Touch tournament.

We arrived at school at 8:00 and wait for the rest of our touch teams. Once everyone arrived we quickly changed into our sports shirts and sat down in front of the hall. We waited for a few more people to come, finally, they arrived and got all of their stuff ready. We had a little talk about what we are gonna do at Mt Wellington war memorial park. Some of us went with one of our teaching aids. We did our school karakia and we walked to the bus. We settled on the bus and were on the road.

The bus stopped near the girl's and boys' bathrooms. All of us got out and we put all of our stuff away, we went down to the fields and had a little practice. We had a practice game to warm us up for our first game. We also did passing drills and a lot of running. After our warm-up, we were about to play our first game against Tamaki primary school. We were playing on the field 6B. Our starting team was, Mathew, Saia, kuea, Me, Valarie and Dwayne. Our team quickly went on the field and we set up our line up.

At the start, Tamaki primary tapped the ball and rushed up into their faces and touched them. Then we managed to turn the ball over, after a few turnovers we finally got our numbers out and we were able to score the first point of the match. Then they tapped the ball, after all, 6 touches we got the ball. We passed it out to Mathew and then he drew in the players and passed it to me on the wing and I hit the gas on the sideline and scored our second point. Tamaki primary had tapped the ball and they managed to get through our back line and score. The referee blew the whistle and the game was over. We did a little cheer for them and went back to have morning tea.

After morning tea, we waited on the sidelines watching our other team play against Glen Taylor, sadly they lost but they did well to get the ball to their try line. Our second was bai so we waited a little bit longer for our game. Next, we were against the Panmure district. We had our same starting line up. First Panmure district tapped it and ran into us. They passed it out and Mathew was so fast he ran up and got the intercept and scored our first point. Panmure district ran with the ball and they were making good meters. They were about to try but I got another runaway and I ran as fast as I could and then I scored. We got more scores after that, and Panmure scores to end it off. We had lunch after the game.

Next we had a little snack because our next game was going to be really hard, we were playing against Glen innes school.  When I was watching them play they were playing really good and I felt like we needed to do really good on this game.  We were all about to go on the field and I was really nervous that we might lose. We started the game and we were defending really well. They were making a whole bunch of meters and we couldn't keep up, they were drawing us in and managed to pass out to their fast wings. They'd scored about four points to nil. Valerie got a score and got two scores because when a girl tries it two points. We lost but we did really well  to put scores on the board but we needed to work more on our passing and making meters.

We played more games We won to Panmure bridge and we ended up loosing to Tamaki primary's other team and and loosing to Glen innes again. We got to watch our two year 5 and 6 teams play each other for first place. when there game ended we packed up all of our stuff and got it into the bus. We got into the bus and  drove back to school, we got off and went to the hall and took off our sports uniform and put it into the basket. We did really today and I couldn't ask for better team.

By Viliami ma'asi.