Jandang School Olympics

May 1st was a day that most elementary public schools here in South Korea held a sports day. This was a day at Jangdang Elementary school where the whole school is divided into 2 teams the white team and the blue team and they compete in a number of games and races all day. The 1st half of the day the children from kindergarten to 3rd grade competed, they were so cute and so serious! The parents are just as excited as the students! There was parent competition also, the parents split up into two teams, one team representing the white team the other team representing the blue team, and they ran races and played tug of war. The sports day got really real really fast lol. The parents were yelling at each other and all, it was too funny.

The second half of the day had the 4th grade to 6th grade students competing. I thought I was in store for another parent face off because I rather enjoyed the 1st one I saw but oh, I was in store for a rude awaking. It was time for the TEACHERS to face off! All the other teachers knew of this as they came dressed in there jogging suites and sweats ready to go, they were warming up well before I even knew what was going on. I had on jeans, sneakers, a scarf and a jacket, I was not dresses to be doing anything physical. Now, yes I did have on sneakers, but they were look cute not really running sneakers! We were divided into 2 teams with about 15 teachers per team , with the men on one side of the track and the women on the other side. We were running a 400 meter relay race, and my co workers were SO serious! So of course when it was time for me to run my leg of the race we where losing, when I finally got the baton my co worker was a good 8 seconds in front of me. I remember thinking "Lord please just don't let me get embarrassed out her in front of all my students" well the Lord was listening because my co worker was SUPER slow, I passed her. My students were so excited, one of my 5th grade kids said "Tasha! You are the fastest runner in the world" I was cracking up, like noooo I am not fast she was just really slow, but I cant lie I did feel special lol.
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