Sports Day

This past weekend, we had our second Interhouse Sports Day. This is another one of those occasions where everyone gets to express their animosity towards the two-thirds of the school that wear a different color. We are Merlins and Dave tried to be very honest is his assessment of our chances.

Naturally, the students participated all day in the traditional track and field events, but the highlight for everyone was the staff relays after all the events had been decided. The Merlins fielded four staff relay teams (one female and three male). Beth was selected for the ladies team, but Dave could only get a spot on the third string men's relay squad.

Beth's team was dominant from the beginning and you can see the sort of seamless baton transfers that they employed to cruise to a first place finish.

Dave's team, on the other hand, was composed of two tall and slow young men from the states, a short and round Indian music teacher, and an elderly Tibetan man. You can see below that their baton hand-offs were much less graceful as Dave almost ran over Mr Chophel.

Dave's team did end up taking fifth place out of seven teams (though this feat loses some of its impressiveness when it's explained that the seventh place team suffered a broken leg in the course of the race).

Overall, it was a great experience and we all basked in the successes of the Lady Merlins. We're hoping to make a custom of putting extra pictures on our website, and this particular blog post is no exception.

Dave and Beth