The balloon catastrophe

On a bright, sunny but cold morning, students from Rom 7 planned to play a balloon game so that they could write a recount about it. Mrs.Raj, who is the teacher on Mondays explained the rules of the game we were going to play. She said that she would separate the boys and girls otherwise they all would go silly because part of the game was holding hands. The rules for the game was that Mrs.Raj would throw the balloon in the air while the group holding hands would have to hit the balloon into the air and keep it up in the air but with their hands still linked.

When we lined up and walked to the courts, there were chills that ran up and down my spine because the air around me was cold. The boys went first to do the game, they all got into a circle holding hands. As Mrs.Raj threw the balloon into the air, she quickly told us girls to run a whole two laps around the netball court and watch the boys play afterwards. As soon as we finished running two laps around the court, we watched the boys play their final game as we came. Vainikolo fell down trying to hit the ball, the other boys screamed “Come on, head butt the balloon” and “Hey we need to beat the girls, WOOHOO”. Mrs.Raj stopped the boys after their game and called the girls.

At last it was the girls' turn to play the balloon game, the girls got into a tidy circle holding hands once again. 1, 2, 3 Mrs.Raj counted down as she threw the balloon into the air, as soon as the balloon came whooshing down the girls screamed loudly trying to keep the balloon up high in the air with hands still linked. The balloon, kept going up, backwards but not forward towards the other girls. They tried head butting and kicking the ball but the balloon didn't seem to go high into the air.  I tried to head butt the balloon next to Amelia, but as I came down Amelia jumped which caused her head to hit my jaw. I was OK but my jaw hurt, I still wanted to carry on with the game though. The balloon finally hit the ground, we all sadly said AW!

Mrs. Raj said that we will play one more game. The room 7 girls yelled “Come on girls we could do this”. Once again Mrs.Raj threw the blue balloon into the slightly windy air, instead of head butting and kicking the balloon, all the girls used their linked hands. The balloon kept on going backwards and so so did the girls, they ran backwards heading up towards the field. Down came the balloon,  slowly rushing down as the girls tried to hit but missed. POP!! went the balloon, all the girls got frustrated that the balloon popped because they were doing so well. We knew that the balloon popped because some of the grass had pointy ends. The boys moaned, but happy because they knew that they beat the girls. We go into two even lines heading back to class.

At the end, I felt bummed but happy that we learned a new game. I was also very tired jumping up down trying to hit the balloon and my jaw felt like there was a huge bruise on it, but luckily there wasn't. I had lots of fun, and I think the point of the game was teamwork which the girls did quite well.