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Wednesday 12 December 2018

Goodbye fans... for now!

See you later! The poster above has all the information about why I'm posting this. Bye for now!

YEAR SIX CAMP!

The year six’s went to Camp Bentzon on Kawau Island with a few parent helpers and the teachers. Starting from Tuesday 2oth of November to Friday 23 of November. It was awesome! Read on to find out what we did on our Journey at Camp.


Firstly, we all arrived in the hall at approximately 7 o’clock to 7: 25 am. It involved a lot of listening and sitting around. There were two buses that had our luggage in it already, waiting for us. We got split up and went on the two buses. I was sitting next to my friend Jahzara. Jahzara and I were trying to sleep but everyone was talking and some people were even eating lollies. We finally arrived at Sandspit where we had our morning tea.


We were at Sandspit for our ride on the ferry to get to the wharf on Kawau Island. My friends and I sat at the same area at the top of the ferry where most of the year six’s were. We were enjoying the majestic view of the Ocean while singing disney songs that were perfect for the scenery. The girls got moved at the bottom of the ferry so the boys could perform their haka to the Peter and Erin the managers of Camp Bentzon. While we were down there me and Marika played the famous scene from Titanic while the both of us were sing ‘My heart will go on’ by Celine Dion. We were outside at the front of the ferry when the boys started performing.


After a lot of carrying the things for Camp around, we started to get ready for the Killer Hill hike. It was as dreadful as its name. It wasn’t even a hill or a mountain, it was a gateway to death! Once we reached the top we had two people that were Chance and Marika say a speech and put a rock each, on top of the other rocks that were already there called a kiel. We had to walk even more which I don’t want to talk about because we were just walking. We had a break and ate our lunch. We walked,walked,walked,walked then we hiked,hiked,hiked all the way back. I ended up seeing lots of Wallaby and Weka poop and I ended up having a scratch and a scar stuck around my shin. I was so glad that I didn’t die on that hill and I am surprised that I survived the mountain.


The rest of the day we had free time. I played volleyball and set up my cabin. I was with Levonah,Marika,Jahzara and Eden, the most messiest crew I have ever encountered. For camp groups I was in Mansion A with Marika and Benjamin as our leaders. I didn’t swim at the beach that day because of my leg but I still managed to not be lonely.  For Dinner we had roast potatoes,beef, veggies and gravy. We also had dessert which was yummy! We then watched a movie after dinner and Dessert.


We watched a movie called The Princess bride. It was really funny and weird. Sometimes I had to say ‘ Keep it PG mate!’ because they had direct touch with their lips which was a nightmare but, luckily I turned my head to the back and covered my ears. Ewwwwwww!, was what I thought. It was an amazing movie, I suggest you to watch this movie but when you are 15 or 16 years old.


It was a new morning and I woke up before the bugle went. I woke up my cabin mates to get ready for our fitness run because they were still in their PJ’s. The bugle went off. Everyone bursted out of their cabins and ran outside near the volleyball area. We stretched and waited for others. We then went for the run in the fitness trail that was on the island. I ran with Inga. When we finished our run, I came back to our cabin with a fresh graze on my right knee. Moral of that day was to be more careful when running down hill.


We ate breakfast which was normal but delicious. After, we got ready for our activities we had today. We had Abseiling first,Kayaking,Raft building and lastly Bivouac. It was an awesome combination for today since the weather was rainy and sunny. Now onto my Abseiling adventure.


We were putting on the harness and helmet. Te Paia and I was scared so we became the scared buddies. We walked on the fitness trail to go to where the abseiling tower was. So many questions about death crossed my mind. Later on, it was finally my turn. I climbed on the side of the tower where the handles were. I was questioning Haare and Egan about what happened if fall?, stuff like that was what I was worried about. Before I knew I reached the top, it was like magic! Maddy ( Idk how to spell her name) was calming down because I was in panic mode when I looked down the tower, I saw my teammates and the helpers giving me a thumbs up. I breathed in and out to calm me down. Maddy told me to shuffle my feet down onto the edge, as I was on the edge I felt like I was falling, I told Maddy “ I’m gonna fall, miss!” when really my back leant back a tiny bit. So anti-climatic! Afterwards, I made it to the ground by shuffling my feet down and leaning back until my bottom was the same length as my feet. Egan asked me how I felt and I replied with I FEEL ALIVE! At the end I really was alive.


