DATE: 17 AUG 2012
TIME: 10.30A.M
NAME: WINNIE
REPORT ON A FOOTBALL TRIP TO KURIA
The long awaited day finally reached, each player was excited with the trip to kuria most of them it was their first time to travel long distance but this, did not hinder their excitement. The journey started at 7.30pm each player in the bus was chatting with one another, at around 10.30pm everyone was asleep.
We had a stop over at Narok town for about 30 minutes where everyone alighted to help him or herself. The journey continued smoothly, we reached Migori town by 2.30a.m, and waited for our host to come pick us unfortunately, the host kept us waiting because he had to send for drivers who were coming from far place. We were picked at 5.30a.m when everyone was tired and sleepy.
We reached our final destination at 7a.m, our host received us warmly we were given a heavy breakfast and hot water to shower with. We did warm up with the coach at the nearby field after that, we unpacked our luggage and started the tour of the place. We realized that the main activity in the community is cattle keeping.
We noticed people in that community are friendly it did not take time before we started bonding as one family. The food was not the best because some of us had stomach upsets so we decided to cook for our self. As the day ended each player had something to show for instance, we fetched water at the river some of us it was our first time doing that but we still enjoyed the adventure.
On the tournament day, we walk up very early in the morning to prepare for it at the field many people from that community came to watch the games .The first match started at 9.30a.m between schools from that region then our match was next. We easily won the match because of our skills and experience in the game, but our last opponents were a bit tough and we settled for a barren draw.
The event ended at 5p.m, and in the evening, it rained heavily. That night, we had a small farewell party where a goat was slaughtered to some of us it was our first time to see a goat slaughtered, we had supper at 11pm as we retired to bed.
Sunday was our departure day; the host did not want us to live and begged us to stay for even to days unfortunately we could not honor the request. We left for Nairobi very early in the morning; we still had our usual stop over at Narok town after that we proceeded with our journey arriving at 2.30pm.
The trip was fun we enjoyed the adventures and would like to go back again.