Lions and Tigers and Bears, O My!

The summer is drawing to a close and we are in the process of closing everything down and getting ready to leave. Today we had the final English class of the season and we had a slam bang finish.
Instead of having the kids come in three different groups to sit in the living room learning English grammar we had all the kids meet us out in the soccer field and had them learn American (English) games. Last weeks we handed out little slips of paper telling them that this week classes would be different, everyone together and going from two to four in the afternoon. The kids all thought that the little pieces of paper were tickets and all week we have had different kids knocking on the door asking for a ticket so that they could come and play:)
The first hour we split them all into three groups and had relay races with a candy bar prize for the team that won the most races. We named them the Lions, Tigers and Bears. We did everything from run out around that rock and back to three legged races (Curtiss and I were honorary members of the Bears team for the three legged race (yes, we won:) The Tigers won the day though with the most wins over all. We then had a short break for ice cream bars for all, then came the second hour, American baseball. Well, actually you should call it "Try and get them to hold the bat right while they try and hit a tennis ball" there are no bases or players, just a bunch of kids all wanting to use the two bats we have at the same time and since almost none of them have ever even seen baseball before let alone play it, they don't even know how to hold a bat. But they all had a blast and we had fun too. So English classes are over for another year and I would say the students were all very happy with the finish:)