School Sport

Hello :)

We can't believe but it's true, we don't have any more tests! However we still have some works to finish, and some oral presentatios to present, we are more relaxed now.

Thursday you will be able to see laranjitas screaming YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES from theirs room's balcony, because it's the end of the 1st term at school :D

Today we decided to talk about School Sport, because the last races from the Portuguese National Cup (National Ranking) were selection competitions for the next World School Orienteering Championships, in Madrid, April 2009. Laranjitas were top3 for the selection team, but for finishing the selection process we have to go to a Trainnig Camp, organized by the Portuguese Federation to check our presence at Madrid. The team will have 5 girls, there is another girl that is almost selected too, but there is a huge fight for the 5th place in the team.

Mariana and Isabel started practising orienteering at school, and thanks to theirs nice teachers and to an excellent relationship between them and the clubs, they are today orienteering runners :).

Every saturday morning, Isabel goes to a training, from School Sport. Five years ago she was a begginer, but today she helps her teacher organizing the trainnigs, and she teachs kids, maybe future champions :p

The three of us have already had the luck of going to a World School Orienteering Championship. Last year, Joana and Isabel went to Scotland, and they were third with theirs school team. Joana was 4th in Long Distance, and 8th in Midle Distance. Isabel was 8th in Long Distance, and 9th in Midle Distance. Mariana has already gone to a WSOC, but in 2006, with her school team, in Slovakia, she was 7th in the Long Distance and she was 9th in Midle Distance.

This season, it's our last chance to go to WSOC, and it is very close from home, Spain :) It's going to be in Madrid, from 13 to 19 April. We hope , (if we are selected, of course) an amazing week full of orienteering, friends and School's Sport atmosphere :)

See you,

O-laranjitas...

P.S. we feel very happy all the times we open this blog and we check the visitors, and every day there is a new coutry :) thanks everyone, we try to make it great.