Lewis's Speech - 3rd in inter school competition

RUGBY MY GAME

On Saturday I woke up early ready to play rugby – I love rugby!

I grabbed my rugby boots, socks, mouth guard and tape. All the gear I need for rugby. I eat breakfast. I eat Weetbix because I’m a Kiwi kid, I’m just like an All Black.

I get dressed, take my rugby boots and all my other gear.

Ready to go outside, oh! It’s pouring down with heavy rain! We grab the wet weather gear and dash to the car. We’ve arrived and it was still pouring down. We got changed and it’s time to warm up. It’s cold, Brrr, but we run around the paddock, we do our stretches, it’s still raining, but I don’t mind. The stretches were so painful,

“Ouch” but it worked really well. Finally it’s time for the game to start, I’m nervous and scared. Tomarata, my team had to kick off to start. Our coach was the referee, he said “Ready everybody, we all yelled “YES”. Paparoa had the ball, they knocked the ball on. We got the ball and we scored, it felt great.

We kicked off again and Paparoa got the ball. The player ran straight through us. “Oh no”, then a good tackler missed him! I had to run as fast as a warthog to get him and I slid to tackle him and I grabbed the ball from him. “Yay” I felt good.

We kept on scoring and scoring tries– it was great!

I got 5 tries, this is my greatest achievement because I have never got so many tries in one game, and I was so excited and proud!!

At the end of the game the score was 50 to 0, we had thrashed them!!!