Catch the Wave

I can’t let the start of the rugby world cup go by without writing a post about it. (It was easy to give up on my plan to write something intellectual!) Yesterday some of the schools in my ICT Cluster celebrated the occassion by wearing black and flying the All Blacks flag from the school flag pole. At one school teachers chose between wearing black or dressing like the French. strped clothes and berets, old red rugby jerseys and other clothing which perhaps looked vaguely French. They also attempted conversations in rusty schoolboy/girl French.

Another school renamed all their classrooms to players names – so Room 10 became Room Carter and Room 7 became Room McCaw. The admin staff wore black Tshirts with the slogan ‘Howlett’s Girls’ and the Principal’s Tshirt was emblazoned ‘Henry for PM’. All the students wore black with plenty of black face painting and fake tatoos. Celebrating important events is fun.

I was up early to watch the opening ceremony and the France vs Argentina game. Argentina won!! What an upset!  That makes things even more interesting. It will be late to bed tonight after watching the NZ vs Italy game. The Rugby World Cup like gives life a bit of extra zing! GO the All Blacks!

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