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I will be honest. I never liked Ugyen Academy aka
UA(www.ugyenacademy.edu.bt). UA is our closest neighbor, strongest opponent and
the only competition in the district. My dislike for UA was born because they
beat us in football and basketball every year, except last year, which was more
of luck than real skill. Every year UA lifts the winning trophies for most of
the ball games, their victory cry pained my ears. What was frustrating was also
because most of our good players who pass out or fail play against us in their
team the next year.
What I did not contemplate was, UA’s dominance has
made us work harder, both academically and in sports. Being the only high
school in the district before was like becoming lazy; our standards had come
down. But now our footballers play and lose against UA every year. Though we
lose all the time, there is less pressure, as we risk nothing compared to them
but work harder.
Most of the football, basketball, and volleyball
players in UA come to the school on scholarships. They also come from humble
backgrounds. These boys and girls are brought to UA and are given free
education. To study at UA, is not for the financially challenged. A boarding
student has to pay ranging from 65 to 80 thousand for one year, depending on
the stream of their choice. UA is, at the beginning of every year overwhelmed
with new admissions and some say it is the best private school in the country.
Bhutan, is a developing country and like other
developed countries, games and sports have not become professional careers but
what UA is doing is a start. In a government school one would neglect games and
sports because it will not land you in to a job but this is slowly changing,
and it’s a good change. I never realized that UA is giving these students a
second chance to life. These students are mostly under performers in academics
but the facilities at UA focuses on their strengths and help the students boost
their confidence. Their strength being sports. UA also extends its scholarship
to the underprivileged and the needy students, we call these students kidu students.
My students competing with the UA students, is like
watching my child get beaten by another child who is faster, stronger and
bigger, so it is normal that I feel the emotions that I feel. But UA wins every
game, playing them by the rules of the game and now realizing this I have no
hard feelings against UA, rather I am glad that we have UA.
Interesting! :)
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense that we love our schools and competing against some other is natural.
Great read, sir. Liked the way pointed out and being happy for the positives you draw out despite at the losing end. By the way, there was a technical glitch or some problems it seems because you have posted the same articles four or five times. You may look into it. :)
ReplyDelete@yeesi - yes competition is healthy and UA gives us plenty for that matter.
ReplyDelete@Langa - Thank you Langa, you can call me Nobu. Yes there was some problem with publishing the post, it said error publishing, but later I found the same post published many times.
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@Denise Robinson - Thank you for reading, I hope you will continue to comment on my future posts.
ReplyDeletehi....it is written very well sir.... all the best sir!
ReplyDelete@ texten - thank you for reading, am glad that you enjoyed it.
ReplyDeletePHSS: never neglect games but admit we focus more on academics so does our stand : "PHSS- towards achieving academic excellence" . But our students do well in all fields like you say "playing them by rules of the game"
ReplyDeleteYou are right Rinchen, and thank you for reading.
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