I mentioned before that we had Spirit Week at school, and we ended it on Friday with a school dance. Now this dance had a Hollywood theme, and what’s a Hollywood party without the paparazzi, right?
So Gardner and I led the way, assaulting incoming kids with dumb questions and large cameras. The kids enjoyed getting some real Hollywood treatment, and we enjoyed harassing them. So it worked out well for everyone involved.
And there is only one word you can use to describe this picture: Classy.
After running the full Marathon last year, I was ready for a little less running this time around.
Solution: Marathon Relay. Four of us teachers each ran a leg of the Marathon, finishing it in about 3 hours 17 minutes. Here is our official “after” picture. As you can see, we all wore authentic VCS Track uniforms.
I’ve been told people don’t want to see this picture because we’re all in track shorts, but I disagree. I think you really do want to see these pictures(Click Flickr link on the right for more).
Question: Which kind of shorts are best for running?
FACT: Running Shorts.
It was a hot day, but our team did well and we were well supported by our encouraging staff…even the ones that hate running. 🙂
Here we are getting stretched out for our only meet this year in Budapest. (More picks can be found by clicking on the Flickr sidebar to the right.) Where are the girls? Well, unfortunately we had a little border mishap. Turns out one of our girls had an expired passport and couldn’t get through the Hungarian border, so we only had room enough to take the boys. Very sad story since this was our only meet and the girls were really excited about running. Two of them in particular were the major impetus for other kids signing up this year, so I felt really bad about them not being able to go.
The boys did a great job, though, winning every single race we ran this hot day in Budapest. This is the first time in a couple of years we’ve been able to field a track team, and I’m really happy with the results. This was a great group of kids to work with, and I am excited about building on our success. Hopefully next year we’ll be able ot get a few more meets on the schedule, too.
While searching for some information today for Country Project on New Zealand, a student of mine uncovered this pictorial description of the life of a Kiwi (And you thought they grew on trees!):
Spirit Week at VCS is a bit different than the one you may remember from high school. Typically Spirit Week is the week of the Homecoming football game. Here, well, we don’t have football…ok, we do, but it’s what you silly Americans might call soccer. We do still have the dance at the end of the week.
So during Spirit Week we had a Geek Day where everyone dressed up like a Geek. Being the computer teacher, I had to go all out. Or as someone else put it, “I guess you do have try a bit harder today because you’re a geek everyday.”
Here I am pictured with a middle schooler from Pakistan. If you’d like to see a few more pictures from Geek Day, you can click over to my new Flicker feed in the right sidebar. I plan on updating my new Flickr page with more pictures in the near future, so be sure to check back.