The team was headed up by Art Moore a jolly Irishman who, along with his sidekick, Nick, in the tan cap, convinced 4 of his former high school students to come and help school kids in Haiti by starting soccer teams at their schools. So the team was made up of Ali (in yellow in second picture, a petite blond full of energy; her best friend Bri (in neon green in second picture), and two rugby players: Cory and Chris with the longer hair and hat.
Our fist stop was Archaie where we visited the 4 schools we started teams in and played with some of the students there, even though schools are not in session in Haiti at this time of year. When we had space, we played outside games like duck,duck, goose, basketball and of course soccer.
Where we didn't have a lot of space we sang a French-Canadian children's "parts of the body" song and also "I'm climbing Sunshine Mountain". This year coach Wadnec, one of our Haitian staff members also added a new song that says "Children love AIS and AIS loves children, galigaligalizoom!"
Our schedule each day was to visit 2 schools in the morning and then watch the schools play each other in the afternoon.
While in Archaie, we also helped paint two classrooms in one of the schools that is just being built. This is the same school that our fellow Crossworld missionary, Mark Bradley, has been helping with through his church in Philadelphia: Church of the Savior.
More on the other things we did and the results of the tournament later this week!
Love seeing some of the new pictures, thanks for sharing!
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