14th meeting

Our today's story - "Sports Day" from "My Animal Treasury"

Today our Bookworms book club had an outing - instead of holding our meeting in Umm Uzair's home, all of us went to Atefa aunty's home (that's the mother of Isa, Muadh and Hibatullah). We were excited to see two new members join the club today - two brothers Uzair and Umair, who are visiting Pakistan from India! Welcome to the club!

Umm Uzair had prepared for us some questions, as to why is it important for us to do sports activities. She asked us, what kinds of sports we liked to do. The answers included nearly all the possible sports: squash, basketball, football, cycling, karate, running, etc., etc. We all agreed that we LOVE to do sports. As we talked, we agreed that doing sports is not just fun but also very useful for our bodies. We get not only bigger muscles, but also become stronger and are able to fight of diseases better.

Today's story was also about sports - "Sports Day". It was about two kittens Lulu and Lenny, who loved to do sports. But the trouble was that no matter what they tried to do (racing, jumping etc.), they always ended up in trouble in their alley - always somebody got hurt. When other cats of the alley complained to their mother, she decided to make a sports day for her kittens and the other cats in the alley. The cats refused to participate, as they wanted to take a cat nap. The mother then decided to call the dogs for help - they happily agreed. When the sports day started, the other cats felt bad about missing out on the fun, so they asked for permission to join in. The sports day turned out to be lots of fun. However, later everybody saw that it ended up being lots of mess in the alley as well. On seeing this, mother of the kittens said that the next day they were going to have "clean up the alley" day - and all of them laughed.

Having read the story, we went to have a small sports day of our own. Since the house of Atefa aunty is quite spacious, we had some races. We divided ourselves into two teams. First, we did relay-race. Then we practiced for double-race (two persons running with one leg tied together) and did also this race. Even though we kept on falling down, it WAS lots of fun and laughter! :)