Track and Field Day

Saturday!

Another beautiful, bright, sunny day!

Another track and field event!

Aaah, but this one was different. Not high school athletes competing, but my own students! And it was a work day. School on Saturday? Yep. Don't feel too sorry for me... we get an extra day off during spring break.

Track and Field Day is a big event here at Morrison. All the students from Kindergarten to eighth grade participate. All the parents come to cheer on their favorite students! 

Jacob competing in the high jump.

All my boys!

Instead of shotput, the younger kids do a softball throw!

My angels!

I love watching my students compete, but I especially love watching this guy!

Carl caught this picture. I was with my students at the softball throw.
Sometimes its hard to be both a teacher and a mom.

Jake's favorite- the 400! 

Neck and neck... who will cross the finish line first?
Two one hundredths of a second separated first place from second. 

This T and F day was very special. If you look carefully at the picture above, you can see our track is not the typical track of a modern school. Our track is 42 years old. The current athletic director competed on this track as a high school athlete! It is made up of crushed cinders. It is dirty, lumpy, and hard to maintain. It is also about to be no more! 

The city of Taichung is widening the street on the backside of our campus. They need land to complete the project. The land they need is the far end of our old outdated track! 

So our track has to be moved because by the beginning of next school year our perimeter wall will have sliced off the far corner. So sad to see our campus shrinking in size. Last summer we lost the front corner to another street widening project.

To celebrate and commemorate the day, every family planted a tree.  Placed in a safe location, the trees will be transplanted around the new track once completed.

The Dingus tree!

We are all so excited about a new track.. I will never again have to sacrifice another pair of running shoes to the permanent staining black; countless socks donated to the trash. 

No problem with that today.... I wore sandals!