I was born and raised in a hick town, so I totally second that this is what PE is like. Despite all the emphasis on our football team, "gym" "class" was a complete insult to even the concept of exercise. You spend 20 minutes just very slowly explaining the rules of fucking kickball as if we just heard about it for the first time IN HIGH SCHOOL, and the rest of the time was a boring nothingburger of a 'class' because no one (me included) took it seriously. On the bright side, there wasn't much of a jocks vs nerds thing at my school because I could always just make my physical shortcoming look like I'm just not taking it seriously like everyone else. You could just flip the script on any bully by pointing out "Wow, you care about things to the extent that someone else's imperfection offends you? Loser!"
Please Mao, come back and rewrite the script for gym class to make it actually practical.
"workout communally"
Ever heard of gym class? Sorry China's gym class is probably better for actually exercising.
Our gym class was disorganized pick up basketball while the gym teacher nursed a hangover.
I was born and raised in a hick town, so I totally second that this is what PE is like. Despite all the emphasis on our football team, "gym" "class" was a complete insult to even the concept of exercise. You spend 20 minutes just very slowly explaining the rules of fucking kickball as if we just heard about it for the first time IN HIGH SCHOOL, and the rest of the time was a boring nothingburger of a 'class' because no one (me included) took it seriously. On the bright side, there wasn't much of a jocks vs nerds thing at my school because I could always just make my physical shortcoming look like I'm just not taking it seriously like everyone else. You could just flip the script on any bully by pointing out "Wow, you care about things to the extent that someone else's imperfection offends you? Loser!"
Please Mao, come back and rewrite the script for gym class to make it actually practical.
Similar to me.
I actually used to skip that class when I could by making up some excuse, just to avoid how fucking shitty that class was.