Closing Time

Today was the closing ceremonies of Chomsurang Upatham's sports weeks. What it meant? Classes cancelled. All day. All day sports day stuff. It was both fun and boring at times. It was really cool to see the entire area around the track transformed for the day. Every color had its own section and its own wooden bleachers. They were all decorated in the color and theme of their section. Each section had its own drums and cheer leaders, and I mean quite literally people leading cheers, not prancing around with pom poms. They also had their own extravagantly dressed dancers to dance and help lead the cheers, but again, nothing like what Americans normally picture when you say the word cheerleader.

After walking around and taking in the sites, there wasn't a lot to do until the mid-afternoon. The morning featured track events, sprints and pass-the-baton and endurance runs. Hah, I know most of those do have proper names, but I'm assuming you know what I mean. Still, watching students run gets boring after awhile. Especially when it's not something you particularly care for. So I switched between wandering around and watching and fiddling on facebook to pass the time. The cafeteria was all closed up for the day, all the teachers and students got take out and ate at one time. I ended up making a 7-11 run for my food, since we weren't associated with any color. I came back to find the students having a dance party in the middle of the track field. It was fun to watch, but eventually they resumed with the running. Ugh.

At that point it was sunny and warm and I am not at all ashamed to admit, although maybe I should be, that I found a bench on the second floor looking out over the track, and sort of dozed while watching the runners and waiting for something interesting to happen. It wasn't really quiet, but I was so sleepy...zzz.

I woke up fully as more people began crowding the area. The running had finished and they were getting ready to start the performances. They really were performances, or dance shows at least. Each color had one, with their magnificently dressed students dancing to a montage of music, each with their own unique backdrops. Some had glitter and streamers and one group even loosed a pair of birds. It was a lot of fun to watch. Of course, the day ended with the presenting of trophies. I have no clue what any of them were for. The only thing I could tell was which color won, and that was based solely on the fact that they were wearing their color. I'm fairly certain that red won the most trophies, considering it seemed like they were screaming every third trophy or so, and it looked like they had the most but I didn't really count.

Anyways, if you have access to facebook you should check out my pictures cause they will be fun! I took some video, because it was the only way to truly capture the performances, but we'll see if I get that uploaded.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.666585255972.2098260.33103631&type=3&l=42f1a49f5b

I plan on taking it easy the rest of the weekend so I probably won't have anything exciting to report for awhile. Who knows though. Ta ta for now dearies!!!