Competition Days were a huge success for the Red Teams!! Our morning and afternoon groups both won!! It was sooo exciting. I loved getting to see the kids compete in all of the other sports that I normally don't get to see them play because I am usually coaching tennis. I also loved seeing them get really competitive and pumped up for their team and all of the competitions. The Friday competition consisted of Tennis and Volleyball final competitions and the Academic and Life Skills exams. Saturday consisted of soccer and basketball plus jeopardy. I was the official timer for the game of jeopardy. The kids got soooo into it, it was great!
After all of the competitions were over on Saturday, despite the fact that the awards ceremony was on Sunday, there was an extensive and tearful goodbye. I never knew saying goodbye would be this hard. Three weeks has gone by so fast and I have grown to love these children more than I ever expected.
Saturday night many of the campers stopped by the research center to hang out with us, give us presents, say goodbye again etc. It was really sweet and SO fun to see them. This night was our last night with the Vietnamese college coaches so we had a fun dinner and little goodbye party. They gave us REALLY sweet presents and we played some fun games with them. Looking back now, it didn't hit me how much I would not only miss the Vietnamese Coaches but I would miss the group of close knit coaches very much.
I will blog more on the awards ceremony, BRUTALLLLL goodbye and fun weekend in Ho Chi Minh city later.
xoxo Jennings
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