Diary of a bull kid

"One, two, three, four five, six and seven drums in total!" I told Stu. He and myself went on a rampage for different oil drums around the carpentry area. There were seven different oil drums, and there were four colours, blue for the body, yellow for the legs, green for the neck, yellow and green for the head with reinforcing steel for the tail. Obviously every thing was going great until measurements just fell apart on the both of us. We had everything done until the body of the bull as too long! So Stu showed me how to cut the object. The measurement was meant to be 420mm long but it came up as 600mm long. The gas made a sound out of the tube then suddenly out of the speed of light comes a sound so loud, so terrifying it made my heart jump.
As I wrap one hand over the other, I hold onto the machine, sparks blew everywhere, my eyes jump, steady, steady... Doh! Joking. I did it, I cut through the metal into the inside, Wow! That was it for this afternoon, but still, come on I learnt new tools and new way to construct!
Your blogger out,
Thomas.

A couple of souvenirs

A dropped mouth surrounded my face, as I was engrossed in a tough game of chess against Katie. Darryn turned around and called my name "Thomas," I spun round and noticed two wise men. They were Stu and Warren. We all left Enrich and headed towards SIT. When Stu and I entered his office, we sat down and discussed my passion project. A picture came up on the screen of Stu's computer, which was a tin bull. He showed me the types of ways to weld, pot rivet, how to sheet metal craft and how to break off metal/tin. 
A big suit of overalls covered my body and a mask with goggles went over my head.
As we went to the station, there were all different gases like carbon dioxide, oxygen and many more! "3, 2, 1 alright go!" shouted Stu. As I press down on the lever it shot sparks everywhere across the room. "Stop" shouted Stu again. I let go of the lever and set the handle free. There were my two souvenirs. One of them were a cylinder and the other was two flat pieces of metal welded together. Stu drove me back to Enrich. As I left his truck, I thanked him and came in here to do this: blogging

Your blogger,
Thomas           

Recovery

A Race to save sugar babies rescued by Kyle, Alex and I "How about we plait over one another and create a raft?" I suggest. In the last remaining second "50!" Those babies are counting on us! Well not really babies..... they are sacks full of sugar endangered! Kyle and I sprint to the cellotape: "17." The final moment in Enrich. "2....1..."
Once we built our stretcher that looked like a big ball of garbage, Katie moved us onto the starting line.  Secondly, there were two people carrying the raft a.k.a Kyle and I. We picked up the sugar babies and weaved through the rocks a.k.a. cones and up the mountain (chairs) and down. We stopped and finished! We were the only ones that had crossed the line. Now for the moment of truth. The winners are team stretcher!
It was a good victory but we still haven't claimed our prize Katie!
I've learnt that working in a different team can help you and other people.
Thomas, out

Computer cataloging

I'm back in action again! 
Wow what a day!

I had spent so much time on my passion project that I didn't really get to eat. Anyway I was e-mailing Stu from SIT and he gave me a few questions which added up to a total of ten answers that I had to solve. There was so much writing involved in it that it almost was a story! Right now he's just got back to me that I might change the date when were going to meet. I've got my homework done and dusted with and now I will probably get materials for my project to catch up with it. I'm ready to start  welding together, the bull not me! What I need is a 20 gallon drum tin and well really thats mostly it. I will be going to SIT on week one or week two of term three. My fingers are thumb from typing all day.
Let's get started!!

SIT down!!

My toes froze into stiffness. My Blue shoes turned to black while I was walking with Warren. Finally we were under cover. Warren is one of my two "work mates" for helping me to construct my tin bull. I got shown around to my future school and met a couple of Warrens students. I was so lucky to be in there! Finally I was in the carpentry area which is a small furniture room. There were houses, shelves and even machines that were twice my height! The last human being I met was Stu and he was an actual creator of a tin bull so that was just fortunate!! We sat down at SIT (Southern Institute of Technology) and talked about this project of mine. I had a few questions like "where is it going to stay", "how high it is", "should I draw a diagram of the house" and "what is it going to be made out of"? That is all my homework for this week!! Stu said that we might use a twenty gallon drum for the body and some Resene paint to coat the outer layer. We are still working on what it is going to be made out of, that's why I'm paying another trip next week to show him my homework!

Thomas W 

SIT-ing out      

Imagination to Draw

"Keep going... Yes!" I was successful crossing the bridge. A train consisting of fifteen contained carriages crossed a bridge. Jenny was helping us on how to operate an Ipad. There were five options to choose: We started with Pic collage, then live sketch, next was multi touch maths, smile mad pad and finally SP simple physics. Pic collage is a learning app that help you illustrate. Live sketch was about using you imagination to draw, Multi touch math is a learning math based app to solve questions. Smile mad pad is all about music and SP- simple physics is a building/technology app to help create. My most favourite one would have to be the live sketch because my strongest ability is sketching or drawing! These are lots of fun to play with and to create with.      

Drama class...

Have you ever joined a drama class? Well today I did!

"Sandwich" yelled Nicola, "Well... Kyle and  I are the bread, Jacob is the bacon and Clara and Tara are the top pieces of it. The pressure was on us! No seriously the pressure was on top of us. The next was a... "Fire place!" yelled Nicola again. It was our turn, Jacob explained, "Kyle and I-(Jacob) are the wood burning, Thomas, Tara and Clara and the surroundings of it. Katie questioned "Are those dead ants?" Everyone cracked up laughing!! 

"Sunday breakfast," whispered Nicola! Our final score was 6/10 and came second out of all.