Murphy's Law

Yesterday was my school's round robin district tournament, where every student in the school is involved in sport or extra curricular activities. We are involved in this because Beaudesert High and Flagstone College are too far to travel to for weekly sporting games, so twice a term all schools participate in a variety of sports at venues around the area.

Being sports master, it is my responsibility to organise sporting teams and extra curricular activities, student payments, student medical & permission forms and buses for the 350 students who stay at school and the 400 students that compete (up to 150 students are absent).
On top of this, I have to co-convene the soccer 7's event with 300 - 350 boys from the district.

It is a huge day, but I put a lot of effort in because the kids love it. HOWEVER, no matter how prepared I was, things just kept going wrong. As Murphy's Law state: whatever can go wrong, WILL!

Firstly, the bus company called to say 2 drivers had called in sick and they could only provide 7 out of 9 buses. So I scrambled to get another company to travel to Runaway Bay and Browns Plains.

Secondly, after organsing the roster for all the teachers in the school, 3 teachers called in sick and to save TRS the school didn't replace them. This meant some teachers had a really huge workload that day.

Thirdly, we arrived at B Soccer Club to find that they had no paper work for us to be there and wanted to kick us off their fields. I assured them we had booked through GC Council however due to recent Council amalgamations, the club is now looked after by LC Council and there had been a lack of communication between the two.

And lastly, due to this lack of communication, I was on the phone to the Council while I was refereeing to organise for someone to come and open the toilet facilities for the 300 plus kids. There was obviously no canteen either, so students were ordering pizzas to the ground or whinging in my ear that they were hungry (even though I told them to bring lunch and brought oranges and water for all the students at my school). Someone did eventually turn up and opened them.

I won't even begin to tell you of the 3 major incidences that I had to deal with when I returned back to school. Let me just say that they resulted in 2 expulsions and 1 long term suspension and those students were of no loss to us.

So after all that, I can home, brought some pink champagne and watched the socceroos draw with China in the World Cup qualifiers. WHAT A DAY!