Dear Mom and Dad,
A little while ago,
my middle schoolers had their sports day.
There were no classes all day that Tuesday, so it was a good thing my
first set of classes had a movie day, the day before. I don’t like having my classes on different
lessons. When we meet only once a week,
its next to impossible to get them back on the same schedule. Especially, since my Tuesday classes seem to
miss the most.
Well, the kids were ready early that morning, and it was
quite a spectacle. They were excited to
have that ‘free’ day although none of them would admit it, of course. Technically it wasn’t really a free day. It was a bit like the Presidential fitness
test back home. They were being tested
on certain fitness aspects, but the rest of the time it was treated as a sports
day. A lot of the contests were treated
as a class event, meaning that the entire class participated, and then were
scored based on ranking. They did win
some kind of classroom prize at the end of the day.
Let’s see, what did they do?
There was the class-wide rope pulling contests. There was the 100 meter dash, the 600 meter relay (boys,
girls, and boys and girls). There were the three legged races, three-legged
relays, jump roping, chin-ups. Class
dodge ball and badminton. Each grade
competed with their grade level, and each class had a ‘costume’ of sorts. Just check some of the pictures. There were ‘police officers’ ‘buggy clowns’
stars, polka dots, camo jackets etc. It
was a fun day. 
I spent the morning
outside watching them. The kids were
surprised to see me watching them and some got a little shy to know that I was
watching, but they were giggling anyway.
The afternoon, I had some work to do in my office, so I spent about an
hour or so upstairs, then came down for the final part of the day. I thought it was fun! When I asked the next week, the kids
complained that they were sore the next day.
“It’s not fun, teacher!” I think
they were fibbing a bit. Just check out
the pictures!
Later!
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