Waiheke Island!

Seven twenty-five, s e v e n t w e n t y - f i v e a m marked the start of the day. It was the time I had to be ready and in Meygan's car to get to Devonport. Today we were going to Waiheke Island for a soccer game.

Friday night I would normally look at my watch and read nineoclock thinking, its early, I can't sleep for as long as I want tomorrow. But this friday night was different, at the sight of nineoclock I knew that it was time to go to sleep, I wanted to be bright and fresh for my soccer game tomorrow. I set my alarm clock for seven knowing I would have to get ready fast. In my mind, getting ready for bed, I kept telling myself that I should get all of my stuff together tonight. But who knows where that thought went, I woke up in the morning with nothing ready. I didn't have a clue where half of my things were. Scrambling around my house, eating toast, my Dad caught eye of me and tried to start conversation. I really didn't have much time, of which I told him over and over again, except he didn't really mind too much, he had all the time in the world. It was a pretty one sided conversation, my reply was 'Dad, I need money'. Eventually he gave in and I was ready just as Meygan knocked on the door.

In the car it was pretty silent, you could tell everyone had just woken up. I was the first person from the team to get picked up. The next stop was Sally's house, which was where Elise and Sally were. They piled into the very back seat, after alot of fuss trying to figure out how the seat folded down. Once getting in Elise realised she had forgotten her phone in Sally's room, but it was too late. She had to survive without her phone. We drove to Holly's house, but no one was home and she wasn't answering her phone. It was a mystery where she was, because she had said that she was definately coming to the Waiheke game. After waiting a while we had to leave, otherwise we'd miss the ferry and the game. Henesse was at the school for the 40 hour famine party, which meant we were going to school early on a Saturday morning. It felt crazy and weird. Now we were finally on our way down to Devonport. The ride seemed to go quite fast, with everyone in the car quiet and tired.

We were the second to last group to arrive at Devonport. All of a sudden Holly shows up and tells us this long story of where she was and how she got here. It turned out she was staying at a friends house, hadn't looked at her phone (which is a very Holly thing to do) and caught the bus here from Devonport. Devonport wasn't even on the bus' route but Holly had started crying because she was so scared and thought she would miss the game, so the driver drove her right to the ferry. Waiting for our ferry to arrive was quite boring, we looked to see what the different skyscrapers in Auckland city resembled (Holly found one looking like a toilet, with an open toilet seat). A team of little boys, who played rugby, were also headed for Waiheke. They had discovered a broken vending machine which had toys in it. It was funny watching them, they thought they looked like such little rebels stealing bouncy balls instead of paying a dollar. We really wanted a bouncy ball to play handball, but felt to bad to steal. Holly only had a two dollar coin so we went around the few open shops and got turned down about three times with the same not very clear exscuse of 'they had just opened'. In the end a nice man from a shop called 'un petit croissant' exchanged the two dollar coin for two ones. We got the two balls we wanted and played outside, right by the water. We knew it would happen, and it did, one ball fell into the water and then the other did. A little boy from the rugby team saw what had happened and stole a ball fromt the machine and held it out for us to have. It was a nice gesture, this time we didn't loose it.

On the ferry, the girls of our team filled up two tables. There was a dancefloor that had a mirror above it so, as Holly said 'you could see the move you cranked out'. We bought winegums and went up to the very top outside of the ferry to eat them. On the lookout for penguins, our hair was completely munted but it was still fun. When the ferry had stopped we all agreed we couldn't be bothered playing soccer, it didn't feel like we had a game on today. Piling off the ferry some girls from the Waiheke team were waiting for us. Holly and I were taken to the feild with a man, lady and girl from the team we were versing. They could name almost everyone we saw, driving past, it was a small place with only two primary and intermediate schools combined and one college. It was akward at first, but the tention eased as we started talking about soccer and the Papatoe team. A couple weeks ago we had versed the big, black team and they warned us of the 'agressive' waiheke island team. The people in the car told us their version of the story, the goalie from the Papatoe team (who had two kids!) had started a physical fight with a girl from their team. People from the sideline could hear the Papatoe team saying who they were going to take out next, it was whoever they felt threatning to making them loose the game. In the end the Papatoe team reported the innocent (probably not completely innocent) Waiheke team for doing absolutely nothing. They said they were the first team to not stay for morning tea. It would have been one uncomftorable ride to take their players back to the ferry.

The field was in the best position I had ever played at. It was right in the middle of a valley, with farming and vineyards surrounding it. It was so peaceful. Doing the warm-up before the game I had it certain that I did not want to play today. I was also partially scared of our oposition, we had no trouble with the Papatoe team, these guys must have done something pretty bad. Craig, our coach, said that we had to win today, we didn't come all this way to loose. Now I was hyped. A couple minutes into the game I could see that it would be an easy game, we would beat these guys. I played right back for majority of the game and some right midfield. Elise was the star of the game, she scored five goals, of which all were incredible. The end result of the game was 7-0. We were victorious.

Having morning tea was fun, Sally stuck a cucumber on my back and I chased after her with some food. It resulted as everyone chasing after everyone with food. Holly and I rode back with the same people, who dropped us off at what they called 'the shops'. A tiny stretch of shops. Some people bought food and we continued walking down to the ferry, of which they told us was a fifteen minute walk. Holly had so many bags, because it was all her stuff from staying at her friends house as well. People dumped her bags onto eachother, so she wouldn't have to carry them the whole way. The bags were heavy. I was walking fast, for no reason, at the front. Elise kept telling me to slow down and at the end me, Sally, Elise and Anna were at the very end. We ended up running to the ferry and were the last to arrive.

On the journey home on the boat everyone was really tired and we didn't go outside. Nothing much happened, and the same of which happened in the car. When I got home I was completely zonked, but it was a fun trip and a great game!