La cross

There was a very confusing week when the kids came home everyday talking about practicing for la cross, when I thought they were doing lacrosse.  They talked about having a competition against the other Marseillan school (made sense), they did it in the school yard (made sense), they had to wear trainers to school on practice days (made sense). Their training consisted of running round a 200m track timing each other (didn't make sense - where was the ball?).  Finally I figured out that la cross is cross-country running, not Canada's national sport. 
Today was the culmination of all that practice - the day of the inter-school run.  I don't think there could be a much more beautiful course - along the beach, round the port, and into the park.  There were four different length courses - Joe did about 3.5km, and Andy about 2km. When the kids got issued t-shirts we thought it might be quite serious, but it turned out that the other school also had the exact same t-shirts and it wasn't serious at all, just a leisurely jog.  Super fun though, and at the end they got a bottle of water and a pain au chocolat.  Was nice for me and Stewart to see them with their school friends too.

Joe (in Senators cap) with his classmates and teacher, Madame Golf.

Andy with his class