A Sports Meet at Ayden & Ben's Primary School and a Video too!!!

Jocelyn Writes:

Hello everyone!! Today's blog entry (written last Friday) focuses on the sports activities that took place at Ayden an Ben's primary school last week. In addition to Ayden's written description of the activities, check out the video of Ayden and Ben teaching English at morning exercises below after Ayden's blog entry!

Gavi, Ayden, Ben and I leave to visit our friends --Sherri, Ira, Goldie and Jacob Davoudgoleh-- in Shanghai tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM. Ayden and Goldie were in the same grade at the Rashi School (from Kindergarten until they moved to Shanghai last year). We will be with them for a week or so including both of the Passover seders. We are so excited to see them and celebrate Pesach Persian style in China!!

We think that we will be out of touch with our blog until our return so take care and to all our readers who celebrate Passover--a chag sameach (Happy Holiday!)!!

Ayden Writes:

Last week my brother accompanied me for the skits at morning exercises. The skit was about a sports meet. For Ben and me the skit didn’t make sense, but who cared --we were the only students who could understand it. This week we found out what it meant. Our school was going to get together and play some sports. I didn’t understand how the whole school could fit into one small part of the campus. The sports meet took place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning.

First thing on Wednesday morning everyone went out and sat around the play ground at our school (it is big). Then a huge group of students came on to the playground and started marching around it. There were students dancing, students playing the drum and students dressed up as people from the Olympics. Then the kids started to race. My teachers wanted me to race, but I didn’t want to so I didn’t. My brother was going to throw some balls like in baseball but, that was in the afternoon and we are only there for the morning.

Instead of everyone sitting on the ground, the school provided us with little chairs. They were so small that I had trouble sitting on them. The chairs were so uncomfortable that I had to sit on the ground. At the sports meet, a student who was sitting next to me had a bottle of coke. The student shook his bottle up. I don’t think he knew what that does because he opened his bottle, and the coke went shooting out of his bottle and on to me. I was so annoyed with the student that I went to sit somewhere else. Even though the chairs were small and I was soaking I still has a good time.

--Ayden