So my second and final week with The Helderberg Academy, after a great first week this week promised to be a good one.
Monday
Mike and Cle don't come into the office on Mondays, they work Tuesday-Thursday and help out with the coaching and admin. So Monday it was just myself and Beth in the office.
The morning duties mainly involved preparation for the youth Camp so I was busy working hard on that. I'm organising the Saturday activities on the camp so its quite exciting, I'm looking forward to it!
In the afternoon we headed to Macassar (one of the communities we work in) and it was the first week we were starting Netball coaching for the girls there. They all found it funny that I was helping out in coaching a netball session but after the laughs it was a great session. For the game I followed in my little sister's footstep and took on the role of WD (hope that's her position anyway, sorry Kez), it's a good job it wasn't a proper game as i have no idea what that means or any of the rules of netball. We had great fun and our team won!
Monday evening i met Moritz in Somerset West. He's about to go on a 5 week tour and was spending the first night of the tour in Somerset so i drove down to pay a visit and say goodbye. We had a good evening with some games of pool and table football in the posh Hotel he was staying in. Good night.
Tuesday
Today was a busy day. We were all back in the office today and before we could start any of our jobs we headed to Gordans bay for a training session with Samaritans Feet. Will explain more about that later. Before we headed back we drove up to the reservoir in Gordans Bay to take in the view.
When we got back to the office we were back to work with planning caching sessions, preparing for camp and planning some events for the rest of the week.
The afternoon promised a special treat. On tuesday afternoon we head into Macassar to deliver a Rugby session for the local lads there. But today was no ordinary sessionas Western Province Scrum Half Nic Groom joined us for the session. Nic is a christian who goes to Mike's church, there's the link.
One of the boys pulled it out the bag and challenged Nic to 50 Push ups, in his humility he agreed to the challenge and blew us all away with his quick performance. Mike tried to keep up but he had no chance!
Wednesday
Wednesday afternoon i was taking the football session at Eerste Revier. Todays football skill was Goalkeeping; life skill, focus and Bible Story Peter walks on water.
Warm Up
Demonstrating a keeper jumping to collect the ball, not a ballerina. Jump off one leg, knee up for protection, arms fully extended to make yourself as tall as possible.
The bible story; Peter walks on water.
Me and Jesus.
Thursday
Thursday afternoon I was taking another session. This session is a bit different as it's a PE lesson for one of the local township schools so therefore there is no bible story but we still look to do a life skill alongside our football skill which was dribbling.
After my session it was time for our first partnership with Samaritans Feet. What is Samaritans Feet all about? Well do you remember in DuNoon how i said most of the kids didn't have any shoes, well Samaritans Feet is all about providing these kids with a pair of shoes. How it works? We take in show sizes of Kids, then we wash there feet (just like Jesus did) and talk to them and pray for them before they move on to collect there new pair of shoes. It's a great system and idea which is really powerful.
Just another exciting week! But wait it gets even more exciting!
God Bless
Wow Cal it is just getting better and better. Yes it is WD well remembered and the ballerina sorry goalkeeping jump just perfect !!!
ReplyDeleteI hope the rugby wasn't too rough for you (a footballer a heart).
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