Immersion end of T.3

This time for immersion we are going to look at changes and becoming more responsible. The L.A's said that it will involve some community work such as helping at the learning centre across the road. For the first part of this immersion we talked about our community and asked some questions we had about certain things/ subjects.

We started our first 'activity' on Monday the 12th. The teachers got us all into campfire and told us that we were going to become parents this morning, and I immediately thought that we would be looking after some of the babies at the learning centre and then they said that we were going to look after eggs. We were going to treat them like our babies and do everything we would do with real babies to our egg babies.

All the class went into the kitchen to empty out our eggs so that they don't start smelling gross but there were way too many people in the kitchen so Amy said some of us could start making our baskets for our eggs that we could use to carry them around everywhere with us. Mea, Grace and I went straight down to the office because we knew that there where some baskets in there that we could use for our egg babies. Grace and I grabbed some little yellow baskets and some straw like confetti/ stuffing things that we found in there too. I thought that I would make a nice big pillow to put in there and I could sew it all together.

After lots of people had finished their egg we went in to 'make' our eggs. We put eggs into little holders and used a drawing pin and banged it lightly with a cup to make a mini whole on the top. Then on the bottom we made a larger whole. Then we used a large hand sewing needle to mix all the egg together so that the yolk was mixed. Then I went to a sink and blew through the small whole in the top and very slowly the slightly mixed egg whites started to come out like slime. It took a long time to get all the yolks out and then suddenly the egg yolk came out very fast and in no time my egg was all empty. I then packet away the things I used and put my egg in its basket.

Then Grace ( aka Auntie Grace) gave her (I decided she was a girl) a bath with her daughter. My daughter had a couple of scratches on it so I knew that she was mine and Grace's was very dark and had a lot of freckles on it. Holly ended up being its god mother because she was with me when I got her. She then came with me for the day and I attached a bit of ribbon to the basket and hanged it around my neck but holding onto it so it doesn't flip and fall out.

The L.A's explained that if something does happen to our babies then we will have to go to court and there will be jury and a judge. A few people broke their eggs on the first day. Some people were on their second because when they were emptying them the egg cracked and others just dropped them.

I was searching for a name on google and came across Evie/ Evelyne and I really liked the name so I ended up naming my baby Evelyne and Evie for short. Grace named her baby Chloe and Mea named hers Scarlett which is a little weird because she has a friend at dance called Scarlett. Chanel named hers Mele and Cassady named hers Meleficent.

Jorja was going to name hers eggetha but Paige ended up naming hers that and Jorja called hers Emma. Poppy named hers ShellBob because she put him in a pineapple ornament of Amy's and sang the SpongeBob chorus but with Shellbob and pineapple under a roof.

Chanel already had a crack or two in her egg baby and when we were doing our depth essays in the boardroom she dropped Mele AGAIN and Mele got another crack of his or her head. When the Depth Essay workshop was over and Response Reading started Chanel left the workshop and forgot Mele. The other group in Response took Mele and gave him or her back to Chanel and it was all crushed; a lot worse than before.

After school Evie had a long sleep in her nursery while I was at after school care and when we went over to the park across the road. I was lucky because when I got back she was safe and sound and also still sound asleep.

I took Evie home that night and made her a nice little house that was made out of a my food bag chill box because it was big and silver/ sparkly. She now has a nice bed, blanket, flat screen t.v and much, much more.

At around 7:30 Evie was fast asleep in her bed so I went to the toilet as fast as I could because I wanted to be a good mum and when I was walking down the hallway back down to my room my mum was running out of my room with her hands cupped and up to her chest like she was holding something precious; that she didn't want to break.

I yelled "MUM" at her and she ran out of the hallway and towards the lounge room. I ran after her trying to safetly get my baby Evie from her without breaking her. My mum told me that I was a bad mum and I expained that she was sleeping in her bed and I needed to go to the toilet and she finally gave my baby Evelyne back to me with her eye mask half off.

