✍️Holiday Recount ~ Meet Ups at Sylvia Park🤝😌

A few days ago, it was an average cold & windy day! The Saturdays breeze & coldness! I was there, for one thing, A meetup with my best friend Maara and her sister Manuae. Recently it was Manuae’s birthday and my sister and I wanted to do something special and have a memory which is an  unforgettable experience. Meet ups at Sylvia Park would be an excellent way we could remember that day!

My sister and I arrived at Sylvia Park with a bag & money, expecting to see Manuae & Maara the minute we walked inside, unfortunately we didn’t. Instead of waiting outside in the misty cold air, we walked inside and bought snacks from the great big, yellow store, Pak’nSave. We walked inside, looking very hmm? Odd! But still, we waltz (not literally) in and bought the snacks and partly a present for Manuae! It was at least 11am by now & we (as in my sister & I) figured out the Manuae loves Japan and Japanese foods, so again, we walked into Japan Mart & explored around the foods, beauty products and candies. Finally we saw something Manuae would definitely like, a Green Tea Kit Kat packet. It also looked delicious but I couldn't eat it.

When they arrived, we were a tad late for the beginning of the movie, Beauty & the Beast! We waited patiently in the cue and all pitched in 20 dollar notes for our movie & popcorn etc.. “Second cinema on the right” the ladies replied to us when we handed the tickets. We were certainly confused as there was multiple cinemas & we accidently walked into the party room. The ‘director’ told us in cinema 3, so we had a chuckle and walked towards cinema 3! We we arrived inside the cinema, the loudness of the speakers were actually soothing, we went to our seats. In the top row on the left was our seats, I didn’t enjoy the seating range but the funny thing is, we picked the seats!

We sat down, continued to eat, watch the movie and enjoy our special time together! When the movie was complete we stayed until the lights turned on. We also decided to be “rebellious” and take a few snapshots of us in the luxury seats, I just loved them! We walked outside the cinema to see another friend and her name was Ana, she had waited an hour and a half to see us! We all said our hellos and set off for a delighting meal. We wandered around the food court and saw it was packed so we set off for an adventure to Burger King, despite the facts that it was raining!

Well the day was a really entertaining, pleasant and enjoyable day! I enjoyed meeting Ana & bonding with Manuae, Maara, Aarmione & Ana, it was a really great memory and I’ll cherish it!

Recount Writing ~ My first day back at School

Recount Writing

Past Tense

Adjective/ Verb

Sequence of Events

Time words

Linking Paragraphs

* Awareness of Audience / Purpose

5 W'S ~ Who, What, Where, When, Why, How

Orientation

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My First Day Back at School

I walked into Glenbrae School filled with eager to see friends, teachers and teacher aides. I shuffled myself up the hill slowly while watching closely for friends. The weight of my bag was making me slow down, but I had finally saw my best friend, Maara. I was super cheerful, which made us have a little sit down and talk about our adventures during the holidays. The bright morning, sunshine breeze was amazing.

First, Maara and I waited patiently and loudly waited for more of our friends to turn up. Soon - after, all our delightful  friends came to school. We decided to catch up a little - which fortunately took us at least 30 minutes. We all walked to our classes, I was interrupted by Mr Nath (My Last Years Teacher), and told all the previous of Room 8 students to all line up and  prepare for the New year and new classes.

All students walked down to the hall and sat down quietly. I was nervous about which class I would be selected into, but then I realised, I’m a Year 8 student and all year 8’s are in the same class - that took away my nerves. I heard all the other students names being called into classes. Finally, my name was called, I am in Room 7 with Mrs Tofa. Mrs Tofa escorted all her students to Room 7, where there we placed our bags on hooks and sat down on comfy chairs.

Mrs Tofa called out the attendance, where students said “Good Morning, Mrs Tofa”. Long after the attendance, each student received a name tag and Mrs Tofa gave us instructions “Turn your card around place it on this table”. We had to each pick a name from the ‘name table’, until we finally realised we only have 17 students. Well, when that didn’t work out I suggested that “We line up and only a few pick a name, and which ever name they get will be the partner”. Technically it did work out until we all were over excited so Mrs Tofa decided she will pick for us.

Until every thing about the name tags was finished, we asked our partners some interesting questions about out 6 - 7 week School Holiday. We had learned all about each other's holidays so it was time to enjoy a little bit of fitness, Volleyball. The teams were very competitive but there had to be only one winner. The courageous winners of the Room 7 Volleyball was the Boys! The girls were very good losers but was determined to win the future games to come. That was my first day back at school!