As I'm writing this I've just seen Bafana Bafana have lost and are out of AFCON even though they took the lead in all 3 games, there's alway the World Cup Joe.
What a day we've had today, we was up nice and early and decided we would jog to the station rather than get a bus, it sounded like a good idea but factor in a heavy bag and the South African heat we only lasted a few minutes. We will try again 1 day, anyway we made it to station with plenty of time and with a little help from Elizabeth from the retirement village we made our first journey on a South African train. I've tried to stay away from mentioning crime and the not so nice part of Cape Town, not because I want to ignore it or anything but because 1 I don't want people worrying and 2 it's talked up a lot in the media etc and its not necessary to keep on going on about it, but I must say using public transport was quite a worry with it not being the safest form of transport. But other than a few adverts on the train it was quite a pleasant journey taking in the sights of the Cape Town to Vasco train journey.
Once we arrived (everyone was surprised we made it in early and without getting lost) we had a small discussion about today's events then it was off to Goodwood crèche, a very nice crèche with a great patch of grass and a reasonable amount of space. We had 2 classes of 5/6year olds and 2 classes of 4/5 year olds, lots of energy and excitement which was great, a mixture of English speakers, English understanders and some that only understood Afrikaan. Quite a difficult task but we decided that fun was the main aim of today, no drills as such just games, we played a tag game, a game that we were introduced to as the Highbury game, which I knew as North, East, South, West, where you give a place a name the kids run around you call out a name they run there. We also tried domes and dishes and some relay based games. I thought all 4 sessions were enjoyed by the kids and therefore we met our aim. They might not have had much time on the ball but they had fun, we will go back there again and do more football related stuff with them. Thank you to Goodwood for having us and for the food it was really appreciated.
Our afternoon session was the first training session with the Ruyterwacht team, the league doesn't start for a while but Joe wanted us to meet the kids and just get them using the circle football area. I've got some photos on here I'll put them up later. Basically Joe and the community have worked together to change what was a piece of land used for drugs and gang related activities into a football pitch for the youngsters. Joe showed us the transformation and you can see the hard work that has gone into it, the kids took to us really well and we played some passing games followed by a passing match which was fun.
When the day was done we were given the keys to our car for our time in Cape Town, a Toyota Tazz, a nice little car that means we won't have to use public transport as much as last years guys had to. We then drove all the way home without getting too lost, a GPS/sat nav will probably be needed though.
After we arrived back we had some food skyped a few people and was getting ready for an early night, we'd been up since 6am which doesn't sound too bad but in this heat it's just exhausting. George came up to us and offered us a trip up part of table mountain, a visit to signal hill and back through camp bay, I think I've got the names right. It was an offer we couldn't turn down and I'm pleased we didn't, the views of Cape Town at night are something else, I can't wait to see the view from Table Mountain during the day but this was definitely a night to remember, so thanks to George, and everyone today it's been 1 of our best days so far.
Right I'm off to bed earlyish start tomorrow, Harry has said I can do the first drive into work, I think he just doesn't want to take the blame for getting lost, not that we will, well I hope not anyway. The wind is howling away tonight hopefully get a good nights sleep.
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