Polyfest 2015 First Time For Everything

For the first time ever in the history of PT England School the red shirts piled onto the four buses and traveled to Polyfest. You probably would not have known but it is the 40th anniversary of Polyfest, that’s about as long as my parents have been on this earth for! One by one each student passed a security gate with huge guards and their muscular hands.

The grass was wet and walking on it was not that comfortable. For some reason we had to sit in lines which was bizarre, sitting on wet grass… we’re seniors man! Any who, we were on the grass yapping away when a man with a green shirt turned up and started talking about rotations or something. Also there was a very special visitor who came… it was Mr John Key! The crowd went wild, there were cheers and clapping everywhere. Film crews came in from different directions, there was 3 news, and funnily enough there was Chinese TV.

We had rotations where everyone would go from one obstacle to the other. After all the rotations were done we all got goody bags which had some cool stuff. We got to meet up with Flava and that was pretty cool! The Maori stage was awesome. One school in particular stood out for me, they has the coolest costumes and they used the Taiaha and Mere Pounamu, if you know what that is. Just before we left, a group of people did a haka tautoko to support them.

Over all I would like to thank the teachers and parents for their support in helping us. Because without them we would not be able to go to polyfest in the first place. They were very helpful and also the were very fun to hang out with. I can’t wait until Polyfest 2016!