Welcome

Watzup guys! Welcome to the Grade 8 blog spot. Suppose you're wondering what life's like for us Grade 8s (or 'newboys' as we're called by the senior grades) you couldn't have found a better place to uncover the latest news and information about our 1st year in Bishops College and more specifically, in White House. With the help of the weekly posts and pictures below, we hope you'll find - like we did - that White House is indeed a great home away from home (with a few surprises thrown in too)!


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Friday, September 9, 2011

Myles Brown (another WH OD)
 in action on Wednesday

Wela (White House OD) representing
the Bishops OD Legends Team
Recently we had the inter house six-a-side hockey. Siya, Dakota, Seb and Chris represented our dorm. We unfortunately lost all our matches played. During the first match Seb unfortunately got injured. We all enjoyed the hockey. During the week the dorm went to Cavendish to spark up some dorm vibe. At Cavendish we had something to eat and went around the shops in a formal manner.  Chris has joined the AV Team that Tim is already in. Lastly this weekend we have some more inter house events. On Friday we are playing senior inter house hockey with Siya, Dakota and Leonardo playing. On Saturday we are playing inter house rugby. Good luck White House!

Friday, August 19, 2011

A Busy Week...


It’s been a very stressful and difficult week for us; we all had a massive maths self-study assignment to do. We’re up very late at night these days. Especially after last night, in which we had the White House Academic and Cultural Award Dinner. Llewellyn Shanjengange and Tim Jankovich were named the best academics in our dorm and Timmo also received a GCWH (General Contribution to White House) tie clip – a very prestigious reward. The rugby and hockey teams are especially amped for SACS this weekend.
Quote of the week – “The Grade 8s are looking especially big this year” Sebastiaan Hanekom.

Friday, August 12, 2011

The Past (Very Short) Week...

We recently had a long weekend because of Mother's Day but that didn't put a stop to some of our sportsmen in the dorm. Six rugby teams left for St. Andrews on Friday and we had Monday and Tuesday off school. In our dorm we had Siya, Seb and Cornel representing in Grahamstown. All the teams won except for the 2nd XV. The U14 As won 19-13 with Cornel scoring an excellent try. Ilyaas didn't play because he is fasting but we will see him in action in the last three games of the season. All of us enjoyed the long weekend as it was a nice break. Now we're preparing for our last few games of the Hockey and Rugby season and aiming to do so on a high note.

Monday, August 8, 2011

The Last Week...

Hello there. Here we are as promised still updating our Grade 8 blog page.


Ilyaas makes a mid-field break
On the weekend Seb Hanekom, Siya and Ilyaas played for the u14A rugby team who beat Kasselsvlei with a score of 51-12!

This week started off well with Dakota’s birthday on Monday, but then it turn serious. Monday night was Freddy’s last night at White House for at least a year... Although we savoured his last few hours on Tuesday morning, time flashed by and it was all too soon before his mum came to whisk him off to Germany. Missing you already Freddy!

Seb scores a great try
On Tuesday night Tim represented the dorm at the Bishops Classic Pops. He did a good job considering that he didn’t mess anything up. Pops was good but it was a little too long as it lasted 3 hours with only a 30 minute break.

Wednesday was a pretty ordinary day on which nothing special happened. Thursday was also an ordinary day, except that Ennio has been telling us that he has lost 20 pairs of his underpants in the laundry this week! Tim has lost some cash and we are still looking for Ennio’s calculator...

Seb Chisin got braces on Tuesday and Siya and Dakota have been going to gym, hoping to get big on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Cornel, who is captain of the A team, broke his hand, nose and got concussed against ‘Bosch will start playing again this weekend against St Andrews in Grahamstown.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Start of the 3rd Term

Unfortunately we were very busy with academics,sport and other activities last term so we had less time to write about our activities each week on the blogsite. We know that is not a legitimate excuse so we are going to prevent it from not happening again and keep on rolling out the stories each week from now on onwards .

Rugby fever has definitely hit our dorm with a bang! Leonardo in the C team started the second week with a friendly match against Rondebosch beating them twice in a row. First with a score of 34- 12 and a second score of 31-5 with Leonardo scoring in the second game. We had the A and B teams play the under 15 B and C teams. We unfortunately lost with some injuries. 

We are really looking forward to the POPS concert next week with Tim representing the dorm in the AV department. Its gonna be the biggest Jol ever!