Friday, November 19, 2010

Running & Jumping on Sports Day

Today was Sports Day at my school. Our school had two teams - the Red team and the Green team. I was on the Red team. We started the day by watching a gymnastics team from a local orphanage. Then we had different fitness activities. I participated in these various activities.
  • 50 meter run
  • 100 meter run
  • 100 meter hurdles
  • long jump
We then did a tug a war between the Red team and the Green team. Guess who won?



Questions for my blog readers:
  1. Have you run a race?
  2. How did you do?
  3. How did you feel afterwards?
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Adventist Health Expo

Today I went to the Adventist Health Expo with my awesome dad. It was pretty cool! It was held at one of the biggest malls in Thailand. The mall's name was MBK. They had all these booths with health check-ups, and the NEWSTART Plus program. There was also an ongoing program on the stage where different musical groups performed. There were exercise classes and interviews with doctors and other health professionals.

While this was all happening I was taking video of one of our student volunteers passing out brochures, inviting people to the health expo. When our student volunteers had to go home, I stopped taking video and started handing out brochures. I gave out more than 1,000 brochures that day. A total of 70,000 brochures were handed out! And we had over 2,000 people participate in our health expo over four days. It was really neat how people learned how to take care of their bodies in practical ways. Ways such as eating a healthy diet, and getting plenty of exercise.
Questions:
-Do you take care of your body?
-What kind of exercise do you enjoy?
-Have you been, or helped with a health expo?

Check out photos and videos from the expo:



Adventist Health Expo - Applying What We Learn from Hope for Bangkok.