The reason I probably freaked out the most was because I was told to act like she was my baby and I did not want my baby to be egg napped by my own mother. In that couple of seconds knowing her she could of cracked her into a thousand pieces but I was lucky that she didn't as she knew I would be angry and I didn't want to fail my task which is to keep it safe and alive.

Mum said to me later afterwards that this is what she feels like with me growing up; she doesn't want me to grow up or get hurt at all. I know that she definitely cares about me a lot more than I care about my little Egg baby Evie so I can now kind of relate to her I guess.

The next morning (Tuesday 13th September) I took Evie to school unharmed. Some people had left their babies at school (bad moms) if they wanted to so they could make a house for them at home. That night everyone had to take their babies home and they couldn't be left in the nursery.

In most of the first block we were all in the court for some people who had filled out an accident form for their babies. Mea's baby Scarlett had got its bum taken off because of the plaster nappy. Some people dropped theirs, murdered them etc. Amy told everyone who didn't have their baby with them at school that they had to fill out a incident form as well because that is just neglect.

In the middle block some time I was signing into my computer on the high tables and somehow Evie jumped out of her lovely basket and went skydiving off the table without a parachute but luckily the grass on the surface was a like a soft trampoline.I felt very lucky that Evie didn't get crushed because she is my baby and I want to look after her and I also don't want to have to go to court with everyone just looking at me.

She had a safe rest of the day and had a fun time having some of her friends over such as Poppy's ShellBob, Cassady's Meleficent and Natalia's Sam jr. After school mum made us go over to the kindi to get Quinn and all the little kids wanted to see my baby and then some of the boys said they would crash it which did not sound good.

Luckily no one got their hands on my baby apart from Alexia because I knew once I told her not to break it she wouldn't. Mum came and signed Quinn out and we went to mum and I's hand appointment in Westgate.

Evie saw me got my arm angles measured and my grip strength tested. I then got my hand put in wax to contain heat in my wrist and then we waited for mums appointment to finish up so that we could go home.

After the hand place we went to pack n save because mum needed to buy more fish to go with dinner. I didn't really want to bring Evie into the supermarket because it is a very dangerous place and I didn't want to look silly carrying a egg around in a basket because that would just seem weird.

I asked mum if I should leave her in the car but she said that couldn't promise not to tell some people so I ended up just taking her in. When we got in there mum said we didn't need a trolly so I had to carry her around in the basket. Not many people noticed that I saw but she was pretty cuddled up in her fluffy blanket.

By the time we were just about half way through the supermarket we had too many things to carry so mum got me to go and get a trolly. There were no small ones so I got a big one and but Evie into the seat were the babys go and put the seatbelt safetly around her basket so she wouldn't go flying out of the trolly.

She had a safe ride as I pushed the trolly really carefully. My brothers were trying to touch her but I told them to go away and don't touch my baby. We got to the car okay and I put the basket on my lap and held onto her over the bumps and sharp turns.

At home Evie and I did our makeup. I did Lachlan as a vampire and then did mine nicely apart from a couple of random eyeliner lines on my eyelids, I felt like Evie was missing out so I used a lipliner to make a outline of her lips and then filled them in with lipstick. I took a photo, rubbed it off and then put her to bed in her house while I had dinner.

After dinner she watched some Youtube with me and then she went back to sleep again. She slept well all night as she loves her sleep and so far has kept up her sleeping pattern. In the morning she woke up and went back to sleep while I got ready.

We didn't have any immersion this morning because we had to fill in our IEM sheets and our learner disposition sheet and write down some goals. The rest of the day she watched barbie movies and shows with Natalia's son Sam jr.

Evie slept a lot during the day and just continued watching barbie movies. After school I went to Mea and Nelle's house so Evie got to play with Rosella and Scarlett while we had some afternoon tea and hanged out in Mea's room.

At about 4:40 we packed up and I grabbed Evie and my bag and hopped into the car. We went to the fruit and vegie shop on the way and I took her in to look at the fresh produce and also because I would be a bad mum if I left her in the car by herself as she is only a little baby!

