We Are Blue ... We Rock More Than You!

And .... Sports Day is finally over. After a long morning of breathing down the microphone and eating an ice lolly for breakfast, it's over. I got to school early enough to spend some time with my cheerleaders, before spending the rest of the morning cooped up at the emcee stand. I think I did a pretty good job as an announcer. Yes, yes, I'm blowing my own trumpet.

The whole event went quite smoothly, and it was a pretty tight race with Green House leading most of the time before finally clinching the Champion House trophy. Blue House trailed in at third place with only a difference of one point behind Red House.

These are the champions of the exciting team events:

Tent Decoration: Yellow House (I think it was a tough fight between Yellow and Green)
March Past: Blue House (honestly, I was a bit surprised at the result. But to tell you the truth, the standard of marching in the school is ... well, really low)

And... the one that I had to hold my breath for.... Cheerleading goes to Blue House!!!!

OK, I wasn't really holding my breath. After all, as one of the emcees, I had the results in my hands way before I needed to announce them. I had to keep myself from smiling so that the kids wouldn't know for sure that they've won. Oh, everyone said that they did a good job and they were sure to win (even before today - when they saw the full rehearsals) but I didn't want them to get their hopes unnaturally high up and then take a hard dive when they don't win. If you ask me whether they deserve to win - my answer is, of course, a resounding yes. And the reason is - I'm biased! Like, duh! I'm the one who has been sacrificing my afternoons and Saturdays to spend time with them, making sure they get their stuff right! Although I was not the choreographer (we had gotten an external trainer/choreographer, who's great at what she does) but I was there for the kids all the way except when I was away during Forensics.

I think they all did a great job within their own capabilities. It's not the best I've seen, but I thought it was the best within the school, and I was so worried that the judges may not recognise that. (Or at least, share the same view as I do!)

The team had gotten extra medals, as there were 24 allocated medals but only 20 in the team, so the captain gave me one. Haha!! I'm going to hang that up in my cubicle. That's something for me to brag about, until next year, at least.

I won't comment on the other teams, but I thought that everyone did well. I think it was a pretty tough fight between all the four cheerleading teams. It was of course, pretty crushing for the other teams who were ranked low. But if someone's going to win, someone else has got to lose.

Anyway, the rankings for the cheerleading teams are:

1. Blue
2. Yellow
3. Red
4. Green

A video of the whole thing on my website may be too much. I might put in some short clips of key sections... if I feel like it.