Billys Big post!

Hey Tailz.  I'm sorry I haven't been posting lately, well in ages but yeah I have just been forgetting to post.  So... where do I start ... Hmm oh yes I haven't told you about intensives thats right.

Okay so on Wednesday I had Chocolate lovers and it was very nice but sickening, we made heaps of chocolate and I ate a lot! I felt very sick after but I had a great day!!!!


On Thursday I had screen printing which was very fun and I enjoyed it a lot. I did quite a few peices of clothing in one day such as, a gray t-shirt hat I put in red the superman symbol on the chest, a red beanie that now says "bad hair day". whenever im wearing it everyone goes hmm bad hair day ay jaja. I also had more time on my hands so i had also brang my white northland cricket t-shirt which is an old one which i got from Josh last year i think, so I decided to screenprint on that also. I wrote in BIG purple letters on the back at the bottom 'BILLY' and it looks super cool. So I still had some time on my hands and i didnt have anything to print on but then I rememebered that I brang my helensteins jumper for mufti and so I printed the big federation symbol on the back in baby blue and it looks pretty awesome.


On friday the last day of intensives I had bushwacka and it was my birthday aswell but ill talk about my birthday after, I don't know how long it took to drive to the 'Bushwacka Experience' but atleast 20 minutes drive from Kamo Intermediate. So we arrive and we get a intro from the instructors and who they are and what we are going to do and learn today. Then we get into car groups and the intstructors drive us to where we are going to be all day, about 5 minutes of driving in the padocks and doing awesome driftys in cow poo we arrive at our spot, we get out of the trucks and put all of the kids bags under a big tree and go to see the eels not far away in a stream... about 10 minutes later us boys and girls get split up and the girls go for a big bush walk and also go though the crevices, while us boys learn how to absail properly. We have practices just roped to a gate like on flat ground then we go to a spot in the bush where its all set up for us, the rocks we were absailing down hmm was about 10 metres round about, well i can tell u that it was pretty scary. I went 3rd because we were doing alphabetic order, and i set my self up on the rock face lying down in mid air, and i noticed how wet and slippery the rock face is and how hard it is to walk down on a 180 degree angle :I it was very hard and challengine but yolo and afterwards it was quite enjoyable and it was a mighty challenge for me, well it was for most of us anyway. JAJAJA;). after everyone was finished we walked back to our camp :L. but the girls havent arrived back from thier walk yet so we get the grill set up for lunch while they are gone and when the arrive we're about to eat. sausages on bread with onions and tomato sauce hmm ideal lunch on my birthday huh ;) i had about 3 i think then i was pretty full anyway i had drank like my whole power rade in matter of seconds and had to go toilet heaps and i was quite full after even the powerrade. After lunch we have a bit of a run around playing soccer and there is a volley ball net set up so we have a couple games of volleyball. then we get instructed to go for a bush walk while the girls are absailing, we do a pretty big walk about 10-15 minute walk and then going thro the crevices. crevices if you dont know are like massive cracks in the ground normally from earthquakes or volcanos and man its sooooo cold down there like it was a really hot sunny day and when we go down into the crevice we can see our breath like we are smoking cigarettes. we climb/walk thro the crevices and fit through tight spaces. Walking on dampp wet leaves that have dropped from the trees because down in the crevices they dont get any sunlight rearly. We get to the end and the girls are there waiting for us at our campsite. then its time to pack up and go home.

BIRTHDAY!!! so awesome, i got the coolest prezzies. oh and thanks for the card u left me and also the facebook post u messaged to dad. i don't know if mum has told you about my phone but i'll just repeat it or tell you about it anyway. Well it didnt work when we got it so i could do everything an ipod could do, but i couldn't call or text anyway so we sent it back and emailed to say that its broken and needs fixing and they said something like okay we will send it to our tech people to have a look and fix it. I don't know how long but ages! still not fixed and last week they emailed us and said that it cant be fixed would we rather them source a new one and send it to us or get all our money back. mum emailed back 'source a new one please and this time check that it actually works and then send it please." and then couple days later they email and say, "it can't be fixed and do we want them to source a new one or get all our money back?". and then mum got annoyed and emailed back a angry message saying that ive been waiting for ages for my phone and that my son (me) is really upet and so am I" and stuff. and they emailed something well i don't exactly what they said but something to do that they have sourced a new iphone 3GS and it is getting sent to them as we speak. So annoying tho, i want my phone so badly ahhhhh.

