Friday I spent most of the day cleaning and sorting old school papers, workbooks, and art projects. I came across several pipecleaner people the kids had made. I took a quick picture and then those cute little people went into the trash.
Saturday we went to a scouts information day at JIS and we also took Joseph to his soccer game. We weren't going to let Joseph play and the coach didn't have him on the starting roster. Anyways, Joseph ended up playing 3 out of the 4 quarters. His team tied the other team.
I need to vent about the other team to get it off my chest. I'm quite disappointed that this league is supposed to be non-competitive and the player assignments to teams are supposed to be random yet it was very obvious that it was not. The other team is being coached by the coaches that were in charge of the school's competitive Coco Cola League team last term. The entire team is made up of kids from Joseph's school instead of kids from different schools. Also, more than half the team is made up of kids that were on the competitive team last year plus a few kids that were ineligible to be on the team last year because they were too old. Those kids of course are really good players. Some of them played on the school's competive soccer team for the older age group last term. The age requirement changed this year so some of the older kids now qualify to play with the younger ones . It appears that these coaches have already hand-picked the kids that will likely be on the competitive team next term. I think they are trying to squeeze in an extra few months of practice before the competitive league starts. It's pretty sad that some parents are so overly competitive. I wasn't overly impressed with the competitive league last term. Joseph just loves soccer so much. He is pretty good too. I just hope that he has a chance to play in the competitive league next term.
Today we went to church in the morning. This evening we had the missionaries over for a yummy Tex-Mex fajita dinner. Later this evening I put my hand in my back pocket and found a 100,000 rupiah bill. That's like ten US dollars. That was a pleasant surprise.
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Cute pipe cleaner people the kids made.
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Joseph is on Team Netherlands. They are orange and black.
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Yay! I found ten bucks in my back pocket. That is always nice.
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