Friday morning of the festival dawned and we were all very amped and ready for our first game of the festival. Our changeroom was Mrs van Zyl's classroom and all we could talk about was how ready we were for the games. Our first game was against Dainfern, from Gauteng, and unfortunately we took about a quarter of the game to start playing and lost. We watched the other teams and sussed out the other players from the opposing teams to see whether they looked bigger or fitter than us.
We stayed at the boarding house, Daffon House, and enjoyed going back there where we all headed for the showers (some put more energy into showering than playing rugby!). We had the best ever Chicken-a-la-king and then had fines afterwards. To end off the night we watched a movie which made all 22 rugby boys hide and scream.
We were woken up at 06:00 by a booming voice shouting, "Come on boys, it's time for fun". Mr Bennett took us for an early morning training session to prepare for our game. We didn't play to the best of our abilities, letting a few silly tackles go and we lost to St Peters (also from Gauteng).
Sunday was a rest day and a few of us went fishing with Mr Mitcheley and Mr Pillay. The highlight of the festival for Mr Mitcheley was catching his biggest bass ever (4,5kg). After the touch rugby, we watched an inspirational movie with Mr Bennett - which was a clever movie choice.
Monday morning arrived and we all wanted to show Mr Bennett that we are a team with great pride and honour when we wear our Felixton College jersey. Although we lost to Clifton (from Durban), we never gave up and wore our jersey proudly.
On behalf of the team, Mr Bennett has inspired everyone of us and to be coached by him is a privilege and an honour. He will be missed and I would like to say "Thank you Sir!".
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