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 AMAZING RACE REFLECTION WALT: reflect on our experience of the amazing race

Day one - Te Puna - Katikati - Waihi - karangahake Gorge

My group for the amazing race was me, Kyle,Dallas,Kata,Islah and Taylah.

On the first day of the amazing race my group went to the Te Puna quarry park for the first activity where you had to find 5 pictures of the sclupters in the park. We found the closer ones luckily so we left early for the next activity which was at Katikati where you had to find the pictures and answer the questions that were on the sheet to get the next clue. My group and I found that frustrating because once we had found the harder ones we had forgot to write down the answer to the pukeko picture and we had been past it alot but we had forgotten where it was so that slowed us down.When we got to Waihi and got the clue we tried to answer the questions at the lookout of the Waihi gold mine, After a while me and my group had finally read the questions properly and you had to get back down to the bottom and go to this place that you had to go down stairs and find the answers there. I felt so guttered because if we had read the clue properly earlier we might of had a chance of winning but we did not and that just life.We had answered the questions and then got our next clue.This clue was that you had to take some photos with your groups cardboard car and your group with a car behind your group but you could not take a picture with your group of any car,you had to take one of your group when a blue car was in the backround,when red car was in the backround and when a green car was in the backround of your camera.Mr P had said that we had did that activity easily because most groups were running around the carparks to find the cars they were looking for,because of their mistake my group left Waihi in 6 place.The last part of the race was at the Karangahake Gorge there we had to go over a bridge and under 1 tunnel to the finish, Taylah thought she knew where to go so we followed her unaware that my dad was not watching. following Taylah we went up the stairs and set off to find the tunnel. After a while we noticed we had gone the wrong way and my dad went the right way but we did not know, we went back to where my dad had parked the car but he wasn’t there so we had thought he had lost track of us so we were stuck with Mrs Stock for a while but after a little amount of time we had found my dad walking back to the car.My dad had just been around the track once and that took him about 15 minutes according to him but anyway my team and my dad were so bummed that we went the wrong way so we did the track the right way this time and instead of 6th we came 23rd.

Day two - Papamoa - Kiwi360 - Redwoods - Te Puia - aMAZEme On the second day we had to go to Papamoa and do five activties then went to kiwi 360 and I had to run up the big kiwifruit and get the clue to go to the Redwoods in Rotorua.At the Redwoods we had to find the letters on the signs. we found that frustrating because we had not found the letter T and we spent at least 20 minutes looking for that so my group wanted to give up but Mrs Stock just let us go to Te Puia and she said we did not fast forward to the next activity then we to the next activity frustrated because we just wanted to go to the maze.When we finally got to the maze we had got there when everyone had finished so that was funny.My group did not end up finishing on that day because we had spent so much time on the other activities and the maze we found challenging.Despite not finishing and getting frustrated we had a great day.

**Excellent reflection Hamish, just be careful not to confuse reflection with a recall of everything you did. Good honesty. I am glad you had a good time on the Amazing Race. Nice voice recording too!** **Miss Crone :)**



Nice brochure Hamish! Great pictures and is easy to read. I like the colours that you have used. Awesome information and is set out well. I think that you could work on putting in more persuasive language into your brochure. Abbey :)

Thursday 14th April

__L.I. We are learning to develop effective questions and draw conclusions from our findings.__ __**S.C. We will have**__

 used a variety of open and closed questions to extract relevant information
 * used a variety of questions from the 7 servants


 * Why Kiwis Are The Best**

Kiwis are the best because we are great at heaps of national sports like we are known as rugby as being our biggest national sport and that is followed by netball and then football.Kiwis are brilliant at welcoming tourists to our interesting world so that makes them feel welcome to NZ.Kiwis have the most greatest food in the world and the best part about most of it is that it is 100% made from kiwis and it is great kiwi food.This food is like fish'n chips,kiwifruit and many more.There is very fashionable clothing made just for you.Us kiwis also choose the most fantastic places to take our holidays and there are some not so far away and some further away.These places that are not far away are the beach,the movies and camping,these places are huge tourist attractions.The further away places are like Australia,Fiji and any where else you want to go to.Australia is the biggest place people from NZ want to because it is so relaxing.