What Did YOU do today?

I just won a bottle of hair conditioner in a tug of war contest at a Chinese elementaery school.

Think about that. If you told that to someone they'd think you were really weird. But it just happened, not even an hour ago.

March 8th is International Womens Day. I had never really heard about it back in the US, but here it seems to be a big holiday. I'm still not quite sure how it works, but it seems to be like Mother's Day for all women. 

A couple days ago, Lucky, a teacher at Jin Yuan came and asked if I could come by the school today to take place in a tug of war contest for International womens day. Normally I have Friday aternoons off, and I love my time off, but the idea of being in a tug of war contest seemed like a lot of fun. Also, I like the people I work with so I would have come anyway.

I came back to the school at 5:00, around when the kids go home. It was a lot of fun because I got to interact with the kids outside of the classroom. Some of them were a bit more nervous and were pretty quite with me, but most were all trying to get my attention. One of the kids from the baby class even tried to take me home with him. At about 5:30 most of the kids were gone, or with their parents, so we began the contest.

The men were divided up into teams first, to help keep it even. After that, the women drew and we seperated into four teams. It took a bit to get going. Getting everyone in the propper places took a bit of time. At one point I had the rope around my waist, and some of the kids were on the other end of me puling, and it left quite a red mark where it strangled my stomach. Tug of war is tug of war, but I think we did pretty well. We beat both teams we went against, and won the game. Out prize was bottles of hair conditioner. Everyone on the winning team got one. Even me. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with it. I might use it, but I've still got a bottle in the bathroom, and another one that came with some shampoo I bought the other day.

But yeah. That's how I won a bottle of hair conditioner in a tug of war contest at a Chinese elementaery school.