The Newest Nerds

I don't know about you guys, but at my school there is a newkind of nerd. Twilight Nerds. This all girls group are obsessed with the books and the movie. I havn't read the books cause the waitin list is so long at the library and I don't know that theyd be worth the money to buy. And I want to read the books before I see the movie, so I hav basicly no idea about any of it. exept for the well known stuff; like the fact that its about this girl who falls in love with a vampire and bla bla bla. But these Twilight Nerds don't just like the books. They LOVE them. They are totaly OBSESSED with them. Wheneva we get free time in the computer labs they look up twilight posters. Their lockers are covered in pictures from the movie. Its actually rather sad. The main guy isnt even that cute! So what do you think? Is Twilight really worth all the fuss? Have you guys even noticed the fuss? Or is my school the only one being taken ocver by the 'Twililghers', as they call themselves?

Swimming Carnaval

Well, i should be telling you all about my weekend upp mt field, it was totaly awsome. But dew to the lack of comments my last awsome weekend got, namely NONE, I won't bother. But guys, if you read my blog, can you plz make a comment, even if its just 'Hey Han, i stil care about your life'. So anyway...my swimming carnaval. It was all the way back on monday. And those of you who live in hobart would know how miserable the weather was on monday morning, but for the sake of those who don't I'll describe it. Well, it was very cold and rather windy. It started raining on and off for a while around mid-day. it was just kinda yuck all day. So we were at a swimming carnaval at the glenorchy pool. And the glenorchy pool is out doors. And the only shelter is over the seats. I was in the 50m backstroke and the Mawson grd 8 relay team. btw Mawson is my house and its blue. The backstroke wasn't til the afternoon, so it was really good, I didn't get wet and cold til it was about to get sunny-er. I came 3rd. Which is farely good considering there was only the one heat and they were all decent swimmers. My relay team cane 2nd out of a field of three. I really liked that relay, cause I was swimming second and when Ellen was coming down the pool, we fell behind. Then I went and I got us back up into 2nd place!!! then we stayed there the whole rest of the race!!! So I did a good job for my team. YAY!!! In the afternoon we got a ton of free time cause the carnaval finnished ages before we had to go back to school. The water slide. Its just so awsome that I won't bother trying to descride it, I wouldn't do it justice. it was SO FUN!!! anyway...plz comment, especially if you find yourself capable of describing the wonder that is the glenorchy pool water slide.

Lake Leake part Three

As the title would suggest, this is a third section of my weekend, and it would do you good to read the first two segment frist. But anyway...on with the story. ON Monday morning, Poppy came up to see us and to get his new fone of Mum. His fone is a brick, about twice as thick as mine, and identical to the one that one of the boys in my class has. He got just after 10am, and Ray wasn't out of bed and I was stil in my pjs. Ray and I both got dressed and then went out to see him. We were all sitting in the lounge room, then I saw James riding along the road, past our window. Kez and I decided to go for a ride too, to see if we ran into him. (you see, we sort of don't mix with them till such time as we meet outside, then we head inside) We reached the road at the same time as Ollie, so we rode along fairly slowly with him. I got bored, so i started to again try and beat James at clapping. It took me a while to get back into it, but then i got 16!!! Exactly the same as James' top score the day before!!! I raced of on Kez and Ollie, caught up with James and told him that we were tying. He automaticly began trying to beat me, so he could have the victory. But before he even got back into it I scored 17, then 24. 24!!! That put me in the lead by 6 whole claps!!! But then James had to go and spoil it all by getting a totaly amazing score like 42. He actually got 42!!! I wouldn't have believed him, except for the fact that I counted them myself. I tryed for a bit longer, but I knew that I would have to admit defeat. 42 was just so outragously impossible. He only got there the once, didn't get close ever again. James victorious. I was sad. I thought at one stage I had won. Here's a picture of James on his bike, just cause I feel like puttin more pictures on my blog.



