Sports Day

This past Friday, we had another interesting event here at school. Several weeks ago, we held an inter-house cross country day followed by an inter-school cross country day. Now we've had our inter-house sports day. By sports, we mean track and field events. It was a very long day, but it was pretty fun. All of the events took place at Hanson Field. This is one of the lowest spots on campus and it is also one of the few flat open spaces on the hillside. A track was marked out as well as a long jump pit, high jump pit, and shotput area. The view was also quite nice.

There are three houses in the school into which students and staff are randomly placed. We have been made Merlins (the bird, not the magician), so the students naturally asked Dave to be the middle school Merlin mascot. The result was not necessarily intimidating, but it was amusing.

He did succeed in getting the students excited to varying degrees.

Overall, the Merlins did very well. We won the competition in both the high school and the middle school. The Merlin below is also in our advisor group. We were very proud of our students (even the ones that were in other houses).

In the end, the principal gave out individual and team awards.

By the time it was all over, we didn't really feel like walking all the way back to our house and we hadn't even run any races. Thankfully, we had a full weekend to recover.

Dave and Beth