Danielskuil, a small mining community located 150km outside of Kimberley, is the first place that GRS began running programs in South Africa. Danielskuil is also where Thuso is from. And last weekend, Danielskuil was hosting a Youth Day event and GRS was invited (read: Thuso said GRS Kim would help) run the soccer portion of the event.
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| Trevor and I with some of the coaches. |
So on Saturday, Trevor and I got up, drove around Kim picking up the 7 coaches who volunteered to come to the event and hit the road. We arrived in Danielskuil around 10h00, got a quick tour (took less than 5 minutes - I thought Kim was small), and headed to the Youth Day event.
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| The winning team. |
This was one of the smoothest, most fun and relaxing events I have attended in a long time! I spent my day jamming out with Big Eyes and Thuso's little brother, watching some Hip Hop and cultural dancers and refereeing soccer. It was pretty amazing how referee signals enabled the soccer players and I to communicate flawlessly.
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| Second place team. |
When the event was done, we piled back into the Condor and Big Eyes, Coach K and Nthabi spent the entire ride home teaching me to say "leave me alone" and other (less appropriate) phrases in Tswana.
I had a really good time seeing Danielskuil, reffing some soccer, learning some Tswana and spending the day with coaches.
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