Fun events at Nova Pioneer and ALA

We have now reached the mid-term break-- halfway through our first term here!  We've been so busy with our new jobs, the time has just flown by.

However, in addition to all the work involved in starting a new job, there have also been some fun events.

At my school, Nova Pioneer, we had Sports Day last Friday.  Lots of fun races and the last event was a tug of war --- and my Grade R out-tugged the Grade 1s!  As you can imagine, the kids were pretty happy....Here's a few pictures:

We also had spirit week this week -- so Monday was crazy socks day, Tuesday was twin day, Wednesday was Disney character and Thursday (my personal favorite) was pajama day.  Of course, the kids were pretty stinkin' cute in their outfits! Here are some twin day photos (or triplet as the case may be!):

Last weekend, at ALA, there was an all-school event called the Battle of the Axe.  It was the boys' halls competing against each other in events like egg toss, wheelbarrow race, etc.  I actually didn't stay for the whole thing because the Michigan game was on (must keep priorities straight, even in ZA!) and I didn't take any pictures because all the events were in the dark -- which especially made the egg toss challenging...

But the girls' halls were there, too, to cheer on their boy hall counterpart.  Since my hall, Keza Hall, is new, we had to decide what shirt color to choose.  Most of colors suggested were already being used by other halls, so I said -- what about tie-dye?  Then we can make our own shirts (just a little of my Ann Arbor hippie coming out...).  And that's what we did!  It was actually a really fun event and, even though I don't have a ton of experience with tie-dying, the shirts came out pretty cool.  Here's a few pictures of that:

It's mid-term break for both Nova Pioneer and ALA, so Hans, Nate and I will be heading off on our first adventure!  We're going to Loskop Dam Nature Preserve and do some hiking over the weekend.  We're excited to have a chance to explore outside the city a bit -- I'll be sure to take pictures to share our trip.