Day 5

Good morning (or evening in Calgary)!

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This morning, we woke up to a grey overcast that hung over the city.  Once again, we had a great breakfast with some amazing coffee all together as a group and talked about what we would do with the All-Stars today. No classroom today! Just soccer. We started our session with them playing team bonding games ie. (sitting on eachother’s laps in a circle and trying to walk around, the human knot, etc). Also to be noted – the human knot doesn’t work if you have two interlocking circles. Once we discovered that, it was easy. We followed this up with a basic technical session, showing them dynamic stretching and really simple dribbling skills, finishing the session with handball and fast break. Some of their skills are amazing but they have great enthusiasm to learn and seem to have a lot of fun with whatever we try to show them. It started to rain lightly in the middle of our session, rendering the court really slick really fast so we ended our session there. Nania took a nice little spill as a result. In the afternoon, Sarah, Brittany and I took off to Sigcawu Primary School in Crossroads to hand out some gear to the girls. The gym set up was pretty sweet, having a court in the middle that was surrounded by a 2 foot ledge – perfect for indoor soccer. We spent the next hour playing keep away with some of the kids and teaching them some turns. The Sports Master (AKA athletics director) seemed really excited for us to be there. He seemed pretty entertained when we absolutely butchered the school name Sigcawu (there’s a click in there – it’s harder than it looks).

After we wrapped it up at Sigcawu, we all decided to split off for a bit for some personal time. Britt, Caitlin, Lindsay and I hit up the local coffeehouse called Vida E Coffee. One word: unreal. Probably one of the best vanilla lattés I’ve ever had. For all you coffee snobs out there, I would say it’s one of the tops. The four of us hung out there reading and writing in our travel journals. We were supposed to have a Braai back at the hostel but the weather wasn’t in our favor so we ordered up a bunch of pizzas from Da Vinci’s (so good) and had a couple drinks (or 5) at the hostel bar, before calling it a night.

Cheers from the other side of the world,

Jo

Note: Pictures will be added at a later date. I need breakfast.