Typical “Boy” jobs include taking out the trash and recycling and cleaning hair out the sink when it gets clogged. We also have a few marriage agreements such as, I clean the floors and she washes the dishes. Another such agreement extends my responsibilities to anything that comes out of an animal…and apparently, as I recently learned, dead birds on our porch.
Inspired by a student in the habit of greeting me in the traditional Vulcan manner (live long and prosper) and perhaps the green gloves of another student.
Good to know I’m having a positive influence on the class. 🙂
The Cross Country team ran two races since my last update and performed very well in both of them.
Just getting to this race was an adventure: An adventure well documented by Coach Montoya.
This race was up in the hills of the Vienna Woods right on the outskirts of the city. The 5K race started with a grueling uphill route into the woods. Fortunately, what goes up must come down. So after pushing themselves up up up the hill, they got to enjoy running down it on the homestretch.
This race awarded the top 3 in each age group some pretty unique trophies. Snow globes with gold, silver or bronze “snow.” Snow globe trophies. Snowglobphies? In any case, they were a well-deserved reward for a well run race.
Our next race took us to the small town of Schwechat just outside of Vienna. This race’s route traced the Schwechat River up one bank and back down the other. It was a beautifully scenic route and perfect running weather.
The kids once again did very well, taking the top 2 spots in both the boys and girls Jugend division. No snowglobphies this time, but they did receive some nice looking medals.
I think this may have been my boys’ favorite race, as it featured all-you-can-eat chili at the post-race buffet.
Showed this video in class and had a student excited about the fact that she could translate the text for the class.
Also, I promised the class an ‘A’ if anyone buys me one of these. Does that make me a bad teacher?
What started off as a 2 man operation with a 1-1 coach to athlete ratio now has 3 girls eager to join the fun. One even ran our 5k on Saturday despite joining the team Thursday afternoon!
It was a beautiful afternoon for running and the team ran really well. They ran so well in fact that all three of them won trophies for finishing 2nd in their respective age groups!
Please pray for the team as we have another race next weekend. Stay tuned for more news…and hopefully more trophies!