Farewall Boxmeer

The week of our party leading up to it was busy as I told you, going to trophy shops and having broken conversations in english/dutch trying to get what we wanted on the Trophy. We also got everyone that played in the first team a present of some sort - including the coach and the manager. Wouter obviously got some presents - bottles of wine from Switzerland and Slovenia and a boomerang. So the day started out so poor - waking up and seeing it pouring rain,.... thanks very much Holland. again.. And after waking mark up from his sleep at 11:20, we wrapped presents, I worked on my presentation - just a collection of pictures and things from the time we have been so far.  We started off having little activities the guys had to do, and if they failed then they had to complete punishments. We had the cricket catch, the football kick (thanks to my new birthday present) the footy mark, the longest throw contest, and an actual game of cricket. We then had Australian and dutch trivia which was funny. All in all it was an awesome day, the guys loved it because they have never done that kind of stuff. We then had another party to go to for all the other guys that don't play in the 1st team. They had organised us a hamper full of dutch things etc. It was such a nice present to get (unexpected) - unexpected presents are the best. We got home late, had a sandwhich with Tommy, and then the next few days have been trying to organise the rest of our trip. We are heading to brussells to meet with Bory - a guy that has accepted us to couchsurf, and then to a small town outside of brugge to another CS place. Excited to go to other places and meet other people, so much better then staying in a hostel, when you are couchsurfing, the whole idea is to get to know the person that you are staying with/staying with you, and so you learn a lot more about the culture and way of life of the country that you go to. (well that's what we have found so far).  All in all, it made us realise the impact we have made through coaching and playing in such a short time. Sad to leave, but there is much more of the world that needs to be explored. The first chapter of the 'year off work' is almost completed.

I will leave some photos of our party.


Steve