Well what can I say, I am truly entering into a whole new world of sports over here in England. Yesterday I had the fabulous opportunity to play in a rousing game of Net ball, the staff vs. The residents. Now you may ask yourself what is Net ball ? Well frankly I am not sure I could tell you(I am still working on learning the rules), but its the British answer to basketball (but without dribbling, once you get the ball you can no longer move just pass or shoot). Needless to say, even though I never did quite get the rules ( I was told I was the goal keeper, stand under the basket and don't go past the red line). I think I did a good job. The staff won 19-7, and you know what you they say offense scores points defense wins games.
As fun as the game was, what was really great was getting an opportunity to get to know the
residents a bit more. Which is truly what I feel my purpose is, to interact with the residents and build a mutual relationship, where we can learn from each other. It's interesting to be around people who are the same age as you, but basically have nothing really in the world to support them, other then the staff and community of the YMCA. And it has become clear that part (the main part) of the work that I will be doing here is helping the residents to become empowered and independent, but I can't stress enough, even though I am here to serve/work with them, I know that I will probably walk away from this expereince learning more from them, than I could ever teach.Right now we are working on a project to create an activities board with the residents, plan trips, social events, sports leagues, a newsletter, residents board (sort of like a student government type thing) and basically anything that they can think of. I would serve as a support or a means to an end, and hopefully this will become a project that they will take and really run with. So they can finally feel like they have some ownership in how things are run in their homes.
Now all we need are some residents who want to particpate and if its anything like Univeristy, a little food should get them out to the first meeting :-)
Cheers!
(for more pics of net ball please check out my pictures link above)
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