Teamwork and sportsmanship witnessed in JGEO2 Sports Night

Sports Night... It has always been part of the GEO events This time around, students got to enjoy another set of multiple fun filled activities..

·         Hula-Hoop Pass

·         Three Legged Race

·         Snack Attack Relay

·         Group Jump Rope

It was great to see the energy filled students playing the games. Their teamwork and sportsmanship were all admirable too. Indeed, its not about winning, but much more importantly, it was about having fun...

Here are some of the photos so you can get a glimpse of what we are talking about...

Hula Hoop Pass...

Three legged race

The battle is on... the GEO 18 Sports Night begins...

X League and Z League team competition continues

The battle is on... the GEO 18 Sports Night begins...

Let's see who won the Sports night team competition ｡◕ ‿ ◕｡

Energetic Emcee for the night, Lia, with other GEO TAs

Foreign TA Coordinator plays the role of videographer for the night.
Students smile for the video ^_~

Team Barbados smiling for the camera

Team New Zealand in high spirit!!!
Ready for the game ^^

Let the games B-E-G-I-N

First Game - Hula Hoop Pass

See if you can fit one person inside the hula hoop

Or two maybe
The more number of passes, the higher the score...


Lets do it quick teammates!
We have to score the highest

Next game: Three Legged Race

Reliable Peter helps students tie the knot

Tag Team
Run Karl Run Jinu Run

We can do this Team India.
Fighting!!!

Ready for the Third Game?

Presenting Snack Relay

First, using chopsticks, pass the onion ring to your teammates

Lets CHANT
Pass the Ring
Pass the Ring...

Then after passing it to the last person in the team
Tap the other teammate
He/she will have to look for the candy inside the plate of flour

Afterwhich, she will tap another person who taps the bell
The first team to tap the bell wins!!! Yey


Final Round
Survivor Island

Jump to the island (the box represents the island) like this

Student getting ready to jump 1-2-3
With only one leg on the floor, they have to squeeze as many students as possible inside the island

I bet the students were thinking
"Let's squeeze in as many people as possible
We have to win"

But wait, there's a tie between 

Team South Africa

 and

Team Scotland
The whole team cheers for their teammate

The shootout breaks the tie for Team Scotland and Team South Africa

Congratulations to the winners

Congratulations to our GEO 18 Sports Night Winners:
	Z League	X League
1st	Ghana	Scotland
2nd	India	South Africa
3rd	Barbados	New Zealand

Congratulations to our GEO 18 Sports Night Winners: 

Z League

X League

1st 

Ghana

Scotland

2nd 

India

South Africa

3rd 

Barbados

New Zealand

Congratulations to our  teams!!!

Exemplary effort. Great job ＼(~o~)／ ＼(^o^)／ ＼(-o-)／ ヽ(^。^)ノ ヽ(^o^)丿


by: Abigail Go, SNS & Blog Editor

GEO 16 Students Enjoy Series of Games During the Sports Night

Yesterday, February 13, all the team countries went to the gym for the Sports Night. Upon arriving there, teaching assistants (TAs) welcomed everyone and explained about the game rules. They even did game simulation so students can get a glimpse of how the game will take place.

The first game is the Hula Hoop Pass. This game needed good team work. Team members should grab or hold each other’s hands to form a big circle. We had to pass the hula hoop within two minutes. The team that was able to transfer the hoop the most gets the highest score and wins the challenge. The game was made more complicated as there was a time limit involved. There were times when our heads were hurt because we wanted to pass the hoop hurriedly. Nonetheless, it was still fun!

The next game is the Three-Legged Race. This game needed more team work than the previous one. Using a rope, two people should tie one of their legs together, and run or walk through an eight-pattern course of two chairs. We think that this game requires important communication skills with each other. It required us to communicate well with our partner so we can walk in the same pace and complete the task successfully. During the race, we felt that our legs were about to get broken. Going through the path was really difficult! But after going through the activity, we were happy and satisfied that we were able to do it well.

The third game was the Basketball Shoot-out. Each team has to select five boys and five girls who to participate in this game. It was not easy to shoot the ball. Most teams found the distance too far and only scored two or three points. Those students who were able to shoot the ball were very happy and the audience cheerfully applauded them!

