sports day today!

Oh wait, the sports day's not till Saturday. Today was just a FULL DRESS REHEARSAL. That's right, I'm not talking about students individually training for their events, I mean the entire school runs through the whole program, races and all, to make sure it all goes smoothly. Apparently the sports day is the principal's time to shine in front of all the parents, so the school devotes a lot of time preparing for the big day. For the past two weeks alone the school has been running on a special shortened schedule to ensure maximum training time after school. Students have also been practicing before school and in their lunch breaks.

It makes me wonder why they even bother having the real sports day now - they already know what's going to happen! I just think it's the slow kids who suffer. They get to practice coming last.