School stuff: well whats been hapening lately umm. We have a social on wednesday (next week) cant wait for that and that day is also me and my Girlfriend Olivia's four month aniversary so hopefully she is going to the social. i love socials and i'm gonna have a blast :)

Cricket: I've played two games for city (club team) and we've won both so far :) we played Kamo then had a by then we played Northen Waiora and we smoked Northen wairoa easy peasy yesterday, i bowled REALLY WELL i bowled 3 overs so about 18 balls bowled and i got 3 people out maybe could of been 4 but naa and they only got 13 runs off me in that 3 overs so thats really goooood!!! But in batting I got what a Golden Duck that means i got out the first ball I faced when i went out onto the pitch. on labour weekend I got choosen for the Northland A team to play Counties Manakau on the sunday and on the Monday. we got hammered on the sunday, man they are so good well we just slacked around in the field and it didnt end well i can tell you that!!! Oh on the sunday it was just a practice game but on the monday it counted. On monday we played much better and i got 2 wickets that were VERY good and ill add some photos at the end of me playing and everyone high fiving me when i got a wicket. I batted 11th so the last batter and i came in on the second to last ball of the game and on sunday we didnt even last 20 overs and Carl our coach said that we have to bat the full 50 overs today. and so two balls to come and i was facing the bowler, he bowls me a widish ball that was easy to block and so I do so and get one run off it and so i'm not facing on the last ball. My mate jacob was and he safily hit it along the ground and we didnt run or win but we were proud and so was Carl.
Theres heaps more Northland games coming up. Mum just read a email she got out loud to me announcing the next Northland A team for the game against Western Districts next Sunday at Tikipunga. yay, it will be my fourth game playing for Northland A team. can't wait :):):)

I just got my Ipad screen fixed and in my new case:) it looks gooooood.

and here is some photos of me on labour day playing against Counties.

me fielding on monday

me getting my wicket 

me getting my wicket

 me making my hair look good ;)

Last night we had a barbeque down at Uncle Simon and Auntie Margies house and they just bought a caravan and they have it in the backyard. The All-Blacks played against Japan last night and won obviously but i forgot what the score was but i know we won. Georgia went to baby sit last night but came back in time for........ FIREWORKS!!! Ange and Deano from Parakura came and they have three children Max my age, Will 8yrs old and eva umm 4 i think I don't know. before fireworks we had a spa and jumped into the pool then spa then pool then spa... Etc. and it was so fun because then we played on the tramp for ages, then Ange went to get fireworks and got a big cardboard box of different fireworks. We started with some sparklers and then all us kids went onto the tramp while Uncle Simon and Deano set it up and got everything ready. it was awesome there were Heaps of different types of fireworks like ones that went up high as and exploded and there were ones that made the highest screeching noises, ones that were just ones that stayed low and looked like rain and it was awesome and ones that spun REALLY fast on the ground and looked like turbo things. then Deano gave all us kids some fireworks to do another night because it was getting a bit late and eva was really tired. and i got a pack of 6 fireworks that emit showers of sparks.


hope you like this post. I know its very long but yeah i can't stop typing jaja. have a great read ;) and have a great week :) cya tailz love you heaps. miss you like crazy :* :* :* :* :* xxxxx

-Billy :)

Prizegivings

We had Billy's Prizegiving last night and Maia's today. Here are some photos

Family Update for Tayla :)

Billy and Maia both played in a soccer tournament in Tikipunga a couple of weeks ago.  unfortunately Billy injured his knee so had to go home early.  Maia's team consisted of 5 girls and 2 different boys each game.

Maia played in another tournament the following week (Billy was too old for this one).  They had enough girls to have an all girls team and although they didn't win any games they drew two and only lost by 1-0 to the other Whangarei team.  They did get beaten by 5-0 by the Auckland team but besides that one they did really well.  Maia won 'Most Valuable Player' for her team.



Maia was involved in her school Choir last week.  They sang (along with another 8 or so schools) down at Forum North.  They sang a total of 22 songs!

