Saturday, May 24, 2008

Sports day

Doodling in my sketch book during the time watching the sports day at the school. Some familiar faces to talk to, so a kind of minimal social interaction day. They split the school into the white team and the red team. The kids have reversible hats to show their color and the teams are decided at random. The kid on the left is doing the cheering for the white team. There is a facility for people with varying degrees of mental inability and some of the inmates come along to sports day. They take part in one event where two kids hold their hands while carrying a ball in a box with strings, a bit like an egg and spoon relay, but a lot slower and with the ball in a box it can't get dropped. The event used to be one inmate and one kid holding the box between them, but I guess they thought that was a bit too much of a risky proposition.