Skillz Street

This week has been awesome!  We started a Skillz Street program which is a special curriculum that takes place after school and for girls only.  The program has a lot more of soccer playing in it because research shows that girls who take part in team sports lead less risky sex lives.  To run this program we have been leaving the office every day between 12 and 1 and going to Motherwell or Zwide to help the program run.  On Monday I got to play in a coaches game called "Fair Play".  The coaches basically just scrimmage, but they make their own rules.  Ours were:

1. When one team scores, both teams get a point
2. When one player gets injured, the game stops and the nearest opposing team-member has to make sure their ok and give them a hug. (This resulted in a couple dives and very theatrical performaces - quite funny)
3. When someone scores EVERYONE celebrates.  After my goal everyone went crazy running around and screaming and then they all shined my shoe. Awesome!

The program runs so well too because the female coaches are amazing!  They are so energetic and focused on their girls.  It's really amazing to see.

2nd piece of important news: I had my first training yesterday with the City Lads.  I drove the coaches who play for the team to practice right after Skillz Street and we played.  Did some fitness - yikes, did a lot of ball work - yikes due to field conditions, and played a bit - yay!  Get to play in a game tomorrow.  whoo hoo.  excited.

Working on creating a sweet playlist for Shuffle right now.  When we discovered our mutual love for Trey Songz we became music soulmates.  Busy busy with that.