Morning tea was finished so Mr Jacobsen played the bugle and everyone went quickly under shelter in the porch and waited for Mr Goodwin to send us off to our activity. The next rotation was Kayaking, I had some experience in this activity but, apparently needed some help. What I needed help with was using the right end of the paddle to scoop the water out of the way. It was sprinkling and raining  ( My mom said it was SPWINKLIN’) while we were kayaking. We were lucky enough to be with Haare, Egan,Mr Sommerville and our Kayak Instructor Erin. I managed to keep up at the front despite the weather and the waves. I was so proud of myself for kayaking three kilometers, I was also tired too.


The bugle played and that meant it was time for lunch eating. I was still wet and we had another wet activity so I wore a towel around my waist so my wet shorts won’t wet the chair. We had an appetizing lunch which was Hot dogs with toppings. A few minutes after we finished eating, the bugle played again. Mansion A is on Raft Building now!


Rafts building is what we were going to do next. We had to make a raft using hard plastic barrels, ropes and long wooden sticks. The point of this activity is to work together to make the raft float on the ocean. Mansion A split into two groups. Boys vs Girls in Raft Construction, Haare was with the boys and Egan with the girls. We were lucky enough to have Egan on our side because he is an engineer. We built a raft with four barrels and a lot of the sticks and ropes to hold the barrels in place. Lastly, it was time to test if the raft could float. We dragged and lifted the heavy raft onto the ocean, it floated! Marika and Nevayah jumped onto the raft and used one of the long sticks to paddle the raft all the way to the pontoon. We then decided to swim all the way to the pontoon and do some bombs off the pontoon. As we were we playing in the water we saw other people in a different camp group doing sailing. Overall, I was so happy that we were probably the only group that made our raft float the whole way.


We had some free time so I decided to get ready for Bivouac. Free time was over so we decided to move onto our next activity, Bivouac. For Bivouac we had to go behind the Abseiling tower to where the Bivouac building was held. Marika and I teamed up to make our own bivouac while the rest of the group teamed up altogether. The two of us had an disadvantage since the other group had more people so we had a little help from Egan. We first looked for a space to create our little shed at. We found a spot on the opposite side of our opponent. It was now time for building.

I would like to thank my parents for paying the fee of the camp. I also would like to say thank you to the parent helpers and the teachers that came to camp and juggled a lot of things in camp. A big thanks to Mrs Flavelle and Mr Burt for the hard work for making this camp still go on! I appreciate the amazing work that everyone put into this camp to make it happen.

I enjoyed everything at camp but I think Abseiling and Concourse stood out for me the most. I learnt that fears are just in your head and that your brain tries to make things scary when really it is not. If there are some people that don’t get along, I highly suggest to put them in a Camp ( Not Camp Green Lake) or a space together for four days, it works! Overall, I enjoyed that camp with my friends, it brought us together as a close family. I will never forget this precious memory that is now in my heart.

Task Description
This is just a recount of our 4 days off at year six Camp. I didn't get to finish this but I will surely finish this off in the holidays! Enjoy!

I am the girl with a black hat and a grey jumper.

Thursday 6 December 2018

Term 4 Extension DLO Research



This term is all about Jewellery and Art. We didn't have much time for this term so we did the best we could to research lots of information about our topic. I was in a group with three year six's and they were my friends too! I had a fun time since this terms topic was something I could manage with.

Reflection about this year and term!

My reflection about this term. Term 4 was a very busy and fun time of the year.

Very stressful but I made it through the year. We did and learnt a lot of things.
We had a disadvantage so we were behind on our DLO’s because of our one week off at Kawau Island
but my group and I managed to finish our movie on time. My favourite thing we did this term was using
3D pens to create 3D jewelry. Our Paideia Seminar was probably the best seminar I’ve ever had or
experienced.

This whole year was a journey. We had an opportunity to go to the Pacific Exhibition Museum.
We had a fun time using 3D pens. Our Paideia Seminars were scary but fun to do since I had more
experience than the year 5’s. We had an awesome trip to gravity as an extension group. If I were to
describe this whole year in extension with one word I would probably say
‘ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’

Tuesday 27 November 2018

Cave Art ( Term 4 Animation )

Walt: show short fiction ancient stories through art back then.



