Spirit Week: Sports Day and Festival

More Spirit Week activities at David and Elisabeth's school.  For Sports Day, each middle-and high-school student was assigned to either the Red or the Blue team (and for $15 each got a nice knock-off soccer uniform in the corresponding color). I was surprised that even these randomized teams got pretty competitive with each. Happily, David and Elisabeth were on opposite teams so it was fun to see them compete.  Fun for me, at least. :)

David and Elisabeth's personalities are obvious on the basketball court:
Elisabeth doesn't care as much about the game but has a rather offense-oriented style;
David cares deeply about the game but is more of a natural defense guy.
(Low picture quality due to pre-telephoto shots from our 5th floor balcony.)

Waiting for middle-school baseball to begin, David intently watches the high school game
while Elisabeth messes around with friends (Josie V is here for a month from Grand Rapids
--and in a near-impossible coincidence, is great friends with Elisabeth's closest cousin.)

Middle-school baseball, where David and Elisabeth's teams played each other.
David had some nice hits and his team's first run (of 2).
Elisabeth seemed to enjoy people watching, though she had a fantastic catch/throw.

Elisabeth volunteered for the 40-on-40 tug-of-war and was right near the front line.  She's not shy, folks.

(For about 10 other pictures of the day, including 2 of David, see Aleksey Yoo's site.)

The school's festival took place on Saturday.  I was deeply delighted to learn that the kids were in charge: set-up, selling tickets, entertainment, and running the booths.  Each class had an activity booth and a food booth that reflected the country they'd studied earlier in the week for International Day.  Kids also did much of the take-down and clean-up. Teachers did some casual oversight while parents and siblings kids enjoyed the music, activities, and food. This approach is far better than parent-run carnivals.  Not sure my kids would agree, but that's ok.

Elisabeth's classroom activity booth was a human whack-a-mole.  The paying whackers loved hitting the human pop-up volunteer "moles" with a toy hammer, though the "moles" didn't have quite so much fun.

David's booth had a "catch and hold" activity:
grab and hold 3 loaches (not leaches, mind you, these were fish) within one minute for a free cotton candy.
I loved it: the Winnie the Pooh inflatable pool (WHERE did they get this in Korea?) plus eely fish on a hot day.
 It was a challenge for everyone except a Korean woman who must be a master fish-catcher:
she had no trouble at all grabbing those slippery monsters.

Nick was in the US during Spirit Week and I was tiring of single-parenting, so when I saw the HIS Festival's schedule,
I was especially intrigued by the 12:15 slot: 10 Husbands!
However, later investigation showed this was a colossal typo:
it should have read HIS Band (10th grade).  Not husband.  Alas.

P.S.

What David learned during Spirit Week:
Running around barefoot on the hot plastic playground causes giant blisters.
Ouch.