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Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Awesome Visitor


 Today, we had the amazing, the awesome WILL.I.AM came to our school to give Manaiakalani  a huge koha, a cheque of $100,000!! It was a surprise and we didn't find out that it was him till just before he came in. Of course, there was a lot and I mean a lot of media at the back of the hall. When he first came in, there was a lot of photos taken and a whole lot of oooohhhhing and aaaahhhhing!

Students and their principals from 8 of the manaiakalani schools came as representatives to accept the cheque. So when WILL.I.AM gave the cheque and by the way, it was a big one to Mr Burt, he gave it to the students from the other schools. At the beginning, the kapa haka group their a performance and so did the snr hip-hop group. As our koha back to WILL.I.AM, we all sang the school, strive to suceed song. At the end, he even sang some with us. (Just by himself)

He talked about his early life and how his main dream was to help and look after his mum, he said that music made that happen. His friends were the ones who were always there for him and they were the ones who helped him. So he told the year 8s to pick good friends that will support you in the future. There was also a presentation from the Hallenstein Brothers to thank WILL.I.AM for the koha that he gave to us and also for what he has done for them. 

After the assembly, all of the students went back to their  classes and the media interviewed WILL.I.AM. After the interviews, he went to some classes with a HUGE line of media and people following him everywhere. We were sooooo lucky, he came into our class and had a look at what we were doing. Of course, everyone wanted him to come and say hello, but he didn't have the time.

Pt England School and Manaikalani is very, very thankful for what he did for us.





1 comment:

  1. Hi Ana,
    I love your story and the movie yeah it was so cool when came and rember when he came it to the class room we got ecited and did not stop looking.keep the good work up.

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