Football mania
Thanks to Silver from CSWCT and Ngamba Island, Silver organised a football match between our volunteers and the pupils of Kennedy school. It was great fun to play against such brilliant players from the school. A mixture of girls and boys were waiting to play us, and before hand, told us they were fans of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal and were all in their school football kits.
We were told by them that we needed to warm up so the school football team showed us some exersises to do which us as volunteers tried very hard to keep up with!
We then met them in the middle to shake hands and begin the game. Jo helped us the most as she was very good with the rules and positions on the football field so we all decided where would play on the pitch.
Silver said he would help us in the goal which was also great knews for us!
The play commenced and it was great fun, the rest of the school had joined us at the side of the field and were cheering both of the teams on. It happened to be a very muddy and wet football pitch in places, where most of our team were falling down in. Each time this happened a roar of laughter and cheers were heard from around the pitch, as none of the school football team were falling over like we were.
The Yebo volunteers got very tired quickly and we asked the referee for a 15 minute half time call. All of the school 
however were far fitter than we were, as the Yebo volunteers were very out of breath and needed a break!
Kate ran ahead and scored our first goal in the first half and the rest of us cheered and ‘high fived’! Dee and Nicole took photos on the side and looked after our bottles of water which were well needed at half time.
The second half was even funnier, with Emmy and Lisa falling over several times in the mud, with Emmy scoring a second goal for us (with the help of the supporters at the side) who very kindly kicked the ball back to us so we could score.
All of us started to get very tired and it became apparent that we needed to stop, the longest 15 minutes of our day as we stopped running for the ball and couldn’t keep up with our opponents who went on to score another 5 goals, making the winning score to them 7-2!
All of us were very happy to have played the school and were very thankful to the pupils, teachers and to Silver for organising this for us as we really enjoyed the afternoon.
We went away with smiles, mud stains and thoughts that we were now expert football players, maybe you will see us at the world cup in June!
By Silver, April 18, 2010 @ 4:59 pm
Thanks for the great worK AND sharing this story.Its very interesting loved the match.
By Roger Mallins, April 19, 2010 @ 9:27 am
GROUNDBREAKING!!! Well done all.