The middle school has an excellent sports program for the kids. Each sport lasts one quarter and all the kids get to play, no matter their skill or experience. It's a great way for the students to give new sports a try with their friends. I was really happy that Alex decided to play some basketball for the first time and he had a wonderful experience. All of his good friends played as well and even though they were on different teams, he looked forward to practice twice a week.
JIS organized a tournament with the British school and the Singapore school so we went early on a Saturday morning to watch Alex play.
After some time to warm up, he was ready to play!
Sadly, Alex's team was mostly beginners and faced a pretty experienced team from the British school. The kids still cheered for those 3 points like they won the game, though!
We didn't get to stay through the second game because Alex also had a tennis tournament the same day. Turns out they were running 90 minutes behind in the matches so he could have easily played some more basketball, but we got to watch his friend Annabelle finish her second match.
Alex was feeling pretty confident but he was thrown off by a smaller court than usual and he was matched with a pretty consistent opponent.
Alex played hard and was mounting a comeback, but the 20-minute match ended and he lost. He was pretty disappointed because it all but eliminated him from advancing.
He played much better for his second match and easily won, but because his opponent lost to the first boy as well, both Alex and this opponent were out of the tournament. It was still a great experience for Alex and he's anxious to give it another try.
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