Day 7-by Lydia and Holly

Extreme early start today after a sudden rain attack at 1am for an out of bed wakening at 5.30am. Several members of the team wandered down to the football pitch to set up for our first project: Kindergarten Sports Day, which we had demonstrated the day before (an eventful practice!). Ghana Maybe Time (GMT) meant that the intended Wednesday Morning worship never occurred but it gave us an opportunity to complete the Sports Day, Cricket and Football layout-an attempt to sort around 120 under 6 year olds into 12 equal groups. If you have never tried this before; don’t risk it!

Sports Day began on a high with our JHS buddies helping look after our teams. Each race had 3 repeats and the kids loved participating in the sprint, relay, sand-in-water bag-on-head game, lime and spoon, and sack race. Overall community humour moment was when one of the smallest children ever ran in the sand on head game, a drastic fail . The event went down a storm with the winner of each race receiving a very flash Weydon pencil, something we are sure the children will treasure. Next came the Cricket Match: an organised (thanks to Miss Frost) but chaotic game that enabled the older students to have an interesting day too. The boiling midday sun was not a good mix for a cricket game with the Ghanaians, though, on true English Cricket style, there was brief yet heavy downpour of rain. Canopies were up along with a sound system so announcements could be made about the scores and winning team. If all this wasn’t enough a football game began immediately after the Cricket between the teachers in Dwabor + 2 Weydon students, and the Ghanaian students + 2 Weydon students. By now the whole village was out to support in numbers, adults cheered on the student team whilst Kindergarten children danced cheerily and amazingly around the speaker system which played music and had the football commentary.

The football match, which seemed to last hours in the eyes of some spectators under the canopy in the hottest part of the day, ended 6-2 to the teachers with Ollie Brown as man-of-the-match.

When we finally got back to base, Becky and Mia made everyone sandwiches which were much appreciated, especially by the sweaty boys who had played football most of the afternoon. After a break folowing lunch, a group went to put logs in the land rover ready to be stripped for the pathway. The rest of the afternoon was spent by most, stripping logs and collecting water from the well. A successful day which now means 1 of our 3 projects is complete!