Day 64 week 10 26th March

Today we started with our 3rd of 4 computer classes. Again we had to start with hardly any of the class, I'll never get used to African time. This weeks lesson was using the internet. In our class we have a girl that quite easily gets through our classes and we think she is only there to put it on her cv, and then we have an old lady that just doesn't have a clue about computers. We were supposed to get into depth about how the internet works and what it all means, but we thought we would be more practical and show them how to navigate themselves around the internet, how to use a search engine and how to use YouTube. Pretty basic stuff. To be honest it was quite a short class today and we really just gave out the basics and let them explore. All of them seemed to manage it quite well and we wrapped it up around half 10. After a quick discussion with Lourens and helping him enter a Twitter competition we head to Harry's favourite place in the whole of a Cape Town, a little cafe around the corner that sells koeksisters, the little doughnutty type thing I was telling you about last week. I have to admit they are nice but Harry is slightly obsessed. 

After returning to the learning centre more discussions with Lourens about social media and helping Joe with some work we head to Trafalgar high. We enjoyed our session here last week and was looking forward to today's training. When we arrived the teacher told us that half the boys left because they had to study for exams. We were left with a mix of boys and girls so we decided just to start a game, me and Harry joined in to make it 6v6. Long story short Harry won and it is now 5-4. If the match was won on most step overs, most attempts at beating an opposing player or most shots to go miles over the bar we would have won by loads. Disappointing result. Considering that girls football isn't that big over here it was surprising that the 2 best players on the pitch were both girls. They were miles better than some of the boys. It's quite easy to see why as well, the girls play simple football, work hard and get it right, where as the boys in Cape Town as a whole try to be too flash and ignore the basics, they also aren't too keen on working hard for the team either. I had coaches the girls last week and they were some of the best footballers I've seen in 10 weeks out here. It's amazing what you can do when you work on the basics. No fancy tricks just a simple pass and move, then try and win the ball back if you lose it.

That was us done for the day, tomorrow we have an intensive computer workshop, in other words we didn't have time to fit in 4 days so we are dragging it out over 1 day. Then we are off to see 1 of Joe's friends who runs an action soccer league just outside Ruyterwacht. We might be putting on a small session but are mainly there to get the kids excited we've been told. We then have spot night round 2 at Joe's in the evening.

Looking at our schedule there isn't much left to go. We have 2 crèches Greenlands and Silvertree, we have a session with All Stars, Drommedaris and Ruyterwacht and we have an all day soccer clinic with De Beers. We have trips to the Drommedaris and Bothasig complexes for Easter activities and we have a day with Maja and Sunflower crèches doing Easter activities as well. Saturday we hope to go up Table Mountain, Monday we are going out with Joe and Lourens for a trip to Simons town so they can spend some time with us before we leave and we also have an opportunity to go to the Ajax Cape Town training ground. Also next week we are back to Wesbank to had out some boots and kit to the boys down there. Where has the time gone 9 weeks down 2 and a bit to go.