Some of My Students

Jasmine and Zoe

Linda
Linda
Vickia

Performing their Exercises (the buildings in the background are where I live)
Cecilia
Twinkle and Zyla
Angela and Rachel (1st and 2nd place in the 800 m)
Uki and my TA, Ivy

We had "Sports Day" a few weeks ago, so it gave me a chance to snap a few pics of my students. Sports Day is quite the event. The whole secondary school spends Friday and 1/2 the day Saturday outside participating in track and field events. Each homeroom class competes against the others in their grade. It was a really fun day for me because I just got to be outside hanging out with the kids all day. And it was beautiful weather! It was hilarious to watch these kids compete too. They practice a lot for the opening ceremonies when everyone parades out together making sure everyone is in formation and that it looks good. But, hey don't really practice or prepare for the actual sporting events, so none of them are really prepared to run sprints or relays or do high jump, long jump, or shot put. But, they are super competitive and super dramatic, so it makes for a good show. They run as fast as they can and then they practically collapse as soon as they cross the finish line and all their classmates gather around and try to carry them or massage their legs etc. It's really over-the-top drama. Good times. I got to compete in the teachers 4X100 m relay. It was really fun even though the Western teachers came in dead last. We only have 8 teachers to chooose from and our two best runners were away at a basketball tournament, then probably the 2 next best runners refused to participate, so we were scraping the bottom of the barrel just to have a team. Even still, we did fairly well until the last leg, when we had a 50+ year old, out of shape man running. But, we had a good time.