Sports Day

A few weeks before the end of the term we took a day off from classes and had a sports day.  The day included competitions between the three secondary forms and the college.  The team games included soccer, volleyball, and netball.  Netball is similar to basketball in that you play on a court with a hoop at each end, but there is no dribbling, just passing from player to player.  The interesting thing about netball is that I have yet to see a netball court with an actual net.  So far it has just been metal hoops on a pole.  After the student games were over we played a teacher's versus students game in volleyball and soccer.  The teacher won both, but I wouldn't say it was very pretty.  They also had individual competions in ping pong, shot put, pullups, and running.  The sisters raced in one sprint in full habits which was hilarious, and I think there is a picture of somewhere.  In the afternoon, the classes competed in relay competions like three legged race, wheel barrow race, and dizzy bat.  In one event, we had them balance a bucket of water on their head and walk from one side of the hall to the other.  To make it more interesting there was a bench in the middle they needed to walk across as well.  It was there best event.  The people here are just naturally good  or well trained at balancing things on their heads whether it is bundles of wood, bags of corn, or buckets of water.  For some of them it was like they didn't even have to try.  Form 1 came out on top and the college came in last place which they blamed on unfair judging, but think everyone had a good time.