We had spicy pork belly with some beans and rice. It was so hot, and the texture was so good!!  

Me and my mum were the ones who made our dinner. It was hard because me and my mum were moving around too much. It didn't help when I kept getting a growling for making heaps of noises whenever I had to crush the garlic. Not to mention it kept waking up my nephew and then I had to put him to sleep. He woke up like 15 times and I had to keep putting back to sleep. So I quickly finished up and was really  happy!!

Lately I haven't been doing any physical things because the weather keeps changing. One time it was funny because it was sunny, but it was raining, and usually I only see that happen in the Cook Islands. Oh yeah, and I'm still doing a bunch of dance games with my sister and keeping a balance on my school work and house work. Sometimes I apologise for leaving our class meet because my mum always needs me and then I miss out on so much information that would help me with my work, because usually I don't really understand much, but luckily I talked to one of the girls in my class on email. 

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this blog post and I hope you have an amazing rest of the lock-down!!

A Moon Myth

For this task we had to listen to the story of Rona and the Moon. Then we watched another video and had to listen to what the video shows and tells us. On slide 4 we had to see if we can fluently read these two texts about Rona and the Moon. We had to see if we understood the story and a great way to see if we can retell this story. Then we had to create our own story board that was given by the link of the left. We just had to try and organise the who story. On the next slide we had to break the text into word groups. We had to record ourselves saying it, but I couldn't do it because my household is a bit loud and so far it's been wet outside. We also had to find 4 high level worthy words. Last slide was about our create task. We had to options. All of this was a bit hard for me because I'm quite busy at home as well as school! So I tried my best to do this task.

Day 4 of Lock Down

This was our dinner last night. It's beef stew with a couple veggies like carrot and potato. We had this with rice. It's was really hot, but tasted really good. It was a bit rich, but the rice help keep the flavour balanced. This was made by Me, and my mum. I always help my mum with anything, including cooking, washing dishes, and doing to clothing. Usually it's always me she calls.

 For this morning I made us a very tasty smoothy. It's made with frozen mango bits, custard flavoured yogurt, four banana's and milk. This meant to be for me only in a small cup, but then I remembered about my family, so I made a larger one. It tastes really nice and it's very smmoth.

As always, my lock down is still going splended. I'm having fun at home while doing doing school work. Most times I have to do house work and help my mum so I try my best to finish as much work as I can. It's also really hard for me to focus on school work, because my mum always needs me, and I'm always looking after my nephew. I try my best to say that I need to do my work, but I want my family to be happy as well, so I just do it.

Day 3 of Lockdown

So how is everyone? Like I said on my last post, my lockdown is still going well. I've tried finishing off all my work, and being able to get up early to go on my google meets. This top photo was this morning when my mum woke me up and asked me to help her make different scones. We made some pineapple flavoured scones, chocolate chip flavoured scones, and the original scones. It was really hard to stay awake because she woke my up at 5 in the morning. The reason why we made these scones because my mum hasn't made this in a long time. The recipe is really easy, but it's from my uncle in Rarotonga. He's the one who taught my mum how to make it.

In this photo you can clearly see that I've cropped this photo of me holding my little baby nephew. This was before we had lock down when I was still able to go to school. He's very curious and loves going outside, so for now he's a bit angry because he can't go outside. The only day we went outside was last Sunday. It was really sunny and warm, and me and my sister in law put up a tent for all of us. A few hours later, when my nephew fell asleep my sister in law took him inside the house. I wanted to sleep inside the tent, because I was the perfect size for it, but my mum said no.

Also to keep you updated with my Te Whare Tapa Wha, I am still doing Taha Whanau. Still looking after my nephew, keeping a close connection with my extended family and friends. So far for Taha Tinana i'm doing a bunch of dancing games with my sister. It's hard, but then again I love it. Taha Wairua is going well. I'm still happy as ever and still trying to not be negative, because of family reasons.

So that's it.... I'll be posting more about my lock down soon.

Day 2 of Lock Down

How am I feeling about this lockdown? Honestly, i'm sort of enjoying this. Enjoying the fact that I get to do most things I can't do at school, but at the same time i'm missing all my friends. This top photo was just yesterday when my sister in law wanted to do my hair and I ended up looking like this. I was quite shocked about this look, because usually I have really fluffy and curly hair.

Also most people think I use my baby nephew Armani as an excuse to not come onto our online school meets, but I just like showing him off. This picture is when I got to feed him his lunch and put him to sleep. Even though i'm not fully Samoan I gave it a go on singing two Samoan songs from school and a Samoan lullaby that my Samoan sister in law taught me. I'm still learning how to pronounce the words properly, and my sister in law said that she thinks i'm doing pretty good. I might put up a video of me singing them but here are the links. Ufiufi was one of the main songs I sang to him to make him happy when my nephew was sad or tired. Le ali'ie le atua e is another song and last but not least is Moe Moe Pepe. This is now the current song I sing to him or the Cook Island and english version of "My God Loves Me". 

Here is a very cute picture of him when we was very very little. He looks exactly like his father, but has the attitude of his mother. In my spare time I also like to finish off my work, carry on looking after my nephew, help cook a few things like pineapple pie or banoffee pie and practice my Mihi that I posted a few months back!!

So as you can see I always show Taha whanau. I'm always there to help the family, always keeping a close connection with my extended family and friends, even through this rough time. I'm also training for our cross country by eating healthy (only because my mother told me to) and going to walks and runs with my sister in law. I also do a bunch of netball training outside sometimes with my sister and sister in law. So i'm also trying to improve on my Taha Tinana. Well that's all I have to say!! Please feel free to leave a comment and tell me how are you feeling during this lockdown? 

But until next time:

BAIIII!!!

Keeping on top of my well-being

This is part of my Inquiry. It's all about staying on top of my Te Whare Tapa Wha. All of this information I have written is very true. Mainly Taha Tinana because lately my family haven't been doing much for our physical health. So from now on i;m going to be doing a bunch of weird dance games with my sister.