Badminton Tournament

Our English Classes have been preparing for this Badminton Tournament for a few months now. On Sunday evenings, we would meet together at the courts to practice our badminton skills. This was the perfect event to have because it opened up more relationship building time with the students. Each person was given a t-shirt for the tournament. On the actual day of the tournament they were given a partner to play with. The tournament went from 1:00pm to 5:30pm.

My Advanced English class felt they were too old to play badminton, so together they decided that we would be the cheerleaders for the tournament. The Tuesday before the tournament they looked to me for the cheers (I may be bubbly and “whoo whoo” often…but cheerleader—I have no clue how to be…lol). I was taken off guard and had no idea how to even make up cheers or a cheerleader dance. But on the spot, we had fun making up a cheer for the winners, a cheer for the losers, and three motivation cheers. On the day of the tournament, we wore our badminton shirts, with the traditional Thai cheerleader skirt and pom-poms. I laughed throughout the entire tournament because we looked like a comedy show. =) The children also got into the cheers and they took our pom-poms and ran around saying their own cheers (super cute!). After each game was over-we would do a “loser” cheer around the losers and then a “winner” cheer around the winners. See above for pictures of the top three teams.

After the tournament was over, we all went home and showered. Then we met back at the church for food, awards, games, songs, a testimony about our English school (one of the students that attend), a testimony from Chantelle (a leader with the WI team-who has a powerful testimony about how the Lord has worked miracles in her life), and fellowship with one another.