well lets start with the soccer saturday, once again we bought together the children that we work with in the 4 different areas of grabouw, each area providing 2 soccer teams (under 12 and under 15) of 7 boys and one team of girls for netball...all in all we had over 120 children playing sport between 9am and 1pm which was fantastic.
i picked my boys up from the squatter camp called iraq, at 8.30 in the morning and took this photo of the boys next to our training post and in front of the squatter camp before we left, as you will see in the following photo the pitches we played on and the setting of those pitches were a little different to the area where these boys live.......such is the contrast between the have and have nots in this country.
trondor and the two dutch students who are working with us, lars and denis, refereed the soccer matches, which were organised by daz, lisa sorted the netball which seemed to be played in a wonderful spirit, such a lot of noise coming from the girls supporting from the sidelines.
for the record, arron's rooidakke team once again won the under 12 age group, but he couldn't repeat his whitewash as last time with my team from iraq winning the under 15 age group on a penalty shoot out after the teams finished level in the group stage.....the iraq boys where singing all the way home in the back of my pick up (bakkie) and were warmly welcomed by the members of the squatter area with shouts of joy..elgin timbers won the netball again with much joy and excitement.
overall everyone had a wonderful time, each child received a fresh drink and a packet of crisps, which made their day, and the kids were so excited to travel to the country club in a bus as well...see photo below of the wonderful surroundings we played in.
ok then on saturday afternoon, after a short nap, we welcomed the family of one of our children who was celebrating his second birthday, the other boy wasn't so blessed as we have no contact with his family, however he enjoyed opening his presents, and feeding on the wonderful feast that maz, lisa and jess had arranged to celebrate his third birthday.
we played parcel the parcel with the children, which was more of a hit with the adults who were visiting, by their reaction i think that might have been the first time that they had ever played the game, which allowed everyone to unwrap a piece of the parcel and win a prize, it was like everyone was celebrating their birthdays!....
i will try to upload some further photos of the soccer day and the party onto my flickr account later, that's if i have enough upload gigs, please visit later for more photos.
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