I jumped on the bus on the 25^th of August.  I looked around.

 “Some new faces,” I thought. But I looked again. It was some old faces- my old friends Turanga and Martin were on the bus .

 “But why?” I thought to myself. We got to school.

“I remember,” I said loudly, “They are here to plant their plants.”  The plants were a Karamu and a Kowhai. Martin planted the Karamu and Turanga planted the Kowhai. They are both now year nines at college. We have a tradition at Oueroa School, every year 8 gets a plant from the shadehouse, which we have grown from seed with help from DOC educators. So Martin and Turanga planted their plants and jumped back onto the bus because they had college work to do.