Sorry for the delayed post. Don't be alarmed, we are still alive.
Yesterday (May 27) we had the opportunity to join a women's physical education class with second year and fourth year students who are studying to be a physical education teacher. Each of us partnered up with a student in the class. We began with a simple one vs. one drill and the teacher kept adding aspects until it became a 4 vs. 4 scenario. As you are very well aware, we are a field hockey team so our small games with the students did not look so pretty. However, we were able connect with the girls while playing and were even invited to stay and play softball during the next class.
And if they thought our soccer was bad.... Softball really wasn't pretty (I'm allowed to say that as I am one who struck out bad- Shayna). Luckily we had Coach Brooke's great hit and Mattie's catching abilities to save the day:).
We refueled our bodies with some chicken. Many of us were excited about that. Then we met back up with the University but this time with students studying to be english teachers or translators. As an icebreaker game, we first went around the circle and everyone introduced themselves and we had to say something that made us unique. We learned that Kaylor can make an Elmo voice and Coach Morley can make the sound of a baby. While Morley was demonstrating her talent, someone quickly barged in asking, "where's my baby?!!?" (.... Just kidding, no one came in but the baby cry was very convincing).
After introductions, we were able to use/introduce our field hockey skills by passing the ball to someone from a different country and ask a question we have and it went back and forth on until many questions were asked and answered. To finish, each of us partnered up with a student and had time to get to know them and ask and answer more questions about ourselves and countries.
Again, we were happy with food. Maybe I should just speak for myself but my stomach is happy here. For dinner, we had beef or chicken sandwiches with fries. We were a tad disappointed to not get dessert. But, the night was young and they didn't fail to feed us again. We had cake and more sandwiches at a youth group event at the Herndon's church.
The youth group meeting was for the high school and middle schoolers so there was lots of energy. The Herndon daughters introduced us to a lot of people and got us to play a ping pong game called chino (it's equivalent to round robin). We played a big group game in which we were split up into four and each team had to blindfold 5 people. The teams had to direct those in blindfolds to pop the balloons hanging above. Some balloons were filled with flour so we had to be careful of what balloons to go for. This lead into worship and a message from one of the members of the church. We then were able to spend some more time with the teens. There was a group of us who were able to worship with some of the youth in which we sang in English while they sang in Spanish. It was awesome to see that we were all worshipping the same God regardless of the different language.
Bendiciones,
Sara Brooks and Shayna Landis
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