The Weight of Responsibility

The last two weeks in the dorm has seen some exciting times.

Firstly, the whole house enjoyed a pretty successful inter-house 7-a-side rugby campaign with our u14s winning the final and the u19As and Bs making the final of the tournament.

Inter-house soccer has come and gone with Egor, Junade, Vuyo, Jean, James and Matthew representing the Grade 11 dorm in the senior team. Winning our first match, we made it to the Semi-final where we narrowly lost to Founders House in a close 1-2 defeat. Congrats to Egor who silenced his critics by scoring a textbook goal but it seems a shame that his celebratory dance was somewhat peculiar...

The all-grade 11 White House inter-house mountain relay team claimed a resounding victory over the rest of the houses. With a formable line-up of Callan, George, Matt and Seb, the team even managed to beat the staff team by a matter of inches!

Timothy and Daniel have volunteered to join a planning committee that hopes to support a group of 30 underprivileged students from the Cederburg to spend a weekend in the Mother City. Many of these kids have never seen a massive city, been to the movies or see the sea. The committee plans to raise money for this initiative by holding a Disco Party in the 2^nd or 3^rd weekend of next term. Stay tuned for more information on this noble matter.

Since the last post, the whole of grade 11 attended a leadership conference near Simons Town. The three-day camp proved to be extremely productive with interesting outside speakers, group activities, endless indoor soccer, the usual night time mischief and (perhaps most importantly) great food! The whole dorm agreed that experienced had achieved its purpose to focus and prepare us for the massive responsibility that lies ahead of us in the next 12 months.

Talking about leadership and responsibility, Mr Firth has asked us to begin thinking and discussing our goals and strategies for next year. This is an exciting process that has already served to animate each boy and given us an enriched sense of unity. Hopefully, by next week, we will be able to post a list of selected portfolio heads on this page.

PS. Go Bokke!!!

September Update

So, yes, this blogspot has been somewhat quiet but it has not been due to a lack of activity in the Grade 11 dorm!

Tim (left) and Jean (right) with Paul Josop a White House OD
from 2010  (middle). We're loving the new hairstyle Paulie!

The dorm treated itself to a ‘2-for-1 Burger Special Night’ at Spur last Monday night. Although the meal was delicious, I think we’ll all remember it for the bus ride back instead... Don’t ask. George, Jason, Vuyo and Seb were recently selected for next year’s 1st XV conditioning squad. George and Seb have wasted no time, motivated by the saying “Time spent outside gym is time wasted!”. This week White House claimed victory in not only the junior but senior inter-house basketball competition. Congrats to Matthew for being named the most valuable player of the competition. After months of hiding from his parents and his dentist, Callan was finally forced into the chair and now has braces. The dorm congratulates Junade for learning a new word – ‘Please’. Dan celebrated his 17th birthday by buying the whole dorm cake... let’s just say none of it went to waste! Dave and Chaaba have both started their intense Waterpolo practices. Don’t give up now Dave and Chabs, only 547 practices left. Otherwise the dorm has been up to their usual shenanigans. 

Quote of the week year featuring the legendary Egor: “I admit... I am quite sexy...”

And finally.........GO BOKKE (and England and Russia and Namibia)!