Day 20

Day 20

Friday!

This week has gone so fast!! Next week I will be starting my 4th week in Barbados, time flies so fast it's untrue, Shaz and I were reminded by a presenter on the radio that we're almost into our 6th month of the year, halfway the calendar year of 2014! Absolute madness.

I looked at my blog yesterday to see that I have almost 1,500 views which I'm pretty happy about! Hopefully I can beat 6,500 views which I got from my South African blog. Fingers crossed! I was informed that my nan (Grandmother) is still reading everyone of my blog posts thanks to my aunt printing them off and sending them via post! So if you're reading this Nanny June.. Hello!!!!

We started the day by having a meeting with Axel and staff at Barbados Community College. Myself, Shaz, Aran and Evan are running a course that teaches a group of aspiring PE teachers from the ages of 14-40 to teach football. The group is about 40 people big and is run on Wednesdays and Friday for the next 5 weeks. The participants have already completed modules in Analytical skills, over a dozen sports plus practical and theory modules. But now we are going to be helping them in the aspect of teaching and football. We have to provide them with what we have learnt over the last year and educate them on the rules of football and laws of the game which should be fun seeing as I did all of that for my referee course that I completed in the past. We've been given a lot of reign over the course, for example we register them, we can give them exams, homework and we come up with all of the content to teach them like worksheets, revision notes etc. Literally like proper teachers! We have theory classroom time and practical times so there should be a good mix of stuff. I can't wait for it to start because I'm studying sport and physical education next year at university so this will be a great experience for me!! Both John Olaleye and Steve Eadon provided us with alot of education so we will definitely be using all of what we've learnt!!

Our second session was at colleridge and parry which was a bit of a flop because we only had half an hour with them because they had a match. This meant the boys didn't want to get tired and also because some didn't have kit to change into as the school provides them with kit for their match.

Our last session was at Christchurh foundation school which is always a fun session! We had 28 participants, a mixture of boys and girls which was nice for a change. 28 participants is a pretty good number considering our session was an after school session and that exams are coming up!! I had a nice little bet with a handful of boys aswell before the session started. I put forward a proposal.. If I hit the bar, they do two laps, if I miss.. I do two laps. Considering it was quite far out and at a tight angle I knew my back was up against the wall, however they sharply replied "yes sir, yes sir, do it!!". To my absolute amazement I hit it, I guarantee I will never be able to do that again in my life and I'm sure the boys enjoyed their two laps!!

Not sure what tonight's plans hold!

Quite a blabbery, long blog post tonight! Hope you stuck with it.

All the best

Luke