Task Description

Welcome to Ancient Art Story-time with Pisirina. A long time ago, there was a small tribe that lived in a small country named South Korea. In their village there was a big mighty animal that was a king of a forest near their village. It was a wild Boar. The small tribe only  had 4 people until their tribe leader had been killed by the beast and the reason is well, you can read it on the screen. Anyway, that didn’t stop them from killing the beast. At night, they made a plan by killing the boar while it was asleep. Everything was going well until Luke had to ruin it by stepping a small branch.  It wasn’t that loud but it was loud enough to wake up the creature. Yay!, they finally killed the Boar with three spears. Luke and his friends moved the creature to a campfire they prepared before. They roasted the Boar and ate the roasted pork. That is the end of the short Ancient Art Story-time with Pisirina. Hope you enjoyed my crazy movie!

Tuesday 30 October 2018

Revenge!

Walt:write a succesful recount.

This was the best morning I’ve ever had so far! You must be wondering why?, well it’s because I got to do some revenge. Revenge with a little help from two deputy principles and my friends on the year six teachers. Read on to find out what happened this morning.

The day started off with a normal vibe, we knew we had something to do but didn’t know what activity we were going to do. The three year six classes walked outside to the porch to get ready for their new adventure. In two long lines, the classes walked through the school to get to their destination. Once we arrived at the bottom field there were nine buckets filled with water and one sponge in each. Mr Sommerville and Mr Jacobson told us to line up in three lines for each class, in total there were nine uneven lines. Lastly, the instruction were told to us and slowly a big smirk crawled up to each of the students face.

The nine students that were at the front walked up to the buckets to aim and fire at their teacher. The whole field was filled with laughter. I had about four turns for throwing at Mr Goodwin but ended up missing two shots. It was hilarious how the three sponges were hitting one teacher at the same time. My accuracy wasn’t that good but it was good enough to hit him right on the stomach. A few hits were very funny especially Paschal’s hit, the sponge he threw landed and hit a part, you know what?, I’ll just leave it up to your imagination. I was very sorry for Mr Goodwin as the hits were very harsh (In my vision at least),but that’s what you get for coming up with the idea!

After all the sponges were thrown and the teachers had time to breathe, the three best throwers in the three classes were invited to come up to the front. Paschal,Loseti and Chance were the best and they had the honours to get a bucket each and dump it on the teacher. Chance went first and dumped it right on top of Mr Goodwin’s head, we all watched in awe looking at our teacher getting even more soaking wet. Paschal threw the water out of the bucket onto Mr Goodwin but instead missed. We were all bummed while Mr Goodwin was sitting there on the chair looking happy. Loseti gently turned over the bucket and made the bucket land on his head with the water just dripped down from his head to toes. That was very fun except for the bit when Paschal missed the target!

Overall, that was one of the most funniest activity I have had with my friends! Although, I missed a few shots at the victim and Paschal failed to make us proud by wetting our teacher I had an awesome time. Maybe next time Mr Goodwin will be the one to make us suffer with a harsher revenge, who knows.

Task Description
This writing was originally for our writing test last week but because we had an amazing time we decided to post this writing on our blog. This was an awesome experience/time with our classmates. Hope you enjoy!

Wednesday 24 October 2018

Blindfolded for the morning?!?

Walt: write a proper recount
Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you were blind? Well, room seven did something similar to that. I should probably stop writing now just in case I leak some juicy information, but if you want to find out just keep reading to find out what happened.

It was writing time that means it was time for a walk to the field and a fun experience coming towards us. First we had to get ready to do our mystery experience. We took a few minutes because Chance was taking forever to put her shoes on. Room seven finally arrived at the playground in the school and sat down, we were eager to find out what we were going to do. After hearing the instructions we got into buddies for the task. I was so glad that my buddy was Chance and that we were going to be blindfolded around the place.

Now it was time for me to lead the blindfolded Chance around the playground. Before doing anything else I had to check if she could see anything. After making sure she couldn’t see anything, I lead her towards somewhere she could climb up. I was so scared because she is my friend and I didn’t want anything bad to happen to her. She was alright so I was relieved when she didn’t hurt herself. Most of the time I was laughing at her making a fool of herself, you should’ve seen her trying to do the monkey bars! Looking back, I should’ve asked Mr Goodwin or one of the teachers to take a video of her.

