Tuesday

Greetings from Santiago Antitlan! Another full day of sessions under the belt. We went into town last night with the people from the camp and it was really busy for a Monday night. There was a big commotion as a farmer had shot and killed someone that was stealing from his land. Needless to say we haven't been trespassing on anyone's property today.

Photo of the coaches with a couple of the athletes.

Last night was pretty rough for one of us, unfortunately me (Bobby). I dont remember doing anything to Montezuma but he surely had his revenge - probably something I ate. Between that and the pack of wild dogs barking all night made for a tired start to the day. Went first to the camp and did session there. It is remarkable to me, with very little experience with athletes with disabilities, how well these sessions go and how much fun everyone has.

Above is a picture of the away team's locker rooms.

After this we headed over to the shelter again minus one coach. He spent the time either on the bathroom (making Ginger proud) or sleeping. Could quite possibly have done both at the same time! All the kids were very enthusiastic as they played a full-on game for about half and hour but they couldn't quite grasp the reason why Bobby wasn't there (language barrier). Here are a couple of photos we took of the shelter this morning.

We had our second and last day at Nino's school with the 5-6 year olds. The kids had a wonderful time playing Simon says (Ricardo dice), sleeping giant (TP didn't have to pretend too hard to be a giant or scare the kids), and sponge bob square pants. After this we got into a game. As you can see from the picture below, the game was Wilmington (red) vs. Wilmington (green). For those of you who are interested Wilmington won. We left the uniforms, cleats and cones with the director who we came to know fairly well. We also left each kid with an Acton-Boxborough soccer ball.