ANZAC Remembrance. By Abdurrahman

Today, at 11:30, right after the year seven and eight’s arrived back from Tech. We were told by Mrs Anderson to only eat our morning tea and not play. It was because of a special ceremony remembering the New Zealanders that died at Gallipoli 100 years ago all because of their Sergeants getting shot by Turkish snipers. Therefore, the orders weren't passed on so every soldier didn't know what to do, causing most of them to get killed or injured, and even then, because they were surrounded they couldn't even get to the infirmary to get treated! When Thomas and I arrived  to do the music, Miss Kirkpatrick said that she would do it because we didn't have much time to practice and she wanted it to be perfect. So that meant that Thomas and I had stayed up to about 12:00 writing what we were going to do down on a document for nothing! At least we wouldn't have embarrassed ourselves by accidentally mucking it up. When we were all sitting down Mr Johnston and a woman in military clothes (Mr Johnston introduced her as Staff Sergeant Stacy). Patrick and Wiremu then put up the flag as Miss Kirkpatrick played the tune called The last stand. Mr Johnston and Staff Sergeant Stacy then gave speeches and then Miss Kirkpatrick then played rouse as Wiremu and Patrick put the flag up. Everybody went back to class but then Miss Kirkpatrick called us into Room 5 so Staff Sergeant Stacy could tell us about what she did. She explained that she was from Papatoetoe and she had joined when she was 19. She had then done missions to get her medals. Finally she left and everyone had lunch.