Sports Competition!

Due to the week off from classes that we get for national day, most schools in Shenzhen are teaching classes on Saturday and Sunday. Not so for us as the Yantian Foreign Language School. In lieu of more classes, our school is having a two day long, school wide sports competition. The opening ceremony was actually pretty amazing. Each class marched out along the track, stopped in front of the school administration and chanted motivational slogans such as, "Achieve our dreams, touch the sky!"or "We can fly very high!". There were balloons and streamers, flags and pompoms. Quite the sight.

However, not just the students compete in the events. There are teacher only events that, yesterday, included the shotput, as well some other ball throwing competition where we threw a small 2 kilo ball over our heads like a soccer throw in. Today we have the standing long jump as well as a couple relays. Apparently there are bonuses in it for the winners...

Luckily, we all received our passports with our completed work visas before the October holiday. Yesterday, I booked a flight to Manila, Philippenes. We're leaving on Tuesday and coming back Sunday morning. I haven't looked much into the country, or what there is to see there, but I'm still really excited. It should be a great trip. We're planning on staying in Manila for a couple days, and then heading out to an island or "off the beaten trail" for the rest of the week. I'll be sure to take pictures and send out an update when I return.