Thursday, April 03, 2008

Fifth Grade Soccer Day Part II

We had absolutely fabulous weather today. Sunny skies, 70 degree temperature and it was Soccer Day! The entire fifth grade got together and competed against the local British school, Korean school and Singapore school. Two additional international schools traveled to Shanghai from Suzhou and Nanjing to compete in the tournament. Suzhou is about 2 hours away and the students arrived this morning. Nanjing is about 3.5 hours away by car so the students from Nanjing arrived into Shanghai Wednesday night and stayed overnight.

Matthew's class competed against all the schools and there were some injuries and some crying. He did the kickoff at each game and was busy with his classmates chasing the ball. It was a great experience for the kids to be able to play with other schools. The weather was perfect and the kids needed a day to be out of the classrooms and just goof off. Spring has definitely arrived in Shanghai and we're happy about it!