Highlights:

Preparation:

• training sessions: Tuesdays and Fridays afterschool (games) , Monday and wednesday mornings, saturday training. They were exhausting but well worth it.
• Game situations–against another team. stress. ups and downs. perseverance.
• Team & skills

Team:

• travelling together
• new country
• tiring
• apples with the perfect texture for in between games
• different environment to ISTA which I’d gone on a week earlier: collaborative vs competitive

Trip:

• Despite the practices, we weren’t quite prepared for the environment we’d find ourselves in.
• The stress and learning how to navigate games/sets was a learning curve.
• Reacting to challenges as they come and rolling with the punches–whether that be sunlight streaming directly into your eyes, effectively blinding you, a teammate, a wrong call from the ref-s, a personal mistake, injuries, having to change uniforms in seconds, and etc.
• The outcome could’ve gone many ways else, and accepting that it didn’t. We brought each team except one to a third set, and that’s impressive on it’s own.
• “With a point differential that could’ve …”

 

 

The official website is linked below for more information about the daily events

Website: https://sites.google.com/aisdhaka.org/saisa/home