The last game was the Snack Attack Relay. There were a series of tasks that the team should complete in order to finish this game. First, the team should choose fourteen members to do the mission. Eleven members from each team held a chopstick using their mouths, and they had to pass a piece of snack (onion ring) from one member to another. Afterwards, one person had to do elephant turns and find a candy in a bowl of flour without using his hands. Finally, one boy had to piggy back a girl while she eats a snack hanging on a string. The boy had to run fast to tap the bell at the baseline.

There were a lot of games during the Sports Night. It was also a great chance for each team to increase their team score. Overall, it was tiring, but we think everyone felt that the games were exciting and fun!

from GEO Class 2-2 (Prof. Peter Jenkins and TA China Pring )

Teamwork, flexibility and synchronization exhibited during the GEO 16 Sports Night

GEO 16’s Sports Night Another exciting adventure as our seven competing teams mark their spot in GEO 16’s Sports festival. If Hogwarts had a Quidditch match, so does GEO. And if Hogwarts had four houses, the GEO Sports Night tournament has seven competing teams making the competition even more fun and exciting. The pressure between the competing teams gets higher as team New Zealand remains at the top spot for the third time. Can they retain their crown up to the last round? Let’s find out.

There are four games in the event: The Hoola Pass, The Three Legged race, Basketball Shoot out and the Snack Attack.

Students were sitting down waiting for the grand opening of the GEO 16 Sports Night

The Hoola Pass shows teams' flexibility and teamwork

Pair work and synchronization are tested during the Three Legged Race

Sports Night Game Number 3 - Basketball Shoot out

The Final Challenge -The Snack Attack

First part of the challenge: The ultimate Onion Ring pass

The Snack Attack Part 2: Dig for the Candy

The Snack Attack Part 3: Climb and Munch (Participants need to ride on the back of their teammates to reach the onion rings. Afterwards they have to eat it. The person who lifts them have to run to the starting line to signify the completion of The Snack Attack challenge.)

Drum Roll Please!!! And the winner is Team New Zealand! Second place Team Puerto Rico and Panama for the third place. Woohoo! That was a great fight! I salute everyone for a job well done and by improving your teamwork.

by: Carlo Clarin, English Clinic TA and Abigail Go, GEO Blog Editor

Students Happy and Thankful to experience the GEO 15 Sports Night

The 15^th Global English Outreach (winter camp) Sports Night was held in the gym last January 11, 2012. It was divided into two leagues; for Z league it started at 6:00 P.M. and for X league it started at 7:30 P.M. Teams in X league were Jamaica, Kenya, Tuvalu, and Seychelles.

The first event was the hula-hoop pass. Each team member held each others’ hands together in a circle and passed through the hula-hoop continuously without letting the hands go. The next event was Musical Chairs. Three members from each team came out and put books on their heads without touching them. Then they had to walk around the chairs while the music was playing and sit when the music stopped. If the player dropped the book or didn’t get a chair to sit on, that person was out. The third event was ‘Ball Boy Bowling’. Every team member had to participate. There were four goals in which a ball had to go through in order to score. The last event was basketball. Two members from each team had three chances to shoot the ball into the hoop. In X league team Seychelles won the Sports Night with 95 points. Team Jamaica placed second, team Kenya third, and sadly team Tuvalu placed last.

Team captain of team Seychelles (Jung Yoon Jee, from Psychology dept. 20) was very happy and proud of her team because her team won the game. The members from the other teams were very depressed and angry because the scoring systems seem not fair to them.

For the Z league, team South Africa won musical chairs but there were too much wind from the fan so it was difficult to keep the books on their heads. After the musical chairs, they played the hula-hoop game. Each team made their own strategies and did their best. All of the students seemed to enjoy the game. Ball Boy bowling game was really fun. South Africa got 13 points, and Belize got 10 points, so South Africa won first place! South Africa won every game. But there were not much time to play the basketball game because games were delayed unexpectedly So, some individuals felt disappointed that their members could not join the basketball game. Also, some think it was unfair that they could get only small number of points from that game. While people were playing games, most of the students had smiles on their faces and it was a good opportunity to know each other well and to get closer.

Surely, students were very happy and thankful to the organizers of this event and to the whole GEO family. Thank you for making this event.

1-2-3 Smile and Strike a pose

Students enjoying GEO 15′s version of the Musical chair

The Last Two Standing

Teams enjoying the Hula Hoop Pass

Run run run – Students concentrating hard while Ball Boy Bowling

Ball Boy Bowling – The GEO way

Z League Winner – Team South Africa

Team Seychelles – Winner for the X League

from GEO Class 5-1 (Prof. David Lee and TA Peter Park )

A Battle to Test Team Strength and Cooperation!

