A Million Fireflies

Finally, the time has come for New Zealand to host the Rugby World Cup! Thousands of fans were on their way from all over Auckland to watch the opening ceremony at Eden Park. The Government only expected 50,000 people to watch the opening ceremony in town, but if you times that amount by four that was the actual number. 200,000 people turned up and if any more people had gone onto the wharf the Government thought it would CRASH and BREAK!

Sparkles filled the sky from 8pm on. A BAM went off here and a BAM went off there. What a magnificent sight. The sky lit up in sparks of colour. Our eyes were as wide as dinner plates for the full 11 minutes of amazement. It looked like a million fireflies bursting colour into the navy blue sky.

Probably everyone in Auckland who was in town was squashed against strangers who were trying to get a glimpse of the sparks.

Georgia was wearing some pretty cool sliver fern earrings, while Jude had her face painted with a sliver fern on her cheek and New Zealand ROCKS painted on her forehead. Jude was also wearing a New Zealand hat, shirt and pants.

After all the sparks and BAMS, began the game. New Zealand got into a head start of ten nil. But soon enough Tonga was in the game. Both teams did very well and it was a hard first game. Dan Carter scored the first points of the Rugby World Cup. After an exciting and nerve wracking hour and twenty minutes the score was 41-10 to New Zealand. We had won the match!

VICTORY TO NEW ZEALAND!

By Jude and Georgia.