Rugby is my Passion

One of my passions is Rugby because that's basically the only time when I get to hurt someone. It’s New Zealands favourite sport.  When I was a kid I used to go to my friends house and play rugby.  After a couple of years I joined Norths Onepoto Club.

When I joined and started playing throughout the year I got asked to play for our club rep team and I said yeah. We came 2nd in the tournament we played in and won a trophy for coming runner up. I was playing up a grade. The next year I was playing up a grade for Norths Onepoto Under 11’s. During that year I got asked to play for the Under 12’s Wellington Barbarians. We got to go to the Gold Coast for a week.  My team came 2nd in that tournament. After all that i made it into southern reps and other tournaments.

So I love rugby and my goal when I get older is to make into to the Wellington lions then get further.

Tawa Int Athletics day

About a week ago Tawa Intermediate had athletics day. There were syndicates(Pouakai, Toroa, Tui, Piwakawaka, Kakapo and Huia) my syndicate is Pouakai. People from Tawa int (intermediate) were at the Tawa college fields and Tawa int fields. People were competing to get into the Wellington zone and to have fun.

At high jump I was nervous but other people said I was gonna win. When I did my first 3 jumps I wasn’t nervous. Then it started to get high that's when butterflies came to my stomach. Everyone was cheering until the last part. It was dead silent. The height was at 1.20m and two people were left and both were Pouakai people, me and Josh. Josh ran as hard as he can and jump as high as he could and he cleared it. That made me more nervous because I didn’t want to bail so I took a deep breath through my nose and out my mouth and run as fast as I could and jump as high as i could then I made it! Everyone was cheering I was very happy and proud of myself.

In long jump I couldn’t be bothered doing it but my dad says no pain no game so I always think about that. I got 2 for my points but I still made it in. No person made it near me I was pretty surprised how good I done. On my last jump someone said to me jump on my tippy toes so I can get a 3 for my score so i tried it and landed on my tippy toes and fell over and got sand all in my mouth then mr skipworth said 2 and I was like wahat I did all of that all for nothiny anyway at least I tried my best. when I was walking back I had sand all in my mouth there were no drinking fountains and it felt like heaps of little crunchy stale chips in mouth it was a bad way to end my day.