finaly sailing for the kids

after the meeting and the opening already a lot of things have changed. we were told last sunday we would get 158 kids, at number one beach. 550 kids would sail in the marina and 250 kids at some other beach. other than that we didn´t hear anything new at all at the meeting, except for a lot of Chinese words.

then the day before yesterday in the afternoon Taco suddenly felt hungry, in a strange way. after he ate some that got worse and when we were starting for our dinner, he suddenly decided to go back to the hotel. later he had some terrible diarrhea and had thrown up. the morning after that Dirk suddenly had the same. but after having some heavy shit and puking, they both felt good again and got back to business. they must have been eating something bad last Saterday night.

so this morning we could finally sail. there were about 70 kids on the beach and we wanted to get on the water as fast as possible, because we don´t have much time. that is why we had already rigged the boats and had done as much as possible, but it still took quite some time before they where on the water. Taco went first in an optimist and about four kids followed. in the mean time, the other Chinese coaches put their kids on the water as well. that was a bit too much and in no time their was a chaos. they were all sailing through the other group and some kids capsized. we called back our kids and thought of a different plan. we made a mark of some life jackets and decided to put only put three kids on the water on the same time and let them sail around the mark and then return. after a while that went pretty well and only a few capsized and we had everything under control. for tomorrow we´ve got to make a different plan, so we can put more kids on the water in the same time.

when we were done we were all tired and went back to the hotel for a shower, after we heard these 70 kids are the only kids we will get this week in stead of 158. the rest couldn´t swim. that should make it a lot easier.