Labour Weekend

Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890, when several thousand trade union members and supporters attended parades in the main center. The average American worked 12 hour days, seven days a week!

My Saturday started off with Ngati Rukawa Under 13 Maori basketball🏀 trails, which went from 9:oo till 10:30. Maori basketball is one of New Zealand's largest basketball tournaments held at Rotorua. Anyway, There were about 15 kids (including me) us working for our spot. We started off with a quick warm-up before moving into lay-up lines. After a while of fundamental activities, we transitioned into 5v5 games. Our team went well taking 2 games out of 4. Now training was finished and I was ready to go home and chill.😌

Sunday was another early start because my Sister had her basketball🏀 training. Once that was finished Me and my family spent the rest of the day at the Otaki Pools🏊. So I didn't really do much for the rest which was good because it kind of gave us a break.

Monday was planned to be a busy day because we had HK under 14 touch🏉 trials and my cousin and friend came over for the day. Touch trials were fun while tiring, when we got home me and my cousin and friend played basketball and played on the tramp. After we got bored of that we went for a bike🚴 ride uptown and got some munchies🍫 and just played on my ps4 for the rest of the day. In total, I like having Labour weekend and really enjoyed the activities that I did, Thanks for reading.

Lion Dance

 On Wednesday 27th of October, our class tried the lion dance. The lion dance originated in China and is now performed all over the world. Our tutor was Winsome, He teaches and tutors in wellington, And he really knows what he's doing. The lion dance is done twos so I buddied up David. Together we performed with the other groups. There are two parts of the lion where the people act. First, the head, which controls the eyes and the mouth, then the person that sits at the back. Overall It was great fun and I really enjoyed it. I highly recommend giving it a go and Thanks for reading

Mandatory Vaccinations Announced

All school staff and high-risk workers should be fully vaccinated by the 1st of January 2022. I think this will not just help schools around New Zealand it will still affect NZ in a good way. So I do agree with this statement made by Covid 19 response minister Chris Hipkins. So far 70% of New Zealand have taken their first dose while only 54% have taken their second dose. Thanks for reading.