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Our Ki O Rahi tournament

      (2/7/24)

Dear Diary,                                                                                  

Last Friday, Mr.

Bell told all of us from Room 7 that we needed to participate in the Ki O Rahi tournament against other schools but some didn’t come to take part in the Ki O Rahi tournament because they really wanted to finish the Matariki star facts (I think that’s what they want to do.)

When we got changed into our sports uniform (the same uniform gosh why is it the same uniform) anyway we grabbed everything like our bags, lunch boxes and water bottles. When Mr. Bell told us to get into one of the cars, we got Mrs. Ripata’s car,(Marii’s Mom’s car), everything was so gorgeous. The window was huge, clean and we sang songs in the car and Marii was so lucky that I finally found my dream car.

 When we got to the Ki O Rahi tournament all the other schools were already there. We spread out our mat and put down our bags. We quietly lined up and got ready for prayers before the game started.  

When the game started the referee told all of us to go to field 1 (I think that’s what the referee told us) and we were going against Sylvia Park Blue and we are Ki Oma and our Opponent/Sylvia Park Blue is Taniwha for our first game.

During our first game the referee told all of us to switch sides so we swap to take turns and we finish taking turns. When we are finished taking turns we are now Taniwha. I also went there too so I can also get a turn in the Ki O Rahi tournament and only have 3 points and Our Opponent/Sylvia Park Blue has 8 points so we are losing for the first time and some of us were saying “GG’s (Good Game)” to the other team.

Our Second Game was going against Glen Taylor Stars and when we were on the lead until the other team was now on the lead we were all nervous and we really needed to try harder but then we lost again for the second time and I was getting really worried about losing for the third time. 

Now we’re going against Tamaki Ikale and we hope that we win for the first time. Our third game was actually kinda going really good this time and we felt that we were now winning for the first time. And we did! We cheered for Tamaki Ikale, cheered for us and cheered for the referee. We were really happy! Then Mr. Bell told us to stay and watch the next game so that we could learn how to play Ki O Rahi properly.

We learned more by watching the other teams play Ki O Rahi properly.(But I just noticed that we lost 2 times already so I hope that we would win 2 times too!). Anyway I need to try and tell Pio Teo to get the Ki (How do you spell it?.)

During the next game, we scored 9 points and our opponent Panmure Road Taniwha got 6 points but then the referee whistled. We won for the second time and we were really and really happy about it. We have to rest now and eat our food and drink our water and watch some more games so that we can learn more about it.

When all the games are finished we have to pray to thank God for looking after us in the Ki O Rahi tournament.

When we were done with our prayers we said goodbye to all the schools and went back to Mrs. Ripata’s car and she drove us back to our school. 

We all had a fantastic time playing in the Ki O Rahi tournament with other schools. I hope we can all play again in the next tournament.

 

 

By Roland Bacia

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