Spent a large part of yesterday helping on the food line, while 600 students came thru to get their lunch. Schools I had never heard of before. Lebanese American College - Beirut, American College- Cairo, American College - Thessolaniki, University of Balamand, and a few more. For three days the athletes are competing in a series of tournaments, including basketball, table tennis, swimming, tennis, volleyball and the big one, soccer. Activity everywhere. I ended up speaking to a girl who goes to school in Cairo who is from Washington DC. Many of the swim coaches are Americans who are working like Ted. In fact the athletic director at the Cairo school was at Emory while Ted was at Georgia State and they had friends in common.
Today I am dressed in my officiating uniform and will serve as the Clerk of the Course for the swim meet. That should be interesting. Ted is the announcer, the starter, and the stroke and turn judge. Once the swim event ends then he will assist at some other venue. My understanding is that they do not need any more food servers today! Luckily there are only a total of 34 swimmers in the meet. Of course, each one can swim in 3 events. The meet should take 3 hours.
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Do you have photos of this soggy endeavor?
Unfortunatly, no. Maybe I should say, luckily, no. We both looked like drowned rats, hair hanging in matted wads. We were too busy to take photos, altho I did take team photos of each of the swimming teams to give to the AD. Each participant gets a certificate with their team photo on it. A nice touch. Mom
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