by Naomi Bray
On April 8th and 12th, 2010, Umbrella hosted an inter-house Carrom Board team competition for all classes. Carrom is a popular, skilled game similar to pool (if you played pool with your fingers and the balls were flat disks) played by mostly Nepali men. It is comprised of a large square playing board, nine white and nine black jogi disks, a queen, and a striker. For the competition, a modified version of “Game” was played. The object of Game is to hit all the disks of one color and the queen into the four corner holes before your opponent. The teams were split into four groups according to classes and the style of the NBA Playoffs style was adapted to suit the Carrom Game. At least that was the plan. The four competitions turned into considerably chaotic, lively, but fun times.
The winners in the Montessori group were a pair of girls from SolHimal Girls (one of which had a broken arm), the class 2, 3, 4 group was won by a pair of Amadablam guys, in the 5, 6, 7 division the victors were a guy from Machhapuchhere and a girl from Gauri-Shankar (!!!Score one for gender mixing in Nepal!), and the 8, 9, 10 group had only two participants from Annapurna, they came away with first and second places. The winners received boasting rights as prizes.
Also involved in the competition were older Umbrella kids who stepped up and acted as referees, argument breaker-uppers, and organizers. They were from Annapurna, Machhapuchhere, Sagarmatha, and Sugarloaf houses. The competition was less hectic thanks to these awesome guys and girls.
Highlights for me were: 16 teams participating from the Montessori group (this was the craziest group with 32 kids aged 6-10 running around like chickens after bugs), that so many girls participated in the competition and won, that some of the teams were guy/girl combos, and the kids had a great time amid the chaos.
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