Children inter-house sports events.

This is my first time participating in this contest “moment of the day” It has never really crossed my mind to participate because my day to day activities is really boring. You just come across some stuff that will entertain you or bring back memories once in awhile. Today happens to be one of such days.

I was newly posted from my workplace to this new location. Today happens to be the kids sports day! From the information I got, they are preparing for a bigger inter house sports tournament coming up in the future, so there are lots of rehearsals and training sessions to be done.

The kids are divided into 3 groups: excellence house, wisdom house and I didn’t get the 3rd ones name. First of all, I want to appreciate the teachers. Now I understand what it takes to control children. The little one I did, trying to keep some set of children from running outside the gate, nearly gave me high blood pressure chasing after them. This children are fast. I had to tell the security to use both chain and padlock to lock the gate… I wonder what is attracting them outside. The male teachers didn’t come to the field. I guess they were avoiding stress like this. In fact, I salute all female teachers for their heartfelt efforts to control children.

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Seeing the children brought a lot of memories back when I was in secondary school and how fun it was when it was time for our inter house sports day or when we’re competing with other secondary schools. The children are so lovely but you need a high level of patience to be with them. But I notice that these days kids are so big compared to my time in school. It would shock you that these kids are all in kindergarten and nursery school. Wait until you see their senior secondary school students, you might mistakenly call some of them uncle, if they are without their school uniform. You see beards all over and looking so big and gigantic. You will be wondering, what are these children eating that you as an adult haven’t eaten before. You that is the adult will be looking malnourished.

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But one thing I loved about the kids is that, they are brilliant. There are some games that they were playing, I don’t think in our time as kids, they would ever tell us to play such games because we won’t even understand talk more of even knowing what to do without teachers holding our hands. One of the games was “filling the bottle”. Kids are given cup to fetch water from a bucket and to run back gently with the cup of water and pour in the bottle. The other one is kids running with little balls without any guidance and dropping in a bucket and coming to pick another balls to repeat same process.

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But the MVP of the day is this little kid. Very fine kid. He’s in a world of his own. When the teacher will tell the children to hold their hands together and form a big circle, that is when he will want to form his own “right angle, triangle”. 😂😂😂 He disturbed the teachers till they gave up on him to do whatever he wants to do. He’s so social and popular. When he goes to other house, the other students will forget themselves and start playing with him. The boy will make a great leader because he seems to be influential with the students.

That’s all for moment of the day.. hope you enjoyed seeing the children have fun.

Cheers!!