Marathons, Olympics and Rugby

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Ole Espanol!
(Sorry about any spelling issues there... I have no idea what I am saying!)

Being the last week of term there was a bunch of stuff that needed to be done not the least of which was the mini sports albums. We did these the year that Les coached Kieran's soccer team. I did one for each boy. Since then I do one for the kids and one as a thanks for coaches and team managers. That meant two for Hockey, three for Rugby, and I did 5 for netball as there's a couple of other girls on the team who are pretty special to me.

Each album has a picture of each team member (in action) and the coach/manager, a small selection of general 'action shots' and if possible a team photo. I normally include the years results and the 'Players of the Day'.

So I made 10 albums each page and each photo has rounded corners... 1200+ corners all up and each photo has 4 photo splits... over 800 in total that needed to be stuck down and then the tabs pulled off. Hmmmmm I think i have RSI.


The Olympicathon was on Tuesday last week, the kids were both in Spain, which was very handy for me as I had to make a run to get album supplies in the morning and I had an RNZAF 'feedback' session to be at at 1pm, and our old DP, Judy, was visiting school that day so I was keen to see her as well. As the kids were both in red you'd think they'd be easy to spot but no, because over half of the countries chosen for the Olympathon teams had red as one of their country colours.

Feather Races

The teachers did a super good job in the set-up for the day... you could tell because they didn't all look exhausted and over worked (like on a normal school day) ... the senior kids actually did the running of the events. I spoke to a couple of my old students they said they were "over it!"








Thursday was Kieran's last Rugby tournament day of the year. Due to the third day being rained off and points difference Whenuapai made it to finals day for the first time in forever. The two winning teams at this final got to play the curtain raiser for the 'battle of the bridge' game on Saturday... we're talking dream come true for Kieran here. Let's not spend to much time talking about the results... the five games looked a lot like this....

That's Whenuapai in blue chasing the opposition scoring AGAIN.


There was at least a chance to win a ball autographed by the North Harbour team...

... but despite looking like a demented bridesmaid at the bouquet toss Kieran unfortunately missed it.

He did at least manage to score some autographs and a poster.

I was going to join in with Ali Edwards documenting a week in my life but this week is going to be a little intense. We have Kieran's friend Jake here for 3 days out of the next 5 and I'm sure we will have some added girls too. Sylvia arrives for the night before Scrap camp on Wednesday and there's other stuff in the mix as well. So I'll leave documenting a week in my life for when school's back on. I am hoping to make Merenia a skirt though, like these (I want one myself) and get started on my Christmas creating for my teacher gifts... we'll just see how all that goes though. I also have a slight yearning to make my hair go like this... but I"m dithering... or maybe I just can't concentrate long enough to go get the dye.. I'm not sure. As an aside.. that art, is by Emily from the black apple, she makes VERY cool stuff and if I was to have a girlfriend she is my dream girl.

The end of September is upon us, Christmas is looming, enjoy your week!

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