Football For Real This Time

Now for those of you who did not read my last post, I will quickly update you. I am the football coach at my school. We were supposed to have a game; it didn't happen because the students did not have proper identification.
This is now the story of the game that eventually did happen.
The following Friday we had the gam rescheduled for. The students had a week for the school to make them identity cards. Somehow, they actually came through, and every player had a card.(oh side note--the most frustrated part of the previous Sunday had been that the basketball team had also not has identity cards, and they let them play)
We had to leave school early to go to the game because it was being played at some other school's field. It was about 40 minutes away. That means bus ride with students. HAHA.. man did I feel old watching them do all their singing and chanting and clapping as we were driving. We finally arrived at the school, we got off the bus, and then had to walk to the field. Now this seconday school was right next to a primary school. All the children were just playing in the yard. What happens when I come by. They go CRAZY. I had over 100 children crowded around me because they all wanted to say hello and touch me. I actually had to tell my students to continue on without me because there was no way that I could move. Eventually I was able to start moving, but I had about 30 follow me to the field. As much as I might complain about the whole muzungu thing, I will admit that when children like these do it, I honestly can't get angry at them. They aren't asking me for money, and they aren't trying to be rude. They just don't know any better because they have never seen a white person before.

Okay-back to football. Our girls won 3-0. Not to brag, but we walked all over them.HAHA... The funny thing being that there were soo many mistakes my girls were making. At times it was soo frustrating because I wanted to scream out at them to do things, but their comprenhension of English is not that good, then add in the fact that they are spread out over a field and are concentrating on playing, they couldn't follow what I was saying.
After the game we had our bus ride back. The girls were soo excited. I had thought they were energetic on the way, it was nothing compared to the way back. It was actually a lot of fun. They made me smile the whole way back.

In the end I was very pleased that not only did we get to play, but also that we won. I will admit I had been worried about how they would take it if we lost..haha.. but luckily we didn't. :)