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Swimming Gala

Wednesday November 14th saw Jordan and Liam compete in their first swimming gala.  It was held at the Royal Brunei Sports Club (of which we are members and attend regularly).  All children from Year 3 - Year 6 were encouraged to compete for the day.  Earlier in the school year Jordy became Yellow Team captain (house captain) so this gave him a role on the day of encouraging and supporting all Yellow Team members,  a role he undertook with vigour and determination.  Fortunately he hadn't entered into many swimming races so he had time to walk up and down with a sign he had made and dance to the fabulous music they had playing.  Liam competed well in freestyle, breathstroke and relay,  which his team won.  The Year 4 boys (Liam and his mates) were enjoying the music so much at one stage that they started a flash mob encouraged and joined by the Primary Principal, the swimming races had to stop because they couldn't hear the starter, much to the embarrasment of the Principal!!!   The Men of Primary (MOP) all the male primary teachers entertained the children (and parents) with their version of synchronised swimming.  A great laugh was had by all. Overall it was a very well organised day thoroughly enjoyed by both my boys and myself,  although we were all very tired that night from a long day out in the sun.

BJSL

With the start of another international school academic year also comes the start of the Brunei Junior Sports League.   It was held at JIS and the teacher from last year that I had words with about touch was very happy to see me there again this year!!  Yesterday was Liams first game, in the first term they play football and t-ball (much to Liams disgust). The Year 4 boys have a very strong football team and won their first game 5-3, against a team from Panaga (which is about 1.5 hours away).  The girls game kicked off first so the boys from both schools decided to play against each other before their game even started, none of them understood  that is was 34 degrees and they should sit in the shade before playing .  I gave up trying to explain this fact to them.  Then they played mixed t-ball, most of the boys would of rather played another game of football.  ISB managed to win 13-11, so a good day out for the first one.

ISB Choir Performance

Following on from his introduction to choir at Cotswold School, Liam decided to join the ISB Primary Choir.  They were given the chance to join in a performance by the Serunai Adult Choir at a local hotel last weekend.  With Aaron still recovering from his laser eye surgery and unable to drive at night or sit in a lighted venue this gave me the opportunity to attend both nights performances.  I was pleasantly surprised at how much I actually enjoyed it and Liam thoroughly enjoyed both nights.  Friday night we only stayed to interval, Saturday we stayed all night.  During the performance an  eleven year old girl known as KC played the violin.  It was an unbelievable performance by somebody of her age, she is now leaving Brunei to pursue her musical career,  I'm sure we will here her name in the future.  I can only imagine the hours of practice that she has put into this.  It was truly amazing, particularly as the violin would not be my first choice of musical instrument to watch.  The ISB choir also performed extremely well and had lots of fun doing so.  Looking forward to their next performance.

Click on link to see song
http://youtu.be/UmQD-fm8hCw