It was an early morning sunrise the sky was orange like my hair and I (Steve) was feeling great, I didnt even struggle to get up because ive been enjoying myself that much! I went on my early morning run and the sun was gleaming in my eyes I could tell it was going to be yet another brilliant day. I had a shower, had my daily helping of corn flakes and of course a very juciy and dilectable valencian orange and was ready to go the high school in moncada to learn what our fate was for the afternoon.
Coaching in the morning
We first of all had a lesson in the sports hall with our main Spanish amigo TONI! we learnt how to tell the time and temperature in spainish which was totes (totally) awesome, and then moved on to learn some useful coaching tips in spanish, my favourite was "excellente!" as you can tell it was a fun activity. We then learnt a new game which we would use for the children for the following day, me and SHANN learnt a game which involved two groups being given a specific number each such as 1,2,3,4,5 and when the number is called out in spanish they had to react quickyly and try and score a goal before the opposite person, it was slightly dangerous but mad fun. The kids then came into the hall and we did the games that we previously learnt to deliver to other kids on friday. Mine (steve) was a very random game called the onion game yes thats right a game about onions which didnt make you cry! one person was the kinfe the rest woud link in a circle like an onion, the purpose of the game was for the person who was the knife to pull the onions apart and I can tell you now if we had fun learning it you can imagine the amount of fun they would of had! It was a success and put it this way I was encouraging them that much I lost my voice, not cool!
Dinner
For dinner we had carbonara which me and steve thought was totes (totally) REVOLTING so steve was very healthy and ate 3 apples and 2 bananas and ate one of them whole.
Chilled
Not going to lie here, I (steven) had to go to the supermarket in the afternoon to get some 'chub rub' creme because I was chafing so much! Ill tell you what it worked like a charm!
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| Steve Running around with the children |
For our evening activity Shannon did swimming and Steve did pre-sport. Us swimmers were took to schola and spoke to the main swimming coach Ariel and he told us some words in spanish that would be useful for us (even though he doesn't speak a word of english). We watched videos about how babies are tought to float as it is the most common death for children under the age of 5. We then discussed a session plan to teach spanish people our age some swimming sessions for next monday. Pre-sport involved the kids playing a huge variety of games based on the valencian ball game with mad fun activities such as cops and robbers, pushing the ball across the floor race and many many other strange and unusual activites which involved balls. I made some good friends with the kids, especially this guy called victor who was a ledgend! mainly because he was better at everything then me...tehe.
Las Fallas
(Me and Shan) Later on in the evening the day took us by suprise as we were whicked away by Toni to a random warehouse, we were puzzled as to why we were here but it was excited I could barely contain my excitment! We entered the factory to find these amazing pieces of art that had been sculpted by one of the best artists in valencia, they were amazing! We watched them work and had a look at everything that they had made. It was truley more breath taking then marilyn monroe in her prime, the detail of these polystyrene masterpieces was unbelievable. As you can see we took some pictures of the ones that really caught our eye, but let me warn you some are x-rated! the saddest piece of information we learnt about las falas, which is what the sculptures were made for, is the fact that they are all burned for the festival in march, infact they spend months and months, endless hours creating these sculptures to see them go up in flames, Id be pretty gutted if I was the artist!
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| Keith eating tea |
Last night was Steve's favourite dinner as we were so hungry due to the fact we didnt eat till half past nine! it was going to be a treat no matter what the food they brought us was. We sat down to see these lovely homemade baquettes sitting in front of us, along with some salad and various sauces. The next thing we know the food is coming at us like an ambush, sausages, chicken breasts, chorizo; you name it we ate it and my goodness it was a tasty treat. For desert we had an amazing milk jelly with whipped cream and jam, random but pretty darn yummy! I(steve) literally am the human dustbin mainly because I finish everyones leftovers!
Being mad cute
As it was two of our dear friends birthdays we had to obviously plan the suprise gifts and prezzies without them knowing due to the fact it was a SURPRISE, so we somehow managed to distract Amy and Zoe while making them cards and blowing up hundreds of balloons which Nial, Carl, Luke and of course cheeky Jake generously purchased for her. We actually had to pretend we were all in trouble in order to be able to write the cards out and prepare tommorows antics! put it this way, zoe was that clueless she was sitting in the room full of blown up balloons which were even under the bed and didnt have a clue in the slightest, haha. In all fairness me (Steven) and Shan are loving this experience and never want it to end because its amazing! peace out.
Steve and Shannon
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