Tammy’s World Cup Thursday finally arrived. About ten friends and cousins and five other adults attended.
Tammy setting up the 32 different teams in their different groups. Part of her speech was to explain which teams were mostly to go on to the next round (the large containers) and which ones were rated low – the small containers… and South Africa was one of them. As Tammy said: “It is predicted that South Africa will be the first host country to lose an opening match! But miracles can happen. Bafana-Bafana have won their last 12 matches. ……What are our chances? Not too bad. We rank 25th out of the 32 teams and Mexico ranks 18th and Uruguay 19th. It will be difficult, but not impossible to win.” (True words – the opening match between S.A. and Mexico was a draw! Bafana-Bafana did us proud! They were ranked 83rd in the world and Mexico 16th!)
The guests were warned to listen carefully to her speech as a quiz was to follow: After the speech they divided themselves into 2 groups and then had to match the 32 flags to the names of the countries, fill in a world map with blank call-outs pointing to the 32 countries and complete a questionaire with questions like “How many teams participated in the qualification phase?” “Which country has won the cup 3 times?” Tammy helped one group and felt quite important. The other group “cheated” and checked on her notes and props. I feared that both groups would have full marks, but not so! Many said afterwards that it was interesting and that they have learnt a lot i.e. where Honduras was. (The live writer I am using here, cannot publish my video clips, so I’ll try to publish a clip or 2 in a next post.)
The next competition was to decorate two ring cakes as stadiums. (Tammy’s mom’s and her brother’s idea and a huge success!)
This team inserted stadium lights, but the other one was much neater.
Adjudicator Tammy listening intently to the presentation of one group’s cake project. (He was pretty convincing and Tammy had no hesitation in appointing the winner!)
Tammy announcing the winners of the cake decoration competition.
Afterwards the team played “soccer” in the pool room – it was quite cold outside! Hamburgers and a big plate of French Fries completed a wonderful celebration.
Thank you God for helping Tamerin, and thank you for kind friends and relatives who made the day special for her.
2 comments:
That was a convincing cake, and Tammy was a good adjudicator.
The containers were really good.
Bafana-Bafana and Mexico was something else! I was happy to know that it was so close. The World Cup is a leveller.
Great to see the game was good, and people learnt where Honduras was (in South America).
Tammy would have had to use her flag memories to know Algeria versus Slovenia.
Hi Adelaide
The whole World Cup theme helped me too - otherwise I would not have known how the groups work... and of course I too know all the flags now!
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