Then Sam came out and we all went inside to play cheat. I came second to Keziah. When I had been teaching Sam and James to play the night before, We had had the game working fine, then at one stage I had played a ten. It was Sam's go and she tryes to play her two tens. I'm, like, 'no Sam, your playing Jacks!' Then she goes, 'But I have tens!' And I say, 'yeah, but your playing Jacks.' 'But what do I do with the tens?!' James joins in with me 'YOU KEEP THEM FOR NEXT ROUND!' 'But I don't get it!' 'Just play the jacks' She did, and half way through the next round she says, 'I get it now!!!' And James says, 'Congrats.' So yeah. We played cheat, then James and I made a fire to cook dampa on sticks over. I started up and we all got our sticks, attached the dampa, then started cooking. James was saying how he was going to actually cook his properly for once, but it didn't hapen. He got it just a bit burned, then decided that there was no point in keeping on trying. So he decided it was his mission to get it as burned as posible. He dropped it in the fire, and the stick burnt away, we had to go and get the tongs so he could get it out. It looked like a big black dog poop. He the went and dropped it in the lake, so he could cut it open. And on the inside, it was raw. He didn't eat it, even though all the other six of us dared him to several times. Then we decided that it was warm enough to get in the water. Sam didn't want to come, so yet again I was left with James.



Thats me on the left in the red kyack, James is next to me in the other red, Beck is in the yellow, closest to us and thats Ray up the back. We raced around, James wanted to know what would happen if he filled his kyack up with water and he discovered you got very cold sitting in it, so I had to help him tip it out. He was too weak to get it out on his own. Then Dad got one of the water squirters out and we had a water/mud and mud fight. After about an hour, we all got out and got changed and warm. In the afternoon we had another competition. This time we had to make 'cars' that would roll quickly down toilet-run-hill. We started working in pairs; me with Ollie, Sam and Kez (Beck joined them), James with Ray. Ollie and I started by trying to get a working wheel and axle. We tryed to use some old glow-stick packets as wheels, and started looking for axles. Meanwhile Sam and the twins were diging through the morleys shed and found some old trucks and stuff. The first thing we knew, they were cutting the wheels of a plastic truck, while we were struggling to make axles. James and Ray, on the other hand, were doing nothing but arguing. Rachel somehow had the idea that it had to be a wooden car, whereas James, like the rest of us, wanted to use any old junk.Ollie and I were looking for decent nails, to use as axles, when James came up and started talking to us. Aparently, he got sick of Ray and ditcched her because they couldn't agree. He started off by just watching us, then he gradually became a member of our team. Well, the nail idea didnt work, it just ended up splitting the plastic we were nailing it through. Then Ollie decided we would try using a couple of old bike wheels. To my surprise, it actually worked. Then James and I set to work on using one of our glow-stick packets as an axle. We attached it by using ducktape, this was our end result.



Btw when it came to competition time, Ray decided that seeimg as she was a member of James' pair, that automaticly made her a member of our team. Anyway, here is our competition.



Any bets on who will win? Here are some shots of the 'cars' in action.





And...drum roll please...WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!

We only just finished in time, we had to go home straight after, but now you know how I spent my long week-end. I didn't laze around, it was the most active weekend I've had in ages.

Lake Leake part 2

It would do u good to read part one first. scroll down a bit and you should find it.

Part Two...
on Saturday afternoon, James and i competed. Big Time. We didn't set out to compete with each other, it just happened. We were riding round the fire trail, Rachel was with us, but you wouldn't have noticed, she was 5m in front and she wasn't saying anything. Anyway...on our way back, just along the road, we were both showing off to each other. We were riding one handed, then no-handed, then we started clapping. What we did was take our hands of the handle bars and clap as many times as possible or until we fell off. That afternoon, James got to a grand total of 16, while I managed to get 12, which, if you've ever tryed to do this, is rather hard. So James had won. But I wasn't going to leave it at that. We had races. Bike races, running races, skiding comps, etc, etc. James won them all, except for the riding, which we declared a tie, cause I thought the finish line was 5m behind where he thought it was. I was infront when we crossed my finish line, but james was infront at his. We then when inside and played inside games. I won all them, even with Sam playing two. So the outcome of the afternoon was that James was just a bit better outside, but I was a lot better inside. Its more fun outside, though, cause thats what being at the shack is all about. Saturday night we had a BBQ, Morleys and Dilgers, but it was really cold, so we had to move inside. we all ate, then the grown-ups started talking, and asking for some coffee. Rachel actually VOLONTEERED to get our parents drinks, which all you grown-ups will think was really nice, but any kids reading this will see it as the crime it really is.Sam and James and me, along with the twins and Ollie, all went over to the Morleys shack and played pictionary and cards away from the parents. We were expecting Ray to come over as soon as she was done with the drinks, but she didnt! We were rachel-less all night. At ten past eight, Beck caught sight of a clock and declared that it was time for her to get ready for bed. Even though we were in the middle of our game. Kez was slightly better. She at least waited until after the game to go back to our shack. The rest of us kept playing till just after the Morleys parents came back.

