Mbuzi Cup!

Watching a netball game 

As a special treat to begin the second term, the teachers in charge of sports (Oscar and Leah) organized the Mbuzi Cup.  The four forms competed with each other in games during sports time in the afternoon all week.  The girls had a netball tournament, and the boys had a soccer tournament. I posted a few photos of the boys playing football earlier in the week, so here are lots of pictures of the girls' netball (kind of similar to basketball) tournament! 

The form one and form two girls compete, while Leah (in black) referees.

'Mbuzi' in Swahili means 'goat'.  So, we had the Goat Cup.  And to fit the theme, the winning teams competed to win a goat to roast and a case of sodas.  The goats were bought live at the beginning of the week, and left to wander around campus eating grass and fattening up.  Every now and then they'd get somewhere they didn't need to be or where they were inconveniencing someone, and a student would be sent to herd them elsewhere.  They weren't particularly fond of being herded; I got a good laugh at Nelson John (form 2) pulling with all his might on their ropes trying to get them away from the sidewalk in front of the library.  One goat was determined not to move at all and the other was determined to go the opposite direction from where he wanted it to go.

A lot of people tried to find a shady spot from which to watch the netball game.

The students had a lot of fun with it, at least.  In the end, the form 3 boys won the soccer tournament, and the form two girls won the netball tournament, so on Saturday night, they had their promised goat roast to celebrate.  Jackson (Beth's son) was sad all day on Saturday because he'd been rooting for the form four boys, but they lost the championship game to form 3.