Task 2: Kenny Wong

It was nearly the end of my time at Connells Point Public but there were three more things I would remember forever. They were: the Year 6 Fete, Year Six Day out and our farewell.

The first of those events was the year 6 fete. Year 6 held stores for Kindergarten to year 5 to spend money. That day was a fun fundraising day with the money donated to the school. My friends Jacky, Louie, Daniel and I held a store with the name of ‘Ping Pong Mania ‘. The aim of the game was to move thirteen ping pong balls from one container to the other using only chopsticks in the fastest time. There were three prizes, all of them were large jars of lollies. One was for the primary winner (year 3 to 5), the second was for the infants winner (Kindergarten to year 2) and the last was for the winner of the guessing competition. For the guessing competition rules were to guess how many lollies were in the prize jar.

At the start of the fete, we had little customers, most of them lost to the food and drink stores. Luckily, after they had finished eating, we had a massive influx of customers, barely managing our store. At stages of the fete, my friends from other stores had to help our to keep our customers happy. It was an amazing day which all the 2010 year 6 learnt how to manage their own store.

The second instalment of the three-part series was our day out. That day we had four activities: Laser Tag, Bowling, Video Games and Karaoke. It was very similar to our Reddam seminar day but each activity was twice as long. Laser Tag was the best part of that day, shooting my friends who many I wouldn’t see again. Bowling was also exciting but there was one slight glitch. Everybody had gutter walls so nobody could bowl a gutter. But whenever bowled, the walls went down. Even though that happened, I still managed a reasonable score. The final two activities were combined, karaoke and video games at the same time. I sang a few minutes of karaoke then headed off to the video games.

The last event was our year 6 farewell. It was a whole night of dancing and partying. Every boy danced with each girl once in a rotational dance and then we at a ‘child-friendly’ dinner of chicken schnitzel and chips. Then we continued dancing to the music. My friend Daniel had already earned the title of Mr Chicken Dance Man with his amazing chicken dances. That night he made new dances: the emu, the penguin and many others thus giving him the name of ‘Animal Dance King’. After the dancing, my principal Mrs Hewson, handed out our year 6 graduation awards. She would have been sleeping if it weren’t for the coffee. That night was the best night of my life, staying in my mind longer than the others.

Those three days are binded to my memory and I will never forget any of my school mates.