My Interests

One of my favourite pastimes is playing with my 3x3x3 Rubix's cube. Lately I haven't been playing with it because I just haven't found the time to do so. I also have a 4x4x4 and this weird pyramid puzzle which both I do not know how to solve because I haven't found an easy algorithm to use. My fastest time for the 3x3x3 cube is something like 54.9 seconds. I think that the time is ok but the fastest can do it 10 times faster. 

I first got interested in the Rubix’s cube last year in about July-August when I watched a video on YouTube about it. I found an old cube lying around and started to learn how to solve. My first attempt took me an hour and a half to complete my first solve because I had mucked up the algorithms so many times but I was still proud of mysel

 

My next interest comes from my older brother James. A lot of you probably already know that James was a massive Marvel/DC fan and I guess it runs through the blood. I and my bother watch many Marvel and DC TV shows such as Marvels agents of shield, Agent Carter, Gotham, Arrow and the Flash. My brother also watches Constantine but I can’t be bothered. 

I and my brother also read comic books. We have a whole stack of them but we also get some from the library. The movie I and many other people are also looking forward to this year is Avengers 2 age of Ultron coming out on the 23rd of April. I just hope Marvel has made this movie good because I have been waiting for it ever since the last one.

Anyway thank you for reading!

Back to school.......

I know that most people hate coming back to school every year and just going to school in general but these first few weeks being at school have actually been quite fun. Being a year 8 is really fun, I don't know why but for some reason it seems much better than being a year 7. Something that is different from last year that I like is the way that Friday is packed with really fun activities such as swimming and Dodge ball. 

I love the task system it’s a lot better than what we used to do as primary students. I like the way that you could choose what tasks you want to do now and which to do later as homework. Without the task system doing homework was hard because we could only do certain subjects at certain times. I also think that the task system is great because it develops our time management skills in preparation for college.

Dodge ball is really fun this year because instead of being the inexperienced people the year 8's are the now the best players in the school. I thought that since we have 3 classes that it was going to be really hard to play dodge ball but it's working out really well having the class not playing to collect all the balls and kick them back into the court.

If there was one thing I would change about how the intermediate syndicate is run is to have more games of dodge ball with the other classes every normal day not just reward time because it’s not as exiting just to play with your class mates. These games could just be practice games and winning a game would not give your classroom a point.  

Anyway I hope that you are all having a great first few weeks back at St Ben's and I hope that all you year 7's out there are coping with the task system well.