We have four and half weeks left of teaching and one week of finals before the school year is over. I cannot believe it is so soon. It has flown by, that's for sure. Here are some pictures that recap this quarter thus far:) Enjoy.
We have a new field thanks to two business men in the community who donated money for us to purchase and make the field on the property next to us. I was on the field dedication committee and got to help plan and run our field dedication day. It was quite the day! We had a ribbon cutting ceremony at 7am to kick off the day. The whole school showed up to thank the Lord for our new field. We had an assortment of competitions after school that show case the field and it's uses. I helped organize this and got to play and ref parts of it. Such a fun day!
The ribbon cutting ceremony. The chair of the board is the one with the scissors (A fantastic woman who is such a blessing to me) To the right of her is our AD and to the left is our head of school. The field coaches are standing behind them and the youngest student at Faith is holding one end of the ribbon while the oldest holds the other end.
The ribbons have prayers of thanksgiving written on them.
One of the events was a soccer match with all of our varsity kids. Love these girls!
For Easter break, I helped take the dorm kids to Corregidor Island. It was a military stronghold for the Philippines for a long time and was heavily bombed during WW2. General MacArthur came out of this end of the tunnel and got into a boat opposite of this picture and said his famous words, "I shall return" in 1942. We got to tour the island and explore all the cool tunnels that housed people, offices, and the hospital. We did some fun exploring in caves and bombed out buildings too. Probably one of my favorite places to have visited thus far.
This is the map of the tunnels that we got to go through. The main tunnel is open to the main public to walk through and they do a lights show to explain went on (it wasn't on for us because of the holiday). I actually got to explore through all the tunnels with the students pictured above. What an adventurous group they are. They keep me on my toes and challenge me to face my fears.
We got to check out all the big batteries on the island and climb all over them.
This is the above ground hospital that got bombed and forced them to move the hospital underground. The amount of times I thought to myself, "Man, if this were in the states, we wouldn't be allowed on any of this stuff" baffled me. We got to climb all up in the building and explore.
A very cool memorial that explained all of the Philippine history in wars. Such a cool place
My PE 2 (sophomores) got to have an archery unit, which they quickly discovered is more fun than it sounds. These are my warriors.
Sometimes they take my phone and take selfies. The reason why I have hundreds of selfies stored up from the year. That's after deleting all the duplicates!
Sometimes I snarl when they take my picture.
The PE 1 students (Freshman mostly) got to have a softball unit Let's just say I was in heaven for three weeks:)
We had our first ever class party for the freshman! I am their adviser and it's been so fun getting to know this class outside of class time.
Koreans sure love their noodles!
Kool-aid experiment group
We had a big relay race that culminated in a dizzy bat race and then having to chuck a 16oz Coke. Their may or may not be a video on my facebook of me chugging one in competition against my class VP. I may or may not have won:)
Weights class is more fun than ever. We have done all kinds of fun games on our Thursday funday including introducing them to Zumba:) One of my students is a hoping to be a body builder one day and is well on his way. This is his regular calf raise amount (about 600lbs).
My PE 1 kids have now moved on to CPR and first aid. They enjoyed time with the mannequins. Here are some fun quotes from this particular class period.
"We named them Cecilia and Roberto."
"This is my first kiss."
"I named mine Manny Kin and Mandy Kin"
"What if we get mixed up on actual our first kiss and blow out on accident!?"
"We named them Cecilia and Roberto."
"This is my first kiss."
"I named mine Manny Kin and Mandy Kin"
"What if we get mixed up on actual our first kiss and blow out on accident!?"
We are working hard and learning how to save lives!
I got to attend our Junior/Senior banquet and what a fun night it was. Everyone looked amazing.
Freshman class advisers and two of the senior class advisers and our good friends:)