Peace Centre Quiz Night

This is how we spent our Friday night!

Quizzembard Kingdom Brunel was Matt's team.  They even had a bridge that one of his team members had build during a lesson.

My team was the Fallen Beauty Queens.  I was Miss Guided.

The evening was a quiz night in our school gym.  72 teams, made up of teachers, students and parents. It was all in aid of The Peace Centre, a school in Uganda that our older students have visited and helped build every year for the last 5.  All the money made from entry, raffle tickets, a painting auction, food and drink goes to the centre.  There is also a big fancy dress thing.

There were too many people in my office for one team, so we split in half - the competitive ones (including me) and the non competitive ones.  We came in a very respectable 6th out of 72 teams.  Our office colleagues came in 60th.  And Matt's team won.  He's been insufferable ever since.  There is a cracking video of them being announced as the winners.  They are so nervous and then are suddenly jumping around screaming like kids, chanting about their (home made) bridge.

There is also a costume competition, which we were not happy about at all.  My office had the best costumes BY FAR!  Any other year we would have won.  But this year, we have had a visitor in school for a month, who is all about sustainability.  He judged the costumes.  If we had been told that the theme was sustainability, we would have dressed accordingly.  But instead, a team of students won who were in normal clothes, with the name of a spice girl on paper, sellotaped to their tops won.  This man then proceeded to have a go at everyone who ordered any part of their costume online.  We were all there to raise money for charity and he is ranting about the most fun part of the evening.  Not. Impressed.

Lots of people, including random strangers, as well as the quiz organizers came up to us afterwards and said that they had wanted us to win. :-(  We're just a tad annoyed about this, as you can tell! Haha!  Still, we had fun, and raised lots of money and that's what's important.

Becky and I went to Pistoleras for dinner and a cheeky coconut margarita first...

The boys celebrating...

People kept not recognising me because of my contacts and long black hair. It was funny speaking to people and then watching them suddenly realise who they were talking to!

Matt and I went for brunch this morning to celebrate his win.

The rest of the week has been the usual busy days.  We had top level school management visiting this week and talking to lots of students, including our EAL students.  The feedback has been really good.  The one student they spoke to who I teach was telling them how much she loves EAL and how wonderful I am!  So I was very pleased!

Matt is playing cricket tomorrow, but other than that, we have no weekend plans.  How nice.  Just a relaxing couple of days working on my cross stitch and cuddling the kitties.