Monday, July 21, 2008

Olympic sounds

The rain held off (mostly) this morning, the full day of Olympics. Ten teams gathered in Filreis Field (oh geez--more about that name another time), showed tons of spirit, and then went in 5 different directions. Each event or set of events features two teams playing each other.

Now it's 1:35 PM as I write, and the sun has come fully out. So it seems that we will have an outdoor all-camp program straight through to the end. Last night we were in the dining hall during a deluge for the Opening Ceremonies, which were beautiful except for the fact that we couldn't light the torch (couldn't do so without bringing on the wrath of the fire inspector who might reasonably have asked us, "So you lit a wooden home-made torch with kerosene-soaked charcoal at the top in a room with 700 people sitting in it?")

I captured two brief snippets of FV Olympics spirit. First here is Nigeria cheering. And second here's a little exchange several of us on the host country had with Botswana.