It is such an eventful week at Saint David School! It's Sportsmanship week! That means the PE classes are being combined so that classes can compete against one another in events like basketball, tug of war, and kickball. Today was the high point of the festivities when the high school champions (10th grade) played the teachers in volleyball. It was so fun! We lost every game, but not by much! And they didn't know a lot of the specific rules against things like carrying, lifts, or spiking on serve, and neither did the Cuban referee, so we're just going to blame our failure on that. But the real point is, the teachers had a ton of fun, so we're going to see if we can get people together regularly, like on Fridays, to play a few games. Hopefully it works out, because that would be awesome!
I'm not quite sure if Sportsmanship Week is accomplishing it's goal of encouraging teamwork and, well, good sportsmanship. My class plays the 5th graders in kickball on Friday, and they are all talking about how we are going to win, and they are going to lose, and how we need to kick their butts... hmmmmmm....
Well, at least it sounds like the teachers have the sportsmanship thing down. Sometimes adults can be worse than the kids.
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