Friday was an exciting day for my school, for one, it was the school's 46th anniversary. This meant that we didn't have any classes, but instead had a day of sports. So on Friday after being dropped off at my school by Renato, Tiia and I walked over to the park across the school. Here, we met Jesus, Jeanne, and another boy from Quinto (can't remember his name). Together, we all walked through San Borja to the sports center where the anniversary activities were to be held. This was actually very fun, as Jeanne had a speaker and I had the Latin top 50 downloaded on Spotify. So we walked down the street dancing and singing in accented Spanish making up words when we didn't know them (Our Peruvian escorts found this entertaining). Eventually, we arrived at the sports center (it was actually pretty far). After arriving, we all sat around and waited.
Before we knew it, other classmates were arriving. With them they had balloons, streamers, and a smurf costume. Yes you read that right. The school had been divided into Yellow and Blue (school colors) and both teams had mascots. Team yellow (my team) had a minion costume as the mascot. Eventually we all got into our usual morning lines and we received ribbons for our teams. After attendance was taken, we all went in a parade by grade. Cuarto was looking a little lame considering all we had was the smurf costume to make us look spirited (the boys wanted to lift me up on their shoulders but I wasn't down).
After the parade the activities started. There was a food eating contest, soccer (fútbol) for boys and girls, volleyball for boys and girls, a balloon popping game for boys and girls, and a contest where the mascots danced. I participated in the soccer and the volleyball. The soccer was actually quite difficult for me to play. One of the reasons was because I was out of shape. The other reason was that I was used to playing with boys. You think this would make it easier, but you can't really shove into girls you are trying to make friends with. The Peruvian girls also didn't really know how to play soccer (not that I am that great but). This made it difficult as I had no one to pass the ball to and the ball was just randomly kicked in various places. Volleyball was more fun (the girls know how to play this). Team yellow lost in women's soccer, but won in volleyball. Volleyball here is much easier for me since my height doesn't set me apart.
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| Mascots dancing off! |
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| Balloon game! Leave it to me to drop the balloon :) |
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| Food eating contest (I had to stop watching because it made me sick to watch) |
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| Boy's soccer! |
After volleyball, I sat with Tiia and Jeanne and we watched the men's volleyball (Amarillo lost). We were approached by a rebound who went to Canada. I had seen her at the night of the blazers and we all talked for a bit. Eventually, Angye met up with us and we all set out and left school to go home (we also left school earlier). Jeanne's host mom (my Tia) took us all home (she is great).
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