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.

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.

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.