I then realised that Mea and Nelle had left Scarlett and Rosella at home BY THEMSELVES so I told them that they were very bad mothers because you are meant to take them with you everywhere. They didn't really seem to care because they knew that nothing could happen to them because they are just eggs.

When we got home She went into her bed and watched even more barbie on her large flat screen t.v. She was nicely relaxing while I went and had some dinner and mum and nana went out to the movies. We watched some Youtube videos and read some books. We couldn't get to sleep and were up until about 10:00.

SPINS Performance

On Tuesday (my birthday) we had a performance rehearsal at the secondary school. Grace, Mea and I all went there together after we did the book battle challenge for intermediate schools around the area.

We were the opening act to we had to go first. This was more of a lighting and sound rehearsal so that they could work out how the lights were and to get our music and have it at the right volume. We had simple lights and music but it wasn't cut properly.

Sophie our dance teacher wasn't there for this rehearsal as she couldn't make it and she had the music that was cut to our dance. We just had to use the version that was online and had to pause at some points to wait for it to catch up.

After we did our dance once and practiced coming on from the wings, Leigh who was organising everything said that us three can go now because we had already done our part. We wanted to watch the others but decided to go now.

On the Wednesday we had to be at the Secondary school at 3:00 so we left school a little earlier. We went and got changed into our costumes and went into the auditorium were everything was being set up.

We did our part and then we watched most of the others performances.  We then put $5.00 each towards pizza, chips and drinks. Once the Stage Challenge group had finished performing we got to eat our dinner.

We then just waited for the last groups of people perform their parts. We all did our makeup and people started to arrive as 6:30 was almost here. We had a briefing upstairs because the schedule had changed for some people. 

We then went downstairs to the green room which was backstage. We then walked around the stage to the other side and into our starting positions. Once we had performed we walked back around and upstairs.

The other acts did their parts as we waiting a couple of hours until it was the finale. Mea went to half of her ballet class and grace and I were just upstairs not doing much. Near the end of the show we started to practice some moves.

We did some handstands and walkovers and then decided that we would practice the finale in the dance room with the music because a group of people decided that they wanted to join in so we taught them and practiced.

We then did the finale dance on the stage and after we did it and bowed most people went back on stage and kept dancing and the audience seemed to really enjoy it. We then grabbed all of our things and went home to bed.

SPINS Reflection

SPINS Reflection (class):

I think that this class really helped me with my flexibility, strength and confidence to perform. I really enjoyed working on a new dance and working with new people. I also enjoyed doing another performance in front of people and I feel like it really boosted my confidence.

Something that didn't go to plan in this class is that I found out I could do anything instead of being held back by my sore foot so that helped me to be able to do some things that I couldn't before.

Something I would change for next time is to work a lot more on my handstands and cartwheels so that I can do many things such as clip cartwheels, holding split hand stands and my back walkover.

I think that I was quite good at taking corrections and I tried my hardest to fix my mistakes and make my technique much better than it was before, I liked how everyone gave me things to work on and now I am a lot better.

I feel like I added in some things to this dance and I worked as a team with others especially when we did partner moves and trying to make them as best as possible.

SPINS Reflection (performance):

I think that our characters were good as we had facials that expressed our feelings when dancing and I feel like we really defined our movements to make more effect while performing. I think that I personally did well with my technique and doing the things that I practiced.

 I think that the finale didn't really go as planned, starting off that some others wanted to do it too so we had to teach it to them, then we waited for the music to start but it didn't so we had to go on stage first and just stand there covering it up and then some people went back on after everyone who had bowed but all together I think it looked really good and the audience enjoyed it.

Something I would change for next time would be to have more than two rehearsals so we can get used to the area we are dancing in and the chance to watch everyone else's performances because we didn't really get to.

SPINS W.4

This week we just needed to practice our dance because a fact of dance is you remember a dance after doing it at least 25 times so our goal was to try and practice as many times as possible to remember our dance.

