Up up and away... for the weekend.



Sweet team colours for the "Maple Leaf Mallards" Ultimate Frisbee team.

 This weekend, Kristen and Paul took a group of twenty students on a trip to play in an Ultimate frisbee tournament. Thirteen boys, seven girls, two other coaches, the vice principal and our protaganists were off to Tianjin on one of the first ever field trips Maple Leaf Schools has ever allowed (and the first for anything other than Model UN).


Paul has been coaching the 50 some odd students who come out twice a week to play frisbee (actually assistant coaching). Somehow, when the fact that female teachers were needed to help chaperone came to the attention of the coaches, Kristen was volunteered to come along.


In order to get permission to fly twenty kids across the country to play in a tournament against adults the head coach (Mr. L) had to jump through some serious hoops. Needless to say, he is a good jumper, and we selected the twenty students who would give us the best chance in the tournament. Our hope was to score at least a couple of points in a game or two, expose the students to some competitive ultimate playing and generally get them excited about the game.


The next few posts are a photo journal of our trip!