Second Draw Down

I must say there are two competitions that I look forward to every year:

Choir competition
Picnic Day- mainly for tug-o-war

We had the choir competition today. Over the last like 3 weeks it’s been stressing me out because its so hard to organise when NO ONE WANTS TO PARTICIPATE!

What’s more, we were told by Ms Cox that by some miracle we still had a chance at winning the Whanau Shield. Firstly, there is no trophy or award that I have ever wanted more than the Whanau Shield. Secondly, Discovery has already won it at least 3 times… because we’re awesome. However this semester there wasn’t a lot of participation with Swimming Sports and Athletics Day and all that so I pretty much thought that we were out of the running but before the choir comp we were coming second equal with Blake (GAR!) behind Britten. Now, I can say that Britten had never really been a big competitor for the whanau shield and now that they were winning, I was a little surprised. There was only one more competition for the shield, and it just had to be one of their strongest competitions. Choir.

I always enjoy the Choir competition because I like watching the other performances and it’s always really fun… but the MAIN reason I like choir is because it’s the deciding competition as to who wins the shield and Discovery is always one of the Whanau that have that chance at winning.

I knew that our chances were slim of winning the choir competition let alone win the shield especially since Spirit always pull out amazing performances and Britten always impress the audience. But still. We tried. Of course to win the shield we would have had to come 2 placings ahead of Britten… So that means coming first and Britten coming fourth. An impossilbity in any situation.

Here were the placings:
-Britten
-Spirit
-Discovery/Endevour (I thought that we were better than Endevour)
-Koru
-Blake.

I just had a really sad thought. Because Discovery didn’t win the shield this semester and we will have already left when they give it out next semester I’ll never have the opportunity to accept the shield on behalf of Discovery.

So Britten won the competition and will be given the shield tomorrow at assembly…. and Discovery will come second.
Again.
Hey, at least Blake didn’t win.