Mixing Work With Pleasure

Recently at work, the yard surrounding the schoolhouse was becoming very overgrown and unkempt. We thought that this reflected poorly on our school and on La Europa in general, so we decided to dedicate one class period to pulling weeds.
We had the girls form into teams and compete with each other to pull the most weeds. We offered a pass to get out of P.E. (which means the girls could sleep in for one morning) and another pass to get out of 5th period as incentives. Both the girls and the teachers joined in on th weeding. Unfortunately, about half of the girls gave up halfway through and just sat around talking. It was sad, but I guess not unexpected.
What they didn't know was that we had other surprises in store for them. Did they really expect us to make them weed out in the hot sun and only reward a few?
While we were weeding, the staff was in the house next door filling 500 water balloons. The weeding ended in a huge water fight, complete with balloons, a hose, and buckets of water. It was a ton of fun. At first I stayed around the edges of the fight and just threw a few balloons. But then one of the students smashed a balloon on my head, so I chased her around and made sure I nailed her with a few balloons. I thought that was the end of it, and I started going around picking up the rubber remains of the balloons. But then this student came back with some friends and they dumped two buckets of water on my head!
Then it was war. I ran after her, determined to get her back. Almost all of the balloons were used up, so I wrestled the hose away from another girl and chased down my prey, returning the favor and getting her drenched from head to toe. It was great. The other girls were laughing and screaming and egging us on.
We also gave them popsicles after lunch, after they cleaned up the bits of rubber that were scattered all over the lawn. I think we all had a good time, and the yard looks a lot better than it did. It's fun mixing work with pleasure!