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Juggeling at school

Autor:  Ainsel
After I successfully convinced my teacher that juggling is a great thing the school wants to support with CAS (Creativity Activity Service) hours which you need to complete your IB diploma. The first step wasn’t too difficult as my teacher was in favour of my idea from the beginning on. I also could make it my project if I perform on the Christmas market of the school. Funnily enough she said that 4 tricks were enough and so I’m gonna “perform” on that Christmas market thing and make a fool of myself in the name of education. She also told me that I could not just get my service hours with the teaching part but also could I get activity or creativity hours for choice as I’m “practicing” for my “performance”.
Enthusiastically I then went to my head teacher to ask her about permission and some space. Her first question was what I was juggling. Fortunately I had my incredibly satisfactory, soft beanbags with me. Health and safety. As a facility she suggested me one of the sport halls and told me to find the PE teacher to ask her when one of them would be available. When I carefully asked her about my juggling clubs her answer was definite. There won’t be any clubs as they are way too dangerous. Health and safety. I couldn’t quite understand that. I was going to take part in the knitting club that very day. To me knitting needles are way more dangerous than clubs. Not only have clubs, other than knitting needles which have at least one pointy end, both ends cushioned with rubber but also do I not think that they are on the black list of some German doctors and hospitals. Knitting needles actually are. Then again you do can take knitting needles on the plane. And as you can’t take umbrellas I doubt they let you take clubs. But thinking of it, assuming that whoever creates the restrictions on what you can take in your hand luggage is capable of acting reasonable, that maybe is because of the limited space on a plane. I mean their water pricing is more dangerous than all my clubs and umbrellas put together. Somebody could dehydrate and die of a kidney disease.
But well she’s the authority. So I went to the PE teacher and asked her about the sports halls. Unbelievably one of them was free in the lunch breaks of the days I wanted to do the teaching. Unfortunately, despite all the advertising I did, nobody came. But well, what did I expect? It was lunchtime after all. No miracle the hall was free. I did manage to gather some people. The incredible amount of 4 people. All of them one year under me. Two of them I actually convinced to go juggling rather than taking part in whatever sporty activity for what to take part in they entered the sports hall in the first place. One of them took part even if he didn’t need CAS hours. Mainly because his girlfriend did. She again took part because she wanted to please him as she knew that I was a good friend of him. Or maybe I’m just an incredibly convincing person. Well I didn’t have any more balls anyway.
After I gathered my students I then was to find out that the sports hall IS used during CAS time, a time especially reserved to earn CAS hours. So we occupied the common room.
I try seeing it as a coincidence but after about 5 to10 minutes EVERYBOADY has left the room. Fleeing from 5 people with 15 soft beanbags in a corner of a, I’d say, at least 400m² hall.
Seeing that therefore the room maybe isn’t the best facility we decided to continue outside making me dependent on the weather.
What a fortune I’m in England.
Wish me luck.


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