School Competitions - Part 2

As promised, here is part 2! However, I have decided to put only the first day of the sports event into this post. Part 3 will cover the second day, and should be published very soon. Enjoy!
This two day event was a very big deal! My class didn't prepare for it for as long as the cheer leading competition, but we did prepare how we would walk in during the opening ceremony. Every class had a sign with the class name, and we were allowed to decorate our signs, dress up, and/or use music for our entrance. My class decorated our sign as a lion and everyone dressed up in the class shirt, along with black headbands with gold tinsel (designed to look like a lion's mane) and strings of tinsel emerging from the seats of our pants (as our tails). We walked in and did our class cheer (the clapping and screaming we started our routine with in the video from Part 1), but instead of jumping at the end, we turned and showed the people on stage our tails. Then we watched the other classes do their entrances. Many classes had short (15- to 30-second) dances. Only a few chose to do nothing special.
After everyone had walked in with their classes, we ate lunch. After lunch, we had about an hour to nap. This naptime was entertaining for me, because I finally got to see my classmates sleeping on the floor (or rather, on cardboard and newspaper) instead of in their chairs (because our chairs were outside). One girl even slept laying across several desks! I found it very entertaining.
After this intermission, the classes returned to their seats (which were covered) and watched several demonstrations. First there was a demonstration by the Aboriginal Dance group, in full costume and utilizing various props (including baskets). Despite the rain, it was a good performance; a few dancers fell, but they got up and carried on. It was very impressive. Afterward, the winners from the cheer leading competition, our sister class, performed their routine for everyone again. It was, as one might expect, a very good routine. Then we had another cheer leading performance, this time from about 20 of our female teachers. They had been practicing for over a month, and were extremely good - synchronized, confident, etc. Following these presentations, the sports teams walked in. The volleyball team (of which I am a member) wore our uniforms (all Mizuno products; I had received mine the previous day) with short blue shorts, sleeveless shirts with our numbers (I'm #10), high black socks with red flames up the sides, and carrying blue-and-yellow volleyballs (with our numbers on them) under our left arms. The track, basketball, and cheer leading teams followed. Then the flags were presented (as ROTC does in NM) by several students while students from each class presented their class signs.
The remainder of that day consisted of a jump-rope competition where each class had a team of approximately 20 people attempting to jump over the rope as many times as possible during the given time. My class didn't do very well, but we weren't horrible.
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