Young-il Sports Day

Last Thursday heralded the return of Young-il H.S.'s Sports Day, after the previous principal sidelined it on the basis that it wasn't academic enough. For the past two weeks, PE classes have been battling each other within their grade level to arrive at two best soccer teams, which played out the class finals during the morning's events. There was also a basketball championship. Some photos, taken with my (not quite so) new Nikon D5100: The morning's final event is the student-teacher soccer match. You can see in the photo below that the teachers are scoring an awesome header goal, only to have it taken away by linesman calling offside in the distance: The afternoon is a series of relay races in heats; most classes take this very seriously, as you can see from their facial expressions: But every year, there's one team that knows they have no chance, and go for humor (notice he's running the race backward):