Last Sunday was the day for all fathers around the world to celebrate Father's Day. My mum's family cooked lots of food while the fathers and the children went to church. We celebrated Father's Day at my uncle's house which was at Mt Wellington.
As soon as church finished, my family and I went back home so that we can change from our church clothes to celebration clothes and proceeded with my sister and my step-sister Seneti to my uncle's house. Actually, everyone had a change of attire except me because I still really wanted to wear my poncho which was colour white, black and pink.
Soon after, we left our house because we still had to go to a lot of places like Pak'nsave, Laundromat and Sylvia park before we get to the party. When we drove past three houses from our house, my older sister said, "Dad, go to Pak'nsave."
When we got to Pak'nsave, my sister Anna, Seneti and I hopped off the van with my elder sister so that we can go and choose the things we wanted for our lunch. I grabbed a small trolley and went inside to start our shopping. The first thing we got was two boxes of lee snacks. Anna had to hold my sister's phone because it had the list of the things we needed to get while Seneti and I were grabbing the stuff from the shelves.
Next we went to the laundromat at Glen Innes to drop off my sister's work uniform because she was working the next day. We only dropped it off because we didn't want to wait for a long time. While my sister went to take her washing, Anna went to the dairy and got us some bacon and egg pies and a bag of potatoes for the potato salad that we will be making later on.
Then, we went to the Sylvia Park Pak'nsave to get the rest of the things needed for our lunch. I was very excited to go to Sylvia Park because I haven't been there since the start of term two. We got some plastic plates, cups and celery.
After we paid our groceries, we went to my uncle's house to start the preparation for the party. Once we got to my uncle's house, the dad started cooking the meat on the barbecue while the mums were busy cooking the other foods in the kitchen. The children and the grandmas just sat in the lounge happily watching tv.
As soon as the adults finished cooking all the food, my five cousins and I got the tables from outside and from the kitchen and put them together in the middle of the lounge to create a long buffet table. I sat down while the rest went to get the tablecloth to cover the buffet table then to bring in all the food and place them neatly on the table. While they were doing all that, I decided to help my cousin to bring in chairs and to let the fathers know that dinner is ready. Some of the fathers said a speech to thank all their children and their wives for preparing the sumptuous dinner to celebrate Father's Day.
Afterwards, when the fathers went to the deck to chat, the wives came and sat down to eat. They kept on eating while some of the children were talking and I was taking photos using my sister's phone.
As time went by, the children had to go to the kitchen to wash the dishes. The kitchen was so small that only three people could fit there. Four of my cousins and I didn't do the dishes because we had to take back all the tables to where they belong.
Eventually, we all finished doing our chores just in time for my aunty to call us to take the cake and coffee to our loving dads. I felt really jealous because we, the children didn't get a piece of cake until my uncle said, "Come, take this and eat it!" So I happily took it and sat down to eat it. The cake was delicious!
Finally, it was time for everyone to go home because it was getting late and there's school the following day. So I went all around the whole entire house shouting, "Bye, family!" I didn't want to leave my uncle's house because it felt like the house was our family house too!
My favourite part of the day was when all the children sang the Happy Father's Day song because it felt like the fathers were going to cry with tears of joy and happiness.
Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use the language features in our recount.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use past tense to describe the celebration that my family and I had on Father's Day.
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