Last term me, Jackson, McKenna, Micheal, Attah, Pauli and Elena were all in a rippa team. We all had a rippa tournament at Dunkirk Marist. I wanted to join the rippa team because I normally don’t play rippa so I wanted to try it out.

It started with me and my team all sitting in our teams all waiting for Mrs Va’afusuaga or Mr Hughes. Once they both came we all waited for the right time to go to the rippa place we were playing. When it was time to go we all went into our school van and drove to Dunkirk Marist. We were all so excited to play but scared at the same time. After some time of emotion we all set up our tent to eat or rest. When we all were setting up the tent we heard a microphone ‘WELCOME SCHOOLS we are going to start off soon but we need your coaches or managers to talk with us for the rules. When our coaches got back they told us that we would be playing the year 7’s for the tournament. You might be asking why we are playing years 7’s. It’s because OUR years 7’s were at sports camp so they couldn’t attend the tournament so we took their place and played years 7’s. Our excitement disappeared and we all were scared but then took on the challenge. It was time for our game against year 7’s. When we got to where we were playing we all saw that we were playing against st patricks. It started off with the ball. Pauli tapped it to the rip and passed it to Mckenna. Mckenna passed the ball to our wing who was jackson.jackson tried to gas it on the side but got caught then passed inside to me then passed down to micheal then micheal got the try. We kept doing multiple plays over and over again till we won the

game. The points were 45-5. We were all happy we won our first game but we all knew it was going to get harder from there.  

We all went to our tent and ate with joy in our faces. After like 30 minutes we all were ready to play but then we heard that we were playing against tamaki. Tamaki was pretty good at rugby but rippa we thought we were going to lose. We both met each other. Most of their players were tongan. The game started tamaki tapped but before they were going to tap they were setting up a play but they were speaking in tongan. I could only understand some words they were saying but the more complex words I couldn’t read what they were saying. We thought we were going to lose but the micheal whispered to us there play because knows tongan. We all smiled at each other waiting for the perfect time to intercept the ball. Jackson guarded one of their players then Michael went for the person with the ball there was only one person to pass to so pauli ran at the perfect time right when he passed. Pauli intercepted the ball then Pauli saw a defender on him then passed to me and tried. We took the first try and we all thought we had the upper hand but we never knew it was going to be a close game. After 20 minutes the score was 45-35 to us. The game ended and we won our 2 times. We were all happy that we won our 2 games. 

After those wins we got to have a 1 hour break till it was our next game. We took one hour as our rest but sometimes we would play touch. 30 minutes later we started to warm up because Mrs Hughes really wanted to win against silvia because that was his old school he used to work at. The game started and we were all ready to beat them. We had a look at all of their players and saw 1 person who was Asian and he was very fast. The game started and we were all scared because they looked good but we took on the challenge. They started with the ball and they passed to their fast player (asian guy) gassed it on the side trying to score the try but then Michael knew he would try to go on the side so Michael stood there waiting for him. Micheal looked left right and then saw him on the other side of him so Michael tried to chase him down but wasn’t fast enough. They got the first score but we were all locked in. We all targeted the fast player to make him tired. I ran the ball straight to the fast player. We kept doing the same thing over and over again till he got tired. The score was 35-30 we were down but then we played black. Black was when the person with the ball passed to the next person and then to the next person til they got to the winger but while there passing to wing the first person with the ball is running around to the wing so then when the wing has the ball he passes it in to the first person with the ball and then they he runs the ball and the winger to go again and again. We did that play but in a different way and passed to the winger on the other side and he ran but then saw the fast guy running for him but dived for the try and………… TRYYYYY we get the try we all celebrate and then the game ends.