After all the laughter, it was finally my turn. Chance put the dark blindfold over my eyes and tightened it in a knot. The only thing I could see was moving patterns even though my eyes were blinded by fabric. The first place Chance took me was the monkey bars, I recognized it straight away since I was familiar with the place. Once, Chance and I reenacted a scene from Titanic (The one where it's Jack and Rose at the edge of the boat holding each other). The most scariest bit of my adventure was walking across from one side to another side on a chained bridge. I was screaming every time I took a step. Overall, I was glad I didn’t die.

This morning did not go as I thought it would go. It seemed like a chill day but it turned into a rollercoaster ride instead. Even though Chance looked like a fool and I luckily didn’t die I had a great morning experience. I would definitely suggest you to do this with your class if they are responsible enough.


Task Description
We are practising how to write a proper recount so we can prepare for our writing test coming up. Our experience was really cool and I can't wait to see what other experiences we will get to experience. I really enjoy writing a recount now!

Friday 19 October 2018

Tricky Decimal Problems

Walt: use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.



Task Description
For this task we had to asnwer the word problems using addition or subtraction. In this case I used Addition. We had to figure out how much faster one thing was than the other. This ws an easy task to accomplish.

Decimal Place Value

Walt: use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems.



Task Description
For this task we were learning about Decimal place values. I already knew a lot about decimals but I still absorbed a lot of learning about this. We had to write a decimal number by looking at the written form. Hopefully you enjoy and nderstand my work!


Thursday 18 October 2018

Decimal Problems

Walt:use add/ sub strategies to solve tricky decimal problems



Task Description
This week we are learning about Decimals. We had to show our working on a paper and take a photo on our Chromebook to show proof on how we worked it out. This was an easy task to do. I hope we get handed more of these problems.

Wednesday 17 October 2018

Expectations for Term 4

Walt: use correct sentences to help structure our writing.

Term 4 has started and the holidays are finished. Say goodbye to youtube and netflix time! This term’s topic is Te Wa Toi meaning Time for art or Art time. Are you ready for a pact term and a lot of blog posts? Read on to find more about my goals,expectations and what going on this new term.

Term 4 is my favourite time of the year as a lot of events happen in 9 weeks. Events like The Manaiakalani Film Festival,Art,Prize Giving and many more to come. So stay tuned to see my blog posts about these awesome events.

Art is a subject or time where I fail in confidence to show my artwork to others. That is one goal that I want to accomplish or work hard on as this term is all about art. Another goal I want to improve on is getting less distracted and spending my work time more wisely. That is all my goals I wish to accomplish this term. Let’s see if I actually make that come true.

I am hoping to learn more about wearable art and Korean art. I have been inspired by K-pop to learn more about Korea and that is what I want to learn a lot about. Maths, that is something I am confident in but I want to be a Maths genius.

Te Wa Toi will be a entertaining yet occupied term. There’s a lot on like The Manaiakalani Film Festival and Prize Giving, and I have two goals I am eager to accomplish, and I hope my teacher reads this so he knows what I would like to learn! Overall, I am excited to see how this term goes.

Task Description
For this task we wrote about the new term ( Term 4), room Seven Literacy had to write about our expectation, goals and ambitions for this last term of the year. I was focusing on how to write a proper conclusion because we had a whole lesson on how to write a proper ending conclusion. I found it hard to not use the same key words over and over again because then my writing would sound repetitive.

Thursday 27 September 2018

Research Movie - Extension



For my Inquiry Research Presentation, my group’s point of view is Doctors. In our group there is Simon, Norah - Jade and me. I have been focussing on Health statistics for children especially for Maori and Pacific. As you can see I found a lot of information about my topic. There have been many ways to lower the rates on health issues for children. The main problem is Obesity. In New Zealand there are Childhood Obesity plans for children that have Obesity. That is a way that lower the rates for Obesity. There have also been lots of Surveys about some children's everyday lifestyle, what they eat or drink, what they do for exercise and more. Overall my main message is - As New Zealand is a multicultural country there have been many ways to lower the rates of obesity and health issues for children.

Monday 24 September 2018

Takeaway Shop

Walt: use subtraction strategies to solve tricky problems.


