Today was a much easier day. It was light this morning when I went out to buy bread and fruit.
Our first match was at 10:45 back at ISD again so we had breakfast at 8:30 and set off from the guesthouse at 9:30.
Today was just a few remaining football and volleyball games followed by finals and exhibition matches.
We won a volleyball match today, it was the highlight of the day. So many times we've come close to winning only to throw it away, but this time we managed to keep going 'til the end.
I also got to play a bit of beach volleyball in the morning on the sand court with some other staff and random kids who wanted to join in. It was great fun.
The morning passed very quickly having started so much later than the lst few days.
In the afternoon we played our final football ties and the intermediate team scored two goals (their first of the tournament) which was a great moment.
After our last games we were hanging around for quite a while as the closing ceremony wasn't until 7:00. There's an outdoor swimming pool at ISD so a few of the kids and staff went for a dip although my feet would have turned the water brown had I gone in. Several people made comments that I could be turning into a black man from the feet up, they were that dirty.
The best game of volleyball I saw all week was an exhibition match in the afternoon between the senior boys champions and the senior girls champions. The girls team were particularly spectacular to watch as they played a very unusual rotational strategy involving lots of positional swapping at the start of each point and they played very good three-touch volleyball. The last game went to 24-24 with the boys (who actually had a few girls on their team) taking it 26-24 in the end.
We had a good showing in the award ceremony at the end with four of our athletes winning medals for best in category and one girl breaking a SIPS record for the 3km cross-country.
This evening we had a staff meal out and I went to a very nice Thai restaurant and then we watched the lunar eclipse whilst eating ice-cream on the guesthouse roof.
Now it's time for bed. Back to BCS tomorrow. Check out SIPS photos on Flickr (link on the right).
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