10th March – day thirteen

Back to Nyakasura school to receive four primary schools, 52 in total, keen, enthusiastic and skilled reflecting the hard work put in by the coaches we trained last year. At break time all of the Nyakasura primary school children invaded the field and headed for Chris, he’s our own pied piper, masses of children following him around the field.
Sadly we say goodbye to Chris who has to return to England, hopefully with great memories of the trip.
A strange lunchtime concert was held in the corner of the field as a fundraiser for a local singer who is wheelchair-bound. His music was played over a loud speaker with a local dancer, painted white, wearing a sky blue spandex jump suit with large bundles strategically placed front and rear. Extraordinary!!!
The afternoon saw four senior schools arrive; 56 girls arriving on a coach and 23 boys from the back of a pick up truck. Amazing school transport.
Jeremy decided his school would challenge Helen’s to a match, so at four p.m. the game followed. Report to follow. Highlight for Jeremy was a return trip to Fort Portal on the girls’ coach.
An evening of pool and TV in the town eased the pin of waiting two hours for burger and chips.
Helen and Jeremy’s Match Report
We decided to stay behind to umpire a school match between Kyebambe and Nyakasura girls. We soon had a large crowd on the boundary, mainly from the local primary school. The girls from Kyebambe play a lot of cricket and were the stronger of the two teams putting in a disciplined innings to chase down a total of 34 in a few balls short of the ten overs, despite a slow start – unfortunately aided by too many wides from Nyakasura. The turning point of the match was the hat trick over by the leading Kyebembe bowler.
We hitched a lift back to town on the girls’ bus which was lively to say the least. Once Jeremy had argued with the drivers over the 50 pence fare, we jumped on to a couple of motorbikes back to the hotel, and delivered our ball by ball match report to the waiting team.