Day 8: The Football Match

Today we started as usual with our breakfast in the hotel before all 16 of us piled into the minibuses to travel to JTR together. This was my first time properly at JTR as I’ve spent the rest of the week teaching brass instruments at Ballanta so the bombardment of hundreds of excited children was a new experience for me. Today at JTR was a different kind of day as the plan was for two football games to take place. The first being between two classes of students and the second between the Wells lot and the JTR first team. After watching an entertaining match close with a score of 4-1 it was our turn to take to the concrete. Our immense levels of skill and physicality however weren’t enough and we found ourselves in a 3-1 loss. A stellar performance from Guy in goal saved us from it being more like a 10-1 loss. To top it off we finished the game with numerous possibly career ending injuries, putting Sean’s, Billy’s and my Premier League dreams in the bin. We said our goodbyes and departed the school for the final time before heading off to the market. We spent an hour or so wandering through getting pulled from stall to stall collectively buying lots of trousers, football shirts and jewellery. To finish our day we took a short walk which also somehow caused an injury to meet Musa and Kitty at a nearby restaurant for us to say our unofficial thank you’s and goodbye before our final full day. Written by Morgan.