Football - American and Romanian

My attempt to organize football games between schools.


Kids came to me, and made a beautiful poster...I took a picture, but I can't find it. Announcing the time and place where we would play American football.

I inherited a bag of flag belts from another volunteer and we put them to good use.

One school has played football with me like 5 times, so they won. 19 pts to 0 pts. The kids understood the rules had fun.

I'm not a football player, so I tried my best to get the rules straight.

9am on a cold Saturday morning. That's how devoted we were.

That kid in the checkered jacket took my bike (I had told him to go away several times because he was being a dickhead/ass while we were trying to play) and f*ed with it until he twisted the tire and messed it up so that I had to walk the bike home. I'm sorry if I'm still bitter, but...

Kitten picture to sooth my anger.

Here was the Sunday (the next day). It was an European football game between the same schools and more students came. One school's color was red and the other yellow.

I made them score cards. They're waving around 5's but no one scored 5 points.

I gave up trying to limit the number of kids that could play. I had talked to: the mayor, the vice-mayor, the chief of police and 3 other cops about having some other adult supervision during that game.....

Most of the kids were good kids that just wanted to have fun.

Some kids helped me out by volunteering to be referees.

Some kids didn't want to get their leather jackets dirty while playing...


We agreed on 20min halves, with a 5 min break in between. I brought 6 bottles of water for the kids from my house, and I bought them a box of cookies.

During our 5 min break, some of the obnoxious boys ran off with the ball I had purchased because no one had brought one. That ended the game. I went with some kids to tell the cops (whom were standing at the other side of the market).

This was the final score. The bad kids all go to the school that had earned 3 points. Kids are kids. I'm sure I'm much more upset at the authorities than the children here, but I think I gave it my best. There's not much more I could have done.

I would like to try this again, but I can't without more community support. I feel bad for the kids that were having fun. It was fun while it lasted.

This took place 2 weeks ago.

Vineri - SUA

So this was the last day. Dan, who also teaches at a high school did the presentation. He's from all over North America, so he was a good rep. If you remember, I met him while helping at the Red Cross thing.

Here's the attentive audience.

Nancy, a woman who lives in a village and teaches English to 3rd graders to 8th graders came to help =) She has been wonderful help to me so far, in advising me on how to live in a village. She was Dan's clicker and supporter, and she came to visit my site.

The kids practiced an American country dance to show US. They tried to dress country too.



Here Dan prepared a game where kids had to stick the 50 states on the US map. We determined Romania is the size of Oregon and it takes over 4 Romanias to go across the US.

Lili (the English teacher) did a poetic thing at the end to symbolize that the world is small and we're alike, etc....a beautiful ending to the week.

Coordinators and guests picture.

Dan and Nancy with our kids =)

Dan is awesome and made 33 PB&J sandwiches with his stash of PB from the states!
As you can see, they loved it!
You can only buy PB in one store now. When I started living in Romania I found it in 2 different stores. I don't know why they don't sell more =(