Fail(ure).

This blog entry is dedicated to: JASMYN MARASIGAN! a.k.a. NotJasmine

Yesterday at Awana, it was my first time being the games leader for T&T Boys. Understandably, I was quite nervous, although I was doing it with a friend who is also in his first year as a T&T Boys leader. Before we started Games time, we had already talked a couple times about what games we would do and were feeling pretty confident that it would go well. We were going to start off with some running relays, play kingpin, and then a game that my friend had invented. It was going to go perfectly! Oh, what foolish hopes. We got off to an alright start. My friend Jackson got all the kids to line up on their colours and he introduced the first game. It was going pretty well, until it was my turn. I decided that instead of saying a number and then lining up, I would just yell a number and then get the kids to start running. It was a failure. One team got confused and didn't even run. The second time, I called a number that didn't exist. It was pretty embarassing. When we quickly changed games, it didn't go much better. The kids were really loud, and didn't listen at all. Also, some kid threw a ball at my face. The game that Jackson invented was a complete disaster and the kids didn't like it. It was really confusing and even I didn't understand it. One team ended up winning by a large margin. Even the kids said it sucked. It was the perfect storm. I hope I don't have to be the games leader ever again. The moral of the story is: being the games leader sucks, don't ever try it.