LCO Boys and Girls Club
It is fun to be back with the kids again after being in training camps and the Pacific Northwest the past six weeks. I have been working at the Boys and Girls Club on the Lac Courte Orielles reservation for almost a year now. My first day back was a good one. We joined the rest of the world in celebrating the birth of the modern Olympics on Olympic Day, June 23rd. We celebrated at ‘The Club by promoting the Olympic values and physical fitness. Tuesday was by far the hottest day of the summer so we spend most of our time indoors. We held our own track and field contests including a relay race around the gym, long jump, 50m dash, high jump, disc toss and softball toss. We talked about Chicago’s bid for the summer Olympic Games in 2016. It would be pretty cool to have the greatest world stage for sports to be just 5 hours away. I also talked about my Olympic quest in cross country skiing and the importance of sportsmanship.
Adolfo, Dusty, Alex, Archie, Alana, Devon, Brian, Marie, Isaiah, Betty, Elianna and Paige
Devon, Kiera, and Adolfo
Devon and Dimitry getting ready for the relay
Adolfo, Archie, Devon and Me
Long Jump
Hailey working on her slip and slide Limbo
