The VUVU goes "bluh" or "pwah" in KOREA!

VUVUZELA Madness!

Nothing has brought quite so much excitement in my class, as the Soccer World Cup! Here are some pics of things we've done in class-well and on the field!

Firstly, we played soccer outside as a tournament and every boy got a name tag with his team and a position. We had 2 groups with 3 teams in each group and played 6 games first round and one final match where the winners got a "trophy"! Much delight was had by all! Unfortunately, weather cut play on one day and the PE teacher on another day, so some classes were unable to play soccer. And as a result, I have never had quieter classes-the shear disappointment and sadness of not playing was sitting in the room like a huge purple elephant-and no world cup highlights or cool PEPSI adverts about soccer could save the day!

However, my next lesson was a winner-kit, fans and cheers! I think mostly because my package from home had just arrived with the wonderful contents of a VUVU and flags of the world cup and my yellow bafana jersey. It was one of the most fun lessons I have had! The boys were enthralled by trying to play the VUVU-all to no avail-bluh and pwah were the only sounds! Except one rather large boy who sits in the front gave it a huge BRRRRRR -and as you can tell-I was most pleasantly surprised! He could blow rather loudly as indicated by the boy blocking his ears next to him. Another memorable moment was when the one boy blew so badly that spit landed on his friend's face, who was quietly observing the contents of the VUVUZELA! haha!

We looked at various kit from World Cup teams and discussed brands such as NIKE, ADIDAS and PUMA. The boys thought it was funny that I thought the American kit looks like something from Miss World!I also got the boys to design their own team kit with their countries' colours-it was fun. Now my classroom is wonderfully decorated- looks great!

Today, unfortunately my classes are stunned in silence as Korea lost against Uruguay this weekend and they are obviously still recovering from the defeat! oh the love of soccer- for goodness sake it's just a game! BUT- oh- what a wonderful game! :)