About a month ago, my school held a family fun and sports day! We all went to a big gym on a Saturday and all of the kindergarten students and their parents came. It was a day of being active and being with family. We had an MC who hosted and ran the event, the teachers were just there to participate and help out. It started with dancing and warm ups, so silly songs. Then it went into group activities, where the kids would go, then their parents would do it! We had to fill a huge garbage bag with balloons. It was one side competing against the other. Lots of fun things for children and parents to do. Then, it got into races. First he had the girls race. Now I mean full on 100meter dash going on. Then he had the boys race. Then, he asked the mothers to do it. Well the kids were cheering so loud for their moms, the moms couldn't let down. It was head to head all the races! Well you can imagine what the fathers were like. Super super competitive. They need to be the best! You win a box of clean-ex at the end so this is for all the marbles. Fathers are going full tilt, olympic speeds, when all of a sudden one of the fathers is running so fast, he puts out his hands to stop himself once he hits the stage. (Thats right, we are running towards a stage...can't say I didn't see it coming!) He is running so fast that his momentum crashes his body against the stage and he falls to the ground. Dead silence. Then you hear a ear piercing scream, his wife, now bawling even before knowing what has happened.
Now my first aid self, jumped into action, telling kids to get out of the way and I would go look at him.. What was I thinking! These parents are loaded, I'm saying top doctors, surgeons, optometrists, dentists, all taking a look at him.. They definitely do not need me! The kids were so intrigued by it all! There was blood everywhere! The man is now unconscious on the floor, with a pool of blood, kind of puts a dent in family fun day! All the kids are ushered outside with the parents to have snack and lunch.
It turns out the father, which his son is in my Dream class, ran so hard that when he put his hands out to stop him they collapsed from his momentum. On the way down he knocked his face on the stage. He broke his right arm in several places, and there was a problem with his eyes. An ambulance showed up to take him away, which looks like an ambulance but it is just a man who walks the injured man out.. No stretcher nothing. Then followed by his wife and her friends all bawling! Quite a scene!
The kids are now all ushered back in to more fun and games... can I tell you, the mood definitely changed! But back to singing and dancing, with all forgotten, for a hilarious family fun and sports day.. O and did I mention, the father was in the hospital for 3 weeks because of his injuries...Fun!
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