I went to high school for 7 weeks! At first it was very scary and I was quite shy of the hundreds of teenagers. Then I got used to the hoards of hormonal teens, I got used to all the tik tok girls, and all the fortnite boys, and actually made friends with a few of these strange creatures. It really helped that most of my friends from Steiner school ended up at M.H.S (Motueka high school).

At Mot high you have; your core class, your form class, and your options class’s.

• Your core class is your main class in which you get randomly placed, since I am only going there for a term I got to choose what class I wanted to go in. You do Maths, English, Social studies, Science and PE with different teachers and different classrooms.
• Your form class is where you go for for 15 minutes before morning tea, so your teacher can read out the school notices. once again it is totally random which class go get put into.
• Lastly your option class’s! These are the class’s that you can choose e.g. woodwork, food-tech, drama, dance, art, ect… I chose Drama and Food-tech. In food tech we made bliss balls, stuffed kumara, salsa, nachos, naan bread, calzones, and chicken laksa, so goooooood!

Every year they have a talent competition called Talent Quest, anyone can enter but only a few of each category (Singing, Dance, Variety and Drama) get into the finals. I entered with my whips and hula hoops, and got into the finals! Unfortunately Covid sprung up again in Auckland and we all went into level 2, Talent Quest was postponed by two weeks😢.

When it finally came it was so much fun! Unfortunately the school was a bit unsure of what to do covid wise, first they said that it would only be filmed and have no audience. Then they said that any Mot high students who wanted to, could come to “keep it in the bubble” which doesn’t make sense surely the parents should be able to come, as they are also in “the bubble”. Anyway….. There was some awesome talent, and it was very entertaining to watch! I really enjoyed preforming on an actual stage with spotlights, curtains and all.

I cant believe we are going back on the fair tomorrow! This has been one looooooooong winter!! I enjoyed this winter, I learnt how to hula hoop in quarantine, I had time to work on the magic show fully and the circus show, I went to high school, I even got payed $100 to preform a fire show, for the kindergarten on Matariki! But nevertheless I still can’t wait to travel again, and see my Gypsy family!!!

That was my Winter Blog, I hope you enjoyed it!

Love Dylan Daisy❤