It has been a long, hot, but very rewarding day in Musanze! With an 8 o’clock exit of the hotel to deliver coach education at GS Musanze school and straight to Sonrise High School to coach some young adults, this was our day:
8:00 AM: Depart hotel to GS Musanze to coach school teachers in level 2 CWB coaching Led by Danny, Ella & Ali in order to help them deliver the ‘ABCTTS’ messages to the children of Rwanda.
8:25 AM: Cornered in a giant field by two football matches and some grazing goats we soon realise that there are too many of us to help with the coach education and too many random children to not take the opportunity to play ad hoc and hectic versions of catch using a bat, a ball and a lot of kids all seemingly with little or no English!
9:30 AM: An hour in and myself, Jack, Joe, Ed & Simon each have large groups shouting ‘Muzungu’ by 150 Rwandan children who all wanted us to hit the ball to them or play catch. We tried our drills out in preparation for upcoming school sessions for two hours, enabling coach education to do its thing without interference. Not easy under a blazing Rwandan sun, especially with the added challenge of brazen attempts at ball theft including possibly CWBs youngest ever, caught on camera…
11:00 AM: Ed had his leg hair braided!
11:30 AM: An eventful search for lunch, A couple of us headed off in the bus to find samosas, we came out with meat on a bone and some unfilled ‘sandwiches’, ie dry bread!
1:30 PM: Most of the team leave GS Musanze except for Danny and Ella, who stay with coach Emmy, to finish off coach education.
2:00 PM: Arrive at Sonrise and teach 120 teenagers ranging from 13-17 years old who had never played cricket before and reinforcing their ABCs all afternoon, their knowledge of HIV/AIDS, and their levels of English way above that which we have so far encountered.
16:00 PM: The team, utterly bemused by the circling rain, such that we could hear it rapping on the roof of the classroom yet was not falling on us 100 yards away!
17:00 PM: Finish at Sonrise, the children and sports teacher wildly enthusiastic to learn more cricket, we depart for home for a strong drink and a lie down after a very long and very hot day.
Sam
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