Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Day 8: July 26th

Today was a little rough waking up, you would think by now we would be used to the time change! Also, the rainy weather does not help getting out of bed....
Per usual we had our lovely English breakfast, of croissants but today there were also bagels! Although I don't think they use cream cheese as that was no where to be found. The first session we decided to switch it up a bit and do some indoor hockey (the weather definitely had a play in this) the girls started out with some conditioning, including an interesting game of soccer, except you weren't running....you were crab walking. It was pretty comical to watch. After the conditioning piece, the girls were split into 5 different teams. For the remainder of the session we had a little indoor tournament, each team was able to play everyone twice and then went into playoffs.
Indoor is a much different game compared to regular hockey. Much faster pace and lots of little sprints, also the stick basically needs to be on the ground the entire time (I'm assuming there will be some very sore legs tomorrow).


     

 
After lunch, the girls had some nice to relax a bit before our next session. Since we did some conditioning in the morning and have another match tomorrow afternoon we decided to do a little stretching before we headed out to the pitch. It was definitely needed!
 
From there we headed to the pitch, today a little bit of a later session than usual as we started around 4pm, instead of 2:30pm. The girls were split up into 3 groups again, based off skill level. One drill was a 1v1 drill mixed with a little conditioning, the other was various types of small sided play, while the 3rd group was continuous 2v2 with some conditioning as well. We ended the session with a full sided scrimmage which the girls were excited about before the final match tomorrow!
 


After the session we headed straight to the dining hall. With the longer break, you could tell some of the girls were starting to get a little hangry. Once we got back to the dormitory, some of the girls were screaming "disco night". Apparently every Wednesday, the school holds a disco night. I took one for the team as well as Sarah a CMT staff member and agreed to take the girls to the disco night above the dining hall. All the girls were so excited to go (made me feel super old knowing I was about to chaperone a dance in my sweatpants and sweatshirt) until.......we arrived and found out it had been canceled. The girls were bummed but me and Sarah were doing a little dance on the inside :)
After that devastating news we headed back to the lounge, some girls went to bed while others stayed up and played "Just Dance" on the TV. Huge day tomorrow as we head to Kingston for our final match! Apparently I may be in need to play for the Kingston older group, so lets cross our fingers I make it out alive as I am pretty intimidated playing against some of our girls....

 

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