Track & Field Day

Students from Sahel split into four different teams for this year's Track & Field Day. They invited home-schoolers from Niger and surrounding countries to participate, and they were added to the teams. At 7:30 Friday morning the teams marched into the stadium carrying their banners and chanting cheers they had made up. At the end of the day, all the points they had accumulated were added up and one team came out this winner. This year, Rufus, one of the senior boys in the dorm, was captain of the winning team "Big Red". There was also a Black Panther team (which I was silently rooting for since that's the mascot of my hometown) but they didn't fare as well.

For the last few weeks I have been helping with PE/Track practice. I worked mostly with shot-put, but also lent a hand with sprints and relays. On the day of the meet, I ran the shot-put and the hula-hoop toss (for grades K-4). Also available were regular track meet events: running, high jump, long jump, and discuss. The elementary students had some replacement competition so they could still be involved like the 3-legged race, sack races, and golf ball races (put the ball on a spoon and run). I slept very well on Friday night.

We have also been blessed by Operation Blessing. We are now the proud recipients of 100 cans of peas. Not the little family sized cans you buy once a week at the grocery store. We're talking the big cans of peas! We piled them all up in my spare room because the pantry doesn't have enough space. Now I am subject to hundreds of bad pea jokes.
"Hey, Cindy, this spoon is resting in peas (peace)" - Joshua
"Hey, Cindy, Merry Christmas, let's pray for whirled peas" - Angela
"Hey, Cindy, I hear you have a pea room" - all of campus

Aren't they just funny? (to be said with dripping sarcasm)