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“Are you sure? Jack asked me doubtfully.

“I’m positive” In replied. I looked around the cold damp room. Then I spotted what I was looking for a very small unnoticeable hole. I took out the strange twisted smooth key, I pushed it into the hole and pulled. A hidden door appeared. Jack rushed over nearly tripping over his boots. “Is this it?” he asked excitedly

“Yup, let’s go in” I replied. I could hear the excitement in my voice. As we entered I stood still in shock. In front of me I saw the most amazing collection of art equipment I've ever seen.   

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BANG BANG….

“What was that?” Tina asked sleepily

“I’m not sure” I mumbled.

BANG BANG BANG.

“Let’s go check it out” Tina whispered excitedly

BANG BANG BANG.

“Sounds like there’s someone up stairs” I whispered.

BAN- and then the noise stopped……

“I can’t hear it anymore” Tina whispered softly.

The door slowly creaked open…..

“RAHHHHHHHH!!!”

“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH” Tina and I leaped off the bed and scrambled under it.

BANG BANG.

I looked over the top of the bed and saw my little brother sitting on the floor banging a pot and pan together. “Joey” I said sighing relief. 

BANG BANG.

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Dear whoever found this letter,

I am so sorry about the typhoon. I hope you and your family are ok. I am happy that you found my letter. My name is Shayla Templeman. I live in New Zealand and I go to school at Melville Intermediate. I’m 11 years old and I live in Te Awamutu with my Mum and little brother Jaykib. My Dad lives in Hamilton. I have two older sisters (Ashlea and Claire) but they live in Australia. I hope you find someone to help you.

I hope my letter has given you some hope to carry on......

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‘Hey wait for me!!” I called out to Jack.

 “Hurry up slowpoke” he yelled back. Jack and I were biking past a slippery disgusting pond when jack noticed something. He skidded to a stop and pointed to something in the water. I looked down and saw two gumboots sticking out of the water. Jack reached out and pulled…. A body came flying out of the water. It landed next to the bikes.  I screamed and then I fainted. When I came to Jack was over by the dead body, I slowly walked over to Jack and the body…. I looked down and saw a scarecrow.

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“Looks like a rainy day today kids” Dad said while looking out the window.

“Looks like a storm” Mum added.  Shortly after Mum left thunder crackled.  

“What are we going to do” Joe said miserably.

“We could watch TV or play a board game” Kiara suggested. Joe walked over to the window and gasped.

 “What is it?” Kiara asked.

“A tree just flew past the window” Joe whispered.

“What, that’s impossible” Kiara said as she walked over to the window, all of a sudden a tree whirled past. The ground was flooding. The violent storm was turning into a hurricane.

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She had two pointy teeth; they looked as if they could slice me in half. She had long black hair that went down past her feet. Her eyes were as black as night. She was so pale… She was floating, just hovering above the ground. In her hand was a crooked, rusty old key. She had a dark red stain on her grey dress… She looked thirsty. “What’s your name” I asked her.

“People call me Marceline the Vampire queen”   She said it softly... But I still kept my distance. "I see you built my house” she whispered " Now get off my property"

Australia Zoo, MT Tamborine.

In the holidays I went to Austalia.My Aunty my Grandma my brother and I went  to a place called MT Tamborine. There were lots of rainbow lorikeets they were very funnybecause they kept trying to steal our sugar packets and have a bath in our drinks.

I also went to Australia Zoo we saw lots of animals there and I got to hold and pat some.  My favorite Animals were the snakes.

I held a baby aligator and I got to pat a koala. The Aligator was very soft and squishy. the Koalas fur was very hard and not very soft.

We went into the Red Kangroos habitat. We bought some Kangaroo food and feed them. I was worried that the Kangaroo was going to jump up and kick me but they were very sleepy so I  wasnt that scared.

My favorite part of visting the Zoo was holding the Burmese Python. It was cold and heavy and very very smooth. I got a bit scared when it started to wrap its self around me. The Zoo keeper told me to sit up staight to help hold the weight of the snake. It was the greatest 60 seconds of my life.

