Wintersday

Today was Wintersday, a sports day between our school and the Afrikaans girls high school next door. Even though a lot of people didn't attend (it's died over the years), the spirit was great and there was a lot of good netball and hockey played!
This was from the first netball team match. Boy, it was one of the most exciting netball matches I have ever seen (though I don't watch a lot of netball :P). we were only planning to stay for a few minutes before heading off to the hockey, but it got REALLY exciting, so we had to stay for the whole match.
It was a gruelling 40 minutes of a lot of jumping, catching, throwing, and trying not to play dirty! Our girls did SUPERB, we really have a solid team this year, and managed to draw 23 all. Our school doesn't have a good reputation for netball, so I think the playing was a bit of a shock to the Bloemhoffers. I think this is the first time we have ever drawn in a netball match at Wintersday - yes, that's how amazing it is!
We moved onto the hockey, which wasn't going too well. For some reason I really like this photo - it makes me laugh for some odd reason. Anyway, but the hockey wasn't going too well, and unfortunately we lost 4-1. But the spirit of our school was really amazing - that's one thing I really love about our school and will miss when we leave school at the end of the year!
The hockey was less exciting than the netball, but hockey is definitely less interactive, with netball we were standing right there next to the girls that were playing, but with the hockey we were knocked off with a fence. And for good reasons too!
Our beloved goalie was taken off, she managed to get a bloody nose, so that's why the goalie in the photo was not padded! But this was about a minute until full time. It was a great morning, and I do think it was worth waking up at 7am to watch a great day of sport!

Over and out