V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!! We are Winners!! We are Winner!! Hearing the chants from the three houses and seeing those fabulous backdrops at the grandstand of each house, we knew it was the time for the Golden Crown College sports day!!!
The sports day was held on 21st Feb and 22nd Feb, 2014. The atmosphere was very exciting with each houses cheering out loud for their houses. The team was divided into three groups under the name of famous football teams, such as Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea.
From the first day, We had a varied range of events ranging from an early morning marathon race to long jump, to the high jump, badminton, table tennis, balloon bush, and so on. The competitors far exceeded expectations and performed to an exceptionally high standard in all events. At the same time, the athletes tried their best to run on the lanes as fast as possible in order to achieve the best result for their houses. All the teachers and the students participated on all the events though it was too sunny. The whole day was amazingly harmonized with students stepping out in the sun to cheer their respective houses. “Focus!! Focus!!” Was the slogans for the Arsenal house, “Kill it!! Kill it!!” Was the slogans for Liverpool house and “Mara!! Mara!!” Was the slogans for Chelsea.
Again on the day second, it was too exiting and too competitive. The most interesting events on that day was the longest line group game. The competitors fiercely competed among themselves with the hope that their team will make the longest line. It was later found that Chelsea house gave up because they ran out of materials (sob!! Sob!!), but Liverpool and Arsenal house started competing among themselves and even up to the extent of tearing their cloths and taking out their ornaments such as bracelets, necklace, watch, phones etc… giving their best to win the game. At last it found that Arsenal house won the game (Hurrah!! Hurrah!!) Later, rumors started spreading like a wild fire saying that it’s all thanks to Sir Daniel and Vizokhoto. This is most probably true, as Sir Daniel’s shoelace was longer than 100 meter (wahaha!) and Vizo sacrificially contributed his t-shirt to be torn into pieces, enabling the Arsenal house to win the game.
In addition to getting the medals, and prizes, the friendship formed among students and teachers, created sense of belongingness to the GCC community, which is definitely an extra reward we got from our sports day. Participating in sports day was certainly full of fun. No matter which position you came in the competition or what the final result was, the sports days created a sweet and remarkable memory in our lives.
Article by,
Achumlo Mozhui
Lecturer, Golden Crown College