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This is the story of how the sun blew up. The day started like any normal day, I got up ate breakfast got dressed and watched T.V. My friend called and asked if I wanted to go to the beach, I asked if I could go.  And as always she said yes. While I was walking to my friend’s house a gust of wind blew around me. “What??” slowly the sky got darker the sun was shrinking. I ran home as fast as I could. By the time I reached my house it was pitch black. “Mum!” I yelled out.

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“Hey look at that” Sam said excitedly.

“Yeah” Lucy agreed.

“Come on Lucy” Sam said. They started to walk down long corridors until they came to a big purple door.  Sam reached out for the handle. “Wait’ Lucy suddenly said grabbing Sam’s arm.

“What?” Sam asked confused.

“We don’t know where this door goes” Lucy muttered Sam grabbed the door handle and yanked it open. The room was black. All of a sudden they were pushed into the room. The lights suddenly came on. “What is that” Lucy screeched. Staring at them was a huge cup with legs sticking out.     

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It was so dark I couldn't find the exit ….. The smoke was going to suffocate me. “Ahhh’ I screamed I fell through the floor. I hit the hard wood with a “thud!”  I slowly sat up and looked around, I was in a room. The sign on the door told me I was in room 21 my lucky number. I walked out into the corridor. The walls had burnt all over. Black ashes blew around my feet. There were burnt holes in the floors and ceilings. And then I saw a bright light... “Oh no” I muttered to myself. 

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This is so boring. Why did I even bother saying yes? It’s the middle of summer, the school holidays. It’s a great day I should be out there swimming, playing with my friends. But instead of having fun I’m stuck in a boat with my Dad trying to catch a stupid fish. “Can we go home now?” I begged.

“Not until we catch a fish” Dad said for the hundredth time........ All of a sudden my rod bent down.

“Whoa” Dad said “reel it in quick!” 

I quickly reeled it in and looked......... The pink slimy fish was so disgusting.

Cross-Country

Friday 13^th September 2013
Cross Country

As I practically fell over the finish line I felt amazingly good just participating. I felt really proud although the run was super exhausting.
I got a lot of support from the marshals especially Matty and Reid they were very supportive friends.
It felt like I was going to die but the support boosted me up again. It tasted like sweet joy just knowing that I had completed the track.
All I could see was fresh cut grass and mud everywhere. I could smell nice fresh air. I am really proud of myself even though I didn’t come first I still got 5 points for my team.
By Chirah 

 Cross country

The moment has finally arrived, my legs feel like jelly. I can feel the tension in the air. The slippery mud sits there waiting to trip me up. I wait for the hooter to go off “On your marks get set… HOOT”. We all took off. I turned the corner a bit too fast. I almost slipped over in the mud. I could smell the damp ground as my feet pounded across the soft grass.  I could see all the people in front of me. I could taste the hot air as I breathed in and out faster and faster. Finally I crossed the finish line…

By Shayla.

CrossCountry'13 - slideshows

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“We shouldn’t be here” Jade said nervously.

“So” Amber replied

“Let’s go home” Jade said panicking.

“But this is so cool” Amber replied. They kept walking until they reached the old abandoned train station. “Wow” Amber said. They walked over to the train tracks.

“Do you hear that?” Jade whispered.

“Hear wh-

“Look out” Jade yelled. Jade grabbed Amber and pulled her out of the way as the train entered the tunnel and came out into the light. It had cobwebs and broken windows. They walked over to the train driver’s window. When they looked in they saw a skeleton………

Bowling

Dad, Jaykib and I were heading to laser tag I was feeling excited. When we got there we saw that they also had bowling.  Dad went up to the counter and asked some questions about laser tag. The man behind the counter told us they were fully booked until 10 o’clock tonight which was disappointing. Dad asked if we could go bowling instead.

“Ok but you have to have fully covered shoes” the man told us. We walked over to the bowling lanes and picked 3 heavy bowling balls.

“We’re in lane 17” Dad told us. Jaykib was first to bowl. He walked up to the lane and rolled the ball. He hit 3 pins and by the end of his turn he had a score of 5. I was next. I didn’t know how to bowl the ball so I just did what Jaykib did. I watched the ball roll down the lane. I hit 2 pins and by the end of my turn I had a score of 5 as well. Dad walked up to the lane and bowled the ball he hit 5 pins and by the end of his turn he had a score of 8. I couldn’t wait to see who won.