In case you can't see it clearly Maia is the 2nd from the left :)

Last weekend Billy was ball boy at Toll Stadium for some adult finals.  He did one game on Saturday morning and then another one on Sunday afternoon.  He loved it!

Billy's Best day ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Checkout my award i got at assembly today, pretty choice huh,CHANNEL K ALL THE WAY. normally the year 8's get them but for a change some year 7's got them today :) and a bonus it came with 2 stripes one to sew on to your normal t shirt and another stripe to sew on to your sweatshirt :) also today has been like the best day ever because of the channel K award, and at school today i had to do a statistics maths test and we haven't marked it all but on the first half i have got them all right but 1 so far im going pretty well with it and also a highlight of today was lately i have been trialing out for the Whangarei inter-Kamo inter(wis-kis) challenge for soccer and today is the second day of trialing and mr written asked me if me and a couple other good players of his choice would help him decide on the team and help out. So im deffinetly on the team :) pretty stoked about that and also today at the winter cricket rep training that i go to now well today is the last day for me but ill just get into normal training now that was just winter trainings, anyway today at cricket i was bowling magnificently like seriously it was awsum :) i had mean spin and great pace with it aswell and my buddy camble who i do cricket with couldn't really hit them all the time and i got a few wickets :) and another highlight at cricket was at the end i was just playing around and throwing some balls and trying to hit a single wicket so just one poll from about 8 metres away and i got 2 in a row and then Carl my coach challenged me to try a different way that i had lye down 8 metres away and quickly jump up onto my knees and throw and try hit the wicket :) the first time i missed bye about 30 centremetres but then the next try i perfectly hit it on my second go :) my day was awsum and another cool thing is that my bday is in exactly one month away. Oh and yes another thing is that i got my intensives in just less than a month and I've got on Wednesday: chocolate lovers, Thursday: screen printing and then on Friday witch is my birthday i am doing bushwaka so im going for a long walk in the bush its gonna be awesome. The best day 

ever!!! 

-BILLY :):)

MAIA'S DAY AT SCHOOL

hi Talya (Tayla) ITS ME MAIA IM GONNA TELL YOU ABOUT MY DAY AT SCHOOL TODAY!!!

TODAY AT SCHOOL ME AND MY CLASS HAD A DIFFERENT TEACHER. ON FRIDAYS WE NORMALY HAVE MRS SMITH YOU KNOW(THE TEACHER THAT TALKS ALOT) SO ANY WAY SHE HAD TO LOOK AFTER HER SON CAUSE HE WAS REALLY ILL :( SO WE HAD MR SKUDDER(I DONT KNOW HOW TO SPEEL HIS NAME SO SORRY IF YOU CANT READ IT) HE IS REALLY FUN EVEN NEARLY AS FUN AS WHAEA ROSE. AHG (GASP)WE DID HEAPS OF COOL THINGS BUT MOSTLY MAZES.

Maia and Oscar having some family bonding time together :) sitting in the lounge in front of the warm fire while mum just left to go get Georgia from hockey. Hmm yum we just had some dinner, roast potatoes and a big chicken from the to roast place down the road:) hmm yum! Yay tomorrow i play my friend regan in Nikau A in soccer and then on Sunday me and Maia both have a full day soccer tournament. Tomorrow is going to be the first time i wear my new soccer boots yay,all the practices I've had this week have all been canceled and tomorrow will be the first well i went outside and tried them on and had a little kick around in the backyard but thats all. Hope you're having a awesome time in chile and having an amazing experience with you're new family :D they seem wonderful. 

Love you xxx

From billy and the fam fam ;) xx love you lots x

A-C Bucks

Mum has made a way to help me and Maia not fight as much and do as we are told without getting asked twice, and for a reward for something that mum thinks that we deserve something because of being nice or playing together without fighting or doing jobs and stuff like thats, mum has made something called the A-C Bucks and they are just pieces of paper photo copied with the words A-C written on them and for every ten A-C buck we can exchange it for $1 in return, so pretty much one A-C buck represents 10 cents in real life. It is going well so far and me and Maia have both each got ten A-C bucks so we've both pretty much got a dollar :). It is working quite well fighting and jobs wise and me and Maia are starting t play cards on a daily basis. So its pretty much a win win situation :D.