Germany: Field Day

[stevenpiziks]

July 19, 2011 (Tuesday)

 Today was Sporttag, what Americans would call Field Day. Our students were allowed to take part, and since most of our group in the tenth grade, we were put in with the tenth graders. The first event was a tug-of-war, and we destroyed all the other teams, reigning undefeated! After that, things didn’t go nearly as well. Many of the other games were unfamiliar to Americans. Even the sprints were different—Germans start them while lying flat on their stomachs. And one of our students pulled a hamstring. (Ow!) But the whole point was to go outside and run around, not win, and our team was given a friendship-and-participation certificate, which KL said is going into the display case back home.