Water Polo and Typhoons

Today was an epic Sunday. I woke to the sounds of wind whipping through the Taiwanese trees. A typhoon was passing over Taiwan and the wind was howling through the school. When all was said and done however, it was smaller and less severe than what we initially thought so all is well now.

This afternoon, while the typhoon raged outside, we had our first house competitions of the school year. See, my life is basically a real world Harry Potter tale now because at our boarding school we have points, house competitions, and prefects just like Harry Potter. So today we all went into the indoor swimming pool and played water polo- house against house. There are 8 houses total and I am part of the 8th house which was new this year; we named ourselves the House of Archimedes and we have an owl as our mascot. Unfortunately, the House of Archimedes is not so talented in water polo.

Although we lost both of our games very quickly, it was still fun. The most entertaining part about it was that I got to stand on the edge of the pool and watch all of my students try their best to be athletic in a pool. It was hilarious for the most part because there are some very uncoordinated students in this school!

Everything was going great until a couple of my students got the great idea to push Ms. Pint in the pool. They never succeeded but I did spend a lot of time hugging the wall in the pool. Hopefully our next house competition will be on dry land!