When we had finished all 10 rounds Dad came first with a score of 95, Jaykib came second with a score of 80 and I came last with a score of 65. Overall it was really fun and I can’t wait to go again. 

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“I can’t wait to get to the beach’ sally said excitedly.

“yeah it’s really hot today’ I replied

“We’re almost there kids’ mum said. When we arrived at the beach sally and I leaped out of the car and jumped down onto the soft white sand. “Look at that is it a foot print?” I asked sally.

“I think so… it’s huge” Sally replied. As we got closer we could see how big it was. “It’s about 10 meters long’ I said. We followed the giant’s foot prints to the cave. “Do you think that there’s a giant in there?”

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“Please don’t make me do this” Sally begged.                                                       
“You think I want to be out here in the hot sun?” I growled. 

We were in the middle of nowhere dragging a motor bike up and down hills trying to find a gas station. My heart was beating incredibly fast.  
“I need some water” Sally begged.                                        
“Wait until we get up the hill” I replied                                                                           
“look” Sally panted.                                                                                                 
Just up ahead was an old brick house. When we reached the house Sally ran up to the door and knocked… a couple of minutes later an old man answered the door. “Can I help you?”  

We were saved.

Extreme Edge

Extreme Edge

“It’s huge” Jaykib said as we entered Extreme Edge. We had just arrived with the safe and happy club and we were sitting in a huge room waiting for instructions on what to do next. The instructor came in and started telling us how to put your harness on, she also told us that this was the Adult climbing room and that we would be climbing in the kids climbing room on the other side of the building. I was glad because the rock climbing walls looked really hard in here; they went up really high up the wall and then moved onto the roof.

“If you are 12 or older can you please come up and get a black harness” the instructor said to us. A couple of people went up and grabbed a black harness. There weren’t many kids older than 12. “Can the rest of you come up and get a blue or red harness, if they are too big make a line and we will tighten them for you please don’t tighten it yourselves”. I went up and grabbed a small res harness I went and joined the line and waited for my harness to be tightened.

We moved on into another room this room had all these climbing walls they were nothing like the ones in the Adult room. The instructor told us to sit down next to one of the walls she showed us how to hook ourselves in and how to un hook ourselves, “if you let go of the hook before you hook it to the ground come and get one of the Extreme Edge crew and we will get it back down” the instructor told us.

I tried out all of the rock climbing walls but I only made it up five of them. My brother however made it up all of them, so did my friend Emma.  The hardest one out of all the rock climbing walls was the dinosaur’s skeleton; it was the hardest because you really had to think about where you put your hands and feet.

Overall I had a great time and I can’t wait until next holidays.

By Shayla

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“I’m cold” Sally complained as a cold wind blew around us. It was midnight and we were sneaking around a creepy cemetery. We had been sneaking around for about twenty minutes when, we reached an old rusty gate. Sally and I tried shoving the gate but it wouldn’t budge. Then all of a sudden the rusty gate creaked open, Sally and I slipped through the opening. It was as cold as Antarctica. I shivered. After a while we came across an old wooden shed. “Should we go in?” Sally asked.                                                                                                                                                        “Sure” I whispered. As we stepped inside. The door slammed shut behind us.         

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It was a very hot summer day. We were swimming at the water-hole. I was about to jump off the top rock. I took a deep breath and… jump. It felt like I was flying. I hit the water it was black and I couldn’t see. Then I saw something white swimming towards me. I swam away as fast as I could. I got to the rocks and yelled up to Jaykib “I think there’s a polar bear in the water”.                                                                                                    There isn’t a polar bear in there it’s just an expensive looking towel” Jaykib said.                                                                                          “Oh” I said. Then I leaped off the rocks                                                                                   

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The light was so bright! Kayla Jordon Jaykib and I were playing spot light. “Ouch” screamed. Kayla had shone the torch right in my eyes. I came out of the shed and gave Kayla the evil eyes. “Your it” Kayla said… “I found you first” she added.                                                                                                                           “Fine” I said. I found Jaykib and Jordon. I went inside and counted to 20. “Ready or not here I come” I yelled. I could hear someone in the tree. I shone the torch in the      tree and saw jaykib sitting there staring at me!                                                                                                   “LOL” he said. I looked around the back-yard trying to spot someone hiding.