X League's Sports Night!

X League’s Sports Night started on the evening of February 14^th. The event was held in the gym. The X league consists of the countries: Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, and India. There were four games namely the Shooting Game, Jump and Get In, Flip Flip, and Basketball Race.

As a result India won the First Place, Second is Bermuda, Third is Jamaica, and Fourth is Puerto Rico.

Students line up while listening to the instructions from the TAs

Students try to shoot as many balls as possible in the Shooting Game

First is the Shooting Game.

The Shooting Game's objective is to shoot as many balls in the ring as possible without leaving the fixed position marked as "X" for 2minutes.

Each Team has 8 members to participate in the game including 5 shooters and 3 rebounders. Most importantly, there should have at least 2 female participants. India won the first place with the score of 38. Jamaica was the second placer followed by Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

Team work in the Jump and Get In Game ^_^

The second event was called Jump and Get In Game. Participants have to jump one by one to get in the square. The challenge is that once they got in the square, they could not move anymore, or else they would be out. Only the first two players can jump and turn around.

The team with the most people to get in the square is the winner. The estimated time for this event is 15 – 20 minutes.

1st: India

2nd: Puerto Rico

3rd: Bermuda

4th: Jamaica

Students get ready for Flip Flip!

The third event is called Flip - Flip Game.

Flip Flip Game's objective is to flip the opposite team's color papers according to their team's color papers for 2 minutes.

For each team, all members should participate in the game. In the tournament, teams competing were Bermuda versus India and Puerto Rico versus Jamaica. India and Jamaica won in their respective match. For the final round, India won over Jamaica .

When we played this game, there were fierce fighings. But after the game has finished, we apologized to each other.

1st: India

2nd: Jamaica

3rd: Bermuda

4th: Puerto Rico

The ultimate technique to win the Basketball Race Game

For the fourth event, we had the Basketball race Game. It was played for 10minutes.

The mechanics were:

1. All five teams will compete at the same time.

2. Two members will have to transport the basketball from one side of the court to the other (HALF COURT ONLY), and back to the starting line, without using their hands (note: members can only use their chest, back, or whatever parts of their body BUT NOT HANDS!)

3. After getting back to the starting line, first two members should tag the next member on the line, and the next pair will have to race until all members have finished their turns.

4. If a pair drops the ball, cross the starting line before they get tagged, or use their hands, they have to go back to the starting line.

5. Whoever finishes the race at the least time possible wins the game.

India won this game.

Shooting Game interview.

Reporter : Ha June

Player : Joo Hyun (Team India)

1. What is your position?

-> My position is rebounder.

2. What is your team score?

-> My team got 38 points in this game.

3. How did your team get victory?

-> I think cooperation is very important because the game is a group game!

4. Who is the MVP in your team.

-> I think all of our members are MVPs because cooperation is very important!!!!

Jump and Get In interview

Reporter : Soo-Ah

Player : Kim Min Ji (Team Puerto Rico)

Q1. How did you play this game to win?

A1. Boys who could jump further than girls jumped first.

Q2. How about Puerto Rico team's score?

A2. Our team didn't win at the Shooting Game because we were nervous. However the game begun and our team did our best, so we got the Second Place.

Q3. Puerto Rico team's opinion.

A3. We played Jump and Get In game very well, but finally our team was ranked fourth. We weren't disappointed because we did our best.

Flip - flip game interview.

Reporter : Ui-Yeon

Q 1. What do you think about the sports night?

A 1. It was fun but the physical fight was too fierce.

Q 2. In the final round of the Flip flip game, I heard that one from Team India hit one member of Jamaica. What happened during the game?

A 2. While playing the game, I was reversing the card when someone from India accidentally hit my face.

Q 3. What do you think about Team india?

A 3. Team India is a good gamer.

Basketball Race game interview.

Reporter : Ha June

Player : Ji Hoon - Bermuda

1. How did your team get victory？

->Our team had special action.

2. How do you feel about this game?

-> It is a very intimate game. We won the game hardly.

3. Who is the MVP in your team?

-> I think our MVP is Sung Hyuk. He was very fast.

4. Which part of the game do you found impressive?

-> I am impressed with India's way of carrying the ball.

By: Chae Ri Lim, Ui Yeon Jo, Yi Rang Lim,

Ha Joon Jung, and Soo A Lee from Class 1-2 (Prof. Tom Carlaw and TA Sharon)