The Amazing Race
Last week on Wednesday the 16th, the year thirteen high school students from Greyhigh, invited us to participate in the amazing race. The high school students organised all of the activities and they were in charge of them. For the amazing race we were all put into teams of four, a total of ten groups. We all had a country related theme and my team was the UK. When it came to doing the activities we competed against each other. There were a total of five activities for all of us to do. These activities included a lot of teamwork and encouragement. One of the activities was when you had to use chopsticks to balance a lolly, and you had to do this obstacle course to get to the end and finish the activity. The number of lollies your team gained then you would be rewarded with them at the end! Another activity was doing bowls. Basically a mat was laid down on the grass and your team had to roll all of the balls and try and get them as close to this little white one to win. The third activity was a haka one where you had to organise these pictures which resembled the actions and your team had to relocate them. After that activity was the fruit bowl race and for this, you had to wear a bowl of fruit on your head with a towel secured around your head to make sure it didn’t fall off another obstacle course and the aim was to beat the opposing team member you were up against. The final activity was soccer target, and this game was when you had to kick a soccer ball onto a picture that was attached to a fence and each of the pictures contained a certain amount of points. We only had a minute each to get as many points as we could.Overall my personal favourite activity had to be the lolly chopstick race! I enjoyed this activity because we were rewarded with lollies at the end! Well yeah that too, but most importantly it was challenging for me because I’d never used chopsticks before. At the end of the day, the team with the most points will win the race, and my team won! I was in shock and I was super proud of everyone as well who worked hard and supported each other. I had an amazing time and I'm sure that everyone else did too. It was such an amazing day, and I am thankful for the opportunity to get to do something fun and exciting like this (since we don’t get to do much stuff related to this).
All of the teams also had to create a chant related to the country they were assigned:
Our chant:
Biscuits and tea!
Biscuits and tea!
Biscuits and tea!
We love to eat biscuits and tea!
