Welcome Walk - Rachael Hamilton

Recently Balwearie hosted another Welcome walk in order to raise funds for Welcome Primary. This took a lot of preparation beforehand and on the day.

The day started by collecting the donations from each class and taken them to the library to be counted. When I arrived it was chaotic as all the money was spread out onto a large table. We each had to start counting the money and put them into piles. Once we were done here myself and a few others transported the money to the office where it was put on the safe.

After this we had a little free time before we had another task so we sat and got our face painted. Most of us got the South African flag painted on our cheeks, which sadly smudged throughout the day. After this we went to the park to set out chairs as they would be the markers in the park. Since the park is very large we were able to use golf buggies to shoot around to the places we were needed. Laura, Amy and I got a shot on one of the golf buggies, unfortunately there wasn’t enough seats in the actual buggy so Laura and I stood on the back as we drove. It was very exciting but with the uneven wait I was worried that we would topple over.

Once the walk finally commenced I started to witness all the different costumes people had dressed up in ranging from a hotdog to Scooby Do. I was at a post with Laura and Amy and as they were both dressed up as where’s Wally they received many comments and jokes. We decided to place them in the crowds as people walked by and took pictures in order to create a where’s Wally picture. By the end of the day they both swore they would never dress up as Wally again as to many people made the same joke. We all met up in the park and took a group photo.  We then decided to head back to school after a very successful day.