Maths Homework

I just want to stop for a moment and complain befor going on with my weekend. I wanna complain cause Mz Fry, my maths teacher, set the class three sheets of homework. All easy and boring, about order of operations with positive and negative numbers. Its really anoying, sepcially when they're dew 2moz. And I'm one of the lucky ones, most of the boys in my Math class have Footy training, or Rugby, os SUMTHIN 2night, so they all have to get their parents to sign notes to say that they were to busy to do there maths sheets overnight. And I also have it easy, cause I find it easy and the magority of the class finds it hard. I'd also like to share the joke of the final of the three sheets...

What did the father ghost say to his son?

Spook only when you are spooken to

HaHa, mz fry, that absolutly halerious.

Lake Leake

On fri nite we went up to our shack at Lake Leake. I think most of you guys who read/comment this blog would no bout it already, but I'll describe it 2 u anyway. Our shack isn't very flash. Its just two rooms, a sleeping room and a living room. Theres no hot water, no shower, no phone reception and the loo is outside in a seperate shed. But I love it up there anyway. The lake used to be nice and clean, but now the water levels so low that all the remaining water is really muddy and gross. its a trout fishery, but the water is low and warm and the trout are in-active and even more un-catchable than normal. Lake Leake is suffering from the drought, but it is also the water supply for Campbel Town, and now for Ross too. I don't get how that works. There must be some pretty high-teck filter systems involved to make that water drinkable! So at the moment I have told you all the reasons NOT to love Lake Leake and your are probably wondering why I bother to go there at all. In actual fact, its probably sounding just as undesirable as Ansons Bay. But now I'll tell you all the good things about Lake Leake, a list way longer than you could ever make one bout Ansons Bay. To start with, theres the bikes. We take our bikes up there, to ride around on the gravel road, along th fire trail (thats the ruf, hilly, track that runs through the busk behind the shacks) and toilet run hill (thats the hill all the Dads go up to empty the loos when they get too full, but its really steep and good for huge skids). Then theres the kiacks. We take our inflatable kiacks with us and paddle around the lake, over to the island, and sometimes have waterfights and tipping-each-other-out games. Then theres the number one reason that Lake Leake is better than Ansons Bay. The Morleys. They have a shack two shacks down from us. They have three kids, Sam (or Samamtha) who is six months older than me, even though shes a grade in front of me at school. She goes to Snt Marys, where they actually do work. James is a month younger than Rachel. He has long curly hair and he's more fun to do active stuff with than Sam. Even though he's Rachels age He's friends with me, and therefore he hangs with me and Sam. Ollie is the youngest. He's a whole year younger than the twins and he's nice, even though he sometimes anoys us. So anyway...we got up there fri night, but the Morleys didn't get there till 5 on Sat, so we just lazed around and did a bit of riding on Sat. But then our weekend got better. On Sun morning we had a raft-making competition. What you had to do was make a raft out of anything you could find, then manage to float at least two of your team members on top of the lake on it. I was working with James and Beck, Ray came and joined us half way through, when she got sick of lizard catching. We took a (argggh! i can't think of the word! historical? Normal? Traditional. thats it.) We took a traditional aproach to our raft. We got a collection of old boards and nailed them together onto some pine bases from an old crate. We then put it in the water and (drum roll please...) it floated! But hen james jumped on top and it glided slowly to the bottom of the shallow mudd planes of Lake Leake. Then James got up and it slowly returned to the surface. We decided we need to work on our rafts float-a-bility. Meanwhile the opposition (Sam, Kez and Ollie) had a floating raft that looked like...

... yep. thats right. They just stuck a whole bunch od boogie boards together.But it floated. and they could even padle it around. So we decided to find any old inatubes we could, to make our raft float with people on it. Unfortunately we only had two, and they both belonged to bikes. so we strapped them, along with two blocks of polystirene, onto the base of our raft. We then changed into bathers and took it back into the water. It floated even better by itself, but, yet again, James got on and it sunk. (btw we used James, cause he's lighter than me and Beck didn't want to be a gunie-pig) We then decided to cut down on weight by removing the boards that were falling off cause we didn't use long enough nails. They came off really easily, then we went back into the water, James got on and, you'll never guess, it FLOATED!!!!! But then I got on, and... it sunk. :( We than played around with it removing boards, letting beck have a go, And eventually the pollystirene snapped in half. Before we removed enough weight to get two people floating. I would like to add a picture here, but there aren't any on my camera and I can't be stuffed looking through the numerous other cameras we had with us.

I have to do my Maths home work now, I'll see if I can tell you bout the rest of my weekend later.