Play Like a Girl, Run with the Zebras...!!?!?

BIG game yesterday! All week, after running into Grace, I finally played in my first all women's soccer game here in Rwanda. I played for IS Kigali, which is a team made up of women from all over Kigali, selected from the different districts.



We have been practicing for one week and one week only to prepare for the match. The team is also made up of girls ages 14-20. The other team, APR soccer club, has been practicing for three months.


IS Kigali and APR are the best two women's club in all of Rwanda. Most likely, between these two teams they will compile the women's national team.


So... it is true practice does make perfect or close to it and APR out ran us and out played us. Beating us 1-0.


With this being my Rwandan women's soccer debut two of my friends came out to watch, Myal and Paul. Myal took some pictures, which you will see below and have a little photoshop touch to them.


It was great to have them there and to be supported! Unfortunately, with how Rwandan soccer is played my laughing joke was they didn't necessarily get to watch me play soccer, but run up and down the field.


The entire game I felt like all I did was defend and run around, which is not fully true, but how it felt.


Myal's only comments of the game were... good game and boy do you run like a girl! Of course I responded with... well Myal it is because I am a girl.


Thank you photoshop.


He got lots of pictures of my running and just sent me them this morning. Let's just say I had no idea I was running or playing along side elephants and zebras! Who would have thought!? Only in Africa....