The day got off to a by now expected ‘African’ start, with 15 of the 24 trainee coaches delayed by around an hour due to transport issues. Fortunately Top Bananas “Stanbo” was on hand to answer all of Carl’s reptile related questions while we waited for their arrival, which did nothing to settle nerves of the jumpier members of the team (Tim still claims to have a bruise from the Gigantic Moth that flew into him at tonight’s team meeting!)
Despite the delayed start things were soon underway with a nervous looking Carl avoiding going near any rocks or long grass as he took the would be coaches through his (by now perfected) game of stop, go, jump, clap.
With the ice broken, it was smiles and laughter all round as Tim ( under the watchful eye of sensei Adam) dodged the Black Mambas to expertly instruct everyone on the front foot drive. As we strived to make up for lost time time Simon whizzed through the basics of bowling before we finished off the session with the ubiquitous lords game.
After a quick lunch in the minibus, we headed off for the standard ’15’ minute drive to Senyawe primary school where we were greeted by 78 (very!) well mannered children and Mr Mousa who had attended a pervious CWB course and was delighted to catch up with some of the returning CWB’ers.
We were ably assisted in the afternoon session by Clem (the local BCF rep), 5 of the coaches from top banana and last but not least by KB (our driver) who has progressed rapidly, both in his cricket coaching and in his comfort in getting across the CWB message.
On a slightly lighter note, the bus banter has degraded steadily ever since Meng’s departure, with the drive home starting with some (lengthy) bad jokes before descending into a strange mix of South African accents ( they were really bad, hey) and discussions about the current state of the Swedish national netball team.