16
January
2009
Hello everyone,
Ya it’s christmas hoildays! I have been waiting for christmas for ages! I got a laptop it’s a purple Dell, some clothes and lots of money. what did you get for Christmas??
Did you go anywhere or do anything for Christmas?
For christmas eve my mum’s side of the family always goes to my nan and pop’s for lunch, it’s like one of our family traditions. For the past like 4 years my cousin and I stay at our nan and pop’s for christmas eve eve ( thats what we like to call it) to help set up for they day after. We stay up late, watch movies, eat lots of lollies and go hypo 
I look forward to it every year
On christmas day my nan and pop came down for a late Christmas lunch. They got to look at all of our presents and we showed them how things worked, we had alot of fun. Can’t wait till christamas next year
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22
November
2008
So Friday we did the call to Ashley, it was so great to see what she looked like.
Most people talked and asked qustions. I hope we can do it agian soon.
The call went for over 30mins, it was 1pm in Tas and 9pm in Connecticut.
Ashley wanted to know if some of the poeple that talked had blogs. Well some did, here are there blogs:
Lisa
Hannah
Laura
Alex
Sam
Jack
And here are some that din’t talk but have blogs:
Aaron
Emma
Patti
CC
Dotti
Viper
Braiden
Ebby
I really hope we can do it again soon Ashley
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18
November
2008
Hi tomorrow I’m going to do a Skype call with Ashley from America.
I can’t wait, it’s going to be so fun. All my friends are going to say hi, I’m really excited and looking ford to it. I’ll tell you how the call goes tomorrow.
I think Ashley is going to make the call from home with a couple of her friends, I would really like to see what Ashley and her friends look like
A Skype call is a web chat from computer to computer with a web cam and a microphone. You have to create a Skype account and download it onto your computer.
I will keep you updated with the call.
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26
October
2008
Hey, on the weekend I went to Kingston to play netball with STNA in 13under STNA Gold.
Day 1
We started playing at 9:30am.
Our first team we played were Huon but we lost :(. Huon were a hard team but in the second half we played better as a team.
The next game was against Devon and we drew with 11 goals and our coach was happy with the way we played
STNA Blue was our next team we played and we lost. S.T.N.A Blue were the team that went to Townsville for a State team, they came 3rd overall in Townsville.
After, we played Burnie (BNA) that was our last game for the day and we lost another game. My friend Elizabeth and I called Burnie, BNEAT- Burnie Netball Association Eating Tea 
Day 2
The beginning of day two we had to play KNA for a STNA & KNA challenge. But KNA won 
We played NENA next, they were probably the hardest team we played and again we lost.
Everyone had a lot of time till our next game so Jade and I made up a chear for our team. It also came with a dance I went something like this.
I said brr.. it’s cold in in here there must be some ANTS (STNA spelt backwards) in the atmosphere. I said ohe ohe ohe ANTS ANTS ANTS ohe ohe ohe ANTS ANTS ANTS. We are the ANTS from the land of the ne-et-ball we try and win every game and double the score :lol:.
And in our last game we did that, we finally won a game we were all so happy, Helen said that you always try and win the last game which she calls a Grand Final so in our eyes we won the Grand Final!
Go ANTS STNA!!!!!!
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8
October
2008
The Sydney Swans AFL team came 6th over all this year.
They played 22 games; they won 12 and lost 9. In 2005 Sydney won their first premiership since 1933. It was the longest premiership drought in AFL history in the most emotional and heart-stopping game by beating the West Coast Eagles by four points in the most exciting and closest grand final for nearly 40 years. Leo Barry stopped the West Coast Eagles from kicking the winning goal with a great mark as the siren sounded to end the game. The Swans won the game with a score of 8.10 (58) to West Coast 7 .12 (54).
A year later the Swans vs. West Coat in the grand final again but unfortunately West Coast bet Sydney by 1 point This year West Coast came 15th on the ladder only winning 4 games
Sydney Swans have 42 players in their team. Only 16 players play at once, 6 defenders, 6 attackers, 6 midfielders and 2 ruckmen.
The coach of the Sydney Swans is Paul Roos, the capitan is Brett Kirk
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18
September
2008
Hey, some people in the US have been asking me what netball is, but it’s hard to explain in a comment so I thought that I would write a post.
Well netball is kind of like basketball, but you can’t move your feet with the ball or bounce the ball. Each team have 7 postions to fill they are:
GS,GA ( They are the only one’s that can shot goals)
GK, GD ( They defended the GS, GA while they are shooting)
WA, WD ( Wing Attack mostly receives the centre pass and the wing defence sometime gets it, WA passes the ball into the goal circle)
C ( Is like the WA,WD because they do the same, but the C are aloud every where but the goal circle).
There are three thirds on the court, two Goal thirds which the two goal circles are, one Centre third. Here is a photo of the court.
Goal Shooter and Goal Keeper can only go in the goal third and goal circle.
Goal Attack and Goal Defence are aloud in the centre third, goal third and goal circles.
Wing Attack and Wing Defence can only be in the centre third and goal third but not the goal circle.
Centre is allowed everywhere but not in the goal circles.
If you wanted to know more about netball just ask me in a comment.
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12
September
2008
Hey last weekend I played netball for the S.T.N.A at Devenport.
We played netball at Spreytion Netball Courts. I played 6 games of netball, all in Goal Keeper. But unfortunately we lost all of our games, we had a lot of fun though.
Our coach Helen was very good, she tort us a lot in only 3 weeks.
I hope we do a lot better when we go to Kingston in October. In October we would have been training for a while, so we will probably be a stronger team.
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26
August
2008
A few weeks ago I went to Launceston to play in the Tasmanian Bakeries Netball Carnival for the S.T.N.A. The teams were from Launceston, Devonport and Kingston. We played 6 games and reached the finals against Devonport and we won, in the end we came third over all.
Some other Netball News
NSW Swifts vs. Waikato Magic
Catherine Cox lead her team to victory in the first ANZ Championship Grandfinal in sydney on 28th July. The score was 65-56. It was a great game. The shooters where Catherine Cox (GS), Susian Pratly (GA) for NSW, Irene Van Dyk (GS),Maria Tutaia (GA) Magic.
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20
August
2008
Grandmas Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77 wanted to protest during the Olympic Games in Olympic Protest Parks, they tried five times to get a permit to protest. Wu and Wang wanted to protest because, they were forced to move to make way for a housing development.
Instead they were sentenced to 1 year in re-education through labour. Re-education punishments are handed out without trial. If Wu and Wang get into any more trouble, they will be sent off to a labour camp.
I don’t think this is fair because they just wanted to protest and they didn’t want to harm anyone so I say just let them protest their just expressing them selves.
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8
August
2008
Endangered Animals
Australia is the country that has the most diverse collection of animals. But unfortunately in the last 200 years over 25 Australian animals have become extinct. More Australian animals are becoming endangered like the Brush Tail Rock Wallaby, and the Snub Fin Dolphin. Roxy and Adam have been setting up breading programs and reserves for the animals to live in.
Judo Stars
Participating in the Olympics there are two Judo stars ready to head of to Beijing. One of them is Stephanie Grant is one of them. Stephanie is from Tasmania she will be the first girl from Tasmania to participate in any Olympics. She started playing judo when she was 13 years old.
From Australia there will be a team of 13 going to Beijing.
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