This week I was sick I went to school on Monday, then on Tuesday I went to my mums work were I watched some movies and slept, same on Wednesday. On Thursday I stayed at home helping my mum prepare for the father’s day breakfast. On Friday I stayed on the couch, my mum had some of her friends over. On Saturday we got some father’s day presents ready and we went into town that night my mum went out to a party and me and Conall watched a movie. On Sunday dad came back from America and we gave him our father’s day presents, I got him a card and a beer mug and Conall won the father’s day raffle so he got loads of stuff. We also got him a paddle the pizza oven and some trays. That night we had pizza made from our pizza oven.

I think my sponsor for confirmation Petronella showed some of the fruits and gifts of the holy spirit, like kindness for giving up her Sunday afternoon to help me complete my confirmation, goodness by praying for me for my confirmation, love by all ways looking after me and joy by always has a sense of humour.

This weeks homework we had to do the footprint challenge. This  is  a program that asks you some questions about your life style and how you live, then it generates how many earths you would need to sustain your life style if everyone in the world had your life style. My family would use 2.4 earths if everyone in the world had our life style. I thought that we would do better than this because we car pool a lot and we try to buy local food and we don’t use plastic bags. I think that we could improve on this by:

1.  Buying in bulk instead of buying lots of little packets.
2. Turning the lights off
3. Switching to low energy bulbs
4. Putting an extra jumper on instead of turning the heater on
5. Turning the air-con up by 2 degrees in the summer
6. Recycling more water
7. Installing solar panels
8. Growing our own vegetables

But if my family halved the amount of animal products we buy we would only use 1.9 earths.

If you want to have a go on this click on the hyperlink: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/gfn/page/calculators/

After the storm

all is quiet

the wind is calm

the sea is flat

After the storm

These are some of my dream jobs I want to do when I am older and  the reasons why

• Park ranger because I get to feed different animals like crocodiles and I get to be out doors a lot
• Professional Lego builder because I like building Lego and getting paid to do something I love would be awesome and I would like to share my creations with the world
• Adventurer because I get to climb mountains and explore places people have never been before
• Astronaut because I get to explore different planets and find new life
• Diver because I get to see sea life and explore the ocean
• Scientist because I discover new things and blow things up
• Engineer because I can create new inventions and build cool things like cars
• Racing driver because I get to drive really fast and pop the cork on the champagne bottle when I win and to travel around the world
• Police man I get to arrest bad people and spray people with pepper spray
• Sailor I get to sail round the world and win lots of races

This week at school we have been doing weird science we had get into groups of 3 or 4 people  I went with  Max, Finn and Riley we each had 5 days to find an experiment at home and find out why it happened. We then brought it in to show our group and they had to predict, observe and explain. Then we had to present our experiment to the 1/2s and the 3/4s. I did a lava lamp which was oil and water in a bottle then I added a fizzing tablet and it fizzed up and it looked like a lava lamp. When I presented to the 1/2 I think I could have done better at concentrating on my experiment rather than looking around and projecting my voice.  I Think I did well at presenting my experiment and explaining what I was doing.

This would be my favourite meal

Starter

Chicken satay – serves 12 

• 2 tablespoons of peanut butter    $3.00
• Half a cup of soy sauce                  $1.94
• Half a cup of lemon juice              $2.68
• 1 tablespoon of brown sugar        $2.78
• 2 tablespoons of curry powder    $1.56
• 2 cloves of garlic                             $0.90
• 1 teaspoon of hot chili sauce     $2.20
• 6 chicken breasts                           $16.00

=  $31.05

$31.05/3=  $10.35

$100 – $10.35 = $89.65 left over

starter costs $10.65

I divide $31 .05 by 3 because this meal serves 12 and there is only 4 people in my family

Main

Mussaman Curry    serves 4

• 600ml coconut milk                  $3.12
• 675g steak                                   $11.48
• 250ml coconut cream               $1.15
• 45ml mussaman curry paste  $4.00
• 30ml fish sauce                         $1.50
• 15g of brown sugar                   $0.00*
• 60ml tamarind juice                $5.15
• 6 cardamom pods                    $2.58
• 1 Cinnamon stick                     $2.14
• 225g of potatoes                      $0.86
• 50g roast peanuts                    $4.98
• 200g of rice                              $1.77

= $39.18

89.65-39.18 = $50.47 left over

Main costs $39.18

Desert

Sticky Date Pudding  

• 400g of dried dates                            $2.46
• 1 tablespoon of bicarbonate soda    $2.57
• 60g of butter                                        $1.39
• 150g raw sugar                                    $0.00*
• 2 eggs                                                    $3.20
• 230g self raising flour                       $0.95

Sauce 

• 170g of brown sugar                       $0.00*
• 2 tablespoons of golden syrup     $3.54
• 100g of butter                                 $0.00*
• 170g of thickend cream                 $1.49
• 1 tablespoon of vinnila essence   $1.60

=$17.10

$50.47  –  $17.10 = $33.37

Dessert costs $17.10
*Have already bought it

I have $33.37  left over from a $100

We were driving to Perth, it was sweltering hot and the air conditioning was broken! We were all getting cranky. I took my seatbelt off to get something cold from the esky then suddenly the car stopped…..I hit the windscreen! I woke up in a hospital bed, man my head hurt! “How did I get here?” I mumbled, “An ambulance was behind us and they took you straight here” said dad. The doctor told me that I was lucky to be alive and that I had a very bad concussion. I learnt a lesson that day always wear your seatbelt!

The charity I choose for big idea is Reach because they help young Australians who are falling behind in school or having troubles. Their aim is to help kids between 10-18 years old to believe in themselves, to be happy and to let them dream.

Reach is run by young people so it is easier to understand each other. Reach have been doing this for 20 years. Reach goes into schools and runs programs to help kids. Each year reach helps 60,000 kids around Australia in 600 different schools. Reach was founded by Jim Stynes and Paul Currie to emotionally support kids.