We started off by dong cartwheels from each corner of the room. We then did some handstand for a while but I got annoyed because I kept going into a bridge as always so I tried really hard not to.

When we did cartwheels I practiced my 'Bad Side' because I want to confidently be able to do both ways. I also practiced my clip cartwheels (when you clip your legs in the middle of the cartwheel, hold it and finish going over).

When we did handstands I also worked olin my other leg and tried to keep my arms closer together (shoulder width apart). I also worked on holing my handstand for longer instead of coming straight down.

We were all very tired by the time we finished as we had been trying our hardest like we will when we do the show. We just need to practice through the week so we are ready for our performance on Wednesday 29th of June.

Runway Challenge

Sunday the was the day of the runway challenge. We had our roster all organized and I was on Cafe (Hot chocolates and coffee) the whole time because I have had lots of experience in that section of selling. There was also a bakes sale and sausage sizzle.

The morning started off by setting up the stall. We had a few tables all set up next to each other and Daniel had already set up the machine. There were lots of power cords every were so that we could plug in the 2 machines and the money till.

Not soon after everything was set up and ready, people started to arrive and pick up there bags from in the gym. Sadly we had a rival who was right next to the door and was probably going to steal all our customers.

We didn't get very many customers at the start because it was really hot. It sounded like the bake sale was going well and the sausages were a bit quiet. More people started to come and noticed were we were and we got more customers.

We had some crazy times were there were so many orders as groups of people came to order. Some people even came back to say how nice their drink was which made us very happy. The bake sale moved from being in the cafe as no one could see them there.

They moved in the sun near the sausage sizzle and had the big school gazebo up. They had many customers as they were visible and they had very cheap prices. Mums cupcakes that she made sold like wildfire as they looked and tasted amazing.

We got some more customers and then we got told to wrap up everything. We had to bring everything into the cafeteria and put everything into its place. We were happy because we had learnt lots of money from just looking into the till.

We knew we wouldn't get all the money in the till as we had to pay back the float and half the money to the school for all the cups, hot chocolate and e.t.c. Our rival coffee shop had to pay $30.00 for being there at the event and the Runway challenge group gave it to us.

They also said that they would pay us $500 for letting them use our school for the whole event and also said that they would pay for all the ingredients we used such as the sausages, hot chocolate cups e.t.c.

we were really happy with the days work but were happy to finish. I can't wait until another big fundraiser like that one so it can get us closer to the Gold Coast.

Noel Leeming Sausage Sizzle

Daniel got the leadership team in the boardroom so we could have a meeting about something. he started to explain about how Noel Leeming had a sausage sizzle fundraiser and wanted us to run it for them. They would provide everything and we would get all the profit.

They were going to be sold for $1.00 each, all we needed to bring was tongs and aprons. We made a document to add a time table on so that we could do shifts. They were from 10-12, 12-2 and 2-4. Some people couldn't do it so they continued with their work.

I was free all day and didn't mind how long I had to do it so they put me on for 10-2 which was long hours but I was really excited and they needed me to. Grace was going to stay at Mea and Nelle's house on Friday as it was on the Saturday.

Mea asked Daniel if I could stay too because I was going in the morning with him and he said yes. On Saturday morning (after close to no sleep) we went down to Westgate at 9:30 so that we could set up everything.

We got some Starbucks as it was just across the road and then we went across to Noel Leeming. We got a table so we could set up the money, sausages, sauce e.t.c. We then started putting up posters and cooking the onions and sausages.

We then just had to wait for some customers to come. We only had a couple of people coming as most of them had only just had their breakfast. Mum soon arrived with the rest of the family. I took my brothers to look at the animals in Animates and they got a sausage.

Dad and the boys then went home to get mums sunglasses and mum went and brought some gloves and hand sanitiser for us to use so everything was nice and clean, she also brought a plastic container that we could put the onions in and they could keep warm.

