em Deus nós confiamos: May 2013

So for the past month or so I’ve been wanting to do a field day with my kids at the school. They do a soccer tournament, but that’s about it, and I wanted to share with them all the games that I loved playing as a kid during field day in elementary school (which was always one of my favorite days of the year).

This blog is more of a photo collection of all the fun I hope my kids had during field day. It was kind of crazy trying to control about a 150 of them alone without any Mozambican adult supervision, but I managed okay with the help of my emergency blow horn which made the games feel more official and definitely got people’s attention (next time I plan on using my rape whistle, which I totally forgot I had till just now…oops!). I had a great time laughing and so did the students, which is something we all at the school have needed desperately after such a horrific month.

I hope you get a chance to enjoy these pictures of field day!

FIELD DAY PHOTOS

Kids looking up their names on the Game Schedule: I made these funny cartoon drawings for all the games and put them on a hand made poster with a schedule of which kid would be playing each game against which grades and classes.

My students: gathered for the start of field day at the steps leading down to the soccer field.

Saltine challenge: Whoever can finish the whole packet of saltines wins.

Bajea na Linha: A game where you tie a bajea (bean cake) on a cord. One person holds the cord and the other person has to eat it blindfolded and without using their hands.

Wheelbarrow Race:

Three-Legged Race:

Egg Toss: Using balloons filled with water so as not to waste food. Here, it’s a seriously horrifying thing to say you are going to waste food on purpose. Period. If you ever thought playing with food in the States was bad especially when your mom reminded you of all the starving children in Africa…it’s for real, and definitely a reality for many of the people who live in this town and most of Mozambique.