Well we are now settled in Mzuzu at the Church of Christ Bible College.
But let me tell you a little about are last couple days and then we will be all caught up.Well I told you all about the library and Jarrod talked about everything we had to do in Senga Bay but some things we left out. On Saturday we had the soccer final all day long. Our day started at 8am with the Cool Boys vs. the Super Rhinos battling it out for 3rd and 4th place. After the Super Rhinos beat the Cool Boys 3 to 1 (it was a shock but good game) we ran off to Tom’s (Sam’s other camp site) to finish setting up for the awards ceremony. After a quick lunch we went back to the field for the final match. Rovers Youth vs. Young Star. Now a little background about the teams. Rovers Youth is part of the Rovers Soccer Club in the Maganga Village. The team had a rocky start with a loss in their first game but after that they picked up and finished their season 5,2. Their coach is Sydi a man who plays for Rovers Club. Sydi along with Perri (the coach of Cool Boys) formed the league and did an amazing job. The Rovers Youth is full of smack talking 15 year olds and it is fun to watch. They all just love soccer and the side lines are full of “did your mama teach you to kick like that” and young girls that sing songs and dance for their boys. But in all their mocking and cheering they have fun and are good sports and play the game well.
The Young Stars dominated the league with an undefeated record but had very poor attitudes. Even though they where leading the league in both points and goals their coach would complain about everything. According to Chief Mucuti all of the boys on the Young Stars team were over 15 but they would still complain about the ages of the boys on the other teams. (hope that makes sense) Well the Young Stars made it to the final with no problems except they had a new coach. Their coach quit the team the week before the final because he didn’t like the league. Real nice right? I am sure that made his boys feel really good about themselves.
So the final came and it was a great game both teams played amazing the 80 min game ended at 0,0 so we moved into 14 min over time… still 0,0 so then it came to penalties. The game ended 5-3 with the Young Stars on top. Now the story behind this win…. The night before the game the Young Stars slept in the grave yard to talk to the ancestors. Now to you and me that would just be psyche tactic to get into the Rovers heads. But no… The people believe that the team spoke to the ancestors and when it came time for penalty kicks the ancestors blinded the goalie of the Rovers so that he could not see the ball and Young Stars would score the goals. Crazy to us but all of the teams and spectators believe that that is why they won the game.
After the game we all went back to Tom’s for the awards ceremony which was lots of fun. I had made a movie of pictures we had taken though out the season and it was really cool to hear the boys calling out each others names and laughing at the funny pictures. Along with 1st through 4th prizes we also gave out fun prizes like best dressed and funniest player and best kicker. We gave at least one player from each team a prize so that it would be fun and the kids don’t feel like they played for nothing because they were last in the league. We had some great donated prizes the big thing was Mama K and the Malawi Project donated us 20 pairs of brand new Nike sneakers. Then we had t-shirts donated from Sam’s mechanic and hats and pencil cases from the Print Shop. We had toys and Adidas flip flops as well. All in all it was a fun time.
We got back to Cool Runnings just wiped out from the day so we relaxed and had our last good meal of fish and mashed potatoes on the house and Sam even sat down for dinner with us. (This is a big honor)
Sunday morning we woke up packed the car, said our good byes to the staff and hit the road to Zambia.
But let me tell you a little about are last couple days and then we will be all caught up.Well I told you all about the library and Jarrod talked about everything we had to do in Senga Bay but some things we left out. On Saturday we had the soccer final all day long. Our day started at 8am with the Cool Boys vs. the Super Rhinos battling it out for 3rd and 4th place. After the Super Rhinos beat the Cool Boys 3 to 1 (it was a shock but good game) we ran off to Tom’s (Sam’s other camp site) to finish setting up for the awards ceremony. After a quick lunch we went back to the field for the final match. Rovers Youth vs. Young Star. Now a little background about the teams. Rovers Youth is part of the Rovers Soccer Club in the Maganga Village. The team had a rocky start with a loss in their first game but after that they picked up and finished their season 5,2. Their coach is Sydi a man who plays for Rovers Club. Sydi along with Perri (the coach of Cool Boys) formed the league and did an amazing job. The Rovers Youth is full of smack talking 15 year olds and it is fun to watch. They all just love soccer and the side lines are full of “did your mama teach you to kick like that” and young girls that sing songs and dance for their boys. But in all their mocking and cheering they have fun and are good sports and play the game well.
The Young Stars dominated the league with an undefeated record but had very poor attitudes. Even though they where leading the league in both points and goals their coach would complain about everything. According to Chief Mucuti all of the boys on the Young Stars team were over 15 but they would still complain about the ages of the boys on the other teams. (hope that makes sense) Well the Young Stars made it to the final with no problems except they had a new coach. Their coach quit the team the week before the final because he didn’t like the league. Real nice right? I am sure that made his boys feel really good about themselves.
So the final came and it was a great game both teams played amazing the 80 min game ended at 0,0 so we moved into 14 min over time… still 0,0 so then it came to penalties. The game ended 5-3 with the Young Stars on top. Now the story behind this win…. The night before the game the Young Stars slept in the grave yard to talk to the ancestors. Now to you and me that would just be psyche tactic to get into the Rovers heads. But no… The people believe that the team spoke to the ancestors and when it came time for penalty kicks the ancestors blinded the goalie of the Rovers so that he could not see the ball and Young Stars would score the goals. Crazy to us but all of the teams and spectators believe that that is why they won the game.
After the game we all went back to Tom’s for the awards ceremony which was lots of fun. I had made a movie of pictures we had taken though out the season and it was really cool to hear the boys calling out each others names and laughing at the funny pictures. Along with 1st through 4th prizes we also gave out fun prizes like best dressed and funniest player and best kicker. We gave at least one player from each team a prize so that it would be fun and the kids don’t feel like they played for nothing because they were last in the league. We had some great donated prizes the big thing was Mama K and the Malawi Project donated us 20 pairs of brand new Nike sneakers. Then we had t-shirts donated from Sam’s mechanic and hats and pencil cases from the Print Shop. We had toys and Adidas flip flops as well. All in all it was a fun time.
We got back to Cool Runnings just wiped out from the day so we relaxed and had our last good meal of fish and mashed potatoes on the house and Sam even sat down for dinner with us. (This is a big honor)
Sunday morning we woke up packed the car, said our good byes to the staff and hit the road to Zambia.
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