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Lances Lab Report

Pop-teen sensation lance Bass is going to be staying at the ISS (international space station) for the next three months. In this report you will learn about his home in space. It includes his day to day tasks, relaxing, music, communication back to earth and why he is even going to space.

Day to day Tasks:

For his everyday tasks he has most of the normal equipment with just a few small changes. All his kitchen appliances are bolted to the floor and they all have magnets or straps inside to hold things in place. His bed is strapped to the wall during the day. Then at night it is lowered down to the floor and is held there by special magnets. He has to strap himself into bed so that he doesn’t float in the air. His toilet is a suction toilet so it flushes pretty much 24/7. His waste is flushed into a 200L holding tank. His washing machine is satellite powered and washes and dries his clothes all-in-one! To wash himself he has to carefully squeeze some water into a cloth and then wipe it all over his face. He has to be careful as any free water could damage any electronic panels. To cook his food he has special pots and pans. He gets his food out of its straps in the cupboard. Then once the pan is hot enough Lance pours his food in. The hot pan becomes sticky so that the food does not float away. He has to be holding the pan at all times and his feet are strapped to the floor.

Music:

To record his music he has his trustworthy guitar, a voice recorder and his laptop. All of Lance’s equipment is velcroed to his special space desk when they are not in use. He sings his songs into his voice recorders and emails them back to his producers through his laptop. When he gets back he will re-sing them. These are just the base songs so he doesn’t forget his ideas.

Communication:

To communicate with his family and friends Lance has skype, facebook, bebo and twitter setup from the satellite. He has his laptop to talk to them. Lance talks to them every day and discusses how things are going with his family and work colleagues.

Relaxing and Fun:

To relax Lance plays on Sims, Wii, Buzz or play station on his 50-inch flat screen TV. Otherwise he sings along to one of his hits on sing star. He gets sing star every time! Or he’s just sitting on a bean bag listening to or playing music.

Why Space? :

Your probably wondering why Lance is even going to space. Here are four good reasons why:

1)      He went to space for inspiration. For his music, life and fans.

2)     He went to be away from his fans and the pressure of being famous.

3)     He went to get a better understanding of what other people experience. He wanted a similar experience for his future career.

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4)    He needed a new study, something else to work towards. He experimented with the difference of gravity and its effects. He found out that NO gravity in the ISS makes life a whole lot harder.

Living in space is harder than living on earth as it affects the way you are used to living. Lance is coping well as he has all he needs: Relaxation, communication, music, and similar day to day tasks. Also, Lances family and friends are encouraging him all the way!

Bibliography:

The information for this report came from Wikipedia, google, a space information sheet, you tube and my imagination. To find out more about the ISS go to one of these places.

By Sara Taylor

Northland Polo Horse Trek

Sara 3/5/2011                         

Last Saturday I went to the Northland Polo Fundraiser Horse Trek. My Dad is the captain of the Northland Polo Club, so we kind of had to go. Dad woke me up at 6:30am! I got dressed into warm clothes and gumboots then set out to catch Paris, the 15 hand 6-year-old thourghbred that we are grazing at our house for the winter. I took her out the gate and over to the horse truck. Dad decided to leave her cover on as it was a bit chilly. I took her up the ramp and Dad and I jumped in the cab. Then we were off.

First we went down to the dairy, filled up the truck and had a sausage roll for breakfast. Then we headed out to my Grandparents place to pick up two of the other horses. We arrived and loaded up Castor and Dione (the other horses). We kept going and arrived Tangowahine, at the horse trek. The trek was going up the mountains at Michael Youngers farm. We arrived at about 8:00am and unloaded the horses. Then Dad went over to register while I took the covers off the horses.

Once everyone had arrived, they all registered and the two people that were riding Dione and Paris came, they all set off. I was left with the others who weren’t riding to cook the onions and sausages, butter bread and organize cakes.

Two and a half hours later they all came back along the track. I ran outside to help dad unsaddle Castor and give him (the horse) a wash. Once all the horses were sorted everyone came inside for some lunch. There were speeches and the works, and then everyone started to leave.

