Old man speaks about frisbee.

Good evening warriors of 4-7.

In less than 48 hours’ you will be in the Frisbee final, where you will be facing 5-2.

Most of you –playing or non-playing- are very excited about this, and of course you should be.

Recently, I’ve become a huge fan of this class (probably by default since I’m the form teacher). I’ve watched you guys play a couple of times, and if nobody has ever told you this, or that if your brains are cramped with equations, formulae and impacts of erm, globalisation, then let me tell you, that you all are good.

I like a relationship to be honest. You’ve all heard of the clichés, that you take part to have fun, to relax, and in the spirit of the Olympics, that participation is already an honour, but let me ask you a question:

Did you come all the way into the final to lose?

You have challenged your opponents each time, fought hard, helped your teammates up when they are physically down, cheered one another on to battle against them.

You have challenged yourselves each time, running fast even though you’re tired, jumping high even when you’re more tired, not being intimidated when your opponents might be bigger and stronger and fiercer looking.

You have come to the final to win.

You are going to win because you are good. Speed, height, fitness, finesse, skill, stamina, patience – the list is not exhaustive – you have them.

You are going to win because the support you have is wonderful. On Thursday the neighbours of CCK will complain because our cheering (or rather I wouldn’t be screaming, but your classmates will =x) will be so loud.

For some of you, you will be nervous. Nervous is good. Nervous means this is important to you, either because you want to impress your schoolmates watching by the side, or you want to win this for Miss Tan (which I’ve gathered from hearsay; unreliable source), or for whatever other reason; nervous means you don’t want to mess this up. Some of you *touch wood* will make mistakes, but it is how you bounce back from these mistakes, how you support one another to cross this finishing line…

As a winner of the 2008 inter-class Frisbee tournament.

So go out there and enjoy yourselves. Run, jump, catch, throw, sprint, shout, scream, scold, encourage, support, and at the end of it you guys are still classmates of the awesome class of 4-7.

I’ll end with a question.

While doing all those things, having fun and all,

why not win at the same time?

(Oh yeah next time when I write about your Os, I’ll probably rip off the same content from this page.)