Photo Friday: Sports Day 2015

Oct. 16, 2015, 6:43 p.m.

From our archived blog:

Yesterday was the annual Sports Day at the primary campus. It's a big community event, and school is canceled at the high school to allow teens and teachers to come and cheer or help. Once you have a child at the primary campus, your family is assigned to Team Yellow or Team Red, and all your children will always be that color. We are Team Yellow!

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Talia represents for her siblings.

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Isaiah rounding the curve in one of the races. He's in yellow with the hat.

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Nehemiah had fun watching, but this year he refused to wear his yellow shirt. The yellow truck counts I guess?

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Proof that we were winning at one point.

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Isaiah in the sack race.

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This picture is a little dark, but it was one of my favorite moments of Sports Day, and shows one of the things I love about Ukarumpa. Sports Day has some challenging moments for kids who aren't athletic, and there is one event that is really hard for Makaylah. Several friends finished the event with her, and then everyone in her age group, even girls that aren't close friends, surrounded Makaylah to encourage her.

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Sophia (top) and Makaylah (bottom) running the distance races.

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Sports Day ends with a big tug-of-war. Go yellow!!

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It was Team Red's turn to win this year.

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Sophia with her friend Evie.

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Isaiah and Shay. We have a picture like this from last year that I love. At the end of the day, whether we are red or yellow, "winners" or "losers" we are Community!

Melissa Smith