Task Description
For this task we had to solve this word problems using different strategies. I used the Add don't Subtract and the traditional subtraction. It was a very complex task but I handled it well.

Typing Speed Data

WALT:Analyse data and display data using a graph.

ScoreNumber
1-101
11-2011
21-3010
31+4
Task Description
Room Seven Maths decided to do some Statistics today and be some Data Detectives. We had a Typing speed challenge. We then told our scores to Mr Goodwin. I typed down 23 words in one minute. We had to display and analyse everyone's score in the correct order. Above you will see the Bar/Column Graph I made with my class. 

Friday 7 September 2018

Thinking in other people's shoes!

Walt:understand the text from the perspectives of the characters


Task Description
The Imacs group had to read a book named Fangs: The sequal. After we read that we had to think from a character's perspective from the story. We wrote what we thought they felt and thought. This is a hard skill to achieve and I think I am getting better at thinking in other peoples shoes.

Wednesday 5 September 2018

Vocabulary (No Fangs)

Walt: Use the text to understand new vocabulary (words) in the story.

Task Description
In my reading group( Imac's ), we had to do the task above. We were asked to do the definition of these words in the novel we read. Once we finished that, we had to  show an example of that word in a sentence. The words that we were assigned to us was a bit difficult but I managed to pull it off.

Description of my nightmares ?!?

Walt: Use descriptive language when writing.


Task Description
In this task, my whole space had to describe a monster or alien however we wanted to. My presentation includes two descriptions about two monsters. This took me a long time to write because descriptive writing is not one of my strengths in Writing, but it was a good practise for upcoming events like a exam/test and many more.

Thursday 30 August 2018

Have questions about a healthy balanced diet? Just ask me!

Walt: look for the hidden or deeper meaning in the text


Task Description
We had to create a reply to Julian Dennison's fake letter for help to understand eating advices. I had to read the fake letter properly understand it full before I create my reply. My reply had to be compacted with the answers of his queries, advice and information. My reply had to be written in a letter form too !

Reviewing a book!

Walt: look for the hidden or deeper meaning in the text.


Task Description
For this task we had to record ourselves reading the book we have been assigned with. After recording ourselves, I wrote a small review about the book I read. This book was good to read!

Wednesday 29 August 2018

Are you invited ?

Walt: solve problems using Multiples


Task Description
We had to solve these 'invites' using multiples from a certain number. In the presentation above there are multiples of 5,7 and 4 in the green box and the none multiples are in the red box. 

Personal trainer problems

Walt: solve problems using Ratios


Task Description
For this task we had to use ratios for this problem. We worked out how many hours a personal trainer will need to see an amount of people just by a given amount of time and clients. This was an easy task to handle, I hope we will get handed more of these problems!

Tuesday 28 August 2018

Woah that's fast!

Walt:solve problems with multiple elements.


Task Description
For this presentation, we had to figure out the distance per unit. I use Division and some Addition to solve the problems in the presentation above. This was an easy task to complete! Hope you enjoy!

Listen to my healthy rap!

Walt: write lyrics about a certain topic



Task Description
For this task we had to create a rap. This rap had to be about the Food Pyramid. I worked with Levonah and Marika, they are my classmates in literacy class. We did a funny and cringey music video too! Watch the videos at your risk if you don't want your eyes to see cringiness.

Friday 24 August 2018

How fast is that? (Silver Medal Problem)

Walt: solve problems with multiple elements.


Task Description
For this task, we had to answer questions about speed and time. This was really easy for me to figure out because the strategy was familar to work with. I really like doing this type of problems. Enjoy my learning above!

Wednesday 22 August 2018

One day at the Beach!

Walt:think from the perspective of characters in the story.


Task Description
We had to read the book named One day at the Beach. After that we had to film ourselves reading the book. Then we wrote our review about the book. I tried my best to read and pronounce the words properly. Enjoy my presentation!

Thursday 16 August 2018

Everybody clean up ! ( Recount)

Walt: structure a recount

Has your class ever done a yucky job that includes helping your area/community? Well, this morning we did something intriguing but fun. Read on to find out what we did today.

