Yesterday (9 Nov/2008) the Boys Basketball team hosted an annual 5k run to raise money for OSC's many charity projects. The amount of planning going into this was pretty amazing, with our coach having to carefully outline the course, get sponsors, t-shirts and ofcourse, the trophies!

On raceday 8 members of the basketball team were posted at various tricky points on course where it was likely that the runner's might go the wrong way. For me it was pretty weird and yet a completely great experience at the same time. I was situated between two paddy fields with a few local houses nearby. I had my orange chair there with a digital camera and phone, dressed in t-shirt and shorts. Quite suddenly, I was being overlooked by many locals staring at me, and me feeling pretty awkward. Add to this, the race was on a Sunday, when Bhuddhists go to temple in the morning. I was seated in front of a deafening microphone reciting Bhuddhist scripture. In addition, there was a special ceremony being held at the temple, which meant i was being surrounded by many Bhuddhist monks as well.

The whole scene was pretty erratic to me yet a good new experience to go through. The race went off pretty well with our superfit Physics teacher coming in with the fastest time of 21:34! In total 148 people signed up donating 74,000 rupees.