Heelman

Everything started at the train station of Kruiningen-Yerseke. It was cold. I arrived 10 minutes before the train usually arrives, wrong. The train was delayed ten minutes, so I had to wait twenty, easy addition. I took the train when it arrived.

Our Dutch volunteer mate was waiting there for half an hour before the train arrived because of a misunderstanding. We had to go to a sport hall which was not so close to the train station. OK, it started raining. The Dutch volunteer had a bike and I had a tracksuit, so run. It was good because we would do sports and I was warming up. Breathing was not easy… Finally, we arrived at the sport hall.

We found our court and we met Jan whom we already know because of the Sunday afternoon before. He was the one who told us about this sport day.

Czech girl was already there, but she didn’t wear sport clothes. We introduced ourselves, we talked about our organization, our hobbies and our motivations for coming to the Netherlands and our project. After that, they made four teams. Competition would start soon. There were two games: football and… and another, but it’s hard to explain. It was a gymkhana, just two teams were playing. Each person in the team had to do (without our shoes):

1.       –Put on pyjama bottoms.

2.       -Run and put on a little jersey.

3.       -Run and jump over a vaulting horse.

4.       –Put on a jacket even smaller than the jersey.

5.       -Put on shoes with heels, of course, four sizes smaller than mine at least.

6.       -Run and hold a spoon in your mouth with a table tennis ball on it.

7.       -Then, remember that we were wearing heels and we were bringing a spoon with a table tennis ball on it, we had to put on a necklace similar to ones in Hawaiian parties and also two caps. The brim of one cap had to point forwards and of the other one backwards.

8.       -Walk with this stuff on till you get to a mark and then do everything in reverse.

Who won or who lost is not important, just having fun. Of course I’m saying this because we lost…

Then we play against the same team, but this time we played football. It was really nice. The youth leader who invited us is a great football player. WOW. We lost again, but it was funny.

We repeat the activities against another team. It was a long day after the lesson in Pontes and these activities, but I like days like these.

Noel, Galicia