Day 6: July 24th

Day 6 in the books! I cant believe it has almost been a full week since we have left the US.
Today, the girls seemed very excited as there was finally some waffles for breakfast today (not potato waffles either). I finally tried some back bacon, which was amazing.
The agenda today was hockey and lots of it! After breakfast the girls headed into their first session. The coaches planned on them having a hard training day and it certainly was. Not necessarily a lot of conditioning but a lot of constant small sided play. They started off with continuous 1v1's, although the grids were small the girls definitely seemed winded. After 1v1's, the groups were split into the older and younger age groups from before.
Harriett and Dave were working with the younger group on 2v1's, while Matt and Tom were running continuous 4v4's with the older group. Lets just say they definitely worked up an appetite!

At lunch we had a lot of pasta, some macaroni and cheese (which seemed to be a hit!) and what almost seemed to be an English version of chicken alfredo with mushrooms. The girls definitely had to carbo load up after the first hard session. As the days go on everyone seems to be becoming closer with the South American girls. They are all mingling with eachother at every meal and I am almost certain they are all friends with each other on every social media account they have. After lunch we headed into the last session of the day. This one was quite comical for the younger group as we worked on diving towards the net and tipping. Lets just say I think Reagan takes the prize for the best belly flop dive to get the ball into the net!

After the last session and dinner, the girls rushed back to the rooms to shower and get ready for trivia night! They of course grabbed some chocolate and snacks from the tuck store (school store) before to get prepared. All the girls participated and were split up into 5 different groups with some interesting names. The trivia included categories of Music, Field Hockey, Geography, Staff Members, Celebrities and History (even I thought some of the questions were hard). Luckily the questions were a good mix for both the Seacoast girls and the South American girls. As the final tallies were added up at the end, the winning team was the "Dream Team" (sounds like it). Once the trivia was over, many of the girls rushed off and asked if they could go to bed already. I definitely think today tired them out! Tomorrow we have one light morning session and then we are off to spend the day in Brighton!