Baho Neza Mwana Olympics

The 2015 Olympics took place at Baho Neza Mwana today. The opening ceremony was delayed owing to the fact that it was umuganda. There were some similarities in the opening ceremony to the London Games with 4 teams making constructions out of spaghetti and marshmallows. The teams had to create the highest construction which would hold a ball. Only after they finished did they realise that the marshmallows were edible, afterwards called 'bug sugar', and promptly finished off. Less familiar was Lulu and the lampshades (aka Beth, Maddie, Laurie and Andrea) teaching the cup song to a group of the boys. 

After lunch sports introduced for the first time at these Olympics were juggling ball and Rwandan spoon race, wheel barrow race (a homage to Neville) and nerf ball javelin. Teams, originally labelled red, blue, yellow and pink, competed as much in gentle sledging as they did in the activities.

Football, unsurprisingly had to feature at some point, with Ben putting in a gallant effort on behalf of the UK team. More surprisingly snakes and ladders, and twister also featured. In a time honoured tradition Stephanie performed gymnastics. However she did not feature in the medals having had Andrea come out of retirement to perform, who was in turn pipped to the post by two of the Baho Neza Residents. 

The closing ceremony featured African drumming. The highlight was definitely some specially written chants for the 3 houses: Ingagi (Gorilla), Intare (lion) and Ingwe (Jaguar). Less of a highlight was Pharrel's song "Happy" performed by the whole UK group. Although when asked for another, we had to resort to Beth doing a solo of "Ho Hey". 

Before leaving group photos were taken, and then more excitingly sunglasses were given to all students donated by the fundraising project of Kit Rutterford.  After fond farewells the UK groups left, exhausted but invigorated by the success of the day.