Sports Day!

This post is overloaded with videos and pictures from Sport's Day. I tried to cut back but I just loved all of them and wanted everyone to experience as much of it as possible. Sport's Day is something totally different than anything I've seen in the states and I hope you enjoy the videos and pictures as much as I do!

Sport's Day is a huge event that everyone in the school is involved in and normally takes place in November (at least at our school). The whole school has been planning and prepping for this since the beginning of the school year (May). The whole school (teachers and staff included) are split up by random into 4 teams...you are either red, yellow, blue, or green. 

You may have noticed in previous pictures of my munchkins that they have different colored shirts that they wear on Wednesday's (P.E. day)... I got placed on the red team! :) 

Sport's Day is a two day event, Thursday and Friday. The event starts out Thursday morning with a HUGE, ELABORATE, BEAUTIFUL parade... Each team comes up with the most amazing costumes and ideas for the parade. The girls are dressed to the nines (from kinder-P6) and everyone is so actively involved. After the parade the sports start...Thursday was International sports and Friday is designated for Thai Sports... There are cheerleaders for each team, but "cheerleaders" here are different than in the states. There are multiple groups of girls for each team that are done up in makeup and fancy outfits. They cheer/dance the WHOLE ENTIRE DAY... the groups will rotate, but essentially these girls are standing out in the sun dancing/cheering from 9am - 4pm Thursday and Friday! 

The parade is the start to the events that take place over the 2 days...the parade leads into the Opening Ceremony of Sport's Day! Kind of a big deal...with fireworks, performances, and a welcome speech from the Governor. 

The International Sports include basketball, volleyball, soccer, track, relays, etc.

Thai Sports include things like chairball, a game like basketball but on a soccer field with a soccer goal, but using a basketball?, a race where you run in circles with a flag while trying to tag the other team...and many others that I am not quite sure how to explain! Friday was a lot of fun to watch as I'd never seen some of these sports...

Okay that is all the explaining I'm going to do for now... Here comes the overload of videos...but I will give a little explanation of what each video is. 

This is the Red Teams corner of the field. 

This was during the opening flag ceremony and school song, etc. 

Just some confetti fireworks being shot 

off during the ceremony...no big deal

Passing the "torch"...one student from each team is a 
representative and runs around the field to the next team 
until all four are running towards the stage with the torch.

Opening Fireworks! 

This is the end of the parade/opening ceremony...

Everyone going to their respective areas on the field...

Posted this video to show you some of the elaborate costumes! 

Two of the CUTEST little kindergarten munchkins 

giving a speech of some sort...

OH MY GOODNESS! I thought my P1 munchkins were adorable...

but look at these Kinders...These are ALL of the

 kinders from our school performing for Sport's Day! 

Cute doesn't even begin to describe this! 

One of the cheer/dance routines

Four little munchkins racing! 

Blue was in his own little world....

and red takes a little tumble! 

Red is killing it! :)  Blue has a little shoe problem! 

One of the Thai Sports...I kind of thought 

"umm, what is the point to this..." 

but once I sat and watched I realized how exciting

 it gets for the teams and for the observers! 

The game literally keeps going until 

someone tags a player from the opposite team!

Teachers/Staff vs. Parents Soccer Game! :) 

The teachers NEVER beat the parents apparently...

but this year they Tied! :) 

Staff - Yellow.... Parents - Blue

Okay, so those are all of the videos that I'll post....now for the pictures! (I hope you actually watched some of the videos!...they are all short, and really neat!!!...i think!)

A few of the cheer/dance girls

Red Team!

One of my P1 munchkins, Poon! 

ASEAN Country "Representatives"

Blue team patiently waiting for the parade to start

Red Team

My Thai Homeroom Teacher, Kru Dee! 

Can we talk about how adorable ALL 

of these itty bitty munchkins are!! 

I just can't handle it! 

Bad Habits!

Look at this "little man"!!!

Not really sure what everything represented

 in the parade, but it was still really cool!!! :) 

2 of my P1 munchkins, representing the RED team! 

Red Team won "Fancy"...best costumes, etc

2 of my P1 munchkins, PearWa and Poon

Adorable! 

Teacher Ashley and I :)

Go Red! :) This girl can run! 

Acare and New...they both decided to stay in the classroom (alone) and play instead of sweating outside all day! :) these girls are too funny! 

The male teachers play soccer against the parents...the female teachers play chair ball... So essentially both teams have one person that stands on a chair, holding a basket... I would try and get the ball into MY teams basket...So the person holding the basket would TRY and catch the ball that I threw at her...Also, once you have the ball you can't move...So you can run around and block the other team...just no moving after you catch the ball.  This game got really competitive and was a ton of fun...As you can see in the picture, the Teachers WON!! :) Parents were definitely great competition! 

So that is the excitement of last week!!! :) I hope you enjoyed ALL of the pictures and videos! :) 

Love and Miss You ALL!!! :) 

LD