Guatemala_Volleyball

We (meaning Hannah, the volley ball team at C.A.G. and I) had our first volleyball game  this morning. Actually we had our first two. And guess what, we won both. And by win I mean the other team beat themselves. We had a few good kills and some good serves but all in all, it was a first game style of play. I'm glad we were still able to win, but need to work getting some better kills. The team has talent, they just need to learn to settle down for the first part of the game. We played best of three sets and both games our second set were so much better then the first. I honestly don't remember the score to the first game, but the second was 25-20 (set one) and 25-5 or 6 (set two). So if we can work on playing like we do later in the game we should have a pretty good record. 


It was something of a mini tournament, we received trophies in all, but only a couple schools were represented. It was hosted by the Swiss American School in San Cristobal, so just up the street a little. They had ceremony representing something like that of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic. A member of the school was waiting as we arrived to lead us into the main court area where a lot of the activity was taking place. The people were clapping and welcoming, however, I think it was mainly for the Swiss American teams that were before and after us. Nevertheless, was still fun to walk in having people clapping, even if it was for some one else. 


After the Guatemala National Anthem and Swiss American school fight song, three different cheerleading squads took the floor. It should be noted that these squads were made up of young girls, like 7-10 I would say. The first young group of girls took the floor and Gwen Stefanin's Hollaback Girl comes on. And this is not the version you would hear on American radio stations. The whole C.A.G. team started cracking up. I think because most of them have some type of American culture, so seeing little kids cheering to lines like "my shit," all the while only singing that part of the song is comical. Perhaps it is all do the fact that C.A.G. is a christian school and curing is seen as characteristic christians do not do. But to those cheering and their parents, they either didn't know what they were saying or just did not bother them at all. The second and third songs produced pretty much the same results with different squads. An F bomb here some inappropriate verses there. I mean, I sure it's nothing they have not heard before, and the context for them is different, but for 7 to 10 year olds seems out of place. And were I would not allow it to be used if I were running the school, it was still funny.