Sarah got woken up by the sounds of the swishing leaves. In fact it was so windy she could almost feel that if she stood up she would instantly flown down back onto her bed, obviously that wouldn’t happen but she just felt so cold.Then her alarm went off causing her to get up and press the off button, she felt so tired but then in realisation she ran out of bed and went to get ready because that day was a special day it was when her family and her other relatives came together for a matariki celebration, she remembered how much fun it was when her cousins and her played on the swings for hours on end pushing each other and making them unable to laugh anymore. She could already tell this year’s was going to be even better than any of the previous years that her family had hosted.

As Sarah was imagining tons of things that were unimaginable and was probably impossible her mother called her down telling her to eat breakfast or she would starve and not have enough energy to talk to her cousins. Sarah quickly rushed down as soon as possible and quickly ate up her toast then she had to go to school sadly. Sarah knew that her education was important so she just hoped the day would end quickly as she walked to school. She still was daydreaming about all the fun she would have later that day. Her day went super quickly and it felt like time flew by so quickly! By the time she had come home her mother was already panicking about food and how everyone was gonna fit around the table, quickly Sarah rushed to her mother to try to help her out preparing the vegetables and trying to help her mother as best of her as possible.

Once they were all done they felt relieved but quickly the stress wasn’t over yet they still needed to cook the actual food. They quickly rushed over to the kitchen and started cooking the food. Then Sarah’s father came back, Jake, Jake came over and asked if he could help with anything. Sarah and her mother were already doing the best they could but they remembered something suddenly and they started to tell Jake to go to the dining room and the whole house and make it look nice. Jake quickly ran over to the dining room and started to work away as he would always. Then the doorbell rang…

Everyone turned around to the door and when they slowly opened it, it was their first guest! But they were only 2 hours early. As Jake and Jill opened they were surprised that their aunt, Mia, had already come (the same aunt that was almost sued). They greeted Mia and offered that she watch tv for the time being, Mia happily accepted the offer and she began to watch her favourite movie miraculous! Jake started blowing up balloons and put them around the house then set the table finally, Sarah and Jill were finally done cooking they quickly put it on the table and waited for people to come. When Sarah’s cousins got there Sarah went away for the door and went to go play with her cousins. Later when all Sarah’s relatives arrived her mother called for everyone to eat! So everyone went around the table and started to grab things like a homemade buffet. When Sarah finished eating she went to throw her plate in the bin (it was a paper one). Sarah then hurried her cousins to hurry up so they could play again.

Then there was tons of desert. There were all sorts of things: ice cream, jelly, APPLE PIE, chocolate. It was just so delicious looking! Sarah decided to grab one of everything. She tried to eat everything at once but it was just impossible. Once everyone finished eating everyone started to talk to each other for about 2 hours but they all realised it was getting really late and everyone started to leave. After everyone left Jill, Jake and Sarah had to start cleaning up but it was hard so they decided to clean up 75% and leave it for tomorrow.