Volleyball Tournament 2k19

It's finally Thursday!! Today is the day we stay up and get ready to go to Palmerston North for a Church Volleyball Tournament. My sister and I were the only people from my family attending this tournament. We packed our things into mini suitcases for the whole weekend. Since we had to leave so early in the morning, my sister and I was thinking of doing all nighters the whole night so we can sleep on the way there.

The drive was about 8-9 hours to get to our destination. About two churches mixed up with our church. Otahuhu Sda church and Remuera sda church were the two churches that gathered together with our Glen Innes sda church. The next day we all had to meet at the Manukau petrol station across the Rainbow’s end. We all meet there at about 6:00am in the morning. We left at about 6:45 but we all had breakfast first and went to the toilet before we left.

We stopped at Huntly to pick up another two of our church members. We then kept driving and stopped in Matamata for a little pit stop and go to the toilet. 2 hours later we stopped in Taupo to have our lunch. People had different sorts of food such as Mcdonalds and Kfc. After everybody finished going toilet and having their lunch we then the whole way down to palmy (Palmerston North).

Another two hours later we finally arrived to our sleeping destination. Everybody looked so tired so we quickly packed our things into our rooms. We split into two rooms, One room for the boys and the other one for the girls. Some people were so exhausted so they went for a little nap and the rest of the people went shopping for our dinner. For dinner we have spaghetti bolognaise, it was so yummy and delicious. Before dinner we opened sabbath and introduced ourselves to everyone.

Tonight two boys from Otahuhu Sda church were on their way to Palmy. They left at 9:00pm and arrived at 4:00am in the morning. When we woke up the next day both of them got to sleep in because of the long drive. We had breakfast and got ready to go to church at Lac Sda school. When we went to church we saw different churches their as well and we got free bibles to use.

After church we had to get ready for the volleyball tournament. The volleyball tournament was held in Palmerston North Central Energy trust Arena Stadium. Their were about 53 different church currently attending in this amazing tournament. We saw different churches and got to mingle with other church as well. 

Then the next day we woke up at 9:00 and went straight to the volleyball tournament. This day was the semi finals. We took three hard working teams down to palmy. Their names were mixed up, Flight and Sugar n Spike. The captains came up with those very cool names. Sadly two of our volleyball teams didn’t make it to the semi finals but the did come 2nd. Our mix team came first and everybody was so happy.

On that night we didn't get to have lunch so we have a very big and yummy dinner since it was sadly the last night. On this night everybody got so close and it was a night where everybody got to know each other and play with each other. Some of us stayed up until 4:00 in the morning and played games the whole morning. This night was the best night of the weekend so far because we got to mingle with each other and people were having so much fun together.

The next day was sadly the last day:( But we made the most of it. We had to clean and make sure all our things were packed in our cars and loaded. Some people said some thank yous on behalf of their church. And it was time to leave palmy. We had about 4 pit stops and toilet breaks and safely got back to Auckland. We met at Manukau petrol station again.

This night everybody didn’t even want to leave because the weekend was so fun and they missed it so much. But sadly we all said our goodbyes and went home. Hopefully everybody had fun with each other and I really do hope we can do it again with the next Volleyball Tournament next year!!