25- 29th June

25- 29^th June

I have created a monster! After introducing Ultimate Frisbee two weeks ago to the children of Beskol, we are already having our second match against the next village, where Jason lives.We won 9-1 last time, but we fear they have been training!

So far I have played Frisbee at least once a day for the past week, I played on 3 separate occasions today, and I don’t even like Frisbee! I even organised some basic drills for the older (and competitive) group, so lets see if that pays off.

Don’t get me wrong, I am glad the kids are having fun, and that I have found a sport I am able to teach that doesn’t get in the way of the 3 existing sports teachers at school. And this one is relatively easy to organise, and cheap as well. Although you cant buy Frisbees in Kazakhstan, so I don’t know about the longevity of this.

Speaking of competitive, the daily sports I have been including in my English Club got slightly out of hand today, and I don’t think ill be repeating it next week. I have about 30 children in the 8-11 year old class, which today meant 2 Frisbee groups, and a football match. I wasn’t able to watch all of them, all at once, and I would turn round to see kids throwing stones at each other, with the intent to hurt, after being tackled, or after trying to take the Frisbee. So much effort to police them! But for some children here, there is an intense desire to win, and as long as this can be focused on academics (and learning English), I should have a few good students. Alas, this desire does not spread to most of the kids.

**update**

I may have just destroyed the entire vegetable garden. Not entirely by my own fault, in fact I put most of the blame on someone elses shoulders.