Rock sliding in Fiji!

"Are we almost there?" I complained as we walked up the hill with the hot sun beating down on our backs. "Almost". Replied the young Fijians.
We had traveled to a small village just outside of Rakiraki to go to the water slide.
While we were walking to the water slide one of the men jumped down and pulled out some guavas for us to try. The guavas had lots of seeds in it but it tasted so good, a little bit sour as well as sweet.
When we finally got to the water slide I saw a massive rock with a natural stream running down into a stream. If you looked further down the stream there was a big rock that dropped down into a huge pool, I was about to walk towards it but then I decided to conquer the rock slide first.
When it came to my turn I sat down on the surprisingly smooth rock and let myself slide down into the 12 foot pool... It was so much fun!!!
After I had done that a couple more times I went to jump of the cliff like rock.
Little Master (one of the local Fijians) demonstrated how to jump out to the middle of the stream, 3, 2, 1...
I threw myself out into the air I felt myself falling, falling, SPLASH! As I emerged from the bottom of the pool I had a massive grin of my face I was so happy I had done it.
I would definitely recommend doing something like this if you get the chance!


Here is one of the locals jumping off the top of the rock slide!

Derek Redmond

This is Derek Redmond.
He competed in the 1992 Olympics and voted to win his race, but half way through his race he pulled a hamstring.He was in excruciating pain but still he got up and finished the race. His Dad came onto the track and pushed his way through the security and helped his son, at the finish line he let him go to finish by himself.
This show true passion and determination like we have seen for a lot of this years Olympic athletes!

My Kowhiawhia

This term we have been doing kowhiawhia patterns.These are some of the rules for making this type of art.The main colours are red,white and black, so it is prefered to not use bright colours such as pink and purple. It also has to be symmetrical which means the shape is the same on each side and thery all have to be the same side and an even space apart.to make sure our shapes where the same size we cut our design out on a bit of card and traced around them a few times depending on how big we wanted to make them. A kowhiawhia is normally made up of a koru repeated to make a cool strip of art. This curtain type of art connects to maths a little bit because you are translating, flipping, rotating and reflect.

I had heaps of fun doing this and I would recommend trying this sometime!