Ryan: Chelsea guess what?
Chelsea: What?
Ryan: I had a dream. I dreamt that a magical
orange unicorn named Flurpy came along and told
me the future.
Chelsea: Really? What did he say?
Ryan: He said, that by the end of the year Miro
will have the Patu firmly in their hands.
So along to house quiz we
went. Surprisingly Miro is comprised
of a bunch of very intelligent people. Though,
Miro this year has had its ups and downs (mostly
of course, we didn’t come first we placed as high as
downs), but nevertheless we’ve had fun along
we had ever been before. Theatre sports was up next.
the way. Year 13 Camp was our first down. We
Our team like we said before was not good on stage
did learn that we’re all very photogenic and also
but we tried our hardest and ended up … The night was
the importance of applying sunscreen! We started
packed full of little orange monsters that ruthlessly killed
strong and then we found that though we’re good
people with lawnmowers.
on screen we weren’t so good on stage. Putting
that behind us, camp was a great time to bond as Now it seemed like Flurpy the magical orange unicorn
a Year 13 cohort. It also gave us the opportunity to was finally giving us some good luck. Up next was the
rev up the competitive nature that was required for highly anticipated house Kapa Haka. BOOM! Bullet to
the face. Miro hadn’t lost house Kapa Haka once in
the year to come.
the last 3 time we had it. A lot of pressure was put
Swimming sports, well what a great turn out we
had... (sarcasm intended). The great thing about our on us to perform and we assure you we did. Though
once again it was our participation that let us down. We
house is we know how to make do with what we
looked amazing and sang acapella which was a huge
have got. Although we had small numbers we still
put up a hell of a fight, but due to our participation, stand out for us. We strove to leave everything on the
floor and show the other houses that we weren’t ready to
our efforts went down the drain. Though we came
well, last, we both decided that our mission was to back down yet. We were extremely proud of those who
get more people involved with the house itself and performed on the night.
Flurpy the magical orange unicorn must have graced our
become a tight knit group of Mighty Miroians.
senior boys with his presence on the field during our
house Touch tournament, our senior boys gave it their
all and helped our girls and junior boys with
a massive head start. Unfortunately our girls
and junior boys couldn’t compete with the
other houses and we dropped to last place
based on try difference. As we write this we
are preparing for our final house event, tuga-truck. Hopefully we can finish strongly and
finally say that we finished first at something.
Athletics turned out to be one our best events
We have both thoroughly enjoyed being house leaders
based on participation. It was also topped off when this year, through times of hardship and adversities we
… of the athletics champs came from.. wait for
have still managed to put a smile on the faces of our
it… MIRO!!! Yes that’s right people we got some
peers and ensure that the house spirit is not lost. We
numbers on the scoreboard. The day was packed realise though that it’s not an easy job to be at the
full of fun, orange items littered the field and
forefront of such a diverse house. But nevertheless we
orange paint on those of other houses. Were they
took the Flurpy by the horn and believed in him and the
trying to give us a helping hand? Even though our house throughout the year. We wish the House Leaders
champions did so incredibly well, we still couldn’t
of 2014 the very best of luck and hopefully they can
top the day off any higher than…
make a comeback and show the other houses how
We had started off the year with two major blows
it’s done. WHO’S GONNA GIVE IT TO YAH?! MIRO’S
right to the face. Two of the most important events GONNA GIVE IT TO YAH!!!!!
that start off the race for the Patu. All we could do Chelsea Collins and Ryan Calder
was roll back our shoulders and dive head first into
the next event.
Sadly, Flurpy the magical orange unicorn was wrong.
MIRO HOUSE