It was the regional rugby try-outs and so I helped Sachi take 20 of the senior boys to Keetmans to compete. They spent the either journeys there and back stood in the aisle of the bus, singing, chanting, dancing, shouting, jumping and clapping (let's just say heath and safety is still to reach Namibia!)
Watching out boys trying to play rugby against other schools was...painful. Our kids are just way too skinny! Most of them have never had enough food, and so compared to other, more privileged children they are simply tiny. They were literally being picked up and thrown out of the way!
One boy injured himself and so Sachi and I had to take him to the hospital to get checked out.
The boy had a massive lump on his collar bone, but wasn't in any pain, so we thought maybe he had bruised his bone or something. How wrong we were! To our shock the boy had snapped his collar bone right in two! He was given pain killers and his arm was strapped up against his chest. He was told to keep it that way for the next six weeks although, typically, he took the sling off two days later!
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