We got a few more customers and the lady that helped us at Noel Leeming was making cupcakes for everyone so we had lots of those too. Mum then asked for some cardboard and a vivid so we could have someone by the road waving the sign every were.

Mum wrote on the sign and got Mea by the road yelling out "$1 sausages at Noel Leeming". After Mea was out there we got a whole lot more customers than we did before and people coming to look at the sales in the store.

Mea and I also started going down the bottom end of the shops handing out flyers and vouchers and we got lots of people coming up to were we were. T.K arrived and Mea had to leave for dance as she had a private lesson.

The staff at Noel Leeming then came out and gave us 7 MKR cook books to hand out. We decided to give them away to people who brought 4 or more sausages. They were gone very fast as many families came and got some.

When we were finished Poppy and Grace came and took over for the 2-4 block. We were very happy with the amount of sausages we sold and couldn't wait to do another fundraiser.

My Gold Coast Trip Application

Personal Information:

Name: Kayla Rebecca Carrodus (12)

Family: I have two little brothers Lachlan Carrodus and Quinn Carrodus. My mum is Karma Carrodus and my dad is Daniel Carrodus.

Hobbies: I love horses and I ride lots, I swim at Whenuapai air base, I love to cook and make My Food Bags for dinner, I like to sew (I have done Trash to Fashion), do photography, listen and make music, I play many sports such as Touch, Netball, Ripper and swimming, I like to make fashion designs and be creative.

May 4th, 2016

Dear ___________,

RE: Gold Coast Application

I am writing to apply for the Gold Coast trip 2016

I consider myself as a good leader and think this trip will help me lots with the following things:

• Experiences
• Money/ budgeting
• Travel experience
• Leadership
• Student Bonding
• Fundraising
• Expanding my learning

I think this trip is a good opportunity for me to get some experience before I go to high school. I also think that dealing with money will help me understand lots more and will expand with what I have learnt from running the cafe over the past year or so. I haven't travelled that much before so I think that this will help me understand more about the whole experience and how to act in a new and exciting environment. This seems a lot like a leadership camp which would be good for my leadership goals of becoming better at leading new things and doing something good for communities.

I think that going overseas for a while will be a good time to bond with other students and get to know them better and in a different place and environment than at school. This trip will help me learn how to fundraise and work with customers, it will also help me organise things that I want to happen and this can also help my with money and budgeting also. This trip will also help me expand my learning by helping people I don't know and doing something for them.

Why I should go/ my qualities:

I love exploring new places and are open to new ideas/ change, I also like to try new things especially when I have others doing it with me. I would really like to meet some other students/people that grew up in a different environment and place than I did. I like to share my experiences with other people and doing team building games as I find new experiences exciting and they really inspire me to find out more about them and how things work. I have been to Sydney once before and that was a really great experience for me as I learn’t lots and  we went to theme parks and learnt lots about animals such as Koalas and Kangaroos.

My Reference:

I have worked with Kayla in 2015 and 2016 in both Dance classes and for the HPSS 2015 stage challenge. I have found that Kayla is always keen to learn and take on new challenge and works well when collaborating with a team. Kayla always shows up on time and is well organised and ready to learn. I would not hesitate to recommend Kayla for the Gold Coast trip.

Kind regards,

                     Sophie

I have known Kayla now for two years through my work at Hobsonville Point Primary School. Kayla is extremely conscientious in all that she does, and can always be relied on to do the right thing in any situation. This is continually role-modelled for students around her, and she is quick to help others to follow her example. Kayla is also a very reliable and helpful student – she will always step up in various situations and offer help in any form it is needed, and will finish any task that is assigned to her. She is developing great self-confidence in herself and her abilities, and easily steps out of her comfort zone when required. Alongside this, she is growing her leadership skills and her ability to collaborate with others. Sheis a confident and articulate student who is able to fully contribute her own ideas and views in any discussion. Kayla is developing into a delightful young adult – she has a great sense of fun and enjoys life.

-Leigh Abraham

Thank you for considering my application, I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

                     Kayla Carrodus