All the Polo people stayed for about one hour later and had drinks. We raised over $2000 for Northland Polo and had a great time. Then Dad and I loaded up the horses, were given about 50 leftover sausages, 2 loaves of buttered bread, a 2 litre bottle of tomato and BBQ sauce and a bottle of mustard then we drove off. We dropped off Castor and Dione, then arrived home unloaded Paris and went inside for some dinner. (Sausages, bread and sauce!)

A Day in the life of Bebo

A day in the life of Bebo
By Sara

“What a Day! This morning I was just happily swimming around the pond, when a big, net thing scoops me up.
 Next thing I know I’m in a tank! Oh, hi my name is Bebo and I’m a fresh water guppie. Anyway, back to the story. So now I’m in a tank right? But it’s not that bad; I’m here with seven other guppies, oh now it’s only five! In my new tank there is a jug house, fake plants, rocks and the Bubble THEMEPARK. I go there all the time with Bobblelogs and Bubbles. You get blown around in the bubbles and it is SO MUCH FUN!!!!! To eat we have food from a can, and when scary h-u-m-a-n-s look at me I hide in the weeds. My new life is much better than my old one in the pond. Even if it is a bit scary, but new adventures are so much fun, This tank is full of them and surprises, I can’t wait!!!

Our FIRST Holiday on MAUI

I’ll never forget BOXING day, 2010. I woke up, got dressed, then mum; dad, Jessie, Kate and I were off. When we finally arrived at Matauwhi Bay, Russell, I was already fed up with my sisters, Jessie (9) and Kate (6). But once we were out on our new launch, Maui I was too excited to care. Once we were set up aboard her, we set out for a fish off Roberton Island. Little did we know that that was where our trouble would begin?

 We got to our secret fishing spot, and decided to go for a drift fish. There was not too much wind and the ground was quite rocky (plus the anchor winch was still a bit faulty). Dad turned off the motor, then we baited up and dropped our lines down. We had a successful fish with 5 snapper and a couple of kawhai.

 Once the bites had stopped, dad tried to start the motor. BUT GUESS WHAT!!! It wouldn’t start. Dad was starting to freak out, because the wind had picked up and we were starting to drift towards the rocks. But he could not put the anchor down because the anchor is powered by the winch, which is powered by the motor!! So with ropes and chains flying, dad and mum got out the spare anchor which was under the seat. Dad desperately chucked it over the stern. Phew! At least we weren’t drifting towards the rocks anymore. Then hoping for good luck dad turned the key and by some miracle the motor started. But instead of going into Roberton for a swim, he turned the boat right around and headed back in the direction of the mooring. Mum fried up the fish and we had fish, tomato sauce, bread and butter for lunch.

 Once we were all full, Dad called up a guy about getting a new starter motor (dad thought it was broken). So once it was sorted, we all had to drive back to Kawakawa to pick it up from the petrol station. Thank goodness it was couriered up from Dargaville. We drove back to the boat once again and dad put it in place, turned the key and it worked. By this time it was 6:00pm, too late to head back out. So we had some dinner and settled down for our first night on Maui. Not exactly the way we imagined.

The next morning I woke up in Indaco bay. “Wow” I exclaimed, dad must of got up early. I quickly got changed. Then Jessie, Kate and I ran up to the top of the boat and waved out to the Alison’s on their boat, Amity. Carli and her dad saw us, then motored over on their dingy. We then decided to go for a swim. So we got changed into our togs and jumped off the top of our boat. Almost as soon as we got out, we all asked the same question “can we go biscuiting”? And guess what! The answer was YES! So we jumped in the dingy and went biscuiting. We had a blast. I stood up, then fell off strait away. We got back to he boat dripping and happy. But now it was time to collect some seafood!! YUM!

We went fishing first. We caught three snapper and four kawhai. Next it was onto scalloping. Mums the diver in our family and she got 19 scallops. I got one pathetic under size one. Then we got about 50 mussels off the rocks out of Indaco bay. We went back into the bay and anchored up. Man, lunch was yum that day!

So, our holiday on Maui turned out to be a screaming success! We had motor trouble (a bit on the down side), we got seafood and we went swimming and biscuiting. Summer 2010 could not have been better. But January 2011 was just! By SARA