Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Sports Day

In China all of the schools take a few days off at the end of April for Sports Days. Basically it's 3 days (or so) of track and field, volleyball, basketball, swimming, etc.
This morning was the opening ceremony (where we held the Olympic Torch).
This afternoon one of our students called us and said she and her classmates needed our help for something. So we went out to the field where we discovered that they wanted us to compete in the 4 x 100 meter relay. There were supposed to be 2 teachers and 2 students on each team, but Shawn and I were the only teachers who ran.
Tomorrow we'll be running the 4 x 400 meter relay which is supposed to be only teachers, but we'll see. I'll also be playing a volleyball game in the afternoon. Awesome.

As you can see these girls are running in jeans, dangly earrings, sweaters, etc.

The jumper is our student Shadow, and the runner in the black t-shirt is our student Disty.







On a side note, the Yong Ning police asked the school for photos of us this afternoon. We have no idea what that's about and probably never will.

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