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February 17, 2007
Sports Day (Katy)
Another early morning. Off to Khnar nice and early. We were told that lessons would be starting earlier this week. Although they are starting earlier the children don't get there any earlier, 7.20ish, so I start the class with about 5 people and by the end it's up to 35.
After Khnar, off to Lolei. Feeling a bit tired today so not as quick as usual.
Some of the volunteers had organised a sports day at Lolei. That was just getting into full swing when we arrived. All of the 90 children from the school were out on the grass together. They'd been split up into teams of ten and were just doing the egg and spoon race when we arrived. They looked like they were reaaly enjoying themselves.
Next was the three legged race. We gave them a demonstration of it first, got them all in to pairs and tried to start the race. As soon as the whistle was blown pretty much all of the starting pairs hit the ground. It was absolute mayhem and the children they loved it. Some of them were trying to tie their outside legs together, others couldn't do much for laughing, but astonishingly no one got hurt.
There were a few more races then came the tug of war. We split them evenly between the two sides and it was a fairly even match. Then they decided it should be all of them against about 8 of us. You can guess who won.
Everyone got a little prize. There was absolutely no way of knowing who the winners were, and they all seemed very happy about it... bit of a difference from their normal school day.
Riding out down the road, some of the children still had the energy to race us to the end. After that the ride home seemed twice as long as usual.
Posted by admins at February 17, 2007 4:54 AM
Comments
Sounds like great fun – no doubt you completed a full risk assessment? :-)
Posted by: OllieBray at February 25, 2007 8:05 PM