Trying to be sporty

I think I've said this before, but I love the availability of playing on a team at international schools. Kids move often and are traveling between countries with varying interests in sports, so it makes perfect sense to allow kids to be on a team and learn the sport as the student goes along.

Forrest and Ellis both started playing rugby on a high school team, instead of only being allowed on the team after starting the sport at four years old. And, Ellis picked up ultimate frisbee recently, too.

Of course, I say that, but poor Taylor didn't make the middle school softball team this year😞  She said next year she would try for netball.  We know she can play rugby but she's seen too many injuries watching her brothers. We try to get encourage her swimming because she's a beautiful swimmer and swims with a group of adult women once per week, but she thinks she's not fast enough for a team - her perception, not a tested perception.

Claire, on the other hand, practices her violin for two hours per day (sometimes three) and we can't get her to try a sport. She says she might try girls' rugby or field hockey in sixth grade. She's not afraid of rugby because she doesn't really watch her brothers.

Ellis' ultimate frisbee team

I'm using the photo from the Hong Kong Sevens (because I didn't take one picture of Ellis playing rugby).  Jeff has taken the kids for the past three years, so I've probably already blogged about this. And, because I'm so far behind, I'm definitely placing this wrong chronologically.

Here's the official explanation: considered the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series competition. The Hong Kong Sevens is currently the seventh tournament on the World Series calendar (following the Canada Sevens), and is held annually in Hong Kong on a weekend in late March or early April. The tournament spans three days, beginning on a Friday and concluding on Sunday. The tournament is organised each year by the Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU).

Because Forrest is a medic for the HK national team, he's the cheap date (he gets in free because he has to work, but clearly not the whole weekend).

Claire's sport is yet to be determined. 

Here's the latest strings concert. It's amazing what these guys can accomplish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN7_4IKC9zY


🏊  She's truly a beautiful swimmer, but she doesn't like me taking pictures of her while she swims.

Jeff would like to encourage sporty behavior for all by making weekend hikes mandatory for the family, but this is usually what happens - alone with Hank as his companion. I actually think Hank prefers to have Jeff all to himself.