Sports and Charity events eat your time

The last few days have been incredibly busy. On Thursday the school swimming gala, Friday was the House Relay competition and as always I decided to run in the staff team, Saturday a 50km charity trek and Monday Division 1 Cross Country tournament.  At some point in all this I should probably sleep!

The swimming gala was very snazzy at the refurbished pool in Causeway Bay, with lots of dressing up and house spirit.  Einstein House came second which felt familiar after 3 years in St. David House.

The house relay was madly competitive. The kids sprinted off like lunatics. The Senior Heads of House were actually tripping one another other, shirt pulling and yelling if we didn't run fast enough. For 12 minutes. It was insane.

The 50km trek was the hardest thing I've done since being in HK. Absolutely destroyed my legs, I'm glad I did not check beforehand how far it was in miles because if I had realised it was longer than a marathon I probably would have given up halfway.

Cross country was good fun. A day right up by the border with China at a lovely golf course supervising and encouraging the kids. It was ridiculously hot and several schools had to call out ambulances to their pupils. One girl from CIS was hallucinating as she crossed the finish line, staggering from side to side and batting away invisible somethings!

Fortunately all our pupils were good, sensible and stayed hydrated. The A grade boys came third out of fourteen teams so got to collect a trophy but more importantly they beat West Island School (that is our only objective ultimately.)

Since then we've had parent's evening and tonight I'm flying off to Shanghai to do some Christmas shopping. Sleep is a limited commodity here, or perhaps I should say time is limited and using it for sleep would seem ridiculous.