November 1st, 2006The so-called Sports Day
It’s almost 2am right now and I’m still not in bed. In fact, I won’t be sleeping tonight. I have a project to submit tomorrow in a few hours and since I’ve been procrastinating for two weeks, I won’t be sleeping at all today. I have 6 hours to finish my ‘project’. Should be alright.
I haven’t had much time to write lately. My last entry was even my shortest entry ever.
Since my life has been kind of uneventful these past two weeks (and not to mention that I’ve again misplaced my camera) , I didn’t have any photos to upload. Fortunately, Rosemary brought her camera yesterday.
We had a so-called Sports day. The participants were students from our faculty (International students) and Chinese students from the Faculty of Foreign languages. The event took place on the basketball courts opposite the track field. It was unlike any other Sports Day I’ve ever been to. In fact, it shouldn’t even be called ‘Sports Day’ and it wasn’t well-organized as well. There were Chinese students scattered all over the place. Each group of Chinese students was playing a different game and we were to go up to them to learn how to play those games.
A few pics:
See Jean Noel (left) kicking that whitish thing?The purpose of the game was to kick that thing around. Too bad the one in this pic is white.There were green ones,yellow ones,red ones,etc. If you look carefully enough, you can see a white thing flying in the air in the pic.
Rope skipping.
I remember that there was this guy(not the one in the pic) who was doing quite well but then another guy( a Chinese student) told the girls turning the rope to go faster. He sounded so amused that I got a bit annoyed. The guy skipping didn’t manage to keep up. Evil!!!
I was just a spectator all this while but then two Chinese girls came up to us and told me to try that game. I declined but I guess that I wasn’t firm enough. She insisted so I gave it a try …or rather, a few tries. I couldn’t quite get it on the first few tries and the ring kept falling. The aim of this game is to push the ring with a metal stick and run after the ring while keeping the ring rolling.
(Shout out to my sis Cel: Cannot see the two pink stripes at the front but those are the shoes you gave me. So comfy!)
I managed to get the ring rolling as it should after a few tries but it went so fast that I ran only a few metres before I stopped the ring using my hand. I didn’t manage to get the ring rolling again after that. :laughing:
There were a few more games but unfortunately we didn’t take any more pics. I was a bit intrigued by the game of hopscotch (la marelle in French) that the Chinese students were playing. The pattern they drew on the floor was different from what I’m used to. They drew so many boxes! I forgot how many exactly but it was more than 15 but less than 20. Wah,so many! They made a mistake when drawing the boxes; they drew the boxes too small. The persons who drew the boxes were Chinese girls and they drew the boxes according to their own shoe size I guess. When the International students played the game (esp the tall guys), it was obvious that their feet were longer than each box. It was a bit funny. ^^
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Welcome back!
My friends and I used to play with the ring and stick back in Rodrigues. Of course, we did not have such nicely made ones; ours were merely a piece of old gardening hose made into a circle and a piece of stick
Nice to read you again!
Aside from jump roping, will the games even make one break a sweat?
Skilled game day may have been better than sports day.
He’s probably playing Hacky Sack. Definitely not a sport, but it does require some skill. Once you start playing it can be a little addictive. Keep the sack moving, without dropping it. You ultimately end up trying different tricks and ways of kicking.
The ring and stick game has me baffled. I know that many years ago (100+ years ago) kids in US used to play a similar game using a wooden ring and stick. I think that game died out long to ago. I’ve never in my life seen anybody playing that here.
Jump rope used to be fairly common, but most physical games seem to have gone away to make room/time for video games. Definitely not breaking a sweat sitting on the couch pushing buttons.
Finally some photo. Ehh!! mem pareil ki system batt la roue bicyclett dan maurice sa
Hey you .. nice blog renovation
Wasn’t there any game involving the “majorette” stick?
James is right…Pareil couma nous faire a Maurice avec la roue…International game then…lol…
Ki eter sa zouer batt la roue bicyclette la?? o.O Zamais mo pane deja tander moi.lol
ah yes, i remember now. I used to see kids in Ste Croix playing the game using an old bicycle tire and a stick.
mwa mo dir
si sa zouer la vinn enn official game dan Olympics, bann piti ste croix ek cite barkly pou dominn sa jeux la! lerla maurice ava gain imP medail dor.
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Hey, looks like fun!
I’ve never tried that ring rolling game but that looks hard O.o
Hi! It’s me Becka, I think I am gonna be having my blog mostly up at blogger.com at http://bowmanz.blogspot.com/ I like the blogger best so far, but Wordpress is great too. Well anyways that is where you can find me until I change my mind again. *hugs* and Love, your Pal, Becka
Unfortunately no. Pas de majorette en Chine