  Mr Goodwin told us that we will be doing something that includes rubbish bags. Straight away the whole class knew what we were going to do, do you have an idea of what we did? We were sauntering in a squiggly line as a flawless class. Anyways, five minutes passed by and we were already on the Reserve. Mr Goodwin explained to the class that we have to be in 5 groups of 6 to be able to compete in the rubbish pick up challenge. We had boundaries and zones so we wouldn’t be running off to Mars. We had 4 Zones, 2 of the areas were on the Reserve and the rest was on our bottom field and our main field. The team with the most rubbish in their rubbish bags wins and gets to have ten minutes of Cool Maths Games.

Levonah, Jahzara, Eden, Marika, Leilani and I were in a group. Our strategy was to run and pick up rubbish. While our team was picking up trash, Eden came across some jandals and she even tried to sneak it into our rubbish bag. But, Eden got caught because she was laughing alone like a weirdo. I would’ve done anything to have ten minutes of playing games instead of doing our work.

Mr Goodwin blew the whistle and we all came running and panting outside of the Library. Miss Haare was the judge. I was feeling really confident until I saw Miss Haare pick up Chance’s groups rubbish bag. Their bag was nearly half way full. Miss Haare checked in all our rubbish bags, she found all sorts of stuff even a big bark of tree in Tuluinga’s group. Finally, Miss Haare made a decision, her choice was final. Unfortunately my group didn’t win but Chance’s group did. They definitely deserve the ten minutes of Cool Maths Games!

Overall, this experience was very enjoyable. Who knew picking up rubbish during learning time with your classmates would be fun? Next time, I would love to see an actual jandal in one of the rubbish bags if we ever do this, I would love to do this again but with another upgraded prize to win!

Task Description
For this task we had to go to the reserve to do our experience. After that we began our writing. We had to include exciting language. I tried my best to have correct grammar and to make sense in my recount above. Hope you enjoy !

Friday 3 August 2018

Write the Dialogue

Walt: Think about dialogue between characters


Task Description
We learnt an new type of writing. It is called play writing, it includes dialogue. I learnt that Dialogue is the conversationg between two characters. I hope you enjoy my presentation !

Family of Facts 2

Walt: Solve problems using multiple elements.


Task Description
For this task, we had to use Division and Multiplication. We used both Division and Multiplication to find different ways of finding out the answer using 3 numbers. This was really easy for me to figure out. Check out my other Presentation like this in my older post below !

Wednesday 1 August 2018

Exercise is wise

Walt: find relevant information in the text


Task Description
For this task we had to use a text reading. We use that reading to get the information for this Poster. I hope you like and learned more about me!

Family of Facts!

Walt: solve problems with multiple elements .


Task Description
For this task, we had learnt the family of facts. We used division and multiplication to solve these questions. This really helped me understand Family of Facts properly.

Friday 27 July 2018

Immersion Assembly

Walt: using exciting language

Today was the first day of Term 3! We met Beyonce Burt during the Immersion Assembly, we even got to dance with him. Has your school done anything maniacally crazy as this?

Our school theme for this term is ‘Move Ya Body’! I think that ‘Move ya body’ is about being healthy in different ways and techniques. We will probably be doing the run and other fitness games later on this term. Another thing that I think we will work on is eating healthy nutritions.

Team 4’s topic is about having fun while exercising and being active. Instead of doing boring runs, I think we will do more fun activities that will keep us moving. The Team 4’s movie was very funny. I think the main message is that Active games/activites don't need to be competitive but it can be fun. Also it could mean being active and having fun at the same time.
As this terms theme is ‘Move ya Body’ I would also like to do some just dance and other enjoyable fitness games. A few things I would like to learn more about this term is Nutritions and how to make exercising entertaining. I would also like to learn about how exercising affects our bodies and our minds. Another thing I hope we learn about is Biology so that we can learn about the natural science that studies our bodies.
I think that the term’s theme is good because we need to start getting healthy. If we are healthy and fit now, we will keep doing the same in the future. I can’t wait for what this term brings to Team 4.

Task Description
For this task we had to do a recount/expectation writing. If you didn't know our Term 3 theme is 'Move ya Body' . Above I wrote about what I expect to happen this term. Hope you enjoy the summary of the Immersion Assembly.

Parking Meters

Walt:build a stronger knowledge base around time


Task Description
For this task we had to figure out some time problem using money and time. This was hard but challenging. This really helped me because it will eventually help me one day in the future.