SEW Ninja!

Reach the basket=Climb on teacher

Hug a stranger task...

 As our work week is winding down the high school students are participating in SEW (Spiritual Emphasis Week). My role this first year is behind the scenes. Give teachers of small groups a break by feeding the kids, helping to watch over kids during a picture scavenger hunt through town, and any other way I can help keep things running.
One thing I have noticed during this time is that students and teachers alike are learning more about themselves but allowing themselves to actually play and laugh as well. Why do we hide that inner child as we get older? Sometimes when that child comes out, we make the day better for so many others around us!

Ms. Letsche playing a round of catch

Reenact Abbey Road in Korea!

 During lunch the past two days, circles of students would begin to form of all number of students and they would begin this game with one another and sometimes there would be eruptions of laughter or playful banter.
Finally today, I went over to a student and asked about this game they were playing. It is called Ninja. Students try to slap at the hand of any other player but then must freeze in that position therefore are vulnerable to the slap of another player so there is definitely some strategy to this game. Sometimes they are fast paced rounds and at times it is slower to allow new people to learn the

NINJA!

Mr. Lozano is caught!

Ninja Confrontation

game and can play along. The positions that they sometimes can wrap themselves into are quite amazing and seem impossible if they were to do it at any other time or in any other way. There is kind of a playful beauty in watching these soon to be successful adults reach back in time and just play. Reminds me to be conscientious of giving myself my own play time as well. Tomorrow I just might be brave enough to join in on a round of Ninja. Of course we have the water fight tomorrow afternoon......hmmm decisions, decisions.

Now all of you take a few minutes and just go PLAY!