PCJ SPORTS DAY OUT
After
the eighth of September the feast of the nativity of our lady, we moved to Nsambya
Youth Sharing Centre to have a friendly sports encounter with the Youth. It was
in the morning that we set off with a team of players, doctors and of course
the cheering squad too. Our sports chaplain was the main leader of the two
buses that carried the team. We arrived at Nsambya safely at an interval of
almost an hour. We proceeded to the
dinning for break-fast and then begin the beautiful encounters as volleyball
become the first match to be played, followed by basketball and then the main
match, football.
Volley ball
It
was the first game of the day to be played and full of excitement. Our players
were preparing to verse the Nsambya team as they were warming up. Within not a
long time the game started and the cheering squad was invited to support the
team by moving to the closest side with hope that something great would happen,
you know PCJ you are great we salute. The game started and our players looked
tough and ready to win which was shut down by a serious spike from the
counterpart team. We increased the noise for cheering as the team increased the
strength to tighten the space for scoring points. We only realized that we
could not win as they had reached twenty points when we were still under seven.
The first set ended with a loss on our side. The second set also went in the
same suit as we could maintain the strength of the guys. We ended up losing the
game four sets to zero. But we know these people are more trained than us
because it is their profession as we concentrate on books and sports at the
same time sports. Courage members we shall do better.
Basketball
The
second game was basketball and we proved worthy a win. It started with little
boys entering the court and we felt undermined but I hope it was a trick
because we started with the same trick. The little boys of about twelve years
proved stronger when they scored three point baskets three times. It was no
more time for jokes and we brought in our senior players like Alex, Magufuli,
Samuel and Eric and proved them tougher than they knew. We could hear them yell
as our senior players could enter the court “akasaja kakomyewo” (the man has come back) because the scoring was
serious and tough. For this game we proved senior and so won it by 35 points to
32.
Football
For
this part I was also scared at the game with the traumatic experience of the
last time they visited us. They said that they eat football; drink football and
sleep in football while for us are always in philosophy and social sciences. We
always wonder whether things are real like Hegel and accuse people of lacking
free will like Nietzsche. We were now playing against the men in their hobby
like fighting a monkey in a tree. But men remain men, the couch told us not to
fight for a win but for a good game which we did. The game was beautifully
played as Fr. Anthony and Sr. Pauline were couching and encouraging the players
seriously. Indeed we scored our goal of having a good game though they scored two
goals. The game ended with a win position though favored the counterparts
because they had the most goals. For us we won because we went to play well and
indeed we played well. Great thanks to our couches and the players for the
effort put in.
This
day had a lot of beautiful experiences and some challenges of losses but we
also won happiness and learning more tactics. We would
like to appreciate the work done by the sports secretary, the sports chaplain
Fr. Anthony and the whole team that sacrificed their time and energy for this
day. Merci beaucoup and God bless you all.
JOHN AGABA AMOOTI
JOHN AGABA AMOOTI
MISSIONARIES OF AFRICA
