My first week in my volunteering-project is already over. Today started the second week.
The project is very interesting and nice. I'm working in a Primary School in Wingfield, Cape Town. From Monday to Thursday every class has one hour sport bzw. soccer. So my day starts at 9 am with the first class and ends at 2 pm, when the last class is finished. The kids are between five and thirteen years old. Mostly we are three - five coaches (3 of them are volunteers at the moment). By the way I'am Coach Dario:)
During my first week I had to dance before every lesson to a South-African-Beat. It's a traditional thing here. Every new Coach must show his dancing-skills. Unfortunately (or in this case "fortunately") I danced only two days. On Tuesday and Wednesday, there was no sport-lessons because of the rain. This two days were a little bit boring - we had nothing to do. So I could sleep long:) And there are a lot of pubs near my backpacker, where I watched a lot of tennis and soccer...
Back to my work - After the rollcall, we divide the class into to groups (boys and girls). The boys play soccer (one, two exercises and then a match), the girls do other games with the coaches.
The kids are incredibly cute, particularly the smallest of them. Before every lesson, they run to us and hug all the coaches. It can be, that you have ten kids around you and all of them are hugging you... :)
But they can be also very loud, undisciplined, exhausting... After the last lesson I'm always done.
This week all of the classes have assessments. That means, they have to do exercises (not only soccer) and we (the coaches) give them a mark.
I am very happy with the project and I'm looking forward to the next days and weeks. And luckily the weather is better now, so I think the lessons will take place every day.
During the last week I met my friends from the school several times. On Tuesday we went to a friends flat in Sea Point and we cooked together. On Thursday, we went, like almost every Thursday, to a Karaoke-Bar in Observatory (now I'm living only two minutes away from there). On Friday I watched a movie in the cinema with a friend (the guest, (sosolala)).
One Day later I visited, together with my roommate Thibault from France, a junior soccer game (One of the coaches in the Primary School trains a team). Two, three players are very talented, they have skills, I' ll never be able to have it.
Later we went to Long Street, where we had a goodbye-party of a lot of students, they left Cape Town last weekend. We had a lot of fun, but it was also sad - again - to say goodbye...
Of course we watched the Champions League Final, and we were a little bit disappointed, because of the score at the end.
In exchange, sunday was a beautiful sport-day. At least. After the sad news from Aarau, Gränichen, Federer and, and and. I needed a success. And "Stan the man" did it. What a game, I watched it in a bar with a Swiss guy and I think all the people there recognized, that we are Swiss.
Unfortunately after the throphy-celebration, we saw a lot of bugs (Kakerlaken) on the bar-desk, because of that we left the bar immediately and so, I lost mini Stammbeiz :(
Maybe I'll give them a second chance, because the music there is fantastic.....
This week I haven't got a lot of plans yet.
Tomorrow I will climb the Table Mountain for my second time. My roommate wasn't on the top yet and he are going to leave Cape Town on Saturday.
Maybe I will hike on the Devils Peak on Saturday and visit the Rugby museum at the waterfront.
I will see and you will hear from me.
Peace,
Dario
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